detailed arena lighting?

Hi i was wondering if there was away to edit the brightness and darkness of some the arenas. Some are way to dark on some are dark inthe wrong areas. I look threw the thread and could find anything. I am gusseing it has to do with some hex editiing but part do i edit? Any help would be great i am trying to wrap my TD Banknorth Garden Patch i think you guys are going to love mainly the new jumbtron.

Are you referring to the arena (stadium area) or on the court and bench areas?
If you are talking about the court and bench areas..you can always adjust the brightness according to your preference by editing the lightmap of the respective court..just open up any team's court lightmap by Fshx..then export the lightmap as DDS format..then open up Photoshop to edit the brightness..save it and then reimport them..that'll do..but in order to allow you to work on DDS images..you'll need to download some plug-ins for your Photoshop..

If you are talking about the arenas and stadium..I don't know the way to do it yet..i'll share this thread along to learn something new too..

Yea i am talking about the arenas and stadium. there are some just to dark. Yes they are some bright arena with most of the light directed to the court like lakers and knicks. But not the pacers, celtics , magic, t wolves , warriors and few more that are very bright , and to show the diffrence of staple when the clippers pay it all light up...kinda wana get they look that 2k8 has on the 360, almost the best light i have seen. And make some arenas more darker in the crowd like msg and att center to name a few But thanks for trying to help...

Ok, I see..in that case we gotta wait for some Court patching gurus to enlighten us about making the arenas and stadium brighter in certain areas..no problem there..

cool thanks....

you can shade ebo parts in ebodit

select what you want to shade and in the bottom right corner there is a color option, make it a light grey and it should lighten up nicely


EDIT: Proof of concept pics
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once again you smarts of this game amaze me, thanks man i going to give it a shot.

I also i was thinking of spear heading to get an ebo files to work with zmodeler 1 and 2. I have done some great work with stadiums with that on mvp 05-08 and hoping we can do that with live some day.

@ JaoSming -Thanks for the tips..and a nice sample to show us..I'll experiment on some too soon..

Well guys, create some good stadiums and make my explanation worth it

daddie9, shoot me a PM about the Zmod support, we've talked about it before but since there is no 09 we should really look into it a little deeper imo.

"you can always adjust the brightness according to your preference by editing the lightmap of the respective court."

CAN YOU PROVIDE MORE PERCISE DIRECTION ON HOW TO DO THIS? WHERE ARE LIGHTMAP LOCATED?

JaoSming,

I downloaded ebodit but it's not working. Is it because I'm using Win Vista? Can you post the file, especially some very arena like the lakers?