OOTP Developments Forums - View Single Post - Naming convention of player pics: There's gotta be a better way

Lukas Berger · 03-14-2013, 01:30 AM

The only other alternative I can see it that which is used by Football Manager, assigning player pics via xml files that link the pic name to the in game id. Then the pic name can be anything you want, but you have to run a utility to create the xml linking the pic name with the id. So you have to manually retrieve every id from the db and then enter it into the utility. Or name the pics as the id.

Having created pics for FM, I can tell you it's real pain in the butt to do it that way. Birthdates are better. Perfect, not at all, but better.

03-14-2013, 01:30 AM	#19
Lukas Berger OOTP Developments Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Nice, Côte d'Azur, France Posts: 21,364	The only other alternative I can see it that which is used by Football Manager, assigning player pics via xml files that link the pic name to the in game id. Then the pic name can be anything you want, but you have to run a utility to create the xml linking the pic name with the id. So you have to manually retrieve every id from the db and then enter it into the utility. Or name the pics as the id. Having created pics for FM, I can tell you it's real pain in the butt to do it that way. Birthdates are better. Perfect, not at all, but better. Last edited by Lukas Berger; 03-14-2013 at 01:41 AM.