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Muzamba · 03-24-2012, 03:44 PM

Back on the announcer graphic topic for a moment...

I agree that it would be nice for the users to be able to select their own pics for each team.

Seriously, how hard would this be?

1. Convert the box where the blue suit guy currently resides into a .png field.

2. Create a subfolder titled 'announcers'.

3. Allow the user to save a picture to this folder using the prefix 'an_' (just to help distinguish it from other graphics if it gets misplaced) and the team abbreviation. Therefore, you could have a picture of Jack Buck, for instance, with the name 'an_STL.png', or Harry Caray ('an_CHC.png') or Vin Scully (an_LAN.png), etc. Or, since it's up to the user - or modders - to find the pics, you could even have entire announcing teams in the pic.

4. Use Mr. Blue Suit as the default graphic for this space and name the file 'an_default.png'.

5. Allow for numbers to be added to 'an_default' ('an_default1.png, an_default2.png, etc.) so that other random announcer/team pics can be used.

Depending on which team you're playing as, the appropriate announcer(s) would show up in the PbP box. If you're watching a game that you are not the GM/manager of or 'acting as', you would see one of the random default pics. If your team has no announcer pic file, the default (suit dude) pic would be used.

03-24-2012, 03:44 PM	#90
Muzamba Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: St. Louis, MO Posts: 2,325	Back on the announcer graphic topic for a moment... I agree that it would be nice for the users to be able to select their own pics for each team. Seriously, how hard would this be? 1. Convert the box where the blue suit guy currently resides into a .png field. 2. Create a subfolder titled 'announcers'. 3. Allow the user to save a picture to this folder using the prefix 'an_' (just to help distinguish it from other graphics if it gets misplaced) and the team abbreviation. Therefore, you could have a picture of Jack Buck, for instance, with the name 'an_STL.png', or Harry Caray ('an_CHC.png') or Vin Scully (an_LAN.png), etc. Or, since it's up to the user - or modders - to find the pics, you could even have entire announcing teams in the pic. 4. Use Mr. Blue Suit as the default graphic for this space and name the file 'an_default.png'. 5. Allow for numbers to be added to 'an_default' ('an_default1.png, an_default2.png, etc.) so that other random announcer/team pics can be used. Depending on which team you're playing as, the appropriate announcer(s) would show up in the PbP box. If you're watching a game that you are not the GM/manager of or 'acting as', you would see one of the random default pics. If your team has no announcer pic file, the default (suit dude) pic would be used. __________________ "It may be nothing. But it usually is always something and more than something." - Cardinals GM John Mozeliak Last edited by Muzamba; 03-24-2012 at 03:46 PM.