im making a sky sports tv patch and i'm allmost done all i need to do is edit the colours of the text on the popup menus but i cant figure out how to do it if any one knows how to do this then pleas tell me. If i dont get a reply in a week i'm just gonna release the patch any way, there should be a beta version of it appearing at http://downloads.soccergaming.com

Hi

To change the text colour you have to first extract all the .lay files from the popups.big file using EA Graph. Then use WordPad to open each one... you'll see a whole bunch of text, it's a list of each object in that certain popup. The one I posted in the forum is the pulineup.lay file.

Don't worry about objects where the objectnumber=12 or 13... those are ignored by FIFA. The ones you need to worry about are objectnumber=1 (0=images, 1=text).

Then you'll see something called textcolourid=3 or something. Those are the numbers you want to change.

0 = white
1 = ??? (I don't know, didn't try)
2 = grey
3 = black

I think there's 4 and 5 as well, but I was only interested in changing the black text to white so it would show up. Just go through and change all the '3' to '0' and you're all done. Save the changes and use gfxpak to import the changed .lay file back into the .big file (you'll need to write a 'bat' file like:

"gfxpak -p popups.big pulineup.lay (or whatever file)"

bye,
Crackerz

that patch looks excellent!

how do you create a bat file? (this is the 1st time i made a patch so i dont know)

wow.. that sounds sorta familiar crackerz...

To create a .bat file for repacking the .lay files, simply write:

gfxpak -p popups.big (filename).lay

In notepad and then change the file extension from .txt to .bat. That's it.

Originally posted by makio
im making a sky sports tv patch and i'm allmost done all i need to do is edit the colours of the text on the popup menus but i cant figure out how to do it if any one knows how to do this then pleas tell me. If i dont get a reply in a week i'm just gonna release the patch any way, there should be a beta version of it appearing at http://downloads.soccergaming.com

THere should be a beta version at Soccergaming downloads centre??? Don't think about it son..I've sent my ESPN Super TV Patch 4 weeks ago and no reply, no sh*t, no nothing..Hope you'll understand so do the Soccergaming staffs..

Anyway good luck in ur patch

ok, how do you post files in this forum then, oh i apologize again for dissin hiryuu no hard feelings?

hehe no hard feelings man :D
and to post a file it has to be an image file "Valid file extensions: gif jpg JPG GIF BMP bmp" so for files like zip files or things like that you need to link them to a server