Mana Games

[AtomicGinger37]

Hey all!

After many many years of stalking this forum site to help me with modding TE2013 and now TE4 I have finally joined!

After 8 years of playing TE2013 I finally retired my career mode in it, while I still love the game, I wanted a new challenge so I changed over to TE4. Now when setting up my career I wanted to start in 2018 so that would make sense with my age but also I wanted my player character to basically be contemporary in age to Sinner Alcaraz when they start dominating as I’ll be 2-3 years older than them.

After installing the XKT patch and a few other mods, I started my career in 2018 but soon realised that the schedule was based on the 2023-2024 schedules and so I would have to source my own schedule, now finding a patch for a 2018 tour schedule from Tennis Elbow 2013, I have got the courts and schedule ini but realised that the courts have TE2013 properties as each one has its own ini, now I’ve been told that if the ini can’t be read it will revert to being the generic physics for that surface. But again all the courts designations for courts in the patch for TE2013 are designed for that game. Is there anyone who makes these schedules for historical seasons? And if not, what’s my best way to go about it?

Also if I wanted to keep the XKT physics and 2D pictures for the main tour courts is it just as simple as making sure the ini loads the correct court folders? The main thing I wanted to do was to add in the futures and challenger events from the 2018 patch to expand the futures and challenger roster as this is a bit lacking area in XKT, add in the tournaments that have been removed from the calendar post 2018 and revert the David cup back to its old format. Which are all things already done in the 2018 tour ini file from TE2013 patch, is it as simple as changing the court details? In the ini as the files are very similar mainly just surface things and then making sure the ini’s are gone for the 2018 courts so they don’t cause havoc with the physics?

Also I’ve been using AI to help me with the integration between the ini files, has anyone with modding experience used AI for these sort of things? Or am I just creating more problems if I do? I know from experience running dice logic simulations for a Golf simulator I created that if one small thing is off it can stuff up the output. So should I hold off on AI? Sorry for all the questions, I can’t find any similar discussions on the forums pertaining to this haha.

[manutoo]

Hello,

Just edit the Tour.ini to your liking ; you don't have to touch the Stadiums or the Surfaces.
Read here for some extra info : topic11-31376.php .
Grab the TE4 Modding SDK here if not already done to check the unmodded Tour.ini : topic60-33540.php .
Read here for a little tutorial to build a Mod depending on the XKT Mod : topic60-35939.php .

If you're not sure what you're doing, then using AI might end badly, yes.

[AtomicGinger37]

Hey Manu, I've been reading through your posts, and I've made the schedule work but the surfaces and 2D courts are all not loading and reverting to generic XKT, and while I've tried to understand how to sort out the TE2013 2D court file in that first link, I really just don't get it and don't understand what's going wrong, it keeps loading the cincinatti stadium textures and it continues to ignore my folders in my local mod. I've been working at it for 7+ hours with no luck. I really am very amateur when it comes to this, I don't really understand the 2D courts section of the first post you linked.

How do you make sure that by depending on XKT, it will load my 2D courts and not override them? Most of the values you said to change are either not there or are named different things in the court.ini which is another confusing factor.

The main thing I want out of this is to make sure all the tournaments not in XKT are covered by my mod, mostly challengers, Futures and a few tour events such as Sydney, but I want that Tour.ATP.ini in my 2018 Season Patch to read the XKT files for all courts within XKT. Is this possible?

[manutoo]

In TE4's Tour.ini, you need to specify Stadium & Surface for each tournament instead of Ground. (if you want to add your own stadium & surface ; the default ones are bound to legacy Ground values)

If you want to use your own 2D courts, you'll have to create a new Stadium.ini for each one of them. Check how it's done within the Modding SDK as it's simpler than in the XKT Mod.