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OOTP Baseball:Screens and Menus/Game Menu/Game Settings

2025-04-01T08:53:40Z

OOTP Erik:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}The second tab on the left side of the Create New Game screen displays the '''Game Settings''' screen:

This screen sets important global variables for your baseball universe. The settings on this screen affect every league in your world, although they do not affect other saved games. Use the links in the side-bar to jump directly to a particular set of options:

''Note: The links will not work from within the in-game browser. However, they all simply link to sections lower in this page, so just scroll down to find the appropriate section.''

OOTP also has some additional global options ("Report Options" and "Global Database Functions") that are only available after the creation of a game, from the Global Setup screen.

=== Scouting Settings ===
Scouting Settings allows you to change the way the game's scouting systems operate in your game.
{| class="wikitable"
|'''Option'''
|'''Description'''
|-
|Use Complete Scouting System
|If this box is checked, OOTP's scouting system will be in use. If this box is unchecked the scouting system will not be in play, and all player ratings and potential values you see in the game will be the actual values.
|-
|Scouting Accuracy
|This allows you to select how accurate scouts are in your game world. This can be set from very low to very high. There is also an option called "100% accurate." This option is specifically for use by people who really don't want to deal with scouting, but still want the game to scout players periodically.
|-
|Scouting Report Updates
|This allows you to determine how often players will try to be re-scouted or updated by your head scout: monthly, bi-monthly, or only at the start and end of the season.
|-
|Report History
|This allows you to determine how many scouting reports are retained for each player: all of them, one per season, or none at all.
|-
|Reports of Retired Players
|This allows you to determine whether or not scouting reports are retained or deleted when the player retires.
|-
|Incorporate Stats in Scouting Reports
|This feature just takes a players stats and if they are doing well, the scout might report the players a bit higher in their ratings. (so if a guy is hitting .350 in the majors or minors, his contact value in the scouting report would tend to be higher). You can choose Yes to enable this feature or No to disable this feature. These values adjust the component ratings (contact, power, eye, stuff, movement, control), and not the overall rating. Whether stats are included in the overall player evaluation is determined by the setting in the Players tab with AI evaluation options.
|}

=== Player Rating Scales ===
OOTP uses a number of ratings to describe the abilities of players and coaches. These rating scales can be changed at any time. They don't actually change player ratings, just the scale on which they are displayed. Player ratings are defined in more detail in Current Ratings and Potential Ratings, but the numeric range you choose is strictly a matter of preference.

OOTP supports any of the ratings scales listed below. In each numeric scale, the higher a player's rating, the better he is at that particular skill.

* NONE displayed
* 1 to 5
* 2 to 8
* 1 to 10
* 1 to 20
* 20 to 80 (in increments of 5)
* 1 to 100

'NONE displayed' will prevent ratings from displaying. Even if ratings are not displayed, they still exist and are used by the computer in decision-making. They are simply not visible to the human player. You can change rating scales at any time during a game without adversely affecting your league.
{| class="wikitable"
|'''Option'''
|'''Description'''
|-
|Player Ratings
|Defines the scale used to view current player ratings.
|-
|Player Potential
|Defines the scale used to view player potential ratings.
|-
|Other Ratings
|Defines the scale used to view other player ratings (such as speed and baserunning skills).
|-
|Show Ratings greater than Max
|By default, OOTP limits ratings to the scale defined. However, if this option is enabled, some exceptionally rare players might have ratings above the top end of the defined ratings scale. For example, on a scale of 1-100, there could be players with 120 ratings.
|-
|Show Potential less than Actual
|By default, OOTP limits ratings to the scale defined. However, if this option is enabled, there may be some cases where a player's potential ratings are lower than their actual ratings. This could be an indicator that the player's current performance is an anomaly.
|-
|Overall/Talent Ratings
|Scouts in OOTP give each player an overall rating. You can choose not to show these overall ratings, use a 20-80 scale, or use a star-based system. The star-based system displays player ratings from one-half to five stars, in half-star increments. The 20-80 system can be set to either display values only in increments of 5 or all values.
|-
|Show Overall Ratings < Min (Red Stars)
|Split out half star players into 1-5 Red Stars, to separate out their value. In 20-80 display mode, will display player ratings below 20 similarly.
|-
|Ratings relative to leagues
|By default, OOTP ratings are scaled relative to the chosen league, usually the best league in the universe. If this option is disabled, then player ratings will show using their absolute values. If enabled, then ratings will be scaled to the average of the league, so that a player who is a 50 on a 20-80 will be exactly league average.
|-
|Overall rating based on all players, not position
|By default, OOTP overall ratings compare position players to other players at the same position. For example, shortstops are rated relative to all other shortstops. If you select this check box, the game will instead rate all players compared to all players in the entire league, across positions.
|}

