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Postby bongo88 on Mon Sep 17, 2018 6:55 pm

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I noticed michaelvlutz49 made a stadium lighting mod and it reminded me of a tutorial i never got around to making. Anyways, not sure how he added the haze effect (hope he creates a tutorial about the haze effect).
I took a look at his posteffect.FxTweakables edits and couldn't find any new discoveries (that i could see compared to my notes), so i decided to throw this together this tutorial to discuss stadium lighting.
I still do not own 2k19. I grabbed the original 2k19 posteffect.FxTweakables from a stadium mod here, tossed it into my 2k18 game into the jazz stadium (s012) and threw together this short tutorial.

For full disclosure, In the pictures below, i believe i have crowd data from 2k17. Jazz stadium/floor texture made by amarowade, and dunno what global i got running.

PostEffect.FxTweakables Hex Offsets
WhiteBalance/Luminosity: Hex offset = 00000180 [2k19 original 4600]
brightness: hex offset = 0000015c [2k19 original 0.90]
Contrast/saturation: hex offset= 000001a4 [2k19 original 0.15]
Bloom: hex offset = 00000114 Controls bloom of ceiling lights.... maybe player light reflection(not sure about that)... ceiling lights for sure.

Image album link: https://imgur.com/a/JqWRDRJ

PNG hex comparison:
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side note: there's lots of color rgb that can be changed in arena.scn with notepad. image link. haven't fiddled much with them. they make drastic color changes to stadium lighting. i usually just left them default rgb.

Ok. so we are going to change stadium lighting from a warm tone to a more fluorescent tone. example pictures below.

2k19 default PostEffect.FxTweakables Edit: game is 2k18.... lighting is from 2k19 (PostEffect.FxTweakables)
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2k19 edited PostEffect.FxTweakables Edit: game is 2k18.... lighting is from 2k19 (PostEffect.FxTweakables)
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example 2 2k19 default PostEffect.FxTweakables Edit: game is 2k18.... lighting is from 2k19 (PostEffect.FxTweakables)
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example 2 2k19 edited PostEffect.FxTweakables Edit: game is 2k18.... lighting is from 2k19 (PostEffect.FxTweakables)
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Tutorial process
Now, this image is default 2k19 PostEffect.FxTweakables . Just for base reference. Edit: game is 2k18.... lighting is from 2k19 (PostEffect.FxTweakables)
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First, i edit the White Balance/Luminosity
the white balance/luminosity has a range about the same as this picture: https://static.bhphotovideo.com/explora ... cale-2.jpg
2k19 default is 4600 (warm yellow color) I changed it to 3500 (more blue/white fluorescent color)
I did not change the floor color. changing the luminoscity changes the lighting of the floor. Floor texture not touched.
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Second, i increased the brightness just a tad.
2k19 original brightness is 0.90. I increased it to 1.4
Floor texture not changed.
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Third, I increased the contrast of the stadium. 2k19 original has a value of 0.15. I increased it to 0.23
Again, floor texture not changed.
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Finally, I made a quick floor texture edit. The Floor texture was made by amarrowad and is untouched through this whole process. I just grabbed his texture and went into photoshop and messed with brightness/contrast sliders.
Floor coloring is not perfect. Just showing in the tutorial that, if changing stadium lighting, a floor texture needs to be built for that specific lighting.
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Does it look like the real jazz stadium floor?
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Not really :) :cheeky: :cheeky: :) Just threw this together for the tutorial. I would probably make the luminoscity more warm than fluorescent.

Anyways, this is more for the floor/stadium builders, if they want to fiddle with the stadium luminoscity.
With a unique PostEffect.FxTweakable each stadium could have a unique lighting.
Hopefully michaelvlutz49 will share some of his finding here (or correct me on any wrong points.) Anyways, this might be useful to change luminoscity/ brightness of stadiums. i know the celtics, in particular, has a more flourescent feel to it.
Have a good day.

