Photoshop CS2 Random Photo Generation: OOTP FaceScript

[MidKnight]

What Is OOTP FaceScript?
A javascript file written for Photoshop CS2 that randomly generates and saves photos composed from a base photoshop file that has over 300 layers by activating and deactivating certain ones at a time.

I got the idea when I saw Layton is my Homeboy's thread on his project, the OOTP FaceTool (http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar....php?t=118171). This is a pale imitation of that. This isn't a stand-alone program and isn't a fraction as robust as his looks like it'll be. FaceScript is mostly just to tie anyone over in the mean time if you're looking for some quick and dirty generation of photos.

It's been over year since I coded, so I bugged my roommate, a software engineer, to do most of the tough work (i.e. about 90% of the coding), so thank him more than anyone else. The faces came from Blue Turf's, Bobble's, and Chredwdew's "Bag O'Heads" templates which can be located here: http://newrepublic.silvergriffin.com/ootptools.html. Additionally, the uniform templates from this these uni's were created were from Deft, and can be found at the aforementioned site. My hat's off to you guys, the templates are pretty damn amazing. (Note: If you don't want a smattering of those templates used with this program, say the word and it's gone).

It isn't the most efficient script, but it works. It's run directly from Photoshop itself. It works with CS2, but I'm not sure it'll work with any other version. A sample of some output:



Download
You can grab the file here: http://www.the405.org/playergen/OOTPFaceScript.zip
If anyone could rehost, please do. Feel free to redistribute or whatnot.

How to Use:
1) Extract the zip file into a folder somewhere. If using WinZip, make sure you extract with directories intact.
2) Open up "Photo File.psd" in Photoshop CS2.
3) With it open, go to File => Scripts => Browse..., and then select "OOTP FaceScript.jsx"
4) You'll be prompted to enter in the number of photos to generate and the starting number for the naming convention.
5) Sit back and wait. All photos will be thrown into the Generated folder, which needs to be in the same folder as Photo File. It took about 2 hours on my decent rig to generate 2000 files. They should all follow standard OOTP2006 naming convention.
6) Copy them into your OOTP save folder under Data, Saved_Games, [League Folder], News, HTML, Images.

Adding Faces, Backgrounds, Uniforms, and Accessories
To add faces, merely place them into one of the three Face Layer Folders in "Photo File.psd." By default, Face 1 has African American heads, Face 2 has Asian heads, and Face 3 has White and Hispanic faces. All faces have an equal probability of being generated.

To add backgrounds, just add them to the Background Layer Folder. To add accessories, it's the same process.

It's a bit trickier to add uniforms. You'll have to create a new Layer Folder next to the others and name in Uniform X, where X is the next number in succession of the last one. I.E., by default you'd need to create Uniform 14. Then throw all the uniform components in there and turn them visible, but have the overall Layer Folder turned off like the others. Then you'll need to open the script file with a text editor (like Wordpad) and change the "13" of the line "var numUniforms = 13;" to whatever number of uniforms you have. Save the file, and it should run fine.

Notes
Keep in mind of the visibility settings for layers and Layer Folders. Layer Folder "Accessories" must be set to visible, but all components inside to invisible. All Uniform Folders need to be set to invisible, but the layers within them to visible. All "Faces" Layer Folders must be set to visible, but the layers within them to invisible. The Background Layer Folder must be set to visible, but all layers within to invisible.

The frequency of accessories can be lessened by adding more blank ("Empty") layers into the Accessories Layer Folder.

Any problems? Shoot me a PM on the OOTP boards (name: MidKnight) or fire an email to me at honorshade@gmail.com.

[Hageneezz]

Amazing,just what i needed

[truthserum]

Some kind of mod here. I will have to try it out, when I get the chance.

[Deft]

Very cool. Glad you like the templates.

[MidKnight]

Originally Posted by Deft

Very cool. Glad you like the templates.

