Ball Park Pics

wilkiburger · 05-16-2008, 01:49 PM

Are different ball park pics going to be incooperated into the game. Ive managed to use lots of different logos schedules etc, but never managed to get a different pic of a ball park real or not in. It just screws up on me!

Any news?

Bigdummie · 05-16-2008, 07:17 PM

I too hope that theres an easier way to display ballpark pics, way to difficult in V8. Any news?

OldFatGuy · 05-16-2008, 07:40 PM

I don't get it. I've used all kinds of stadium pics with no trouble. I attached a graphic of Coors field here. Could you DL it, unzip it into the folder under My Documents/Sports Intereactive/OOTP 2007/(or OOTP8)/data/ballparks. After you unzip it, go into league options, click on edit ballparks, select any team or stadium you want, click the tab for pictures, and in the box for daytime type in Coors Field and then hit enter. This should make that picture appear on the screen. It sure works for me.

EDIT - IMPORTANT Oh man, I forgot a step too, when you click the tab for pictures you need to type in Coors Field.jpg and then hit enter. I forgot the .jpg part. I think this will result in the picture not loading.

Bigdummie · 05-16-2008, 08:50 PM

O.F.Guy, that's way to much trouble for me. I have a number of sport sims and its much easier to display ballpark pics than in OOTP. If you don't enter the name exactatly, well with all the goodies in OOTP, this is one feature I would like to see.

Charlie Hough · 05-16-2008, 09:44 PM

It cannot get much simpler than importing stadium photos into OOTP. It just may be a different method than you find in some other games. Maybe some folks want something as simple as extracting a stadium photo into a folder without ever having to touch anything from within the game. But that wouldn't offer much in the way of flexibility. After all, what if you want to create your own custom stadium and then assign a photo for it? The game won't know automatically which file to use.

Honestly, if the OOTP method is too difficult for some folks, I can't imagine how they can even run the game at all.

OldFatGuy · 05-16-2008, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Bigdummie

O.F.Guy, that's way to much trouble for me. I have a number of sport sims and its much easier to display ballpark pics than in OOTP. If you don't enter the name exactatly, well with all the goodies in OOTP, this is one feature I would like to see.

Yeah, I get that. In your opinion, that's too many steps to do for each stadium. What I don't get was it sounded like the first poster was trying to go through the steps but it wasn't working, and I've never had a problem. I was wondering if he was maybe missing a step or had corrupted stadium pics.

PSUColonel · 05-16-2008, 10:14 PM

I wish we had ballparks that looked like this for all MLB teams. Just beautiful.

sutto · 05-16-2008, 10:47 PM

Sweet. Where's that pic from?

bababui · 05-16-2008, 11:01 PM

It would be nice to be able connect a stadium pic with a city so that when we start a new dynasty, the stadium pic will automatically be attached to the cities team.

sutto · 05-17-2008, 01:26 AM

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Originally Posted by bababui

It would be nice to be able connect a stadium pic with a city so that when we start a new dynasty, the stadium pic will automatically be attached to the cities team.

I'm not sure why you would want that. What about cities with multiple teams? Or you may have multiple leagues running but in different eras. I certainly wouldn't want a stadium automatically assigned.

I think the current method is straightforward, and gives plenty of flexibility. I'm not sure why people are having trouble with it.

OldFatGuy · 05-17-2008, 01:42 AM

I think it would be nice if you could have a folder with stadium pics named after team name and nicknames, like you do with now with jerseys in the jerseys folder, then the game would assign stadiums the same way it assigns jerseys. Would be nice to if it assigned ballpark factors based on a folder with text files named similarly.

Just my $.02.

bababui · 05-17-2008, 02:53 AM

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Originally Posted by sutto

I'm not sure why you would want that. What about cities with multiple teams? Or you may have multiple leagues running but in different eras. I certainly wouldn't want a stadium automatically assigned.

I think the current method is straightforward, and gives plenty of flexibility. I'm not sure why people are having trouble with it.

