Community Modding Discussion Thread

[djskeemask]

https://generated.photos/faces

This site will generate headshots of fictional people based on the criteria you check off on the left side of the screen. These are not real people (according to the site). Can choose male or female, hair color, eye color, race, even the color of the background (or even make the bg transparent). At the top of the screen, there are a few more sections to the site. The anonimyzer will let you upload a pic of you (or someone else) and it will tweak your features to be a different looking you. Definitely good for real world mods free pictures.

[Mammoth]

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I'm quietly working on this one behind the scenes and it's absolutely nowhere near completion (hence why I'm posting here and not in its own topic) but I thought I'd put it out there to get some feedback. I'm not going to say what it is (I'm hoping many of you will know) but I'll give you a glimpse of the game world.

Active Promotions

Alberta Championship Wrestling





Alberta Championship Wrestling is the official developmental promotion of Calgary Stampede which has been in existence nearly as long as the National Wrestling Alliance itself, and is one of the oldest and most prestigious promotions in the entire world. Run by the legendary Hart family, Calgary has boasted some of the greatest technical wrestlers the sport has ever seen, and many of them were trained at the iconic Hart Family Dungeon which is one of the most well respected wrestling schools in the universe. Proving to be a useful developmental promotion for Dungeon students and veterans that Stampede want to take a look at alike, Alberta Championship Wrestling is an adequate proving ground with members of the Hart family themselves - most notably Owen - putting the wrestlers through their paces and ensuring they're ready if they're ever called up to the main roster.

American Wrestling Association





Anton Stecher was a founding member of the National Wrestling Alliance in 1948 and had promoted wrestling in Minneapolis since 1933 through his Minneapolis Boxing and Wrestling Club. In 1952, Stecher sold a one third interest in the promotion to his son Dennis and Wally Karbo, and after he died, control of the promotion passed to them. Then in 1960, after unsuccessfully lobbying the NWA for a title match between Verne Gagne and the NWA World Champion Pat O'Connor, Wally led certain territories out of the NWA, forming the American Wrestling Association, with the Minneapolis Boxing and Wrestling Club as the head. A uniquely Midwestern institution, the Minnesota-based promotion has brought unforgettable competitors to flickering RCAs in frozen suburbs from Fargo to old Milwaukee. Still the only independent organisation in America, the promotion has recently absorbed Jim Cornette's Smoky Mountain Wrestling in an effort to conserve independent wrestling, branding itself the "All-New AWA".

CHIKARA Pro





Taking both its name and logo from the Japanese kanji meaning "strength", CHIKARA Pro was founded in 2002 by pro wrestlers Mike Quackenbush and Reckless Youth, who also served as in-ring performers and trainers at the affiliated Wrestle Factory. Two of the promotions major events, September's King of Trios, the promotion's premiere event, and April's Tag World Grand Prix are centered on tag team and trios matches. Their other major events include Aniversario, held in May, and the Young Lions Cup tournament, held between June and August. Primarily influenced by the lucha libre tradition with performers grouped into tecnicos and rudos, CHIKARA is also influenced by a variety of other styles including puroresu and comedy, and they're known for using unique gimmicks and characters. Whilst CHIKARA uses many Wrestle Factory graduates, they have also made relationships with foreign companies, allowing them to bring in new faces and add even further variation to their in-ring style.

Calgary Stampede





Having been in existence nearly as long as the National Wrestling Alliance itself, Calgary Stampede is one of the oldest and most prestigious promotions in the entire world. Run by the legendary Hart family, Calgary still boasts some of the greatest technical wrestlers the sport has ever seen. In the 1990's, Calgary truly shined as the franchise promotion of the NWA, producing four NWA World Champions in Bret Hart, Davey Boy Smith, Curt Hennig and Owen Hart. While Bret shined as the promotion's biggest star of the 90s, his focus shifted following the death of his father in 2003 when he sought control of the day to day operations of the promotion behind the scenes. It was around this time that a Stampede original known as Chris Benoit accomplished something no man had ever done before, holding all three World titles in the men's division, an accomplishment known as the Triple Crown. Although many claim to be, Calgary Stampede is the true heart beat of the NWA.

Combat Zone Pro





Founded by John Zandig and Jon Dahmer, Combat Zone Pro is an independent promotion that focuses on the hard-hitting and violent aspects of professional wrestling, coining the phrase "ultraviolence" to describe their in-ring style. Although there was a flurry of independent organisations that popped up in the 1990s which reflected the sign of the times by concentrating on blood and guts, CZP are practically the only promotion in the United States still actively participating in the Deathmatch scene. Offering an alternative to the masses and in particular a younger crowd, Combat Zone Pro has a very volatile and opinionated fanbase and whilst they're unlikely to ever threaten those promotions at the top, they could certainly grow into a cult organisation.

