Courts and Jerseys Tutorial

[BuckCity]

Can someone help with a full step by step tutorial on how to make custom jerseys and courts? Also, what applications would I need? I hope I dont need photoshop cause i dont have the money to buy it right now. My goal is to make the 1996 season as if the courts and uniforms never changed and todays players are wearing playing on the same court 90s players were playing in. Also, is it possible to edit the warmups? I would like the create the warmups for the teams in the 90s also.

[ksmiz]

You do not need photoshop exactly but it can be easier for some things.

*edit: For courts there may only be a Lagao template in the form of a .psd file. You would obviously need photoshop for that specific court template.
I have considered making a more accurate court template with the UV maps if I can find an alternative for the psd file so that layers can be included I will try to help with that (maybe pdn file)

Paint.NET is an alternative that I use when I don't want to wait for photoshop to load so I can make a minor edit.
https://www.getpaint.net/download.html#download

Paint.NET dds plugin : https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/11173 ... 018-06-03/

There are plugins that allow for the new image compression formats but honestly the newest ones aren't necessary yet unless you are running max everything with a great computer probably.

GIMP https://www.gimp.org/

This got me started in 2K17 when I didn't have photoshop yet. I liked it much better than photoshop for a while until this year when I started using photoshop instead because of the new format.
For just starting out though GIMP is great. A lot of the games images are .dds so I think you need to have a plugin but once you get that figured out you can start shopping a lot of textures and changing a lot and make mods!

Also 7zip is a MUST for these .iff files. You will want to look into gregkwaste's NBA2K_Explorer if you haven't already

.iff files are essentially zip files. you can use 7zip to open the archives directly so you can drag n drop dds images or you can create a folder, zip it with 7zip then simply rename the extention from .zip to .iff