EDIT

Just showing you the White Balance/Luminosity range of colors. As mentioned before, they correspond to this chart: https://static.bhphotovideo.com/explora ... cale-2.jpg
The last picture above.... i kept the same values for brightness/contrast. Also using the messed up floor texture that was used in the last picture above.
Only changed the White Balance/Luminosity in hex to show the range of colors.

album link: https://imgur.com/a/85JVvVI

not gonna embed all the photos. Just take a gander at the different hex values. They are listed in the bottom right corner of each image.

here's a video (no sound) about working with the Float in Data inspector window

https://streamable.com/v63aw
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tVQMw ... cbj-6g8Gbq

by using the Float Value, you can think of stuff in whole numbers. so if contrast is 1.09 ... then increase it to 1.20 .... or decrease it to 0.8
or if white balance/luminosity is 4800.0000 .... then change to 4200.0000 or 3600.000 or 5800.000.... or whatever number.

with small numbers (1.0 or 0.8 or 0.5 etc ) usually a small change is all that's required. so changing contrast from 1.09 to 1.18 will change bunch of stuff. changing 1.09 to 18.4 will make a very very large change. that usually the rule with small numbers.

oh, forgot about data inspector video
https://streamable.com/q08vi
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1t_L9- ... 1I8oS2Urvg

the yellow fog stuffs all appear to be same whole number. so maybe change all yellow fogs to same whole number. haven't had time to fiddle with those yellow fog stuffs.

same hex technique for moving around scoreboard hex stuffs
EDIT2:

Attached below is more information. Contains a different guide png as well as specific PostEffect.FxTweakables to be used with that guide. Hopefully michaelvlutz49 will stop by with more information.

edit: https://medium.com/@Dropality/matching- ... e80cc79474
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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby mrk326 on Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:00 pm

thanks for the tutorial! hopefully court modders would take a deeper look into this.
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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby edudu_10 on Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:15 pm

:idea: :idea: :idea: wooow! Niice! :applaud:
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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby sticky-fingers on Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:21 pm

Great thread, thanx bongo for the share (Y)

with my custom reshade, I came to the same conclusion : (most of the) floors are too bright and have to be adjusted.

You should check Miami court / effects : this arena has the best lighting this year IMO

(warm yellow color)

"Too yellish" explanation !
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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby DEIRRA on Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:47 pm

Is there any way to obscure only the courts?
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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby DEIRRA on Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:58 pm

in my opinion I think that the fog is perfect, only to remove the pink tone, a question can be placed the fog with default lighting of the stadium?
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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby DEIRRA on Mon Sep 17, 2018 10:01 pm

can you do a tutorial on how to add the fog to the states?
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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby Manni Live on Tue Sep 18, 2018 3:25 am

This is exactly what i needed, Thanks for the tutorial Bongo
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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby bongo88 on Tue Sep 18, 2018 3:32 am

Manni Live wrote:This is exactly what i needed, Thanks for the tutorial Bongo


No problem. It's been tucked in a folder for a while. Was gonna make a tutorial earlier, but things got busy. jogged to memory by michaelvlutz49 posts. had to run a comparisons on his PostEffect.Fx files to find the important hex locations :) i forgot them :)
michaelvlutz49 made even more edits to the PostEffect.Fx file .... that i dont understand. Bloody Brilliant modder.
Hopefuly michaelvlutz49 stops by with more information.

Also, i updated the Original Post with a new album about white balance/luminosity. Check it out.

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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby Manni Live on Tue Sep 18, 2018 4:54 am

bongo88 wrote:
Manni Live wrote:This is exactly what i needed, Thanks for the tutorial Bongo


No problem. It's been tucked in a folder for a while. Was gonna make a tutorial earlier, but things got busy. jogged to memory by michaelvlutz49 posts. had to run a comparisons on his PostEffect.Fx files to find the important hex locations :) i forgot them :)
michaelvlutz49 made even more edits to the PostEffect.Fx file .... that i dont understand. Bloody Brilliant modder.
Hopefuly michaelvlutz49 stops by with more information.

Also, i updated the Original Post with a new album about white balance/luminosity. Check it out.

Have a good day




Glad you made this, being trying myself i will definitely give it a try once i get home from work.
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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby Boff2k on Tue Sep 18, 2018 5:29 am

I just want a more reflective courts
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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby Santicruyff on Tue Sep 18, 2018 5:40 am

This is incredible, thank you very much.
This will be a lot of help, great work :bowdown: :bowdown: :applaud: :applaud:
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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby Manni Live on Tue Sep 18, 2018 3:33 pm

I was able to change the brughtness of it, just wondering if it was possible to get the dark lighting out completely
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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby jankarlo26 on Tue Sep 18, 2018 5:12 pm

Could you do a stadium mods with better court refleccion?
Although it is exaggerated, many of us like that type of court.


