Superhero Beatdown for Wrestling Mpire 08

[The Chupster]

So I'm back at work on the Superhero Beatdown mod for Wrestling Mpire 08/TWC 4. For those that missed it the first time around (about 3 years ago, I think), it's basically a total conversion mod for the game, converting it into a superhero wrestling game- something I've wanted to make since I was in 6th grade.


Originally I was aiming for having 200 wrestlers in the game, and I was only doing wrestler skins. Now I'm aiming for a total conversion. The final game will contain:

*At least 180 wrestlers, some featuring multiple outfits (I think I have like 6 Iron Mans in the game, and 4 Beasts, Angel/Archangels and Supermen)

*7 different feds; 3 Marvel (New York/Avengers, Westchester/X-Men & Spider-Man, and Galactic), 2 DC (Metropolis/JLA and Gotham/Batman), Image/Wildstorm, and an OCW/Miscellaneous "Wrestling School" fed, as well as "Lost Between Dimensions" (where Free Agents go) and the Realm of the Dead

*Stats converted from RPG game stats & other statistical sources

*Different movesets for each character (at least, I hope- lotta work)

*As many appropriate theme songs as I can find, as well as other tunes that sound superheroish

*Texture replacements for the arenas and backstage, etc.

*Custom coding that allows for giant and tiny characters (think Galactus, Giant Man, Goliath, the Atom, etc.)

*Some custom weapons. Green Goblin's pumpkin bombs are the SHIT.

*Rewritten promos, so they don't sound quite so lame while you're playing through single player.

...and probably more stuff that I'm forgetting.




Back in the day- this started on the original Wrestling MPire- I completed about 200 sets of superhero skins, 7 of which were never released (Kalibak, Magma, Warlock, Firestar, Cyber, The Eel, and Professor X), converting them from custom skins made for the Freedom Force RPG. I've recently found more skins and will likely be revisiting and/or replacing some of the old skins as appropriate/needed, but at the moment, here's where I'm at in terms of progress:

*All characters that were done previously have been adjusted and created in the game. (This doesn't include stats or movesets.) Some still have some graphic defects, but will be addressed in the near future.

*All characters created in the game have been sorted into the various feds.

*All backstage and ringside banners have been created and replaced.

*Some of the advertisement and fed-specific video screens have been replaced.

*Stats are in the process of being gathered and are about 65% complete.

*New skins are in the process of being created for new characters. Cyborg from the Teen Titans is complete and Apollo from The Authority is underway via my new automated Photoshop process.

*Themes are being gathered. If you have a suggestion for a superhero's theme, please drop me a line here (and/or a link to an mp3 if you think I might not have the tune) and I'll get back to you.

*Coding is being worked on.




The Superhero Beatdown mod will be released first for Wrestling Mpire 2008 Career Edition. It will be released as a complete archive that will only have to be unzipped and played- no replacing files. It will soon after be ported to Management Edition.




That's it for now- I'll probably upload some pics and whatnot as I go, so everyone knows where it is. I'm hoping to complete it in the next couple of months, as I have very specific ideas of what I want to do with it.




Questions, suggestions, ideas about Superhero Beatdown? Toss it here and we'll jaw about it.




