Importing in-game Arenas from WWE 13. Kinda stuck...

[Titavius]

Ok, so I know of the issues with blank titantrons this year when importing Arenas from WWE 13, but I figured I'd do it anyway, as now I have an RGH, I guess it beats having to create them. 

 

I don't think I'm doing it right, however. I keep getting the blank screen of death  If somebody could give me a heads up on the process (using X-Packer 9, of course) I'd be eternally grateful I'm trying to import the RIW 98 arena currently. bg30 I believe..

 

I've been asking quite a lot recently, and I do appreciate everything. my intention (when I've got this working) is to write it up as another tutorial (with appropriate credit), as I don't believe there is one for this yet, and it prevents the question being asked again. Plus, I feel as though I'm giving back slightly

Edited March 16, 2014 by Titan83

[Mathayus]

Do you renamed the pach file from Raw arena to 0030??

 

Do you updated the arc size in the misc? probably you must do it manually.

 

I didn´t add the arena because the titantrons. But you can see the titantron video in the sidetrons.

Edited March 16, 2014 by Mathayus

[Titavius]

ahh.. so which misc pac do i edit for Arenas? basically, i replaced the main event arena (0017) with the RIW 98 arena (0030).. i opened up the Main Event pac file, injected the RIW pach and compressed it.

 

looks like it's just the misc then? 

[OverTheEdge]

There's nothing you need to do with the misc.pacs. You do, however, definitely need to update the .arc files in order to get arenas to work. You'll need to do it manually with a hex editor as well.

[Red Rooster]

Have a look in my thread in the spoiler tag below my Summerslam arena, it will point you in the right direction.

 

[Titavius]

Thanks for the input guys, much appreciated..

 

@ Rooster.. that worked a treat I think I'm going to import some of the '97/'98 arenas without Trons (like the Rumble '97 and Summerslam '98 arenas) The missing tron thing just looks awful during entrances! 

[Mathayus]

Yeah, the misc part was a mistake I made writting XD

[Titavius]

I had a thought earlier today.. What exactly is the difference (beside the obvious) between the CAA version of the Oval SmackDown arena and an imported WWE 13 in-game Oval arena? In 2K14, they've obviously updated the CAA sets so that the titantrons display properly during entrances. Is it possible to copy the Titantron itself over from the CAA files into the imported arena, so that we might get the titantron working correctly?

 

it's pretty hard to simplify this.. i know it can sound confusing. i just think it'd be great to have WWE 13 imported arenas that work as they should in 2k14

[Mathayus]

The big difference between the CAA and the WWE´13 is in the ring aprons. You can´t put the smackdown logo overing the whole paron, what completely sucks and f*ck up all the CAA. The details too like the flags with the smackdown logos,  that you can´t edit, etc...

 

I think that the titantrons issues aren´t in the yobj files, but it´s in one of the other files in the bg. Try replacing the files that aren´t yobj from a similar 2k14 arena.

[Titavius]

does x-packer 9 open/extract bg files? i've never had any luck with them in the past

[UndertakerWLF]

Yes,

1. Ctrl+X to open the bg pac

2. Ctrl+D to open pach file

 

For textures you are looking for pac 0190.pac.

 

For the trons though.... If you look in the Bgetc.pac file (2k14)and look for the effects pac in there is what looks like a tron placeholder...funny thing is I could never find this in WWE13!

Edited March 25, 2014 by UndertakerWLF

[Titavius]

Yes,

1. Ctrl+X to open the bg pac

2. Ctrl+D to open pach file

 

For textures you are looking for pac 0190.pac.

 

For the trons though.... If you look in the Bgetc.pac file (2k14)and look for the effects pac in there is what looks like a tron placeholder...funny thing is I could never find this in WWE13!

 

so realistically, you could just swap the Raw Is War placeholder with a working tron from 2K14? Can these placeholders also be found in the CAA pac files? if so, there should already be a working RIW tron in there with the correct dimensions.. 

 

I'm determined to get the Oval Smackdown and RIW arenas working atleast!

Edited March 25, 2014 by Titan83

[Mathayus]

I'm determined to get the Oval Smackdown and RIW arenas working atleast!

 

Probably if you fix one arena trons, you´ll be able to fix all the arenas.