What mods are available or in the works?

mrskippy · 11-14-2003, 09:37 PM

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 · 11-14-2003, 09:41 PM

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

Fido · 11-14-2003, 10:12 PM

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

Quote:

From Original post over at The CFL (link)
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). 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 · 11-14-2003, 10:35 PM

Nice work, Fido (as usual)

MizzouRah · 11-14-2003, 11:26 PM

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

Nice work.

Todd

FBPro · 11-14-2003, 11:28 PM

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

Fido · 11-14-2003, 11:47 PM

Quote:

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

That's the target audience.

lighthousekeeper · 11-15-2003, 12:41 AM

http://m1.311.telia.com/~u31120783/F...layers_fdt.txt

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

3ric · 11-15-2003, 03:38 AM

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 · 11-15-2003, 03:45 AM

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 · 11-15-2003, 09:39 AM

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 · 11-15-2003, 09:43 AM

Fido:

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

--Ben

Easy Mac · 11-15-2003, 09:45 AM

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

Subby · 11-15-2003, 09:47 AM

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

Fido · 11-15-2003, 09:49 AM

Quote:

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 · 11-15-2003, 09:50 AM

Quote:

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 · 11-15-2003, 10:47 AM

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 · 11-15-2003, 10:51 AM

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 · 11-15-2003, 11:19 AM

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!

vtbub · 11-15-2003, 11:30 AM

BOSI is wonderful.

That would be an incredible addition for FOF MP.

11-14-2003, 09:41 PM	#2
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11-14-2003, 11:28 PM	#6
FBPro College Starter Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: SE	Looks really nice, would be a great addition to online leagues. __________________ GM RayCo Raiders-est. 2004-2012 Charter member of the IHOF-RayCo GM GM Tennessee Titans PFL 2011-2014 GM Tennessee Titans FOWL 2020-2025

11-15-2003, 03:38 AM	#9
3ric College Starter Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Sweden	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. __________________ San Diego Chargers (HFL) - Lappland Reindeers (WOOF) - Gothenburg Giants (IHOF) Indiana: A TCY VC - year 2044 - the longest running dynasty ever on FOFC!

11-15-2003, 03:45 AM	#10
lighthousekeeper College Starter Join Date: Oct 2000	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 Last edited by lighthousekeeper : 11-15-2003 at 04:31 AM.

11-15-2003, 09:39 AM	#11
Icy Pro Starter Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Toledo - Spain	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. __________________

11-14-2003, 10:35 PM	#4
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	Nice work, Fido (as usual)

11-14-2003, 11:26 PM	#5
MizzouRah Hall Of Famer Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Troy, Mo	I think this is what some of us are taking about when we say a 'prettier' game. Nice work. Todd

11-15-2003, 12:41 AM	#8
lighthousekeeper College Starter Join Date: Oct 2000	http://m1.311.telia.com/~u31120783/F...layers_fdt.txt lists the players.fdt structure for fof4. does anyone have the structure for the fof5 players.fdt file?

11-15-2003, 09:43 AM	#12
Ben E Lou Morgado's Favorite Forum Fascist Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC	Fido: Do us all a favor and post as a separate thread when the reporter utility is ready to download. Thanks! --Ben __________________ The media don't understand the kinds of problems and pressures 54 million come wit'!

11-15-2003, 09:45 AM	#13
Easy Mac Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Here	Does anyone else use the Skydog flexing picture as their background in FOF? Yeah, me neither.

11-15-2003, 09:47 AM	#14
Subby lolzcat Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: sans pants	I use it, but I replaced his head with Larry "Bud" Mellman's. __________________ Superman was flying around and saw Wonder Woman getting a tan in the nude on her balcony. Superman said I going to hit that real fast. So he flys down toward Wonder Woman to hit it and their is a loud scream. The Invincible Man scream what just hit me in the ass!!!!! I do shit, I take pictures, I write about it: chrisshue.com

11-15-2003, 10:47 AM	#17
sjshaw lolzcat Join Date: Oct 2000	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. __________________ Hollywood Media Whores FOBL CHAMPION 2007 2020 2035 Last edited by sjshaw : 11-15-2003 at 10:47 AM.

11-15-2003, 10:51 AM	#18
sjshaw lolzcat Join Date: Oct 2000	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. __________________ Hollywood Media Whores FOBL CHAMPION 2007 2020 2035

11-15-2003, 11:19 AM	#19
petrochile H.S. Freshman Team Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Stankonia	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!

11-15-2003, 11:30 AM	#20
vtbub College Starter Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Burlington, VT USA	BOSI is wonderful. That would be an incredible addition for FOF MP. __________________

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