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   Menu Badges Full Guide Here is a complete guide presenting step-by-step all you need to know in order to create and import menu badges into Fifa 2001. I'll try to keep it as simple (and clear) as possible, so everyone can take the most out of it and get down to making decent badges quickly & easily. Needed Tools
Locating Decent
Logos Please keep always in mind that you
ought to give credit to the original designers if you base your work on their
logos! Creating a
Badge with Paint Shop Pro (ver 6.x)
Importing a
Badge into Fifa 2001 I'll present both ways, but I will suggest
you to pay special attention to that requiring GFXpak. Also, I'll keep the
same Panathinaikos example, assuming that I want to insert their badge into
the game. Since Panathinaikos participates both to the Greek League and to the
ECC Competition we also need to create a second badge for ECC (this time using
the other badge-template, the one with the gray background - file: template-euro.bmp)...
remember that the one we already used was intended for local leagues ONLY
(in our case, the Greek League). The procedure is exactly the same as described
in previous sections, so I assume that you have created that second
badge too... let's say their filenames are pao-badge.gif
and ecc-pao-badge.gif,
respectively. Needed Info To install a club's badge into the game you first need to know two basic things: what file(s) you should insert the badge into, and under what index number.
Ok, up to now it should be pretty clear
that we need to import the image pao-badge.gif into
the file greece1.fsh, and the image ecc-pao-badge.gif
into the file ecc.fsh. I'll focus on the first case
only, and you can use it as a guide to take care of the second one too. Method 1: Importing a Badge with EA-Graph To just import a badge into the game using EA-Graph, it's rather easy but once the badge is imported you also need to take special care of its transparency. So, if we need to import many badges, the whole procedure can become rather tedious. Anyway, run EA-Graph and take the following steps:
(!) NOTE:
Since EA-Graph is not capable of retaining the original
transparency of a gif-file when we import it into an fsh-file (thus
making it necessary for us to deal again with it after importing the image),
then I should point out that people who intent to use EA-Graph (instead of
GFXpak) for importing their badges into the game they DO NOT need to decrease
the badge's colors down to 256, as suggested above, in the section Creating a
Badge with Paint Shop Pro (ver 6.x)... they can safely leave them
in the 24bit color-mode and save them as bmp-files (instead of gif-files). Method 2: Importing a Badge with GFXpak As I stated earlier, to me, using GFXpak is a much better (and hassle free) way to import transparent badges into the game... especially if you are about to import more than one of them. It is much easier to write a two-lines batch file to import two badges, than taking all the steps described in the previous section twice (one for each badge). Plus, that with the method I'll describe here the end-users' lives get a lot easier ;-) Ok, we have GFXpak and we know which image goes into what fsh-file and we also know that Panathinaikos' index number is 0279.
The method just described above, it is not only easier than that using EA-Graph but it also frees makers from having to release complete fsh-files (such as greece1.fsh and ecc.fsh, in our example), thus forcing the end-users to overwrite their own. Just the gif-file(s), the program itself and the batch file are enough! (!) NOTE:
The usage of GFXpak (along with the usage of proper
batch files) can also be adopted for any other Fifa graphic that is embed
inside an fsh-file (or a big-file), like
boots or gloves for example. If more makers start using it, then less end-users
will lose their previous graphics every time they install a new pack on their
copy of the game! Author Notes But please don not ask me to make badges for you, and take the time to read the whole guide before flooding my e-mailbox with questions :-) It is not that I'm not willing to help you out (if I can) but my spare time is really limited. I hope you find the guide useful! Send your comments to Harry Karayannis | |
  
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Badge
Templates: this is a pack of two
empty badge templates I have made for your convenience. The first one
(called template-euro.bmp) should be
used for badges of clubs participating to either ECC or EFA in-game
competitions, while the second one (called template-local.bmp)
should be used for badges of clubs participating to any other local league.
The latter is also the proper template for league logos (like the Italian
Serie-A logo).
Open
the logo you've already downloaded from the
Internet... let's call it, pao-logo.gif
(see the 1st sample pic on the right).
Now
you need to isolate the logo from its surrounding
background, and create a new image for it. This
is a three steps procedure:
)
to select the surrounding area you DO NOT need (in our 1st sample pic,
this is the gray area surrounding the actual logo). To do so, first
click on the Magic Wand tool icon and then click on the area
under question inside the image.
Invert
your selection, with the command Selection->Invert...
your image should now look like the 2nd sample pic on the right.
Resize the
isolated logo down with the command Image->Resize... in
our example, a target size of 60x60 pixels is a good choice (if originally
the isolated logo is very small, then it's not of much use to us... try
to find a bigger one and follow again the whole procedure up to
here).
First
bring the logo window on the front and copy it into the clipboard,
using the command Edit->Copy.
) - or alternatively the Mover
Tool ( 
) - and drag the pasted logo to the center of the template... you
should now see something pretty close to the 1st sample pic on the
right.
(!)
Hint: if you want to add some
special effects to your pasted logo (like shadows, or lightning effects
for example) this is the right moment to do so.
Decrease
the color depth of your image down to 256 colors, with the
command Colors->Decrease Color
Depth->256 Colors (8 bit). Among other things
you'll be asked about which palette should be used for the conversion...
choose either Optimized Median Cut
or Optimized Octree (see
sample pic on the right).
Define
the palette transparency to pink, using the command Colors->Set
Palette Transparency. PSP will open a dialog box
where you can specify the transparent color... do so by left clicking
your mouse anywhere inside the pinked area of your image (the dialog box
should look like the sample pic on the right). Select OK
to accept the new transparency.