Making a PS4 Theme PKG for 4.05 / 4.55 Tutorial by Mangekyou222

Previously we saw some PS4 Custom BGM and Theme PKG Files followed by the PS4 Custom Theme Preview Image Creation Method for PS4 Theme Editor, and today following my fully functional MGS V Theme (and a Blonde Theme by diegoshark ) here's the guide I made:

How to Make a PS4 Theme PKG for 4.05 / 4.55 Tutorial:

Needed Tools

• Theme sample (my theme sample if you need one): Metal gear solid V TPP.7z (7.94 MB)
• PS4_Theme_Editor_0-1-3beta
• Fake_PKG_Tools_v1.3
• Photoshop (or other advanced photo editing tools)
• AT9_AT3_Converter_V2.3 (Mirror)
• Audacity
• A brain

Ok so first things first we will start with photos:

Download the images you need for the "background" folder (recommended to be jpeg because you need PNG 24bits and i found that you can't convert PNG 32bits to PNG 24bits for some reason it stays on 32bits so converting jpeg to png using Photoshop will do the trick, more on that below)

• homescreen (resolution 1920x1080)
• functionscreen (resolution 1920x1080)
• functionareabar (resolution 1920x164)

After downloading the required images open each one of them with photoshop and from the menu bar select Image > mode > RGB | 8 bits/channel as shown in the picture below:

After that save as PNG and copy the file to the background folder

Next folder is content_icon (those files doesn't need to be converted so use 32bits PNG images)

The resolution is 512x512 for all of them after that its just renaming and copying files

Next folder is function_icon same as previous folder except the resolution all images is 32bits PNG

The resolution is 128x128 ((excluding the glow images))

After that we go to the sound folder which is the most complicated part in my opinion

To make a working at9 sound file you need AT9 AT3 Converter V2.3 and possibly audacity.

You need a WAV file not longer than 2 minutes in length (recommended)

Extract the at9 converter zip to your desktop.

Open command prompt and type in the following command:

cd c:\users\Mangekyou\desktop\AT9 converter 2.3\ATRAC\

Note: replace mangekyou with your pc user name

Copy the WAV file to the ATRAC folder and rename it bgm_home

Now type the following command in the command prompt:

PS4_at9tool.exe -e -br 144 -wholeloop bgm_home.wav bgm_home.at9

If all done well you should now have an AT9 file which you can copy to the sound folder of the theme.

Next is the sound vag files

You can use the vagconv2w.exe inside the fake pkg tools to convert wav files to vag (note wav files frequency must be at 48000)

Now open up PS4_Theme_Editor_0-1-3beta and select the theme folder

You should see everything in order, on the right side of the app you can find the theme.xml panel with it you can modify the theme name and colors, for example the font color is #FFED1010

The first two values "FF" is the transparency the rest is the color code "ED1010"
you can find all the codes you need here.

after that select format version as 4.0 and put the name of you theme at the end with dashes

EXAMPLE: PSXHAX-NET

Press save and exit the app , while exiting you'll be asked "do you want to save work?" choose yes.

NEXT

• Open theme.xml with notepad and change homebgm-enable from False to True.
• Save and quit.

Next

• Now you have few more steps to do:

First one would be to edit the preview.png and the icon0.png images.

• The preview.png is found under texture folder - Change it to (24bits PNG the resolution is 740x416)

• The icon0.png is found under sce_sys folder - Change it to (24bits PNG the resolution is 512x512)

Final step before building:

Go to fake pkg tools and run the orbis-pub-sfo.exe
Open up the param.sfo under the sce_sys folder and change the title text and the content ID.. it should be something like this:

XY1234-ABCD12345_00-0000000000000001

Save your SFO and open up the orbis-pub-gen.exe

First select file>> new project>> system software theme package.

Now you should see something on the right side called Image0 double click on it.
Drag and drop your theme folders and files it should look like this:

Select file and save theme as gp4 and close the window

Now under Command in the menu bar select Project settings
Now select Package
Put your content ID from the param.sfo in the content ID section

Select generate for the passcode 32 and press ok

Now under command select build image

Select the output folder and press build

Done

I apologize if this tutorial seems disorganized >_< am not used to making tutorials but i hope it helps.

 

[lotus78]

@Crazy Potato
Wow ! the animation of the eyes is really great.

