"Indoor Union" Fantasy League Thread (56k Warning?)

[Tbird]

These are all the field textures minus the numbers. I think tiling is used to avoid making the field texture not to look stretchy and to better manage distances.

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Whoops forgot the picture [&:]

[NickZ]

OK, took a break from jersey making a bit tonight, and played around with the textures of the unpacked arena model. I tried to make some various things in the HSBC Arena such as a LCD Banner, but the textures won't allow me to (at least the ones I've played around with). However, I can make an LCD on the sides only. The reason is that Maximum-Football uses the same concrete texture on the wall separating the 100 and the 200 levels of the arena as the texture on the walls behind the endzone. This gave me a pretty weird image when I replaced the texture in-game, it was like my LCD banner texture was on the wall, and that didn't look right. Anyhoo, more experimenting will lead to more surprises, I guess.

I also tried to make the HSBC's jumbotron, but since there's only one jumbotron texture in the game, the HSBC's tron won't be 100% accurate as it is in real life. I wonder if transparency will work on this texture, since, in real life, the Buffalo Sabres logo is half on, half off the jumbotron...


Also, I modified some things on-field, too, changing the gray padded walls to something most football teams are using, their team colors and graphics to match, as well as changing the tip of the wall to a dark grey, replacing the default red. You may see some odd textures here and there, but that is because I am kinda unaware of the correspondences between the textures and the ingame models. Just need to find out how to change that concrete texture behind the endzone into something...um...more "matchable" to the endzone art.



I'm also in the process of working on my next team, The Oakland Eight, from the west coast. Now, you may say that The Oakland Eight is a terrible name, but, brainstorming sports teams' names is harder than it seems...I've done it for tons of leagues (mostly for Out of the Park Baseball leagues), and once you look for something unique, something terrible comes hand in hand. The Oakland Eight, though, needs to be said with "The" every time because it rolls of the tongue better, and...8 players on an indoor football field. Kinda makes it more dramatic. Whatever, they're coming up next.

[walkerws]

Nice work. The teams look great.

[DONMVP]

Thats not a bad name you came up with for your Oakland team . Can`t wait to see what your uniform look like . I live near oakland , and i can tell you thats type of name they liked . I was going to make one for my league to . Was leading towards crusaders , but like your name indeed .Might make a team in San Francisco call them the Fairies . With tinkerbell as a logo .But that be a few more days as i finish up Arena football 2 teams .

[NickZ]

All RIGHT! New developments! Here is a sneak peek of THE OAKLAND EIGHT, the team I said I'd finish nearly two months ago...and, well, it's still not quite finish. Some color matching still needs to be done here and there, and it is very apparent in these jerseys. Some of the mesh textures I played around with for the UB Jerseys are making their way into the Indoor Union jerseys now, as well. Here 'tis...

[NickZ]

OK, here is the official look at Team 3: The Oakland Eight.



Name: The Oakland Eight
Home Arena: AT&T Arena (fantasy arena) - Oakland, CA
Playbook: TBD
Colors: Gold, Black, Silver, White, Dark Gray
Star Player: LB #55 Shaun Starr, QB #3 Kyle White
Coach: Todd Krueger

Oakland, home of the headquarters of the Indoor Union, has some of the craziest Indoor Football fans in the nation, and, their hometown team, the Oakland Eight, represents the very basics of indoor football: eight men on one side of the ball at a time, representing the true essence of the sport. The lights dim every single night, the music stops, and the crowd erupts in deafening cheers as their Oakland Eight take the field, an entrance that is both as dramatic and as sublime as any in professional sports. Led by 22-year old first-year Western Michigan graduate Kyle White at quarterback, and led defensively by the self-proclaimed "strongest linebacker in the game", Shaun Starr, Oakland is an annual favorite to win the Indoor Union Championship due to their sheer talent on both sides of the football, not to mention the obvious presence of a ninth man in the AT&T Arena that always makes it hard for opposing offenses to run plays, let alone win football games...and the Eight's IU-record 11 straight (and counting) home wins statistically prove it.

[MSO94]

What ever happened to this league how did it turn out for you .
We have the PIFL and could use a good owner in it as such in you.

[boggyjr]

ORIGINAL: MSO94

What ever happened to this league how did it turn out for you .
We have the PIFL and could use a good owner in it as such in you.

Yeah, we were supposed to have an Oakland team in the PIFL, but the owner backed out at the last second.

[MSO94]

we are always looking for owners that are wanting to be involved in the PIFL
 
so far we are in week 3 and it is going great
 
 

[jrodsly]

i WANTED one, but no one took my entry on here serious enough.

[boggyjr]

ORIGINAL: jrodsly

i WANTED one, but no one took my entry on here serious enough.

You weren't supposed to enter here. You were supposed to do it on the PIFL's web site. Not that hard of a concept to understand...