=== Coaching Staff Settings ===
{| class="wikitable"
|Use Complete Coaching System
|If this box is checked, OOTP's coaching/personnel system will be in use. If coaches are turned off, all teams are treated as if they had an average coaching staff. 'Coaching' in this case includes other team personnel such as team trainers.
|-
|Enable Owner Goals
|Enables the Owner Goals system, which will have your team's owner set specific goals for you to accomplish.
|-
|Legacy Mode
|By default, players who play GM-only may hire coaches who will prevent them from being able to set lineups or strategy. If enabled, managers will always allow the GM to set lineups and player strategies (they may still prevent edits to team strategy setting).
|}

=== Facegen Settings ===
OOTP can create fictional pictures for your players and coaches. Fictional faces appear with their team's cap and jersey, and their logos as well. Faces are divided into several facial types. They can be displayed at multiple angles with multiple backgrounds, and change as players age, change in mood, or even change in weight.
{| class="wikitable"
|'''Option'''
|'''Description'''
|-
|Player Pictures for
|
* '''All Players''' - In the absence of an .fg file for that player, all players in your game will receive fictional player pictures.
* '''Major League Players Only''' - In the absence of an .fg file for that player, only players in the major leagues receive fictional pictures. All other players will not automatically receive fictional pictures.
* '''None''' - No players will receive fictional player pictures but players with .fg files in the fg_files folder will load
|-
|Create Player Pictures
|
* '''Upon Player Creation''' - Fictional pictures are created at the time players are newly created, such as when an first-year player draft pool is generated.
* '''On Demand''' - Fictional pictures are created automatically whenever required to display the image on-page. For example, when you open a player's profile, the picture will be generated.
|-
|Update Player Pictures
|
* '''Yearly Only''' - Pictures are updated on January 1. Updates include changes based on age, weight, or team.
* '''On Status Change''' - Pictures are updated immediately whenever there are changes based on age, weight, team, or mood change.
|-
|Coach Pictures for
|
* '''All Coaches/Scouts/Managers''' - All coaches, scouts, and managers will have fictional pictures.
* '''No Fictional Pictures''' - No coaches or other personnel will receive fictional pictures.
|}

