BASIC ALT ATTIRES TUTORIAL FOR PC

[tekken57]

I’ve had a number of people requesting a tutorial on how to create additional attires for existing wrestlers. With 2k15 you can have 10 attires per wrestler and these attires are stored in the wrestler pac file. The advantage of adding attires in this way is that they do not take up caw slots and you also have much more freedom to edit the textures and models.

 

This tutorial assumes that you have already been through my texturing and modelling tutorials and understand pac files, wrester ids, etc.

 

I have created a misc01_start file using the misc file from 2k14. It has many more attire slots than the 2k15 file. However I am not sure if the alt attires listed actually correspond to the wrestlers who have alt attires, you need to check this. I have also named all the attires wrestlemania1, wrestlemania2, etc.

 

Download the file here but ensure that you back up your original misc file (updated for dlc, copy into your dlc 60 / pac folder):

https://mega.co.nz/#!45dyjYjB!RxTP7BZR7wsBhgJjPD_JBZy5j4wSFz5RJNyz0TMRJF0

 

For this tutorial I am going to show you how to create an alt attire for Booker T. Please ensure that you are using the latest version of X-Packer (10.3) to do this tutorial. Lets get started:

 

 

Help pic

 

 

 

 

1.    Firstly you need to know what the superstar id of Booker T is, in this case it is 108.  Copy Booker T’s pac file (ch108.pac) from your game directory to your modding directory. I would strongly suggest creating a backup of the pac file before you proceed any further.

Open the pac file using the PC Pac File – Pac File menu item in X-Packer. You will notice that there is only one attire listed 00010802. Extract this attire pach file by clicking the extract button.
 
2.    Typically you would extract all the textures and models out of this pac file and then make modifications to the textures and models. For the purpose of this tutorial, we are just going to make a duplicate copy of the pac file. Make a copy of the pac file and name it 00010812. We are using 12 instead of 02 at the end of the file as this is alt attire 1.

3.    Now that we have two attires 00010802 and 00010812, we need a pac file to inject these into. You either use the dummy pac file which I have created (30 slots) or you can use one of the other wresters pac file. Download my dummy.pac file here: https://mega.co.nz/#!V8MWCZBA!7RVpDAsO6Bav0URftenfiZYGfPLwqa9Qax7OCJZZ-Qg

To simplify things, I am going to use Hollywood Hogan’s pac file which has two attires in it.
Hogan’s pac file is ch363.pac. Copy this file to your working directory and rename it to the same name as the wrester’s pac who you are creating alt attires for. In this case we will rename ch363.pac to ch108.pac.

4.    Open your new ch108.pac file in X-Packer and you will notice that there are two attires in there which is Hogan’s ring and entrance attires. These are named 00036302 and 00036304.
Inject your Booker T attires into these slots i.e. inject 00010802 into 00036302 and 00010812 into 00036304.

5.    Now that your attires are in the pac file, you need to rename the attires inside the pac file so that the game knows which wrestler the attires belong to. Double click the name of the attire in X-Packer and you will be presented with a rename dialog box. You need to enter the correct name of the attire in the dialog box, in this case 00036302 will be named 00010802 and 00036304 will be named 00010812.

6.    You pac file is now ready to be used in game, copy the pac file back into your pac-ch directory overwriting the old pac file.

7.    Now that we have created a new pac file, you need to tell the game that there are additional attires which can be selected. This is controlled by the misc01_Start.pac file found in the pac directory. Copy your misc01_Start.pac file into your working directory and open it using the WWE 2k15 – Misc Pac option.

8.    When you open this file, you will be presented with a grid which lists the wrestler ID’s, the number of attires for each wrestler and the attire names. We need to search for the wrestler Id of the wrestler who you adding attires to. In this case because Booker T does not have any alt attires, there is no entry listed for him.
In this case, you need to use the misc entry for another wrestler. Find the wrestler Id of a wrestler who does not require alt attires and change the ID to Booker T’s ID (108).

9.    Set the number of attires to 2 and then select a name value from the list for both attires. If you need to know which value corresponds to which, hover over the attire value list at the top left. When you are done, click the save changes button.

10.    Copy the misc01_start.pac file back into your pac directory. Start the game and you should have two attires selectable for Booker T.


The End 
 

Edited June 13, 2015 by tekken57

[Gammah88]

This tutorial will come in handy when i get xpacker thanks tekken.

[eri619]

this will come in real handy,thanks

[jess88jake]

Just a question if i made 25 blank caws called one the sandman could i edot the textures for it in xpacker and buold the sandman like that ?

[TheBleedingRed21]

Quick question, Tekken, if I change the number of attires this way, will it rename every attire to raw? Or is that fixed?

Thanks for this, I got the hex editing attire name down, just needed to know this part. Thanks so much.

[tekken57]

I haven't been able to test as my misc is the one posted with the 2k14 entries.

