NHL goalie masks
 

Inspired by the work of Fyrestorm with his NCAA sets, I've started working on some NHL goalie masks. I found a way to fit some NHL09 masks into the FHM2 template, and the in-game result is pretty good I think. I tried to contact the original author of the goalie pack, but I never heard back from him. So what the heck, I'm giving credit to each author on the file and I'm sharing them here.

I selected the most generic mask for each team or my favorite. After, I could always do the remaining masks to have more choice. I have 6 teams done for now, so let's get started with Anaheim and Arizona.

Effing beautiful sir! :D

Great work! Looking forward to seeing some nice masks.

Boston and Buffalo

One thing I may ask, as I'd like to eventually make some of my own, care to give a break down of the mapping? Such as what all the little rectangles represent and stuff? Pretty please :D

Carolina and Calgary. To be continued... :D

Buffalo's mask. That's the same one that all goalies would wear in Buffalo or are they for each individual goalie? Just curious because it would be weird if every Buffalo goalie had to wear a mask with the number 35 on it haha.

I'm using Fyrestorm's template, and I think pretty much all the various area layers are labeled. But to give you a better idea, here's an example.

The green rectangle is the facemask color, or the cage.

The pink rectangles are the tabs, or the straps.

The blue rectangle are the studs (I'm not sure if this one is visible in-game).

The big brownish circle in the middle is the back plate of the mask.

Hope this helps!

Yeah I know. It's the same for everybody. That's why I'll do a few more later to have more choice.

You rock, excellent work and thanks for taking the time to do this for me! :D

A good suggestion to the devolvement team could be like adding "_1" and "_2" to the goalie naming to give the starting goalie and back up different masks.

Not hi-jacking your thread PWAL. Just wanted to show how quick you can whip up a mask using the template and any of the amazing 2009 masks already out there on the web. I did this Dinamo Riga mask in jig time. Hope we can get some others to start jumping in and doing some more.

Chicago and Colorado

Columbus and Dallas

Detroit and Edmonton

Florida and Los Angeles

Minnesota and Montreal

Nashville and New Jersey

Gorgeous! Those kind of graffiti-style graphics make them look much better than my more focused ones, because the top of the helmet distorts any image you put on there.

For the record, in case anyone's wondering, here's what everything in my template is. I'll use a preview from my next installment of the NCAA set (it's coming, I swear):

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The top circle is the main part of the helmet, specifically the front where the cage attaches, and the chin protector. That chin protector can be colored separately with one of the layers in the template. The border is incredibly rough because all I did was ensure that every visible part of the image was colored. I didn't bother trying to make it pretty.

The half-circle below and to the left is the top of the helmet. Any image put on here gets horribly distorted thanks to the way the game maps the helmet, but with some trial and error you can make it serviceable. The stripes that are on the default helmet are really useful for positioning the graphics.

The circle to the right of that is the back of the helmet. It's not even really necessary, because it doesn't show in the image, but the default template included it, and I didn't see any reason to take it away.

Now, for all the little rectangles. The yellow one in this example is the base color for the facemask. Very simple.

The four tall skinny ones are the straps (that's a much better word than tabs, Pwal, I'mma use it), which are visible to either side of the chin protector, and just barely noticeable on either side at the top.

In the top-right of the template is the rectangle for the studs, which are in fact visible all around the facemask (if you look closely, you can see the little dots of white on top of the gold cage).

The bottom-left rectangle is for the interior of the helmet. One little tiny area shows through in the corner of the face, so I included it as a layer, and I use it to put a darker color in there, if the helmet itself is bright.

The final rectangle next to it is actually for bits and pieces at the top of the helmet. I think it's part of the "interior" showing through, but whatever its intended purpose, it looked terrible. So I just made it part of the base layer for the helmet.

Hope that helps; I know I didn't really explain my template when I posted it before. Which, btw, here it is, if anyone needs it:

helmet_g_template_updated

Thanks Fyrestorm! All this wouldn't be possible without your "pioneering work" with the goalie mask and the helmet templates. :thumbup1: