IAD-Background Image Editing

[Voltarox]

In the IAD ( Image As Designed ) store, inside the user interface, ( where you enter to customise your player character ) there is an animated background. ( as shown below )
( image size reduced to fit on page - originally 1920x1080 reduced to 1000x936 )

Is it possible to edit the IAD background image to make it one color so that it would look like the image below ?

Would you please let me know where this file is located and the file name.
What procedure would you recommend to accomplish this ?
Thank you

 

[Voltarox]

Progress report / update

I found what may be the image files for these backgrounds in the
interface.vpp_pc
After decompressing the interface.vpp_pc with the Gibbs Volition tools,
I then decompressed the ui_bms_store_iad.str2_pc and then found these files ;
ui_bms_store_iad.cvbm
ui_bms_store_iad.gvbm

The 2 files above are image files that are decompressed and converted to the .DDS image file format
using Saints Row the Third Texture Tools v5.0 by scanti
( you can find this in the tools section of this site. )

Using the image editing program 'GIMP',
I edited the images to make them one color ( medium blue ) R-0 G-0 B-255
Then saved them in the RGB8 DXT1 format.
Repacked the files using Saints Row the Third Texture Tools v5.0 by scanti
Then repacked the ui_bms_store_iad.str2_pc with the Gibbs Volition tools.
I updated the .asm file ( ui_images.asm_pc )
Put the files into the Steam/SteamApps/common/saints row the third folder where the .exe is located.

Then started the game and when I went into the IAD ( Image As Designed ) store user interface ( where you customize your player )
there was NO change, it looked the same as if what I edited did nothing.

Could it be that because this is an animated texture, there may be additional files that also require editing ?
Is there a file or code lines within a file that would indicate if this texture is an animated texture ?
For example ; <is_animated_texture>true</is_animated_texture>

Any advice, guidance, pointers or feedback would be very much appreciated.
Thank you

 

[Haganu]

All backgrounds from the stores are animated textures.
What's the extension of the texture you wanted to edit?
Btw... R - 0 G - 0 B - 255 (#0000FF) is not medium blue.

 

[Voltarox]

The extension of the texture edited is .dds

 

[Haganu]

Well that is... weird. At least to me. If there are animated textures you'd expect different extensions, like BIK or such.

 

[Voltarox]

Well that is... weird. At least to me. If there are animated textures you'd expect different extensions, like BIK or such.

yes, I thought the same thing too, however, it is a .dds file.

That is why I think that there may be a file or code lines within some file that would indicate that this image is an animated texture.

Have you tried the procedure that I did shown above ?

Thanks for your help

 

[Haganu]

I don't think there are any tags that loads a normal static .dds as an animated file.
Although something similar comes back in FlatOut 2... But in FlatOut 2 it works at least.