For those still playing: New Court Edits

[RubenDouglas]

I went through every school again last week and following along with my original RTF text file, I found many improvements could be made, and did so.

The vast majority are color balance changes. If a halfcourt logo is a bright red, and the paint and skirt/lines are dark red, that's just not great on the eyes. so I fixed the vast majority of these balance issues.

I will attach both the original file from 2007, and a new current text file with upgrades/changes.

Original File is entitled: MasterCH2k8.txt
New File is entitled ch2k8newcourtedits1009.txt

WARNING:
-If you have downloaded my OSVC3 xbox 360 2kshare file, you only need to add in the new changes.
-For all others, if you have not done these court edits, do the main list first, then add in the new changes. You can't just jump to the new list as it doesnt list specific values for many elements, just +/- changes.

Many schools have had extensive work done on their court designs, so im really contemplating if I should go that route with many schools. The old courts look just fine, so we shall see.

Let the fun begin. Please, as always, if you have any suggestions or comments on what I did, ie if something looks bad, let me know.

In total, there are 26 totally new court changes, and 15 changes to courts that were edited initially. That brings the total to 216 of 339 courts that have been edited. Roughly 63% of the NCAA field.

[Behindshadows]

Thanks! I appreciate this, do you remember any of the schools losing student sections or their names when editing. I did this to NC State and now they are called the away team. And I have no way to turn them back.

[RubenDouglas]

Here is some other stuff im contemplating about. Two schools that might be added to the list.

Brown University got a brand new court design.

in 2k8, it was as follows:

-Accurately represented for its time.

2k8 shot:

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In recent time however, there have been a few changes:
New:


In 2k8, I can only do so much to get it close:

- I much prefer the old ACCURATE route for 2007-2008.

Another example:
Citadel out of Southern Conference.

In 2007 it looked like:


It's never been right in CH2k8, but with my court edits, I got the colors balancing each other out.


.... Now I went back and made some changes to the court in ch2k8 to try and match what it was like in real life in 2007.

results:

-closer to real life with the right skirt color. but it just doesnt look right to me.

Thoughts. Most schools were edited and fixed without a second thought. but these two just really stump me as the designs in game look just fine, but may not be entirely accurate

[RubenDouglas]

Quote: Originally Posted by Behindshadows

Thanks! I appreciate this, do you remember any of the schools losing student sections or their names when editing. I did this to NC State and now they are called the away team. And I have no way to turn them back.

hmmm. ive known about the shirts changing color and that may be an indication there placement may be GONE out of the game, but ive never heard about the names changing.

by default, the NC State student section is named: N/A. before and after edits, it remains N/A. I have the option of going right in there to rename it anything I want.

ill look more into it.

EDIT:
I just recently changed Alabama's court, Arkansas', and Miss. State for the very first time, and the student section name stayed the same.. It was named prior to any edits and defaulted that way, and after court edits, it still remains the same. Now crowd colors and what not could be an issue i suppose to a few. but as far as names changing, nope. not for me

[Behindshadows]

Quote: Originally Posted by RubenDouglas

hmmm. ive known about the shirts changing color and that may be an indication there placement may be GONE out of the game, but ive never heard about the names changing. by default, the NC State student section is named: N/A. before and after edits, it remains N/A. I have the option of going right in there to rename it anything I want. ill look more into it. EDIT: I just recently changed Alabama's court, Arkansas', and Miss. State for the very first time, and the student section name stayed the same.. It was named prior to any edits and defaulted that way, and after court edits, it still remains the same. Now crowd colors and what not could be an issue i suppose to a few. but as far as names changing, nope. not for me

No I mean the commentators won't call them NC State anymore. They are now known as the Away team.

When editing UNC, their student section disappeared all together. And a whole row of people are missing now.

[RubenDouglas]

you're right. looks like a lot of these minor changes arent worth it when you have stuff like that happening.

i hope you have autosave off like I do. throw in the changes. go to practice mode or test out a game real quick, and it may just not be worth it.

enough of my time is caught in color changes, that I just hope stuff like this isnt there.

