[DEN2K] Scoreboards - 2023 NBC,ESPN WITH AUTO-SWITCH DAYS (NEW TNT Gold Edition)

If you Ctrl+F looyh’s TXT file for that Sports Illustrated text (just search for “tradekmark”, a typo by 2K in the string), you’ll see BBFA03FD at the beginning of the line. ....... In general these text call codes are simply the text string in question being translated to a CRC32B hash (for instance if you copied and pasted the text here: https://md5calc.com/hash/crc32b), but in reality they are not always so, as I think over the years 2K has changed the contents of some text without changing the codes that call them (I noted one instance in my reply to looyh).

oh, looyh's document... i didn't check that for sports illustrated... forgot about that document. Yeah, some of the lines don't match the crc32b hash... i've notice that now

anyways, thanks for answering the question. much clear now.

NBA ESPN Christmas Version for DENs ESPN Scoreboard. Have fun



download here -> https://www.mediafire.com/file/d3wr4lhunwgunkb/NBA_ESPN_Christmas.rar/file

Anyone else having issues with scoreboard not being centered on ultrawide resolution 3440x1440? Was hoping to get some info on how to fix this

Hey DEN are you planning to make the Bally Sports Scoreboard?

Cheers and happy new year

Anyone else having issues with scoreboard not being centered on ultrawide resolution 3440x1440? Was hoping to get some info on how to fix this
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It's not hard to fix. See the info on 'translate' in Mahmood's SCNE guide. That said, playing modded 2K on ultrawide resolution sounds like more trouble than it's worth, at least if presentation mods are important to you. It's hard enough getting them to look good at normal 16:9, and few modders will bother creating additional versions for the handful of ultrawide-resolution users out there.

any plans on making a TNT breakboard, or is there a breakboard mod for 23 made already?

Anyone else having issues with scoreboard not being centered on ultrawide resolution 3440x1440? Was hoping to get some info on how to fix this
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Scoreboards have always an issue with ultrawide res. since 2k13.
Simple fix : change your screen.
Otherwise it iimplies that the scoreboard creator has a wide screen too, and spent time to revamp the scoreboard ... for 1% users of those ultrawide screens

Anyone else having issues with scoreboard not being centered on ultrawide resolution 3440x1440? Was hoping to get some info on how to fix this
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folks have mentioned in the past that the espn panel mods are centered on ultrawide (i have a 1080p montior 16:9)
the only difference in construction is that i enter edit mode, carefully size mesh while keeping it centered around default location .... then enter object mode and move the mesh around screen
well, that my theory... usually scoreboard making is so tedious i just do it quickly.... but that my theory ...

anyways, scoreboard would have to be re-made or centered around default (possibly)... not sure about camera transform stuff...

if i remember correctly... if you are in object mode... and move the scoreboard mesh left 80 and down 20 ... then the animations files (score text, team text, etc) also move left 80 and down 20)... but my memory could be wrong

anyways, relevant guide if you feel like centering the scoreboard for your aspect ratio.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPZciqKsGpI

edit: for instance, on that tutorial video ---- timestamp 4:02 ---- 4:10 .... moving the scorebaord in space up/down/left right ..... all that is done in Object mode ... that keeps the mesh centered on the default 2k camera... or maybe could do transform stuffs... but don't know about that.... just a theory, never made a scoreboard centred around the default location

HI DEN2k, can you please make a V2 of the NBC Scoreboard like this:
1. long yellow strip for BONUS
2. TIME OUTS not abbreviated

TNT version v6.0 has been released.

Changelogs:
- Regular and Gold edition
- Official violation fly-out background

Apologies for those unanswered inquiries and request. Currently in hiatus mode. I'll make sure to release all of the updates I've missed

Welcome back, bro

Welcome back, any plan to make BallySports scoreboard next ?

Welcome back, any plan to make BallySports scoreboard next ?

Yes I curious this if this possible awesome! Thanks for your scoreboards!

Here's the Lakers too, for something with a non-blue BG color, in case it's helpful to see a different color scheme.

