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StainedGlass · 03-27-2003, 06:31 PM

The picture file set is very cool, and I'll definitely be using it for my leagues. I think in the distant future it could be really enhanced by a custom application.

Here's my thought. . the pack comes with a default uniform template with basically no color in it, but it lays out where the face goes. The commish or players fill in the appropriate colors and drop the team logo for each of their teams and saves it to a file. At any time the commish can run a 3rd-party app that will suck up the image for the player and attach it to the uniform template, pushing out a final image that will automatically be loaded up in the game. So after a big trade, you just run the app and the players are in the right uniforms. The app would also allow you to automatically assign face pictures to players randomly, to save that work. I could write this in a couple of weeks fairly easily, I think. The only downside is that all of the faces would have to conform to the uniform template. Looking at the current ones, there's a big variety in size of head, whether it's full frontal or 3-quarter, etc. That's cool for now, but I think in the future there'd have to be a standard if you wanted to swap players in automatically.

Thoughts?

03-27-2003, 06:31 PM	#101
StainedGlass Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Seattle Posts: 2	Long-Term version The picture file set is very cool, and I'll definitely be using it for my leagues. I think in the distant future it could be really enhanced by a custom application. Here's my thought. . the pack comes with a default uniform template with basically no color in it, but it lays out where the face goes. The commish or players fill in the appropriate colors and drop the team logo for each of their teams and saves it to a file. At any time the commish can run a 3rd-party app that will suck up the image for the player and attach it to the uniform template, pushing out a final image that will automatically be loaded up in the game. So after a big trade, you just run the app and the players are in the right uniforms. The app would also allow you to automatically assign face pictures to players randomly, to save that work. I could write this in a couple of weeks fairly easily, I think. The only downside is that all of the faces would have to conform to the uniform template. Looking at the current ones, there's a big variety in size of head, whether it's full frontal or 3-quarter, etc. That's cool for now, but I think in the future there'd have to be a standard if you wanted to swap players in automatically. Thoughts?