FINisher Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 Unofficial Cornellverse .GIF pack for TEW2020 by FINisher RELEASE: May 2nd 2020 Latest file: FINGIF1.4.rar PROGRESSION: 4,354 OUT OF 4,354 DONE http://sadhappy.mbnet.fi/WEXXV/Roster/Burning.jpghttp://sadhappy.mbnet.fi/WEXXV/Roster/Kinji.jpghttp://sadhappy.mbnet.fi/WEXXV/Roster/Reaver.jpghttp://sadhappy.mbnet.fi/WEXXV/Roster/Ryu.jpg WHAT'S THIS!? This project is about converting ALL Cornellverse worker images into a .gif format and having their background erased so that the TEW2020 playerbase can take advantage of the new feature in the game that came with TEW2016: New Picture Formats & Automatic Custom Backgrounds! From Dev. Journal of TEW2016: "Feb 03: New Picture Formats & Automatic Custom Backgrounds. As well as JPG format, the game now also gives the option to support BMP and GIF pictures. One advantage of this is that the game now offers automatic custom backgrounds for transparent GIFs. For example, if you view a worker who has a transparent GIF picture in a company specific screen (i.e. a roster screen) then the background behind him will automatically be that company's logo - this essentially creates a custom background wherever that worker goes." Further patches during TEW2016 beta applied this to the rest of the screens aswell: Match and Angle booking, running the show screens and such. In TEW2020, this feature was expanded further - if a worker belongs to a stable, it will show the logo of the stable in the background instead of the promotion logo. Pretty cool, huh? Patch #8 also expanded upon the feature, adding the stable logo to event booking aswell. INSTALLING THE PACK: BACK UP EVERYTHING if you are unsure about what you are doing. 0. Make sure you always run the latest patch! 1. Copy the contents of the archive to GDS\TEW2020\Pictures\Default\People folder 2. Go in-game editor, press "Toggle List" to make buttons available. Then Workers -> Select All -> Change "Make Written contract.." to "Picture becomes GIF format" -> Mass Edit -> Yes 3. Repeat for Alter Egos! Editor -> Alter Egos -> Select All -> Change "Make Written contract.." to "Picture becomes GIF format" -> Mass Edit -> Yes 4. Repeat for Free Pictures! Editor -> Free Pictures -> Select All -> Change "Make Written contract.." to "Picture becomes GIF format" -> Mass Edit -> Yes And you are done! It's just that simple! ALSO, A shoutout to Brat99 who has made a .gif pack for India and has also included .gif files, you can download the pack at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XgJ6BiFYupSyu_7Qmcxh5gNRudT_Y0c_ AFTERWORD: On a personal note, this is my tribute to the amazing GDS community and to the TEW series of games. To Adam Ryland, to all the people who have contributed to the series by creating all kinds of content, ranging from images to diaries to logos & banners, all sorts of graphics, buttons, skins, mods and databases. You guys are awesome and this game wouldn't be the same without you. It really wouldn't. This took a lot of hours back in 2016 and now again in 2020 since there were hundreds upon hundreds of new renders and renamed files. I went through each of those 4,351 images and did my best at making them transparent. I am no image edit software expert and most of my work is based on madness and persistence. I just really like the feature and can't play without it. Now that the pack is complete, I can finally start playing Since there were thousands of images and the quality ranged from horrendous to amazing, so did my handiwork so if you spot an image that's not good looking, or an image where there's bits and pieces of blue background still floating around, or if you think an image needs a rework, don't hesitate to say so, I'll be happily providing updated content patches to this project if needs be. I already spotted a few myself.. Also due to the limitations of the 150x150 resolution, I had to result to artistic shortcuts with some images - you'll find that some workers have lost bits of hair or props, especially if they are 1-4 pixels wide (headset parts, hair, other facial props). I do hope that you'll enjoy the pack nonetheless. MORE PREVIEWS: Patch history: 1.1 renamed Mikey James to Mikey Lau 1.2 renamed Joey Minnesota to Joey Morgan 1.3 Ox Kreviazuk renamed to Ox Mastodon Konrad Mäkinen renamed to Kondad Makinen (I'm guessing he was named with "ä" in TEW2016 but not in 2020). Aud D'Hoffryn renamed to Aud Valkyrie Chica De Partido renamed to Chica Fiestera Juana Huracan renamed to Juana Hurricane Lucas Danger renamed to Lucas Mucus Ozzie Golden renamed to Ozzie Goldstein Soda De La Uva renamed to Soda De Uva Alter Egos Big Smack Scott_alt2 renamed to Big Smack Scott_alt (Super Lucha Scott) William Hayes_alt7 renamed to William Hayes_alt Added Anthony Trask, Luca Sacramoni, Marty Simmons. 1.4 Lots of image fixes, blurs, rogue blue pixels removed etc., polishing out the pack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munit Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 omg such a great idea! I love this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Questlove Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 I've legit been using this since the day it came out so very glad to see this back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackman Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 I also prefer this to the blue background, but apparently people think it's somewhat nostalgic. Anyhow didn't someone release a script to do this automatically? It was posted in the render thread but I never got it to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FINisher Posted April 22, 2020 Author Share Posted April 22, 2020 I also prefer this to the blue background, but apparently people think it's somewhat nostalgic. Anyhow didn't someone release a script to do this automatically? It was posted in the render thread but I never got it to work. .. You've gotta be kidding me. I want more info before I start doing it the dumb way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FINisher Posted April 22, 2020 Author Share Posted April 22, 2020 Anyhow didn't someone release a script to do this automatically? It was posted in the render thread but I never got it to work. Are you referring to this one? http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2370211#post2370211 I'm quite hesitant of downloading any software like that though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lloyd Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 Literally found out about this website yesterday: https://www.remove.bg/ Could be of help to you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackman Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 Are you referring to this one? http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2370211#post2370211 I'm quite hesitant of downloading any software like that though. That was it. The guy is serious though. But apparently I didn't follow his instructions thoroughly. You're supposed to put them all in a folder with at least a folder with a folder in it. Only then will it work. This is what it does in mere seconds. You decide whether you want to devote the next week to doing it better. I'd say use this as a base and adapt them. That website