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Feel free. I just threw it together after refreshing my memory on a few DOS commands.

If anyone's concerned about how exactly it works, these are the steps:

1. Verifies that it can see Resources\Loadscreens\load*.jpg

2. Makes sure there's a backup of your original Resources\loadscreen.jpg

3. Runs through the list of files in Resources\Loadscreens to randomly pick one to copy as your loadscreen.

4. Starts EQ and waits for it to finish

5. Restores your original loadscreen from the backup in #2

The way it randomly picks a loadscreen is that it deletes your original loadscreen.jpg file (after having backed it up), then runs through all of the load*.jpg files in Resources\Loadscreen and, for each one, picks a random number from 0-32767 ("%Random%"). If the random number for that particular file is less than 1000 (~1/33 odds), it makes it your loadscreen. If it runs through the whole list of files and none of them ended up getting the 1/33 random chance, it runs through them again until one does.

Pretty simplistic, but it gets the job done. :)

Math makes my head hurt and Baby Jesus cry.

These are badass, love them. I cannot wait till I get them installed. Want me to host a rar of them for you ? I am pretty sure I have unlimited bandwidth and unlimited storage space on my server account.

Sure. Filefront just hosed my login account for some reason, so it would probably be a good idea to get it now since they delete files due to inactivity. I'll let you know when there's a new pack or something so you can update the link whenever possible.

Thanks again. :D

So are you giving me permission to host your files on my server ? Are the pictures copywrite protected at all before I do this ?

Yeah sure, go ahead. I already put a readme file with credits and everything you could imagine to make it as "legal for personal usage" it could be. :)

But is that all that is needed ? I am a little worried about the legalities of that. Did you contact said companies and clear it with them. Most people have a cow when you modify there work and then rebrand it.

If you are too worried about legalities, you probably shouldn't use them. I don't think you would get sued over them or anything, but you might get a cease and desist order over them. Other game companies that created that art might not be so happy to see "Everquest" (direct competitor for some of them) plastered all over them! Of course, unless your server was getting a ton of attention, it isn't likely anyone with power to do anything to you would ever see them. Pretty low risk over-all, but some risk is there if you are concerned.

I say we take 1k WoW screenshots and put Everquest on each of them and then spread all over the web! Hit WoW where it hurts the most!

or... take 1k EQ screenshots, put WoW tag on them and spread then all over the web! And hit WoW where it hurts!

basically I don't care what you do as long as it hurts WoW :D

Well I do care since people are lawsuit happy.

I had written this batch code to do something like what Shendare did, though it doesn't restore the original after exit, but it does make a backup of it in the same folder as the batch file. The loadscreens can be in any folder, as can be the batch file. Just edit the section 'EDIT THESE', save and run.

I use it in conjunction with my client launcher that i wrote, which launches the eq client, and auto-sets the processor affinity to 0, to alleviate any multi-core issues that multi-core procs have.

Code:

@echo off

cls



REM ***** EDIT THESE (DON'T USE QUOTES AROUND LONG FOLDER NAMES!)

set EQ_DIR=D:\INSTALLS\EverQuest\Sof\

set LOADSCREEN_SOURCE_DIR=C:\Servers\EQ\Apps\Loadscreen Changer\Loadscreens\

set LAUNCHER_DIR=C:\Servers\EQ\Apps\ClientLauncher\

set USE_LAUNCHER=y

REM ***** DON'T NEED TO EDIT ANYTHING ELSE



set EQ_RESOURCE_DIR=%EQ_DIR%Resources\





set ok=n

call :calc_loadscreens

if exist "%EQ_RESOURCE_DIR%" if exist "%LOADSCREEN_SOURCE_DIR%" if exist "%LOADSCREEN_SOURCE_DIR%loadscreen*.*" if %loadscreen_count% geq 1 set ok=y



if %ok%==n goto :missing_resources



call :backup_original

call :copy_new_screen



if /i %USE_LAUNCHER%==y if not exist "%LAUNCHER_DIR%EQLauncher.exe" set USE_LAUNCHER=n

if /i %USE_LAUNCHER%==Y start /d"%LAUNCHER_DIR%" EQLauncher.exe



goto :eof



:missing_resources

echo Missing something somewhere!

echo Check that your paths are correct and that the loadscreens are present.

echo.

echo EQ Resource Dir = %EQ_RESOURCE_DIR%

echo Loadscreen Dir = %LOADSCREEN_SOURCE_DIR%

echo.

echo Loadscreens found = %loadscreen_count% & pause

goto :eof



:calc_loadscreens

set loadscreen_count=0

if not exist "%LOADSCREEN_SOURCE_DIR%" goto :eof

for %%a in (dir "%LOADSCREEN_SOURCE_DIR%load*.*") do set /a loadscreen_count=loadscreen_count+1

goto :eof



:gen_random_image

:gen_random

Set /a Number=(%Random% %%%loadscreen_count%)+1

set image=loadscreen%Number%.jpg

if not exist "%LOADSCREEN_SOURCE_DIR%%image%" goto :gen_random

goto :eof



:backup_original

if not exist "%LOADSCREEN_SOURCE_DIR%loadscreen_original.jpg" if exist ".\loadscreen.jpg" copy "%EQ_RESOURCE_DIR%loadscreen.jpg" ".\loadscreen_original.jpg"

goto :eof



:copy_new_screen

call :gen_random_image

if exist "%EQ_RESOURCE_DIR%loadscreen.jpg" del "%EQ_RESOURCE_DIR%loadscreen.jpg" /q

copy "%LOADSCREEN_SOURCE_DIR%%image%" "%EQ_RESOURCE_DIR%loadscreen.jpg%"

goto :eof

Dude I think these are awsome, dled and tried them out, super sweet and thanks alot for some fresh stuff

Doc

Sure no problem, drzoyburg. :)

Thanks for the additional .bat files guys. I'm a little pre-occupied with some other stuff, but when I get the chance, I'll start cranking out more of them.

As for the legal stuff, if you feel that it'll be risky, then you don't have to host them. I've done as much as I can within reason to make this for personal usage, but if you feel there's an inkling of doubt then it's probably for the best not to. :)

new Login Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by vales (Post 174347)

Wow, I was messing around and I found out that I can easily modify the Login Screen as well, lol. :D

Woohoo!

I really like the Login Screen you've done. Would you post the .TGA files please? I was sick of the Depths of Darkhollow images about 10 seconds after I saw them and until having found this thread had the loading screens off so only had to see the login screen. I now have a sweet looking loading screen and would love a new login screen to match.

With or without 'The Hidden Vale' tag doesn't matter to me, I just like the image and really want to be rid of that ugly DoD image.

Sure. Here you go. :)

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