Complete Universe Facegen Pack

[Charlie Hough]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

Got the images off the links. Thanks. If you ever need to attach anything, you have to go to the "Go Advanced" button under the text box and then a little lower down is the "Manage Attachments" button.

Strange. I'm getting pretty accurate FaceGens for nearly all historical players, even though I haven't installed a facepack at all.

For some reason, the posting interface was broken for me over the past few days, and many of the options weren't showing up or rendering correctly. Now suddenly everything looks normal again, so here are images for Larry Milbourne, another missing player:

[LansdowneSt]

Julio Cruz made a strong statement about his value during a Seattle Mariners home game against the Cleveland Indians on June 7, 1981. Cruz’s glove and legs sparked Seattle in a 5-4 victory in 11 innings. He tied a major-league record for second basemen when he handled 18 chances without an error in nine innings. Cruz’s speed helped seal the win. With one out in the bottom of the 11th and the score tied, 4-4, he singled, stole second base, and scored the winning run on a single. After the game, Cruz told a reporter a player does not have to be a superstar to help his team.

Julio Cruz never reached superstar status, but he enjoyed a notable career. The 5-foot-9, 160-pound second baseman spent 10 seasons in the major leagues, earning the nicknames “Cruzer” and “Juice.” Although Cruz exhibited weak hitting during his career, his rangy, acrobatic fielding and basestealing prowess helped him rise from undrafted free agent to steady major-league starter. He joined the Mariners midway through their inaugural season in 1977 and eventually emerged as a fan favorite because of his play and affable manner. He later helped spark the Chicago White Sox to a division title. Although a toe injury derailed his career, he had earned a place in baseball history. He joined a small group of players who achieved a career stolen-base percentage of at least 80 percent and at least 300 bases. - SABR

As requested. I used the White Sox photo. His facegen, as AESP suggested, was incorrect in the CUF pack. Mine is correct and is used in historic OOTP games.

[LansdowneSt]

Lawrence "Larry" Milbourne grew up in the Port Norris section of town, where a great number of people made a living in the oystering industry. Paul Milbourne was a “shucker” who also played on the Shellpile baseball team, with his sons, Larry and Monty. Many families lived in rickety shack built on stilts. When Larry was a boy the community was devastated by a pathogen that killed off the local oysters. A switch-hitter who could play any infield position, Larry used his sharp mind and advanced baseball skills as a way out. After earning All-State honors as a junior and senior at Millville High, he signed a contract with the Baltimore Orioles out of high school in 1969. His brother, Monty, would later sign a minor-league deal with the White Sox. After bouncing around the minors with the Orioles, Giants, Angels and Cardinals in the early 1970s, Larry was selected by the Houston Astros in the 1973 Rule 5 Draft. He had a solid rookie year in 1974, backing up veteran Tommy Helms at second base and batting .279. In Houston he earned his nickname, The Devil.

Larry played two more seasons for the Astros before the Seattle Mariners traded for him during spring training in 1977. Larry continued to serve in a utility role for the AL expansion club and made history when he delivered the M’s first-ever game-winning RBI. Larry matured as a hitter in the late 1970s and earned more playing time. In 1979, he set a team record with a dozen pinch hits. In 1980, he was the toughest man in baseball to strike out. That year he became just the 8th American Leaguer to switch-hit homers in the same game.

Following the 1980 season, the Mariners traded him to the Yankees with a player to be named later for catcher Brad Gulden and cash. The following May, the Mariners named that player: Brad Gulden, who was essentially traded for himself. Larry hit .313 for the Yankees, filling in for injured Bucky Dent. He continued to hit well as the Yankees won their two playoff series and faced the Dodgers in the World Series. Larry went 5 for 20 with 4 walks, a pair of doubles and 3 RBIs in the team’s 6-game loss to LA. He retired from baseball at age 34. - NJSports.com

Another case of an incorrect ID in the CUF pack. The CUF had the suffix as "-lar" but it is -law. Redid the fg.