EDIT: And just to be clear, I haven't made a version of this scoreboard with this functionality (currently I'm in retro land so not really using or modding modern stuff right now), I'm just pointing out that it's totally doable. You just gotta follow the general principles I explained and apply them to all relevant text fields (I guess just the tricodes and scores, right?).

Do someone manage to do this and can send me the updated scoreboard with tricode colors ?

Yes. You just replace an existing string in TEXT.VCLOCALIZEDATA with the code for a colored tricode (following the syntax 2K uses, which you can deduce from looking at other variable strings; see the list of strings provided by looyh in my hex thread), then swap the hash for that string into your NewScorebug.VCUIELEMENT (i.e., in place of the existing tricode hash). Do this for both home and away and you're good.

You ever sit in class, teacher says something, and you KNOW that everybody don't understand, but nobody wants to raise their hand? haha, i never cared, always asked the question, and usually a collective sigh from the class... lol
welp, i don't understand... course, i am super sleepy and this might make more sense in the morning. anyways, a clearer example would be cool... you can do over PM to me or just post it here...

anyways, glad you figured it out

Sorry, I wasn't trying to be obtuse; for the sake of time I just wanted to do as little tutorializing as possible. Basically if you look at what looyh posted in my thread, it's a bunch of 4-byte reference codes for strings within TEXT.VCLOCALIZEDATA (within english.iff). See my old tutorial for 2K22 in that same thread for info on how to work with these codes. All I'm saying is to craft your own variable by following the syntax 2K uses in all its other variables (the all-caps, bracketed fields), which is easy to get a feel for thanks to looyh's list, which consolidates them all in one place. So, for instance, the variables in the default game that color a text with a team color (for instance the team names and records in the default titlecard) use the tag "{0:PT_SUBJECT:TEAM_HOME:TEXT_TERTIARY}" (or "TEAM_AWAY") which is closed off by "|RESTORE_COLOR|" (i.e., to turn off the team coloring once the enclosed text is finished). Elsewhere you can observe that tricodes are called by "{0:PT_SUBJECT:TEAM_HOME:NAME:SHORT}" (or TEAM_AWAY). So by putting these together you can achieve the desired effect: "{0:PT_SUBJECT:TEAM_HOME:TEXT_TERTIARY}{0:PT_SUBJECT:TEAM_HOME:NAME:SHORT}|RESTORE_COLOR|"

Then you just choose an existing string of that length (ideally one that is useless and doesn't have much text that could potentially interfere with other in-game text, so try to avoid stuff that has words like "offense," "defense," "shot," "point guard," etc.) and overwrite it with the above. So for instance the custom variable is the same length as "Sports IllustratedTM is a tradekmark of ABG-SI LLC. (C)ABG-SI LLC. sportsillustrated.com" at location BBFA03FD, so for the screenshot below I went in and overwrote that with "{0:PT_SUBJECT:TEAM_HOME:TEXT_TERTIARY}{0:PT_SUBJECT:TEAM_HOME:NAME:SHORT}|RESTORE_COLOR|". Then I rerouted the tricode in NewScorebug.VCUIELEMENT to the location of that new variable (i.e., what was originally Sports Illustrated text).

EDIT: Forgot to note that, while I haven't tried it, it wouldn't surprise me if changing TEXT_TERTIARY to TEXT_PRIMARY or TEXT_SECONDARY works as well. There are no default variables with that usage, but it's a logical extension that may work and would allow more freedom re: which color to assign. Ultimately not that important though since TEXT_TERTIARY ought to work just fine. Obviously for it to be effective one needs to make sure teams have coherent color combinations for the colors called by TEXT_TERTIARY and the background field, so it's not exactly plug and play for Play Now Online or anything, but for custom rosters where you can manage your team colors it should be fine.

Hey do you have the link for that thread where you explain how to mess with that coding? I tried opening up that file with a text viewer and it was all jibberish characters.

Yes. You just replace an existing string in TEXT.VCLOCALIZEDATA with the code for a colored tricode (following the syntax 2K uses, which you can deduce from looking at other variable strings; see the list of strings provided by looyh in my hex thread), then swap the hash for that string into your NewScorebug.VCUIELEMENT (i.e., in place of the existing tricode hash). Do this for both home and away and you're good.

