This is important to keep in mind so you can organize your mods appropriately. For example, let's say you have 2 music mods.
It's your favorite version of the song and you want to hear it in the game. Let's also pretend that Music Mod 'B' contains every music track in the game, including the Gold Saucer Theme, but it's not the version of the theme you like best.
That is a very basic example of how your Load Order affects the game. It gets more complicated when you add in multiple mods that affect multiple things in the game like textures for battle screens, the world map, spells, 3D character models, music, movies, gameplay, language and translation mods, etc.
In general, it is a good idea to only have ONE mod from a given category active at a time. If you switch between multiple mods in the same category, deactivate the mod not in use to prevent conflicts. Always deactivate mods that you are not using. Do NOT install and activate every conceivable mod because you 'want all the things'. That is NOT how modding works!
You will not see everything, it will heavily slow down your game, and can even cause game crashes to occur. Sorting your Mods: 7th Heaven includes a number of ways to help you sort your mods and make things a little easier for you. You can change the order of your mods by dragging and dropping them in the list, or by using the controls in the Mod Sidebar. This is very useful because it will sort your mods in order from top to bottom based on known mods, catalogs, and categories that work best with the least amount of conflicts.
Mod authors can even specify in the programming of their mod mod. Clicking Auto Sort will do this for you automagically. Tip: Right-click the tab to open General Settings to change your catalog subscriptions. What it is: A list of all of the mods that are available for download from your catalog subscription links. Popular catalog subscription links are included with 7th Heaven by default, but you can add more in General Settings. Column View: You can drag and drop the column headers Name, Author, Released, Category, Size, and Installed left and right to change the position of the columns.
You can also sort the list by a specific column by clicking the column header Browse Catalog tab only. Installed : Indicates whether or not the mod is already downloaded and in the My Mods Tab. Tip: You can also double-click to start a download. You can monitor the progress of your downloads in the Downloads area at the bottom of the window. Note: You are limited to 1 mod downloading at a time, but you can queue up as many as you want.
This is to prevent abuse of starting and not finishing multiple mods at a time. The mods are usually hosted on free services like Mega or Google Drive which have timed data usage limits such as daily. You might try downloading the mod again later. So, if there is a problem direct downloading a mod, 7H can prompt you to go to a web site like Nexus Mods to download the mod instead.
Cancel Download : Cancels downloading the selected mod in the downloads window. Retry Installing Mod : Re-attempt to install a mod if it failed to install after initial download. Search Bar Search Box: Start typing a search query in the text box and 7th Heaven will start searching immediately as you type. Filters : Click the drop down arrow in the Search Box to pop up a list of tags you can filter by, such as categories.
Under the Browse Catalog Tab , you will see additional tags such as filtering by Catalog Name or other tags specified by the catalog subscription author. Click on the drop down arrow again to dismiss the filter dialog and apply your selected filters. You can do that by right-clicking the Start Menu button in newer versions of Windows, then select Command Prompt.
Or, you can click Start, Run or type in the search bar and type cmd. From within the Command Prompt window, navigate to your 7th Heaven installation folder where 7th Heaven. Press the Enter key after each command. This can be useful for automation or creating batch files or customized shortcuts. How to Use: You will type "7th Heaven. See below explanations. Example: 7th Heaven. The profile name must exist. You can modify and create Profiles from Profiles.
This is useful if you want to create a shortcut that opens a certain profile with a certain mod configuration what mods are active and what settings are configured for those mods. If you start 7th Heaven. It may take up to 10 seconds for 7th Heaven to close after exiting the game. An example of using all of these functions together is below. Example: "7th Heaven. IRO file for distribution. IRO file will be created with the same name as the folder, with an. IRO file extension.
IRO file. A subfolder with the. IRO file's name will be automatically created. Alternatively, you can double-click an active mod. What it is: Here you can configure the options that are available for your mod. Not all mods have configurable options.
How to Use: The available options for your mod will be in a list on the left. Select an item in the list to configure, and you will see the configuration settings on the right. The configuration options will be different for every mod. They can be as simple as a toggle switch to turn something on or off, or you might have a drop down list of multiple options to select from.
