Different as Night and Day

[DreamTeams]

Duplicate post. Sorry.

[Ambermonk]

Originally Posted by DreamTeams

These are quite nice, Ambermonk. Can certainly appreciate the hours of work that goes into a project like this.

In fact, a while ago I completed a set of night/day ballpark mods based on the ballpark images from the Tony Larusa/Oldtime Baseball games and a few from the great Teflon. They can be found here...

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...-baseball.html

Once again, good job.

Excellent job DreamTeams. Thanks for posting the link in this thread. Now, all of our pics can be accessed from inside this thread.

I notice that you even had lights in the windows! Good job.

[conception]

Originally Posted by Ambermonk

You are right about some looking better than others. This is a reflection of the simple fact that I got better as I continued to do the ballparks.

For example, I came to realize that it looked better to not darken the sky completely but leave the background buildings somewhat visible.

I also came to realize that it was worth the extra time & effort to create a highly detailed separation between the foreground and the background.

After the first few ballparks, I started extensively enlarging the ballparks to facilitate the detail separation between foreground & background.

I also came to realize that the night lights had to be 'enhanced' for the night view. This entailed stamping a lot of white dots over the lights. These efforts were only partially successful as I couldn't do a very good job of making the dots parallel. But even my mediocre 'stamping' looked better than doing nothing at all.

What really needs to be done is for people to select just one ballpark and do a really good job, as a labor of love, and post it to the forum. I've mentioned all the issues above so that other people will have a faster learning curve than I had.

Doing a mediocre to very good job on 30 ballparks is a lot harder than doing an excellent job on just one ballpark. I'll also note that it's very important to keep the same picture for both the night & day views so that just one set of ball grid coordinates need to be used.

A few years ago I did a lot of work on improving uniform designs. This year's project was to do the ballparks. With the completion of each project, OOTP looks better and more immersive to me. I hope the future appearance of OOTP gets better & better. The largest part of the game-screen is the ballpark, but there is very little to watch there. I'm hoping for future improvements to make this part of the game-screen more interesting & more useful.

I'm definitely with you on the immersion factor and that's why I'm always highly encouraging of anyone working on stadiums. They are the most scarce custom content, as there are thousands of custom logos out there and its very easy to make custom uniforms with them if they don't already exist. The list of designers working on custom ballparks is incredibly short by comparison, as it seems to require a lot of skill or at least dedication and vision.

On top of it all, ballparks are one custom thing that actually have an effect on the stats in your league. I enjoy looking at custom parks and envisioning how the park would play out, both based on the dimensions that the picture implies as well as the climate they are in.

[megamanmatt]

While I don't usually bring old threads up to the front this is one that has some good day/night pictures of fictional and a few real parks and not everyone wants to search for a thread over 50 pages back. Day/Night stadium photos are rare for fictional so maybe other folks will find these useful and if not then just let it slip back there.

[Pointed]

yes, these parks are excellent thanks to all involved