Icy's logo sets for FOF2007

[Icy]

I have decided to start a new thread as I'm going to work on a few different logo sets and this way i can update this first post with my new logos as i work on them. Of course I admit sugestions.

INSTRUCTIONS:
To use them just download them and extract them using winzip or winrar into the folder where you have the original logos installed that by default should be: C:\Program Files\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\Pictures
When asked about overwriting the original ones answer YES. If you want to keep the original logos i recomend you creating a copy of the whole Pictures folder.

If you find any error like city names misspelling or any logo not appearing please let me know.

You can host or redistribute this logo sets but please credit me as author, it has been a good amount of work to have them ready for the release day.

Here are previews of the first logo sets:

SET 1 (basic) CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD IT (http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/logos/set1/icy_lset1.zip)

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/logos/set1/miami.bmp

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/logos/set1/cincinnati.bmp


SET 1 (stadiums) CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD IT (http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/logos/set3/icy_lset3.zip)

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/logos/set3/carolina.bmp

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/logos/set3/atlanta.bmp

SET 1 (shirts) CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD IT (http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/logos/set4/icy_lset4.zip)

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/logos/set4/greenbay.bmp

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/logos/set4/tampabay.bmp

INTERFACE GRAPHICS MODS

Here is how my game looks now, I have edited the following:

- Positions tags
- The current/future tags
- The exerience years tags.

Maybe not so pretty but the font is easier in the eyes at least for me:

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/bitmaptest4.jpg

- I have also added now my moddifed experience icons in the player card view to show the position plus the experience level. Here is one sample going from 1 to 100 in steps of 10, there other two variations using letters from A to J or numbers from 1 to 10. The three versions are at the end of this thread.

Top of the image is how it looks in the original, bottom is my modded one:

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/330/sample.jpg

You can download the bitmaps and patch the exe yourself with reshacker:

Resource 300: Current and potentials
http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/300/1033icy.jpghttp://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/300/1033icy.bmp

Resource 302: Positions icons
http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/302/1033icy.jpghttp://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/302/1033icy.bmp

Resource 302: Positions icons version 2
http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/302/1033icy2.jpghttp://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/302/1033icy2.bmp

Resource 323: Experience years
http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/323/1033icy.jpghttp://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/323/1033icy.bmp

Resource 330: Experience % icons in player card

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR THIS VERSION: As there are only 10 different icon colors, i used steps of 10% but for example a player with experience displayed as 50, will have any number between 41 and 50, a player with experience displayed as 100, will have any number between 91 and 100% etc. Those are my asumptions, but it could be also that not all the steps are equal, so this is just a guide, not exact experience numbers as the colors ranges are not exact either and we don't know for sure which range represents each color. Use those experience numbers as guide only.
http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/330/1033icy.bmp

Resource 300: Experience % icons with letters that are more abstract than numbers, J is the lowest value and A is the higher.

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/330/1033icy2.bmp

Resource 300 Experience % icons with numbers that represent just the 10 levels of experience, 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest.

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/330/1033icy3.bmp

GAME BACKGROUNDS:

I just remember i did this as a joke, but it's already useful when i'm playing with the notebook while watching TV without my wife telling me that i'm playing the whole day. I took an excel file screenshoot and used it as game background.

Does it look like a game? :D

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/excellook.jpg


The game background is the resource 328 in reshacker, you can use this as the excel background:

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/328/1033excel.bmp

If instead, you want a full black background, use this:

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/328/1033black.bmp

The black one is what i use as the default office one distracts me fom the game, i prefer all black background.

[Peregrine]

Wow that second set is a bit freaky for my early morning FOF playing, the first one is great though.

[wade moore]

I like them both! Definately a lot of potential for logo sets here... Probably a little more desire for pre-defined "fake" worlds with full logo sets than before too.

[Ben E Lou]

It took me a while to figure out what was so different and how Jim managed so much more space in this version....then I figured out that the player cards are significantly larger. Duh.

[wade moore]

It took me a while to figure out what was so different and how Jim managed so much more space in this version....then I figured out that the player cards are significantly larger. Duh.

A thing about them being so large...

If you look at Icy's samples in the other thread, I think there's a lot of potential for someone like Icy to make a template and a league like IHOF, CFL, and some others that have a fair amount of info in Madden could really improve their player cards.

In act, I wonder if there's any feasibility for automating splicing team logo + picture together? If nothing else I know that ct has used Uhh.. Paint Shop Pro I think it is.. to make like a macro where it automatically puts the images in the right spot when you copy and paste...

[Icy]

Added set 3 preview.

[gottimd]

Nice work! I'll be using these when I fire up 2007.

If you look at Icy's samples in the other thread, I think there's a lot of potential for someone like Icy to make a template and a league like IHOF, CFL, and some others that have a fair amount of info in Madden could really improve their player cards.

In act, I wonder if there's any feasibility for automating splicing team logo + picture together? If nothing else I know that ct has used Uhh.. Paint Shop Pro I think it is.. to make like a macro where it automatically puts the images in the right spot when you copy and paste...

Now that would be a great utility.

[Ben E Lou]

Icy, these look great!

http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=53713

[wade moore]

Now that would be a great utility.

