Complete Universe Facegen Pack

[percolaten]

Great job on those! Glavine really needed a makeover. Anyone wanna work on no-hitter sensation Rick Wise w/ glasses?

[FancySkunk]

Originally Posted by percolaten

Great job on those! Glavine really needed a makeover. Anyone wanna work on no-hitter sensation Rick Wise w/ glasses?

Really like this call-out. Was able to get a lot more personality into the facegen.

[percolaten]

Originally Posted by FancySkunk

Really like this call-out. Was able to get a lot more personality into the facegen.

Amazing! Thank you!

[actionjackson]

Originally Posted by FancySkunk

After a bit of thought, the proposed answer I have for the issues is this:

1. Have the full pack available only as a pre-zipped download.
2. Keep anything created after the pack was zipped on google drive, so there's access to download the new stuff individually as it comes out, without having the ton of bloat that having 47000 files in the drive caused.
3. Every so often upload a new full pack zip to replace the one in step one, create a new folder on the drive for facegens created after that point, and then after a week or so grace period delete the folder from step two.

This way I can keep the live update feel we were going for, and keep the full pack quick and easy to access.

New links are in the first post for the full pack pre-zipped, and the new drive folder which is starting with work made in 2022.

Also apologies for the absence... I haven't made a new facegen all year. :P

This makes a ton of sense. Just picked up some absolute beauts from the Lansdowne St. Checklist thread. Love them, but they would be overwritten, if I were to re-intall the big kahuna every time. Hopefully, you guys can get together on some sort of system, where his work is available on the Google drive. Having the fresh stuff separate would work really well, I think.

[actionjackson]

Originally Posted by FancySkunk

My current idea for facegen updates is to go through each franchise and check out what we currently have for some of their top players of all time. With that in mind, I've started poking through some of the Braves' all time WAR leaders. These and a few more are ready and waiting in the new drive folder for updates, and I might get through some more later tonight. Here are a couple highlights:

Phil Niekro


Tom Glavine

OH YEAH!!! Knucksie's in my 1935 amateur draft. 35 seasons down, at least 115 to go. I'm gonna keep this game going in OOTP21 until I reach 2050, or up until the point I start seeing fictional guys in the draft. Then, I'll know I've gone through every historical player through 2019 (OOTP21 historical stats run through that season). Probably gonna take until OOTP24 or OOTP25 are out, but that's what I'm shooting for.

[Scipio Africanus]

Originally Posted by actionjackson

This makes a ton of sense. Just picked up some absolute beauts from the Lansdowne St. Checklist thread. Love them, but they would be overwritten, if I were to re-intall the big kahuna every time. Hopefully, you guys can get together on some sort of system, where his work is available on the Google drive. Having the fresh stuff separate would work really well, I think.

I thought the facegens from Lansdowne's checklist thread were being included. Were they not?

[FancySkunk]

Originally Posted by Scipio Africanus

I thought the facegens from Lansdowne's checklist thread were being included. Were they not?

I honestly can't really recall a time I saw a facegen he made and thought we had something better already in the pack. I believe everything he's posted in this thread was included (any omissions being accidental), and the vast majority if not all of the facegens from his checklist thread are included. Lansdowne has been doing better work than me since he started posting facegens. I really feel like it wasn't until I started seeing what he was able to do that it really clicked what level of work I should have been producing all along. So, naturally, I'm going to keep including his work as long as he's fine with me distributing it.

[LansdowneSt]

Originally Posted by FancySkunk

I honestly can't really recall a time I saw a facegen he made and thought we had something better already in the pack. I believe everything he's posted in this thread was included (any omissions being accidental), and the vast majority if not all of the facegens from his checklist thread are included. Lansdowne has been doing better work than me since he started posting facegens. I really feel like it wasn't until I started seeing what he was able to do that it really clicked what level of work I should have been producing all along. So, naturally, I'm going to keep including his work as long as he's fine with me distributing it.

Thanks for the compliments and thanks for finding most, if not all, of my fg's worthy for inclusion/distribution in the pack. I'm more than fine with their inclusion. The idea was to get my personal fg files overhauled and to share the ones I did to help others. I've done nearly a thousand fg's in the past six months out of nearly 23,000 MLB'ers and - I hope - given a renewed focus to the project (or at least adding a lot of pages to the thread!). Left to my own devices, I try to stick to the overtly old and desperately-in-need-of-a-redo ones plus some of the lesser-known players. Eventually, there may be diversion between the CU Facepack and "my pack" as personal preferences diverge on a player in my eyes and FS's eyes or the eyes of the downloaders. But we are so far away from tripping on each other, it's hard to imagine. There are just so many out there, it's going to be complimentary efforts for a long, long time yet.

[actionjackson]

Originally Posted by Scipio Africanus

I thought the facegens from Lansdowne's checklist thread were being included. Were they not?

He's been a busy bee lately, so I'm not sure about the latest, greatest. FS knows better'n me.

[FancySkunk]

Originally Posted by actionjackson

He's been a busy bee lately, so I'm not sure about the latest, greatest. FS knows better'n me.

The full pack zip is only current to December 30th, so it's missing the latest batch from Lansdowne, though I have them ready to roll into the next zip whenever that happens.

