El Buvor's "2k14 Lair"

[UndertakerWLF]

Looking good , you can use CAA objects as well.

[OverTheEdge]

Great work on these, man. I agree with the others in saying it's a shame you're stuck with a CAA arena--but, still, as far as the trons go, it doesn't get any better than that.

 

I'm so glad someone is finally doing this. I remember last year wanting to learn how to mod strictly to do something along these lines. Both looks incredibly accurate and rad. Great stuff.

 

Well, look who it is. I had no idea you were on this board, dude!

[El Buvor]

Well I think that using CAA arenas sucks too, but I still believe that there is a way to inject CAA objects into the real ones.

[Titavius]

Well I think that using CAA arenas sucks too, but I still believe that there is a way to inject CAA objects into the real ones.

 

I sure hope so. I managed to open up the 2003 RAW arena in 3DS a few months ago just to have a look around. If you can inject those objects into the real arenas, the possibilitys are endless. That would pretty much be the beginning of a ruthless aggression mod pack. 

Edited July 24, 2014 by Titan83

[El Buvor]

 

Well I think that using CAA arenas sucks too, but I still believe that there is a way to inject CAA objects into the real ones.

 

I sure hope so. I managed to open up the 2003 RAW arena in 3DS a few months ago just to have a look around. If you can inject those objects into the real arenas, the possibilitys are endless. That would pretty much be the beginning of a ruthless aggression mod pack. 

 

 

It would be awesome, but I think that even if we were able to import the whole thing we would have some problems with some textures, lights etc... I don't know how it's managed so I'm going to take a look at it. Do you know which file contains the Raw 2003 entrance set in the parts_ent.pac file ?

[Titavius]

I'll have a look for you later. I just went through them one by one, so i'll maybe have to do it again and write them down as I go. As for the textures, each object has its own, and so I agree this could be a problem. Maybe if you're going to try and inject the CAA objects, maybe try something relatively simple to begin with?

 

You could try and inject the titantron screen from the CAA '97 RAW arena into the WWE 13 '97 RAW BG pac, to fix the issue it has in 2k14 with not displaying the videos during entrances. There's a possible fix right there? 

Edited July 24, 2014 by Titan83

[El Buvor]

I'll have a look for you later. I just went through them one by one, so i'll maybe have to do it again and write them down as I go. As for the textures, each object has its own, and so I agree this could be a problem. Maybe if you're going to try and inject the CAA objects, maybe try something relatively simple to begin with?

 

You could try and inject the titantron screen from the CAA '97 RAW arena into the WWE 13 '97 RAW BG pac, to fix the issue it has in 2k14 with not displaying the videos during entrances. There's a possible fix right there? 

 

Well, yeah it must be a fix I think ! Never thought of that, I was searching for some texture mapping changes in order to map the screen correctly but injecting the 2k14 object is waaaaay better and easier !

[Titavius]

 

I'll have a look for you later. I just went through them one by one, so i'll maybe have to do it again and write them down as I go. As for the textures, each object has its own, and so I agree this could be a problem. Maybe if you're going to try and inject the CAA objects, maybe try something relatively simple to begin with?

 

You could try and inject the titantron screen from the CAA '97 RAW arena into the WWE 13 '97 RAW BG pac, to fix the issue it has in 2k14 with not displaying the videos during entrances. There's a possible fix right there? 

 

Well, yeah it must be a fix I think ! Never thought of that, I was searching for some texture mapping changes in order to map the screen correctly but injecting the 2k14 object is waaaaay better and easier !

 

 

That will be so good if it works. I had an idea for a mod pack for 2k14 where the top half of the roster are Ruthless Aggression characters, and the bottom half (30YOWM) are Attitude Era characters. If we could manage to get a working Raw and SmackDown Arena for both eras, that mod could become reality. 

 

You could even inject the RAW '03 objects into the RAW '97 arena, because that way we keep the ramp. They used that ramp until 2008

[El Buvor]

 

 

I'll have a look for you later. I just went through them one by one, so i'll maybe have to do it again and write them down as I go. As for the textures, each object has its own, and so I agree this could be a problem. Maybe if you're going to try and inject the CAA objects, maybe try something relatively simple to begin with?

 

You could try and inject the titantron screen from the CAA '97 RAW arena into the WWE 13 '97 RAW BG pac, to fix the issue it has in 2k14 with not displaying the videos during entrances. There's a possible fix right there? 

 

Well, yeah it must be a fix I think ! Never thought of that, I was searching for some texture mapping changes in order to map the screen correctly but injecting the 2k14 object is waaaaay better and easier !

 

 

That will be so good if it works. I had an idea for a mod pack for 2k14 where the top half of the roster are Ruthless Aggression characters, and the bottom half (30YOWM) are Attitude Era characters. If we could manage to get a working Raw and SmackDown Arena for both eras, that mod could become reality. 

