Xpacker help please

[wcwnwo2000]

hi guys i am fairly new to the WWE 2K14 scene and i have recently just got the xpacker but im having a few problems with it i cant seem to get any of the modded pacs back into the main pacs like the matchhd.pac keep getting this message after i inject the pach any help would be welcome

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[noobmodder]

Tried to use pac editor, instead?

I have to admit that I have no idea about how to modidy WWE2k14, as I "only" work on modifying WWE2k19, but I guess regardless which WWE2k game you want to modify, you use the same tools as the others.

X-packer can be useful but the "downside" of it is that you have to know exactly what type of file you have in front of you, because .pac is not always just .pac for that tool.

Sorry if I have no better explanation. But at least that's my experience with it.

pac editor has less options, but it also cares less about such "details". So as long as you inject the correct file and made no mistakes with the editing. It will work.

[xtremebrett]

As noobmodder said, try using Pac Editor.

Just make sure you update the arc file as you normally would, as doing it through pac editor causes problems from what I understand.

[wcwnwo2000]

Thanks guys,the pac editor works with the matchhd.pac i managed to change the arena thumbnails but for some reason it wouldn’t let me inject files to the mnlayhd.pac i will keep at it and hopefully i can figure out what I’m doing wrong thanks again guys I appreciate the help

[noobmodder]

13 hours ago, xtremebrett said:

As noobmodder said, try using Pac Editor.

Just make sure you update the arc file as you normally would, as doing it through pac editor causes problems from what I understand.

Yes, if you try your modifications, always clear the chunk0.arc with CCT oder WrestlePlus (oder whatever tool you use for that), before you start the game.

[noobmodder]

4 hours ago, wcwnwo2000 said:

Thanks guys,the pac editor works with the matchhd.pac i managed to change the arena thumbnails but for some reason it wouldn’t let me inject files to the mnlayhd.pac i will keep at it and hopefully i can figure out what I’m doing wrong thanks again guys I appreciate the help

The thing with re-injecting files is, that you can't randomly inject just any file.

Fictional example. You have a a file a2b3c4.pac and a file d1e6f7.pac one contains a file 111000. pac and the other 222000.pac

You have to make sure the it's always that file the was there before which you reinject, you can't (or at least shouldn't) "randomly" inject just any pac-file

The steps are always the same. file a.pac contains file b.pac which contains file c.oodl (fictional file names, again)

You work on file c.oodl, when done reinject that into file b.pac and that into a.pac

 

Another thing is what type of data the file contains (strings, textures,...) And in some cases also the file size matters.

X-Packer always has an issues if the file you inject has not the same size (or smaller) as the original file.

If we talk about images/graphics. work with Gimp and select a compression when you export the file to .dds.

BC1/DXT1 or BC3/DXT5 should work.

[Red Rooster]

19 minutes ago, noobmodder said:

Yes, if you try your modifications, always clear the chunk0.arc with CCT oder WrestlePlus (oder whatever tool you use for that), before you start the game.

That doesnt apply to 2k14

[noobmodder]

8 minutes ago, Red Rooster said:

That doesnt apply to 2k14

Well, shows that I never worked on modifying that game! Sorry! 😄

[wcwnwo2000]

all i want to do is change the brand logos and stuff in the universe mode so i extracted the UMTX.pac from the MnLayHD.pac and did everything I had to do to replace the dds files that i wanted to replace but when i try and inject the UMTX back into the MnLayhd.pac using the pac editor i get a overflow error that reads

"python int too large to convert to C long" 

i used the same method i used when replacing the arena thumbnails in the MatchHD.pac and that worked fine 

any ideas??

[wcwnwo2000]

here is a link to a quick video i made showing how i try and put the UMTX back into the MnLayhd.pac

 

[wcwnwo2000]

update: got the xpacker working with injecting the matchhd.pac but for some reason i cant inject the UMTX.pac back into the MnLayhd.pac with the xpacker and the pac editor all i want to do is replace stuff in the universe mode 

[wcwnwo2000]

problem solved seems there is a problem with the MnLayhd.pac but i found away around this and bobs yer uncle