[FancySkunk]

Going into the super wayback machine on this one. Chicken Wolf's career spanned from 1882-1892, primarily for the Louisville Eclipse (later renamed the Colonels). There's not a lot of biographical data on him available. Reportedly, he and Pete Browning were childhood friends. They both grew up in Louisville, played together on the same American Association ballclub, and apparently were even committed to the same insane asylum later in life.

On the field, Wolf was an above average outfielder, with the glove and the bat, who had an extreme standout season in 1890, where he hit .363, helping push the Colonels to a pennant win. The Colonels would match up with the National League champion Brooklyn Bridegrooms in a 7 game exhibition series, which ended in a 3-3-1 tie.

[AESP_pres]

Dennis Blair
https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...d=blair-001den

[FancySkunk]

Continuing to just poke away at whatever I find myself pointed at. Wound up seeing Vida Blue again during a Perfect Team check-in and figured I could get something better made than what I had before. This was definitely a case where I wound up oversmoothing the previous one and also wound up with an unrealistic skin tone.

Vida Blue


The new facegen folder on the drive is being updated pretty consistently. I kind of jump in and out of working on facegen stuff throughout the day, and whenever I feel done for the moment, throw what I've made onto the drive.

[FancySkunk]

Doug Glanville:


Severely needed update to a facegen dated all the way back to 2015. This was a bit rough to find a source image for. Doug had a tendency to smile as big and wide as humanly possible on team picture day. I can normally deal with an open mouth with a bit of photoshopping but in this case that was completely off the table. Ultimately, I wound up grabbing an image from after his playing career and working with that. The result is thus slightly inaccurate, but a massive improvement.

[luckymann]

... let's scrap any outstandings from the past few Bucs draft pools and just go a few absolute shockers whenever you get time, keep things moving along. Can't do 'em all!

Oscar Harstad 1915
Earl Moseley 1913-16
Pete Schneider 1914-19
Norm McMillan 1922-29
Tom Long 1911-17

Like I said, no rush. Thanks bud.

G

[FancySkunk]

Originally Posted by luckymann

... let's scrap any outstandings from the past few Bucs draft pools and just go a few absolute shockers whenever you get time, keep things moving along. Can't do 'em all!

Oscar Harstad 1915
Earl Moseley 1913-16
Pete Schneider 1914-19
Norm McMillan 1922-29
Tom Long 1911-17

Like I said, no rush. Thanks bud.

G

Was able to knock a couple of them out. These are definitely improvements over what was available before but also not the best. There's not much in the way of pictures out there for these players, so I kind of got stuck with having to make what I could find work. I'll see about working on the others later on and may even wind up revisiting these again with fresher eyes.

Norm McMillan


Pete Schneider

[luckymann]

Thanks FS!

G

[luckymann]

Tom Long had been done previously but I'd missed it (thanks LSt)!!

[LansdowneSt]

Oscar Harstad, known to his family as Theander, and later in life as “O. T.” or “Doc,” played but a single season of major league baseball, then looked back proudly and fondly on his career during his ensuing seven decades of life.

Harstad pitched in 32 games for the Cleveland Indians in 1915 going 3-5 with a 3.40 ERA. Six decades later, he would say about his baseball career: “The pay was low, and there wasn’t much hope of sticking in the big leagues very long. Not one new player in seven or eight lasted ten years.” Asked about how he felt retiring from the game, he said: “I was looking forward to leaving baseball; I realized that it was only a temporary thing, and that there is more to life.” The hardest thing, he wrote, was his own “envy of his former teammates still playing.” When asked what advice he would give to modern players, he wrote: “Stay in the major leagues long enough to draw a pension. No future in the minor leagues. Get out. Get a good education and go to work.” Although Dr. Harstad never regretted his decision to leave baseball for dentistry, he also enjoyed remembering his playing days. He regaled his friends and family with the memories of that long ago season he spent in Cleveland: seeing George Sisler start his first game as a pitcher for the Browns; playing with “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, who drank Coca-Cola by the case; pitching to Ty Cobb; watching a young Babe Ruth swing the bat; hitting against Walter Johnson. - SABR

Redid the facegen.

[LansdowneSt]

Right-hander Earl Moseley pitched in three major leagues in the course of four seasons: the American League, the short-lived Federal League, and the National League. He won 49 games and lost 48 and gave up just a hair over three runs per nine innings. Player profiles were uncommon in the era, but I. E. Sanborn of the Chicago Tribune offered one on Moseley, and a portion of it makes for interesting reading:

Moseley always pitched whenever he could get the chance. That was not oftener than two games a month as a rule, and in order to get that amount of experience on the slab he had to organize his own amateur teams, and sometimes to equip them with the tools of the game. There were no inclosed (sic) ball parks available, and the games were played in open lots without admission. Sometimes when the hat was passed among the spectators enough coin would be raised to pay for the balls used and the bats broken in the game. The players had to rustle for their own uniforms, and Moseley was chief rustler for his team. Frequently considerable of the cost of financing the team came out of his own pocket. One year in particular, by way of illustration, Moseley advanced money to buy uniforms for four players besides himself. Only one of the other three ever paid him for the uniform, and that was a year later. One of them died and was forgiven for forgetting the loan. So, the Cub recruit figures that baseball owes him more money than he has got out of the game yet, but if ambition counts for anything he will be square with the game in a short time. Moseley is not in baseball to collect what it owes him, however, but because he loves to play ball. No other reason could explain his devotion to it under such difficulties … - SABR

Redid the facegen.