I have added the new values to the list on the newest version so the bug shouldn't be there. Take a backup of your misc and give this a try. Let us know the results.

[Elliot]

Just the simple explanation has made this much more understandable. Thanks, Tekken.

[MepsiPax]

When I'm editing misc01_start.pac

 

you need to use the misc entry for another wrestler. Find the wrestler Id of a wrestler who does not require alt attires and change the ID to Booker T’s ID (108)

.Can I not just add the I.D to the list and not replace an I.D?

[beastedot9]

When I'm editing misc01_start.pac

you need to use the misc entry for another wrestler. Find the wrestler Id of a wrestler who does not require alt attires and change the ID to Booker T’s ID (108)

.Can I not just add the I.D to the list and not replace an I.D?

Yeah you can. There's an edited version that kim666 posted with more slots. Think it was in the other alt attires tutorial by rooster.

[Elliot]

Question that I'm not sure anyone has the answer to yet, but...

 

Is it possible to extract CAWs from the game to then import into the game as alternate attires? Obviously to save the CAW slots. I'm still a noob at modding, so it would be ideal to use the CAWs people have made for alternate attires and use them as legitimate attires as opposed to taking up a slot that could be used for an actual original CAW.

[beastedot9]

Question that I'm not sure anyone has the answer to yet, but...

Is it possible to extract CAWs from the game to then import into the game as alternate attires? Obviously to save the CAW slots. I'm still a noob at modding, so it would be ideal to use the CAWs people have made for alternate attires and use them as legitimate attires as opposed to taking up a slot that could be used for an actual original CAW.

I experimented with this myself. Not with caws specifically. But I was able to inject Daniel Bryan into one of cenas attires. Both of them showed up in game when you select the attire.

[MepsiPax]

 

When I'm editing misc01_start.pac

you need to use the misc entry for another wrestler. Find the wrestler Id of a wrestler who does not require alt attires and change the ID to Booker T’s ID (108)

.Can I not just add the I.D to the list and not replace an I.D?

Yeah you can. There's an edited version that kim666 posted with more slots. Think it was in the other alt attires tutorial by rooster.

 

Thanks a lot dude.

[Dennisolsen]

Super nice tutorial! very handy! 

[legrandcissar]

TEKKEN HELLO THERE IS NO EASIER WAY TO PUT ALTERNATIVE LOOKING ATTIRES problem is that not understand much because my native language is SPANISH AND USE THE TRANSLATOR AND REALLY do not understand anything in the tutorial IF THERE IS ANY VIDEO BY THE SERIOUS RED A LOT OF HELP AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE GREAT TOOL MAN

 

I’ve had a number of people requesting a tutorial on how to create additional attires for existing wrestlers. With 2k15 you can have 10 attires per wrestler and these attires are stored in the wrestler pac file. The advantage of adding attires in this way is that they do not take up caw slots and you also have much more freedom to edit the textures and models.

 

This tutorial assumes that you have already been through my texturing and modelling tutorials and understand pac files, wrester ids, etc.

 

I have created a misc01_start file using the misc file from 2k14. It has many more attire slots than the 2k15 file. However I am not sure if the alt attires listed actually correspond to the wrestlers who have alt attires, you need to check this. I have also named all the attires wrestlemania1, wrestlemania2, etc. Download the file here but ensure that you back up your original misc file:

https://mega.co.nz/#!gwNSXCCa!fa9KawCOBzTVzBBnpFFdiSixhqrR1ZVfEZ0l4oxW8m4

 

For this tutorial I am going to show you how to create an alt attire for Booker T. Please ensure that you are using the latest version of X-Packer (10.3) to do this tutorial. Lets get started:

 

 

Help pic

 

 

 

 

1.    Firstly you need to know what the superstar id of Booker T is, in this case it is 108.  Copy Booker T’s pac file (ch108.pac) from your game directory to your modding directory. I would strongly suggest creating a backup of the pac file before you proceed any further.

Open the pac file using the PC Pac File – Pac File menu item in X-Packer. You will notice that there is only one attire listed 00010802. Extract this attire pach file by clicking the extract button.
 
2.    Typically you would extract all the textures and models out of this pac file and then make modifications to the textures and models. For the purpose of this tutorial, we are just going to make a duplicate copy of the pac file. Make a copy of the pac file and name it 00010812. We are using 12 instead of 02 at the end of the file as this is alt attire 1.

3.    Now that we have two attires 00010802 and 00010812, we need a pac file to inject these into. You either use the dummy pac file which I have created (30 slots) or you can use one of the other wresters pac file. Download my dummy.pac file here: https://mega.co.nz/#!V8MWCZBA!7RVpDAsO6Bav0URftenfiZYGfPLwqa9Qax7OCJZZ-Qg

To simplify things, I am going to use Hollywood Hogan’s pac file which has two attires in it.
Hogan’s pac file is ch363.pac. Copy this file to your working directory and rename it to the same name as the wrester’s pac who you are creating alt attires for. In this case we will rename ch363.pac to ch108.pac.