As you select different options, the mod author may display a preview image of that feature of their mod showcasing how your selections affect the game. For music mods, you may also see a music 'Preview' button on the bottom if the mod author supplied previews.
Clicking the 'Preview' button will allow you to hear the selection. Click 'Stop' to stop playing the audio. Click the 'Save' button to save your settings for this mod, or 'Cancel' to abort any changes.
If you want to revert the mod back to its standard configuration, click the 'Restore Mod Defaults' button, then click 'Save'. Note: 7th Heaven will remember the options you have set for your mod even if you deactivate then reactivate a mod, as long as that mod stayed in your library. Mod Compatibility: You may see that some options are disabled and cannot be changed.
You will notice a warning at the bottom of the window informing you of why the option is disabled. This is because mod authors may have programmed certain compatibility requirements into their mods in order to work well with other mods you may have installed. For example, an option in Mod 'A' might break something else in Mod 'B', and therefore the author for Mod 'B' may require that the specific option in Mod 'A' be turned off so that their mod works properly in the game.
The Game Launcher will check for mod conflicts and inform you of any problems when you click 'Play'. What it is: These tools are useful for modders and catalog creators. The 'Create Mod' tab helps you to easily load from existing , generate update existing or create new , and save a mod. It is only used to generate the basic info needed. To fully create a catalog, you would need to upload your mod files to a file hosting service somewhere.
Use the tool to generate a list of mods for your catalog when you supply the information and download links. Upload the XML file to a server somewhere such as pastebin. This ID is important! It allows 7H to identify your mod so that it can check when there are updates available for it in a catalog subscription, and for auto-sort and compatibility reasons. This ID should also be used to identify your mod if it is being added to a catalog your mod.
Give your mod a name, and select a Category to give it from the drop down helps with auto-sort. Version should be in the format x. Select a Preview Image you want to use in your mod by clicking. Be sure you copy the image file to the root of your mod folder.
Continue to fill out the rest of the fields which should be self-explanatory, then click the 'Generate' button. This will create or update if you previously clicked 'Load' to open an existing mod. If you're happy with the results, click on the 'Save' button to save your mod. Click on the 'Import' button if you have an existing mod that you want to add to your catalog.
Select the mod or its mod. If you don't have an existing mod to load information from, you will need to manually enter data into the fields. Paste the download link into the 'Link Source' field. For GDrive, go into your Google Drive and create a shareable link. Once you have all of the fields filled out, click on the 'Add' button in the top right corner.
This will add that mod to the list for your catalog on the left. Repeat for any and all mods you want to include in your catalog. Once you're finished adding mods to your list, click the 'Generate' button to display the XML for you catalog. Click the 'Save' button to save the output to a file that you can use to upload.
Add the catalog subscription link that points to this file into 7th Heaven and check out and test your catalog. To get the folder ID, right-click the folder in Mega, ask for a link, and the folder ID is the part of the link beginning with the string!
What it is: This tool is useful for modders. It allows you to extract only a portion of the flevel. This is great if you need to distribute a portion of a customized flevel. For example, if you're working on a translation mod, you can extract only 'Section 1 Field Script Dialog' instead of everything else like field models or backgrounds which can add to the file size or be modded by other mods. How to Use: Select the flevel. What it is: The Game Launcher is new in 7th Heaven 2.
Its purpose is to make sure your game is ready to play, applies your settings, then starts the game. It does all of the following and more: Copies your game out of a system folder like Program Files if needed, checks that FF7 isn't already running, runs a mini "game converter" to copy files necessary for the game to be modded, backs up changed files, checks for mod conflicts, applies your selected controls to the game, updates the game's registry settings to make sure they are valid, applies the settings you specified in Game Launcher Settings such as mounting the game disc, setting your audio output device, etc.
The Game Launcher will automatically start readying your game, then launch it. The Help documentation will open in your default web browser. You're looking at it now. What it is: Documentation to help you with installing Final Fantasy VII, and information on modding with and using 7th Heaven, and troubleshooting assistance.
