jebiluu Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 I've jumped the majority of the hurdles that everyone was getting stuck on. But now i'm tripping on the last hurdle. So far these are the steps I have taken to make my birthsign in the CS. Created a duplicate and edited out all of the information and put in my own details (I found that doing this gets past the issue with not being able to select the birthsign in the birthsign menu). Added abilities/spells to my birthsign. Loaded my image for the birthsign ...data\textures\menus\birthsign\grim.dds and then an image in menus50 and menus80 (to the same settings as the vanilla birthsigns [i know this because the file size is the same, there was no way to compare the format outside of opening the image]). After that I saved the work, enabled the .exp, and started playing oblivion. In birthsign selection menu I selected my birthsign, and am able to play with it (all abilities working, description and image of birthsign in birthsign selection menu worked). The issue now is that when I look at my birthsign in the main menu, right underneath my race, I can see my birthsign's description, but I don't see the image. After experimenting with it for a bit and reading a ton of threads/tutorials I discovered that the menus80\birthsign\ .dds image was the image used in the birthsign creation menu. --- Settings for this image that worked for me were DTX3 no mipmaps. I verified it off of the vanilla textures for birthsigns, same image size. So far so good. I have the menus50\birthsign\ .dds saved as DTX3 no mipmaps and I have the menus\birthsign\ .dds saved as DTX5 with mipmaps. Image sizes are same as vanilla birthsigns, don't know if it's the right format though. I read the dds tutorial at http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/DDS_Files and also read the birthsign tutorial at http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Birthsigns but neither have helped me much. I don't understand the dds tutorial, and the birthsign tutorial is stuff I already knew. Also to note, my menu icon is 512x512 px menu50 is 256x256 px and menu80 is 512x512 px (once again just like vanilla oblivion). I'd appreciate it if anyone could tell me which image it is that is in the main menu for birthsigns (the menu50 icon or the menu icon) and also which format this image has to be in to be displayed properly. And if you feel like it also dummy down the .dds formats for me so that I could understand it a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Pronam Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Nice that someone has a working one! The image you want isn't the same as the one from the menu where you can pick them.It has some other border around it. Now I know where it is: Data\Textures\Menus\Stats\Small_birthsignBut I don't know how it gets retrieved/can be selected to be assigned to yours..perhaps the names have to be the same... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jebiluu Posted July 29, 2009 Author Share Posted July 29, 2009 I added an image (DXT3 .dds) to each of the stats\small_birthsign menus. Still no luck. Any other suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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