[LansdowneSt]

At 21, Frank Barnes began his professional career in 1947 with Indianapolis of the Negro American League. Three years later, in July 1950, while playing for Kansas City of the Negro American League, Barnes and teammate Elston Howard had their contracts sold to the defending World Series champion Yankees, who were slow to integrate. According to the book, “Elston and Me” by Arlene Howard (Elston’s widow) and Ralph Wimbish, Barnes was like a big brother to Howard and helped him adapt to professional baseball. Before the 1957 season, Barnes joined Omaha, an affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals. There, Barnes excelled, and he saw sparatic action with the Cards over the next few years.

For Barnes, two highlights of his stint with the 1958 Cardinals occurred in May. Stan Musial delivered his 3,000th career hit, an RBI-double to left-center off the Cubs’ Moe Drabowsky, on May 13 at Chicago. Hutchinson lifted Musial for a runner, choosing Barnes for the honor. Barnes raced home from second on a single to left by Don Blasingame, tying the score at 3-3 in a game the Cardinals won, 5-3. Five days later, on May 18, Barnes earned his only big-league win.

He spent the entire 1959 season with Omaha, posting a 15-12 record and 2.87 ERA as the ace on a staff that included Bob Gibson and Ray Sadecki. After opening the 1960 season with the Cardinals’ Rochester farm club, Barnes was called up to St. Louis on April 29. He went 0-1 with a 3.52 ERA in four games with the Cardinals. “We figured on Barnes for relief, but his arm is too tender for frequent duty,” Cardinals manager Solly Hemus said to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Barnes continued to pitch professionally in the minor leagues and Mexico until age 40 in 1967. - RetroSimba.com

Redid the facegen using a less expressive photo of him. That old fg of him kinda freaks me out...

[LansdowneSt]

Seven years after Sandy Sr. concluded his 15-year major-league career, the Alomar family connection extends to another generation of professional baseball players. A fortuitous set of circumstances have brought Sandy Sr. and his two sons, Sandy Jr. and Roberto, to the Padre organization. The three are working together at the Padre minor-league training camp here. “It’s something different,” a delighted Sandy Sr. said. “I never figured that we would be together.” Alomar, an infielder who had a .245 lifetime average while playing for six teams, is starting his first season as a coach with the Padres’ Class-A Charleston team in the South Atlantic League. When Alomar left baseball, he bought a gas station in his hometown of Salinas, Puerto Rico. In 1983, he started getting an itch to return to the game.

The Padres are pleased to have the Alomars, and Sandy and Sons can’t believe that everything has worked out so perfectly. Sandy Jr., 18, caught 59 games at Spokane in the Northwest League last season. The 6-foot 4-inch catcher, hit only .215 in 219 at-bats. He has a tendency to swing at bad pitches, but he made his mark behind the plate. “He can throw and can really catch. The pitchers in the winter league were actually asking for him to catch them.”

Roberto, 17, is a second baseman who signed with the Padre organization on Feb. 16. “Roberto is the most polished 17-year-old ballplayer in all phases of the game that I’ve ever seen,” said Steve Boros, the Padres’ coordinator of minor-league instruction. “The boy wanted to be with his father and brother because he felt he would be able to make inroads more easily,” Rosa said. “And I think the adaptation will be easier for them than it is for other Latin players.”

Sandy Sr. is happy that he’ll be able to continue to spend time with his sons, and will be able to help them develop. “I think they’ll both be better than me,” he said. “They’ll have the advantage of learning from me.” - LA Times, March 5, 1985

Redid the facegen. He was primarily an Angel, so I used the clean-shaven version of him.

[AESP_pres]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

(...) finish my Chico H. I'm behind (and not yet happy with Chico

Looks like this guy give you as much trouble than he did to me... he's one of the few guy with a picture I was never able to do a good FG for and his facegenless in my database.

[AESP_pres]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

Redid the facegen using a less expressive photo of him. That old fg of him kinda freaks me out...

A lot of those old black players FG does... I haven't found one yet that I didn't have to redo.

[LansdowneSt]

Originally Posted by AESP_pres

Looks like this guy give you as much trouble than he did to me... he's one of the few guy with a picture I was never able to do a good FG for and his facegenless in my database.

Ha!. Yup. Just not happy with it yet. Got the in-laws coming over today but the two outstanding ones I have yet to do are both yours! Looking forward to the long holiday weekend to knock them out once and for all - plus the ones on my own list.