And here's a list of who's in the game so far (168 total):
Adam Warlock
Angel
Apocalypse
Aquaman
Archangel
Ash Williams (Evil Dead)
Atom
Atom Smasher
Aurora
Badrock
Bane
Barbaric
Baron Zemo
Batman Beyond
Batman
Beast
Bizarro
Black Adam
Black Canary
Black Panther
Blizzard
Blob
Bloodaxe
Blue Beetle
Booster Gold
Brainiac
Bullseye
Cable
Captain America
Captain America (New; Bucky Barnes)
Captain Atom
Captain Britain
Captain Marvel (DC; Shazam)
Captain Marvel (Marvel)
Captain Universe
Cardiac
Carnage
Catwoman
Chapel
Clayface
Colossus
The Comedian
Creeper
Crimson Dynamo
Crossbones
Cyber
Cyborg (Teen Titans)
Cyborg Superman
Cyclops
Dane
Daredevil
Darkseid
Deadpool
Deadshot
Deathstroke
Doomsday
Dr. Doom
Dr. Fate
Dr. Manhattan
Eel
Ermac
Firelord
Firestar
Firestorm
Flag Smasher
Flash II (Barry Allen)
Flash III (Wally West)
Galactus
Gambit
Ghost Rider
Giant Man
Goliath
Green Arrow
Green Goblin
Grifter
Guardian
Harley Quinn
Hawkeye
Hobgoblin
Hulk (green)
Hulk (red)
Human Torch
Iron Fist
Iron Man
Jack of Hearts
Jester
Joker
Juggernaut
Justice
Kalibak
Kang
Kill Cat
Killer Croc
Liberty
Luke Cage
Magma
Man-Thing
Martian Manhunter
Master Chief
Mongul
Moon Knight
Morbius
Morg
Mr. Freeze
Mr. Majestic
Mr. Miracle
Mr. Sinister
Ms. Marvel
Namor
Nightwing
Noob Saibot
Northstar
Nova
Pitt
Poison Ivy
Predator
Professor X
Quasar
Ragman
Red Skull
Reptile
Riddler
Ripclaw
Robin
RoboCop
Sabretooth
Sasquatch
Savage Dragon
Scarecrow (DC)
Scarecrow (Marvel)
Scarlet Spider
Scorpion
Shaft
She-Hulk
Shocker
Silver Surfer
Spawn
Spider-Man
Spider-Man (Cosmic)
Star Brand
Steel
Stingray
Sub Zero
Sunfire
Superboy
Superman
SuperPatriot
Swamp Thing
Terminator
Terrax
Thanos
The Crow
The Eradicator
The Punisher
The Thing
Thor
TMNT Donatello
TMNT Leonardo
TMNT Michelangelo
TMNT Raphael
US Agent
Venom
Vision
Warblade
Warlock
Witchblade
Wolverine
Wonder Man

[WHIP]

R U freakin serious!?!? Chups this is beyond incredible...its amazing...its bad assed to the Nth degree. I can't wait to try it out. Can't wait to see PITT in action.

[The Chupster]

Yeah, I had a couple of posts about 3 years back and a set of forums that failed to attract more than a couple posts (LOL):

ocwfed.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=gaming&thread=2038&page=1
ocwfed.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=gaming&thread=2045&page=1

So this definitely isn't totally new stuff, and a lot of it looks a little rougher on the TWC4 models, but they work. Dunno how many characters I'll end up adding at this point, but there'll be a good few new guys.

Tonight I've wrapped up:
Cyborg (Teen Titans)
Apollo (The Authority)
Diehard (Youngblood)
and Midnighter (The Authority)

Still have several new skins of characters I'm going to add, dunno how many there'll be in all, but when it's over it could be closer to 200. Really not sure yet. Pitt looks pretty good though, in my opinion.

And I dunno if anyone'll care or not, but the new skin for the Hornswaggle doll will be Puck of Alpha Flight. He's the only midget superhero I could think of worth a damn and that I have a skin of.

[WHIP]

I have a few suggestions.
Since you have Thor, what about Beta Ray Bill, Loki, the Destroyer.
To go with Iron Man how about War Machine & Titanium Man.

What about some of the Wetworks guys from Image comics.
Or Clownface & Panda from Bodybags on Dark Horse comics.
Also Lady Death, Evil Ernie & Purgatory would be sweet!

[The Chupster]

Jun 10, 2010 12:39:44 GMT -5 WHIP said:

I have a few suggestions.
Since you have Thor, what about Beta Ray Bill, Loki, the Destroyer.
To go with Iron Man how about War Machine & Titanium Man.

What about some of the Wetworks guys from Image comics.
Or Clownface & Panda from Bodybags on Dark Horse comics.
Also Lady Death, Evil Ernie & Purgatory would be sweet!

Beta Ray Bill would look silly without a properly shaped head- I'm just making skins, I can't do shit with 3D Studio Max.

I'd do Loki and the Destroyer, but it really depends on being able to get skins for them to begin with. If I can find 'em, I'll do 'em.

Dane and Jester from Wetworks are already in, I would do more but how many golden-skinned guys can we really need? It's the main reason I never really got into Wetworks. (And aside from that, no one has ever done any really good Wetworks skins anyway, which is true of most of the Image skins I find.)

Never seen any skins of any of the others. Couldn't get into the comics and finding skins of those folks is just about impossible- the skins that are out there are of the majorly popular characters or characters so obscure that recognizing any of them has about the same odds as hitting the lottery.

