End-around way to convert a league from 26?

[LloydLungs]

I have recently discovered that my OOTP 26 league has some level of modding (not sure what exactly) that makes it impossible to convert to 27. All players look like distorted Picasso paintings. There is an issue with using the ballparks folder from 26 that can cause this, but that is NOT the only thing that causes it. I have the default 27 ballpark folder and have tried a million different things, nothing fixes this. There is something fundamentally embedded in my 26 league that distorts the appearance of the players when converted to 27, making it unplayable (I don't want to play without 3D).

Which brings me to my question. Let's get creative. Is there any sort of end-around technique that can save my league's history and get my league converted to 27 with players that look like humans, with rosters intact, with everything intact? Is there some way to use the functions on the League Settings page to maybe do this piecemeal? I'm thinking probably not, but am hoping maybe the community has some ideas, as I am very attached to this league. I'd say my OOTP playing career is at stake here so I don't want to just give up without exploring every possibility. It can be arduous and miserable, I just want to know if it's possible at all.

[Bluenoser]

Disregard, I see it's a real player league.

[LansdowneSt]

I used to know where the pieces of that uniform man were (the subfolder) but can't seem to find it atm. It is those files I might try to look at first and foremost. I will keep looking to see I can find them. Is it just uniform test man that is broken or is it the players in a 3D game too?

[LloydLungs]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

Is it just uniform test man that is broken or is it the players in a 3D game too?

It is both. I think that something in my 26 save is not aligning with the frame/textures present in 27 and it breaks the rendering of players at a fundamental level that I don't think is fixable.

Bluenoser, actually it IS a fictional league (based on the real MLB alignments/franchises), and while it would be regrettable, I'd put up with all new facegens if it would save the league. However, I have tried that and it doesn't work. There's something embedded deep in this 26 save that throws the player renderings completely out of whack (beyond anything to do with the ballparks folder). I don't know what that is exactly, and I would probably need a dev to figure it out, which I would not expect as they have enough on their plate without dealing with my extreme edge case that affects no one else.

But... it sucks for me, a lot. But yeah, generating new facegens doesn't work. My thought process was maybe generating a fresh MLB league in 27, then somehow importing my players from 26? But is there any way to do that, preserve their contracts, get them on the right teams (I might even do this manually even though it would be tedious with a capital T), and somehow import the history into that 27-generated league?

[Bluenoser]

That's really too bad. Hopefully the Dev's can have a look and help.

Be a shame to lose it all.

[LansdowneSt]

There are folders in the ballparks folder not related to the ballparks. Those need to be the ones that ship with OOTP27 - not OOTP26. So if you copied over the entire ballparks or ballparks/models subfolder, you not only brought over a bunch of stadium models but you also overwrote the subfolders that contain the OOTP27 player models with info from OOTP26.

Reinstall 27 and then move over the individual park subfolders and not the whole big folder. That's my working theory atm anyway...

[LansdowneSt]

In fact, the "misc" folder and "player_profile" folder are examples of one that are in the /models folder that need to be OOTP27 specific but are in there next to all the stadium folders and you barely notice them... fingers crossed once those are restored to OOTP27 ones.

[LloydLungs]

Thanks but unfortunately I've tried that numerous times. I even did a hard uninstall (all folders, de-license, everything) to make absolutely sure there were no weird artifacts left over. Had a completely fresh install of 27 with all default folders, imported a 26 save, players look like Picasso.

So, it has something to do with what's embedded the 26 save, not the ballparks folder (although messing with the ballparks folder is a DIFFERENT way to trigger this issue). I strongly suspect there is some mod issue with my 26 save that breaks the 27 import. But I have no idea what, and again, I don't expect to figure it out, so I am hoping there's some weird alternate way to do it. But I know it's a long shot.

[LansdowneSt]

Are you on discord? Someone had the same issue and solved it last night using the method I just conveyed. In fact, I thought it might be you making the post there until I saw today that you were still having the issue. It is here in case there is no work around...

[LloydLungs]

Yeah, that's what's so frustrating about my case. There is a different manifestation of this issue that is fixed by restoring the ballparks folder to the default 27 version. However, I have tried this numerous times (again, even to the point of a draconian full uninstall where i de-licensed and removed all traces of the game to make sure I unmistakably had the COMPLETE default ballparks folder) and I still get this.

So, logically there must be a different strain of this bug that involves an oddity embedded in my 26 save that I'm trying to import. Because nothing I do -- restoration of ballparks folder, generation of all new facegens, use of uniforms that shipped with 27, even resizing of player models and various other tinkering with game settings -- fixes this issue with my specific imported league.

Hence, the only solution is whether there is an end-around, though I'm getting the feeling there is not.

[LansdowneSt]

On the work around front, zip the saved game .lg folder and post it on a file share site or google drive or something. I will download it, unzip, it, import it into my OOTP27 and if it is missing the error I will zip it back up and I will post it for you to download. If the error is some localized issue in conversion, we can at least control for that variable.

[LloydLungs]

Thanks so much, sent you a PM. Will be extremely curious as to whether you get the distortion too or whether there's some gremlin on my machine specifically. Crossing fingers.

[millhousebc]

willing to take a crack at it too, if you can send me the link

[LansdowneSt]

I was able to move it from 26 to 27 without issue - now we can find out if it opens in 27 as I see it - or reverts to how you've been seeing it in the past.

[millhousebc]

Can say the same.....no issues when I uploaded/imported 26 to 27

[LloydLungs]

It opened successfully! Thanks so much to both of you.

I can say that I did NOT alter anything about my 27 since my last failed attempt to import my league, but the converted leagues from another computer work. So... I wonder what the issue is? It seems like something is going wrong during the import process itself on my computer only. Which is really weird.

I do know I had a lot of mix-and-match jersey fonts in several different formats, and the webp and png formatted fonts did not survive the conversion, but this doesn't seem like it should hose the import process to that degree. Computers are complicated creatures. I would love to know for curiosity's sake, but this is enough to keep my league alive, and that's the most important thing.

Again, thanks so much y'all.

[LansdowneSt]

Happy to help! That's a big part of what the forum is for

[Bluenoser]

Great to hear it's been saved for you, enjoy

[Sweed]

Happy to hear you got your league back.