You ever sit in class, teacher says something, and you KNOW that everybody don't understand, but nobody wants to raise their hand? haha, i never cared, always asked the question, and usually a collective sigh from the class... lol
welp, i don't understand... course, i am super sleepy and this might make more sense in the morning. anyways, a clearer example would be cool... you can do over PM to me or just post it here...

anyways, glad you figured it out

Sorry, I wasn't trying to be obtuse; for the sake of time I just wanted to do as little tutorializing as possible. Basically if you look at what looyh posted in my thread, it's a bunch of 4-byte reference codes for strings within TEXT.VCLOCALIZEDATA (within english.iff). See my old tutorial for 2K22 in that same thread for info on how to work with these codes. All I'm saying is to craft your own variable by following the syntax 2K uses in all its other variables (the all-caps, bracketed fields), which is easy to get a feel for thanks to looyh's list, which consolidates them all in one place. So, for instance, the variables in the default game that color a text with a team color (for instance the team names and records in the default titlecard) use the tag "{0:PT_SUBJECT:TEAM_HOME:TEXT_TERTIARY}" (or "TEAM_AWAY") which is closed off by "|RESTORE_COLOR|" (i.e., to turn off the team coloring once the enclosed text is finished). Elsewhere you can observe that tricodes are called by "{0:PT_SUBJECT:TEAM_HOME:NAME:SHORT}" (or TEAM_AWAY). So by putting these together you can achieve the desired effect: "{0:PT_SUBJECT:TEAM_HOME:TEXT_TERTIARY}{0:PT_SUBJECT:TEAM_HOME:NAME:SHORT}|RESTORE_COLOR|"

Then you just choose an existing string of that length (ideally one that is useless and doesn't have much text that could potentially interfere with other in-game text, so try to avoid stuff that has words like "offense," "defense," "shot," "point guard," etc.) and overwrite it with the above. So for instance the custom variable is the same length as "Sports IllustratedTM is a tradekmark of ABG-SI LLC. (C)ABG-SI LLC. sportsillustrated.com" at location BBFA03FD, so for the screenshot below I went in and overwrote that with "{0:PT_SUBJECT:TEAM_HOME:TEXT_TERTIARY}{0:PT_SUBJECT:TEAM_HOME:NAME:SHORT}|RESTORE_COLOR|". Then I rerouted the tricode in NewScorebug.VCUIELEMENT to the location of that new variable (i.e., what was originally Sports Illustrated text).

EDIT: Forgot to note that, while I haven't tried it, it wouldn't surprise me if changing TEXT_TERTIARY to TEXT_PRIMARY or TEXT_SECONDARY works as well. There are no default variables with that usage, but it's a logical extension that may work and would allow more freedom re: which color to assign. Ultimately not that important though since TEXT_TERTIARY ought to work just fine. Obviously for it to be effective one needs to make sure teams have coherent color combinations for the colors called by TEXT_TERTIARY and the background field, so it's not exactly plug and play for Play Now Online or anything, but for custom rosters where you can manage your team colors it should be fine.

Hey do you have the link for that thread where you explain how to mess with that coding? I tried opening up that file with a text viewer and it was all jibberish characters.

Edit: figured this out

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Yes. You just replace an existing string in TEXT.VCLOCALIZEDATA with the code for a colored tricode (following the syntax 2K uses, which you can deduce from looking at other variable strings; see the list of strings provided by looyh in my hex thread), then swap the hash for that string into your NewScorebug.VCUIELEMENT (i.e., in place of the existing tricode hash). Do this for both home and away and you're good.