Apparently skins are still being made for Freedom Force. Back in the day, there were a ton of them everywhere, which is where I got the ones I originally used. Then, Marvel sent out a shitload of cease & desists, and you couldn't find shit. But about a year or so ago, they started back up, and now new skins and meshes for Freedom Force are pretty easy to find, making it pretty simple to make new characters for this project, but I'm trying not to add every little character in the universe just because I'll never get finished if I keep going.

I still have a few more characters I want in, especially villains- I have a severe lack of villains going on. Unfortunately, finding villains that are worth a damn is sort of problematic too. I have about another handful or so from the skins that I currently have, but at the moment I'm going to try to get the environment changes wrapped up so I don't have to worry about those anymore- they're the main pain in the ass that I'm having at the moment. I actually enjoy converting and fitting the skins for characters, but I hate doing the other junk, so I'll probably work mostly on that for the next few days or so. But I'll keep an eye out for Loki & the Destroyer, War Machine & Titanium Man.

[The Chupster]

Quick lil preview of the unreleased skins.

The top seven were done during the end of the initial work on the mod 3 years ago. Red Hulk was done a couple of months ago, and the rest were done in the last week.

[The Chupster]

Okay, here's an update.

Been working on the environment graphics lately, or trying to, experimenting with different textures and whatnot, as well as combing the internet for new, usable textures.

First off, a bit of an oldie, forgot I had this pic- here's a ring littered with Green Goblin/Hobgoblin's pumpkin bombs:




Here's Sasquatch from Alpha Flight, holding the new Puck weapon. There's a good chance that I'll also be doing a playable Puck, so that could end up funny. The pic:




And finally, the real bitch- the backstage area. Well, the one for the smaller arenas. I was going for an "Aliens" sort of feel, and I think it turned out pretty well. Doing the textures for this was a fucking BITCH.

It's not finished, naturally- I just did the main room texture and the lightbulb textures. I will be reskinning a lot of the objects here as well- the chalkboards will be replaced by computer panels of some sort, the large monitor will get a makeover, and the little 'lockers' around the area are going to get a metallic re-skinning. But here's what we've got.

A general look at the room:



Here's a couple of shots of the portal to "Battleworld," a.k.a. the arena:



Venom standing in front of one of the newly-textured hallways:


And finally, Deadpool, taking a pic with some of the posters in the room:



I also still have the backstage areas for the large arenas to do; I'll likely use some of the same textures as here, I just have to fit them all to the other room texture. Igh. Lotta work.

Till next time!

[The Chupster]

Didn't do a ton today, but I did just about wrap up the backstage area- I still need to figure out exactly what I'm gonna do with the vending machines and re-skin the TV, but I did retexture the lockers a rusted metal green, and I got the two chalkboards turned into rust-framed panels.

You can sort of see the lockers in this pic- I forgot to get a close-up:


And here are the computer panels:


Here you can sort of see the bottom, where I skinned on a couple of keyboard things, and turned the chalk & eraser into buttony/lighty gadgets:


And here's the other panel- the bottom part is the same except for the blue light chalk thing.


I know, nothing major, but every little bit is that much more done. Heh.

[WHIP]

Chupa this is totally amazing. If it were possible I'd give the OCW Lifetime Achievement of Bad-Ass-Ness of all time!

[The Chupster]

Been updatin' this a lil more over at mpiremall.net, keep meaning to copy over the updates, so here it go. So yeah, if the text sounds weird, that's cuz it's like 2-4 posts' worth or something.

Okay, so today, I got a new Deadpool skin done, and I started on the other backstage area. Some previews...

Looks confused, doesn't he?


Getting launched by his twin:


After getting a fire extinguisher in the grill:


Backstage shots:




Yep, that's a She-Hulk magazine on the table!



Menu Pics:













Tonight I wrapped up the second backstage area (the backstage lounge, I think it's called), as well as reskinning the 2 garbage cans and the television. So here's some pics.

Pic with the portal:


Airlock, + part of the TV:


Slightly better pic of the corner with the tv:


Close-up of the TV- it has a somewhat brownish tint to match the rest of the room, though I have to work on the wraparound on the sides:


Pic of the exit- in the other one, there's a neat lil pic of the city:


Corner with the reskinned cups (which don't look at all like pewter, dammit), one of the garbage cans, and the other corridor:


Closer pic of the garbage can...


