FIFA 14 Stadium SWAPPER Manual

Contents:-

1. Description of tool

2. Setup of file loader and stadium tool folder

3. Stadium folder format

4. Setup of data and stadium folder

5. Setup of Setting.txt for cup final stadiums

6. Save Settings

7. Updating ini files with data from your own DB

8. Manually Changing Home Team ID’s

9. Using the tool To insert stadium to game

Description of Tool

I created this tool due to the certain error that we were getting when adding new stadium to unused ID’s, ideally I would like this tool to be automatic but for now manual will do. How this tool works is that it will copy the selected stadium and rename to the id that the selected home team uses, Once the match has been played we can then remove the added stadium and it will return to the default EA stadium. This way we can have many stadiums for teams that use the same ID and not need to worry about whether there will be errors with the sky etc........

Setup of File Loader and Stadium Tool Folder

Download Jenkeys Fifa File loader from the following Link

http://www.soccergaming.com/forums/showthread.php?t=187897

I cannot guarantee that this tool with work 100% without it, there is no need to regenerate the bh using the file loader which is great for swapping stadiums once the game has started, is you use the ea data folder my tool will only work for stadium that have previously been exported, not for stadiums using new id as this would require a regenerate.

Install The File Loader following the instruction provided with it, if it works you will see the Jenkey logo at the start screen when loading up the game

I advise to change the name of the mod folder to stadium_tool, if you are using the file loader create a new folder and add the folder name to the file loader ini file.

I only use the file loader for this tool so this is what my file loader ini looks like

Stadium Folder Format

For this tool to work correctly the stadium folder (where you keep all the stadiums) must be set up in a particular way. I have mine set up as follows

I have each stadium in a folder with the name of the stadium and also the home team of that ground, this helps when selecting a stadium as you may not always know what the stadium is called for a particular team

Inside each folder is set up exactly like the data folder

Each specific stadium must be set up like the above.

IT MUST have a data folder, then within that there must be a sceneassets folder, then in that must have a stadium, fx, and crowdplacement folder.

U may also add a ui folder for stadium previews, just set the folder up as if you were importing directly to the game.

Setup of Data And Stadium Folder

When the tool is started for the first time you will be asked to set up 3 folders, the first two are for the file loader and the stadium folder

First we will set up the data folder and the stadium folder,

Click the data button and choose the stadium_tool folder that was set up when installing the file loader

It will be in the FIFA14 Game folder(This will be where the stadium are copied to)

Click OK

Next we will setup our stadium folder( Where we keep our stadiums)

Again click on the stadium button and navigate to where you stadium folder is

Highlight the main folder and click ok.

Setup of Setting.txt for cup final stadiums

Now we need to Set up our Settings.txt file which contains the id’s for cup final stadiums, to do so click on the compdata file button and navagate to the following:-

Select the setting file and the tool will populate the tournament final drop down list with the available tournaments

Save Settings

Now Save the settings, to save go to the file menu and click on save settings

Once the settings are saved you will be shown the following message

Once the settings are saved you will not be required to set up your folders again, You can change them anytime you want.

Updating ini files with data from your own DB

Beacause everybody does not have the exact same database, i would advise that you update the ini file with the data that reflects you db, to do so you will need to extract two tables from the db using db master, the tables we need to extract are as follows:-

Teams.txt

&

Teamstadiumlinks.txt

Extract the two file to the “FSWv5\db Files”

Once the tables are extracted to the two text files, we can now update the ini file

Go to File> Update team and id from db

The ini has now been updated to match you db, so if you had changed the home stadium of a team this tool will now reflect that.

Manually Changing Home Team ID’s

To Manually update the ini file for a single team just select the team from the drop down list and select a new id from the new id list then click change id,

This will change the id of the team to the one you selected in the new id list,

Please be aware that this method will require the db to be updated to match the tool or the wrong id will be assigned to the stadium!!!

Using the tool To insert stadium to game

Now its time to start using stadium in game, this tool usues very little resources so i just start it up before string fifa14,

I will explain how to use the stadium for a friendly but the principles are the same for any type of match.

I will use Aberdeen FC in this example

Once the game has started and you have chosen a friendly match

Choose the controller sides and then to the teams page, set the home team then ALT_tab out of the game.

in the stadium swapper tool choose the home team to be playing from the list(Aberdeen FC)

Once selected you will see that the stadium id has been updated with the id of the stadium that Aberdeen FC Uses for home matches( Please do not quote the id you see in this tutorial as i have modified them quite a bit for testing purposes)

Now we need to select a stadium, So highlight the home team stadium for Aberdeen it is Pittodrie.

You will see a tree view on the right hand side showing all the file that are available in the stadium folder,(i am just testing Pittodrie hence the lack of files), but what you can see is that the stadium is using the id 147, Where as Aberdeen uses 178!

Simple click Replace stadium for team selected button and it will copy all the available files to the stadium_tool folder and rename all files to the correct ID, the tool also renames the second line in the light lnx files as well J

Once complete you will be shown the following:-

Now we can go back into the game and progress through the rest of the menus to the game and it will now be using the selected stadium instead of the generic EA Stadium

Once you have completed the Match you can restore the default ea stadium by clicking on the Restore EA stadium button and it will remove all the files with the chosen ID in them.

I Added a restore all to default under the file menu, but be warned this will delete everything in the stadium_tool folder

The Process is the same for career mode,

the swap must happen b4 the settings menu because that’s when ea load the stadium!!!!!!

Hopefully this will have shown you how to use the fifa stadium swapper tool, and hopefully it will make career and other modes better as well