1973 Topps Template
 

I started on this, but found out that I don't know how to make all the text upper case... I think it is neat that we can have different images to show the position instead of just text. Topps did this in 73 and again in '76, I believe..


Here's what I have so far, haven't started on the back of the card, yet. (and need to get it to show the player name and team name in upper-case.. )

:laugh:...guess I wasn't the only one busy tonight.

These look great so far. I haven't figured out how to use uppercase or small caps either. The UD uses small caps (i.e all caps with big first letter) for the player name.

My xml isn't that great.

Nice!

I don't know if this will work. I've only dabbled in XML a little. This is from an HTML/XML book I have.

text-transform property

<p style="text-transform:none">This text is completely normal.</p>

substitute lowercase, uppercase or capitalize (first character in a paragraph is a capital letter) for 'none'

Hey Dave, just wondering if you have made any progress on these?

Alrighty.. here's an update..

I still can't get the letters to be all caps, so I will ignore that for now, at least.
In the real card, the top portion would have a little fact or something about the player. I added in random baseball trivia, instead.
Not sure what to do with the bottom part, yet, but here are a few examples so far.

I like what you've done here looks really good.

These look great Dave :D

The position icon is just so fantastic.

When will you be releasing these gems? :flowers:

I've been trying to figure that out also to no avail.

Great job on these - classic set. The Freddie Patek from this set is one of my favorite cards. It is a landscape-oriented action shot of him turning a double play.

One question: Can you get the game to choose which position icon to use? Or do you have to manually change it?

I will be releasing the set soon..

To get the position to show correctly, I just have a graphic named as the short position name with .png.. and will select the correct one automatically.

For the trivia, I just have them as graphics naming them as 1 to 99 and have it chose whichever one is the same as the player's jersey number. If there isn't a specific one for that player's number, it just uses a default one instead.

Nice. Good to know.

Thanks for that tip. I was using stuff like Wins and Triples to generate a quasi-random number. For some reason it never occurred to me to use Uniform, which has a nice spread of possible numbers.

Yeah.. I saw what you were doing and that's how I thought to even use anything at all! :-) So the thanks all go to you!

I'm trying to send this to PadresFan right now but it's 13MB and my connection (satellite) is sucking horribly right now.. If it doesn't go through tonight I will try again tomorrow...

bump, these look awesome and are going to be my default.

You guys are amazing.. another great template to add to my collection!!!

Did these ever get put up on Padresfan site yet?

Thanks!

Yup!

Page: OOTP FaceGen Files

File: http://www.jazzrack.us/mods/ootpmods...pps%20v1.0.zip

Thanks, both of you!

These are fantastic. For anyone wondering, works great in fictional play also...

These are excellent, one of my favorites!

What did you change the trivia image name to? Do you just drop the number? Great to see Frenchy on a card like that!

Yes just drop the number and name it whatever you want. I named mine...

1973_topps_metros.png

Remember to change it in the default.xml file as well...

content="1973_topps_metros.png"

these are awesome, but I have no idea on what to do with them? Could someone give me a quick tutorial on how to get these into the game?

Cheers,

dcc

The readme.txt that I posted here is pretty much applicable to any card right now. For anyone making templates feel free to shamelessly steal the readme.

thanks a bunch!!!

dcc

I meant to! but forgot! Ha!

If you haven't found it already, I also included the .psd file for anyone who has Photoshop and wants to create their own Trivia or whatever, too!

Outstanding!

1973 topps template download?
 

Where can I fing the 1973 topps baseball card template to download?

There are links on the first page of this thread.

I like how you added your league logo to it. I want to do that also but I don't know how to change the logo's color and texture to fit with the card design. Could you (or anyone) change this logo to a grayscale (or whatever) and texture to match? Thanks.


EDIT: I may have gotten it, but I'll still accept any help. :)

Worked one up for you, cephasjames.

Where would you like me to send it? PM me.

So I tweaked some of the placement of the stats on the back to make them line up better, imo, and this is what I got. Notice, he has 10,000+ AB and , though tight, everything still fits.

Here's the new code for default.xml:

And I redid the pitchers too (removing Hits, because it felt too squished for me).

code change:

This is awesome. Thanks for the adjustments, cephasjames.

Agreed, these little adjustments make what is already my favorite OOTP card a little bit better.

Hall of Fame card. Thanks, Dave, for doing these. This is by far my favorite design.

This is growing to be one of, if not, my favorite card layouts. Apologies for being either a bit dense or lazy, but can someone explain simply how and just where to change the league logo in the xml to reflect one's own?

Additionally, it appears cephasjames' latest adjustments have enhanced even further the already outstanding efforts by davwms and DreamTeam. Is that coding what's contained in full in one of the posts above?

Thanks in advance and for all of your efforts.

Well, what they did was modify the 1973_Topps_blank.png to add the logo there and then remove the line that adds the layer with the trivia questions (referencing the uniform number). If you just add a line of code to add the logo it probably wouldn't look right do the colors that are on the back of the card. At least it probably wouldn't look 'authentic' for the year the card is copying.

Here are the files in full that I've changed. The three .xml files with all of the code changes that I made. And the changed HOF card and template card. Additionally (this is, again, my personal taste) I changed the color of the front of the card from white to whatever color it now is (I eyedropped the GLL logo and that's what I came up with) because I was having a hard time seeing some of the names - I must be getting old :rolleyes:. Adding your own league logo should be pretty easy. Using these, there is no need to use all of the other card templates (sorry, davwms, that must have been a lot of work), just the position logos and all-star logo.

nm

Does anyone keep the trivia cards in tact? :-)
I just know not to bother with that next time.. LOL...

When I run a historical MLB league I keep the trivia. For my fictional league, I followed DreamTeam's lead and added the league logo.

I thought the trivia was a nice touch.

sorry for this, but for the life of me I cant figure how to get these updated individual xmls from here into the folder...

If you "click" on them, you should get the option to save them. You can then save them to your saved game bb card folder (or wherever you like).

for someone new to this , can someone please explain to me what these are for? Does the game normally make baseball cards and these are vastly improved versions? How do i add these to my game - will it automatically do it for me, if so how?

Just for fun. These would be good for online league or dynasty writers to incluse in their writeups. Like an addition to what FaceGen brings to the game. They don't serve any game purpose really

Yes

There should be a readme file included to show where it should go - I think it is a folder called bb cards. Or search the mod area for some of BMW's templates - I think he included instructions in the post. It's not too hard.

Davwms - another question/request....
 

I am using this awesome template you have put together and was wondering if you could help me replace the trivia with the Royal Gilboan Baseball League Logo on the back.....Im not sure how to do it......