...and the skull inside. lol


That's it for now- next come the arenas, which I'm not sure I'll be able to change a lot of, and the crowd & signs, which will be significantly easier. I'm not sure yet, but I may very well be putting some comic characters in the crowd and at ringside as announcers as well. Should be a blast!

EDIT: Linked the wrong damn pics. ARGH. Fixed. As well as...


...so I was looking at the crowd textures and thinking, I could probably just about automate making those, like I've automated the in-game character skins. An hour or so later, I produced a test unmasked Nova skin...


So's I gathered some skins I wasn't going to use for the game anyway, and here's what we got!

Hobgoblin chillin' with some fans... that's a Thor fan on the left and a Megaton Man on the far right:


Prowler fan in the back:


Closer pic of Megaton Fan:


Hobby with another Thor fan:


Hobs with a seated Winter Soldier fan:


...and a standing one. W00t!



So now I'm thinking about replacing all of the crowd with superhero fans- with the models and the way the textures hang on them, they look like fans in superhero getups, which I'm just loving! And yeah... there's gonna be a Deadpool fan. Oh yeah.


EDIT: Couldn't sleep, so I did 7 more fans.

From left to right- Batman, War Machine, Dr. Strange, er... another Batman, the Joker, Deadpool, and Carnage:


...and in this one, the elusive Superman fan!

[The Chupster]

Tested out making some 2D crowd sprites tonight. Didn't realize they were spaced evenly to get their asses in the seats, so some guys (and their signs) got cut in half and they don't line up properly, but I'll fix that soon- I just wanted to make sure they wouldn't be like transparent and stuff. Some screenies:





My favorite, though it doesn't show up well in these screens, is Dane from Wetworks holding a sign that reads "I saw the Jockstrap of Galactus and LIVED". If anyone has any decent, funny/short sign ideas, drop me a line here- I still have to make some more of these for both spacing purposes and because I didn't do enough to begin with, and I'm sure I'll have more signs to make. Thanks!

[The Chupster]

I don't even know what language that's supposed to be.

[MattyAC]

I don't think even the divine gods of the nine realms know what that language is either

[The Chupster]

On the upside, there is a very slightly enhanced version of it over on the MWN forums: themwn.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=wrestlingmpireremix&action=display&thread=122&page=1

Whenever I do make improvements- especially to the coding, that's still a mess- that's where they'll be, but I think I'll probably get the No Mercy version up and running first, once I figger out what I did wrong earlier today. XD

[Deleted]

where's the link for the game?

[The Chupster]

Over at the MWN boards on the link in the post above yours. Which is why I linked it.

[The Chupster]

Okay, just to keep things all in one place for posterity, I'm going to copy over the main post from the MWN boards, then a status update and more info, etc. Here's the MWN post. It contains a link that actually still works! lol w00t

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All righty folks, step right up! Get your new beta of the Superhero Beatdown mod right here!

CLICK THIS, BITCHES!

So I'm back at work on the Superhero Beatdown mod for Wrestling Mpire 08/TWC4. For those that missed it the first time around (about 5 years ago, I think), it's basically a total conversion mod for the game, converting it into a superhero wrestling game- something I've wanted to make since I was in 6th grade.


Originally I was aiming for having 200 wrestlers in the game, and I was only doing wrestler skins. Now I'm aiming for a total conversion. The final game will contain:

*At least 180 wrestlers, some featuring multiple outfits (I think I have like 6 Iron Mans in the game, and 4 Beasts, Angel/Archangels and Supermen)

*7 different feds; 3 Marvel (New York/Avengers, Westchester/X-Men & Spider-Man, and Galactic), 2 DC (Metropolis/JLA and Gotham/Batman), Image/Wildstorm, and an OCW/Miscellaneous "Wrestling School" fed, as well as "Lost Between Dimensions" (where Free Agents go) and the Realm of the Dead

*Stats converted from RPG game stats & other statistical sources

*Character-representative custom movesets for each character

*As many appropriate theme songs as I can find, as well as other tunes that sound superheroish

*Texture replacements for the arenas and backstage, etc.