You ever sit in class, teacher says something, and you KNOW that everybody don't understand, but nobody wants to raise their hand? haha, i never cared, always asked the question, and usually a collective sigh from the class... lol
welp, i don't understand... course, i am super sleepy and this might make more sense in the morning. anyways, a clearer example would be cool... you can do over PM to me or just post it here...

anyways, glad you figured it out

Sorry, I wasn't trying to be obtuse; for the sake of time I just wanted to do as little tutorializing as possible. Basically if you look at what looyh posted in my thread, it's a bunch of 4-byte reference codes for strings within TEXT.VCLOCALIZEDATA (within english.iff). See my old tutorial for 2K22 in that same thread for info on how to work with these codes. All I'm saying is to craft your own variable by following the syntax 2K uses in all its other variables (the all-caps, bracketed fields), which is easy to get a feel for thanks to looyh's list, which consolidates them all in one place. So, for instance, the variables in the default game that color a text with a team color (for instance the team names and records in the default titlecard) use the tag "{0:PT_SUBJECT:TEAM_HOME:TEXT_TERTIARY}" (or "TEAM_AWAY") which is closed off by "|RESTORE_COLOR|" (i.e., to turn off the team coloring once the enclosed text is finished). Elsewhere you can observe that tricodes are called by "{0:PT_SUBJECT:TEAM_HOME:NAME:SHORT}" (or TEAM_AWAY). So by putting these together you can achieve the desired effect: "{0:PT_SUBJECT:TEAM_HOME:TEXT_TERTIARY}{0:PT_SUBJECT:TEAM_HOME:NAME:SHORT}|RESTORE_COLOR|"

Then you just choose an existing string of that length (ideally one that is useless and doesn't have much text that could potentially interfere with other in-game text, so try to avoid stuff that has words like "offense," "defense," "shot," "point guard," etc.) and overwrite it with the above. So for instance the custom variable is the same length as "Sports IllustratedTM is a tradekmark of ABG-SI LLC. (C)ABG-SI LLC. sportsillustrated.com" at location BBFA03FD, so for the screenshot below I went in and overwrote that with "{0:PT_SUBJECT:TEAM_HOME:TEXT_TERTIARY}{0:PT_SUBJECT:TEAM_HOME:NAME:SHORT}|RESTORE_COLOR|". Then I rerouted the tricode in NewScorebug.VCUIELEMENT to the location of that new variable (i.e., what was originally Sports Illustrated text).

EDIT: Forgot to note that, while I haven't tried it, it wouldn't surprise me if changing TEXT_TERTIARY to TEXT_PRIMARY or TEXT_SECONDARY works as well. There are no default variables with that usage, but it's a logical extension that may work and would allow more freedom re: which color to assign. Ultimately not that important though since TEXT_TERTIARY ought to work just fine. Obviously for it to be effective one needs to make sure teams have coherent color combinations for the colors called by TEXT_TERTIARY and the background field, so it's not exactly plug and play for Play Now Online or anything, but for custom rosters where you can manage your team colors it should be fine.

How do you get the numbers edited as well? Is that a separate hash that must be changed?

And when you say location…do you mean address? Am I just copy and pasting the haste to replace the instances of tricode_home.txt?

Here's the Lakers too, for something with a non-blue BG color, in case it's helpful to see a different color scheme.

EDIT: And just to be clear, I haven't made a version of this scoreboard with this functionality (currently I'm in retro land so not really using or modding modern stuff right now), I'm just pointing out that it's totally doable. You just gotta follow the general principles I explained and apply them to all relevant text fields (I guess just the tricodes and scores, right?).

Do someone manage to do this and can send me the updated scoreboard with tricode colors ?

Mahmood is working on it, I think.

Here's the Lakers too, for something with a non-blue BG color, in case it's helpful to see a different color scheme.

EDIT: And just to be clear, I haven't made a version of this scoreboard with this functionality (currently I'm in retro land so not really using or modding modern stuff right now), I'm just pointing out that it's totally doable. You just gotta follow the general principles I explained and apply them to all relevant text fields (I guess just the tricodes and scores, right?).

Do someone manage to do this and can send me the updated scoreboard with tricode colors ?

Mahmood is working on it, I think.