Keep in mind, I have NO idea how realistic such a utility is.. I'm just throwing it out there in hopes that someone feels it is realistic and takes it on ;).

[Bee]

Great job as usual Icy. Looking forward to your logo set release. I especially like the third set.

[JeeberD]

Great work as always, Icy!

[cougarfreak]

Great work!

[MizzouRah]

Very nice Icy!!

You can NEVER have too many logo sets. ;)

[Gallifrey]

Great job! I like the basic the best. Thanks for the work!

[Emiliano]

Great job as usual man!

[Raiders Army]

Very nice! They look great!

[Icy]

Thanks for the nice words guys, it really encourages me to keep working on this.

Sets 1 and 3 are finished, now I just need the full game to know how to rename them and then will be published.

Added new SET 4 previews to the top of the thread.

[BigDPW]

I really like the stadium ones...

[SunDevil]

Great Job Icy. Do you have plans to make/edit any of the screens in the game?

[sabotai]

Set 3 or Set 4....set 3 or set 4.....damn, I can't decide!!

[Ben E Lou]

Wow. These look VERY impressive.

One suggestion, due to franchise city moves:

a set that doesn't have the city names.

[Icy]

Great Job Icy. Do you have plans to make/edit any of the screens in the game?

I have been taking a look with reshacker at what can be edited. I could try to edit the positions, numbers and ratings as i don't like the new ones a lot, the position tags for example are a bit hard to read and the numbers for the ratings are a bit weird looking too (of course in my opinion). Will give it a shoot once i end with the logos.


One suggestion, due to franchise city moves:
a set that doesn't have the city names.

Good idea, will work on one with nicknames only and not with the city name. Also if somebody has ideas for nicknames and logos for a fully fictional universe, i could give it a shoot.

[gstelmack]

Also if somebody has ideas for nicknames and logos for a fully fictional universe, i could give it a shoot.

You could go with the default fictional nicknames that ship with the game...

[kid_dynamite]

you could go with omerta mafia names and see if teams Provenzano could beat Calabrian in an FOF showdown...i suppose only a few will know what i'm talking about :)

[Emiliano]

I love set 4 man. Very very nice!

[Pyser]

i wouldnt mind a set that was just a giant logo (say the giants "ny") and nothing else...if we can make requests :)

[Icy]

Ok, i have been playing with reshacker and photoshop, as first test i replaced the font on the positions button as the original font is not clear enought for me. Here are my changes, above is original, bellow is mine:

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaptest.jpg

What do you guys think? I could also change the buttons colours but i don't think they are that bad.

[Icy]

i wouldnt mind a set that was just a giant logo (say the giants "ny") and nothing else...if we can make requests :)

Mizzourah has done some already that way that are good:

http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=53709

[Deattribution]

Great work on these, should add alot to the overall feel of the player cards.

[Pyser]

Mizzourah has done some already that way that are good:

http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=53709

missed that, sorry!

[Ajaxab]

Ok, i have been playing with reshacker and photoshop, as first test i replaced the font on the positions button as the original font is not clear enought for me. Here are my changes, above is original, bellow is mine:

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaptest.jpg

What do you guys think? I could also change the buttons colours but i don't think they are that bad.

I know I like your alterations. Looks good to me.

[SunDevil]

I like the changes as well.

[BigDPW]

Any idea when these and MIZ's will get hosted somewhere for us all to download...

[Capital]

Icy...as always...your work is top notch...

[Icy]

Update:

Sets 1 and 3 are ready to be downloaded, details in the first post of this thread.

[yabanci]

nice, I really like that first set. Much thanks.

[Emiliano]

Ok, i have been playing with reshacker and photoshop, as first test i replaced the font on the positions button as the original font is not clear enought for me. Here are my changes, above is original, bellow is mine:

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaptest.jpg

What do you guys think? I could also change the buttons colours but i don't think they are that bad.

Great. I like these as well.

[Icy]

Sorry i have messed some logo names and i'm going to check all the set slowly again, will upload them once corrected. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Icy]

Fixed, sets 1, 3 and 4 are up and corrected.
If you downloaded them before i posted this, do it again please.

[Capital]

Thanks again for your work on all the text based games...

[Ben E Lou]

Fixed, sets 1, 3 and 4 are up and corrected.
If you downloaded them before i posted this, do it again please.Thanks, Icy!!!

All: Icy's logos are now hosted in our centralized location as well. See the stickied thread above with downloads.

[Peregrine]

Very nice Icy, can't wait for those position button changes also. Is there a way you could replace the current scout overview values with something more readable? The way the numbers are displayed in that field (crooked and leaning) is really bugging me.

[Icy]

Very nice Icy, can't wait for those position button changes also. Is there a way you could replace the current scout overview values with something more readable? The way the numbers are displayed in that field (crooked and leaning) is really bugging me.

It bugs me a lot too, will edit them.

[cuervo72]

I'm about halfway through a version of the ratings fwiw, just cutting and pasting from the old ones and giving slight color tweaks to the various sets to match the new colors (the mask image seems good enough that I won't bother). I'll post when I'm done...whenever I can get my main computer back from the kids, who have commandeered it.

[Icy]

i made a new version only editing the numbers to use a more clear font. It replaces all the numbers in every screen.

