FaceGen Photopack - Page 6

StainedGlass · 03-27-2003, 06:31 PM

The picture file set is very cool, and I'll definitely be using it for my leagues. I think in the distant future it could be really enhanced by a custom application.

Here's my thought. . the pack comes with a default uniform template with basically no color in it, but it lays out where the face goes. The commish or players fill in the appropriate colors and drop the team logo for each of their teams and saves it to a file. At any time the commish can run a 3rd-party app that will suck up the image for the player and attach it to the uniform template, pushing out a final image that will automatically be loaded up in the game. So after a big trade, you just run the app and the players are in the right uniforms. The app would also allow you to automatically assign face pictures to players randomly, to save that work. I could write this in a couple of weeks fairly easily, I think. The only downside is that all of the faces would have to conform to the uniform template. Looking at the current ones, there's a big variety in size of head, whether it's full frontal or 3-quarter, etc. That's cool for now, but I think in the future there'd have to be a standard if you wanted to swap players in automatically.

Thoughts?

Shorty · 03-27-2003, 06:53 PM

I will be out of town from tomorrow until next Sunday (NOT this upcoming Sunday). So that means for the next week, please send some pictures in, and hopefully by the time I get back, the Pack will be complete!

nm, thanks for the heads up, as i have already renamed all of the files received thus far.

800 and counting!

Markmeister · 03-29-2003, 01:00 AM

Shorty,

I found time to finish a set of pics - sample:

70 different players with 30 copies adding facial hair for total of 100 faces.

I uploaded them on the web here so if anybody wants to down load them they are available

Deft · 03-29-2003, 11:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by StainedGlass
The picture file set is very cool, and I'll definitely be using it for my leagues. I think in the distant future it could be really enhanced by a custom application.

Here's my thought. . the pack comes with a default uniform template with basically no color in it, but it lays out where the face goes. The commish or players fill in the appropriate colors and drop the team logo for each of their teams and saves it to a file. At any time the commish can run a 3rd-party app that will suck up the image for the player and attach it to the uniform template, pushing out a final image that will automatically be loaded up in the game. So after a big trade, you just run the app and the players are in the right uniforms. The app would also allow you to automatically assign face pictures to players randomly, to save that work. I could write this in a couple of weeks fairly easily, I think. The only downside is that all of the faces would have to conform to the uniform template. Looking at the current ones, there's a big variety in size of head, whether it's full frontal or 3-quarter, etc. That's cool for now, but I think in the future there'd have to be a standard if you wanted to swap players in automatically.

Thoughts?

I have attempted to do such in the photoshop template that is located at adventureran.com. What I tried to do was create a generic stance and pose for the players and then create team specific templates that could be overlayed on any player with the correct pose. I don't have this automated but I do describe the method for doing it manually (not as difficult as thougt) in that process. Photoshop does have macros but they usually don't translate well between versions and I don't have the acumen for writing a 3rd party program to automate this process. Markmeister's photos use that template if you want an example.

Markmeister · 03-30-2003, 09:58 AM

StainedGlass,

A third party application to change the uniforms would be nice. All that would be required is for everyone that is contributing to make their templates available. Would complicate the application though since the progam would have to know which template to use for each picture (probably would have to have the user select the proper template).

Just by using PhotoShop, I was able to change uniforms in just a short bit of time. Just copied the photo in as a new background, deleted the background portion of the photo (helps that it is almost a solid color) and made new uniforms visible.

Rockpile · 03-30-2003, 09:49 PM

Wow that is AWESOME!

Dargone · 03-31-2003, 07:16 PM

Yes it is, I am eagerly awaiting this release

Hillbilly Nick · 04-05-2003, 10:03 AM

shameless bump...

Hoping for a release around the same time the patch is released. Common Baseball gods, please shine down upon us soon!

Ktulu · 04-05-2003, 04:02 PM

Just wondering if you face pack guys have heard about this utility and if there is a posibility of combining your efforts.

Nice work btw, eagerly awaiting the release

Shorty · 04-06-2003, 12:01 PM

I'm back guys. Checking email now to see how many new faces I received!

koohead · 04-06-2003, 12:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by satchel
Jah and ill16, there is a tutorial that Deft posted in the Feedback forum, it has a good step-by-step instruction on how to make faces and put the uniforms on them, etc.

Anyone have a link for this tutorial? I can't find it (I'm sure I'm just an idiot, but it is Sunday morning afterall!)