Turns out there was a little more to it (see here -> viewtopic.php?f=279&t=114858#p2078488), but in any case I went ahead and did it myself. Download: https://www.mediafire.com/file/vxu8dtgy ... g.zip/file

vetmin_den2k_espn.jpg

It is DEN2K's v3 ESPN board with edits to only two files: NewScorebug.VCUIELEMENT (within newscorebug.iff) and TEXT.VCLOCALIZEDATA (a file within english.iff, not originally touched by DEN2K, so I've included a default english.iff with only that file modded; if you use a custom english.iff already, then drag the standalone TEXT.VCLOCALIZEDATA file into your custom english.iff). On the off chance that you use a custom english.iff that includes an already modded TEXT.VCLOCALIZEDATA (it is typically not touched by most modders), then my modded TEXT.VCLOCALIZEDATA will overwrite those previous edits. Also, to enable the color changing, I had to sacrifice some text from online modes; mostly stuff like "Talk to so-and-so on the Platinum Deck." Disable this mod when playing MyCareer, MyTeam, MyPark, or whatever.

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Some more color combos:

vetmin_den2k_espn2.png

Obviously, the colors are loaded from the assigned team colors, which you can edit via 2K Tools. If you don't like the color combo for a particular team (and indeed some of them are not good combos, like the Blazers), just swap the team's colors around in 2K Tools to a combo you like.

EDIT: Correction -- ...which you can FOR SOME TEAMS edit in 2K Tools. Works as expected for some, but for others you have to actually change the team colors the in-game way (i.e., Team Branding or whatever it's called). The act of doing it in-game apparently triggers something that tells the game that it changed. No idea why it's like this for some teams but not for others.

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Here's the Lakers too, for something with a non-blue BG color, in case it's helpful to see a different color scheme.

EDIT: And just to be clear, I haven't made a version of this scoreboard with this functionality (currently I'm in retro land so not really using or modding modern stuff right now), I'm just pointing out that it's totally doable. You just gotta follow the general principles I explained and apply them to all relevant text fields (I guess just the tricodes and scores, right?).

Do someone manage to do this and can send me the updated scoreboard with tricode colors ?

Mahmood is working on it, I think.

Turns out there was a little more to it (see here -> viewtopic.php?f=279&t=114858#p2078488), but in any case I went ahead and did it myself. Download: https://www.mediafire.com/file/vxu8dtgy ... g.zip/file

vetmin_den2k_espn.jpg

It is DEN2K's v3 ESPN board with edits to only two files: NewScorebug.VCUIELEMENT (within newscorebug.iff) and TEXT.VCLOCALIZEDATA (a file within english.iff, not originally touched by DEN2K, so I've included a default english.iff with only that file modded; if you use a custom english.iff already, then drag the standalone TEXT.VCLOCALIZEDATA file into your custom english.iff). On the off chance that you use a custom english.iff that includes an already modded TEXT.VCLOCALIZEDATA (it is typically not touched by most modders), then my modded TEXT.VCLOCALIZEDATA will overwrite those previous edits. Also, to enable the color changing, I had to sacrifice some text from online modes; mostly stuff like "Talk to so-and-so on the Platinum Deck." Disable this mod when playing MyCareer, MyTeam, MyPark, or whatever.

Sick! Thanks so much!

Some more color combos:

vetmin_den2k_espn2.png

Obviously, the colors are loaded from the assigned team colors, which you can edit via 2K Tools. If you don't like the color combo for a particular team (and indeed some of them are not good combos, like the Blazers), just swap the team's colors around in 2K Tools to a combo you like.

The PHX font color stays orange no matter what team colors are selected

Some more color combos:

vetmin_den2k_espn2.png

Obviously, the colors are loaded from the assigned team colors, which you can edit via 2K Tools. If you don't like the color combo for a particular team (and indeed some of them are not good combos, like the Blazers), just swap the team's colors around in 2K Tools to a combo you like.

The PHX font color stays orange no matter what team colors are selected

Now introducing... the Phoenix Hornets!

thephoenixhornets.png

The issue is that apparently the game doesn't fully register color changes for some teams unless you actually make them in-game.

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Wouldn’t mind if somebody did the color mod for the TNT too (and possibly nba tv). Being greedy here just love how the color look!