[AESP_pres]

No problems, I knew they would be a pain in the A to do... have a good day with your in-laws!

[AESP_pres]

LansdowneSt I have another fun project for you...

Tommy Giordano... obviously his profile picture on his BBref page is awful and nothing good can be done with it (I tried and the result was laughable), but you can get workable photography of him online but there is a small problem... those are pictures of a very old Giordano long after his playing days when he was a scout.

I add a picture of him in my post if you feel like giving him a try...

[Charlie Hough]

Fantastic work on Julio Cruz and Larry Milbourne! Here are two more players that desperately need more accurate FaceGens, although one is a case where the player needs glasses/sunglasses, and the other is a familiar face.

Charlie Hough and Kent Tekulve

[LansdowneSt]

Thanks.

Kent T is on page 157 of this thread. You can't do sunglasses in facegen. The fg eyes are in-game generated and not from the photo, so you end up with a racoon if you use sunglasses. It's terrible.

[luckymann]

Thanks as always bud, hope you're well.

G

[LansdowneSt]

Carmine "Tommy" Giordano, a longtime scout who played only 11 games in the major leagues but spent more than seven decades in a variety of baseball roles, died Thursday [Feb 14, 2019]. He was 93. Known affectionately as "T-bone," Giordano worked for the Atlanta Braves as baseball's oldest scout through last season, his 71st in professional baseball. He had intended to come back for another year until he became ill. "I can't wait to get up in the morning and go to the ballpark," he said in a 2016 interview with The Associated Press. "I'm still in baseball, so I must have been doing a pretty good job."

Giordano, a slick-fielding middle infielder, played in the minor leagues for a dozen years. His only appearance in the majors came toward the end of the 1953 season, when he was called up by the struggling Philadelphia Athletics. He had a memorable debut at Connie Mack Stadium, homering off 20-game winner Virgil Trucks of the Chicago White Sox in his second career at-bat. But Giordano hit only .175 with two homers and five RBI during that 11-game stint and never returned to The Show. The Athletics played just one more season in Philadelphia, moving first to Kansas City and eventually to Oakland.

Giordano became a scout after his playing days were over, serving in that role for numerous teams beginning with the Kansas City Athletics in 1960. He relished the opportunity to comb the backwoods and backwaters for potential future stars. Two of his biggest prizes were Cal Ripken Jr. and Manny Ramirez.

Born Oct. 9, 1925 in Newark, New Jersey, Giordano's baseball career almost ended not long after it started. His father, who owned a grocery store, believed young Tommy should focus on his schoolwork and devote any free time to working at the family business. When Giordano joined the high school team, he fibbed to his parents about his reason for coming home late. "I used to hide my spikes," Giordano said. "Well, my dad got hold of them and put them on the butcher block. He cut them up. He cut everything up. My bat, my glove, everything." Eventually, though, his father came around. He even had a pregame ritual that gave his son a nickname, one that stuck with him through the rest of his life. T-bone. "I hit a couple of home runs one day," Giordano recalled. "Someone made the statement, 'Hey, where did you get all that power? What did you do?' I told 'em, 'Before every game, my dad fixes me a big T-bone steak.' That's where it all started." - espn.com

SABR bio gave me his college and I used an enhanced version of a small picture of him standing in the back of a group photo from its yearbook. That and the profile-ish picture shown were my guides. The "before" facegen was mislabeled in the CUF pack with a -tom suffix. See AESP - I got at least one of yours done before Thanksgiving! :P

[AESP_pres]

And I thought it would be the most challenging one to do... always forget that you have a lot of resources to get your pictures. Thanks!

[LansdowneSt]

“No manager really wants a knuckleball pitcher … until he wins 15 in a row."

Charlie Hough pitched at the major-league level for a quarter of a century on the strength of his knuckleball – a pitch, coincidentally, that he learned in the minor leagues as an attempt to reinvigorate his stagnating professional baseball career. Commenting on his 1969 season in Albuquerque, Hough noted, “I was in Double-A with a bad arm. I couldn’t think about throwing 90, much less throw 90. Learning the knuckleball was my chance to stay in pro ball.” “It was no longer a question. I had average stuff, and now I had a sore arm. If you want to compete, you compete. You find something.”