=== Player Injury, Fatigue, and Suspensions ===
These options affect how player suspensions, injuries, and fatigue are handled in your universe.
{| class="wikitable"
|'''Option'''
|'''Description'''
|-
|Enable Injuries
|When this box is selected injuries will occur in your league. When it is deselected players will not experience injuries.
|-
|Short Term Injury Frequency
|This setting changes the frequency of short-term injuries in your universe. You can select from the range of extremely low (frequency) to Very High (frequency). The default setting is normal for OOTP. Realistic Modern Day MLB is set at high. So be careful with your selection or you may be surprised with just how many injuries a real-life MLB GM faces during a season.
|-
|Long Term Injury Frequency
|This setting changes the frequency of long-term injuries in your universe. You can select from the range of extremely low (frequency) to Very High (frequency). The default setting is normal for OOTP. Realistic Modern Day MLB is set at high. So be careful with your selection or you may be surprised with just how many injuries a real-life MLB GM faces during a season.
|-
|Delayed Injury Diagnosis
|Delayed Injury Diagnosis means that when a player is injured, the extent and exact nature of the injury will not be readily apparent to GMs. The GM will be informed as soon as the team trainers have a better idea of the injury. This can be set to "Occasionally" or "Never."
|-
|Hide Injury Rating
|Controls whether or not you can see a player's Injury History in the Health Status section of the Player Profile or in views.
|-
|Position Player Fatigue
|Controls how quickly position players become fatigued during the season. The value can be set from None to Very High.
|-
|Enable Suspensions
|When this check box is deselected, no players will experience suspensions due to in-game brawls, etc.
|-
|Suspension Frequency
|Controls the frequency of suspensions when they are enabled. Options range from "very low" to "very high".
|}
See Suspensions, and Injuries, Fatigue, and Aging for more information.

=== Player Personality Settings ===
{| class="wikitable"
|'''Option'''
|'''Description'''
|-
|Use player personality ratings
|This checkbox will turn on or off the use of the player personality ratings in OOTP. Players in OOTP have distinct personalities based on a number of personality ratings. See Player Personality for more information.
|-
|Show player personality ratings on profile page
|If this option is checked, the game will display these player personalities in the player profile and use them in game decision-making.
|-
|Show and use player morale system
|Players in OOTP have morale, which affects how they play, and of course whether they are interested in signing a contract with your team. If this option is checked, the game will display player morale information and use it in game decision-making. See Player Morale for more information.
|-
|Show and use team chemistry system
|If the team chemistry system is enable, players may have relationships (including personality conflicts) with each other and/or their manager, which may help or hurt the team.
|-
|Show player nicknames
|Unchecking this box will remove the display of player nicknames from their profile screen.
|}

=== Player Development Settings ===
The Player Development Settings allow you flexibility regarding OOTP's player model. The first several options in this section are ''modifiers''. The default setting of 1.000 for modifiers produces results that are consistent with modern-day baseball. You can change these modifiers to suit your baseball universe. To decrease a modifier, enter a number less than 1. For example, a modifier of .500 should roughly halve the expected results. To increase a modifier, enter a number greater than 1.
{| class="wikitable"
|'''Option'''
|'''Description'''
|-
|Batter Aging Speed
|This modifier affects the speed with which players lose their hitting skills as they age. The lower this modifier is set, the more slowly players will lose their skills as they age. So, a modifier of .500 would result in players maintaining their hitting skills much later in their careers. A modifier of 1.500 would cause players' hitting skills to drop much earlier in their careers.
|-
|Batter Dev. Speed
|This modifier affects the speed with which players' hitting skills develop. The lower this modifier is set, the more slowly players will develop their hitting skills. So, a modifier of .500 would result in players developing hitting skills at a slower pace. A modifier of 1.500 would cause players to develop hitting skills at a quicker pace.
|-
|Pitcher Aging Speed
|This modifier affects the speed with which players lose their pitching skills as they age. The lower this modifier is set, the more slowly players will lose their skills as they age. So, a modifier of .500 would result in players maintaining their pitching skills much later in their careers. A modifier of 1.500 would cause players' pitching skills to drop much earlier in their careers.
|-
|Pitcher Dev. Speed
|This modifier affects the speed with which players' pitching skills develop. The lower this modifier is set, the more slowly players will develop their pitching skills. So, a modifier of .500 would result in players developing pitching skills at a slower pace. A modifier of 1.500 would cause players to develop pitching skills at a quicker pace.
|-
|Talent Change Randomness
|This modifier controls how random player talent changes are. If the number is raised above 100, the possible amount of a talent change will have a larger minimum and maximum, leading to more significant changes in talent over the course of a player's career; if it's lowered below 100, the changes will be smaller and the player's general talent will remain unchanged. The effect will be most noticeable among the most skilled players.
|-
|Disable Player Development
|Select the Disable Player Development check box if you do not want players to develop in your game world. This option is generally used by historical simulation fans who want the game to generate very specific statistical results, which could be thrown into disarray if player skill levels change during a season.
|-
|Disable Player Development for Draft-Eligible Players
|Select the Disable Player Development check box if you do not want players who are draft-eligible to develop, unless they're playing in a feeder league.
|}
''Note: As a rule, it's safest to make only small changes in modifiers at first, until you are more certain of the effect.''