EDIt: there is definetly a naming issue with NC state. but with UNC, i defaulted the rosters and both arenas look exactly the same, missing row and all. A lot of these "mistakes" were there from the beginning. unless somehow resetting rosters doesnt even help? But on the reset, they did call out the NC state team name.

RE NC State. it looks like a name length issue. darn it. 16 character limit comes into play for all characters, so youll see them being called North Carolina S.. with no true commentary affiliation.

edit: more teams than I thought have a different edited team name.. SE. louisiana. UTSA is now Texas at San Ant. Miss. Valley State is now Mississippi Vall. they have the right abbreviation in the edit school menu so it has thrown me off this whole time.

Time to go through and evaluate all the schools i messed up on...

[cubsfan203]

Good stuff. I really like all the work you put in on the court edits. It's a shame they never fixed the bug with them, it'd be great to have the best of both worlds.

[Behindshadows]

Quote: Originally Posted by RubenDouglas

you're right. looks like a lot of these minor changes arent worth it when you have stuff like that happening. i hope you have autosave off like I do. throw in the changes. go to practice mode or test out a game real quick, and it may just not be worth it. enough of my time is caught in color changes, that I just hope stuff like this isnt there.

No the work is appreciated and I'm going to use them anyways. But your edits too those schools in those pics is nice as hell too, I hope you have those on the list as well.

[RubenDouglas]

what a terrible oversight on their part in the game menus.


Team names that are too long and when anything is edited in edit school, it cuts off the ending...

AE:
-Boston University. in menu its "Boston Universit
-UMC is simply Maryland-Baltimo

ACC:
NC State commentary name is LOST

A-sun:
-E. Tenn. State is lost. Its abbrevated just right in the game menu
-Florida Gulf Coast is listed as such in the edit school main screen but st is taken off when you go into the inidivudal school
-SC Upstate is gone too. South Carolina S is all you see.

A-10:
-George Washington is spelled as such in the main a-10 screen but in the indivifual school screen, the n is missing

Big Sky:
-Eastern Washington.. its abbreviated in main big sky menu fine, but spelt out entirely in the school edit screen. In game name says Eastern Washingt
-Northern Colorado, missing an o

Big South:
-Charleston Southern is listed as Charl. South in the team name.
-Virgin. Milt. Institute is attempted to be spelt out and fails. another commentated team lost

Big West:
-Cal State northridge another team that cant be spelt out properly

Colonial:
-VCU attempts to be spelt out. ( i had no edits here so thats good)

C-USA:
-UAB lost

Independents:
Texas Pan American is lost
Utah Valley State another one.

MAC:
Northern Ill.

MEAC:
South Carolina State
NC A&T
Winston Salem State

MVC:
Southern Illinois

NEC:
Central Conn. State:
Far. Dickinson (looks like its abbreviated in game wrong, but it sounds find ine game)
St. Francis PA

OVC:
Jacksonville State
SE Miss. State (not edited but would be a problem if you did)

SEC:
Mississippi State

Southern:
-Appl. State

Southland:
NW. State
Sam Houston St.
SE Lousiana
Texas A&M CC
Tx Arlington (no court edits noted but this team will mess up with its name length)
UTSA (same as above.. leave alone)

SWAC:
-Ark. Pine Bluff
- Miss. Valley State

Sun Belt:
-Florida Intl.
-LA-Lafayette

It looks like about 35 of my edits have errors in them.. cant believe it took 2 years to figure that out...


NICE looking courts vs. commentators saying your team name 5-6 times a game. some edits just arent worth it.. time start over.



sorry guys. I hate sharing faulty info like this

[grismosw]

No sweat man, most of us are playing with rosters that already have this issue. Early on everyone was editing coaches through the edit school feature instead of coaching profiles.

Great work on the two courts above, I think the new Brown court looks good enough to roll with. The Citadel court looks amazing!