[TUTORIAL] Adding a 2K14 camera to an Easy Entrance

[jakeypearce]

I have finally figured out how to replace part of a camera for Easy Entrances. While I know you could just use the Advanced Entrances, this is a small step in the right direction for entrance modding. I will be editing the WWE '13 Rock '98 - '99 intro over The Rock '01's. In this guide, I will assume that you are following along with me and you have the 000A for The Rock '98 - '99 and the 000A for The Rock '01's. With that said, however, the guide should be the same if you're using different camera files; the only difference is the bytes. So, here we go!

There are references in the root of a YANM entrance/camera (before the YANM strings themselves), specifically 0xBE - 0xBF, 0xE6 - 0xE7, 0x10E - 0x10F, 0x136 - 0x137 and 0x14E - 0x14F. These offsets pertain to the intro, stage, ramp, ring-in and ring cameras respectively. To help better illustrate this, I have an image that highlights the bytes locations.

With the exception of championship motions, all entrances have two cameras. In this case, as I want to edit the intro cameras for The Rock '01's entrance, I need to first of all, grab the camera file for The Rock '98 - '99's entrance and note down the bytes (same location), which are 12 C0 and 26 C0.

How do you know it's 26 C0? Well, to calculate the other size bytes, it is the first YANM reference (in total!) + the 2nd. For the third, it is the first 2 + the 3rd. Obviously, the 4th and 5th is just using the same pattern.

Now, it's only a simple case of replacing the old YANM references with the new ones, ensuring you replace the offsets.

That's it! Just inject your camera file back in and compress your file as a BPE using PacEditor.

@tekken57 @pozzum

Edited June 13, 2017 by jakeypearce

[tomwearsglasses]

Great find!  I appreciate all the effort you're putting in to figuring out entrance modding.

[jakeypearce]

In an attempt to make things easier and more accessible for everyone, I have began the foundation of a GUI program to ease the process a little. The program will be written in Python, and while I have experience with writing Python programs, I have NO experience with making GUI programs. I'm going to require a lot of help with coding what I want it to do. Here's a snippet of what I've done so far.

[jakeypearce]

So using my own guide above, here's something that I've just made today.

If anyone wants the PAC, let me know, and I'll upload it.