=== Delete Players Who Never Reached Majors ===
This option allows you to automatically delete players from the game database if they have retired without ever playing in a major league. This can potentially help keep the size of the database file down somewhat, it also helps removes clutter when looking at league history. This option is turned off by default, meaning that all player history is retained forever.

=== Don't Re-Use Player ID's ===
The second option allows users to choose if they would like the game to re-use player IDs. This will cause the game to have larger file sizes as player ID's won't be re-used and instead will continue to be unique to each player.

=== Stats Settings ===
The settings below will govern whether disk space and memory are used to preserve data regarding L/R splits, career fielding stats, and career postseason stats. These settings have no effect on your gameplay but choosing to not record these could increase your game speed.
{| class="wikitable"
|'''Option'''
|'''Description'''
|-
|Keep career L/R splits
|
* '''Keep All''' - Saves the player's career left/right splits (highest disk/memory usage).
* '''Major League Stats Only''' - Saves only the player's major league left/right splits.
* '''Keep None''' - Does not save career splits (lowest disk/memory usage).
|-
|Keep career fielding stats
|
* '''Keep All''' - Saves the player's career fielding stats (highest disk/memory usage).
* '''Major League Stats Only''' - Saves only the player's major league career fielding stats.
* '''Keep None''' - Does not save career fielding stats (lowest disk/memory usage).
|-
|Keep career postseason stats
|
* '''Keep All''' - Saves the player's career postseason stats (highest disk/memory usage).
* '''Major League Stats Only''' - Saves only the player's major league postseason stats.
* '''Keep None''' - Does not save career postseason stats (lowest disk/memory usage).
|}

=== Financial Settings ===
The financial coefficient is an easy way to adjust the monetary figures that appear across your entire league. Changing this value will cause a corresponding increase or decrease in financial values throughout your universe. For example, if a player has a $1,000,000 contract, changing the financial coefficient to 1.100 would cause the contract to become a $1,100,000 contract.

The financial coefficient is a strict multiplier. For example, lowering the financial coefficient might lower player salaries, but it would not change the curve of salary distributions. See here for more information on OOTP's team financial model.

''Note: When you change the financial coefficient, values such as the 'typical salary' values in the league setup will change automatically. For example, if your typical coach salary was set to $200,000, and you change the financial coefficient to .500, the typical coach salary would become $100,000. However, you must switch tabs before the changes will become apparent. To make sure you are looking at the most recent information after changing the financial coefficient, click on any tab and then return to the tab that you want to view.''

