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BryanK -> Historical Facepack Finished... kinda (1900-present) (11/6/2005 4:23:40 AM)
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We now have a "Plug-and-play" type add on that puts real players in puresim, complete with photos.
I've taken Tigerfan, Jeff Olsen, and Draft Dodgers real-player facepacks combined them and resized the files for puresim. I also went into the Lahman database, deduped the names, and matched them back to the names on the pics where necessary. It wasn't anything someone else couldn't have done, but it probably took a solid 10-15 hours to get everything all together, so I figured I'd save everyone else the trouble :)
There are also some tweaks to the database, like splitting Babe Ruth into a pitcher and a hitter. Using data put together by Anakit, I've also replaced the player debut years with their draft years. My intention was that this would help avoid the shortening of players' carrers by having them essentially go through the minors twice: once in real life to get to the big leagues, a second time in puresim since the first year a player shows up in the game is their first major league season.
Unfortunately, this didn't work because puresim uses the first year a player has a stat line as the year they are imported into the game. I have a question out to Shaun about this, and as soon as I hear back I'll make any necessary changes to the database and get database+facepack out there.
Since the players are real, I don't know if this is the kind of thing that can be hosted by Matrix. The zip file with all the photos plus the modified database is going to weigh in at around the 175MB mark... so if anyone knows where to host it, please let me know.
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