Original
http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/300/1033original.bmp

Edited
http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/300/1033.bmp

[SunDevil]

ICY,

I love it, how can I put this in the game?

[jeff061]

Nice Icy, even nicer response time :). The fonts look great.

[Icy]

ICY,

I love it, how can I put this in the game?

You need to use a program named reshacker. There was a tutorial in the forums for 2004 but i can't find it now, try to search for it or you will need to wait until i edit also the positions tags and then i'll upload my moddified .exe with the changes already done. In the future maybe i'll write a small tutorial but now i'm looking into finishing this to start to play the game, i have been working on graphics all the time and have not even started a game yet.

[Peregrine]

You need to use a program named reshacker. There was a tutorial in the forums for 2004 but i can't find it now, try to search for it or you will need to wait until i edit also the positions tags and then i'll upload my moddified .exe with the changes already done. In the future maybe i'll write a small tutorial but now i'm looking into finishing this to start to play the game, i have been working on graphics all the time and have not even started a game yet.

Thanks for your dedication Icy, here you are helping us and it's keeping you away from the game!

[Deattribution]

again, great work on these and thanks for taking the time to do it.

[Ben E Lou]

Regarding reshacker:

One thing to keep in mind is that with FOF2K4, patches/updates were always complete overwrites of the entire download. I did a little checking, and he did two pretty significant patches within 3 weeks of the release of that game, the first one coming only 9 days after the release. I'd probably wait for a patch or two before going the reshacker route, to avoid having to do it all over again a short time later.

[Icy]

Edited positions now too. Changed the font and also the QB colour to a more red one to better difference it from the RB's.

Original
http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/302/1033original.bmp

Edited
http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/302/1033.bmp

[SunDevil]

Icy,

Whatever you need to keep redoing the game's graphics and make them more appealing. Whether that be drink, food, or women just let me know. :D

Again, great job, and I am searching for resHacker and it's tutorial as I type.

[Icy]

Ok, for those that don't know how to edit the .exe file with reshacker, here is mine already modded with the new positions tags and numerical tags.

To use it do the following:

- Make sure you don't have the game running.
- Go to the FOF2k7 folder (by default C:\Program Files\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007).
- Rename your FrFoot2007.exe to FrFoot2007.old (this is just to backup the original).
- Unzip the content of my zip file in that location (by default C:\Program Files\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007)

Launch the game, you should see the changes.

LINK REMOVED AS IT'S NO LONGER UPDATED

Here is how it will look, scout view:

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/bitmaptest3.jpg




(http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/icy_exemod.zip)

[SunDevil]

thanks, the link works now.

[Izulde]

You are the awesomest, Icy. :)

[SunDevil]

I found the link:

http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/

also an open source alternative:

http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/d10resourceeditor.htm

[Peregrine]

Hmm Icy that file was telling me it was an invalid archive.

[Icy]

thanks, but the link does not work.

Opps sorry, fixed, the upload didn't work, just uploaded it again.

Btw, Skydog is correct, this changes will be undone every time you download and install any new official patch but i'll publish a modified exe after every patch. Of course it's better to learn how to use reshack.

[Peregrine]

Thanks, works now. Wow, this one change got rid of almost everything that was bugging me about the new version.

[Northwood_DK]

Works for me.

Thanks Icy

[Caratacus]

Thank you, looks a lot crisper... much appreciated.

[SunDevil]

Icy,

Was this the tutorial you were talkinga about?

http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16686

[gstelmack]

Hmm, I smell my first FOF2k7 utility coming on ;-)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/WinUI/WindowsUserInterface/Resources/IntroductiontoResources/UsingResources.asp

(for those that don't speak programmer, this means I can probably write a utility to auto-swap these resources whenever a new version of the game is released...)

[Izulde]

Icy,

just one small thing. I noticed the service years are still faded in your screenshot. Is there any chance you could spruce those up, too? :)

[Icy]

Icy,

just one small thing. I noticed the service years are still faded in your screenshot. Is there any chance you could spruce those up, too? :)

Yes, it's the next thing I'll edit as are to easy to read either. I'll leave the faded players numbers as are not that important so i prefer them to not to be as noticeable.

[MizzouRah]

Can someone post how the logos are named, at least an example so I can get mine finished?

I finally got rid of my headache (hangover from last night and this morning) :) but I haven't purchased the game yet. (although I plan to later tonight)

Thanks!

[Icy]

Can someone post how the logos are named, at least an example so I can get mine finished?

I finally got rid of my headache (hangover from last night and this morning) :) but I haven't purchased the game yet. (although I plan to later tonight)

Thanks!
I don't have them written anywhere but download my set and you can see them pretty fast. They are not named by the cities or anything, just ban8.bmp ban12.bmp etc.

[MizzouRah]

Thanks Icy, after posting that I thought (it's rough thinking today) why don't I just d/l one of his sets.

[Ben E Lou]

I don't have them written anywhere but download my set and you can see them pretty fast. They are not named by the cities or anything, just ban8.bmp ban12.bmp etc.The numbers don't correlate to the city codes in the game? I thought Jim said that they did...

[Emiliano]

Here is how it will look, scout view:

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/bitmaptest3.jpg




(http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/icy_exemod.zip)

Awesome man, awesome. Thanks so much for these.