4.    Open your new ch108.pac file in X-Packer and you will notice that there are two attires in there which is Hogan’s ring and entrance attires. These are named 00036302 and 00036304.
Inject your Booker T attires into these slots i.e. inject 00010802 into 00036302 and 00010812 into 00036304.

5.    Now that your attires are in the pac file, you need to rename the attires inside the pac file so that the game knows which wrestler the attires belong to. Double click the name of the attire in X-Packer and you will be presented with a rename dialog box. You need to enter the correct name of the attire in the dialog box, in this case 00036302 will be named 00010802 and 00036304 will be named 00010812.

6.    You pac file is now ready to be used in game, copy the pac file back into your pac-ch directory overwriting the old pac file.

7.    Now that we have created a new pac file, you need to tell the game that there are additional attires which can be selected. This is controlled by the misc01_Start.pac file found in the pac directory. Copy your misc01_Start.pac file into your working directory and open it using the WWE 2k15 – Misc Pac option.

8.    When you open this file, you will be presented with a grid which lists the wrestler ID’s, the number of attires for each wrestler and the attire names. We need to search for the wrestler Id of the wrestler who you adding attires to. In this case because Booker T does not have any alt attires, there is no entry listed for him.
In this case, you need to use the misc entry for another wrestler. Find the wrestler Id of a wrestler who does not require alt attires and change the ID to Booker T’s ID (108).

9.    Set the number of attires to 2 and then select a name value from the list for both attires. If you need to know which value corresponds to which, hover over the attire value list at the top left. When you are done, click the save changes button.

10.    Copy the misc01_start.pac file back into your pac directory. Start the game and you should have two attires selectable for Booker T.


The End 
 

TEKKEN HELLO THERE IS NO EASIER WAY TO PUT ALTERNATIVE LOOKING ATTIRES problem is that not understand much because my native language is SPANISH AND USE THE TRANSLATOR AND REALLY do not understand anything in the tutorial IF THERE IS ANY VIDEO BY THE SERIOUS RED A LOT OF HELP AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE GREAT TOOL MAN

[dashot88]

Is their a tutorial anywhere if I want to add new lines for superstars to the "MSC1    .pac" file. The new "misc01_start_dlc60.pac" only has 15 superstars and they all already have alt attires that I don't want to change.

[beastedot9]

Is their a tutorial anywhere if I want to add new lines for superstars to the "MSC1    .pac" file. The new "misc01_start_dlc60.pac" only has 15 superstars and they all already have alt attires that I don't want to change.

 

You can add alt attires to the misc dlc60 file too. Just change the 21 to 64 (100 in hex) or below that number if you want. Then open the misc file in x-packer, edit any slot that's free. 

[dashot88]

 

Is their a tutorial anywhere if I want to add new lines for superstars to the "MSC1    .pac" file. The new "misc01_start_dlc60.pac" only has 15 superstars and they all already have alt attires that I don't want to change.

 

You can add alt attires to the misc dlc60 file too. Just change the 21 to 64 (100 in hex) or below that number if you want. Then open the misc file in x-packer, edit any slot that's free. 

 

So i have to edit the dlc60 in hex editor or is there a way to add new lines to add alts by xpacker? Sorry not sure what you mean by just change the 21 to 64

[beastedot9]

Is their a tutorial anywhere if I want to add new lines for superstars to the "MSC1 .pac" file. The new "misc01_start_dlc60.pac" only has 15 superstars and they all already have alt attires that I don't want to change.

You can add alt attires to the misc dlc60 file too. Just change the 21 to 64 (100 in hex) or below that number if you want. Then open the misc file in x-packer, edit any slot that's free.

So i have to edit the dlc60 in hex editor or is there a way to add new lines to add alts by xpacker? Sorry not sure what you mean by just change the 21 to 64

That's the way I usually do it because just open the misc file itself in x-packer makes me overwrite people. So basically search for the string 'COS' in the misc file in a hex editor. You'll see 0F, in Dec that's 15 so 15 with alt attires. Change that to 64 to make it 100.

Now open the misc file in x-packer, I believe it's ctrl +m to open it. Just add the Id of the superstar and set how many attires you want. Sorry about the 21 I got mixed up lol.

Edited June 13, 2015 by beastedot9

[tekken57]

I've added my misc file in the first post which is updated for dlc. It  has more attire slots: I personally set all the values to wrestlemania 1, 2 ... 10. Attire names are not a big thing for me.

[dashot88]

Thank you for that, yea I don't care about the attires names either. The problem is I was using the new WCW Arena and to get the ring mat working I need to copy the dlc60 pac over. The dlc60 with the WCW arena had no left over attire slots. I just counted there was 19 in total.