About NHL09 Gamedata Files

MaxFrance69 · 01-28-2010, 05:15 PM

Hi everyone,

I am a noob in Mods and Add-ons, so please excuse any silly questions below

OK, I'd like to create a Vancouver 2010 Winter Games ice texture + board ads.
I know about BigGui and FSHX editing programs.
But what I'd like to know is:

- What does AAIS and ACID stand for? You can see these acronyms when opening NHLView, then select a team and click on the Arena tab. AAIS and ACID appear in the Unknow Values section.

- Does any list of all the numbers/IDs exist with their correspondances? I would like to know, for instance, what Crowd Chant is #27, what Puck #98 look like, what Ice Ad 1 #3 look like ?etc.

http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/1499/gamedata.th.jpg

Thanks a lot for your help!
Max

DSgamby · 01-28-2010, 06:14 PM

Do you have the updated NHL View because the latest NHL View doesn't have AAID and ACID

AAID is Arena Art ID
ACID is Arena Commentary ID

You can use the Resource Preview to look or use BigGui and extract the files and use the FshX to look at them. Otherwise I have no clue. See the last link in my sig.

I also can't see the pic. You need to make it a bigger size

MaxFrance69 · 01-28-2010, 07:07 PM

Oh, thanks a lot DSgamby!

Here is the big picture :
This is what I can see in my NHLView

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/1499/gamedata.jpg

DSgamby · 01-28-2010, 07:36 PM

that looks like an old version of NHL View unless you have Windows 98. Get a newer version that is linked in the Basic NHL View Tutorial link in my sig

MaxFrance69 · 01-28-2010, 08:01 PM

Yep, I just DL-ed the latest one, thanks!

I can see AAID and ACID were replaced with "Art" and "Play-by-Play" - which make it a bit clearer now ^^

BTW One last thing about this: I changed AAID 36 and ACID 36 to AAID 34 & ACID 34, and checked if this double edit was effective in the game. So I made those 2 changes in NHLView, saved them, then I opened NHL09 and played a game with Canada, but the changes were not effective in the game - Arena Art and Arena Commentary by default were still used.

Any idea why

Thanks a lot.

DSgamby · 01-28-2010, 08:07 PM

did you load both the db.viv and exhibiton.exh files

also do you have the Addon tools in the main game folder, link in either How To Get Addons To Work With Vista or
How To Install Rosters links in my sig

MaxFrance69 · 01-28-2010, 08:25 PM

Hmm, my Addon Tools are NOT in my main game folder.
Thanks for letting me know, I'll work on it tomorrow.

Max