[TUT] SFX Editing [TUT]

Oke let me start by saying this is the easiest file to edit ;]
Its all just paint over as seen in PART II

Oke Today I will explain how to open a file in sfx.mrs, how to edit it and how to save it.
In This tut you will learn a small amount of photoshop and a small amount of Alpha Editing.
My End works from this tutorial can be downloaded at the release section (link will be at bottom of this thread).

Thing you might need to completely follow this tutorial:
MRS unpacker/packer
Photoshop CS4 / CS5 (I will use CS5)
.DDS Plugin for Photoshop.
.DDS Converter 2.0
[optional] .DDS thumbnail Viewer
[If you don't have these or don't have one of these, Start Searching Google. Asking here for Software will be Ignored.]

Part I
Now First you go to your sfx.mrs (in your gunz folder) and you open it or you copy it to your MRS folder. (C:/MRS)
If you still use the old way of unpacking .mrs files, do the following:
go to "Start"
press "Run"
type in the box "cmd" and press "ok"
a DOS window will pop up. type in the window "cd "
after that type in "cd mrs"
then "mrs d sfx.mrs"
wait untill it's done unpacking, then close the window
Go to your MRS Folder and open the folder named "sfx"
In this "sfx" folder you see several file types.
Don't touch any of them if they aren't mentioned in this Tutorial and if you don't know what the file does or how to work with them.
Oke, I will explain how to work what these 2 file types :
.tga.dds
.bmp.dds
(these are acutaly the same filetypes but with an other name befor ".dds")

NO APLHA EDIT
To start with I'll explain how to edit for example the level up wings. These do not include any Alpha.

Double click this file, If you installed .DDS plugin for Photoshop? It should open photoshop.

When Photoshop finished loading, it will ask you if you want to load the MIP maps which the file contains.
Press "NO"

Now you will see you file opened.

First of all you will need to duplicate your layer (as backup). Press right button on the only layer you see on the right and press "duplicate layer" then press "ok".

Now If you don't want a shitty recoloring, Go to google and search for Stretched wings which you like and can use.
View the image in full size and drag it into photoshop. Make sure it get's in the file as a new layer.
I'm Using this one for this tut.

Transform the wings so that they are positioned and match the original ones.
Here is how it should look (without the red lines, I did that to make it more visable)

Now Make the original wing on the layer underneed it black. Like I said, This file does not contain Alpha, All what is black will be transparent/invisable in-game. you can make see through edits by making them darker.
So If you want Dark Wings, They will become transparent wings.

Oke now we will do the feather on the right side of the wing.
I will change it to Ice since my Wings look like Ice Wings (will also be the name).
Just Google an element that suites your wings. I'll use this one.

Drag the image from Google into you file and place it on to your feather.
Paint the feather black on the original layer. Like I did:

Now you only have one thing to do and that is recolor the stuff you like or want.
Because my "glow ball" on the top right of my image is the color I need already, I will adjust it so you can see the effect that it has when it get's edited.
Here is my adjustment:

Now You're practicly done and you've made your own Level Up wings without Alpha.

Now I'll explain how to save the file
Merge all layers to one layer.
[-- I can't display more then 10 images so from now these are links sorry --]
https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img184/1899/78649072je9.png

then go to "File"
Then "Save"
Then select ".dds" as file format
After that press save and make sure that the pop-up of the .dds plugin has all options like on this screenshot:
https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img213/5773/76393110ub0.png

Now make sure your level up wings or other edit you may have made are named with the original name.
Else it won't show in-game.

Compile the folder sfx.mrs
If you use the old way, do as following:
go to "Start"
press "Run"
type in the box "cmd" and press "ok"
a DOS window will pop up. type in the window "cd "
after that type in "cd mrs"
then "mrs c sfx" <- without .mrs
wait untill it's done packing, then close the window

then go to your MRS folder and copy/cut the sfx.mrs who you compiled and past it in your gunz folder where the original was befor you unpacked it.
Run your gunz server and do some quest or what ever so that your char levels up.
Take screenshots and post here if you want

Here is mine:
https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img390/8995/gunz035dq1.jpg
https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img247/5742/gunz033jz4.jpg

Download links:
Click Here


PART II
Simple as it Gets
open your sfx folder like so.

open up ef_gz_footstep.tga
this is the dust after you just and or dash.

Next change to pain brush and change your brush mode to Grain merge.

Now just pain over and done.

now compress your folder and drag and drop into your AmpzGunz 1.2 file.
if done right it should look like this
*i color'd mines blue so your should be purple or w.e color you did*

MORE TUTORIALS comming soon ;]



Credits ~
Aimed
Overdosse
R,Z
Virus ;]