how to make generic rookies unique

[jerm21]

that's a really cool idea. I would love to send in my picture.


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[ZoneKIller]

How about just do what Tiger woods does and scan our pictures.
Then we can take our pictures we used to scan for the player and use that pic?

[PGaither84]

My understanding was that the crew of VC who made ESPN 2k5 just used the base photos of thier staff and had a face generator thing that did funky things to those images. Forexample you saw the same few faces over and over again but there were modifications. Eyes lips nose and such were shifted around, made larger, smaller, closer, wider, etc so that there were differences and those faces were Skinned onto a blank standard model. It made things look loess terrible than "No Photo"

[PGaither84]

I do like the idea of seending in photos, but I can imagine licensing fees for using your likeness [EA would have to have one of the leagal things that Magazines have where anything you seend you are giving them the right to publish and the image will not be returned, etc.] Also the FLOOD of mail they would recive and have to sift through and scan... and I don't think they would WANT to do this, at least not for M10. Maybe if it were email only and such?

P.S. I do understand that you ment email, but I can imagine people wanting to seend them in the Mail as well

[Vikes1]

Just imagine how cool of a Marketing ploy it would be, to have a TV commercial campaign of...."Get your picture in Madden '10'.

[sportzbro]

Quote: Originally Posted by Big_Mig_11

I believe that the 2K series takes photos of real NBA players and slightly alters the appearance and it then becomes part of the rookkie class pics. the problem for me is that they are altered so much til the photo looks ugly, or it is not altered enough and you see a couple of "Penny hardaway" or "Shawn Marion" pics throughout your franchise. I would be happy if Madden used the CPU generated faces from NCAA 07'. Those were not the best, but hey its something...

Yea I remember the "black Yao Ming" was a prominent rookie face in my franchise. I think the best route for rookies is comp. generated faces much like ncaa basketball 09 has.

They could also take the NBA Live 09 approach and change every player into a comp. generated image (then again there way more players in the NFL) and the rookies in NBA 09 looked ridiculous so yea...

[DeLuX]

This would be really cool, as long as EA were REALLY selective with what photos they put in to make sure they look like a person that would be in the NFL.

[canes21]

DeLuX, you wouldn't want to see a Pee Wee Herman?