Dragon Pro





Dragon Pro was created by three top super junior heavyweight wrestlers helmed by Último Dragón to showcase a new age in Japanese puroresu infused with Mexican lucha libre. Most of Dragon Pro's wrestlers are graduates of the Dragon Pro Dojo, and as the training facility places a large emphasis on a junior heavyweight style with varying emphasis on high flying maneuvers, flashy technical grappling and submission wrestling, it's what the promotion is also based on. Offering a real alternative to the more traditional styles of All Japan Pro Wrestling and New Japan Pro-Wrestling, Dragon Pro is arguably the most exciting product in the world right now but it remains to be seen if they could become the number two promotion in Japan or even challenge for the number one spot without the backing of the National Wrestling Alliance.

Eastern Championship Wrestling

   









Formed in 1996 by Tod Gordon, Eastern Championship Wrestling wasn't affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance to begin with and Gordon, having come from Memphis Championship Wrestling as a successful manager, booked very similar to Memphis style shows but it wasn't what the crowd wanted. On the verge of going broke despite joining the NWA, Paul Heyman stepped in and took the reins, and began delivering hardcore, cutting edge wrestling that wasn't being seen in America at the time. The fans immediately ate it up and for a four year spell, they were virtually untouchable but by 2004, things started looking downhill for ECW. Realising Eastern Championship Wrestling needed to go through another change, Heyman has strayed away from the hardcore, violent stigma that made it famous and has now turned his attention to developing a slew of young stars that are important to its future - but that's not to say it doesn't have its vicious tendencies.

Federación de Mexicana Lucha Libre





With Imperio de Lucha Azteca stepping away from the traditional lucha libre style so beloved by Mexican audiences to produce a more American inspired product, it wasn't long before rumours began swirling that various veteran luchadors began talking about forming a new promotion that would restore Mexican traditional values. Then in late-December of 2009, news broke that legendary luchadors Blue Demon Jr. and Vampiro were set to launch a new promotion dubbed Federación Mexicana de Lucha Libre (or FMLL for short) with backing from the National Wrestling Alliance. With a focus on traditional lucha libre, the inception of FMLL marks the first time in over twenty years that another large promotion has operated alongside ILA in Mexico but whether the two can co-exist under the rule of the NWA is a burning question.

Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling





Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion founded in July, 1989 by Atsushi Onita. Specialising in hardcore wrestling involving weapons such as barbed wire and fire from the outset, Onita wrestled in the first ever exploding barbed wire match with Tarzan Goto which started a revolution amongst the small "garbage wrestling" organisations of Japan. As business progressed however, the violence has slowly been toned down and there has been an influx of lighter stars, with Hayabusa becoming the central star of the promotion. Still offering a lot of blood and guts though, FMW has become something of a hybrid that has allowed them to keep a largely cult following in Japan, whilst also releasing various DVD's abroad to give them something of an international following.

Gorgeous Ladies of the American Mat!





Deciding to vote on whether the National Wrestling Alliance should have their first ever affiliate dedicated to women's wrestling, many on the NWA board opposed but in the end, the decision to form a new affiliate won through the slenderest of majorities. Out of that vote, the Gorgeous Ladies of the American Mat! was formed and the federation thanked the board by putting on the most baffling, shocking debut show in the history of wrestling. The immediate impact saw GLAM!'s next show cancelled and Rena Mero installed as owner, who has quickly proven that women can be beautiful and dangerous. Making quite a name for itself with a talented roster of women, GLAM! has recently caused controversy when they began promoting the unsanctioned REAL World Women's Championship, souring their relationship with other companies and also the NWA.

Yet to Open Promotions

All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling





In August, 1955, the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Association was formed to oversee the plethora of joshi puroresu (women's professional wrestling) organisations that were founded throughout Japan following the tour in November, 1954 by Mildred Burke. The alliance didn't last long as promotional war among the members killed the popularity of the sport but in 1967, a similar attempt was made with the Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Association being formed, with Takashi Matsunaga an important member. Then in 1968, Takashi and his brothers left the association and founded All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling. Responsible for training extremely talented women, almost every major star of joshi puroresu went through AJW's turnstile but unfortunately, financial trouble and defections of talent combined to weaken the once-dominant promotion until it closed in April, 2005. However, with the National Wrestling Alliance seeking to take hold of women's wrestling in Japan, it could soon be reborn.