[Icy]

Icy,

just one small thing. I noticed the service years are still faded in your screenshot. Is there any chance you could spruce those up, too? :)

Done sir :)

Original:
http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/323/1033original.bmp

Edited:
http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/323/1033.bmp

[Icy]

Here is how my game looks now, maybe not so pretty but the font is easier in the eyes:

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/bitmaptest4.jpg
(http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/icy_exemod.zip)

LINK REMOVED AS IT'S NO LONGER UPDATED

[Raiders Army]

Done sir :)

Original:
http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/323/1033original.bmp

Edited:
http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/323/1033.bmp

Much nicer. I replaced 323 instead of the .exe file. I have all the bmp's saved so when the patch comes out I know what the change again. ;)

[Emiliano]

Much nicer. I replaced 323 instead of the .exe file. I have all the bmp's saved so when the patch comes out I know what the change again. ;)

Yeah, me too.

Just a quick note for everyone who is going to edit these:
-300: ratings
-302: positions tags
-323: years of experience

[gstelmack]

Yeah, me too.

Just a quick note for everyone who is going to edit these:
-300: ratings
-303: positions tags
-323: years of experience

Thanks, that'll help with the auto-patch utility I'm working on (Icy and Cuervo will get first beta-testing dibs since I need their permission to include their work...)

[Icy]

Thanks, that'll help with the auto-patch utility I'm working on (Icy and Cuervo will get first beta-testing dibs since I need their permission to include their work...)

Sure, count on me for testing it. Btw, have you looked into the posibillity of creating a player editor? It shouldn't be so hard for you with your programming skills.

[gstelmack]

Sure, count on me for testing it. Btw, have you looked into the posibillity of creating a player editor? It shouldn't be so hard for you with your programming skills.

Depends on what you want edited. So far I've avoided modifying the binary files for three reasons:

If I screw it up, Jim gets support calls, not me. That's not fair to him in any way, shape, or form.
I've done my best to avoid having anything to do with player ratings for cheating reasons.
I've got enough other work to do.The closest I've been tempted to do with this was a stadium editor for levelling the economic playing field in multiplayer leagues, but then Jim added that feature to 2k7 ;)

[Vinatieri for Prez]

Would you be able to make coach names editable?

[gstelmack]

Would you be able to make coach names editable?

See post #78.

[Vinatieri for Prez]

Hmm, I thought this would be different. I'm talking about a name editor, not a ratings editor, for the coaching staff.

Guess I was wrong.

[gstelmack]

Hmm, I thought this would be different. I'm talking about a name editor, not a ratings editor, for the coaching staff.

Guess I was wrong.

Anything that makes me update the binary data, no matter how simple, falls under what I said. There really needs to be a VERY good reason before I muck with it. A name editor doesn't fall afoul of my #2 reason above (that was specific to Icy's request), but reasons #1 and #3 still apply. Reason #1 is enough to make me extremely unlikely to ever want to touch the binary data.

[gstelmack]

Yeah, me too.

Just a quick note for everyone who is going to edit these:
-300: ratings
-303: positions tags
-323: years of experience

303 doesn't exist in my version of the executable. Do you mean 302?

[gstelmack]

Edited positions now too. Changed the font and also the QB colour to a more red one to better difference it from the RB's.

Original
http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/302/1033original.bmp

Edited
http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/302/1033.bmp

I'm finding the black-on-red QB one to be a bit hard to read (can't focus on the text well). With a red that red, maybe change the "QB" to white?

Oh yeah, expect the beta of my auto-patcher tonight ;)

[cthomer5000]

Any chance you (or someone) could take a crack at the position tags using the same color scheme from 2004? The font is an issue to me, but so is the pastel color scheme... everything looks so close to each other to me, I thought things were very clear in 2004.

[Eaglesfan27]

I just wanted to add my thanks. Love the 1st logo set.

[HerRealName]

Just wanted to add my thanks to Icy as well. I really like the stadium set.

[Emiliano]

303 doesn't exist in my version of the executable. Do you mean 302?

Of course. Sorry, my mistake. :)

[Icy]

Any chance you (or someone) could take a crack at the position tags using the same color scheme from 2004? The font is an issue to me, but so is the pastel color scheme... everything looks so close to each other to me, I thought things were very clear in 2004.

Like this? :)

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/302/1033-2.bmp

[IrishHand]

Will this work with 6.0a?

[3ric]

Will this work with 6.0a?

Definitely.

[mmarra82]

I have a thing for blonds, any luck in creating blond greta?:)

[SunDevil]

In honor of the new patch (or at least a step toward the new patch), here is Greta ver. 6.0a. Save image as greta.bmp in pictures folder.



http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/899/gretahx7.png

You are getting a Christmas card this year from me. Thank you so much. :D

[MizzouRah]

In honor of the new patch (or at least a step toward the new patch), here is Greta ver. 6.0a. Save image as greta.bmp in pictures folder.



http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/899/gretahx7.png

That's hot. So hot, I wouldn't be able to play the game much, I'd just stare at Greta. :)

[Vinatieri for Prez]

Yes, much better.

[Izulde]

Like this? :)

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/302/1033-2.bmp

This, sir, is fantastic.

