What mods are available or in the works?

[mrskippy]

It'd be nice to see a better listing of special files somewhere. I found the real rosters and city editor so far.

[RPI-Fan]

There are two gameplan utilities available. Check the sticky thread for links.

[Fido]

I have something in the works. Not as in depth as TCY Helper, but it should be fun and, hopefully, useful.


From Original post over at The CFL (link (http://www.ronjuckett.com/CFA/viewtopic.php?t=24))
One thing that I know is not in the game that is pretty much necessary for MP leagues is html output. To me this is a needed thing, as the amount of time necessary to update websites by hand is overwhelming (even if it is just a matter of entering stats into a database and pulling the data off dynamically).

So I started thinking about the feasabilty of an OOTP style web site creation mechanism (example can be found here). While it will be some work, it is definately doable. But before I invest any time in it, I thought I woudl check to see if this is anything that anyone else would be interrested in using.

I'm currently envisioning a features list like the following:



Complete League Standings- Wins/Losses/Ties, PCT, Points For, Points Against, Games Behind, Record vs Division, Record vs Conference

Transactions - Cuts, Adds, Trades

Injury Reports

Financial Reports - Team Paryoll, Highest Paid Players, Attendance Numbers, Team By Team Bottom Linesm

Player Awards - Players of the week/Month. I'm thinking of doing fastasy style points for these, but the exact breakdown may be difficult to balance.

Top Performances of the season - Single game highs for passing, rushing, receiving, scoring, Tackles, Sacks, Interceptions.

League Leaders by conference/league

Career leaders by conference/league

Weeklygame recaps - box scores, maybe a auto generated ESPN style article - depends on how repetitive they seem.

Game matchups - determing grades for positions (OLine, DLine, QB, Receivers, RBs, LBs. DBS. K, P) and an indication on who should have the edge in each. (ie Tahoma is playing Tuscon (completely fictional) Tahoma's OLine grades out at an A+ (based on league averages) while Tuscon's is a B- so the edge there goes to Tahoma. Not sure if this should be straight comparisons like that or a position vs position thing (OLine vs DLine))

Player cards with optional photos and all information about them that I can gather from the save game files/the database that the utility will maintain.



Of course everything would be linked so that you can click on any team name or player name to go to that page.


Here's a peek at the first part of the utility (box score conversion). Still in progress, but nearing completion. (link (http://fidosutils.shorturl.com/fofreporter/results.html)). Its completely customizeable HTML, and is automatically generated from fbx (Saved Box Score) files.

Oh...and if anyone is interrested in helping out on this project, let me know. More developers = quicker release.

[sabotai]

Nice work, Fido (as usual)

[MizzouRah]

I think this is what some of us are taking about when we say a 'prettier' game. :)


Nice work.



Todd

[FBPro]

Looks really nice, would be a great addition to online leagues.

[Fido]

Originally posted by FBPro
Looks really nice, would be a great addition to online leagues.

That's the target audience. :)

[lighthousekeeper]

http://m1.311.telia.com/~u31120783/FOF4%20-%20players_fdt.txt


lists the players.fdt structure for fof4. does anyone have the structure for the fof5 players.fdt file?

[3ric]

Actually Jim revealed much of the basic structure for a fof2k4 fdt file in the "Player File Generator". Open it and click on "CSV File format".

The header data in the fdt should contain starting year and cap value, as in FOF4.

[lighthousekeeper]

For any programmers interested in something that can be easily cut&pasted, here's the structure of the fof5 players.fdt file:

HeaderID As New String(" ", 14) 'file name
HeadVersion As New String(" ", 2) 'structure version
NumPlayers As Short 'number of players
YearUniverse As Short 'year of universe
SalCap As Short
IDNum As Short
UniformNum As Short
FirstNameLen As Short
FirstName As String '**variable length based on previous record
LastNameLen As Short
LastName As String '**variable length based on previous record
PositionNum As Short
PositionAlt As Short
Height As Short
Weight As Short
MonthBirth As Short
YearBirth As Short
HomeTown As Short
HomeState As Short
YearExp As Short
College As Short
TeamID As Short
YearDraft As Short
DraftRound As Short
DraftPick As Short
YearJoinTeam As Short
GamesLastSeas As Short
GamesStartLastSeas As Short
HallPts As Short
OverallRating As Short
PctPotential As Short
QBScreenPass As Short
QBShortPass As Short
QBMedPass As Short
QBLongPass As Short
QBVeryLongPass As Short
QBThirdPass As Short
QBScramble As Short
QBAvoidInt As Short
QBPassAcc As Short
QBPassTiming As Short
QBSensePassRush As Short
QBReadDefense As Short
QBTwoMinOffense As Short
QBPreferPlay As Short