though, that gives clean images. However, if it's not in bulk you might as well do it yourself to assure it's clean. If you put on some Finnish death metal, I'm sure you'll FINish in no time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FINisher Posted April 22, 2020 Author Share Posted April 22, 2020 That was it. The guy is serious though. But as I mentioned, it didn't work on my pc. We'll see. I might or might not try it. Literally found out about this website yesterday: https://www.remove.bg/ Could be of help to you I actually stumbled upon that site just now but it won't allow multiple files at a time so I would have to pick em one by one.. Which I would be doing the dumb way too Or buy the license which would allow me to patch multiple photos at a time but it would cost actual money. EDIT: I tried few harder images which didn't produce good results. I'll be faster, more productive by manually editing and the overall quality will improve too. So I'm going to be doing these manually. I already did +3500 images the last time and I'm hopeful there won't be nearly that many new images in the database Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FINisher Posted April 22, 2020 Author Share Posted April 22, 2020 I do appreciate the hard work that went on to that script but the quality just isn't there and I'd have to spend more time fixing the blue background mistakes the code would leave in the image, thus taking even more time.. And I'm not going to download any program like that of unknown origin (no slight to the author, just common sense). I'll be doing these by hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackman Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 You absolute madman. Anyhow these came out superclean imo, but as you mention: it won't save you that much time. Once you figure out the correct threshold for the blue lines it should be click'n-save. You using GIMP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BasicThuganomics Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 Love this pack! Delighted you're bringing it back for 2020. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FINisher Posted April 22, 2020 Author Share Posted April 22, 2020 You absolute madman. Anyhow these came out superclean imo, but as you mention: it won't save you that much time. Once you figure out the correct threshold for the blue lines it should be click'n-save. You using GIMP? I know right And yes, like I said, some images came out really clean but some really didn't and I can't know which will and which won't so I'll be saving time not doing the guesswork. With keyboard shortcuts and the experience of having done thousands of these I can do one image in 10s at the fastest. Yes, using GIMP like the previous time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoganRodzen Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 Really looking forward to this! What an awesome project. I've wanted to see this feature put to use since it came out in TEW2016. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FINisher Posted April 22, 2020 Author Share Posted April 22, 2020 Really looking forward to this! What an awesome project. I've wanted to see this feature put to use since it came out in TEW2016. I did do this for TEW2016 GIF'fing the Cornellverse! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackman Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Adam did say he changed some of the renders, but I assume you can still use most of your TEW16 project for this game. Still a load of work though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoganRodzen Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 I did do this for TEW2016 GIF'fing the Cornellverse! I didn't even know that. I can't believe I played for so long without it. That's a bit depressing to be honest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FINisher Posted April 23, 2020 Author Share Posted April 23, 2020 Okay so now the trial is out and there's about 558 new images in the game but also hundreds of new renders so I'd expect that I have to do work on about 1000 images. I'm still quite shocked about the Cornellverse changes in game so this might take a while.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FINisher Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 A small update: The first patch fixes the .gif support and revealed a surprise: If you have workers in a stable, their background image will be the one of the stable, not the promotion logo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartacus Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 You are awesome. I've always hated the blue backgrounds and much preferred the WMMA GIF setup with the company in the background. I didn't even know this was a thing in 2016. I can't wait for you to finish. Thank you. You are a universal treasure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20LEgend Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 That's fantastic, will be giving these a go for sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackman Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 That IS an awesome surprise. Stable warfare! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FINisher Posted April 25, 2020 Author Share Posted April 25, 2020 A small progress udpate: I've now gone through the whole database and cross-referenced every image that has either a.) a new render b.) been renamed c.) was lower quality than the rest. I now have a folder of 4,269 images From those 4,269 images 867 are in need of an edit, as in, they are still .jpg and still have that blue background. Whilst this is a lot less than the 3505 images I had to do for TEW2016, I'm not that fanatic about the project (or insane, you pick which) so it's going to take some time till I get everything done. By downloading the pack, you will have every TEW2016 & TEW2020 worker image + some extras in there too since TEW2020 removed quite a few of these alt / older renders from the database. 350 out of the 867 are actually CVFP images (future/random workers) so I might result in doing them last. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FINisher Posted April 26, 2020 Author Share Posted April 26, 2020 <p></p><div style="text-align:center;"><img alt="giftew1.png" data-src="https://i.ibb.co/6XCjKMv/giftew1.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><p> </p><p> <img alt="giftew2.png" data-src="https://i.ibb.co/MPcmGPj/giftew2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;"><div style="margin-left:25px;">Here's few sneak peaks into how it shows the .gif images in TEW2020. I've also filed a bug report since the stable logos only show in the Roster screen, not in match or news screen. Would love the workers to have the stable logo in the background when booking your matches or running the show, but to have the promotion logo in the news. </div></div></div></div><img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/cool.png.f00d2562b2c1d873a09323753efdb041.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceman90 Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 Why use GIF and not PNG? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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