Apache Pro-Wrestling





Following the changing of product of Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling as they moved away from their roots and concentrated on smaller wrestlers, Hiromichi Fuyuki formed his own promotion, which ran under the names Fuyuki-Gun Promotion and World Entertainment Wrestling, administering the WEW titles originally created in FMW in 1999. Following Fuyuki's death in March, 2003, FMW alumni such as Kintaro Kanemura, Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Go Ito briefly maintained the promotion before founding Apache Pro-Wrestling in 2004. Unfortunately though, Apache Pro closed its doors in June, 2009 but with a vocal fanbase that has seen their style of wrestling drop in popularity and FMW alumni still lacing up their boots, it wouldn't be a surprise to see Apache Pro-Wrestling open its doors again in the near future.

Central States Wrestling





The original Central States Wrestling survived from July, 1948 until it closed in 1989, and the territory was one of the original territories of the National Wrestling Alliance with two of the six "founding fathers" of the NWA (Paul "Pinkie" George and Orville Brown) promoting the area. In late-1987, Bob Geigel stepped down as chairman of the NWA and as the owner of the original CSW at the time, he also withdrew the promotion from the alliance. Despite sharing the same name however, this Central States Wrestling isn't a direct descendent of the original and is instead the NWA's attempt at placing a promotion in direct competition of the independent outlier known as the American Wrestling Association. Taking the originals name and home area of Kansas City, Missouri, Central States Wrestling is going to do its best to disrupt the independent organisation.

Major League Wrestling





Originally founded in 2002, Major League Wrestling grew a cult following thanks to their television series titled "Underground TV" which was hosted by Joey Styles, and consisted of pre-taped matches from prior events. Despite their growing popularity though, MLW folded only a few years into their run and tranformed into a podcast network, initially focused on producing broadcast and digital content relating to the professional wrestling industry. In early-2017 however, MLW announced that it would once again be promoting wrestling events with the promotion marketing its product as "Hybrid Wrestling", with its roster featuring a mix of different styles. If they can earn the same cult following that they originally did, Major League Wrestling could be an independent promotion to keep an eye on.

Maple Leaf Wrestling





The promotion - initially known as the Queensbury Athletic Club - traces its roots back to 1930, when it was launched by Jack Corcoran, who had previously promoted boxing in Toronto under the Queensbury name. Initially, Corcoran was involved in a promotional war with rival promoter Ivan Mickailoff but after Corcoran allied himself with the new Maple Leaf Gardens in 1931, he took control of professional wrestling in Toronto until stepping down in 1939 and handed wrestling operations over to his assistants, John and Frank Tunney. While John sadly died just a few months after taking the reigns, Frank continued to book and promote the territory with great success until aligning with the World Wrestling Federation, which ultimately led to the promotions death. When the WWF folded however, the National Wrestling Alliance bought the rights to the promotion back and with no tangible results in Ontario ever since, its thought the re-birth of Maple Leaf Wrestling was inevitable.

[Dalton]

@Mammoth I quite literally cannot contain my excitement.

[jhd1]

Is there anyone (or anyones) who enjoys sourcing (and resizing for TEW) real world pictures for old school mods? If so, drop me a PM

[jhd1]

For any old school European wrestling fans out there, did Otto Wanz's CWA only tour between May and December, or is it just that there are consistent gaps in the show results available from the 1980s? From looking at Cagematch I can't find show results from the first few months of the year, but then Bull Power's CWA World title reign supposedly began in March 1987.

[Kubikiri Asa]

On 10/10/2022 at 11:53 PM, jhd1 said:

For any old school European wrestling fans out there, did Otto Wanz's CWA only tour between May and December, or is it just that there are consistent gaps in the show results available from the 1980s? From looking at Cagematch I can't find show results from the first few months of the year, but then Bull Power's CWA World title reign supposedly began in March 1987.

That's how I set it in the 1993 and 1994 mods.

[SkyCrasher]

On 10/10/2022 at 10:53 PM, jhd1 said:

For any old school European wrestling fans out there, did Otto Wanz's CWA only tour between May and December, or is it just that there are consistent gaps in the show results available from the 1980s? From looking at Cagematch I can't find show results from the first few months of the year, but then Bull Power's CWA World title reign supposedly began in March 1987.

