Need help: Adding a new wrestler.

[noobmodder]

Hello everyone!

Yes my name shows it, I am a noob.

First of all, I watched and red the tutorials. And if it would be for just adding a new attire I would be fine.

But I like to add some wrestlers and Managers, WITHOUT overwriting any eisting.

As an example I would like to Add Hawk (LOD/Road Warriros) with name, (if possible audio announcing), theme, entrance and moveset (titantron is not meeded)

So far the only thinbg I was able to is using the Hawk this forum offers publicly for download, but that would only overwrite Greg Valebntine.

I found some files from @AznBlusuazn But I couldn make them work, When I tried to inject the pofo and the mov, I get the error message that the file is "too long for WWE2k19" (whatever that means. Maybe not compatible with WWE2k19? I follwoed the instructions in the TXT, step by step. No success. Also the Theme didn't work. Already The Sound injector sayed "File not playabe"

So far when I asked people for help the answer was watch and read the tutorials.Thing is no answers to my isse, and a video or a text can't answer questions, So I try to get some answers here. Thanks for the help in Advance!

Edited May 26, 2019 by noobmodder

[BlindedByTheGrace]

4 hours ago, noobmodder said:

Hello everyone!

Yes my name shows it, I am a noob.

First of all, I watched and red the tutorials. And if it would be for just adding a new attire I would be fine.

But I like to add some wrestlers and Managers, WITHOUT overwriting any eisting.

As an example I would like to Add Hawk (LOD/Road Warriros) with name, (if possible audio announcing), theme, entrance and moveset (titantron is not meeded)

So far the only thinbg I was able to is using the Hawk this forum offers publicly for download, but that would only overwrite Greg Valebntine.

I found some files from @AznBlusuazn But I couldn make them work, When I tried to inject the pofo and the mov, I get the error message that the file is "too long for WWE2k19" (whatever that means. Maybe not compatible with WWE2k19? I follwoed the instructions in the TXT, step by step. No success. Also the Theme didn't work. Already The Sound injector sayed "File not playabe"

So far when I asked people for help the answer was watch and read the tutorials.Thing is no answers to my isse, and a video or a text can't answer questions, So I try to get some answers here. Thanks for the help in Advance!

Hi,

You are probably using a pofo and moveset file for 2k18 . 

How are you trying to inject the pofo and moveset ?

[noobmodder]

@squaredcirclefan Yeah it looks like I got some incompatible files, I guess. Still No success in adding Hawk, even with different files. But for some reason it worked with Animal.

So here what I do/did:

As WWE2k19 + For some reason says it can't opne the games EXE anymore, I use the CCT.

1. I Download a character files (the "ch pacs") (thanks to the modding community for the sources!)

2. I Open the CCT and look on witch MOD ID the wrestle is supposed to be

3. I open the character file with a Hex Editor and make sure the ID fits, if not I edit the number (For Animal it's 790 and for Hawk 506, according to that list in the CCT)

4. Than I import the character files with the CCT to the according wrestler (ins this case one of in ring and one for the entrance)

5, I make sure that the character files are only located in one folder, in my case it's: mods\CCT\characters\pac\ch (that folder gets generated by the CCT after importing the character file

6. I clear the chunk.ark

7, I Rebuild the chunk.def

8. I run the game over CCT

9. I impport, while the game runs the move and and pofo file

 

As I don't know of the game takes it on the fly i restart the game and I also rebuild the chunk.def one more time and then I start the game again (via CCT)

IDK if I do a step wrong here.

So for some reason it worked with Animal. Hawk is still missing.

I know using WWE2k19+ might be easier, but as I said for some reason it refuses to work anymore.

Edited May 26, 2019 by noobmodder

[noobmodder]

Update: While I replies to @squaredcirclefan I tried to reproduce my own steps, so I might detect the problem I have, myself. And for some reason Hawk now is available in my roster. Still I don't kniw if I might do a step wrong or one step I do is even unncessary, and that is causing my problems. So I still appreciate any help from you veterans, here.