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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby sticky-fingers on Wed Sep 19, 2018 7:43 pm

For PS4/XB1 owners : any chance you try to grab the files from NBA2K14 and extract PostEffect.FxTweakable files :idea:
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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby DEIRRA on Thu Sep 20, 2018 2:33 am

For PS4/XB1 owners : any chance you try to grab the files from NBA2K14 and extract PostEffect.FxTweakable files :bowdown: :bowdown2: will it be that someone could do it?
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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby Dee4Three on Thu Sep 20, 2018 3:02 am

In your first post, you state that the image below is of default 2K19. Where did the scoreboard come from? I didn't know anybody created one yet.

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Postby MaxMBox on Thu Sep 20, 2018 12:51 pm

+1 for Dee4Ttree. where did you get this scoreboard? :cheeky:
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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby bongo88 on Thu Sep 20, 2018 2:07 pm

bongo88 wrote:I grabbed the original 2k19 posteffect.FxTweakables from a stadium mod here, tossed it into my 2k18 game into the jazz stadium (s012) and threw together this short tutorial.
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2k19 default PostEffect.FxTweakables.


sorry, seemed clear to me. Will edit the first post. I grabbed the 2k19 posteffect.FxTweakables and put it into my 2k18 Jazz Stadium (s012). Screenshot is of 2k18 showing lighting tweaks.
2k19 default PostEffect.FxTweakables

Hope that's more clear.... it's 2k18 with the 2k19 default PostEffect.FxTweakables. 2k18 and 2k19 posteffect.FxTweakables are slightly different. Stadium makers might want to use it as a resource.
Scoreboards don't direct convert. Dirtydraw checked on that. Scoreboards gonna have to be built from scratch.

Anyways, just made the tutorial real quick before i forgot about it. Incase the stadium makers want to tweak lighting.
I did make some red-devil fog the other day. haha.
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Anyways, attached to the bottom of this post is more information about stadium lighting. PostEffect.FxTweakables. contains a new guide and specific PostEffect.FxTweakables to be used with that guide. michaelvlutz49 dug them up from somewhere.... maybe he'll stop by.
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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby sticky-fingers on Sat Sep 22, 2018 3:08 am

thanx bongo, i try to tweak the postfx file, but i'm lost :mrgreen:

FYI it seems that Michael didnt use original 2K19 file, his files are shorter.

He also released years ago a similar job on 2K17 but not identical ; btw some words can be found in the files :

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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby bongo88 on Sat Sep 22, 2018 3:56 am

here's a video (no sound) about working with the Float in Data inspector window

https://streamable.com/v63aw

by using the Float Value, you can think of stuff in whole numbers. so if contrast is 1.09 ... then increase it to 1.20 .... or decrease it to 0.8
or if white balance/luminosity is 4800.0000 .... then change to 4200.0000 or 3600.000 or 5800.000.... or whatever number.

with small numbers (1.0 or 0.8 or 0.5 etc ) usually a small change is all that's required. so changing contrast from 1.09 to 1.18 will change bunch of stuff. changing 1.09 to 18.4 will make a very very large change. that usually the rule with small numbers.

oh, forgot about data inspector video
https://streamable.com/q08vi

the yellow fog stuffs all appear to be same whole number. so maybe change all yellow fogs to same whole number. haven't had time to fiddle with those yellow fog stuffs.

edit: same hex technique for moving around scoreboard hex stuffs
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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby sticky-fingers on Sat Sep 22, 2018 5:10 am

Thanks for the videos (Y) i'm gonna try, again :)

BTW 2K and Michael use the same PostEffect.FxTweakables for all arenas, but render differs
As you mentioned it, arena.scn has a huge impact and unfortunately each court has his own file his own structure.
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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby DEIBYS2KMOD on Thu Jul 18, 2019 10:34 pm

Would you mind telling me what their offsets are in 2K19 default PostEffect.FxTweakables?
Offset:

(1) Bloom - ceiling lights =
(2) Brightness =
(3) White Balanace / Luminosity =
(4) Contrast / Saturation =
(5) How to add fog ?? fog amount offset =
(6) fog Luminosity (White Balance) =

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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby Marvin00 on Sat Jul 20, 2019 6:18 pm

Bro i need your help, so i download Michaelvlutz 2k15 lightening mod, and i love muscle definition, extra shine and colors, makes game much more realistic, but i have one problem, the "hue" or color correction has a pink tone, is there way to normalize the color?, i tried to do it with photoshop, and screenshot, and i succeed by reducing hue to -3 :|

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Re: Stadium Lighting PostEffect.FxTweakables Tutorial/Discussion

Postby johnwest1985 on Fri Dec 18, 2020 6:44 am

use reshade
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