How to Use: Click the section that you want to go to for more information. Help is divided into several sections: What is 7th Heaven? Using 7th Heaven : This section. An overview and detailed information about the entire program. A general User's Guide. Creating Mods : This section is for those of you that want to create your own mods for use in 7th Heaven. This focuses more on the modding features of 7th Heaven and how to make your mods work with 7th Heaven, not on modding FF7 itself.
For learning how the game is structured and how to mod FF7 itself, there is plenty of information available on the Qhimm Forums.
Troubleshooting : 7th Heaven 2. Many of the problems and manual steps you needed to do in the past are now gone. With that said, people will always run into issues once in a while, so check the troubleshooting section for your issue and possible solution.
As new issues are found, they will be fixed if possible, or information about the issue will be added to this section with future releases. Of course, the Qhimm Forums are always available and up to date. Import Mod Note about importing mods. You can add mods in several ways: Using the Import Mod feature shown above. Download Mod from the Browse Catalog Tab. Double-click a mod. Copy mod to your Mod Library folder in Windows, then click Refresh.
In certain situations, mods will only become visible when you have the setting 'Import Mods From Library Automatically' turned on in General Settings. How to Use: See the individual tab options below for an explanation of each. Click to open a file dialog. Locate the mod or mod patch you want to import, select it, click 'Open', then click 'OK'. If successful, you should now see the mod in your My Mods Tab. From Folder Tab: Imports a single mod stored in folder format.
Click to open a select folder dialog. Locate the mod you want to import, click the folder, click 'Select Folder', then click 'OK'. You will see the progress of importing the mod and whether or not it succeeded. Batch Import Tab: Imports all mods found of any type from a folder. Locate the folder that contains the mods you want to import, click the folder, click 'Select Folder', then click 'OK'. You will see the progress of importing the mods and whether or not they succeeded. If successful, you should now see the mods in your My Mods Tab.
Compression does not alter the content of your mod or degrade the quality of anything in your mod. It is only like "zipping". Here is an explanation of each option: Nothing: This is the default. No files will be compressed. Fastest option at both creating the. Everything: This will compress all files in your mod.
NOT recommended. Most file types used in mods like. So, selecting this option will compress already compressed files which A offers no benefits in reducing file size and B slows down your game, because 7th Heaven will need to uncompress the files before they can be used. This is probably a smart option if your goal is to reduce the file size of your mod and you don't have a lot of already compressed file types in your mod.
Any file that compresses well, will be compressed in order to lower file size. Creating the. What it is: A tool to assist with creating and extracting IRO mod files.
Pack IRO Tab: If you are finished with creating a mod in a folder, you can pack the entire mod into a single. IRO mod file for distribution. Usually but not always , your mod folder will consist of your mod. Click to select the folder where your mod files are stored. Then click to enter a location and file name to give your. Select whether you want to compress the contents of the.
Click the 'Go' button to create and save your. Click to select an. Click to select an output folder where the. Click the 'Go' button and wait for the process to complete. You can now go to the folder to browse the files that were contained in the. You now want to release a small update to this mod, such as adding or fixing a few textures, but these changes are only a few MB in size, say 10MB.
Instead of creating a whole new. See below on how to create an. Refer to the Creating Mods section for instructions on how to update your catalog subscription XML file to support upgrading your mod via. Then, click next to 'New IRO' to select the. Choose a compression option see above for explanation of these. Click the 'Go' button.
Any new files that didn't exist in the original. So, this smaller file size. IRO files for changes for you, you will provide your own folder that contains only the new and modified files needed for your patch. Click to select the folder containing the new and updated files you want to distribute. Then, click to select an. Select your compression option from the drop down. In the 'Files to Delete' box, type any file names one on each line, press enter after each file name that you want removed from the patch.
What it is: If you have the original disc release of Final Fantasy VII, this tool will assist you with copying over the movies from disc onto the hard drive.
If all movie files are already found on your computer, this option is disabled. If you plan on using a movie mod to replace your movies, you do not need to import the original disc movies. How to Use: Insert the disc that you are prompted for, then click the big 'Import' button. Movies from the inserted disc will be copied to your movies path. You will be prompted to insert additional discs as needed.
