Ok, after a few days of work, I believe I have imitated the FifaFX engine to the best of my ability.

So, what we need to do now is write the batch files. So, for all the FifaFX fans, post what you want in this year's batch files.

Currently, the program can achieve the following:

1. Allow user to select the save game they want to play with in the game.
2. Allow user to select home team.
3. Allow user to select away team.
4. Allow user to select league patch.
5. Automatic loading of teams when user press save in game.

Note: There is one thing that is different from last year. You CANNOT change save game from inside the game. e.g. You chose save game A from my utility, then open FIFA 2003. You play one match in save game A, but then got bored, and decided to change to save game B in FIFA 2003. The automatic loading of teams, will not function properly, unless you go back out to the desktop and change the save game in my program. However, if you just stick with the same save game throughout, there's no problems whatsoever.

Post your ideas.


Edit: Also, if it is possible, can someone post this in the FifaCity forums, because I believe there are a lot of FifaFX fans there. The more ideas we get, the better.

All i want is a program that swaps stadiums

currently ReFa has done a german stadium and an edited roof of Amsterdam now if you can swap the existing stadiums with this one then ill download it.

Yep, that's easy.

ok, i wrote it into the fifacity - forum.:rockman:

Hercules check your P.M.

Originally posted by specki
ok, i wrote it into the fifacity - forum.:rockman:

man im happy for your site but change your sig as there is a regulation for its size

something like 250x60 ok.

Hercules: i gave it more thought all i used fifafx was so that each club could have its own individual stadium, ball, aboards and commentary, however the only problem was when i was satisifed with the clubs having each of these i was up to about 4gigs worth of downloads, so if you can reduce the files or something while being playing fifa would be awesome but i doubt that its possible

all i want is for each team to have its own; stadium, ball, adboards and comentary.

250*70

Originally posted by saurabh
250*70

yeah and his is 755 x 91 :kader: :rolleyes:

But it is looking nice:D .But he should resize his siggy:hump:

Originally posted by zul-aid
man im happy for your site but change your sig as there is a regulation for its size

something like 250x60 ok.

Hercules: i gave it more thought all i used fifafx was so that each club could have its own individual stadium, ball, aboards and commentary, however the only problem was when i was satisifed with the clubs having each of these i was up to about 4gigs worth of downloads, so if you can reduce the files or something while being playing fifa would be awesome but i doubt that its possible

all i want is for each team to have its own; stadium, ball, adboards and comentary.

Yeah, I thought about this as well. But since we haven't got that much to download at the moment, file size, I think, is less important than loading speed. When time goes, I will look at this problem, and maybe implement a zipping of all the files in the team folders. i.e. compress all files and decompress them only when they are needed.

And as for now, stadium, ball and adboards are all possible. But I don't understand what you mean by commentary. Do you mean each team will have commentary of different languages? e.g. German teams have German commentary? Italian teams, Italian commentary?

Originally posted by zul-aid
man im happy for your site but change your sig as there is a regulation for its size

something like 250x60 ok.

Hercules: i gave it more thought all i used fifafx was so that each club could have its own individual stadium, ball, aboards and commentary, however the only problem was when i was satisifed with the clubs having each of these i was up to about 4gigs worth of downloads, so if you can reduce the files or something while being playing fifa would be awesome but i doubt that its possible

all i want is for each team to have its own; stadium, ball, adboards and comentary.

Man, first look to your own sig. It isn't the right size either.

Originally posted by Hercules
But I don't understand what you mean by commentary. Do you mean each team will have commentary of different languages? e.g. German teams have German commentary? Italian teams, Italian commentary? This would be cool :rockman:

Yes i think he meant that only.Like in previous versions of fifafx.:)

Originally posted by willem
Man, first look to your own sig. It isn't the right size either.

mines 240 x 70 is fine

not 755 x 91 is obviously wrong.

Hi Guys,

how about this idea:

Would it be possible to make different weather effects in the game? Something like the weather patch of this German Guy (Sorry Kumpel, war keine Absicht! ;)).

Well, let's check up some common features of FIFAFX and let's see which we can cross out:

- Goalkeeper Kits: Not neccersary (Kit Raptor)
- Ingame Sounds: Music only after goal and during the intro sequence possible.
- 3rd Kits: Not neccersary (Kit Raptor)
- Referee Kits: ???
- More individual backnumbers: ???
- Crowds: Might be possible
- Tv-Popups: We should wait until some useful pop-ups have been made.


What do you think?

CYA

Gimsai

i want 2 functions ( for now )
is to change the fonts files.
and to change popups,

Is it possible to give the teams more than two chants? That would be cool. Installing them with cc sucks cause your save games will be deleted.

Originally posted by Gimsai
Hi Guys,

how about this idea:

Would it be possible to make different weather effects in the game? Something like the weather patch of this German Guy (Sorry Kumpel, war keine Absicht! ;)).