Over his major-league career Hough logged 3,801⅓ innings. He pitched in 858 regular-season games. Nearly a quarter of the games Hough started, he finished: In his 440 starts, he pitched 107 complete games. He struck out 2,362 batters, walked 1,665, and surrendered 383 home runs. Hough threw 179 wild pitches, was called for 42 balks, and hit 174 batters. Quite a career for someone of whom Tommy Lasorda said, “You’ve got a Double-A fastball and a Double-A curve. And in a foot race with a pregnant woman, you’d finish third.” Hough concurred. "I throw ninety percent knuckleballs. The other ten percent are prayers," he said in 1986. "I probably could throw other pitches. The only reason I don't is that I love pitching in the Major Leagues."

He came up as multi-inning reliever with the Dodgers but made his name as a starter with the Rangers. After leaving the Rangers as their all-time leader in wins with 139 (Kenny Rogers wrapped up his career six wins shy), Hough would join the White Sox for two years and then become the first starter for the Marlins in 1993. It's only fitting that it was a 45-year-old who would get the first start and victory for a brand-new franchise. He pitched six innings against the Dodgers in the Marlins' debut, getting the victory in the Fish's 6-3 victory. - SABR & mlb.com

I used the very pink photo of him that was provided but turned the pink way down before trying to make the facegen. When the pink wouldn't go away, I just made the photo black & white. I also consulted other photos like the two shown. Hough in my mind is his older self but this should work as a Dodger version of him easily enough. I can see Hough in the CUF one but it is very, very over-smoothed. Did the best I could with your namesake, Charlie.

[Charlie Hough]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

Thanks.

Kent T is on page 157 of this thread. You can't do sunglasses in facegen. The fg eyes are in-game generated and not from the photo, so you end up with a racoon if you use sunglasses. It's terrible.

Okay, I grabbed the image. As for glasses or sunglasses, there's an easy workaround for that, at least for saved games. I just have the game load up the FaceGen file, and it saves a copy in the saved game's news/html/images/profile_pictures folder. I just go in there and drop in a different pair of glasses in PhotoShop, with the interior lens areas darkened. Then I save a separate copy as a backup for use with future saved games. Here's an example of the old Tekulve FaceGen with this method.

[actionjackson]

I've started a new OOTP23 save, and have been on a FaceGen file MiLB ID error correction blitz, for the 1,100ish players that have arrived in my game, so far. If any are interested, they are up on my Google Drive (link below, which will be added to my signature later). This will give you the work of the geniuses past and present that have toiled on these, but the files were unusable in game, due to incorrect BB-RefMiLBids. I'll update as often as I can, so that we can cut down on the number of faceshifting false FaceGens, as quickly as possible.

N.B.: I have only corrected erroneous FG files. I have not removed the excess bloat of players that have two or three of the same FG file in there. My main goal, is to get corrected IDs out, so that we can all enjoy them in our games, sooner rather than later.

I'm also trying to root out the Bickersons in the fg_files folder, by uploading the ones that I'm seeing to this thread. Any FaceGen enthusiast knows what I'm talking about, when I mention the Bickersons, and for those that don't, it's this guy. Just putting them here, so that the artistes can work their magic, if there are now photos that can be used to give these guys a proper FG, and take another Bickerson out behind the barn, until we have as few as possible in here.

With the Google Drive folder, you'll arrive at a page that says: "Couldn't preview file There was a problem with the network". That means it's too big (1.58 GB) to preview. It does not mean that you can't download it. Download it as you normally would. Of course, let me know if it doesn't work, and I'll try to fix it. Thanks. And Happy Thanksgiving to those who are celebrating it today!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oRd...lJKSf8RrB/view

[actionjackson]

I don't know if it's possible, but if you see some Bickersons in your games, maybe add them to the list, and re-upload it?

[actionjackson]

Whoever did the FaceGen for Hugh Daily is a FaceGen God! I mean, behold this beautiful bastard. We're standing in the presence of greatness, here.