*Custom coding that allows for giant and tiny characters (think Galactus, Giant Man, Goliath, the Atom, etc.) even though it can look sort of silly in-game. XD

*Some custom weapons. Green Goblin's pumpkin bombs are the SHIT.

*Rewritten promos, so they don't sound quite so lame while you're playing through single player.

...and probably more stuff that I'm forgetting.




Back in the day- this started on Wrestling Encore- I completed about 200 sets of superhero skins, 7 of which were never released (Kalibak, Magma, Warlock, Firestar, Cyber, The Eel, and Professor X), converting them from custom skins made for the Freedom Force RPG. I've recently found more skins and will likely be revisiting and/or replacing some of the old skins as appropriate/needed, but at the moment, here's where I'm at in terms of progress:

*All characters that were done previously have been adjusted and created in the game. (This doesn't include stats or movesets.) Some still have some graphic defects, but this will (hopefully) be addressed in the near future.

*All characters created in the game have been sorted into the various feds.

*All backstage and ringside banners have been created and replaced.

*Some of the advertisement and fed-specific video screens have been replaced.

*Stats are in the process of being gathered and are about 65% complete.

*Themes are being gathered. If you have a suggestion for a superhero's theme, please drop me a line here (and/or a link to an mp3 if you think I might not have the tune) and I'll get back to you.

*Coding is being worked on.


The Superhero Beatdown mod will be released first for Wrestling Mpire 2008 Career Edition. It will soon after be ported to Management Edition. After this, I'm hoping to jump it into MDickie's Wrestling Mpire Remix.


Questions, suggestions, ideas about Superhero Beatdown? Toss it here and we'll jaw about it.


If you would like to read more about the history of this project and/or view some pics of the project, click HERE. This will take you offsite to the defunct OCW boards and my original post tracking its progress 2 years ago before my last hard drive failure wiped a bunch of my work.

[The Chupster]

Last mod update circa 2012:

CLICK THIS FOR THE MOD!

Want to start as an existing character? Here's what you have to do.

For whatever reason, the game tries to start you as Professor X. If you don't want to play as him and don't want to have to put together a character that's already in the game, here's what you need to do!

1. Start The Road mode (first option)
2. Select any of the 3 New Career slots.
3. Press the Esc key until it gets you the fuck out of the game.
4. Go to wherever you have the game installed and go into the Superhero Beatdown folder.
5. Go to the folder Data > Slot 01 [or 02, or 03, depending on which slot you used]
6. You'll need to swap the character you want to play as with Professor X's data file. Do this by renaming the two files. Below is a list of data file numbers for each character. The Professor's data file is Character149.dat.

So, for example, say you want to play as The Chupacabra. In the folder, right click Character149.dat and rename it to something temporary like CharacterFuck.dat. Then you would rename Character201.dat (The Chupacabra v3) to Character149.dat. Then finish it all up by renaming CharacterFuck.dat to Character201.dat, restart the game, go to the same career slot in The Road mode, and it will start you as The Chupacabra! Bing, bang, boom. Enjoy!

