new here, need some direction.

[kdp59]

I picked up NBA Live 2006 recently and downloaded the current rostes (great work there, BTW).

I've also downloaded the editor (used to have the old one from Tim years ago). and also the DB editor.

for some reason any changes I make in the editor do not show up in the game. Height and weight are mainly what I am looking at for now as they can't be made inside the game.

I've tried to find infor here and I'm sure I am missing a "how to use" for the editor to work proper.

I am using it on saved games, that are in the my documents \NBAlive 06\saves folder.

I hope someone can point me in the right direction.

thanks.

[Andrew]

Welcome to the Forum.

Height and Weight data is stored in appearance.dbf. What you need to do first is find the PLAYERID of the player you want to edit in players.dbf; search by first name or last name (last name is probably easier) to find the player you want to change and make a note of their PLAYERID. Note that some players appear multiple times in the database because they appear on All-Star teams in addition to their NBA team. It's probably a good idea to keep searching for the player until you've found all their entries and noted each ID number.

Now you can open appearance.dbf. Search for the number(s) you've written down, this time in the APPEARID column. This will locate the entry that corresponds to the players.dbf entry. You'll see a HEIGHT and WEIGHT column. HEIGHT is in inches, WEIGHT is in pounds. WEIGHT is therefore easy enough to change but HEIGHT will require a calculation. It's probably easiest if you remember that 6'6" is 78 inches (a value of 78 in the HEIGHT column), so you can add or subtract inches as necessary to get the right value. 6'10" becomes 82, 6'3" becomes 75, and so on.

When you edit values in DB Commander, simply move to another cell (box) in the database. The changes will be saved automatically. When you're done, close DB Commander, run NBA Live 06 and re-load the saved file (this is why you always work with files in the saves folder). You should now see the changes in-game. Remember that it's important that you close DB Commander or at least log out any databases you have open before trying to load the rosters in-game, otherwise you won't see the changes.

Hope this helps!

[kdp59]

I think I was forgetting to load the saved games (duh!).




the info seems to show up when I load the correct saved roster..Imagine that!

[Andrew]

Don't worry, it happens more often that you might think.