=== Auto-Save and Log Options ===
The Auto-Save and Log Options section contains a few additional choices for administering your league. These options mainly give you some flexibility in terms of what files OOTP saves over the course of your game's history. Depending on what you're interested in, adjusting these settings can drastically impact the size of your league files.
{| class="wikitable"
|'''Option'''
|'''Description'''
|-
|Auto-Save
|Tells the game how frequently to auto-save the progress in your game. You can choose Once a year, Once a month, Once a week, Daily, or Dynamic. The Dynamic option will allow the game to pick major events and moments to autosave your game therefore allowing you to let the game manage autosaving instead of setting it at a periodic time frame. The time frames given are in-game times, not real-world times.
|-
|Save Box Scores from . . .
|Allows you to choose which box scores will be saved. The more box scores you save, the more space is taken up on your computer. You can choose to save box scores from all leagues, human leagues, human organizations, human teams, all major leagues, or none. Box scores and game logs are stored and overwritten each season. Each game in your universe is given an ID. For example, the first game on the schedule is game 1. The box scores and game logs for game 1 will be saved until the next season, when game 1 of that season is played. At that time, the old game 1 box score and game log will be overwritten. Therefore, if you want to save all your old box scores and game logs, be sure to back them up at the end of each season, or consider using OOTP's Almanac.
|-
|Generate Game Recaps for . . .
|Allows you to choose which game recaps will be saved. The more replays you save, the more space is taken up on your computer. You can choose to save replays from All Leagues, All Major Leagues, Human Leagues, Human Organizations, Human Teams, and None.
|-
|Generate WPA Graphs for . . .
|Allows you to choose which WRA Graphs will be saved. The more replays you save, the more space is taken up on your computer. You can choose to save replays from All Leagues, All Major Leagues, Human Leagues, Human Organizations, Human Teams, and None.
|-
|Delay WPA Graph generation
|Allows you to choose whether or not WPA Graphs will be delayed. If delayed, WPA graphs will only be generated when needed. This will cause replays to be saved for selected games.
|-
|Save Game Logs from . . .
|Allows you to choose which game logs will be saved. The more game logs you save, the more space is taken up on your computer. You can choose to save game logs from all leagues, human leagues, human organizations, human teams, all major leagues, or none. Box scores and game logs are stored and overwritten each season. Each game in your universe is given an ID. For example, the first game on the schedule is game 1. The box scores and game logs for game 1 will be saved until the next season, when game 1 of that season is played. At that time, the old game 1 box score and game log will be overwritten. Therefore, if you want to save all your old box scores and game logs, be sure to back them up at the end of each season, or consider using OOTP's Almanac.
|-
|Save Replays from . . .
|Allows you to choose which replays will be saved. The more replays you save, the more space is taken up on your computer. You can choose to save replays from All Leagues, All Major Leagues, Human Leagues, Human Organizations, Human Teams, and None.
|-
|Store Replays in Pitch by Pitch Mode
|Allows you to choose how detailed you would like your replays to be. Either yes for pitch-by-pitch or no for one-pitch mode.
|-
|Generates Highlights for . . .
|Allows you to choose which teams' games will generate highlights.
|-
|Save 3D Movements from . . .
|Allows you to choose whether 3D movements are generated in games where either replays or highlights are generated.
|-
|Keep news logs . . .
|Allows you to define whether to discard old news log files to save disk space. You can choose to keep none, all, or just the logs from the last two or ten years. Discarding news log files means that you will no longer be able to read news articles from those years.
|-
|Keep injury logs . . .
|Allows you to define whether to discard old injury log files to save disk space. You can choose to keep none, all, or just the logs from the last two or ten years. Discarding injury log files means that you will no longer be able to see injury reports from those years.
|-
|Keep transaction logs . . .
|Allows you to define whether to discard old transaction log files to save disk space. You can choose to keep none, all, or just the logs from the last two or ten years. Discarding transaction log files means that you will no longer be able to view transaction logs from those years.
|}

=== History ===
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|Added option to "Show Overall Ratings < Min (Red Stars)" to Player Rating Scales
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The aspect ratio of our new jersey textures is 0.5, meaning the width is half the size of the height. Our textures are delivered in the size of 512x1024. Jerseys in other sizes like 256x512 or 1024x2048 for example would work as well. It is good practice to choose a resolution smaller or equal to 512x1024 to not unnecessarily slow down the game since the bigger the texture is the smaller the frame rate becomes. For best compatibility it is also preferable to use resolutions where width and height are a power of two. The image format needs to be the PNG format. Jerseys can be made up of two texture images, a diffuse map and a normal map:<gallery mode="nolines" widths="200" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:Diffuse Map.png|1. Diffuse Map
File:Normal Map.png|2. Normal Map
</gallery>The diffuse map represents the colors that a jersey is supposed to have on its surface and the normal map represents the difference in height to show the wrinkles of the jersey or the height of the buttons or the team logo since those things are above the surface of the main jersey fabric. It is also possible to use only a diffuse texture for a jersey without the normal map, but such a jersey will not look as good and as realistic as a jersey that has a normal map as well. Have a look at the following three images:<gallery mode="nolines" widths="300">
File:Jersey with diffuse and normal map.png|3. Jersey with diffuse and normal map
File:Jersey without a normal map.png|4. Jersey without a normal map
File:Jersey with the normal map only.png|Jersey with the normal map only
</gallery>As you can see, on image 4 all the shading that is the result of small differences in height are gone when compared to image 3. Image 4 shows only the normal map related shading without the color from the diffuse map.

