TUTORIAL: ASSIGNING TAG TITANTRONS IN 2K19: EXPLANATION OF THE tag_0XXX_X_X titantrons

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Hi,

This writeup will cover tag titantrons used in the game. These are the titantrons with the ID's in the form tag_00XX_0_0_0.bk2  in 2k19 and tag_0042_0_0.bk2 in previous games.

These are titantrons assigned to tag teams in the game. so lets move on.

For normal entrances,

A titantron with the ID ent_0776_0_0_0 has an ID number 77600. The last 0 means this titantron is for the raw arena

A titantron with the ID ent_0776_0_0_1 has an ID number 77600. The last 1 means this titantron is for the Smackdown and PPV arenas

A titantron with the ID ent_0776_0_0_2 has an ID number 77602. The last 2 means this titantron is for Retro and Classic Arenas. These are titantrons in the old 4:3 format used for superstars from the old eras.

The same is similar with tag titantrons :

A titantron with the ID tag_0013_0_0_0 has an ID number 101300. The last 0 means this tag titantron is for the raw arena

A titantron with the ID tag_0013_0_0_1 has an ID number 101300. The last 1 means this titantron is for the Smackdown and PPV arenas

A titantron with the ID ent_0013_0_0_2 has an ID number 101300. The last 2 means this titantron is for Retro and Classic Arenas. These are titantrons in the old 4:3 format used for superstars from the old eras.

In previous games , the tag trons had ID's in the format tag_00XX_0_0.bk2. For instance, the tron with tag ID 13 will be tag_0013_0_0.bk2.

If you want to use this titantron in 2k19 in the tag format, you need to add either a 0, 1 and 2 to the end of the filename.

Do remember if you want the titantron to show up in all arenas, you need to make two extra copies and rename them in the 2k19 format, with 0, 1 and 2 at the end.

So lets get a bit practical.

I have copied two titantrons from wwe 2k17. The Dudley Boys tag titantron, which has the ID tag_0010_0_0.bk2, the New age outlaws, which has the ID tag_0013_0_0.bk2 and Blake & Murphy from 2k16 with an ID tag_0014_0_0.bk2.

We want to use these in 2k19 in the tag entrance format without renaming to the ID for a normal entrance which modders are doing presently.

One thing you will notice is, the tag ID's have been assigned to other 2k19 titantrons. What we need to do is assign unused ID's to these trons. When you open data editor, click on the team tab and scroll through the duo titantron list, you will see some ID's starting with a 1. These are the tag ID's. Here is a screenshot of the tag ID section

You will notice there are a few blank entries. These are ID for titantrons which were removed and not replaced. We can use some of these ID's

For this example, I will use the 1005_0_0, 1007_0_1 and 1023_0_0  slots for the three titantrons.

I will rename the Dudley Boys titantron as tag_0005_0_0_0.bk2, the New Age Outlaws tron as tag_0007_0_1_0.bk2 and the Blake & Murphy tron as tag_0023_0_0_0.bk2..

The trons are now placed in the movies/titantron folder. Restart the game, open your team's tag 's team_info file in Data editor  and assign the ID's in the duo titantron entrance. You will select

1005_0_0 for the Dudley Boys and 1007_0_1 for the New Age Outlaws. Save and reinject the moveset file in the game and save your changes in the game.

Play a team match and what happens ? The titantron doesn't show up in the entrance. So that's the scenario .

So why is this ? One thing is the tag entrance ID's and filename need to be added to the assetconvp30.pac. With the modded assetconv_p30.pac file, Custom ID's for all the single entrance titantrons were added. What we need to do is add the ID's to the assetconv.pac file.

1.First, open the modded assetconv_p30.pac file (in the mods/titantronfix/pac/audio folder) in pac editor and decompress/ extract the 9E50420460C2C5BC.vmum fro it.

2. Open the 9E50420460C2C5BC.vmum in HxD and scroll down to the last offset. The names of the tag entrances need to be added to the list here. We will add the ID's without the last 0,1 or 2 digit. For the Dudley boyz the filename will be tag_0005_0_0. Here is a screenshot of the file with all three ID's added.

You also need to take note of the offset at which each listing begins.

The tag 0005_0_0 is listed at offset 12600

The tag_0007_0_1 is listed at offset 1260D 

The tag_0023_0_0 is listed at offset 1261A.

We need to take note of these offset references as we will need to input all in this file.

The modded assetconv_pac file has entries for 999 ciustom titantrons. There are none for tag teams. The custom numbers start from 1. What we will do is select from 1 to 99  which are unsed ..

Scroll up to the header/ top section of the file. Here is a screenshot

 

Entries for the tag titantrons will be added starting from the 01 slot.

the data we need to add are the titantron ID and offset reference. Here is the first entry

The 00 26 01 (01 26 00 ) is the offset reference for the first titantron which I mentioned previously. The 94 88 01 (018894) Is the titantron ID in hex. In decimal this converts to 100500.

The next one (New age outlaws) is 100701 which when converted to Hex is 1 89 5D. The offset reference is 1260D.

The third (Blake and Murphy) is 102300 which when converted to hex is 1 8F 9C. The offset reference is 1261A.

Here is a screenshot with all three titantron entries added added.

Save the changes, reinject the vnum file back into the assetconv_p30.pac file. Place the file back into the mods/TitantronFix /pac/audio folder. Restart your game and assign the titantrons in the team_info file with Data editor.

Remember you need to make 3 copies of the tag entrance file. 

With the tag_0007_0_1 entrance, you will rename the copies tag_0007_0_1_0.bk2 for Raw, tag_0007_0_1_1.bk2 for Smackdown and PPV's and tag_0007_0_1_2.bk2 for classic and retro arenas.

Edited September 10, 2019 by squaredcirclefan