Login Screen changer

Hello all,

I've created a website (Very ugly ATM, but I don't do webdesign, I do code), that will allow Windows, and Mac users to generate Custom Login Screens for CoH!

http://webapps.sgspaces.net/cohstuff/click.php?id=6

Upload a image, crop it, and it will spit out a zip file with your new login screen.
1. Right-click the City of Heroes application and select "Show Package Contents".

2. Open the Contents, then Resources, then transgaming, then c_drive, then either "coh" or "Program Files" and then "coh".

Unzip the file from the site, and drag the "data" folder into the folder you just opened. Now launch CoH, and you should see your new Login Screen!

Windows users can just navigate to their CoH install (C:\Program Files\NCSoft\City of Heroes or C:\Program Files(x86)\NCSoft\City of Heroes) by default, and drag the data folder from the zip into that directory!

One warning about the above instructions: If you have Vidiotmaps installed, part 2 of step 2 will delete it! Instead, open the data folder you unzipped, and copy the contents of it into the existing data folder in your coh folder.

Good job ! */em thumbsup*

I tried it with a few images I had, it works perfectly. This is one of the results.



Now, about that (very ugly ATM) website...

1) The reset button does not do anything - if it is what I think it is, it's just a question of it not reloading the page as it should. No biggie, but should be fixed: I had no other recourse but hit "Save" to go back to the main page, even if the image I had originally selected was a wee bit too small to be useful.

2) It would be nice to have instructions

a) on the main page as per what size images work best (I'm guessing anything more than 1024 pixels in height will be cropped at the bottom)

b) on the "Save" page (or maybe a 3rd page with a "Back to main page" button) on what to do once the screenfile has been generated. Somethin' like...

It doesn't add a logo. It's still heavy in development, right now it just gives you what it shows you. As for now taking a 1024x1024 full image, that's because the login screen is a 1024x768 image (even though the output image IS 1024x1024, the game only shows 1024x768). I've set the crop region to be a 1.33333:1 ratio (4:3) so that you don't get any scrunching/stretching by doing a 1:1 (square) selection.

The reset button does only reset the crop region, I'll add a option to delete the current image, and go back to the upload field. And I'll add instructions somewhere too.

Ah, sorry about the logo question then. I saw the logo in Archiviste's image and made an incorrect assumption about that logo.

Oddly, this doesn't work on my Test server install, but it does on my Live install. I didn't try it on my Beta install.

Sweet! I've been wanting to do something about this for awhile. This is my current screen:




As you can see, I got a little tired of his crotch, so I'm letting LR give him a beatdown. Though this might not be my permanent login screen, since I just used this image to test the system out.

I've noticed that my game is far more likely to crash when loading zones during normal play when I am using the created log-in screens. I don't know if it was something about my image used, but the output file was ginourmous when compared to the size of the native file.

Perhaps something with the DDS/BMP encoding? (I assume that is involved?)

Some people have issues crashing with the Login swapped, since I got this issue fixed on my NeoSplasher exe, and applied the same fix here I haven't crashed. I know the problem was mip maps on the created DDS output, but I've since disabled them. And yes, the login screen is about 4 MB no matter the input size, DDS rawks.. right? :/

And fixed! Because some dumb*** had his account name showing in the image.

Clicking on the linked image above will take you off the City of Heroes site. However, the guides will be linked back here.

Well, all I can say is that I almost never experiencing crashing of any kind on this computer. And then, when I put the log-in screen in the appropriate folder it would load fine for the log-in page, and for that brief few moments between zones, but by the 4th or so time it was pulled up, it would just hang when loading into a new zone. And I would have to restart the game, usually, I would pull the custom file out, and all was well again. I can't really give you much else.

I just released 0.2.1 on the exe, and included the same fix on the website, try to generate a login screen, and see if you get the crash please.

Website doesn't work for me. After cropping, nothing gets downloaded.

Just tried it in Safari, and Firefox 12, and both browsers downloaded the login screen with no issues.

Nope doesn't work for me in firefox 12 either.. and the program you have isn't doing it for me too

I've tested all 4 regions in the drop down, and within about 10 seconds of hitting the "Save Login Screen" button I've gotten the download. The only thing I can think of is something blocking jQuery from refreshing the hidden IFrame.

I've tested on IE 9, Chrome 18, Firefox 12, Safari 5.1.5, Opera 11, all of them prompt for the download. Like I said, it does take upto 10 seconds for the download prompt to come up, as it takes awhile to convert the image.

yeah I waited about 30 seconds, on both browsers, disabled pop up blocker too.
it needs to be converted to .texture doesn't it?

This is what it comes up with for literally a split second, so fast I had to screenie it,

woot finally working. had to change the game region, and done it on firefox.