[SunDevil]

This, sir, is fantastic.

Just wanted to say that the LDE is the same color as the k/P position and does not match the rest of the DL. Just FYI

[Icy]

Just wanted to say that the LDE is the same color as the k/P position and does not match the rest of the DL. Just FYI


Oops true, will fix it now.

[Icy]

Fixed:

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/302/1033-2.bmp

[BradS]

Ok, for those that don't know how to edit the .exe file with reshacker, here is mine already modded with the new positions tags and numerical tags.

To use it do the following:

- Make sure you don't have the game running.
- Go to the FOF2k7 folder (by default C:\Program Files\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007).
- Rename your FrFoot2007.exe to FrFoot2007.old (this is just to backup the original).
- Unzip the content of my zip file in that location (by default C:\Program Files\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007)

Launch the game, you should see the changes.

DOWNLOAD IT HERE (http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/icy_exemod.zip)

Here is how it will look, scout view:

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/bitmaptest3.jpg




(http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/icy_exemod.zip)

I followed this and it worked. However the depth chart (bars window) does not appear for individual players (pre 6.0). Is this some how erasing the 6.0 patch? Also everytime I open the game I get a security box asking if I want to Run this. Any idea?

[SunDevil]

Fixed:

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/302/1033-2.bmp

This is probably a stupid question, but why is the LDE purple, while the DT and RDE are yellow? Thanks again for all your work Icy.

[JeeberD]

Refresh your screen, SunDevil... :)

[SunDevil]

son of a .......


Thanks Jeeber. Disregard by previous post.

[Icy]

I followed this and it worked. However the depth chart (bars window) does not appear for individual players (pre 6.0). Is this some how erasing the 6.0 patch? Also everytime I open the game I get a security box asking if I want to Run this. Any idea?

Because that .exe is pre-patch that is when i released it, i'm going to remove the link to avoid confussion.

[Icy]

The exe in the first thread has been updated to 6.0b now.

[Icy]

Added the moddified experience icons in the players card to show now both position and % of experience in steps of 10%. As there are only 10 different icon colors, i used steps of 10% but for example a player with experience displayed as 50, will have any number between 41 and 50, a player with experience displayed as 100, will have any number between 91 and 100% etc. Those are my asumptions, but it could be also that not all the steps are equal, so this is just a guide, not exact experience numbers as the colors ranges are not exact either and we don't know for sure which range represents each color.

The top of this image are the originals and the bottom my modded ones.

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/330/sample.jpg

Here is the resource 330 bmp:
http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/330/1033icy.bmp

I have updated the first post of this thread with this and also updated the modded exe to 6.0b with all my mods.

[wade moore]

I know I'm being anal about this and it's annoying, but...

What if you made it 1-10 instead of the 10-100? That way it's more of a ranking than %? Part of why I say this is I BELIEVE in 6.0 and 6.0a some colors were thicker than others (unfortunately I already updates so I can't check)..

So then it would be a straight ranking, rather than seeming to represent the "true" numbers?

[Ronde Barber]

Thanks, thanks, and thanks again!!!!
THANKS!!!!

[eiskrap]

I know I'm being anal about this and it's annoying, but...

What if you made it 1-10 instead of the 10-100? That way it's more of a ranking than %? Part of why I say this is I BELIEVE in 6.0 and 6.0a some colors were thicker than others (unfortunately I already updates so I can't check)..

So then it would be a straight ranking, rather than seeming to represent the "true" numbers?

Second that, makes more sense to me to have the rankings or stages of development, than 'guessing' the percentages that we'll never know are true...

But great work Icy, they look great whatever ;)

[Icy]

I know I'm being anal about this and it's annoying, but...

What if you made it 1-10 instead of the 10-100? That way it's more of a ranking than %? Part of why I say this is I BELIEVE in 6.0 and 6.0a some colors were thicker than others (unfortunately I already updates so I can't check)..

So then it would be a straight ranking, rather than seeming to represent the "true" numbers?

I thought on it too, but then it could be mixed with experience years, you never know how we humans can confuse things. Also i doubt there are a lot of differences between a guy developed 42% and 49%, if you think on it this is like scouting error margin too.

I have edited my post before to explain that are ranges to avoid people confused about it.

[wade moore]

I thought on it too, but then it could be mixed with experience years, you never know how we humans can confuse things. Also i doubt there are a lot of differences between a guy developed 42% and 49%, if you think on it this is like scouting error margin too.

I have edited my post before to explain that are ranges to avoid people confused about it.

Added the moddified experience icons in the players card to show now both position and % of experience in steps of 10%. As there are only 10 different icon colors, i used steps of 10% but for example a player with experience displayed as 50, will have any number between 41 and 50, a player with experienc displayed as 100, will have any number between 91 and 100% etc.

I'm not sure you're getting my point still...

A player with 50 having somewhere between 41-50... we don't know that. You're making a conjecture about how the colors work.

I'm hoping someone sees this before loading the patch, because I remember it being that some colors were "thicker" so that say purple represents 0-5, dark blue 5-10, and light blue 10-30...

I'm not SURE about this though.

[Icy]

Ok, edited it now with this:

Those are my asumptions, but it could be also that not all the steps are equal, so this is just a guide, not exact experience numbers as the colors ranges are not exact either and we don't know for sure which range represents each color.