Shorty · 04-06-2003, 01:35 PM

Total: 959!

The next person that sends me faces will complete PACK1.

Markmeister · 04-06-2003, 05:27 PM

Shorty,

I didn't send you mine. Just posted them to the web here .

These are jpg versions of the pics. If you wanted them in .bmp just let me know and I can zip them up and email them to you.

100 total pics (30 are copies with facial hair added).

Working on more - have 30 so far in a 'road grey' uniform.

Mark

Shorty · 04-06-2003, 05:54 PM

Let me know when you have the last up, and then FacePack 1 will be ready.

autarkis33 · 04-06-2003, 05:57 PM

*crossing fingers, praying that it is today*

Markmeister · 04-06-2003, 10:56 PM

Shorty,

You got mail - bumped up to 60 pics.

Mark

adventureran · 04-06-2003, 11:08 PM

Shorty, if you need a place to host it, feel free to add it to the OOTP Mods Directory. I can't wait to see it either. All the samples here have left me wanting more.

Shorty · 04-07-2003, 12:09 AM

adventure, I tried to quickly log on to adventureran before I headed for the sack but had no success trying to do it through the windows ftp client. I will get into WSFTP tomorrow and upload it to adventureran w/ a quick readme and possibly instructions on how to batch convert so i could possibly zip it up as a jpeg.

Thanks.

Shaun Sullivan · 06-15-2003, 11:55 AM

Guys,

Amazing work! I grabbed this and re-sized them optimally for PureSim (65x90) and updated the game to auto-assign faces to fictional players. The whole thing looks great.

I have sent Shorty a personal email, but upon further review it looks like a lot of folks contributed to this effort.

So, my question is do any of you folks have a problem with me posting a "PureSim Version" of this Face Pack in the PureSim download gallery? I'd love for PureSim players to easily use these. They can still use your face pack "as is" since PureSim auto-sizes images, it would just be nicer if the images had the best fidelity possible and were easy to obtain.

Thanks in advance for your consideration.

Shaun Sullivan
Developer, PureSim Baseball
www.puresim.com

nmleague · 06-15-2003, 12:18 PM

I have no problem with mine being used, been thinking about getting "Puresim" maybe now I will.

03-27-2003, 06:31 PM	#101
StainedGlass Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Seattle Posts: 2	Long-Term version The picture file set is very cool, and I'll definitely be using it for my leagues. I think in the distant future it could be really enhanced by a custom application. Here's my thought. . the pack comes with a default uniform template with basically no color in it, but it lays out where the face goes. The commish or players fill in the appropriate colors and drop the team logo for each of their teams and saves it to a file. At any time the commish can run a 3rd-party app that will suck up the image for the player and attach it to the uniform template, pushing out a final image that will automatically be loaded up in the game. So after a big trade, you just run the app and the players are in the right uniforms. The app would also allow you to automatically assign face pictures to players randomly, to save that work. I could write this in a couple of weeks fairly easily, I think. The only downside is that all of the faces would have to conform to the uniform template. Looking at the current ones, there's a big variety in size of head, whether it's full frontal or 3-quarter, etc. That's cool for now, but I think in the future there'd have to be a standard if you wanted to swap players in automatically. Thoughts?

03-27-2003, 06:53 PM	#102
Shorty All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 992	I will be out of town from tomorrow until next Sunday (NOT this upcoming Sunday). So that means for the next week, please send some pictures in, and hopefully by the time I get back, the Pack will be complete! nm, thanks for the heads up, as i have already renamed all of the files received thus far. 800 and counting! __________________ Here we go Redlegs here we go!

03-31-2003, 07:16 PM	#107
Dargone Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Interwebs Posts: 2,862	Yes it is, I am eagerly awaiting this release __________________ I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.-Margaret Mitchell

04-05-2003, 10:03 AM	#108
Hillbilly Nick Minors (Single A) Join Date: May 2002 Location: Oriole Country Posts: 72	shameless bump... Hoping for a release around the same time the patch is released. Common Baseball gods, please shine down upon us soon! __________________ They called him the Human Vacuum Cleaner.

04-06-2003, 12:01 PM	#110
Shorty All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 992	I'm back guys. Checking email now to see how many new faces I received! __________________ Here we go Redlegs here we go!