Hey, thank you...I was spending ages trying to make a bunch of photos by hand, but I realized it was going to take 15 hours or so to get the number I wanted. Figured there must be some way to automate the process. Thought there might be a bit more of a response to this, but maybe not since it's dependent on having Photoshop. Ah well, I've got several thousand photos now - I'm happy.

[asaintsfan]

I guess it doesnt work with regular photoshop as I dont have a "scripts" option under file browse. That sucks

[MidKnight]

Originally Posted by asaintsfan

I guess it doesnt work with regular photoshop as I dont have a "scripts" option under file browse. That sucks

Do you mean Photoshop CS1? I thought it was somewhere there, but I don't have a copy to dig around. I'm planning on tweaking the script a bit, generating a couple thousand faces, and hosting a facepack somewhere if you're interested.

[tcblcommish]

Is there a way to use just 1 uniform at a time?

I am curious becuase I would like to run this with the 1 uni and populate about 500 players per each one in a seperate folder and then have them for every draft for the new players without having to search each picture for ther uni.

Thanks

Great program by the way

[tcblcommish]

NM, I figured it out. thanks

[Layton is my Homeboy]

Great work! If you'd like, I can send you all of the faces I have once I'm done working on my tool. This is really excellent stuff!

[MidKnight]

Originally Posted by Layton is my Homeboy

Great work! If you'd like, I can send you all of the faces I have once I'm done working on my tool. This is really excellent stuff!

Definitely! Thanks for the feedback, too. I'm anxiously awaiting your program; it looks like it'll be a helluva lot more impressive than my roundabout method. Almost makes me wish I stayed a CompSci major...almost.

[Rockpsl76]

Nice I made myself a home and away Indians uniform to put on all my players

Cool! I can tell what hand my players are now just by looking at their picture

BTW, for people who want a quick and easy way to figure out player numbers without getting into the database, go to the "data\saved_games\YOURLEAGUEHERE.lg\news\html\players" directory. Delete all the files, and then in game, look at the SION page for one of your players. A new ".html" page will appear in the directory with the players number in the name (player_1234.html)

[Faroo6]

Originally Posted by Rockpsl76

Nice I made myself a home and away Indians uniform to put on all my players

Cool! I can tell what hand my players are now just by looking at their picture

BTW, for people who want a quick and easy way to figure out player numbers without getting into the database, go to the "data\saved_games\YOURLEAGUEHERE.lg\news\html\players" directory. Delete all the files, and then in game, look at the SION page for one of your players. A new ".html" page will appear in the directory with the players number in the name (player_1234.html)

I'm guessing that everytime you look at someone it overwrites their ".html" page. If this is the case you don't need to delete all the files. Just sort by date modified and your player should be at the top.

[diamond2377]

I would like to use this for OOTP6. So I will have to take the jpg's that are generated and use a batch conversion program to make them bmp's. OK, that's no problem. But how can I get the uniforms to match with each team. I may be missing the point to this utility, and maybe that can't happen.

What I'm thinking is that I can:
- use one grey colored uniform for everyone. It will look bland, but at least they will all have faces.
- Then, I will generate 1500 faces which will cover all major and minor league players in my league.
- Use the program I was talking about to convert the jpg's to bmp's
- Use the program to convert the "player-..." filename to p1 through p1500.
- Throw it in the photo folder under my league folder.
Then, Voila!

I just want some advice on if there is a better way to accomplish this. Remember, I am using OOTP6, and I have a 16 team fictional solo league.

[diamond2377]

Sweet baby Jesus... it worked.

I created a custom league with 8 teams, and there were pictures for every player. The only problem was they all had grey uniforms (not so bad). But also you had guys named Jose Valasquez who looked like they should be in an old karate movie (meaning that the ethnicity often did not match the face). But I am satisfied for now. I'm guessing Layton's utiliity takes this a step further.

[silvam14]

Great program! I created 10 uniforms that correspond to my league and it works great!