I don't know if its related but I've got a quick question to mod my own game.
The paste "textures\st\start00" has the "start00_13.png" which is the title screen.
Anyone knows the directory to change the black n' white intro texture?
I really wanted to make my own through PhotoShop.
You are trying to edit the Tonberry images. I'm currently working on re-creating the intro images myself (just a quick upscale), but I have to piece the images together from 6 separate images, upscale, and then cut them back into the six images to get the upscale to work correctly. So far, I have recreated half of the intro images, and will get on adding the rest. This will probably be an addition to SeeDReborn, but I might release it as a standalone mod, so people can have easier access to modding their own images.
To do this process on your own, you must:
a. change the 'debug0' folder name to 'debug' in /tonberry (this will dump the textures into the '/nomatch' folder within '/debug')
[i believe you can also just enable debug mode within the prefs.txt file, but not 100% sure]
b. play the entire game intro sequence
c. exit the game (or alt-tab)
d. rename the debug folder back to debug0 (to make sure you're not dumping textures anymore)
e. find the bitmaps for the images in tonberry/debug0/nomatch - there should be 6 different 256x256 bitmaps for each title image.
f. rename the bitmaps something like 'intro_img1_13, intro_img1_14, intro_img1_15, etc.'
(For each different group of six images, you should have a different naming convention. I currently use 'intro_images_sq_13, etc.' for the squall image, 'intro_images_qt_13, etc.' for the quistis, etc. This way, as I'm organizing the folders, I have everything in the same 'in' base folder, and can have access to each image for modding easily)
g. download 'berrymapper' from shunsq here:
https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/10721/
h. put the bitmaps in 'input' and run Berrymapper
i. open the 'output' folder and rename the hashmap.csv file to something that represents your mod, adding the _hm suffix to the name. (currently, mine is named 'TitleScreens_hm.csv'
j. place this new hashmap folder in 'tonberry/hashmap'
k. upscale your images, or if you have your own, make sure your original image is 3072x2048 pixels, rgba color, and a .png
l. slice the image into 6 1024x1024 images
j. rename the six images the same names as your bitmaps from before (look at the original bitmaps to see how this is setup - usually the top half of the image are the first 3 textures from left to right, and the bottom half is the next 3 textures from left to right)
k. create a 'in' folder (if that's what your naming convention starts with)
l. within the 'in' folder, create your different folders for the different images. Mine are 'intro_images_sq', 'intro_images_qt', 'intro_images_ze' etc.
m. place your 6 images within each of the different folders that match the names
This should work beautifully.
I will also post this as a tonberry mod 'guide' for modders to get started with their own mods.
[note: you can also -not- name the textures individually, and instead name them something like 'introtitles_13', 'introtitles_14', etc. and just keep going like that for the entire mod. This makes organization almost impossible, though - and it becomes very easy to mix up your textures]
