Spring Training Ballpark
 

Is there a way to change the Spring Training ballpark to a different 3D modeled ballpark? I don't see where there is an option to do that.

spring training ballpark? Not sure what you are talking about. Are you talking about the default ballpark?

I am thinking this is what you are looking for.

On your teams HOME PAGE click on settings

The click on edit ballparks

Once you are in there you will see you can setup the parks

If you are playing historic you will need to go in and actually setup each park, if they are no longer in use. I am playing the 80 Twins. I had to go to the https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...d.php?t=287547 thread by Silvam14 and find the Metrodome that he recreated. Find your team, find the historic park, save it under BALLPARKS in your OOTP settings which you will find under documents> out of the park developments > OOTP Baseball 21 > ballparks

Yes, the file MUST be in there.
He has the Day and Night pictures, the diagram, and the Obj files all in there.

Once your park is loaded click on ACTIONS in the right hand part of the page, click on manually import data from file into this park and click on the .prk file that he has placed in the directory of the park.

This should get you, I think, where you want to go?

That works for regular season and postseason games to change any team's home ballpark, but not for spring training games. Yes, I would like to change the default spring training ballpark.

That will change any team's home ballpark, but I would like to change the default spring training ballpark.

I just always have skipped spring training. Didn't even know you played in a spring training park.

Ok so, for what I can see its called Spring Ballpark. Looks like your only choices to changing it is, in the drop down menu before you start your game but all you can do is choose a different major league stadium. Can't even find the file for Spring Ballpark and I did a full search on my computer. Even checked for obj and ootp3d files and no luck. They should really make it default to a minor league stadium that you can choose.

So, since it seems the only options are picking different MLB parks to play in, I created this thread in the "Hope" for future versions to maybe get this feature.
https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...d.php?t=324024

This is how I do it
 

1. Get to the Edit Ballpark Screen.
2. Select the blank option...No League.
3. Select Spring Ballpark.
4. Choose the 3d Model tab
5. Load a Model of your choosing.
6. Do all the fun things, like importing cameras and setting views.
7. Save Model (just to be safe)

Should be fine after this.

A couple of things to note since I am exactly running into this (the 1916 Newark Peppers just opened their spring training in Havana against the Philadelphia Athletics!):

--The ballpark has to keep the "Spring Ballpark" name. If you import a .prk file via the "Manual import..." command and the name changes, it won't be recognized. So if you do that import, you need to rename the ballpark to be "Spring Ballpark".

--If you want more than one spring training site, you'll need to make this change before each game with the same naming caveat. The 3D model, park factors, etc. can be imported/changed individually, but make sure the park is still called "Spring Ballpark" in the end.

--The only places I've seen as options for spring training games are the regular-season home ballparks of the teams or Spring Ballpark. So, again, see my previous point.

At least that's the experience I just had. I'd love to learn otherwise!

Good points.

yeah in my thread I linked above someone said "Its already in the game, just go and change all the teams ballparks to their Spring Training parks and then switch them back at the start of the season" so, pretty much, spend an hour or so to switch all parks to Minor team parks for a few weeks and then switch it back to home parks after spring training is over.

I think it would be great if it was placed under Front Office where you can set your spring training home at, by picking one of your minor league teams and then whatever park is set under that, then that is your spring training ball park. I guess he thought spending hours switch parks back and forth makes more sense. You can spend the hour or so, setting up all teams minor parks (If they have been created) or use one of the many other amazing parks that many users have made, and do it once, or sit here and change them back and forth every single season. I think having the devs create it my way makes a lot more sense! I was only a coders for online games for about 20 years making online text games back in the 90's. So, I do have a little idea on what I am talking about. This should be a pretty simple addition, just calling a check to see if a teams sprain training home has been set, if it has
been, use that park, otherwise default to spring ballpark.

1. Edit ballpark through my teams settings?
2. Where is the blank option?




AND I FOUND IT. My response engaged before my brain did, sorry.

For completeness, there's another option that I just ran across and that may be easier/quicker depending on what you want to do-- you can go to League Settings and then Edit League Schedule, go to the relevant games/dates and change the Park ID to the park you want to play in. The default of 0 will be the park assigned to the home team (which for all Spring Training games is "Spring Ballpark"), but you can directly enter the Park ID for any other park (see screenshot). The display will also update each time you change the number to the park associated with that ID, though it's probably most efficient to look up the ID you want first.

Since I'm just watching the games that my team is playing in, and I'm taking them on a period semi-appropriate coast-to-coast tour for Spring Training that has them spending only 2-3 days in any city, this is great and quick for me. I suppose this is how you'd have a team have a Sunday ballpark too, or how you might approach a team shared by multiple cities (or a permanent barnstorming team?).

If you want every team to have its own Spring Training park this also seems how you'd do it, though it could get really tedious if you've got a lot of teams and a lot of ST games--not nearly as efficient as the kind of thing twins_34 advocates above.

3 years after you posted this lol but thanks for this! I've wondered about it for a long time and never bothered looking it up till tonight. I've been wanting to use my camera angles/views in spring training games so I really appreciate this!

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And now 4 years later I found the post and used it in my game. :)

My game is in 2047 and I'm not moving the A's out of Oakland to a small park. I'll do that in the future when they have a MLB park in Las Vegas. That means there is a beautiful Sutter Park that isn't being used. Well, until now. ;)


Following the instructions above I loaded the Sutter Park over the default Spring Ballpark. It looks amazing and is quite the upgrade over the old park.

It no longer holds it.