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Post by nashvillelou on Jul 21, 2018 5:33:10 GMT
I have been making videos over the past year of simmed matches in Fire Pro Wrestling World. Thank goodness for the Steam workshop, as my CAW creation skills are rudimentary at best. And I write this as someone who spent many hours in the summer of 1996 designing my own CAW attempts on Super Fire Pro Wrestling X Premium.
To say I appreciate the hard work of the CAW creators would be a vast understatement.
But I do enjoy designing unique rings. It can be tricky to get things lined up the way you want them, especially centering designs/words on the ring apron. But sometimes things work out rather well, especially with a bit of trial-and-error.
After my trip to San Francisco for New Japan Pro Wrestling's G1 Special show at the Cow Palace, I decided to design a ring with that theme in mind. I used an exterior photo that I took with my Google Pixel phone before the show and thought it worked out rather well. Then, while looking through photos from my last trip to SF in 2004, I found a picture I had taken of a place called La Rocca's Corner. That seemed like the perfect thing to try as a top-corner gimmick. It took a bit of work to find images that would work properly and then get it set up. And while the tan New Japan World apron (which I downloaded from the workshop some time ago) was just something I was trying out as a placeholder, it seemed to be a good fit so I kept it, at least for now.
You can't see them clearly, but on the other three turnbuckles I have a Starbucks vertical sign that they use at a few Disney amusement parks. After all, there is only one La Rocca's Corner.
Also, I hope it's not considered poor form to post recorded match videos on here. But I simmed this one tonight between Chad Gable and Mephisto that ended up being really good, and I thought some of you might enjoy watching it. As always, major thanks to Carlzilla for his outstanding work with the mods.
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Post by nashvillelou on Jul 23, 2018 22:42:10 GMT
I've been taking suggestions from YouTube/Twitter commenters for match ideas. Normally I don't care for three-way matches, but I simmed Kazuchika Okada vs. Minoru Suzuki vs. Kenny Omega in an elimination match by request and it led to this really fun screencap. It took several tries to find the exact frame I wanted, but the payoff was this:  |
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Post by Gasher Bloodspuer on Jul 24, 2018 16:00:33 GMT
That is a fantastic screenshot ! It captures the chaos of a 3-way match nicely.
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Post by El Marsh on Jul 25, 2018 3:12:13 GMT
Not to diminish your other great work but that Cow Palace ring is SICK! and very unique.
Great job on that one!
:D
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Post by nashvillelou on Aug 3, 2018 3:13:35 GMT
Not to diminish your other great work but that Cow Palace ring is SICK! and very unique. Great job on that one! :D Thanks! I had fun designing it. There is a fine line sometimes between creativity and a ring mat that distracts from the matches, but I was pleased with how it turned out.
New Japan posted a couple of tweets recently promoting vinyl figures of Kenny Omega and Tetsuya Naito that are apparently on sale in Japan. So I decided to make a mat design with those figures featured. I tried it initially in a Kenny Omega vs. Tetsuya Naito singles match, but it didn't have the desired effect in Free Cam mode with the Crowd view, especially with the ring ropes blocking the view:  So then I tried again, only this time simming a tag team match: Omega and AJ Styles vs. Naito & Hiromu Takahashi. IMO the ring layout looked much better with the standard view, plus the match was quite fun as well.
Also, someone asked me in a YouTube comment about the upper limit for a Royal Rumble match. So I decided to really put it to the test and go with a 100-man Aztec Warfare match. That has proven to be my favorite of the Rumble variants, with pinfalls and submissions and no over-the-top-rope eliminations.
Anyway, here is the result, starting with Bret Hart and Tito Santana as an homage to the 1988 Royal Rumble. The video clocks in at just past three hours, and recording that long of a video on my computer seemed to strain the machine (even with 16GB of RAM), but it was worth it to confirm that it could be done.
UPDATE: Here's a clip from the 100-man match for anyone wanting a brief look, including Hirai Kawato taking one of the crazier bumps I've seen in the game.