=== Creating the diffuse map ===
To create jersey textures you can use an image editing tool like Photoshop or Gimp. To get the positioning of the buttons or the neck piping right, please use the pattern images from this package. In regard to the buttons, there can be three different kinds of jerseys:

* without buttons
* with equally spaced buttons
* with unequally spaced buttons to give the team logo more space

Feel free to give the neck piping and buttons the color you like and place them on top of the background layer which should be in the jerseys main color. If you also want to create a normal map for your jersey, be aware that the planket pattern image should only be used for the normal map and not for the diffuse map since it represents a change in height, not a change in color. As you can see on image 6, there is no planket there. The buttons template in contrast should be used for the diffuse map and the normal map as well.

=== Creating the normal map ===
A normal map is more kind of an endproduct the computer can use for the shading calculation. To create a normal map, a height map is needed first. A height map is simply a greyscale image where darker colors represent lower positions and lighter colors higher positions, have a look at image 7. To create the height map for your jersey, please use the „height_map.png“ template image as your starting point and then place buttons, planket and logos on top of it in your favorite image editor. Such a height map can be converted into a normal map by a large number of tools and plugins for Photoshop for example. But our preferred way to create normal maps from height maps is to use a free tool called "Materialize" with the normal map style set to "Maya style", see image 8 and with the settings shown in image 9.<gallery perrow="3">
File:The height map.png|7. The height map
File:Maya style for normal maps.png|8. Maya style for normal maps
File:Normal map creation settings.png|Normal map creation settings
</gallery>The official version of Materialize is only available for Windows, but the application is open-source and there is a fork that has builds available for macOS and Linux. You can download Materialize for your platform from the following sources:

* Windows: https://boundingboxsoftware.com/materialize/downloads.php
* Mac / Linux: https://github.com/maikramer/Materialize/releases/tag/v0.4.2

Choosing the Maya style is important since normal maps can be of different formats which all might look correct to the untrained eye but the final result in the game will look wrong when using the wrong format. Buttons for example will then look as if they are popping in instead of popping out or it will look as if the light will come from the wrong direction.

To convert a height map to a normal map using Materialize, you first need to download and extract Materialize to a folder you like. After starting it, first set the file format to PNG and click on "Settings" to choose the Maya style like shown in image 8. Then click on the "O" on the height map element on the top left of the app screen to open your created height map, see image 10.
[[File:The Materialize window.png|center|thumb|10. The Materialize window]]

=== Naming conventions ===
When you create a normal map in addition to your jerseys diffuse map, please give both files the same name but add the suffix "_d.png" to the file name of your diffuse map and add the suffix "_n.png" to the file name of your normal map. Such a pair of images yould then for example have the names:

* MY_JERSEY_d.png
* MY_JERSEY_n.png

This is necessary for OOTP's file loader, which will automatically look for a normal map file that has the same name like the diffuse map but with the "_n.png" suffix instead of the "_d.png" suffix. If filenames are not respecting this convention, the normally will simply not be loaded.