095 Adam Warlock
207 Alexander Sin
204 Angel
072 Angel (Defenders)
039 Angel (X-Men Classic)
024 Apocalypse
055 Apollo
037 Aquaman
127 Archangel
170 Archangel (Alternate Leather)
111 Ash Williams
007 Atom Smasher
172 Aurora
091 Badrock
198 Bane
015 Barbaric
023 Baron Zemo
119 Batman
177 Batman (Movie)
112 Batman Beyond
075 Beast
121 Beast (X-Factor)
026 Beast (X-Men Classic)
059 Bizarro
011 Black Adam
045 Black Canary
132 Black Panther
008 Blizzard
152 Bloodaxe
211 Bloodraven
010 Blue Beetle
027 Booster Gold
017 Brainiac
179 Bullseye
078 Cable
043 Captain America I (Rogers)
065 Captain America III (Barnes)
162 Captain Atom
196 Captain Britain
182 Captain Marvel (DC)
169 Captain Marvel (Marvel)
071 Captain Universe
135 Cardiac
020 Carnage
087 Catwoman
053 Chapel
205 Chris Wallace
183 Clayface
100 Colossus
040 Cosmic Spider-Man
187 Crimson Dynamo
148 Crossbones
025 Cyber
067 Cyborg
167 Cyborg
062 Cyclops
016 Dane
195 Daredevil
131 Daredevil (Armored)
174 Darkseid
163 Deadpool
173 Deadpool (Alternate)
166 Deadshot
004 Death
128 Deathstroke
022 Die Hard
175 Donatello
154 Doomsday
005 Dr. Doom
018 Dr. Fate
137 Dr. Manhattan
213 DUPE
214 DUPE
215 DUPE
118 Eel
115 Ermac
102 Firelord
077 Firestar
057 Firestorm
096 Flag Smasher
138 Galactus
159 Gambit
085 Ghost Rider
120 Giant Man
066 Goliath
028 Green Arrow
009 Green Goblin
002 Grifter
133 Guardian
092 Harley Quinn
158 Hawkeye
060 Hobgoblin
190 Human Torch
139 Iron Fist
089 Iron Man
116 Iron Man (Classic Gold)
153 Iron Man (Classic Red & Gold 1)
134 Iron Man (Classic Red & Gold 2)
088 Iron Man (Classic Silver)
151 Iron Spider
080 Jack of Hearts
113 Jester
206 Jojo the Smiling Monkey Ref
147 Juggernaut
105 Justice
124 Kalibak
033 Kang the Conqueror
168 Kill Cat
030 Killer Croc
200 Kunk
094 Leonardo
164 Liberty
041 Luke Cage
185 Magma
086 Man-Thing
202 Manticore
076 Martian Manhunter
157 Master Chief
209 Matthias Sin
049 Michelangelo
136 Midnighter
038 Mongul
192 Moon Knight
035 Morbius
013 Morg
109 Mr. Freeze
063 Mr. Majestic
083 Mr. Miracle
197 Mr. Sinister
097 Ms. Marvel
021 Namor
019 Nightwing
129 Noob Saibot
191 Northstar
048 Nova
012 Pitt
140 Poison Ivy
144 Predator
149 Professor X
032 Quasar
143 Ragman
052 Raphael
090 Red Hulk
189 Red Skull
110 Reptile
107 Ripclaw
031 Robin
069 RoboCop
156 Sabretooth
123 Sasquatch
079 Scarecrow (DC)
084 Scarecrow (Marvel)
074 Scarlet Spider
003 Scorpion
056 Shaft
014 She-Hulk
188 Shocker
081 Silver Surfer
108 Silver Surfer (Alternate)
180 Spawn
051 Spider-Man
036 Spider-Man (Alternate)
125 Spider-Man (Armored)
093 Spider-Man (Black Suit)
155 Star Brand
160 Steel
141 Stingray
101 Sub Zero
142 Sunfire
150 Super Patriot
184 Superboy
114 Superman
099 Superman (Return)
126 Superman Blue
176 Superman Red
054 Swamp Thing
212 Sylas Styles
203 Teabag
117 Terrax
161 Thanos
047 The Atom
042 The Blob
103 The Chupacabra v1
145 The Chupacabra v2
201 The Chupacabra v3
082 The Comedian
104 The Creeper
068 The Crow
044 The Eradicator
046 The Flash II (Barry Allen)
070 The Flash III (Wally West)
122 The InBetweener
193 The Incredible Hulk
106 The Joker
073 The Mighty Thor
098 The Punisher
050 The Punisher (Classic)
029 The Riddler
194 The Savage Dragon
130 The Terminator
001 The Thing
199 Trish Extreme
186 U.S. Agent
058 Venom
034 Venom (Futuristic Alternate)
178 Vision
181 Warblade
165 Warlock
208 Werwulf
171 Witchblade
006 Wolverine
061 Wolverine (Classic)
064 Wonder Man
146 Wonder Man (Classic)
210 Zero

[The Chupster]

Okay, so as mentioned on Facebook, the mod does have a couple of issues.

#1- it starts you in a major company, and your character is also the booker, leading to some surreal cutscenes.
#2- if you jump companies, you can end up fighting yourself. As in, you control both characters at the same time- like, with one controller. Very messed up.

So obviously it's buggy, so yeah, more reason to port to Remix.

[The Chupster]

The above said, this is the fourth attempt to finish up this bad daddy. I'm gonna be scaling back how ambitious I'm being this time around. Here's the skinny.

Previously, since I piggybacked off of the mpiremall's TWC4 mod, there were a lot of 3d model changes. Since this is no longer the case, a lot of previous mods (mostly weapons) will no longer be valid.