[Emiliano]

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/330/1033icy.bmp

Awesome!

[wade moore]

Ok, edited it now with this:

Those are my asumptions, but it could be also that not all the steps are equal, so this is just a guide, not exact experience numbers as the colors ranges are not exact either and we don't know for sure which range represents each color.

Cool. I know I'm being overly anal about this, I just worry about implications down the line when things don't act the way people expect them to.

[JeeberD]

Awesome!

Agreed. Great work, Icy...

[gstelmack]

Man, and I just updated the ResourcePatcher right before this ;-)

[Icy]

Man, and I just updated the ResourcePatcher right before this ;-)


Hehe, wait a minute, more changes now:

As some members are not too sold on the 10% steps, i have created other 2 versions of the experience icons in the player card:

One with letters that are more abstract than numbers, J is the lowest value and A is the higher.

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/330/1033icy2.bmp

And another with numbers that represent just the 10 levels of experience, 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest.

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/330/1033icy3.bmp

[Icy]

I just remember i did this as a joke, but it's already useful when i'm playing with the notebook while watching TV without my wife telling me that i'm playing the whole day. I took an excel file screenshoot and used it as game background.

Does it look like a game? :D

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/excellook.jpg


The game background is the resource 328 in reshacker, you can use this as the excel background:

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/328/1033excel.bmp

If instead, you want a full black background, use this:

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/328/1033black.bmp

The black one is what i use as the default office one distracts me fom the game, i prefer all black background.

[SunDevil]

Icy, you are a graphical genius. Thanks again. :D

[BradS]

Given I can read "Greta's House of Football" from here , you may still have probs. Icy.

[Gil Thorp]

Those are my asumptions, but it could be also that not all the steps are equal, so this is just a guide, not exact experience numbers as the colors ranges are not exact either and we don't know for sure which range represents each color.

For those of us that are a color blind, a number, even if inexact, is better than nothing. Any chart based on colors is useless to me. Thanks for your work.

[AZSpeechCoach]

Do I already have to have my game updated to 6.0b before I use this, or can I just update?

[Icy]

Do I already have to have my game updated to 6.0b before I use this, or can I just update?

Not sure, better update first to the official 6.0b

[Gallifrey]

Icy, that Excel background just blew my mind.

[yabanci]

Icy, just a suggestion on the 1-10 ratings. If you move the position and number a hair toward the center and add a bit of white to the edge of the colors, it breaks up the ratings so they don't run together and makes it much easier to read. For example:

with space (see between FL and SE):

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/8864/wspacenm9.jpg

as is:

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/4913/wospaceho0.jpg

[gstelmack]

A general comment for me: most of these are pretty good, but to be great you need to check the contrast between the text and backgrounds. Black does not read well against some of the darker colors. See my earlier example on the position edits (black QB text on dark red hard to read), and it's similar on these experience charts. I know you don't have a lot of options with the way the bitmap is put together, but maybe lighten up the darker purple and red backgrounds?

[RedKingGold]

Thanks for making the positional tags with numbers 1-10. It means I no longer have to decipher the colors to determine if a light blue player is more developed than a light purple player, I can just see that 3 is bigger than 1.

Thanks again!

[yabanci]

A general comment for me: most of these are pretty good, but to be great you need to check the contrast between the text and backgrounds. Black does not read well against some of the darker colors. See my earlier example on the position edits (black QB text on dark red hard to read), and it's similar on these experience charts. I know you don't have a lot of options with the way the bitmap is put together, but maybe lighten up the darker purple and red backgrounds?

simple to do. Here's a very quick example:

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/4760/wspaceclradgtq3.jpg

I could do these easily enough, but I don't want to step on Icy's turf and will leave it to him. He does a great job with all of this.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

I was starting to work on throwback logos, but I don't have the time to really get into it (or the skill to make them actually look very good!)

I did find a great site for throwback logos though...

http://www.logoshak.com/

[Rizon]

In honor of the new patch (or at least a step toward the new patch), here is Greta ver. 6.0a. Save image as greta.bmp in pictures folder.



http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/899/gretahx7.png

I'd film her before a live studio audience of my balls.

[Pyser]

icy, the position colors look great. my only nitpicky thing is the yellow between d-lineman and lbs are very hard to differentiate, to my eyes.

other than that, fantastic

[IrishHand]

Icy - any chance of blazing up a team logo for Los Angeles? (Looking for the helmet/logo combo from Icy Set 1, if possible.)

Thanks bro...
Irish

[Icy]

Icy - any chance of blazing up a team logo for Los Angeles? (Looking for the helmet/logo combo from Icy Set 1, if possible.)

Thanks bro...
Irish

I guess you mean for a fictional team in Los Angeles right?

I'm thinking on releasing a pack of all fictional teams/logos but now i want to play a bit the game as have been doing mods since it was released. I'll give it a shoot after the weekend.

Btw, are you the IrishHand who created the real rosters for TPB? if so, i like them a lot.

[AlexB]

Icy - a big thank you! With the lettered experience indicators, I can now distinguish between them - top work :)

[IrishHand]

I guess you mean for a fictional team in Los Angeles right?