OOTP Baseball:Customizing OOTP/Creating Normal Maps for jerseys

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OOTP Erik:

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The aspect ratio of our new jersey textures is 0.5, meaning the width is half the size of the height. Our textures are delivered in the size of 512x1024. Jerseys in other sizes like 256x512 or 1024x2048 for example would work as well. It is good practice to choose a resolution smaller or equal to 512x1024 to not unnecessarily slow down the game since the bigger the texture is the smaller the frame rate becomes. For best compatibility it is also preferable to use resolutions where width and height are a power of two. The image format needs to be the PNG format. Jerseys can be made up of two texture images, a diffuse map and a normal map: <gallery mode="nolines" widths="200" heights="400" perrow="2">
File:Diffuse Map.png|1. Diffuse Map
File:Normal Map.png|2. Normal Map
</gallery>The diffuse map represents the colors that a jersey is supposed to have on its surface and the normal map represents the difference in height to show the wrinkles of the jersey or the height of the buttons or the team logo since those things are above the surface of the main jersey fabric. It is also possible to use only a diffuse texture for a jersey without the normal map, but such a jersey will not look as good and as realistic as a jersey that has a normal map as well. Have a look at the following three images:<gallery mode="nolines" widths="300">
File:Jersey with diffuse and normal map.png|3. Jersey with diffuse and normal map
File:Jersey without a normal map.png|4. Jersey without a normal map
File:Jersey with the normal map only.png|Jersey with the normal map only
</gallery>As you can see, on image 4 all the shading that is the result of small differences in height are gone when compared to image 3. Image 4 shows only the normal map related shading without the color from the diffuse map.

=== Creating the diffuse map ===
To create jersey textures you can use an image editing tool like Photoshop or Gimp. To get the positioning of the buttons or the neck piping right, please use the pattern images from this package. In regard to the buttons, there can be three different kinds of jerseys:

* without buttons
* with equally spaced buttons
* with unequally spaced buttons to give the team logo more space

Feel free to give the neck piping and buttons the color you like and place them on top of the background layer which should be in the jerseys main color. If you also want to create a normal map for your jersey, be aware that the planket pattern image should only be used for the normal map and not for the diffuse map since it represents a change in height, not a change in color. As you can see on image 6, there is no planket there. The buttons template in contrast should be used for the diffuse map and the normal map as well.

=== Creating the normal map ===
A normal map is more kind of an endproduct the computer can use for the shading calculation. To create a normal map, a height map is needed first. A height map is simply a greyscale image where darker colors represent lower positions and lighter colors higher positions, have a look at image 7. To create the height map for your jersey, please use the „height_map.png“ template image as your starting point and then place buttons, planket and logos on top of it in your favorite image editor. Such a height map can be converted into a normal map by a large number of tools and plugins for Photoshop for example. But our preferred way to create normal maps from height maps is to use a free tool called "Materialize" with the normal map style set to "Maya style", see image 8 and with the settings shown in image 9.<gallery perrow="3">
File:The height map.png|7. The height map
File:Maya style for normal maps.png|8. Maya style for normal maps
File:Normal map creation settings.png|Normal map creation settings
</gallery>The official version of Materialize is only available for Windows, but the application is open-source and there is a fork that has builds available for macOS and Linux. You can download Materialize for your platform from the following sources:

* Windows: https://boundingboxsoftware.com/materialize/downloads.php
* Mac / Linux: https://github.com/maikramer/Materialize/releases/tag/v0.4.2

Choosing the Maya style is important since normal maps can be of different formats which all might look correct to the untrained eye but the final result in the game will look wrong when using the wrong format. Buttons for example will then look as if they are popping in instead of popping out or it will look as if the light will come from the wrong direction.