 

[Pepeset]

@Crazy Potato @lotus78 @Shurikan117 @mohammadfadel @KingSheh

Since I see more people are starting to use the dynamic themes, I have modified a little bit the animation in the index.xml.

• Step 1:
  Download this .rar (password is this forum's name) and unzip/add it to your theme project folder.
  scene.rar
  
  
• Step 2:
  Search and download the pictures you want to add to the project.
  Go to this website and convert the pictures to .dds
  
  
• Step 3:
  Swap these .dds pictures for the ones found in the scene/background.raf folder.
  
  
• Step 4:
  Check out the index.xml file.

In the section where it says <!-- Materials --> you add/remove the pictures you are going to be using. 10 materials in my case since I have 10 pictures (1.dds, 2.dds, 3.dds...,10.dds).

<material id="plane_1" effect="pure_texture">
<texture file="1.dds" />
</material>

In the section where it says <!-- Actors --> you add/remove the materials to the 3D object (sprite.mdx). In other words, in order to see the pictures we have in materials, we need to add them to a surface. Same concept in here, there are 10 pictures, thus we need 10 surfaces (or planes). You do not need to change the position or scale since it has already been adjusted for the size of this 3D surface.

<actor id="plane_1" model="sprite" material="plane_1" position="-6.19 2.5 -0.01" scale="60 31.8 1" />

In the section where it says <!-- Sequences ( Scroll / Help ) --> you tell the PS4 how your planes are going to move. This is how we are animating it. Let's break it down a little bit more.

Here we make sure it goes picture by picture, we could use random instead of serial.
<sequence order="serial">

This whole case takes 105 seconds to finish.
<case wait="105">

We show picture 1.dds (or plane_1) at the given position (X = 6.19).
<actor id="plane_1" fade_plane="1" position="-6.19 2.5 -0.01" />

We make sure the rest of the pictures are not displayed with fade_plane="0"
<actor id="plane_2" fade_plane="0" position="-6.19 2.5 -0.01" />
<actor id="plane_3" fade_plane="0" position="-6.19 2.5 -0.01" />
<actor id="plane_4" fade_plane="0" position="-6.19 2.5 -0.01" />
<actor id="plane_5" fade_plane="0" position="-6.19 2.5 -0.01" />
<actor id="plane_6" fade_plane="0" position="-6.19 2.5 -0.01" />
<actor id="plane_7" fade_plane="0" position="-6.19 2.5 -0.01" />
<actor id="plane_8" fade_plane="0" position="-6.19 2.5 -0.01" />

We then instruct it to slide the picture from X = -6.19 to X = 6.19 within 105 seconds.
<actor id="plane_1" position="6.19 2.5 -0.01" trans_time="105" />
</case>

This new case will take 105 seconds as well.
<case wait="105">

Now, we instruct it to slide the picture back to its original position from X = 6.19 to X = -6.19 within 105 seconds.
<actor id="plane_1" position="-6.19 2.5 -0.01" trans_time="105" />
</case>

• Thus, if you want to use 5 pictures instead of 10, you will have to remove code from materials, actors and sequences. If instead we want to use more than 10 pictures, we will have to add code from those 3 sections.

 

[Crazy Potato]

heh expect version 2 of catherine....
@Pepeset can we have layers like
One image behind another?

 

[Pepeset]

@Crazy Potato Yes! Just use images with transparency (is this the proper term?) and position it where you want it to be. This would be ideal for things like creating an easy smoke/cloud effect, day and night effects and so on

 

[Crazy Potato]

@Pepeset Sweet! On that note do you know how to do a day night cycle where the theme tracks the system clock? That will be neat to mess with.
Ps. Where did you get all this info? lol

 

[KingSheh]

@Pepeset awesome doing this now but is this in maya or xml file

 

[MohammadBigBoss]

 

[Pepeset]

@Crazy Potato from the leaked ***, its documentation and by trial and error. A lot of trial and error.

In regards to the day/night cycle, I haven't looked at it that much. If you look at the leaked *** theme called something like "oclock" you will see it makes use of seconds, minutes, hours, days and months. From there you could say "if time is XX:XX:XX then do this case. I could elaborate more on it, although I haven't played much with it. Just let me know if you can't figure it out from the ***.

@KingSheh it has nothing to do with maya as far as I'm aware. Just the index.xml file from the theme itself

 

[Crazy Potato]

@Pepeset Do you have a discord, if so whats your username? I'll add you

 

[recapa1]

Please make a scary theme