[GUIDE] Changing Seal Glows

Cruor · Post by **Cruor** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:14 pm

This will not be as easy as most other PK2 edits. Try not to give up too easily. Before you do anything back up your PK2 files. Also keep in mind standard editing procedure like making sure your file sizes are the same. File sizes shouldn't be an issue with this tutorial however because you can complete it without ever going into INS mode on your hex editor. This is just a quickie but I think it should be sufficient for the more skilled PK2 editors.

1. Open up Media.pk2 in PK2Extractor and extract resinfo\itemrare.txt.
2. Look in that file for the equipment you want to change the glow of.
3. It can reference either one or two EFP files. Write down their paths.
4. Open up Particles.pk2 in PK2Extractor and go into the system directory (every seal glow EFP is in there).
5. Extract whichever ones you wrote down. To do mine I had to extract system_rareshield_a.efp for my shield, system_raretype_b_step1.efp for the mist on my blade, and system_raretype_b_step1_add.efp for the sparkle on my blade.
6. Open up your EFP files one by one in your hex editor and go through the following process:

6a.

6b.

DiffuseGraph

1.

2.

2a.

3.

SetGraphDiffuse

1.

2.

2a.

3.

BlendDiffuseGraph

1.

2.

2a.

3.

6c.

6d.

7.Once you have all your files the last step is of course injecting back into Particles.pk2. I assume you know how to do this by now if you've gotten this far. You might hit a snag because EFP files often reuse chunks of data so it might be hard to find a unique set of bytes to base your search off of. Once you do find the right file though you can figure out exactly now many files down (or up) the next file you need to replace is by counting them out in PK2Extractor (the files are in alphabetical order in the PK2 file).
8.Once you've got all your files injected save Particles.pk2, start up SRO, and hope to God you didn't screw up. :wink:

Here's the results:

I will try to keep this thread updated if I find anything new (perhaps editing the other parts of the EFP file).

Hellzowner · Post by **Hellzowner** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:21 pm

Yay cruor ^^

Nice tut, gonna try it out pretty soon

HyorunmarouZ · Post by **HyorunmarouZ** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:39 pm

Cruor wrote:8.Once you've got all your files injected save Particles.pk2, start up SRO, and hope to God you didn't screw up.

I think that should be a universal step in every guide

This sounds interesting... i want to try it out... (hmm cSRO has inspection... *opens pk2 extractor* )

Great guide... don't worry to try to make it simpler... more complex edits = more complex guides.

There's a lot of people who don't understand pk2 editing (count me in, i don't understand it completely) and just ask "TELL ME HOW TO DO IT!" you tell them... they screw up and then, it's your fault...

[SD]Twysta · Post by **[SD]Twysta** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:15 am

Very nice tut Cruor

GJ.

cin · Post by **cin** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 1:12 am

wow. another good tut.

this will be added to the sticky soon

William-CL · Post by **William-CL** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 8:15 am

Hey you made the guide i asked for thanks

I was wondering what would happen if i could change the efps in itemrare I just had no clue how to do it cause i was busy with skills in csro to figure it out. Now I'm pissed cause i looked in particles so many times but never save the files cause i didn't know what to do with them. Thnx Cruor.

P.s. How would you make it black?

Azilius · Post by **Azilius** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:33 pm

Good job, Cruor.

I have to say this one was pretty annoying to edit ><, finding where to inject it took a while, and I still need to tweak how strong the colours are, but, progress!

Btw, as far as I know, 00 00 00 is black, but you say it shows up clear? =\

Cruor · Post by **Cruor** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:09 pm

Azilius wrote:Btw, as far as I know, 00 00 00 is black, but you say it shows up clear? =\

Nah, it's just like the plus glows. I tested 00 00 00 and your glow just disappears.

SCArchon · Post by **SCArchon** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:34 am

you should totally do a guide on what each section in EFP does what and etc. btw, i totally needed this, i wanted to find out how to edit imbue colors, i spend 2 days trying (30 minutes each =D, im lazy, face it). in the end i gave up and cried in an emo corner (jk

).

sholinkidd · Post by **sholinkidd** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:22 pm

lol got confused at step 5.
efp stuff got me confused.

William-CL · Post by **William-CL** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:54 am

Color codes for all the colors you can think of.

Just remember that these are in RGB format so you have to switch em around to BGR

penfold1992 · Post by **penfold1992** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:35 pm

6b takes ages and i dnt get 7 ^^ thats where cruor needs the guide fixed on

once again. learn from the best

SCArchon · Post by **SCArchon** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:17 pm

this can be applied to skills as well; in process of changing nuke and 90% done imbue, you just gotta use your head

William-CL · Post by **William-CL** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:25 am

SCArchon wrote:this can be applied to skills as well; in process of changing nuke and 90% done imbue, you just gotta use your head

+1

You pretty much just gotta follow cruors guide and be able to determine what hex valuse are color codes.

