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Originally Posted by BMW
Someone asked me about creating baseball cards using the FaceGen pics. If you wanted to print out baseball cards the size of postage stamps, they would be adequate.
And even considering that, they look lousy, because baseball cards that you buy have action shots on them. They don't have a picture of the guy staring into the camera (or slight variations of guys looking into the camera), at least most of them don't. Even cards created 100 years ago had at least drawings/paintings of players in action.
If you wanted ones the size of baseball cards, suitable for printing, you'd need a 300 dpi image at roughly 2.25 at 3.50 inches. They'd be about 1/2 a MB each.
Doing them on demand wouldn't be much of a problem, but if you did a whole league, that could be 3-4 GB of data for just the card fronts alone.
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Don't know about the practicality of including them out of the box, but I'll point you to
Featherheads.com, where Florida Featherheads owner Kevin Lewis showcases a few of the PEBA baseball cards he's created using FaceGen pics. I don't know about you, but I think they look great even if they aren't action shots. Could something like this work as a back of the box feature? In my mind, absolutely yes. It's one more way for OOTP players to connect with their virtual players.
Again, I can't speak to the practicality of generating cards like this, but I sure can imagine at least a few people saying, "Wow, that looks
cool!" and plunking down some cash for this kind of feature.