OOTP 22-25 stadium advertising editing

[zappa1]

Just found out that with todays patch, 60, all the modern parks that come with the game now have animated crowds. That means all of this ads stuff has to be added to these new parks. Unless you don't want the new animated crowds.

[Sweed]

Originally Posted by zappa1

Just found out that with todays patch, 60, all the modern parks that come with the game now have animated crowds. That means all of this ads stuff has to be added to these new parks. Unless you don't want the new animated crowds.

I'm guessing since they updated the 3d parks that custom cameras were also overwritten?

The ads won't be terribly time consuming to copy/paste if one saved them in folders. They add so much IMHO that I'm not living without unless there is no choice

Pulling each ootp.3d camera file is slightly tedious but easier than having to rebuild them. Or even make one good one, import to all other parks, and then still have to tweak again for different configurations. Unless you use simple views that fit all venues. Which I don't

[silvam14]

Originally Posted by Sweed

I'm guessing since they updated the 3d parks that custom cameras were also overwritten?

The ads won't be terribly time consuming to copy/paste if one saved them in folders. They add so much IMHO that I'm not living without unless there is no choice

Pulling each ootp.3d camera file is slightly tedious but easier than having to rebuild them. Or even make one good one, import to all other parks, and then still have to tweak again for different configurations. Unless you use simple views that fit all venues. Which I don't

If this matters to you. Perhaps taking the time to backup each parks’ ootp3d file and copy them back after a patch. This restores the cameras and any grid changes if you made them.


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[zappa1]

That's exactly what I did, Silvam. Made a copy of the newest parks with the ads already installed in them. Put that folder in a different place and when the next update comes just copy it and paste it in the update.

[Sweed]

Originally Posted by silvam14

If this matters to you. Perhaps taking the time to backup each parks’ ootp3d file and copy them back after a patch. This restores the cameras and any grid changes if you made them.


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After digging in, didn't have time last night after returning from a trip, I see the ootp.3d file is in the same folder as the advertisements. This will make an easy 30 step process to copy paste into the updated parks.

It does appear that the present 2d crowds (that are used in the v22 stadiums) are in the "models>audience" folder.
Could this be as simple as replacing the old audience folder in a ballpark backup copy, with the new 3d audience folder, and then move the old ballpark folder back into the game? If the 3d audience is the only change then you would only have to copy that one folder to keep all ads and cameras.

Where I wonder about this working is the mod ballparks still use the old 3d crowd so, where are they pulling those from? Maybe they will now pull from the new folder too?

In any case there are ways to do this that aren't hard. Just thinking about what is going to be the easiest.

[Sweed]

Originally Posted by zappa1

Just found out that with todays patch, 60, all the modern parks that come with the game now have animated crowds. That means all of this ads stuff has to be added to these new parks. Unless you don't want the new animated crowds.

On my Steam version the patch installed, added the new 3d crowd, but never touched my cameras or real life ads.

Great job OOTP Dev.

[zappa1]

For me the new parks overwrote the ones I had with the ads. When i played the first game I had 3d crowds, but the ads were all gone.

Forgot to mention I'm not on steam.

[nutt]

Originally Posted by zappa1

For me the new parks overwrote the ones I had with the ads. When i played the first game I had 3d crowds, but the ads were all gone.

Forgot to mention I'm not on steam.

I believe the OP and myself also mentioned to back these files up any time you update the game.

[silvam14]

Originally Posted by Sweed

After digging in, didn't have time last night after returning from a trip, I see the ootp.3d file is in the same folder as the advertisements. This will make an easy 30 step process to copy paste into the updated parks.

It does appear that the present 2d crowds (that are used in the v22 stadiums) are in the "models>audience" folder.
Could this be as simple as replacing the old audience folder in a ballpark backup copy, with the new 3d audience folder, and then move the old ballpark folder back into the game? If the 3d audience is the only change then you would only have to copy that one folder to keep all ads and cameras.

Where I wonder about this working is the mod ballparks still use the old 3d crowd so, where are they pulling those from? Maybe they will now pull from the new folder too?

In any case there are ways to do this that aren't hard. Just thinking about what is going to be the easiest.

Good to see they weren’t overwritten, but I would zip up all thirty park folders in one zip. Inside the zip I would hollow out each folder and keep only the files you want. Then if I’m the future the parks are affected, simply unzip the zip file and everything should go back.


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[Sweed]

Originally Posted by silvam14

Good to see they weren’t overwritten, but I would zip up all thirty park folders in one zip. Inside the zip I would hollow out each folder and keep only the files you want. Then if I’m the future the parks are affected, simply unzip the zip file and everything should go back.


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Thanks for the suggestion. My zip file use is self taught and only to the bare minimum I do have all of the info I want for each park already in park folders trimmed to what I know I need to keep\replace. I had not thought about zipping them.

The audience file I mentioned does not contain the 3d crowds after the patch. That file still holds 2d crowds. Instead each stadium has a "audience.pod" file in the same model folder that holds all of the ads, ootp.3d files etc.

This means the patch only added the audience.pod to my folder while not overwriting the rest. I'm thinking this is another Steam advantage as the store version is the whole new .exe file.

The first place I saw real ads in a stadium was in your historic ballpark pack. They added so much to the game and I was thinking "too bad this can't be done with the default parks". Then along came micropterus58 and itsmb8 finding a way


I'm glad they made this thread a sticky. I was about to bump it up before it disappeared

[zappa1]

See? I have the store version. I already had the ads in the seperate park folders, just had to copy over the ad files needed for each park. Didn't take but 10 minutes. When that was done, I made a copy of that for future use. I was all ready until they decided to add the 3D crowds. No biggie.

[paulloukes]

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[The Game]

Originally Posted by paulloukes

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[paulloukes]

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[The Game]

For Citizens Bank Park - i cannot see where to put the files at. i have yet to play a game in the park and i do not see a Stand_day/night.webp in any of these folder.

[Sweed]

Originally Posted by The Game

For Citizens Bank Park - i cannot see where to put the files at. i have yet to play a game in the park and i do not see a Stand_day/night.webp in any of these folder.

What version of the game do you play? That looks nothing like what I see on my PC-Steam version. You have a whole list of files and then a scroll bar too.
I have nothing like "ad01, ad02 etc. Something to do with "wd offline installers"?

I'll post a screen of my file structure. I have 22 total items in my file while you're showing around 30 and still have more that I'd need to scroll to to count.

Have you installed the ad mods in other stadiums and had them work?
Do all of your park folders look like that?

I'm at a loss for what is going on there and probably won't be of much help other than showing the differences in out park folders.

[nutt]

I've considered adding these to the AIO for 22. I'll most likely bundle them together with it soon.

[vieira17]

i use for all parks but for 3 parks, citi field, citizens bank park and chase field these ads dont work, in the folder of each park have update stand_night and day but in game never show

[vieira17]

in game / in folder

[vieira17]

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