Removing the Crowd from Exhibition or Saved Replays? (360)

[MessenjahMatt]

Hey everyone, I make 2K Jordan videos (I notice this site posts them regularly, so thanks a lot for that ) and I'm currently working on a recreation of the Nike commercial "Tell Me", where Jordan dunks from the foul line in an empty United Center.

Obviously the easiest way to get that shot would be to just dunk in practice mode, but the strict boundary for the camera there makes it impossible to get that side angle. It's only possible to get in Reelmaker, and of course the game won't allow us to save replays from practice mode.

So.....

What I'm looking to do is either remove the crowd from exhibition or straight off a saved replay file, through HEX editing because I'm on Xbox 360 (dun dun dun). I've searched the forums about removing the crowd and I know it's not looking good, but hopefully narrowing it down to a saved replay file might make it possible? The alternative is going to be a couple hours of painstaking rotoscoping so any help would be greatly appreciated.

[JaoSming]

unfortunately the hex you need to search for is only a few bytes long in that entire file, changing the stadium's capacity to 0. the REDitor seems to be coming to the 360 files, but the first release of that will only do names.

Ill take a look now with hokupguy (aka Daddie9 here) and let you know if we find anything, is there a particular version of the stadium you need? failing that, you might want to wait until May or whenever Vlad gets the 360 REDitor out.

[MessenjahMatt]

The 94-98 Bulls stadium (s559).

Are PC and 360 Saved Replays written pretty similar? I don't know this for sure, but I would think crowd capacity would be pretty early in the file, and if so it might be able to be pinpointed by saving one replay then changing crowd capacity and saving another to compare and see what changed? Just a thought.

[Andrew]

I'm afraid I can't shed any light on the matter, but I would just like to say welcome to the Forum and awesome work on all the videos!

[JaoSming]

To give you an update, I looked yesterday, but came up empty, but Ill be trying again today hopefully.

[Sman21]

ive seen mods for blacktop mode where they use a real stadium
cant remember if it had crowds though
but they were for pc version

[JaoSming]

no, I made that for the 360 too

viewtopic.php?f=136&t=78195

[MessenjahMatt]

To give you an update, I looked yesterday, but came up empty, but Ill be trying again today hopefully.

Thanks for looking into it. I've been doing some blind trial and error on a saved replay myself, but the only noteworthy thing to happen aside from crashes is this..



Ha, I'm guessing it's the sweat pattern.

I'm afraid I can't shed any light on the matter, but I would just like to say welcome to the Forum and awesome work on all the videos!

Thanks

[MessenjahMatt]

I just went ahead with the rotoscoping, hopefully you didn't find how to do it yet haha.

Still be great to know for future use, but no rush. Thanks.