Titantrons/Minitrons

[OverTheEdge]

So I guess this question more or less goes out to either brienj or someone else who really knows what they're doing with this kind of stuff, but if anyone has any ideas at all, I'm all ears.

What I'm looking to do/wondering is if it's possible to either disable the minitrons in an arena during the entrances (so that it would only show the show's graphic like it does during matches) or if it would be possible to just have it show the actual titantron again in its place. Also, on the topic of disabling things, is there any chance the name bars could be turned off as well?

If not, I've been reading about replacing the original titantrons (I saw Draven mention on here how all you need to do is replace it with a standard .bik and just rename it as a .bik2) and was wondering what I need to do to actually see what the original .bik2's are, as I can't quite seem to make them playable (even after I chopped it down to either just the .bik or .avi header). If anyone even has a list of which titantrons are associated with each file, that'd be extremely helpful.

I also have one last question which, even though it's on a different topic, I'll just ask here instead of making a new thread, and that's about changing the lighting in an arena. Specifically, I'm looking to make the blue lighting in the Attitude SmackDown! arena either green or purple--or even just white, and I've yet to come across a file in its .pac that would be associated with that--at least in terms of the textures.

Thanks to anyone who can help me out here.

Edited December 29, 2012 by OverTheEdge

[brienj]

Set your Titantron to a CAW Titantron made with my editor, then set the theme to none in my editor for the slot of that Titantron, or select a Titantron slot that doesn't have a Minitron. There are a few, at least there was last year, but I don't recall if there are any this year. Or you could just make a Titantron/Minitron and have the Minitron part show what you want instead. It's just like always to make them, and all you need to do is look at a .bik file from last year to see how to lay it out. After you make it, place it in the folder, and rename the extension to .bik2, instead of .bik, and there is no way to view a bik2 file, but really no need to either. There are a few bik2 files this year, that are actually bik files, but I can't recall which ones off the top of my head.

[OverTheEdge]

Yeah, your editor was the first solution I could think of and was actually my backup plan, as I remember that being the case with them (not having minitrons) in '12, which still carries over in '13. The main reason I was asking is because I'm looking to get rid of those shitty/annoying Attitude graphics in the minitrons, bannertrons, sidetrons, and paneltrons (I think they should really try and cram more into those HD sets) of all of the Attitude roster. While making new ones for all of them might be a bit time/space consuming, if it gets the job done, then it gets the job done. I'll take a look into messing with the actual titantrons, though. Thanks for taking the time to respond, man--always appreciated.

Any word on the name plates and arena lighting?

[PlayboyPictures]

Paul said the patch that THQ are working on, they're meant to fix the issue of having those attitude mini trons on newer arenas

[OverTheEdge]

Paul said the patch that THQ are working on, they're meant to fix the issue of having those attitude mini trons on newer arenas

Yeah? Can't say I've heard anything about that. Seeing as the original (Attitude) SmackDown! arena has the minitrons play on it, I'm not sure why they would limit it to modern arenas--that's if it's even true. Thanks for the info, though.