How to Use: Click the main 'Play' part of the button in the Menu Bar to play the game with your selected mods default. If you want to start the game as 'vanilla' without mods or to enable debugging options, click on the drop down next to the 'Play' button to view a menu with additional options. The additional options are: Play Without Mods: Launches the game as 'vanilla' without activating any mods. Play With Debug Log: Launches the game with essentially a 'verbose' log.
It is the most detailed, and slowest option. It could use a lot of disk space to save the log. Play With Minimal Validation: Launches the game with minimal validation checks, file copies, or registry changes.
Useful if you want to essentially just 'run the game' with mods but don't want 7th Heaven to make sure everything is working correctly first or apply your chosen settings to the registry. May be prone to crashing on game launch if there is something wrong with your configuration. Play With Variable Dump: Launches the game with 'TurBoLog' and generate a simplified but still very detailed log, along with the values of variables it encounters.
This option too, will significantly slow down your game and could use a lot of disk space to save the log. What it is: A feature that lets you work with mod files and folders directly from Windows. You can import mods, unpack. IRO mod files into folders, and pack mod folders into. IRO files directly from Windows. You can even add catalog subscription to 7th Heaven directly from a web browser. You can have 7H open a link to a mod directly into 7H and immediately start downloading it via 7H's downloader.
How to Use: Click stuff! See an explanation of each option below. Open Mod Files with 7th Heaven: Double-clicking an. For example, if you download an.
So, you should configure your control settings there. A: Something may have gotten corrupted in the cache, library, or your settings. A: Pay attention to the error log. Downloads may be over quota or links may be broken. After the files are deleted, try opening 7th Heaven and try again. If you still have problems, you may need to download the mods from the Qhimm Forum, Nexus Mods, or another method instead of the catalog.
Additional details may be found here: Download Mod. Go into the Game Launcher Settings and make sure your volume sliders are up. Double-check that your correct audio output device is selected from the drop down. Click to test sound output and verify that you can hear sound going to the correct device.
If everything looks and sounds good here, click 'Save'. Now, go to Game Driver Settings. Click the 'Advanced' tab. If this is selected, you will not hear any music from your mods and will only hear the original game music.
Note: If you have the original game, it does not come standard with high-quality OGG music. A: Most likely your movies are missing, or you have the incorrect path selected in your General Settings. Make sure your path is pointing to the correct location where your movies folder is. If you have the original disc version of the game, the movies do not get copied to your computer by default.
For this, you can use the Movie Importer feature. A: You're probably using the old version and are missing movies or don't have a movies mod installed and active. You can press [OK] Confirm a few times then push [Menu].
Exit the menu and your screen should return to normal. To prevent the issue, install and activate a movies mod or copy your movies from disc. Also, if you use a 'Skip FMVs' tweak in a mod during the intro movie, you will cause this problem. A: While this should be rare now with 7th Heaven 2. You most likely have a sound device selected in your Game Launcher Settings that is unavailable. For example, you may have selected a USB headset, but it is now unplugged.
It is recommended that you keep your Sound Device selected as 'Auto-Switch Windows Default ' which can prevent this from happening, because 7H will always use the device that Windows is using. Open your Game Driver Settings and go to the 'Graphics' tab to turn this off. Open your Game Driver Settings and go to the 'Advanced' tab to find these settings and turn them off.
It's also possible you have some debug options turned on in your Game Driver config file which is FFNx. The debug options should be towards the bottom of the cfg file. You can disable them by putting a symbol as the first character on the line for that option.
The cfg file can be opened in a text editor like Notepad. A: The first thing you should do is deactivate all of your mods and try to get past the same area in the game again. If there is no crash, then it's possible that one of your mods is causing an issue. Re-enable your mods one by one until you experience the crash again.
Some options in the Game Driver may also cause crashing depending on your setup or video card. Try disabling Linear Filtering. Try restarting your computer. If you're still having issues, report the error and follow the instructions given to the developers.
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