CSP hacking?

[blackant]

Well, I have brawl minus and i've already hacked(re-hacked) the: Strap, Menu, CSS, SSS, Characters, Stages, and my next goal is to learn how to CSP hack but theres no guide on it and it's like i'm taking a shot in the dark trying to find it and I have no idea where to start so could someone please give me a guide or something about how to use the CSP. Im thankful for the help and if you want to brawl then look me up on AiB

[Xaro]

I use riivolution, so all my CSPs are in the common5.pac.

you open up common5.pac in Brawlbox. then all your portraits are in sc_selcharacter_en>char_bust_tex_lz77

then you just find which MiscData[] is your character and replace the corresponding color with your custom CSP.

hope that helps.

[TheHatMan]

make sure you have a photo editing software like PhotoShop or GIMP, my suggestion on making CSP's is to use the preview pics on Brawl Vault and edit them. The CSP's have to be 128 x 160 and they need to be in PNG file format. other then that...follow what Xaro said

[(specter)]

Here's a few guides that helped me:

Quick Info about CSPs - http://allisbrawl.com/forum/topic.aspx?pid=1102705#p1102705
How to make CSPs - http://allisbrawl.com/forum/topic.aspx?pid=1544569#p1544569

[blackant]

Xaro, I dont use riivoution but it helped me understand it a little more. GuyWithHat, I have photoshop CS5 (and CS5 extended) but in all of the videos I watched (except for 1) use GIMP so im wondering if GIMP is better to use for this than photoshop? Specter, I followed the both of the links and got the same understanding as Xaro explained.

[(specter)]

Xaro, I dont use riivoution but it helped me understand it a little more. GuyWithHat, I have photoshop CS5 (and CS5 extended) but in all of the videos I watched (except for 1) use GIMP so im wondering if GIMP is better to use for this than photoshop? Specter, I followed the both of the links and got the same understanding as Xaro explained.

Second link is a guide how to make CSPs; Zaro didn't explain how to do that.

GIMP or Photoshop -- it doesn't matter. Photoshop is probably better because I've seen more people use that. I'm a GIMP user, though, and I can get everything done in the same quality as Photoshop can.

[blackant]

i followed it, and got marths CSP working for all colors but it doesnt work with mario or luigi, and in every video i watch be it GIMP or PS, they ALWAYS say to use the magic stick but ive looked all through my ps and i dont have that nor do i know what it is.

(i got it working for marth, but its only when the results screen show up that it appears)

[(specter)]

i followed it, and got marths CSP working for all colors but it doesnt work with mario or luigi, and in every video i watch be it GIMP or PS, they ALWAYS say to use the magic stick but ive looked all through my ps and i dont have that nor do i know what it is.

(i got it working for marth, but its only when the results screen show up that it appears)

The magic stick is called the magic wand or fuzzy select. Both Photoshop and GIMP have it. In GIMP it it's a picture of a little stick with a yellow glow at the tip. Not sure what it looks like in PS as I don't have that program but I know it has it; look harder. What it does is it allows you to select an entire region of the same color. This doesn't work on pictures with multiple colors, just solid colors.

If your CSP is showing up in the results screen only then you put your file in pf/menu/common/char_bust_tex. If you want it to also appear on the CSS, you need to open your sc_selcharacter.pac or common5.pac and replace the CSP in there with yours. If you want to also have BSP, or Battle Screen Portraits that appear during a match, you'll have to make a .brres file yourself and place it in pf/info/portrite.

Also, not sure why it doesn't work for Mario and Luigi. Since you said Marth's only appears at the results screen, maybe you also put Mario and Luigi's CSPs in /char_bust_tex?

[blackant]

its actually pretty funny. after a few hours of looking through ps i found it and now i can at least try to do this but something is still confuseing me. whenb i look at the vids, they say to put it as a tga. so im wondering y i cant just use my own png files to do it

[(specter)]

its actually pretty funny. after a few hours of looking through ps i found it and now i can at least try to do this but something is still confuseing me. whenb i look at the vids, they say to put it as a tga. so im wondering y i cant just use my own png files to do it

You can use .png. TGA files just handle transparencies differently by using an alpha layer or something like that. I always use .png files I make myself though and they work fine.

[blackant]

thanks for the info. ill try the .png and get bac to u later

[What]

Hey guys yesterday I downloaded the Hatsune Mika texture pack from brawl vault and I made a brres file for the portrait and got that to work  using brawwlbox, but when I inserted the csp pic in my sel_character pac and ran brawl it froze on me. Now I read the stuff on allisbrawl about textures there doesn't seem to be anything about the picture that would cause the game to freeze. Oh and I also tried putting it in the common5 pac the game didn't freeze but it also didn't show the csp pic. Any help would be appreciated.

[blackant]

ill tell u all the same thing i told specter, i get how to do it now but it only works for the results screen and nothing else. ive tried everything, re-doing it, Brawl box, Downloading GIMP to try to make it easyr. im about to give up hope but ill still take all the help i can get.

[(specter)]

Hey guys yesterday I downloaded the Hatsune Mika texture pack from brawl vault and I made a brres file for the portrait and got that to work  using brawwlbox, but when I inserted the csp pic in my sel_character pac and ran brawl it froze on me. Now I read the stuff on allisbrawl about textures there doesn't seem to be anything about the picture that would cause the game to freeze. Oh and I also tried putting it in the common5 pac the game didn't freeze but it also didn't show the csp pic. Any help would be appreciated.

Did your sc_selcharacter.pac exceed 3.79 MB? Are there any textures in there that aren't the same format and/or dimensions as the ones their replacing? They have to match up 100% with formats and dimensions.

Also, the reason it didn't work with the common5.pac is because that's only for Riivolution. Sc_selcharacter.pac has priority over common5.pac if you don't use Riivo.

ill tell u all the same thing i told specter, i get how to do it now but it only works for the results screen and nothing else. ive tried everything, re-doing it, Brawl box, Downloading GIMP to try to make it easyr. im about to give up hope but ill still take all the help i can get.

Didn't you read my PM on All is Brawl? I addressed this issue.