Well, let's check up some common features of FIFAFX and let's see which we can cross out:

- Goalkeeper Kits: Not neccersary (Kit Raptor)
- Ingame Sounds: Music only after goal and during the intro sequence possible.
- 3rd Kits: Not neccersary (Kit Raptor)
- Referee Kits: ???
- More individual backnumbers: ???
- Crowds: Might be possible
- Tv-Popups: We should wait until some useful pop-ups have been made.


What do you think?

CYA

Gimsai

Referee Kits: Not neccesary (Referee Kit Raptor)

quote:
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Originally posted by Gimsai
Hi Guys,

how about this idea:

Would it be possible to make different weather effects in the game? Something like the weather patch of this German Guy (Sorry Kumpel, war keine Absicht! ).

Well, let's check up some common features of FIFAFX and let's see which we can cross out:

- Goalkeeper Kits: Not neccersary (Kit Raptor)
- Ingame Sounds: Music only after goal and during the intro sequence possible.
- 3rd Kits: Not neccersary (Kit Raptor)
- Referee Kits: ???
- More individual backnumbers: ???
- Crowds: Might be possible
- Tv-Popups: We should wait until some useful pop-ups have been made.


What do you think?

CYA

Gimsai
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Well i think that with this programme you would be able to use 2 GK kits for a team ie home and away GK kits.I can assure you that there will be personalized ingame sounds,crowds and tv popups for a particular team.I doubt for that backnumber thing.Well hercules can correct me as he is the creator of this programme;)

Originally posted by Gimsai
Hi Guys,

how about this idea:

Would it be possible to make different weather effects in the game? Something like the weather patch of this German Guy (Sorry Kumpel, war keine Absicht! ;)).

Well, let's check up some common features of FIFAFX and let's see which we can cross out:

- Goalkeeper Kits: Not neccersary (Kit Raptor)
- Ingame Sounds: Music only after goal and during the intro sequence possible.
- 3rd Kits: Not neccersary (Kit Raptor)
- Referee Kits: ???
- More individual backnumbers: ???
- Crowds: Might be possible
- Tv-Popups: We should wait until some useful pop-ups have been made.


What do you think?

CYA

Gimsai

Good reply.

Goalkeeper kits: Not necessary, as you say, I don't think it will be necessary even for home and away GK kits, since I think there is a possibility of installing the away GK kits just normally (placing them in the data folder) You can see this in the Japan away GK kit. Of course, I will have to investigate further. If it is not possible, I will certainly add this feature the program.

Ingame sounds: Can somebody tell me where the sounds are stored, so that will save me time finding them. I am very busy. ;)

3rd kits: Yep, unnecessary, but I might implement a feature to install CL kits, when it is a CL match. (But this might be very difficult to do, but not impossible)

Ref kits: Although El Gallo said there is ref kit raptor, but that doesn't do things AUTOMATICALLY for you. That's why I would most probably add this feature in the team batches, and definitely in the league batches.

Back numbers and fonts: I don't really understand how they work at the moment, don't have time investigating them. So, unless somebody explains to me how these work, I cannot add the feature....yet.

Crowds: Certainly possible. As I have suggested before (in FifaCity), I can read the team rating in the roster file (which is out of 20), and then according to this, load the appropriate crowd file, so lesser teams have few crowd, and big teams have full crowd.

TV Popups: Yes, we need to wait for some decent popups to be made. Because in this area, most patchmakers are still experimenting, and I don't think it is worth the time putting this feature in....yet. I hope somebody would soon prove me wrong tho.

And last but not least: Weather.

Weather: I have to download the Weather patch and have a look at the files. I think it is definitely possible to add the weather feature. Since I can read the calendar date where the save game is at, thus, I can load in the snow files when it is winter, for example. I can also increase the likelihood of rain in the rain season, maybe?

A lot of possibilities, I will have to see how it goes. But this might be in the second version, as I would probably simply release a simple version, with basic features for the time-being, since I think there's no point keeping ppl waiting.

Ok, good stuff, keep the ideas coming.

Hercules.

Ok today i had a thought while working (this nothing unusual except it was about a problem)

now this may not have anything to do with FIFAFx but the numbers and names grafics card problem.

now since people have been mastering O-Edit and all it would seem you could put names and numbers (possibly) to players with faces ie Beckham and Owen but the problem is only so many faces.

but there could be a solution to the limited number of faces and thats player ID number if we could crack that using o-edit then it could be possible for everyone to have names and numbers

Hercules i leave that one for you to answer as you know more on that then me.

