3D enhancement for realism

[StickWillett]

I would like to see ball movement with fielders making or attempting to make plays on the movement of the ball and then making a throw to a base if applicable to the action. I think I read somewhere in the recent past by Admin that this was an eventual goal for OOTP 3D play. Is OOTP 17 going to make this happen? Other PC Baseball games by other companies already provide this feature but with all the other features OOTP provides vs those other games it is ahead of them in that aspect. Further 3D advancements in OOTP should put OOTP over and beyond those competitors to make that complete baseball experience for the PC which is still lacking in the stat-based world of PC sports' games!

[drksd4848]

Originally Posted by StickWillett

I would like to see ball movement with fielders making or attempting to make plays on the movement of the ball and then making a throw to a base if applicable to the action. I think I read somewhere in the recent past by Admin that this was an eventual goal for OOTP 3D play. Is OOTP 17 going to make this happen? Other PC Baseball games by other companies already provide this feature but with all the other features OOTP provides vs those other games it is ahead of them in that aspect. Further 3D advancements in OOTP should put OOTP over and beyond those competitors to make that complete baseball experience for the PC which is still lacking in the stat-based world of PC sports' games!

I'm pretty sure Markus has said that's the goal. I wouldn't hold your breath for OOTP 17, but it'll get there eventually. It's only going to get better.

Right now, it may be more important to get the ball animations to better sync to the play by play - so that deep drive to right doesn't look like a soft line drive to the third baseman.

[SirMichaelJordan]

Yup this is the eventual goal. I am surprise that this game doesn't have 2D dots though. I think something like that would have also been great.

[Cingularity]

All the idea of this sounds great, I'd rather stick to the management end. When 3D happens, that will become the focus of development/fixes and I think what makes this game great is all the 2D stuff. Let the Xbox players have their eye candy. I want depth.

[JaBurns]

Agreed

[drksd4848]

Isn't there a person specifically dedicated to 3D? And other people work on the other stuff. Point is, management stuff wouldn't be effected by 3D. I think Mark even said that.

[thevaliantx]

Yeah, not sure where some get the idea that Markus would be dealing with the 3D / animation side of things.

[realstar]

Originally Posted by Cingularity

All the idea of this sounds great, I'd rather stick to the management end. When 3D happens, that will become the focus of development/fixes and I think what makes this game great is all the 2D stuff. Let the Xbox players have their eye candy. I want depth.

Sorry but realistic depiction of ball placement is not eye candy, it's giving us more immersion. We want the best of both worlds. A game that is rated as the best should the best in all areas of BASEBALL SIMULATION.

Granted, a computer program called Out of the Park is not something we should expect to be about quality on the game level. This name has always bothered me.

[realstar]

Originally Posted by drksd4848

Right now, it may be more important to get the ball animations to better sync to the play by play - so that deep drive to right doesn't look like a soft line drive to the third baseman.

Thank you. I've noticed that ball animations occasionally don't even reflect PbP info at all. Ex: animated ball goes to different field than the actual play. Are we remembering that once there were no ball animations at all in OOTP?

Obviously, game level quality is not a priority in OOTP. It's called Out of the Park. Meaning, GM is the game, not team managing. Further away from GM stuff, is game level immersion.

The result is neglect of game level quality, and we've expected that since the game's early versions: we count our blessings that there is ANY quality in team managing, much less (more blessing counting) for immersion on the game level.

Nonetheless, game level immersion has been on the agenda for this product's development for a while now. We take what we can get.

So let's dream on. I would like to see this baseball simulation computer game eventually change its entire game level graphic animation, to emulate a Sierra game I once played that gave comprehensive camera view replay options for PbP realism. Keep all the developments in the PbP scroll & of course never lose all the 2D stats/management qualities. The best of both worlds.