el badman's tattoos: TECHNICAL PROBLEM - DONE WITH LIVE 07

Thanks a lot for hard work your putting into this!
It's much appriciated
Keep it up!!!

dude,u rock !

Thanx a lot guys
Now that I have some 512x512 arms to work with and no visual bugs (thanx SUM team ), the tats will hopefully look better in-game.

Last edited by el badman on Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:36 am, edited 1 time in total.

I still can't manage to create tattoos without using an existing arm .fsh file, so I guess I'll keep making tats the usual way, even tho it's a bit more annoying to install, sorry...

Here are Bogans and Araujo's tats:







DL link: http://rapidshare.com/files/4930027/Tat ... s.rar.html

Deron Williams and Luther Head are next, and I'll try to add Boozer and Tmac's tats another way...

steel dont understand.
i have db commander i followed your guides but i coulnd't get it

make a guide with pictures please

oohh yes i'm noob on this


but in game i own

Last edited by hagahunden on Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:04 am, edited 2 times in total.

can i use the tatoos on my created player?

if so, how do i do that?

can some1 help

First, you need to use a tattooed skin that has the same color as your created player, for example 3 for Dooling or 0 for Araujo (you can check that in appearance.dbf if you're not sure). Then just change your player's MUSCLETEXT (still in appearance.dbf) to Y, found in the armXYbase.fsh that you are using.
So if your player has the 0 color and you wanna use Araujo's tats, just change his MUSCLETEXT to 3 (since I used arm03base.fsh for Araujo).
I know it sounds awful complicated, but it's really not...

EDIT:
Here's Deron Williams:





DL link: http://rapidshare.com/files/4965106/Tat ... s.rar.html

What am I doing wrong that I get such a K.Bogans Tats?
http://img473.imageshack.us/img473/9393/readmeve9.jpg

What am I doing wrong that I get such a K.Bogans Tats?
http://img473.imageshack.us/img473/9393/readmeve9.jpg

Wow, strange stuff
I'm sure you did change his color to 5 and his MUSCLETEXT to 0, but I'll mention it again just in case...
I don't think that would change much, but make sure that you installed Pdub's sweat and 2X textures patches.
Sorry, that's all I can think of for now...

From the looks of things, he didn't download PDub's 2x patch.

Thanks for the help bighOrt, I wasn't too sure
Next is Luther Head, plus some updated versions of Marcus Williams and Jason Maxiell using Pdub's 2X textures (my first ones were pretty crappy...).

Thanks for the help I have set Muscle to 3 instead of 0 now every things fine.

Thanks for the help I have set Muscle to 3 instead of 0 now every things fine.

Huh, u shouldn't be able to see the tats if you switch to 3 for MUSCLETEXT, but well if it works...

thx for the tips..


but i steel dont understand which programs should i use.


i dont understand it says * Search for Deron Williams and remember his PLAYERID (he has 2 entries actually). Close.* where do i find this ??


please u got help me more

Okay, you need a program such as DB Commander to open and edit the .dbf files that are located in your MyDocuments/NBALive sub-folders (in this case: NBALive/saves/roster). Once you're in there, open players.dbf, you'll see the list of all the players, search for Deron Williams (there will be 2 lines for him because he's also in a rookie team or smthg like that), remember his 2 PLAYERID #s, and close. Now open appearance.dbf (still in MyDocuments/NBALive/saves/roster), go to the line corresponding to the 2 PLAYERID #s, and change the number in the MUSCLETEXT column to whatever I wrote in the ReadMe for both lines(which was 4 I believe). Hope that helps

I redid Marcus Williams and Jason Maxiell's tats, using Pdub's new 2X arms/tattoos textures, so it looks much better than my first versions (especially with Jaosming's lighting patch, much recommended ):







DL Link: http://rapidshare.com/files/5206302/Tat ... s.rar.html
Thanx to Pdub and Jao for making this easier

Both of those are simply awesome, el_badman. Great job.