[I]Ok today i had a thought while working (this nothing unusual except it was about a problem)

now this may not have anything to do with FIFAFx but the numbers and names grafics card problem.

now since people have been mastering O-Edit and all it would seem you could put names and numbers (possibly) to players with faces ie Beckham and Owen but the problem is only so many faces.

but there could be a solution to the limited number of faces and thats player ID number if we could crack that using o-edit then it could be possible for everyone to have names and numbers
[I]

Well zul aid that cant be done by any patchmaker.Its just your grafix problem.:)

Ingame sounds: Can somebody tell me where the sounds are stored, so that will save me time finding them. I am very busy.
These are located in


data/music/oop folder.Continue with your work.;)

[/B]

Well zul aid that cant be done by any patchmaker.Its just your grafix problem.:) [/B]

Yeah i know about the grafix card problem

but what im thinking is like an individual kit per player or something

I know it sounds wierd but there has to be away since we can put sponsors on kits we should be able to do it individually.

Im just thinking about it, the solution could be in Access for all i know I have been working on Access for a while

with individual face, player ID, etc there might be a away in either a raptor or in O-edit.

Originally posted by zul-aid
Ok today i had a thought while working (this nothing unusual except it was about a problem)

now this may not have anything to do with FIFAFx but the numbers and names grafics card problem.

now since people have been mastering O-Edit and all it would seem you could put names and numbers (possibly) to players with faces ie Beckham and Owen but the problem is only so many faces.

but there could be a solution to the limited number of faces and thats player ID number if we could crack that using o-edit then it could be possible for everyone to have names and numbers

Hercules i leave that one for you to answer as you know more on that then me.

No, I don't think that would be possible. Because......it's just too difficult. I don't know how to explain, but the idea is just so complex, that I doubt anybody would try to make it.

And I don't really understand what you mean by "cracking using O-Edit", what files are we cracking?

Good thing you mentioned this, got me thinking for about 10 mins.;)

Keep them coming,

Hercules.

Originally posted by zul-aid
Yeah i know about the grafix card problem

but what im thinking is like an individual kit per player or something

I know it sounds wierd but there has to be away since we can put sponsors on kits we should be able to do it individually.

Im just thinking about it, the solution could be in Access for all i know I have been working on Access for a while

with individual face, player ID, etc there might be a away in either a raptor or in O-edit.

The idea of individual kits is too complicated to do. I think we have to edit the .exe itself for doing that. So, no.

Murphy it was nice thinking but it is very very difficult.It would take much much time for doing all searches and getting this thing done.

yeah as i have said before its early days

yeah but im glad you guys took interest - its not over believe me!

Hi Hercules,

can you contact me at webmaster@greymana.de ?

I have a lot to do with my study :-( some projects and courses that requires a lot more that the ones I took. I think it's a great idea to write such a program for Fifa 2003, maybe I can help you a little bit.


see you :-)

Originally posted by Hercules
...Post your ideas...

what I want in FifaFX:
intro, goal, half time, win, tie sounds
ball for every team
coloured nets for every team
adboards for every team
tv popups
stadiums switching

great news from Hercules.....again!

Originally posted by lukas_svoboda
what I want in FifaFX:
intro, goal, half time, win, tie sounds
ball for every team
coloured nets for every team
adboards for every team
tv popups
stadiums switching

great news from Hercules.....again!

Yes, I agree that these are the main things that has to be done.

Stadiums, adboards, and balls are must-dos. And are easy. Nets are also easy.

Sounds, I still have to investigate.

And TV Popups can be slightly more difficult, as there are many files involved. More investigation needed here.

All in all, these I intend to include in the first version, as they are fundamental ideas.

Cheers,

Hercules

Originally posted by GreyMana
Hi Hercules,

can you contact me at webmaster@greymana.de ?

I have a lot to do with my study :-( some projects and courses that requires a lot more that the ones I took. I think it's a great idea to write such a program for Fifa 2003, maybe I can help you a little bit.


see you :-)

GoGoGo GreyMana,
thats great News, good Luck for your study
@Hercules:Contact me if you need more Information about the Weather Patch, and also you need new Popups

Well Herc just to let you know that sound files are in data/audio/oops folder.;)

Hello, so i'm french and my english is very bad.

i say all of fifa's people a happy new year!!!!

so i'm coming from a french site about fifa
www.fifafrance.com,

and i would like to know, when the fifafx for fifa2003 will be ok to download!!!

And i have an idea for you ,
because in fifa2003 we can't clear the saved game,so we have a lot of them, so you can introduce in your fifafx an interface where we could clear the saved game

but it's just an idea!!!!

So thanks for you, and see you later!!

answered in the other thread you created.

I am very interested in your ideas from FifaFrance, because if I remember correctly, you lot had a few of them for FifaFX 2002.:) And quite brilliant, they were.:)

ok but we're waiting for your soft for making good big patch

so you could send me a version of your soft

and i could try it on my computer, and say to you what you could introduce in your soft and help us to make patches for it !!!


my e-mail is: yaume@ifrance.com

see you later !!!:p :p :rockman:

I will, when I finish the final touches on it.

ok so good luck for your final version!!!

and do you know with which soft we could modified stadium, becaus we haven't found that


see you next time !!!

