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Okay, since people have been eagerly awaiting for new facepacks, I decided to make this list to see who can do what and so on.

Use NHL.com pics for the facepacks, in particular, med and small pics. I plan to use Gettyimages also for in-game photos for more realistic cutouts of faces, although they are actually the same source pic from NHL.com (theres more space to make it look realistic).

The list will be updated as time goes along.

Anaheim
Atlanta
Boston- DONE except for Weller and Lefebvre- Spy0070
Buffalo
Calgary
Carolina
Chicago
Colorado
Columbus
Dallas
Detroit- DONE except for Jakub Kindl- Spy0070
Edmonton
Florida
Los Angeles
Minnesota
Montreal
Nashville
New Jersey
NY Islanders
NY Rangers- DONE
Ottawa
Philadelphia
Phoenix- DONE
Pittsburgh- Reynaldo28
San Jose
St. Louis
Tampa Bay
Toronto
Vancouver- Spy0070
Washington- DONE except for Perreault (he's being added to rosters)- Spy0070

Good idea Spy... guys, please help if you can...!!

Wrote up a quick tutorial:

1. You need a pic for each player (obviously ).

2. Download PictureTray. This will allow you resize the saved pics into a 88x124 format and 33x46 format with a jpeg extension. Make sure you copy the resized pics cause they are deleted after you shut the program. Also make sure that the aspect ratio is turned off in advanced settings and that the output folder is on a separate directory.

Once done with this you need to find the photo ID number for each player (look at the rosters on NHLview) and put them in a XXXX.jpg (if less than 1000 or 100, the format must be in a 0xxx or a 00xx format).
The images must then be put in the NHL 2004\fe\nhl\images2\faces\med or small folders.

3. Download GIMP. GIMP allows you to create the "transparent" backgrounds for the PNGs. These PNGs must be in a 128x128 format (see below, save the pic as a template), with the source image being 100x128 in order to be put into the center.


4. Code-writing. This is likely the most annoying thing around. Open up a document in notepad and save it in a bat format. The code should be written like this:

gfxpak -cp -real ugi\gamedata.viv\Aab_V_4210.fsh Lastname_Firstintial_ID.fsh Lastname_Firstintial_ID.png PORT
gfxpak -p ugi\gamedata.viv Lastname_Firstintial_ID.fsh

Once this is done, put it into the main NHL 2004 directory. Run the BAT file and you are done.

You know what? I'll take initiative...

I'll do... Vancouver. How does that sound?

Still need to get the PNGs... but at least the med and small pics can be done like that quick.

Spy: put that tutorial to the Addon Tutorials thread .

Will do.

Okay guys... I got vod's new facepack tool working (partially). Get the new menufaces here:

Plenty of very high quality new faces. The missing ones... Tavares, Rechlicz, etc.

http://flyermania-mod.cznhl.com/faces.rar

Here are the ingame faces that the tool managed to extract... they're *.fsh files... maybe you guys can import them to the gamedata.viv somehow... I'm not familiar with this stuff at all... way too busy with the interface updates.

http://flyermania-mod.cznhl.com/ingame.rar

I guess this at least makes the work easier... you only have to add the missing ones... Spy can install whatever he wants on top of this... personally I'd much rather take a high quality sharp picture with wrong team jersey than blurry and ugly one with correct jersey (if I can choose). If nhl.com has some photos with wrong jersey we can have them too...

Are the faces squashed (the PNGs)?

That's what I don't like to see...

I know a few photos are wrong themselves on the NHL.com website (Kotalik as an example).

What do you mean "squashed"?

They're NHL.com images... directly from the site. They appear extremely sharp and high-resolution in the menus.

The med and small pics are fine since they are directly from NHL.com. (I haven't downloaded them yet).

What I'm talking about are the in-game pics... I purposely made in-game pics proportional and realistic (good example would be the Abdelkader I posted).

I'll get an image to show you what I'm talking about.

You can take care of the ingame faces... they're all yours man. Just use top quality pics.

Whatever you think looks best... but these images are highest quality I'll tell you...

Actually, now that I look at it, it applies to some players (I cut this from NHLview, explaining the white borders.

But here is an example of what I was talking about:



I'll examine the players if needed.

Trent: Do you still have the old links?

A lot of them are outdated.

For now I'd advise people to only download the med and small pics since I can patch those up real quickly.

I wouldn't install the ingame faces just yet.

Damn... I wrote wrong... those are facepacks (menufaces) in the faces.rar file of course... and the ingame faces are uninstalled files for face2004.viv (they're fsh)... I wasn't thinking clearly... just woke up.