Hello all! Welcome to my quick and easy tutorial on nice CSPs! (Character Select Screen Potraits)

I am going to be showing you how to make a nice CSP of a texture or model very easily in just 10 EASY steps, and THEN put them into BrawlBox, so they show up on your Character Select Screen! If you get stuck, and need help, just post below! One of my dear online amigos or myself will be more than willing to help you at any time! Let's begin, shall we?

STEP 1:
You are going to need a .pac or .pcs file of the texture you want to make a CSP for. In my case, I am going to be using the new "Skyward Sword Link" by GBC (It's a super sweet hack download it fooo shooo!)


STEP 2: Once you have whatever hack you're making a CSP of, open it up in BrawlBox. If you don't already have BrawlBox click below!
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Once you have opened your .pcs or .pac file in BrawlBox, extend the ModelData[0] tab until you see your model. Then right click on it and click "Preview" or just click Ctrl+P with your model selected.



STEP 3: Now, this window should show up. What you need to do is extend the top bar down and deselect bones. This should then make your model viewable without the lines on top of it.


STEP 4: Open up the right bar options menu, and open up the FitMotionEtc.pac of your particular character. In my case, I will be demonstrating on Link. So my file that I would use is called FitLinkMotionEtc.pac. Then, click on the animation you want you character to be in, in your CSP. Most of the time, you have to do a little exploring until you find the pose you like best.
If you don't have the MotionEtc.pac you need, you can get them all here. http://www.mediafire.com/?74lnqszqb6zwz


STEP 5: When you get the pose you want, make sure you have the right background color, and press the Ctrl and Prt Scrn keys. (The Prt Scrn Key is usually right by the Scroll Lock and the F12 Key.) Then open up a photo editor, like GIMP (In my case GIMP 2.6) And click paste. Then, open up the layers tool (Ctrl+L) an select the tool that looks like grey dynamite. Select the exis area and click delete. Click the eyeball next to the "background" layer on the layers menu. It should look like this, without the exis white around the portrait.


STEP 6. Use the select tool and surround your portrait. Change the dimensions to 128x160, and exit out of your current GIMP project.

STEP7: Click paste in your new GIMP Project, and save your CSP as a .PNG file.

STEP 8: You should now have your CSP. Now, open up your sc_selcharacter.pac in BrawlBox. Notice, there's a char_bust_tex_lz77 click that once.


STEP 9: Now scroll through all of the MiscData .BRRES's until you find your character and the particular slot you're editing. In my case it would be Link's 00 slot, or his FitLink00 texture.


STEP 10: Click replace, and select the CSP that you just made. Then save your sc_selcharacter.pac and put it back in your menu2 folder!

It's done! You just made a BEAST CSP! Quick and easy! Well, you know what they say, rinse and repeat!

And, if you want it, here is the CSP I made!

Check out my CSP thread to make requests and see me already finished work so far 

Thanks for reading! Feel free to ask questions!

any wii game eh?? can you rip me pacman from pac man party?

I don't have that game :'( But how about Pac-Man from Pac-Man World Rally? I have that .ISO on my Wii right now

true... I guess i'll do him on Luigi then

EDIT: Hes done. I'll try to test him tonight or tomorrow and then release.

No previews cuz he looks the exact same, just on different bones

IM PUMPED

Yeah I am. Bowser Jr. himself doesn't take long to rig. I'll probably start on him after I finish Priest, so sometime this week? When he's finished I'm not sure. I've had alot of free time for a little, inbetween traveling and doing some work, but it's about to go up again. Sometime between the 9th and the 18th of feb. maybe, but don't hold me to it It's done when it's done ^_^

Alright! Sounds good! I'm gonna make some recolors for the model and I wil send you the .PNGs. Make sure you collab me for te model and stuff  I'm really excited to get a good Bowser Jr. in my vault

(Btw, I ripped the model we're talking about from Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games if anyone is curious)

So, do you have the highest character poly models from any mario & sonic? if not, i'll accept.

I'm not exactly sure I can give you the character you're loooking for and you can tell me if that's what you want.

Hey Pervy, are you still planning on rigging that Bowser Jr. Model I gave you? If you are, how long do you think it will take? I might mess around with 3DS Max a lil bit and see if I can figure out how to rig it. Let me know. 

nah bro, i can take care of em.

Cool sig

Thanks! It reminds me of the days when I was a spriter for FireRed hacks

... yes

That's gonna be sweet. You used the Mario Sports Mix model right?

>.> i never made celibi

xD

Yea. Just like in the Olympic Winter Games, he's a boss.

He's an unused character in the first Mario and Sonic lol

Yeah, too bad he's no playable He hasn't been playable since the Kinect Sonic Riders game. I bought it, just for Jet. and guess what? I have the Kinect abilities of a dead whale No Jet for me. But yeah, he's a boss in that game

can u rip a model from Mario super sluggers or mario power tennis cuz these two mario games have the characters in the highest number of poly already seen in any mario game (if there are other games, plz let me know).

Sadly no:( The models aren't in .MDL0 format, and can't be put into Brawl. However, the Mario Sports Mix models have almost as much. Would you like some of those models? I'd love to see what you could do

Have you annouced Jet yet?

I'm having a hard time with the Gamecube games... Can we stick to Wii requests for now? I can't find a way to get files from any game but Melee and Mario Kart: Double Dash!! I can rip from pretty much any Wii game though I'm gonna say for this week, I'm gonna focus on Sonic requests, and if  I don't have any, then I will do other games. I just have a lot of my Sonic ISOS on my computer right now, and my hard drive only have 40 GB. So I'm gonna rip everything you guys want from those games, delete them and copy other games from my WBFS. So, any Wii Sonic requests? (I also have New Super Mario Bros. Wii on my Computer right now ^_^)

Can you possibly rip models from Gamecube ISO's?
If so

Harry, Marcia, and the Main Hero(The player character is named like how link is named in zelda) from Custom Robo Please =3

I can try... I'll look for that game in my basement or at my cousin's tomorrow

Hey nano, I can help you out if you want ^_^