It would be easier to change a few stadium pics than to have to assign ALL pics each time.

wilkiburger · 05-17-2008, 02:58 AM

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Originally Posted by PSUColonel

I wish we had ballparks that looked like this for all MLB teams. Just beautiful.

Yes please, this is exactly what I wanted when I play with real teams, awesome!!, and maybe some fictisious ones. Much prefer this than to have a stadium pic that is real and of a difficult angle. Wouldn't it be grat though if the attendance was accurate in the pic!!. Half full, full during playoffs!!

SSG Troyer · 05-17-2008, 03:38 AM

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Originally Posted by wilkiburger

Yes please, this is exactly what I wanted when I play with real teams, awesome!!, and maybe some fictisious ones. Much prefer this than to have a stadium pic that is real and of a difficult angle. Wouldn't it be grat though if the attendance was accurate in the pic!!. Half full, full during playoffs!!

While the attendance thing would be nice, the nature of the way the pics are set up would make this impossible, unless the stands at each field were pixrl-for-pixel identical, or exactly definable.

As far as assigning pics to cities, it seems to me it could be done automatically the same way we do logos and uniforms...by naming them by city and nickname. In the \ballpark folder, we could have filenames like:

Chicago_Cubs_day_awholebunchoftwodigitnumbers.jpg where the numbers are the ballpark factors.

Bigdummie · 05-17-2008, 09:17 AM

SSG, thats exactaly whats needed for ballpark pics. Its not that we can't figure out how to assign them, your idea would make it much quicker, so we have more time for playing. Thanks

1998 Yankees · 05-17-2008, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by sutto

Sweet. Where's that pic from?

That's a drawing of New Yankee Stadium, confound it to heck!

He may have found it here:
Ballparks of Baseball-Yankee Stadium-New York Yankees

That would make it unique, not one of a series of similarly drawn ballpark pics, although I agree that such a series done in this style would be nice for our game.

"New" Yankee Stadium. Sigh. In time, I suppose I will become . . . fond . . . of New Yankee Stadium.

For now though, having done my duty here, I avert my teary eyes in sadness. I find myself unable to gaze upon that cursed image any longer.

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05-16-2008, 07:17 PM	#2 (permalink)
Bigdummie Minors (Single A) Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 75	I too hope that theres an easier way to display ballpark pics, way to difficult in V8. Any news?

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Bigdummie Minors (Single A) Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 75	O.F.Guy, that's way to much trouble for me. I have a number of sport sims and its much easier to display ballpark pics than in OOTP. If you don't enter the name exactatly, well with all the goodies in OOTP, this is one feature I would like to see.

05-16-2008, 09:44 PM	#5 (permalink)
Charlie Hough All Star Reserve Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 675	It cannot get much simpler than importing stadium photos into OOTP. It just may be a different method than you find in some other games. Maybe some folks want something as simple as extracting a stadium photo into a folder without ever having to touch anything from within the game. But that wouldn't offer much in the way of flexibility. After all, what if you want to create your own custom stadium and then assign a photo for it? The game won't know automatically which file to use. Honestly, if the OOTP method is too difficult for some folks, I can't imagine how they can even run the game at all.

05-16-2008, 10:14 PM	#7 (permalink)
PSUColonel All Star Starter Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 1,278	I wish we had ballparks that looked like this for all MLB teams. Just beautiful.

05-16-2008, 10:47 PM	#8 (permalink)
sutto Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 38	Sweet. Where's that pic from?

05-17-2008, 01:42 AM	#11 (permalink)
OldFatGuy All Star Reserve Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Northern Va., Loudoun County Posts: 646	I think it would be nice if you could have a folder with stadium pics named after team name and nicknames, like you do with now with jerseys in the jerseys folder, then the game would assign stadiums the same way it assigns jerseys. Would be nice to if it assigned ballpark factors based on a folder with text files named similarly. Just my $.02.

05-17-2008, 09:17 AM	#15 (permalink)
Bigdummie Minors (Single A) Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 75	SSG, thats exactaly whats needed for ballpark pics. Its not that we can't figure out how to assign them, your idea would make it much quicker, so we have more time for playing. Thanks