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celamantia

Player Cards

January 22, 2009 at 08:36PM View BBCode

I'm tinkering with the top of the player cards; if you notice any browser weirdness or SQL errors, please let me know.

redcped

January 22, 2009 at 08:39PM View BBCode

I am noticing some interesting looking faces and hats on my player cards.

Will you be trying to match faces to names so they have some degree of ethnic realism?

celamantia

January 22, 2009 at 08:45PM View BBCode

Nope. There are over 2100 faces (so far) and they are assigned randomly. But when it's complete there will be a way to select a new face (you'll get a page with a dozen random faces to pich from rather than browsing the whole set) or to remove the picture (in which case it will say No Picture Available). You will also be able to disable the pics completetly, in which case you woud (probably) see a team logo instead.

I ran a script to make sure players with narrow heads would fit their caps, but if you notice people who are too BIG for their caps please let me know.

Hamilton2

January 22, 2009 at 08:56PM View BBCode

They look really good to me.

CaseyStengel

January 22, 2009 at 09:15PM View BBCode

Will the players age?

When will we be able to upload a face?

DwightKSchrute

January 22, 2009 at 09:34PM View BBCode

The faces are rather homogenized and somewhat disturbing. I'll probably disable them until we can upload our own images which would sweet for theme leagues.

celamantia

January 22, 2009 at 09:34PM View BBCode

I had considered making the players age; I have the ability to do so. But that would require 3 to 5 times as many images, and since I have not done so with this batch I'd have to throw out the 2100 images I already have. Would it be cooler to habve more images overall or fewer images that actually age?

I was able to fly through face creation at one every 5 seconds or so, but I'd have to lock parameters and then take sequential shots while manipulating the age sliders.... hm. How many age levels? 3? 4? 5? I can't imagine going much farther than that. Keep aging after they retire or show them in their glory days?

As much of a pain as it would be to start over, is starting to sound really cool to me. I know other games may have pictures, but I don't know of any that actually age.

Fortunately, most of the processing work is done by scripts.

Dammit. Aging players is gonna buy me a ton of work, but it sounds too freaking cool.

As far as uploading images, I may be able to do that too... superimpose them on the 3D model and age them in the same way. Because of the work involved, of course, it would have to be for a small fee.

CaseyStengel

January 22, 2009 at 10:04PM View BBCode

Aging Levels:

Youngsters: 16-20 = the young babies of baseball
Youthful: 21-25 = hey, we can drink, carouse, and play ball
Mature: 26-32 = got a family, time to get down to business
Older: 33-40 = the doctor is my best friend, looking forward to sitting by the pool
Retired: the picture when I was at my baseball best (glory days). Oh, yes... and keep the hat with the team logo before I was traded or waived.

Uploading images:

I rename players on my OCL team after players inducted in the National Hall of Fame. It would so cool to see a picture of Ossee Hood or Reggie Jackson on their player card.
[Edited on 1-22-2009 by CaseyStengel]

celamantia

January 22, 2009 at 10:08PM View BBCode

Originally posted by CaseyStengel
Uploading images:
I rename players on my OCL team after players inducted in the National Hall of Fame. It would so cool to see a picture of Ossee Hood or Reggie Jackson on their player card.

Unfortunately, that's the kind of thing we can't have without a license from the MLBPA.

CaseyStengel

January 22, 2009 at 10:18PM View formatted

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[quote][i]Originally posted by celamantia[/i]
[quote][i]Originally posted by CaseyStengel[/i]
Uploading images:[list]I rename players on my OCL team after players inducted in the National Hall of Fame. It would so cool to see a picture of Ossee Hood or Reggie Jackson on their player card.[/list] [/quote]
Unfortunately, that's the kind of thing we [u]can't[/u] have without a license from the MLBPA. [/quote]

Oh well, just as I thought... but still it would be cool seeing my kids and pets on my team. But then it might become too much of a burden for you to handle a ton of uploads of potentially ridiculous faces.

celamantia

January 22, 2009 at 10:20PM View BBCode

That's what we will have to figure out. But right now I'm just working on getting the main system going, plus getting more functional updates done.

Jughead

January 22, 2009 at 10:28PM View BBCode

Maybe we can have custom faces for $5, like custom logos.

As much as I miss the attacking cat, I can understand the importance of changing your avatar. And you seem really excited about this. I don't blame you. Will there be looks of anguish for when the player is injured?

celamantia

January 22, 2009 at 10:39PM View BBCode

Here's some examples of the variety of players:

celamantia

January 22, 2009 at 10:42PM View BBCode

Originally posted by Jughead
Maybe we can have custom faces for $5, like custom logos.

As much as I miss the attacking cat, I can understand the importance of changing your avatar. And you seem really excited about this. I don't blame you. Will there be looks of anguish for when the player is injured?

I am excited abut this... but I changed the avatar just to see if it would work as an avatar. The images are combined on the fly (cap and face) so they don't show up with a proper extension. They work as avatars; to put them into a forum post they need a &.jpg at the end.

Jughead

January 22, 2009 at 10:43PM View BBCode

Makes sense to me. Can you put the logo a bit higher on the hat? They seem a bit too close to the bill.

celamantia

January 22, 2009 at 10:48PM View BBCode

The bill is angled upward, so it actually blocks a tiny part of the logo, as it should from a 3D perspective.

jetpac

January 22, 2009 at 11:20PM View BBCode

Very, very cool. I'm looking forward to this one coming over to the main site. And maybe someday, the images could get implemented into DynastyVision, too?

celamantia

January 23, 2009 at 12:32AM View BBCode

OK, here's what an age progression would look like:

Late teens:

Mid 20's

Early 30's

40-ish

[Edited on 2-29-2012 by Admin]

redcped

January 23, 2009 at 12:36AM View BBCode

It's fairly subtle and I don't think it adds a ton, frankly.

Wondering about something else: Do all these players play for the Yankees, or are they allowed facial hair?

celamantia

January 23, 2009 at 12:54AM View BBCode

I have to add facial hair manually so not that many have it.

CaseyStengel

January 23, 2009 at 01:14AM View BBCode

Like the progression. Now what about the non conformists, hippies, hipsters, ex-gang bangers. How about the all of a sudden super stud on juice aka McGuire or Bonds?

celamantia

January 23, 2009 at 02:05AM View BBCode

Well, let's just say that the more things I add, the fewer images we'll have. In the last hour I've generated enough images for progressions for 120 players, as opposed to the 2200 that are there now. So I'm 18 hours from just completing the set, and that's without adding facial hair to anyone.

There are about 610-650 active players in a league at any one time, not counting waiver bait.

dunn_acolyte

January 23, 2009 at 08:02PM View BBCode

Meet my team:

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celamantia

January 23, 2009 at 08:12PM View BBCode

Funny you should post that.. I was thinking of doing a display like that in Sim Dynasty.

jetpac

January 25, 2009 at 05:21AM View BBCode

This guy's head seems a bit big for his hat:
http://beta.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?player=nobody&mode=stats&id=29470

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