EDIT: Is it right to have only 5 of the 15 in the pack?

Oh, and here a little teaser:
I have been working on some other pictures as well, but progress has been a little slow, because I had to experiment a lot.
coming soon...

in 90x100 as well, so you can replace an NPC with Anton Chigurh.

That's not Anton Chigurh, it's Nicolas Cage after a major drinking binge (Leaving Las Vegas...).

Good to hear you are still about Kazuya.
I really like the faces you have done

current 1.13:
Check "\Data-1.13\TableData\MercProfiles.xml"

If you use older version of 1.13:
Go to your "\Data-1.13\BinaryData\" There is an exe file called PROEDIT. When you start this program, it will open prof.dat, where you can enter new mouth and eye coordinates. If you use difficulty based prof.dat (check your ini "Data File settings"->"USE_DIFFICULTY_BASED_PROF_DAT"), you have to rename the correct prof.dat to "prof.dat" first edit it with proedit and rename it back to its original name.

If you use vanilla:
Download proedit first and open the prof.dat file in "\Data\BinaryData\"

Navetsea

About the naming system, how to name new custom photo, is there a list of which number represent who,

You need to look in Proedit for this. Proedit is contained in the data 1.13/binarydata folder. It is pretty self explanatory what number corresponds to which merc. Theses numbers are used for almost every reference to a character in the game and are contained in the upper left corner of the proedit screen. Also of interest is the xy coordinates of the mouth and eye 'cutouts'. This is important if you want to make eyes and mouth cutouts that animate correctly. The x-1, y-1 coordinate pixel is the upper left pixel of any image so to make a cutout corresponding to x-10 y-10 you have to go 10 pixels from the left and 10 pixels down. This will be the location of the upper left pixel on your cutout.
Ask a question if that is confusing.
Navetsea

and how to add photo selection for main character?
or is there a possibility to add new merc too?

You will see the IMP mercs faces in the 200s in the faces folders. Just look at them in sti edit and find the one you want. The corresponding proedit entries are 51 - 56 which are named pgmale and pgfemale.

Navetsea

sorry eventhough I joined this place already for sometime, I dont know anything about JA modding.

There is actually a good German forum that still caters to conventional modders. I think it is called Ja Basis. But feel free to ask whatever question you like here as well. Those of us who enjoy doing this have no problem answering questions from other enthusiasts.

Navetsea

BTW, I also edit another photo again


and this is the big portrait of my first set, hpefully the bg is matching with other ja2 photo

This stuff looks really cool. I liked the first one the best because I like faces that look like the original Ja2 style best and that one fits nicely.
It's really cool to see quality work.

Thanks! But how do i edit IMPs? I know they corrsepond to the 200.sti files but in the proedit all i can find are PGmale and PGfemales which seem to have no impact no matter how i change them around. So my question is how do i for instance adjust coordinates for 210.sti in proedit?

Does anyone have a functioning STI for this?

dave17

Thanks! But how do i edit IMPs? I know they corrsepond to the 200.sti files but in the proedit all i can find are PGmale and PGfemales which seem to have no impact no matter how i change them around. So my question is how do i for instance adjust coordinates for 210.sti in proedit?

You should try to leave the xy coords alone. You can sometimes make new cutouts (the eye and mouth animated frames) to correspond to whatever you are trying to9 change. But if you can't do this I would suggest adjusting the xy coords in STI edit.
This method involves a good deal of trial and error but can be accomplished in less than an hour per character.

Sorry i should have been more precise with my question. My problem is that i cannot figure out WHICH ONES to edit in proedit since the ones that i can edit only go as far as 169.sti. So if i wanted to edit one of the imp faces which would corrspond to 210.sti, how would i go about finding them in proedit?

Sorry i should have been more precise with my question. My problem is that i cannot figure out WHICH ONES to edit in proedit since the ones that i can edit only go as far as 169.sti. So if i wanted to edit one of the imp faces which would corrspond to 210.sti, how would i go about finding them in proedit?

dave17

Sorry i should have been more precise with my question. My problem is that i cannot figure out WHICH ONES to edit in proedit since the ones that i can edit only go as far as 169.sti. So if i wanted to edit one of the imp faces which would corrspond to 210.sti, how would i go about finding them in proedit?

The proedit settings correspond to whatever voice files are chosen for the IMP. For example, PGmale1 corresponds to any IMP with the first voice the game offers.
However, changing Proedit settings for IMPs is extremely unreliable. I have not heard of anyone having any success doing this and there are other ways to get things done so again if you find the corresponding face .sti just change the xy coords there and you can usually make it work.

I heard about the crashes as a result of changing xy coords but have never (in 7 years of doing it this way) had one.

Still, the faaaarrr better way is to just change the cutouts so they fit the existing .sti you are replacing. With IMPs you actually have a lot to choose from in that regard.