Ballparks in Progress

[Lucas718]

Originally Posted by Chicagofan76

Blue heres Baker Bowl from High Heat 2003

I made that! That's awesome that you converted it to OOTP.

[okcochise]

Just wanted to praise the work you have done. Although I dont have any projects which are fictional in nature, if I did, I would most certainly use your parks. Thank you for sharing.

Before concluding, I do have a question or two. Are you able to recreate historical ballparks? I am referring to some of the older parks from the 50s and 60s which have never had decent color photos available?

Parks like KC Municipal, Seals, Colt Stadium, Sicks, Metropolitan are the ones which come to mind first.

Thanks again,
Jeff

[Chicagofan76]

Originally Posted by Lucas718

I made that! That's awesome that you converted it to OOTP.

I was trying to convert all my HH stadiums to OOTP, but I still can't find my HH 2k3 disk, I misplaced it somewhere. I use Baker bowl & WGN Field for most of my teams. You don't by chance have some old HH stadium files do you? I am missing several.

[Chicagofan76]

Originally Posted by okcochise

Parks like KC Municipal, Seals, Colt Stadium, Sicks, Metropolitan are the ones which come to mind first.

Thanks again,
Jeff

Seals from HH

[ssacc98]

1969:

[blueturf]

Originally Posted by okcochise

I do have a question or two. Are you able to recreate historical ballparks? I am referring to some of the older parks from the 50s and 60s which have never had decent color photos available?

Parks like KC Municipal, Seals, Colt Stadium, Sicks, Metropolitan are the ones which come to mind first.

Thanks again,
Jeff

I haven't had much luck in attempting to recreate historical stadiums. The Baker Bowl is the only stadium that I have finished that had any historical basis. I attempted to recreate Sicks Stadium but could never get it to look how I wanted and it morphed into Hendricks park which is available in Post #93 of this thread. Also, Teflon created a great rendition of Metropolitan Stadium a few years back and it can be found here.

For now I have taken a little break from stadium creation. I have enough fictional stadiums for my fictional league and I am waiting to see how/if the tentative addition of 2D graphics will effect the stadium image in OOTP13.

I'll peak through the photos of some of those other stadiums and see if something falls into place in the same way it did with the Baker Bowl.

[conception]

Originally Posted by blueturf

For now I have taken a little break from stadium creation. I have enough fictional stadiums for my fictional league and I am waiting to see how/if the tentative addition of 2D graphics will effect the stadium image in OOTP13.

I had thought that may be what you are doing. I too have wondered what even a rudimentary graphic engine would do to the existing stadiums we have now. I consider graphics kind of a double edged sword, it will be awesome to have but it's (likely) going to change my fantasy leagues, of which the stadium designs of yours and Teflon have been part of the fabric of my leagues.

[Lucas718]

Originally Posted by Chicagofan76

I was trying to convert all my HH stadiums to OOTP, but I still can't find my HH 2k3 disk, I misplaced it somewhere. I use Baker bowl & WGN Field for most of my teams. You don't by chance have some old HH stadium files do you? I am missing several.

Sorry, I haven't checked this thread in a while. That looks like my Seals too.

I may have some backed up somewhere. What do you need?

[Chicagofan76]

Originally Posted by Lucas718

Sorry, I haven't checked this thread in a while. That looks like my Seals too.

I may have some backed up somewhere. What do you need?

Hmm off the top of my head. (all of these with ads if you have them)
Dodgers Ebbets Field
There is also a wooden fence Ebbets that i liked might have been for the Mets
Tiger Stadium
Milwaukee County Stadium
Metrodome
Olympic Stadium
Kingdome
Jack Murphy

I think thats about it, Right now I can't even find my HH2k3 disc to finish these for my league and to post on padresfan.

Thanx

[okcochise]

BlueTurf: I think your Hendricks fictional park is very close to Sicks Stadium and is by far better than anything that is available. Even the building in the back ground looks like the actual although in a different location. I was playing around with the old otb version of the park, extending the walls into the corners and adding foul poles, but I think I will use your hendricks park. If you ever take another stab and match things up like the photo that was posted in this thread, it will be even more outstanding.

Thanks, Jeff

[okcochise]

I took several photos that were shot from different angles and combined them so that the park went into both corners. I think its not bad but hardly perfect or close to the stuff that is being created here.

[okcochise]

Sicks

[okcochise]

Looks pretty good

[okcochise]

Here we go

[sdw1000]

Do you have a larger version of this Baker Bowl? I like real pics for my game..but sometimes I have to find alternatives since noone took pics back then. Thanks for decent pics that aren't corny looking.

[blueturf]

Originally Posted by sdw1000

Do you have a larger version of this Baker Bowl? I like real pics for my game..but sometimes I have to find alternatives since noone took pics back then. Thanks for decent pics that aren't corny looking.

The version in post #120 is likely the largest version I have. I experienced a hard drive crash so I am not sure I have any backups of the work I did on the Baker Bowl. Most of my parks are uploaded to the board at 640x480 and I have found when those are used in the game they look okay even if the in-game widget enlargens them a little bit. The