Can You Replace Zone Loading Screens?

[Drakwatch]

Has anyone come up with a solution to this? I would really like to see the old loading screens in-game again, I like their designs a lot. It would be cool to replace them with our own loading screens too.

 This previous thread mentioned that it is pretty difficult to replace those images, but I do still really like the way the old loading screens look. It would be cool to mod them back in.

[Hyperstrike]

I am not sure if the old load screens are still available.
They were replaced on Live  So I'm not sure the resources still exist in the PIGG files.

[Dynamo-Joe]

Well - a texture replacement via client side modification might be possible. You don't have to mod the pigg files at all. 

 

However finding good clean versions of all those old load screens themselves might be a bit of an issue. Also - they were made back when 800x600 screens were the norm. That's one of the reasons they were replaced back on live. 

[Troo]

Another reason redside is better?

[Drakwatch]

There's a good link to the old loading screens here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lraeslcbbfhd08v/Old_Loading_Screens.zip?dl=1

 

They are just Jpgs, 1440 x 994 ppi. Seems like decent quality but they will have some upscaling issues with bigger screens for sure.

[Vulpoid]

This will do the job.
COHSplasher is a utility that will allow you to change them. Looks like some old ones are here too.

Website   https://cohsplasher.blogspot.com/2007/08/basic-questions.html

.zip file

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mny32wi9104wpdb/CohSplasher.zip?dl=0

Edited February 27, 2021 by Vulpoid

[jkwak]

yeah i know its an old thread, but i m  currently looking in to getting the old loading screens back for me and splasher has no option for loading screens except the login
so if anyone is doing the same as me and finds this thread thru google no need to bother with splasher in that case

[jkwak]

i had a partially success. i have no idea what to do about the text though

 

as the old loading screens had the text as part of the same image and the new ones store the text seperate and i dont know where or even what to do about it.

 

i have a close look tomorrow

i have a hunch about the text, but i might need to take screenshots of every loading screen for all zones that where added after the new loading screens where introduced -.-

 

update: i thought the text was stored in fonts as Paragon City Italic but i either did something wrong or my font editor messed the file in a way up that it is not longer recognized by the game as the fonts in COH seem to not follow some standarts which my program attempted to fix -.-

 

so what i could do instead would be to edt the loading screens to make room for the new way of showing zone names ..... or simply give up

Edited August 11, 2021 by jkwak

[jkwak]

so this is what the loading screens for blue side City zones kinda look for me now,

not bad but certainly not good so i dont really know if i should share it

 

allright i made an Hybrid of the old and the new loading screens, it looks way better i share it thru COH Modder since the Zip Archive will be to big

 

Edited August 12, 2021 by jkwak