RBBreakSpeed As Short
RBPowerInside As Short
RBThirdRunning As Short
RBHoleRecog As Short
RBElusive As Short
RBSpeedOutside As Short

WRHands As Short
WRDownfield As Short
WRRoute As Short
WRThirdDown As Short
WRBigPlay As Short
WROverMiddle As Short
WRBadThrows As Short

PuntReturn As Short
KickReturn As Short
AvoidFumbles As Short
RunBlock As Short
PassBlock As Short
BlockStrength As Short

PuntDist As Short
PuntHang As Short
PuntDir As Short
KickDist As Short
KickHang As Short
FGAccuracy As Short
FGDist As Short

DefRun As Short
DefPassTechnique As Short
DefManMan As Short
DefZone As Short
DefBumpRun As Short
DefPassStrength As Short
DefPlayDiagnosis As Short
DefHardHitter As Short
DefIntercept As Short

Endurance As Short
SpecialTeams As Short
LongSnap As Short
HoldKick As Short

ContractLeft As Short
Sal1 As Short
Bonus1 As Short
Sal2 As Short
Bonus2 As Short
Sal3 As Short
Bonus3 As Short
Sal4 As Short
Bonus4 As Short
Sal5 As Short
Bonus5 As Short
Sal6 As Short
Bonus6 As Short
Sal7 As Short
Bonus7 As Short

[Icy]

Really great html export mod, i wonder myself if Jim could add this to his game as optional report along with his own, i really love the user mods, but it could be really great if Jim takes the best ones and include them on the next patch so he and us can benefit from this great work made by third parties.

[Ben E Lou]

Fido:

Do us all a favor and post as a separate thread when the reporter utility is ready to download. Thanks!

--Ben

[Easy Mac]

Does anyone else use the Skydog flexing picture as their background in FOF? Yeah, me neither.

[Subby]

I use it, but I replaced his head with Larry "Bud" Mellman's.

[Fido]

Originally posted by SkyDog
Fido:

Do us all a favor and post as a separate thread when the reporter utility is ready to download. Thanks!

--Ben

Download? Who says it will be ready for download? Maybe I just want to use it for personal use and tease all of you with screenshots. :)

Actually, this is one of those things that is borderline non-freeware. The TCY Helper was a no brainer because it didn't do all that much - it HAD to be free. I'm still trying to decide if this is going to be a free utility, a cheap utility ($5 or so), or something like free for single player games but reasonably priced ($10) for leagues.

That's for the whole thing though, I'll probably post a "use at your own risk" Box Score converter today some time.

[Fido]

Originally posted by Easy Mac
Does anyone else use the Skydog flexing picture as their background in FOF? Yeah, me neither.

Not as my background in FOF - its my desktop image ;)

[sjshaw]

Fido:

Take a look at how the creators of the best modification (ever) for OOTP do it with regards to price, support, etc.:

http://www.allin1websolutions.com/bosi/

You may even get some app ideas from their product.

[sjshaw]

Dola:

A tool which will be sorely needed is something to automate the process of exporting MP stage files and the commissioner's downloading and installing of (up to) 36 stage exports. OOTP does this automatically by allowing each owner to export to a FTP server and gives the commissioner the option to "import all" of those files from the ftp and install them in the correct folder.

I know that if I were a commissioner, collecting 36 emails, downloading the attachments, and moving them into the correct folder would get real old after a while. In fact, I do know this, because that's what we had to do in OOTP3 over at FOBL.

[petrochile]

Fido, great work, love the boxscore page. It is nice, neat, and crisp. This is no doubt the most exciting and anticipated mod there will be, IMO! :D

[vtbub]

BOSI is wonderful.

That would be an incredible addition for FOF MP.