To convert a height map to a normal map using Materialize, you first need to download and extract Materialize to a folder you like. After starting it, first set the file format to PNG and click on "Settings" to choose the Maya style like shown in image 8. Then click on the "O" on the height map element on the top left of the app screen to open your created height map, see image 10.
[[File:The Materialize window.png|center|thumb|10. The Materialize window]]

=== Naming conventions ===
When you create a normal map in addition to your jerseys diffuse map, please give both files the same name but add the suffix "_d.png" to the file name of your diffuse map and add the suffix "_n.png" to the file name of your normal map. Such a pair of images yould then for example have the names:

* MY_JERSEY_d.png
* MY_JERSEY_n.png

This is necessary for OOTP's file loader, which will automatically look for a normal map file that has the same name like the diffuse map but with the "_n.png" suffix instead of the "_d.png" suffix. If filenames are not respecting this convention, the normally will simply not be loaded.

OOTP Baseball:Screens and Menus/League Menu/Scores

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OOTP Erik:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}[[File:League scores.png|frameless|800x800px]][[File:League scores.png|frameless|800x800px]]

The scores screen is a great way to see past results for every game that happens on each day. When a day is finished, you'll have the option to view the '''Watch Replay''', '''Highlight Reel''', '''Box Score''', and '''Game Log'''.

For days that have yet to be played, the games will still appear showing the matchup, but not have any of the additional options.

'''Watch Replay''' will allow you to enter the 3D mode and watch out the game that took place, play by play.

'''Highlight Reel''' will launch the 3D mode, but select important moments from the game to watch through.

'''Box Score''' opens the full boxscore of the game, consisting of all the stats and more.

'''Game Log''' will open a pitch by pitch log of the game.

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OOTP Erik:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}The '''Write/Edit News''' screen Write/Edit News tab allows you to create your own news stories, or edit existing ones. This screen looks very similar to the [[OOTP Baseball:Screens and Menus/League Menu/News/League Newspaper|News Listing]] screen, with the list of league stories on the left, and content on the right.

===== Adding / Editing an Article =====
To edit an existing article, simply click on the article in the list of articles in the left half of the screen, and edit the text on the right. When editing an existing article, you do not have to save your changes. Your changes take effect automatically as soon as you move to another article or screen. To add a new article, click on the '''Add a News Article''' action button. A new article will be created for you to edit.

You can also add links into your text for any player or team names you insert. Just type a player's name, and then click the '''Insert player and team links''' action button. The game will attempt to identify your player, and will insert some code that will become a link, like this:

<Kelly Allen:player#54>

<Los Angeles:team#22>

Once you save your article, this will become a link to the [[OOTP Baseball:Screens and Menus/Player Profile/Player Profile|Player Profile]]. However, the game cannot always create the links correctly if there are multiple players with the same name. You can manually create hyperlinks using the format above. The text before the colon will become the linked text. You must know the Player ID, which can be found in the [[OOTP Baseball:Important Game Concepts/Tools, Functions, and Editors/In-Game Editors/Player Editor|Player Editor]].

===== Deleting an Article =====
To delete a game-generated or custom article, click the '''Delete Article''' action button. You will receive a confirmation message. There is no way to undo deleting an article.

OOTP Baseball:Screens and Menus/Game Menu/News From Around the World

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OOTP Erik: Created page with "{{DISPLAYTITLE:{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}The '''News From Around the World''' screen gives players access to every league's news. 800x800px The content of the News Listing screen is no different from that in the League Newspaper, it is just presented in the same format as the News & Mail screen for those who..."

{{DISPLAYTITLE:{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}The '''News From Around the World''' screen gives players access to every league's news.

[[File:NewsAroundWorld.jpg|frameless|800x800px]]

The content of the News Listing screen is no different from that in the [[OOTP Baseball:Screens and Menus/League Menu/News/League Newspaper|League Newspaper]], it is just presented in the same format as the [[OOTP Baseball:Screens and Menus/Manager Menu/Mail and News|News & Mail]] screen for those who prefer this layout.

In fact, all of the functionality on this page is identical to that page. The primary difference is that while the manager's screen includes ''personal'' messages, the Write/Edit News screen contains only ''public'' league articles. Additionally, the News Listing screen also provides the ability to write your own news or make changes to existing articles.