They legitimately did only tour one half of the year. This causes issues with TEW (they die from not running shows for months at a time) so I recommend adding extra events to patch this up

[The Blonde Bomber]

Anyone have links to skins for the game? The links in mod index no longer work.

[Kubikiri Asa]

3 hours ago, The Blonde Bomber said:

Anyone have links to skins for the game? The links in mod index no longer work.

Some of the more popular ones are available in the TEW2020 Download Index

I believe most of these are dark skins.

[ArcheoOutOfNowhere]

Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but at leaqt it shouldn't be the worst:

In a modified version of the RW Chronicles mod for January 2022 (or, really, 2022 in general), what kind of pop would you give to Armando Estrada ? I'm tempted to say nothing more than 15 in the US but for all I know, he'd still get a huge pop if he made a full-time return so I thought I'd ask people more knowledgeable than I am.

 

Edited October 22, 2022 by ArcheoOutOfNowhere
Corrected Estrada, because I put Joel Gertner instead. It'll teach me not to talk when writing.

[Almaida]

1 hour ago, ArcheoOutOfNowhere said:

Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but at leaqt it shouldn't be the worst:

In a modified version of the RW Chronicles mod for January 2022 (or, really, 2022 in general), what kind of pop would you give to Armando Estrada ? I'm tempted to say nothing more than 15 in the US but for all I know, he'd still get a huge pop if he made a full-time return so I thought I'd ask people more knowledgeable than I am.

 

Personally, I'd keep it low too, maybe in the 20s or so. I'm not sure how many modern fans would remember a manager from ~15 years ago, especially since no one really talks about Armando when they talk about Umaga these days. I was a huge fan but I don't remember him being all that popular on his own even during his time... I'm sure he could get over again quickly enough, but that's a different story.

For reference, I put together this rough guide for myself based on the way the in-game creative team breaks down popularity and skills:

Populairty: 

• <10 = almost completely unknown
• 10s = not exaclty a household name
• 20s = not very well known
• 30s = ???
• 40s = barely known
• 50s = popular
• 60s = very popular
• 70s = extremely popular
• 80s = wildly popular
• 85s = massively over
• 90s = enormously popular
• 95+ = insanely popular

Skills:

• 30s = decent
• 40s = pretty good
• 50s = good
• 60s = very good
• 70s = impressive
• 80s = extremely impressive
• 90s = exceptional

Edited October 22, 2022 by Almaida

[BrokenJobber13]

Hey folk, I'm an experienced player but had a break so I've missed out on 2016 and 2020. I'm looking to get back into it and have a few questions about the type of game I need to mod to play what Id like to play, so...

 

I'm curious if its possible to remove all Tv/PPV (all things to do with them) and have a purely Live Event based game for all companies. 

Is this possible to do and is there anything to be aware of?

and Would this also stop tv companies and the like being created in-game? can that be done?

Edited October 24, 2022 by BrokenJobber13

[The Blonde Bomber]

On 10/23/2022 at 9:21 PM, BrokenJobber13 said:

Hey folk, I'm an experienced player but had a break so I've missed out on 2016 and 2020. I'm looking to get back into it and have a few questions about the type of game I need to mod to play what Id like to play, so...

 

I'm curious if its possible to remove all Tv/PPV (all things to do with them) and have a purely Live Event based game for all companies. 

Is this possible to do and is there anything to be aware of?

and Would this also stop tv companies and the like being created in-game? can that be done?

From my knowledge tv and ppv can only be preset in the game. The way to stop companies from using them is to create an era where the usage of such means of distribution is none.

[Old School Fan]

On 8/1/2022 at 11:31 AM, Kubikiri Asa said:

 

Graphic Programs and Resources

 

Poser 3D

 

Daz Studio

 

MakeHuman

DAZ Studio is what I use for my renders - in fact, it's what I used to create this picture I used for my diary, Rise of a Star (the picture below can be found there on page 6):

[Kubikiri Asa]

17 hours ago, Old School Fan said:

DAZ Studio is what I use for my renders - in fact, it's what I used to create this picture I used for my diary, Rise of a Star (the picture below can be found there on page 6):

I had Poser 3D, but that computer crashed years ago.

[jhd1]

What is seen as the easiest/neatest/most preferable way to handle lucha libre character changes? For example, Super Parka wrestled as Remo Banda until 1990, then Volador until 1997 and then Super Parka from '97 onwards. I could use a narrative to change the character at each date, or create alter-egos with 100% usage after a certain age; the former is probably more work in the editor but feels like it'd be the neatest option (so that you don't reach 1997 and have to remember that Super Parka is in the character list as Remo Banda still)?