It is still my goal to make this a total conversion. However, when I tried dumping all of my graphical assets into the game, it started throwing memory access violation errors again, so I'm going to start small and go from there.

Each skin mod will have to be changed. This is to accommodate the new blinking eyes, as well as getting the skins to fit right. The skins have never been really pretty, being converted from various Freedom Force mods, so they're only likely to get a little worse-looking, but I'm going through each skin and trying to ensure that it fits the models and wraps a little better. The arms in particular have to be individually modded, but overall I'd say I'm about 15% through the bulk of the character graphic modding.

That's about it, just sharing what I have done so far! Hopefully this'll end up being good.

[The Chupster]

Okay, newest info:

Remix was crashing, throwing MAVs when all textures were switched. Ends up there are two textures, Arm16.jpg and Hand01.jpg, that can NOT be altered or the game throws the MAV issues. Kept them to keep things copacetic.

Also, the game seems to have the same issue previous MDickie games had, where preview pictures become corrupted when modified. Not really sure what to do with this at the moment. If I don't fix it somehow, none of the characters will have preview pics, and instead there will be large blocks of the background from the edit screen, which also covers part of the health meter.

That's about it, now that the main culprits in the crashing have been found, the bulk of the first part is graphics work, which I have mainly automated. Still gonna take a good while, but progress is underway!

[The Chupster]

So basically, I've sort of committed myself at this point to retouching all of the existing textures for the mod so far in an attempt to make them wrap correctly (or at least closer) to get rid of those nasty-ass seams. 10 extra years of Photoshop experience pay off at last! LOL

This means a good bit of work, but I've finally wrapped up doing all 219 arm textures and the separate associated hand textures.

I've also semi-automated the head texture process, and while it isn't perfect, it wraps pretty much correctly, and I've gotten 64 of 204 finished.

Here's what part 1 of the mod conversion looks like at this point, for anyone interested:

Remaining:
• faces - 140
• bodies - 206
• legs - 195
• eyes - unknown number
••• create, organize and integrate all textures into characters
••• create, organize and transfer "company" graphics
••• mod each character's stats and info
○○○○○ see if there is any way to fix custom preview pics in-game ○○○○○

*****At this point, the mod is fully playable and will likely get a release.*****

From here:
• automate and add OCW characters from 2010 season
• research and compile stats from sources for each character
• mod movesets here and there where wanted
• transfer arena and backstage mods where possible
• add/transfer music
• create belt mods
• possible code mods?
• possible WWE 2k17 transfer/creations

*****full release*****

If you think of anything I'm missing, please feel free to contact me here or on Facebook. Similarly, if you have a suggestion or request, feel free to contact me.






Again, this won't be the prettiest mod in the world- and it never was- but in the end, it should be fun and completely playable.

I'll get some preview pics up in the near-ish future.

[The Chupster]

Heh. Back at work on this, I know, I know. One day.

So Wrestling MPire Remix IS playable on Win 10, you just have to play it in windowed mode. Total pain in the ass. There are a couple of other ways to do it, but running in windowed mode is the easiest way to do it.

I was gonna try porting to Wrestling Revolution 3D on PC, but he took out the blood and dismemberment, and I just can't have that. The game runs better, but as I love the aforementioned stuff- well, if I get it wrapped eventually on Remix, I might try to port 'em over, as it looks like a lot of the same assets. There is some kind of neck texture that I haven't even played with, and the game is basically very streamlined to use VERY few textures, so I don't even know if it'll play worth a shit if I add some 200 characters' worth in there, so who knows? LOL.

Basically, everything in the previous post still needs to be done, but I'm organizing stuff to try to do it. I'll probably do one version with free music from YouTube and maybe one with some actual music based on the characters, who knows? LOL. But I'm getting my hands dirty again. Glad I made the previous post, it helped me get this organized.

Anywho, working on skins at this point. Characters will just be replacing other in-game characters, so someone will have Hulk Hogan's moveset, someone will get Steve Austin's, etc.

And if anyone actually sees this, feel free to drop a line!

Also, there's a dude using the same Freedom Force skins to make characters for Action Arcade Wrestling, so jump in there and get that! I might end up porting over some OCW skins after I get this done. AAW is fun, but the AI is... pretty bad. LOL

Anyway, I'm back on it, part time.