So regarding LOD I know can continue and learn how to integrate theme music. Any help with hat is appreciated. And yes, I have the Audio Editor alreadydownloaded,but that doesn't mean I will not have my troubles like with initegrating wrestllers!

[AndreAnoai]

Slot 505 is broken according to the 2k19 memory table sheet. If I were you I'd use the memory table rather than CCT's list for future reference.

[noobmodder]

3 minutes ago, AndreAnoai said:

Slot 505 is broken according to the 2k19 memory table sheet. If I were you I'd use the memory table rather than CCT's list for future reference.

Thanks, my bad, it was supposed to mean 506, I corrected that in my psoting. So that is not the issue, but thanks for letting me know that I should avoid that slot

[Cave Waverider]

It's a good idea to read the Installing Mods Wiki page as well.

[noobmodder]

4 hours ago, Cave Waverider said:

It's a good idea to read the Installing Mods Wiki page as well.

It's not that I haven't. But it's not that reading it again tells me anything new that helped solving my problem.
That's why I wrote my issue as I can't tell where the mistake was or is. I appreciate it, if you can tell me.

Edited May 26, 2019 by noobmodder

[noobmodder]

Hi again!

So far, so good. Also managed to add Music. Not my wished solution, as it seems you have to overwrite existing themes. Thankfully there are those generic ones.

Another question:

When I try to edit those added wrestler ("Superstar"-option), let's say to change their profile data (Hometown, or add the ring announcing) the game crashes. Is that normal, and/or a known issue, and if so, can that be fixed? I noticed that the added wrestlers are just grey dummies, in the selection screen. Has that anything to do with that problem?

Again, thanks in Advance for any help.

[BlindedByTheGrace]

2 minutes ago, noobmodder said:

Hi again!

So far, so good. Also managed to add Music. Not my wished solution, as it seems you have to overwrite existing themes. Thankfully there are those generic ones.

Another question:

When I try to edit those added wrestler ("Superstar"-option), let's say to change their profile data (Hometown, or add the ring announcing) the game crashes. Is that normal, and/or a known issue, and if so, can that be fixed? I noticed that the added wrestlers are just grey dummies, in the selection screen. Has that anything to do with that problem?

Again, thanks in Advance for any help.

Hi,

We can't add additional music to the game, we can only overwrite existing themes. We use the generic ones in the misc_music.1 and 2 pack files.

You can't edit hometown data directly in-game through Create a superstar for both modded and default characters. You need to first ensure you have installed  the perfectplextra mod in Custom.chaarcter tools,

The pofo file contains data for the hometown. There is no ring announcer data in the pofo and moveset file. You will need to open the pofo file with data editor and edit the hometown. Save and inject into your game with custom character tools.

We can't assign the ring announcer names in the game to modded characters. What we do is create ours from extracting ring announcer names and surnames and combining both using audio editing software. If you read through this thread you will further understand the process. The grey dummies are placeholders for the character renders. There are separate files in the game for character renders. For modded superstars, these need to be installed separately. You can install these using CCT (latest version) 

Look through the multimedia section in the 2k19 mods forum for character renders. If you still have further questions, don't hesitate to ask.

 

 

[noobmodder]

@squaredcirclefan Thanks again, man! Ok, so you pretty much confirmed what I thought. But as a noob, I currently don't know if everything "works" as it's supposed to, or if I encountered an issue I can fix or avoid.

 

Edited May 27, 2019 by noobmodder

[BlindedByTheGrace]

1 minute ago, noobmodder said:

@squaredcirclefan Thanks again, man! Ok, so you pretty much confirmed what I thought. But as a noob, I currently don't know if everything "works" as it's supposed to, or if I encountered an issue I can fix or avoid.

Regarding that "grey dummy"-thing in the selection screen, that you need those render models to give your wrestler a visual appearanc in the selection screen?

Yes they are render images. There are renders for Hawk and Animal in the multimedia section. You can have a look in this thread. If you can record a short gameplay video starting from the character selection screen and the entrances , this will enable us know how the mods are functioning in your game.