Hex Editing: Stadium "Shaders"

This was originally found by larrylicker aka terrybgood aka johndoe22, someone who is banned here.

Open the an uncompressed stadium of your choosing with your hex editor.

Run a Find command for the text string "c.a.m.e.r.a.s.". Remember to search for it using Unicode String or manually add the 00's between the letters yourself.


We want to jump to the last instance of "c.a.m.e.r.a.s" in the file.


Be sure to note where you are in the file. This location changes for each stadium.


We want to look "down" in the file 5A3 bytes. If you don't want to be so precise, you can simply scroll down until you see the majority of 0000's turn into a majority of gibberish.


These are the 8 bytes we are after. This bytes change the shading on the players while they are playing in that stadium. The 0000 003F also plays a roll in this, but I think it only controls the "shading" during the Sprite Slam Dunk replays (untested). The value is controlled by the "Float (32)" value. Default is "1" or "0000 803F".


Use the Hex Workshop Base Converter or some other means to convert decimal values into floats.



The first image is with this float value at "0.9". Second at the default "1.0". And Third at "1.1". These images are from NBA 2K11.

Do I only need to change the last instance or all of them?

BTW, can you make a global shadow mod tutorial?

WOW! Thank you so much! This is literally my favorite mod, but I hated not being able to use the custom stadiums made by Mythbuster. Thanks a lot Jao!

WOW! Thank you so much! This is literally my favorite mod, but I hated not being able to use the custom stadiums made by Mythbuster. Thanks a lot Jao!

what you should do is open up one of michaelutz's stadiums, get the value he uses and simply paste that into the mythbuster stadiums.

Do I only need to change the last instance or all of them?

BTW, can you make a global shadow mod tutorial?

It's only that one instance for this kind of mod. If I knew how to do the shadow mods in the global, I'd share that too, but I dont.

WOW! Thank you so much! This is literally my favorite mod, but I hated not being able to use the custom stadiums made by Mythbuster. Thanks a lot Jao!

what you should do is open up one of michaelutz's stadiums, get the value he uses and simply paste that into the mythbuster stadiums.

Thank you, I'll do that.

for every ones information, michaelutz change the 80 00 3F to 83 00 3F. Higher you increase the "80" the darker it gets. 88+ = verry verryy dark. personally i use 84.

Last edited by dbzx on Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.

thanks for the tip dbzx!

Do you have any recommendation for a good free hex editor? I see you use Hex workshop but I don't want to pay 80 bucks for something, I won't really use too much.

HxD looks pretty good
http://download.cnet.com/HxD-Hex-Editor ... 91068.html

played around with it for a few minutes. Find/Replace functionality, compare files etc.

I can vouch for HxD, it's served me well.

Awesome thanks! Downloading now

I've tried this and it works!
but I still wanna know something, can I also edit shaders for jerseys by doing this method?
I'm curious about it

unfortunately no, i dont know how the jerseys and global were modded last year.

oh ok I see..
thanks Jao!

hey jao, do you know if this method works on the classic courts too?

if its a stadium file, it works

hmm, doesnt seem to work with the bulls 97-98 stadium, i havent checked other classic courts though.



EDIT: on second thought , nvm it works, but instead of going down 5A3 bytes, i think you go down to about 4C1 bytes or something, I dont remember the exact values.

its there for all the stadiums its just a matter of finding them

in the future, dont PM me at the same time as replying. I'm not onliny 100% of the time but trust me, I'll come back and check the threads.