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Im starting to work on the L1 files for college teams done, anyone is welcome to jump in [:)]

Looks good. One small issue... VT shouldn't have a helmet stripe.

Yay!

corrected

Hows it coming? [:)]

Ah took a break to do 4 more college teams and other stuff. Will get back to them now, still have the Big 10 and Pac 10 teams to finnish.

PAC10 are done [;)]

Finally got them all finnished and checked in the game. The later teams that I did should already have the L1 helmet files included in the zip on the FBmax site. Tomorrow I will upload a zip file to fbmax, the file will have the L1 files for all the other college teams that I did. I will name each file using the team name plus L1, for example MichStateL1, just copy it to the Michigan state folder and rename it L1. Im going to be using two uniforms that someone else created in my college league, and they dont have the L1 files, so I will also do the L1 files for Arkansas and Mississippi State.

Where are the L1 files used by the game, I see them in the stock files, but have not seen them appear anywere when a game is played.

They're the team logos, used practically wherever the team's name is displayed (before the game, roster screens, etc.).

Here are some shots showing where the L1 files are used. Forgot I still have to do the LSU helmet, should still get the file uploaded tomorrow.

I just uploaded to FBMAX.com the zipped folder with all the L1 files for the college teams that I have done, except for the last teams, which had the L1 included. The file is in the unsorted file section, the name is "collegeL1.zip".

I now see where these files are used. Since the game replaces them with its own logo if there is no L1 file, I never missed them not being there. I do not feel that I have the skill with the graphics programs to produce these files for the 3 uniforms I did. Anyone who can and wants to procdue L1 files to go with those uniforms are welcome to do so. Otherwise the game logo will have to do.

If I had it to do over again I probably would not do the helmet for the L1 logo. I would probably just use the main team color as the background and then in a layer above that use the team or school logo that can be found on many web sites. Below is an examplewith a transparent background.

What did you use for a transparent background? I saved a copy of the L3A file for one team which has the school logo on the background that appears as transparent on the field and in other uses by the game as L-1 and tried it in the game and it showed the logo and the lavender background instead of the background appearing transparent?

The background has to be exact, 255 R, 0 G, 255 B. It should show up as transparent if those are the values.

Tried the color combination you indicated and it worked fine.

Thanks

I have uploaded L1 files for the three SEC teams that I made uniforms for (Miss. State, Kentucky, Vanderbilt) These are at FBMAX in unsorted area now. MVKL1.zip.

Note that these are logo's only as suggested by nmleague and are not helmets.

MMLEAGUE that was a great advice on tranperency for logos . Started using it , it looks great . I always prefer looking at logos over the helmets , if the team has a great logo .