Dynasty rookie draft

How do you edit the rookie draft to put in real players like Redick, Morrison. Do you edit before the draft occurs or wait until everyone drafts a CPU made player and then edit?

Wow, not one person has ever done this huh? Either that or everyone is very eager to help others on these boards.

You can either edit the players before or after the draft. It's your choice. Their ratings and appearances are located in players.dbf and appearance.dbf. The good thing before the draft is that it doesn't really take much time since you can't edit their ratings at that point. You also can't edit by which team or at which position they will be picked.
If you like realism, you'll edit their names, height, weight, date of birth and college before the draft and complete them once the draft is done.

what i do is edit the rosters at the start of the next season. i list the rookies with high ratings. maybe 68 above and also the teams that drafted them.

then i edit the corresponding DBFs and i put Legends. as much as possible to thier previous team.

Example.
Lakers drafted a 68+ rookie for example Liu Vuu(whoever he is) a center.
then i edit the DBFs(appearance and players) to replace Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. i change the
name columns
ratings(i rate down the legends to reflect their rookie years, only based on my assumptions and somewhat near to the originally drafted rookie rating of Liu Vuu)
I leave the birthdate of Liu Vuu so that legend Jabbar would not retire because of age.

Sorry i just wanted to ask the same question.... Im very confused right now. Can anybody help me step by step?

There's a stickied thread in the NBA Live 2005 Dynasty Issues section. The procedure is the same this year.

Yea....I understand how to edit all of the names, positions, appearance, and all else.

You use DB Commander and open up the players.dbf file from your season at anytime during the season. Scroll right to the "Rookiernk" collumn, and scroll down. Wherever you see this collumn filled with numbers from 0 to maybe 130, that is showing that they are generated rookies for the next year. 0 is the projected #1 pick, 1 is the projected #2, 2 is 3, etc. etc. and all the way down.

Scroll right, and wherever you see something in the field, you can change it to whatever you would like to. Use this - http://www.nba-live.com/nba2006/dbf_players.php - to help you figure out what each thing means. In order to change the height, weight, and skin color, you have to open up the appearance.dbf and then use the playerid to figure out which player is who. Height is done by inches...so 6'6 is 78, 6'0 is 72, 6'11 is 83, etc. etc. You use this link - http://www.nba-live.com/nba2006/dbf_appearance.php

You cannot change their ratings until they are drafted, and when they are, you just use these same procedures.

The only thing I don't know how to do yet is change the faces for them.

The only thing I don't know how to do yet is change the faces for them.

If people have made cyberfaces for them, it's quite easy. I think ones for Redick and Ronnie Brewer have been made, maybe more. You just need to put them in the sgsm folder and change the player's PLAYERPKG to, for example, ROBREWE.

R-Tistic, thx a lot! I got the draft picks all edited; now it's time to get some cyberfaces and portraits.

Well, I did a few things to figure out what rookie generated PKGs give what results for players, so here is what I got from it. This may not be 100% accurate, but it is definitely close.

The numbers correlate with the skin color...0 being white/very light, 1 being a bit darker than that, 2 being medium light skinned for a black person, 3 being brown skinned (Kobe, T-Mac, etc), and 4 being the darkest (Garnett, Shaq, etc). I put the color, then the style of hair that they had.

2 - Corn rows - plyr046

0 - Regular fade - plyr079

2 or 3 Bald head - plyr098

3 Bald head - plyr097

0 or 1 Dark hair (Good for Reddick) - plyr041

4 Corn Rows - plyr007

4 Corn Rows - plyr105

0 or 1 Brown hair - plyr036

0 or 1 Dark hair - plyr040

4 Bald head - plyr078

2 - Short hair - plyr059

2 Gold Hair - plyr112

4 Bald - plyr086

0 or 1 Dark hair fade -

4 Bald - plyr116

4 Dark Low Hair - plyr113

Bad 4 w/ Corn Rows - plyr007

3 Bad bad fade - plyr088

1 "Puerto Rican" look with low hair - plyr024

4 Bald with weird split - plyr117

2 Low cut (Good for Marcus Williams) plyr050

4 Low cut - plyr103

1 Low cut Brown hair - plyr036

3 Bald head - plyr098

4 Dark black low cut - plyr103

3 Low cut dark - plyr059

3, Low cut dark brown - plyr064

Bald Headed 2 - plyr051

4 Low cut dark black hair - plyr113

4 Dark Bald - plyr117

4 decent low dark cut - plyr122

0 Dark brown low cut - plyr002

2 Low cut (also good for a Marcus Williams look) - plyr055

3 Low Cut dark hair (Good for an Allan Raye) - plyr015

0 or 1, Low cut dark hair (I used for Gerry Mcnamara)- plyr026

0 or 1 somewhat "hard" look - plyr111

So yeah...I don't know how to change someone to make them left handed, or how to give them corn rows or afros and all that. I also don't know how to change their superstar values.