Highfliers only do layups

[jwkfs]

I've installed a new roster which I like very much and would love to continue using.

The catch is that something is messed up, and all highfliers will only perform layups when doing a FSS move. If you make the basket, the game confirms that the player did a FSS move by showing the little replay icon.

Players can dunk normally if they do not try to do a FSS move -- ie, the DUNKPACK value is correct.

I have loaded a different roster and confirmed that this only happens with this one roster.

Which .dbf file and which value should I be looking at editing to fix this? From the looks of things, almost all the .dbf files are for facial characteristics / stats, except for players.dbf, plays.dbf, teams.dbf, tmcareer.dbf, etc.

Thanks in advance for any help!

[Andrew]

That sounds more like an aiact issue; do you have a custom one installed? Remember also that if you try to attempt a Highflyer dunk from too far out, the player will perform a layup instead.

[jwkfs]

I did a fresh install of the game earlier today, and after that installed only a couple rosters, the correct shoes mod, and the cyberfaces / portraits for some of the rookies. Looking back through all of the .zip files, I don't see any that contain a new aiact.viv, and the timestamp on the file seems to suggest that it's the original.

What strikes me as odd is that it only happens with this roster -- i can load the latest NLSC roster and highflyer dunks work fine.

I would post a link to the roster that I downloaded, but I can't seem to find it. It was posted as a link in one of the threads in the 06 Announcement section as a quick put-together of some of the new rookies.

/John

[Andrew]

That's odd. The only attribute in players.dbf that should affect that is the DUNKPACK and if they're all as they should be, it would have to be the aiact.

[jwkfs]

That's odd. The only attribute in players.dbf that should affect that is the DUNKPACK and if they're all as they should be, it would have to be the aiact.

Yup, I replaced the aiact -- actually, all the files in the ai folder -- with the originals from the CD, just to make sure.
I reloaded the roster, and the same issue appears. Josh Smith will only perform layups when using the FSS, even though his dunk pack is set to 7 (I changed it to 9 with the same results) and his dunking ability is set to 97. Other highfliers that I checked showed the same problem with correct dunk packs.

I've uploaded the roster here (megaupload) in case anyone wants to take a look. It's a very strange occurance.


/John