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Post by nashvillelou on Aug 28, 2018 23:54:10 GMT
This is Day One of the PS4 release, and below is my first video recorded on the console version. The ever-present copyright in the bottom left-hand corner is very off-putting to me.
This shows some of the good things (e.g. simmed match with apron moves, multiple Okite Yaburi stolen moves, entrance music exporting with the video clip post) and the bad (e.g. two members of LIJ apparently becoming hypnotized, having to enter with EVIL's music as Naito's music is not included, the aforementioned persistent copyright watermark) that I experienced out of the gate with the PS4 version.
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Post by nashvillelou on Aug 29, 2018 3:54:37 GMT
One nice thing with the PS4 version is that you don't have to set it to record at the beginning. I hadn't intended on posting this Kenny Omega vs. The Rock match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship online, but it ended up being really good and I was able to save/upload the entire match.
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Post by nashvillelou on Aug 31, 2018 5:28:03 GMT
Here's a cage match between Tomohiro Ishii and Shawn Michaels that got a 100% rating: |
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Post by nashvillelou on Sept 7, 2018 5:40:50 GMT
You never know when you might encounter a great match in Fire Pro. Wasn't sure what to expect with Eric Young vs. Niebla Roja (of CMLL) just now, but their simmed match turned out to be great. 98% rating and highly entertaining.
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Post by nashvillelou on Feb 1, 2019 11:14:34 GMT
So I finally took the plunge into arena texture mods. Took several hours for me to figure it all out, and the credit goes to everyone who helped develop it as a viable option and somehow created textures that work so well.
It was time-consuming, but at least if early returns are any indication, the payoff is well worth the considerable effort.
Thought you might enjoy my first two matches with the arena mods in effect:
1. Shawn Michaels vs. Daniel Bryan (notice the yellow guard rails) 2. Velveteen Dream & Aleister Black & Ricochet vs. Tommaso Ciampa & Johnny Gargano & Adam Cole (a preview of Halftime Heat being held at an otherwise empty WWE Performance Center)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2019 8:49:39 GMT
Some of those rings are really wicked man nice work.
If ya ever wanna use my caws I have a whole bunch of ECW caws spanning from the early 92-94 all the way to 95-wwe buyout. I am currently working on the 1995 year of ECW, I also have refs and arenas so go right ahead man.
All I ask is just say original work by Flóki X Harley Quinn for what ever caw you decide to use (If you use any of mine that is).
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Post by nashvillelou on Feb 18, 2019 23:40:34 GMT
Here's a screencap from a just-posted simmed match: Akira Tozawa hitting Minoru Suzuki with a German suplex on the apron just as Koji Iwamoto boosted Conor McGregor up for a Last Ride power bomb. I dig the apron moves. |
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Post by Timberwolf on Feb 20, 2019 18:10:19 GMT
Here's a screencap from a just-posted simmed match: Akira Tozawa hitting Minoru Suzuki with a German suplex on the apron just as Koji Iwamoto boosted Conor McGregor up for a Last Ride power bomb. I dig the apron moves. That green mat on the floor is great. Make the ring with a green theme to go with it and you got yourself a set up for a St. Patrick's Day show. |
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Post by nashvillelou on Feb 27, 2019 23:23:13 GMT
Modding makes this great game even more fun.
So I managed to use the magic wand in paint.net to copy the Yurakuen Hall floor shadow overlay. Then I turned it into a .png and tried it out in creating a Pancake Pantry themed arena, from the floor to the logo in the ring. Ended up simming a full match of Xavier Woods vs. YOSHI-HASHI with this High Zoom view, nothing special in-ring, but a good look at how the shadow overlap minimizes the dreaded stretching floor image problem. Someone with better Photoshop skills than me might be able to make a shadow overlay that works even better. For anyone wanting the overlay I made (or the gray-scale alternate version), I uploaded them here: tigerdriver.com/firepro. |
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Post by nashvillelou on Mar 1, 2019 9:02:56 GMT
Quite the finish to Kenny Omega vs. Bill Goldberg from a simmed match in Fire Promoter mode:
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