Face Tutorial for c2k5

Introduction
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Although I know very little about face making,I decided to make this tutorial so that we can have a lot more face makers.There are a couple of things which need to be looked at by the experts and hopefully we can sort those problems soon.

Tools Needed
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1)A good image editor like Photoshop

2)BigGui
3)Fshed

The First Step:Finding the original player picture
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Firstly we need to find the files which contain the original pictures which we will modify.These can be mostly found in the c2k5 faces thread.For this tutorial we will try to modify Sachin Tendulkar whose file is db338f7099a935f11997613f1bc5873c.big.

Extact this file using bigGui,use it again to extract the face.fsh file to a directory.Now use Fshed to export the file for editing



Now open this picture using Photoshop.

The Next Step:Finding a good picture and putting it in the original one
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As we are editing Tendulkar this time,here is the picture I will be using to edit him(open the file in photoshop as well)




Now the most important step,use pen or any other useful tool to select only Tendulkars face,as shown in the picture(Use Feather once as well)



Now copy and paste this in the bmp file which contained the original face.Use Free Transform and Rotate to place the picture properly.



The most difficult step:editing the picture
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Try selecting different parts and cut them into layers.





Adjust all the layers properly.Now use the Hue/Saturation tool as well as the Brightness/Contrast tool(both under Image->Adjust) to make the background picture's colour similar to the picture we have introduced.The end result should look somewhat like this.



Now basically apply a bit of colour using the spray tool so that the colour is even throughout he entire picture.

Finally colour the eyes black if you want you can unsharpen every layer(Filter->Sharpen->Unsharpen Mask)

The final picture should look somewhat like this(although mine is not so good)



Now save this picture in a bmp format,use fshed to update this picture in place of the original one that you extracted earlier.

Now use BigGui to replace the face.fsh file.(Basically do the reverse of what you did while extracting the original picture).

Now you may place the db338f7099a935f11997613f1bc5873c.big file in the main folder of Cricket 2005.

This is what my picture looks ingame(not so good again)



Final Words and Bugs in the Tutorial
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The major bug I have is that the hand textures of the player cannot be changed,so the face and the hands have different colours,hopefully this problem will be sorted out by one of the expert patchers.

Hopefully this tutorial will inspire members to start making faces,and I apologise once again for my lack of quality in using Photoshop.Cheers

Siddharth(sid_19840)

Excellent !!! I'll try it out !! You have been exceptional with your tutorials !!! Awesome work man !!! :hpraise :hpraise

Hariz said:

Excellent !!! I'll try it out !! You have been exceptional with your tutorials !!! Awesome work man !!! :hpraise :hpraise

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Thanks,glad to help other's out everytime,hopefully the bugs in the tutorial can be solved by someone like Rahul.

As you said

The major bug I have is that the hand textures of the player cannot be changed,so the face and the hands have different colours

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I suggest instead of adjusting the old face with the one newly added. Make the textures of the pic we insert to match the old one.
Btw good work.

Well that is a good idea,but it is difficult to find exact matches.

Yeah but it look better,
Look at my try.

not bad,did my tutorial prove useful to you?

Only the layer's part is somehow useful. Other's things i know before.

Do you think that this tutorial deserves to be stickied?

sid its a great tutorial (reps 4u) and a neccesary one but you cant except to have it stickied after 8 replies, the bat making tutorial got stickied because so many people were asking about it and so many people make bats but not as many make faces unfortunely, so wait til it gets alot more replies then it might be considered to be a sticky.
anyways great work mate

Thanks lang,I agree with your reasoning.

dang cant give u rep says spread it around:s

langerrox said:

dang cant give u rep says spread it around:s

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Not a problem,give me later if you like


By the way this tutorial took me about 3-4 hrs to make,mainly because I had to first learn properly how to make faces and then actually make one and show every stage in the tutorial,so I put in a lot of effort,hopefully it will help in producing more face makers.

Any idea on how the problems with the player hand colour can be solved?

Sid - Reps for you, you are always helpful.