03-29-2003, 01:00 AM	#103
Markmeister Major Leagues Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Kentucky Posts: 463	Shorty, I found time to finish a set of pics - sample: 70 different players with 30 copies adding facial hair for total of 100 faces. I uploaded them on the web here so if anybody wants to down load them they are available

03-30-2003, 09:58 AM	#105
Markmeister Major Leagues Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Kentucky Posts: 463	StainedGlass, A third party application to change the uniforms would be nice. All that would be required is for everyone that is contributing to make their templates available. Would complicate the application though since the progam would have to know which template to use for each picture (probably would have to have the user select the proper template). Just by using PhotoShop, I was able to change uniforms in just a short bit of time. Just copied the photo in as a new background, deleted the background portion of the photo (helps that it is almost a solid color) and made new uniforms visible.

03-30-2003, 09:49 PM	#106
Rockpile All Star Reserve Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Colorado Posts: 620	Wow that is AWESOME!

04-05-2003, 04:02 PM	#109
Ktulu Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: BC Posts: 4,710	Just wondering if you face pack guys have heard about this utility and if there is a posibility of combining your efforts. Nice work btw, eagerly awaiting the release

04-06-2003, 01:35 PM	#112
Shorty All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 992	Total: 959! The next person that sends me faces will complete PACK1. __________________ Here we go Redlegs here we go!

04-06-2003, 05:27 PM	#113
Markmeister Major Leagues Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Kentucky Posts: 463	Shorty, I didn't send you mine. Just posted them to the web here . These are jpg versions of the pics. If you wanted them in .bmp just let me know and I can zip them up and email them to you. 100 total pics (30 are copies with facial hair added). Working on more - have 30 so far in a 'road grey' uniform. Mark

04-06-2003, 05:54 PM	#114
Shorty All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 992	Let me know when you have the last up, and then FacePack 1 will be ready. __________________ Here we go Redlegs here we go!

04-06-2003, 05:57 PM	#115
autarkis33 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Peoria, IL Posts: 247	crossing fingers, praying that it is today __________________ "I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell" Commissioner of the <A HREF="http://www.bpla-ootp.com">BPLA</A> GM of the Iowa Crop Circles in <A HREF="http://www.dpbl.net/potd">POTD</A> Manager of the Lennongrad Coleopteras in <A HREF="http://beta.simleagues.com">Beta Baseball</A> Only HOF Leftfielder in LBL - 2nd career AVG, 3B's and SB's - 3rd in Hits and HR's

04-06-2003, 10:56 PM	#116
Markmeister Major Leagues Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Kentucky Posts: 463	Shorty, You got mail - bumped up to 60 pics. Mark __________________ It's not that baseball has ever had a shortage of ways to embarrass yourself -- dropping an easy flyball, being the one guy Heathcliff Slocumb actually struck out, realizing you're Bud Selig... Jersey style logos Vintage letter logos Vintage uniforms

04-06-2003, 11:08 PM	#117
adventureran Major Leagues Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 447	Shorty, if you need a place to host it, feel free to add it to the OOTP Mods Directory. I can't wait to see it either. All the samples here have left me wanting more.

04-07-2003, 12:09 AM	#118
Shorty All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 992	adventure, I tried to quickly log on to adventureran before I headed for the sack but had no success trying to do it through the windows ftp client. I will get into WSFTP tomorrow and upload it to adventureran w/ a quick readme and possibly instructions on how to batch convert so i could possibly zip it up as a jpeg. Thanks. __________________ Here we go Redlegs here we go!

06-15-2003, 11:55 AM	#119
Shaun Sullivan Minors (Single A) Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 48	PureSim Baseball? Guys, Amazing work! I grabbed this and re-sized them optimally for PureSim (65x90) and updated the game to auto-assign faces to fictional players. The whole thing looks great. I have sent Shorty a personal email, but upon further review it looks like a lot of folks contributed to this effort. So, my question is do any of you folks have a problem with me posting a "PureSim Version" of this Face Pack in the PureSim download gallery? I'd love for PureSim players to easily use these. They can still use your face pack "as is" since PureSim auto-sizes images, it would just be nicer if the images had the best fidelity possible and were easy to obtain. Thanks in advance for your consideration. Shaun Sullivan Developer, PureSim Baseball www.puresim.com

06-15-2003, 12:18 PM	#120
nmleague All Star Reserve Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 976	I have no problem with mine being used, been thinking about getting "Puresim" maybe now I will. __________________ Northern Midwest League Commissoner Escanaba Miners - NML