RED-Mods

January 16, 2013

Hello, NBA fans!

I haven't updated the Blog for quite a while due to some "real-life business". Nevertheless, i have finished decoding all those hundreds of parameters, you will be able to edit soon. ;)
Now getting to the actual editor-building.

The list of the new decoded parameters follows:

Playbooks tab:

Player Stats tab:

Team Stats tab:

Name Datas tab:

Jerseys tab (thanks to JaoSming for his assistance):

Headshapes tab:

Rotations (Special Teams data) tab:

Game Records tab:

Awards tab:

Hall Of Fame tab:

Some side notes:

1) There are 2 Playbooks tabs this year. The purpose of the second one hasn't been defined yet. It is supposedly used for on-line gaming.

2) YearReplacer of Player Stats tab is the field, we lacked last year to make historical players have their real, not modern, years in stats. So, this is another issue, which will be possible to handle this year.

3) There were several other tabs found, which are not mentioned above. Their purpose is unknown; or it was detected, that they are deprecated. Means, they won't be editable via the Editor, though will be handled on inner levels for compatibility. There is a possibility though, some of them are used in MyCareer mode. If it is true, the tabs will become editable.

As i'm starting to make the actual Editor, i'd like to tell a couple of words about its future GUI. The goal is to implement all the functions, REDitor II has, plus add several improvements to MyFriend Interfaces. A more convinient filtering system and some Help system are also things to be introduced.

The inner side of the Editor will be completely different, however. I have big plans for the project, so it should be as flexible for improvements as possible. New features, compared to REDitor II, will be coming along after the initial release.

If you have some suggestions about the potential editable fields or about possible GUI improvements, please, post them in the RED Editor 2K13 Official Development Thread (click)

Yours,
Vlad

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December 15, 2012

Staff tab finished (44 editable parameters in total):

If there is something (belonging to the finished tabs), which is not decoded yet, but you'd like to have it editable in the initial release, please, write a note in the following thread:
RED Editor 2K13 Official Development Thread

More decoded things are coming soon.

Best wishes,
Vlad

December 12, 2012

There are some new decoded parameters for you, guys and girls ;) :

Colleges tab:

Schedule Fixtures:

If there is something (belonging to the finished tabs), which is not decoded yet, but you'd like to have it editable in the initial release, please, write a note in the following thread:
RED Editor 2K13 official Development Thread

More decoded things are coming soon.

Best wishes,
Vlad

December 9, 2012

Hello, dudes and ladies! :)

This week has showed us a lot of decoding progress.

The updated list of decoded fields of Players tab (376 total):

The list of decoded Arenas parameters (22 total) (thanks to JaoSming for his assistance):

The list of decoded Teams fields (147 total; 62 total, excluding lists of Roster, Situationals, Staff, Rivals and Records):

If there is something (belonging to the finished tabs), which is not decoded yet, but you'd like to have it editable in the initial release, please, write a note in the following thread:
RED Editor 2K13 official Development Thread

More decoded things are coming soon.

Best wishes,
Vlad

December 2, 2012

Hello, everyone!

I'm sorry for not providing you with any news throughout November. Unfortunately, this semester has continued being busy with different college tasks, also not the best project management... so, the overall progress isn't that good, as expected.
Anyway, we finished with the implementation of tools, which use the new technique. Also i'm done with Players tab.
The list of decoded fields follows (371 total):

If there are fields (belonging to Players tab), which are not decoded yet, but you'd like to have them editable, you can write a note in the following thread:
http://forums.nba-live.com/viewtopic.php?f=149&t=88569

More decoded things are coming soon, as i'm trying to finally speed the process up.

Best wishes,
Vlad

October 31, 2012

Hello everyone! :)

The previous 2 weeks have been full of school tasks for me, so i write here only now.

The first stage of the development is complete. Nothing to be shown yet, as the tool will not have a user-friendly interface until the latter stages, but i managed to successfully decode general file structure and implement its handling. So, cloning-deleting of everything and raw bank-of-names editing are already possible. Unfortunately it turned out, this year we have a fixed file size again, which limits us to the maximum amount of records (players, teams, etc.) in our database (roster file), but there is still some room for you, mighty mod makers, to add several extra classic, D-League or whatever you want teams, jerseys, etc.

An innovative internal-decoding technique was invented as well, while getting home from college by bus last week. :) My comrade is currently developing some helpful sub-tools under my directions, which will allow to apply the brand new tech. It promises to enormously speed up the development train; so despite this year's files being bit-aligned and all that other sand in the wheels, i hope to decode the same amount of internal fields as was available last year in just 3 weeks. Well... at least, if i'm relatively free from college tasks.

But until then the sub-tools must be completed, and i'm also finishing with MLB 2K12 XBox 360 files this week.

So, i'm looking forward to finishing all the major internal parts of the NBA 2K13 editor by December and starting the work on the improved GUI at the beginning of next month.

Several extra features are planned as well. But they will take place in the initial release only if i have enough time.

Some news on the internal-decodings are coming throughout November. ;)

Take care,
Vlad

October 18, 2012

Hey, sports fans!

This is Vl@d Zola Jr., and i'd like to welcome you in my new blog!
It will be devoted to the development of a new tool, an advanced editor for the brand new NBA 2K13 game. :)
I'm not covering all the aspects of the new tool immediately, so new info about the editor functions will be appearing over time alongside with the development process.
The first thing, i'd like to tell you about the new tool is that it will be a total rebuild, not an update to REDitor II. The decision to rebuild it from scratch was influenced by several reasons, new roster-files format probably being the most major of them.

This blog will be updated weekly, or maybe more frequently, in case there is some major info to post. So, if you're interested, you're welcome to subscribe. :)
The key milestones will be posted at NLSC and OS forums as well.

Just wanna tell you, i'm finally starting to work on NBA 2K13 this week. :)
First news about the development itself are coming next weekend.

Enjoy the game! =)
*Getting back to my mad-scientist dungeon now to begin the work =))
Meanwhile, you can listen about different types of dunjeons in the video below =) *

Yours,
Vlad