Sure...I generally take some hapless franchise and after the locals refuse to fully fund my $700M stadium, move the show to my beloved Los Angeles...but I'm not a big fan of the bleak, uninteresting "Los Angeles" that defaults in...

So, a fictional one, an LA Raiders or Rams one, I don't really care - whatever suits your fancy. I just want some sort of upgrade. :)

Btw, are you the IrishHand who created the real rosters for TPB? if so, i like them a lot.

Yup...that would be me - and glad you enjoyed them.

[MizzouRah]

simple to do. Here's a very quick example:

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/4760/wspaceclradgtq3.jpg

I could do these easily enough, but I don't want to step on Icy's turf and will leave it to him. He does a great job with all of this.

I would love for a finished product like this and I don't think Icy would care.

[MizzouRah]

Thanks so much, both Icy and Yabanci!!

[Icy]

Sure i don't care Yabanci, i don't have the exclusivity on doing mods :)

[MizzouRah]

Sure i don't care Yabanci, i don't have the exclusivity on doing mods :)

Shhh... EA might hear you. :D

[Vinatieri for Prez]

This is Greta ver. 6.0b. For advanced users only. Save image as greta.bmp in pictures folder.



http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3778/gretafa5.png



(apologies to Icy's thread)

I can't get this to work. When I right click to save, it wants to save it as a greta5.png file. I rename it to greta.bmp and save it over in the pictures file. However, when pulling up Greta in-game, I get a blank. Pray tell what to do?

Is it this .png business?

[yabanci]

I can't get this to work. When I right click to save, it wants to save it as a greta5.png file. I rename it to greta.bmp and save it over in the pictures file. However, when pulling up Greta in-game, I get a blank. Pray tell what to do?

Is it this .png business?

Not sure. I'll send them to SkyDog to host with the other FOF stuff.

[Vinatieri for Prez]

Thanks.

[Vinatieri for Prez]

Perhaps it's the wrong size? It shows as 364 x 316. I deleted the original Greta picture so I can't check if the size matches. Does anybody know?

Yab, perhaps you can post it on imageshack as an original .bmp file? I'm just totally guessing here.

[wade moore]

.png is a completely different file format. I'm pretty sure that imageshack will convert an uploaded .bmp file (not internet friendly) and convert it to a .png.

[yabanci]

Perhaps it's the wrong size? It shows as 364 x 316. I deleted the original Greta picture so I can't check if the size matches. Does anybody know?

Yab, perhaps you can post it on imageshack as an original .bmp file? I'm just totally guessing here.

yeah, as wade moore said, imageshack converts bmp to png for some reason. The file is up on the FOF download page now. Greta2 is the one you want.

http://www.younglifenorthdekalb.com/fof2k7downloads/

[Dutch]

I'm going to guess they convert it to save space.

[Ben E Lou]

yeah, as wade moore said, imageshack converts bmp to png for some reason. The file is up on the FOF download page now. Greta2 is the one you want.

http://www.younglifenorthdekalb.com/fof2k7downloads/It'll be on the spreadsheet in a few, too.

[Ben E Lou]

It'll be on the spreadsheet in a few, too.Done.

[Vinatieri for Prez]

Yep, that did it. Thanks guys. I'd use the original Greta if it weren't for that darn Michigan jersey.

[Nugget699]

Decided to throw in my own designs for the Team Logos. Using the E2G Logo Template from a forum member in Sortitoutsi.net "enzoli", so full credit goes to him.

Glossy Logos

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/9919/ban46jc1.png

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/2046/ban153yh7.png

>>Download (http://www.younglifenorthdekalb.com/fof2k7downloads/GlossyLogos.zip)Here<< (http://www.younglifenorthdekalb.com/fof2k7downloads/GlossyLogos.zip)

[Icy]

Decided to throw in my own designs for the Team Logos. Using the E2G Logo Template from a forum member in Sortitoutsi.net "enzoli", so full credit goes to him.

Glossy Logos

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/9919/ban46jc1.png

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/2046/ban153yh7.png

>>Download Here<< (http://www.thesuperleague.net/saves/GlossyLogos.zip)



Looking good!

[Ben E Lou]

Decided to throw in my own designs for the Team Logos. Using the E2G Logo Template from a forum member in Sortitoutsi.net "enzoli", so full credit goes to him.

Glossy Logos

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/9919/ban46jc1.png

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/2046/ban153yh7.png

>>Download Here<< (http://www.thesuperleague.net/saves/GlossyLogos.zip)


Hosted and linked in the download thread.

[Emiliano]

Decided to throw in my own designs for the Team Logos. Using the E2G Logo Template from a forum member in Sortitoutsi.net "enzoli", so full credit goes to him.

Glossy Logos

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/9919/ban46jc1.png

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/2046/ban153yh7.png

>>Download Here<< (http://www.thesuperleague.net/saves/GlossyLogos.zip)


:eek:

Just noticed these, really amazing. Great job Nugget699, and welcome!

[MizzouRah]

Nice work Nugget699!

[gbeats]

- I have also added now my moddifed experience icons in the player card view to show the position plus the experience level. Here is one sample going from 1 to 100 in steps of 10, there other two variations using letters from A to J or numbers from 1 to 10. The three versions are at the end of this thread.