SCArchon · Post by **SCArchon** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:05 am

^ hum have you changed any colors? just wondering

William-CL · Post by **William-CL** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:31 am

SCArchon wrote:^ hum have you changed any colors? just wondering

Yea i have. Also changed My sun into a greenish blue one

Cruor is the man. I'm Working on making a blue FlameWave Burn.

penfold1992 · Post by **penfold1992** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 3:08 pm

no i dont kno how to inject back

could sum1 help me?

viaticus · Post by **viaticus** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:49 am

...... i have to use system_raretype_a_step2.efp because i use a 5th degree glavie.

i see all three of the entrys (BlendDiffuseGraph, SetGraphDiffuse, and DiffuseGraph) several times over with none of them looking like they realy have color values in them. could someone possibly help me out with this?

penfold1992 · Post by **penfold1992** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:29 am

you dont see 1.000 0.000 0.000 , 0.000 1.000 0.000 or anything that looks close to that

the color triplets are in hexadecimal coding.

lets take a look at what we have right now.

sos glow is.... purple ish pink ish

efp (particles) are in BGR and this must be remembered.

purple is a mix between Blue and Red so the first and last digits of your color triplet are higher

for example

E5 38 DF

this will give a purple result

ok so now that has cleared that up lets move on ^^

as an example take SetGraphDiffuse

use cruors format to help you eg. header triplets footer (UNDERSTAND THESE VARY IN LENGTH!) and look out for 3 bytes where the two outside numbers are bigger.

when you find the triplets you will need to decide on ur color.

say.... we want..... red like cruors

BGR format eg. E5 42 F5 <------- atm this is PURPLE

PURE RED would be 00 00 FF this will look like the video

if you want a more natural blend of effects and colors change it this way

eg. E5 42 F5 take the larges and the smallest bytes (large F5 small 42)

and use that to base your color upon so for a natural red

E5 42 F5 would change into 42 42 F5 and you do this until you finesh
this is cruors hue switching

thank you for taking your time to read this. thanks for cruor for explaining it to me

and i dont kno why i cant insert it bk in ^^

i hope this helped

viaticus · Post by **viaticus** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:40 pm

ok... you DONT understand the point man. it is OBVIOUS how to change the colors, i know they are in hex but what i am having problems with is the guide's format DOSE NOT WORK for the file i have to work with to change my glavie. in other words cant find the triples.

penfold1992 · Post by **penfold1992** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:50 pm

sorry but your files are not "different" from every1 elses.

if cruor can do it. so can u.

this is difficult mod soo if you cant find the triplets then dont bother trying anymore.

EVERY ONE has a header and footer but not always a triplet.

they arnt made for you to change so changing them isnt like

HEY LOOK! HERE ARE THE TRIPLETS!

sorry but your is no different to any1 elses

William-CL · Post by **William-CL** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:48 pm

penfold1992 wrote:sorry but your files are not "different" from every1 elses.

if cruor can do it. so can u.

this is difficult mod soo if you cant find the triplets then dont bother trying anymore.

EVERY ONE has a header and footer but not always a triplet.

they arnt made for you to change so changing them isnt like

HEY LOOK! HERE ARE THE TRIPLETS!

sorry but your is no different to any1 elses

Yes everyone's files are the same, but i have also noticed that some efps are longer or shorter than others, making it really difficult to find the color triplets.

viaticus · Post by **viaticus** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:27 pm

well with his curent format things dont make sense no matter what you look at .things such as multiple sectors with the same name like graphDiffuse or whatever but after that for things like the header , footer, and deffinately the triplets donot work with his format from the scans i have done. has anyone checked resently to see if the formats have possibly changed? and remember people i am using a 4th degree GLAVIE, it just MAY use a diff footer/header format then soemthing like a sword ya know . just throwing that out there

SCArchon · Post by **SCArchon** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:47 pm

for clarity to have a (general) idea what ur editing
When open up your efp file in WORDPAD<-- not notepad, then find ur DiffuseGraph. Look below it for a section called "Textures" the "textures" is what the color ur changing. for example:
if i go to my 3rd "DiffuseGraph" and below it i see "Fire_ball_8.ddj" then i would know i would be editing the fireball part of my fire nuke. so when i go to HEXEDIT121<-- not XVIXI13 or w/e, i go to my 3rd diffusegraph and work my way down.

liske · Post by **liske** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:31 pm

i love your videos seen them all now D:

Anti · Post by **Anti** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:56 am

ok step 7, injecting...so im kinda new to the whole injecting part. i did everything else fine but the injecting part i get a F- in lol.

so can someone try it for me or give me a breif area to put it?? my thing was raretype_a_step3.efp or something like that...lol. idk if this forum is active or what but would like some help here plz

Timujin · Post by **Timujin** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:01 pm

Only 1 thing, i maight be wrong, but they've done a new patch, is it posible to do this even with this new patch? or i would get banned? I don't know what to do, so pls anwser my question

Evil_Venom · Post by **Evil_Venom** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:34 pm

Holy hell i cant follow one thing of that but it looks really cool

Test · Post by **Test** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:11 am

it's look cool for SS =)

Aby · Post by **Aby** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:56 pm

Unique little edit ya got there. It looks real fresh

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