Login Screen question

[ravenflyer]

I want to know how to change the login screen background image. just this. thaks

 

[Tyfix]

was just discussed.. pls do yourself and everyone else a favor of looking just a little bit of existing topics before opening up a new one detailing exactly the same thing again and again.

 

[wanbotak]

i would do it this way:
1. Open loginmain files and look closely on how they are cut.
2. Re-save them to bmp in irfanview
3. Open in paint and draw an rectangle on each seperate pice i can find, also a number into the middle
4. Re-save them back to tga with irfanview (sorry, i dont like photoshop)
5. Rename them to .gmi
6. Run the game and make a screenshot with print screen
7. Save the made screenshot for later use
8. Confirm that all pices have a rectangle on them
9. Take my favorite p0rn picture and resize/cut it so it's exactly the same sice as the whole area filled with the rectangles in the screenshot
10. Create 9 256x256x24 bitmaps
11. Start cutting the pices out of my favorite p0rn picture and copy-paste them to the places they belong
12. Save all the 9 images, convert them to tga with irfanview and rename then to gmi later on

 

[thomas123]

wanbotak ur good but kinda pervert xD

 

[BlackWing]

Tutorial Change LoginScreen Picture.

Alright, this has been explained before but it seems to have been lost somewhere so i guess i can do it again since we had a few asking about this recently.

First of all you do not need to worry about the DDS header stuff that someone has said for this.

Go to the folder:
<Your RYL Client Dir>\texture\interface\neointerface\loading\zone0\

You will find a series of files here:
Lz01.gmi, Lz02.gmi, Lz03.gmi, Lz04_08_12.gmi, Lz05.gmi, Lz06.gmi, Lz07.gmi, Lz09_10.gmi, Lz11.gmi

Rename all of these from .gmi to .tga so you will have (Lz01.tga, Lz02.tga .. etc etc)

Now open photoshop, create a new document with the dimensions 800x600 pixels

Now comes the tricky part, the ryl loading screens are divided into these files and some of them has multiple rows of the picture. So what you'll want to do is first copy Lz01.tga into your new document and move it all the way to the topleft, next open Lz02.tga and move it top left so it aligns with the first one. Do this for all the single ones first, the entire picture should look something like this:
Row 1: Lz01, Lz02, Lz03 <Lz04_08_12 (04)>
Row 2: Lz05, Lz06, Lz07 <Lz04_08_12 (08)>
Row 3: <Lz09_10 (09)>, <Lz09_10 (10)>, Lz11 <Lz04_08_12 (12)>

Now for the multiple row ones you'll need to cut a section only for each row so the file Lz04_08_12.tgz holds 3 rows of the picture all the way to the right (each section is 32x256 pixels, 32 width, 256 height) so cut Lz04_08_12.tga into 3 parts and put it into your 800x600 document and you should see it fits perfectly. For the last row the sections you need to cut is a bit different, those are 256x88 pixels that is 256 width and 88 height. Cut Lz09_10.tga into 2 parts using these measurements, and for the last one Lz11.tga do the same, cut only 256x88 pixels and insert it into your 800x600 document, you will now have a complete loading screen in your 800x600 document.

Now you can change it how you like but when you are saving it again you'll have to cut it into the exact same pieces as you loaded them in. One easy way to do this is to save the document you pasted the pieces into as a photoshop document, add a new layer with your picture and then select pixels on the layer below switch to your new pic layer and do a copy or cut and insert into the Lz.... files and save them. Once you're done you'll have to rename all of them back from .tga to .gmi again and you're done.

You can do this for all loading screens if you like, zone0 is the login picture the other zones there are obviously for the loading screen when you're entering a specific zone.

Good luck.

Credit Tyfix/MorbidA