Top of the image is how it looks in the original, bottom is my modded one:

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/330/sample.jpg



how do i get these woring again having downloaded patch c? i have every other graphic working, but this ain't & its one of the most vital ones imo.

[Rizon]

how do i get these woring again having downloaded patch c? i have every other graphic working, but this ain't & its one of the most vital ones imo.

Download the picture from this thread, and use it to replace the old one using Reshacker.

[gbeats]

what is Reshacker & where can i get it?

[Ben E Lou]

You're probably better off to use gstelmack's utility to put the resources in that you want. It is available in the download sticky.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

I just had a little fun altering a few of Icy's helmet banners to change them to throwbacks (Detroit, Denver, Atlanta) and a couple to alter the logo (Chicago has the bear head & Cleveland has that pointy-eared guy instead of a second helmet) They aren't as perfect as Icy's, but they look pretty good considering how little I actually know about photoshop!

edit: I got it figured out... Here they are.

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/8215/ban46sp6.th.png (http://img132.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ban46sp6.png)

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/3387/ban44rr8.th.png (http://img329.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ban44rr8.png)

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/2122/ban33fb1.th.png (http://img241.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ban33fb1.png)

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/9361/ban31hi6.th.png (http://img241.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ban31hi6.png)

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/1199/ban10ab0.th.png (http://img244.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ban10ab0.png)

[JeffW]

Resource 300: Current and potentials


Resource 330: Experience % icons in player card


Resource 300: Experience % icons with letters that are more abstract than numbers, J is the lowest value and A is the higher.

Resource 300 Experience % icons with numbers that represent just the 10 levels of experience, 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest.



Should the last two Resource 300 actually be Resource 330?

[Kodos]

Decided to throw in my own designs for the Team Logos. Using the E2G Logo Template from a forum member in Sortitoutsi.net "enzoli", so full credit goes to him.

Glossy Logos

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/9919/ban46jc1.png

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/2046/ban153yh7.png

>>Download (http://www.younglifenorthdekalb.com/fof2k7downloads/GlossyLogos.zip)Here<< (http://www.younglifenorthdekalb.com/fof2k7downloads/GlossyLogos.zip)


LOVE these logos, Nugget699! Any chance of getting the classic Atlanta Falcon logo done with this treatment? Pretty please! :)

[Nugget699]

Here you go:

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/7610/falconsoldwk0.png

If anyone has any requests don't hesitate to ask.

[Kodos]

Here you go:

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/7610/falconsoldwk0.png

If anyone has any requests don't hesitate to ask.

Awesome! Thanks!:D

[Kodos]

Since you offered, can we get an old-school Oilers logo? I've always hated the Texan's name. :)

[Nugget699]

One Oilers logo:
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/6730/oilersvr6.png

[Kodos]

One Oilers logo:
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/6730/oilersvr6.png

Thanks again! :D

[zlionsfan]

This is still great stuff. Thanks to all those that contributed!

[Rizon]

The "Greta" picture I use:

http://home.comcast.net/~rizon1976/greta.bmp

[Vinatieri for Prez]

This is mine.

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/5973/gretafy4.th.png (http://img171.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gretafy4.png)

[Icy]

The "Greta" picture I use

Alison Angel, good choice ;)

[cuervo72]

Heh.

(certainly won't disagree there)

[mattlanta]

How do I get the new icons? What's reshacker? Sorry if I sound a little new, well... that's just because I am. I've had this game for nearly a week now, and I'm still confused with some things. Thanks.

[azjoe_02]

How do I get the new icons? What's reshacker? Sorry if I sound a little new, well... that's just because I am. I've had this game for nearly a week now, and I'm still confused with some things. Thanks.

Welcome to FOFC and I hope you are enjoying the game.

You can get reshacker here (http://angusj.com/resourcehacker/)

You can do a search and find out which ones to change or just go through once you have the exe opened in reshacker. It isn't too bad to use. :)

[DetroitDrillSGT]

Icy -

I noticed that there are two diff posts with the modded exe link, are they the same?

I have downloaded the first, the colors have changed but:

1) The position rating (for changing positions) is not included, is it in the other exe?

2) During the draft, the red, green, blue number ratings have disappeared, is this correct, or did I do something wrong.


Thanks for your hard work

[Icy]

Icy -

I noticed that there are two diff posts with the modded exe link, are they the same?

I have downloaded the first, the colors have changed but:

1) The position rating (for changing positions) is not included, is it in the other exe?

2) During the draft, the red, green, blue number ratings have disappeared, is this correct, or did I do something wrong.


Thanks for your hard work

Umm I guess that exe is so outdated (i think i had the link removed long time ago). I recommend you to install the game again and instead of downloading any exe, to use the tool that gstelmack created to apply the mods directly:

StelmackSoft FOF2k7 Utility Suite - Front Office Football Central (http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=54227)

[yojion]

Hi all, does anyone still have Icy's logo sets? The links in this thread and in the "resources" thread all seem to be dead. I really liked his stadium logos and I thought I had a copy backed up, but I can no longer seem to find it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Ben E Lou]

Added more here: Index of /fof7downloads (http://younglifenorthdekalb.com/fof7downloads/)