 

You could even inject the RAW '03 objects into the RAW '97 arena, because that way we keep the ramp. They used that ramp until 2008

 

 

Yep, we'll see if it works or not.

 

Anyone made a Ruthless Aggression themed menu ? (changing The Rock render, WWE2k14 logo, red background etc...)

 

I made a little logo :

 

[IamCrazyPT]

If you guys need any help on this "project" just say something

[mattoriginal]

I'm so glad someone is finally doing this. I remember last year wanting to learn how to mod strictly to do something along these lines. Both looks incredibly accurate and rad. Great stuff.

 

Well, look who it is. I had no idea you were on this board, dude!

Aye! I'm a lurker. I've never had the expenses/patience to learn to actually do this stuff, but it all interests the hell out of me. 

 

Also Buvor, I'm not too skilled, but I have every episode of WWE TV from 2002 and most of 2003(only missing Velocity from May on) if you need any reference clips. Or I might be able to put together Minitrons or something. Just let me know.

[El Buvor]

So I tried to import titantron/minitron from the CAA Raw 97' set in the Raw 97' arena from WWE13. Imported it into WWE2k14, the game is freezing on loading. I don't know if it's because the YOBJ import or if it's because of my lack of knowledge about WWE13 arena import (I remember that I imported some arenas into WWE2k14 so I don't know why it's freezing, I should try to import the original arena, without any YOBJ import).

 

EDIT : Vanilla arena isn't working either so I don't know what to do in this case.

Edited July 27, 2014 by El Buvor

[UndertakerWLF]

Injecting CAA parts into an arena can be done, however you need to find something that has less vertices than the current object you are replacing.

 

Its not a great example but its the only one I have to hand, this is the in your house arena I'm doing that has had the barricade replaced with a fence from CAA, if you loook closley you will see there are no banner flags in the fence,

 

[El Buvor]

Okay, I'm going to see what I can do. I'm now using a fresh copy of WWE2k14 and I deleted the TU that I putted some days ago (I believe that the freezes are caused by that).

 

 

EL BUVOR EPIC MODE ON !

[El Buvor]

Just tested the Raw side "trons" (not trons at all, just flat light things, don't know the name, sorry hu hu), it's rotating in a strange way and it has a strange texture but it's here in the arena (replaced the F5 and F7 files in the Raw Arena, don't know what it was) :

 

[El Buvor]

I wanted to test something : make an hybrid 190.pac texture file for my 2003 mod Raw arena. I did it with some hex edit (it's a pain in the ass to make that, really, I spent 1 hour just to make one file). I thought that the file was functional and that maybe the CAA parts were going to load the textures added in the bottom of the file but the arena isn't loading, freeze when I launch a match. I'm still trying to make it functional but I don't know if it's possible.

[Titavius]

its so good that you're trying to make this 2003 Raw arena a reality! however, if it doesn't go to plan, there's another thing you could try? I had the idea a while ago to change the CAA textures so that the arenas look more in-game like. I think if we could re-texture the ramp, flooring, barricades and ring aprons, it would look 100x times better. do you think there's a way of changing the template aprons in CAA? 

[El Buvor]

Well I believe that a retexture of the CAA parts is way easier than making a Raw 2012 arena mod. I already found the ring textures etc...

[Titavius]

how much easier would it be to swap objects between CAA Arenas? For example.. could you swap the scaffold like sctructure in the '97 Raw Arena with these sidetrons in the image below...

 

that's pretty much all you'd need to do to make the 2001 RIW Arena.. I don't know if it's possible to move objects around, but if you managed to swap them, you may need to move them slightly

 

Edited July 28, 2014 by Titan83

[El Buvor]

We should try everything that should be tried I believe he he !

 

Also, working on one thing that could be nice for the arena :

 

[El Buvor]

Here is a video of the current state of the nameplate, I injected it into a random one from CAA, I must choose a nameplate that has the text well placed, and so I'm also going to change the font.

 

Enjoy :

 

[Titavius]

looking really nice man the font for that RAW nameplate was Wolf's Bane..

 

http://www.1001freefonts.com/wolfs_bane.font

[Titavius]

Here's a thought man.. have you tried looking at the nameplate from the SVR 2007 files?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETNCuaCcfnA#t=31

[El Buvor]

Yeah, I already looked at the SVR 2007 nameplate but I don't like how it's organized, I prefer the WWE Raw 2 one. I seen that I should speed up the logo sparks.

 

Also, an improved video :

 

[El Buvor]

Hey !

 

 

I like the Ruthless Aggression Batista so I tried to make a late 2003 attire like in this video (it's not finished, I'd like to add hairs to him because his late model looks bald...) :

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sQPpgtdkUI

 

What do you think guys ?