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Old 03-13-2009, 09:19 AM   #24 (permalink)
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Ceej, that looks great. I have mainly been mainly trying to get a 2D (overhead) image of exactly what I want, what goes where, how deep and tall the fences are, etc. I figure that unless I know exactly what I want before I try to get it into a 3D model, I could spent a lot of time just wandering around.

I'm pretty much designing a ballpark from scratch which is a lot of fun but also requires a lot of thinking about where the seats go, etc. I figure once I finish the first one, the others will be easier.

My first park is located in York, PA circa 1950. It's going to be similar to a smaller version of Ebbets Field with a tall RF fence that has a big scoreboard and lots of signs. I am trying to be somewhat historically accurate w.r.t. the signs, etc.

I've fooled around with Blender a bit but I'm still pretty much lost there. That's going to take some time.

One thing. The mound is not spherical and symmetrical. That's one thing I figured out. Here are dimensions for it.

http://www.diamondpro.com/fielddimen...quaremound.pdf

I have designed some of the signs that will go in the OF. I tried to go for a local flavor but I'm going to also have some national ones (Pepsi, Maxwell House, etc.). Here are a couple of them.


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