Thank you bighOrt, sorry again I can't figure out another way to make them for now, I know it's annoying having to tweak the .dbf...
I'll keep working on it

I told you another way already, to fix them... save the files as plyrpkg_arm_tat.fsh, but don't overwrite an armxybase.fsh file, instead overwrite a 512x512 tat file... I can send you one if you'd like. Then all you do is sgsm the file, and no dbf editing necessary.

looking forward to the no dbf editing needed tattoos ...
the dbf editing part is the only thing that's keeping me from downloading these patches ...

looking forward to the no dbf editing needed tattoos ...
the dbf editing part is the only thing that's keeping me from downloading these patches ...

Well, here you are then: thanks to the almighty Pdub, I converted all my tats (minus Earl Watson's, which are too shameful without the 2X patch...I'll redo them) so that no .dbf editing is needed.
I also included Luther Head's three tats:




Here's the link: http://rapidshare.com/files/5400232/Upd ... s.rar.html
(for those who already installed my tats by tweaking the appearance.dbf, don't forget to change each of the players' MUSCLETEXT back to 0, 1 or 2. Might take a couple of minutes, sorry )
Big thanks to Pdub and bighOrt for their help

And from where could I get original players Muscle TXT because I changed them and I don't remember them know.Could some one help me?

And from where could I get original players Muscle TXT because I changed them and I don't remember them know.Could some one help me?

Not sure these were the originals, but after spending hours on their pix, it makes sense to me at least:
- 0 : Araujo, Maxiell
- 1 : Deron Williams, Charlie Bell, Bogans, Dooling, Sefolosha (with bodytype 0), Aldridge (bodytype 0), Solomon Jones, Barnes, Marcus Williams (bodytype 1), Watson (his updated tats will be rlsd soon), Maurice Williams, Wagner, McLeod
- 2 : Head
But you can certainly change some if you don't agree

As promised, here are the updated tats for Earl Watson, looking much clearer thanks to Pdub's 2X patch (they're better in-game than on these crappy screenshots):





DL link: http://rapidshare.com/files/5506206/eaw ... t.rar.html
I forgot to include a ReadMe, but well, just drop the file in your sgsm
Salim Stoudamire and Tyrus Thomas should be next.

Salim Stoudamire (I'm just missing a pic of his right forearm tat):



DL: http://rapidshare.com/files/5531994/Tat ... d.rar.html

el badman, could u make righthand tatoo for Boozer and forarms tatoos for Dorell Wright?!

Excellent tat's man keep up the good work!!!

el badman, could u make righthand tatoo for Boozer and forarms tatoos for Dorell Wright?!

I've been looking around for good pix of all of Boozer's tats...He's already on my list, so I'll see what I can do. I haven't found good pix of Wright's tats yet, they're not very visible most of the time...

Thanks a lot courtney

I keep double or triple posting in this thread, I guess i'll just edit my posts after that, even if it doesn't bump...
Oh well, here's Delfino and Turiaf:





I noticed that both players' skin tone was very inaccurate (#2 for both of them??? I kinda thought Turiaf was a bit darker... ), so I recommend changing Delfino's color to 0 and Turiaf's to 3 (see the ReadMe for more details). To match the new skin tones, I included a modified version of Turiaf's cyberface (it's EA's, only darker and sharper). I did the same for Delfino, but his face was already a patch from someone in this community, and I forgot who , so I didn't wanna include that one...

DL link: http://rapidshare.com/files/5665448/Tat ... f.rar.html

EDIT: Here's Tyrus Thomas:





I didn't really have good pix for this one, but well...I also modified his CF by darkening and sharpening EA's default one, I noticed it had a different color compared to the body...New face is included in the .rar.
DL link: http://rapidshare.com/files/5686929/Tat ... s.rar.html

EDIT: just noticed that Ty Thomas apparently likes humping the ball

Last edited by el badman on Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:13 am, edited 1 time in total.