Obviously for promotion specific masks alter-egos are the way to go, but would be interested in thoughts on the more general character shifts.

Any thoughts?

[Kubikiri Asa]

On 11/12/2022 at 8:51 PM, jhd1 said:

What is seen as the easiest/neatest/most preferable way to handle lucha libre character changes? For example, Super Parka wrestled as Remo Banda until 1990, then Volador until 1997 and then Super Parka from '97 onwards. I could use a narrative to change the character at each date, or create alter-egos with 100% usage after a certain age; the former is probably more work in the editor but feels like it'd be the neatest option (so that you don't reach 1997 and have to remember that Super Parka is in the character list as Remo Banda still)?

Obviously for promotion specific masks alter-egos are the way to go, but would be interested in thoughts on the more general character shifts.

Any thoughts?

I would go with the alter egos solution.

[CQI13]

When you set a database to start on a particular year (say 2010) does that de-age the rosters or just keep people the same age but in 2010?

Is there a way to de-age and adjust skill levels accordingly? 

[Kubikiri Asa]

28 minutes ago, CQI13 said:

When you set a database to start on a particular year (say 2010) does that de-age the rosters or just keep people the same age but in 2010?

Is there a way to de-age and adjust skill levels accordingly? 

What do you mean by de-age? The age = worker birth year / month minus the scenarios starting year / month

To adjust the skills use the mass edit options. You can filter active workers in a certain age range and increase or decrease their skills. You can also filter inactive workers and increase or decrease skills.

The other option is to manually go through all workers and edit their skills, popularity and match experience. That's the way I do it, but it's more time consuming.

[CQI13]

22 minutes ago, Kubikiri Asa said:

What do you mean by de-age? The age = worker birth year / month minus the scenarios starting year / month

To adjust the skills use the mass edit options. You can filter active workers in a certain age range and increase or decrease their skills. You can also filter inactive workers and increase or decrease skills.

The other option is to manually go through all workers and edit their skills, popularity and match experience. That's the way I do it, but it's more time consuming.

Thanks for the clarification. This points me in the right direction.

[ArcheoOutOfNowhere]

Not sure if this is the best place to ask or if I should ask on the Custom Graphics Request thread, but here we go:

Is there any place, app, way or anything that I could use to 1) create a superhero mask (and/or a lucha one) and 2) then apply it on a worker picture so they wear it ? I know it can (relatively) easily be done for fictional universes, but I'd need it for real life workers.

[s7eve_s]

I would if anyone could recommend any way of setting up a company within a MOD to close down (go bankrupt) within the first 6 months.

 

I'm currently updating a TEW16 MOD for use on TEW20, starting in January, ECW are taken over by WWF on all test runs normally around April due to poor finances.

 

However despite ending 2001 around £30 million in debt, WCW continue to exist. I have removed all financial assistance from TV revenue and PPV income (I recall seeing an interview with Nash and Hall saying that WCW weren't receiving any TV or PPV money around this time). 

 

Though they seem to be unable to strike any new deals to run TV shows when Nitro and Thunder go off air in March, they do get PPV deals.

 

I don't want to ruin them completely as it might be a nice save to play as WCW at some point and try and keep them in existence, but I would like to also be able to try and take them over if playing as WWF.

 

In addition to the above, I have tried removing the declaration of War from both sides but still they are not willing to enter talks about a takeover? Does anybody have any hints or tips that could be applied or tried?

[QueenofGaymes]

How would I go about playing in an entirely randomly generated world? I just want to jump into something completely random with no pretenses, where a heap of random workers/companies are generated at the start of the save. Is there a mod that does this?

[Blackman]

AI programs seem to suddenly be making the jump to mainstream these last months.

Have some people already experimented with that kind of art? I thought I've seen some posted pictures that were supposedly from AI programs. Honestly I refuse to call myself an "artist" for dabbling in digital art that doesn't involve me drawing the entire picture instead of using 3D props and models as a base. At most, I'd be a "composer". In reality, I'm someone who plays with digital Barbie & Ken dolls and dresses them up and 'poses' them... Not a pretty picture, but essentially... that's what this is...😅

The things I've seen online - if they are indeed the result from just the input of half a dozen words - are impressive and do give us possibilities to populate an entire database worth of workers for any fictional database, without the 'artist' either having to resort to measures to reduce time (like the Thunderverse) or working for days to get the required pictures rendered.

[Jason Phoenix]

I'm not sure where else to post this, but I have a question.

How much experience does a tag team gain per match?