:rockman: :rockman:

Hi Hercules, I'm Jfk, a patcher from the french site www.fifakulte.com

Well we worked a lot on fifa fx patches for Fifa 2002, and you can guess we're eager to see this new version !!!

Especially I wanted to say that it could be great to add flares management to your new soft : pfx files and dnt files in fact

But I guess your prog will be great, just keep on going that way ; and if you need some help, like some patched files to deliver your new prog with, well
--> jfk003@caramail.com

hoping we can help ...

well here's some samples of my work on fifakulte
= one sample for 2003 :

FlareZ for Fifa 2003 (http://www.fifakulte.com/fichier.php?id=42)

and for fifa fx 2002, a team work on the big Lyon patch :

Lyon patch V1 ( more on fifakulte ; ) (http://www.fifakulte.com/download/fifa2002/fifafx/patchOL.exe)

Little screen of it... (http://www.fifakulte.com/download/fifa2002/fifafx/screenshot/PatchOL.jpg)

okay there you go ;)

Originally posted by yaumme
do you know with which soft we could modified stadium, becaus we haven't found that


Apparently FifaMania.it are developing that at the moment....

And about the flares thing. I won't add such a feature in the first version, since that has already been programmed, however, you can write your own batches to do whatever you want, and then then I can see if I can program it inside the engine (since the engine currently installs all elements (stadium, ball, adboard etc etc) inside the program (not from bat), however, it is also possible for you to write your own team scripts. So, if you make a nice team script, I might convert that and write it to the engine itself.

More details soon, when the beta comes out. (which should be a few days)

i'm sorry but i don't understand exactly what you say !!!!
but for flares , a person have made a soft who is called flarez, it's on www.fifakulte.com . it's a really good soft and i think it's in french and in english.but JFK003 already said it to you .

And will your soft be in french ?? i could help you to translate if you want !!!

otherwise, a big patch for PSG french team is in preparation on fifafrance.

also, i had an idea this night, you can introduce a selection of referee for every championships, but i don't know if we can modificate the face of the referee, i know that we can modificate his kit, but for the face it would be necessary to ask that to Ariell Santarelli that which made faceRaptor
And it will be really good with a random referee selection option

So ,see you later
:rockman: :mrpimp:

when your soft will coming ????

if it's possible to include to select stadium for the finals (like if you play Champions league final with Man Utd-Real madrid, it was really good to play in other stadium than old trafford)

and to select a referee, to have a different referee in other matches

:rockman:

Hi, maybe this is too late, but how about different referee kit for different tournament ?

great news Hercules. Although I know this. :)
I want give you my footballers. You know I made a lot of balls. ;)

cheers..

Well, we are still in the process in trying to make the utility as user friendly as possible, so it might be some time before it would be released. But all basic features are functioning, and a new graphical user interface has also been finished.

I'd like to see different popups for each team (just with different pictures, not different format)
e.g: when you score a gole with valencia the popups could be white and with some valencia pictures, and when you score with manchester united, the popups could be red and have manchester pics):)

Hi Hercules, any new about FifaFX2003 ?
We really need this ;)
Their are so many great Patches here now, but we can play only one at the same time :(

Could this possible ? A different 3d kit shape for each team, so the team wearing Kappa`s will have a tight shape.

Originally posted by Fifolo
Hi Hercules, any new about FifaFX2003 ?
We really need this ;)
Their are so many great Patches here now, but we can play only one at the same time :(

Well, I was going to release it after I finish some final pieces of stuff that I want to add, but it will have to wait, since I am too busy with non-FIFA work at the moment, that I haven't touched FIFA editing for about 4 days...

Originally posted by Hans
Could this possible ? A different 3d kit shape for each team, so the team wearing Kappa`s will have a tight shape.

hmm....the only possibility that I am able to do is a different 3D kit model for each MATCH. i.e. the home and away team will wear the same kit model....which is not very good, so maybe I will give this a miss, unless either me or Ariel can figure out something.

hey Hercules,i read about all the features and i got a idea,it may seem strange
It's about boots:
Since we can only have 12 specific boots,it would be a good idea (if possible) to have the feature of having the 11 players of a team to wear each one a different boot,and that would work for each team,so that we could have as many boots as we like.
It sounds Impossible though!
just an idea.:rolleyes:

cheers.

No not possible. This is because the rosters are loaded when FIFA starts, so the specific boot ids are loaded when FIFA starts. This means before each game, you can only have different textures for the same players, not textures for different players.

I have thought about this a lot already.;)

There is no way round the whole problem except for editing the exe.