/icup/ - Inter-Board Competitions

I think we should stick with football, the other ones seem like they would be pretty boring to watch.

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For non vidya examples:

>Mario Retardy (simple model or texture pack, again, would require Mario Party Planner to include custom and hilarious boards)
>TF2 Bots (would be harder to setup and allow very little customization)
>Worms/Worms 3D/Hogs of War (ditto but easier to follow)
>M.U.G.E.N. / Rivals of Aether (would require non negative IQ to setup, the latter requires less sprites and for balancing purposes values can just be randomized)
>Smash Ultimate / Sm4sh / Soul Calibur VI (requires some time to edit models or miis, the former can get a bit boring without randomness)
>Fire Pro Wrestling (again, 8chanmania exclusive or alternative wrassling federation)

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>>16 (OP) 
Before merry mad went to shit I was trying to make a series involving a racing cup. Since you can easily make car skins and AI personalities for some titles, I was thinking of having a stream where I simulate some racing series.

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>>19
>Before merry mad went to shit
What a blast from the fucking past, I can't believe the wordfilter I won over years ago is still in effect.

>golf
Provided each board ends up making their own course or at least ends up getting a course made around their specifications, that could potentially be something very hilarious.  Look up the "Mario's Star" course of Mario Golf and then imagine that with board culture.

>>17
Racing could be interesting as short track and/or destruction derby

>>43
>destruction derby
Nice one, but what games allow enough customization for it?

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I kind of dig the idea of a custom golf game. I wonder if Wii Golf has any AI for the Wii Golf minigame + course editors? Otherwise we could make our own, but you should submit miis, of course.

https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=OoAHUvnpnDs

This game has quite the in-depth editor but I am unsure if it's worthy of AI matches.

>>18
>Worms
Hedgewars (2D worms clone in denial) might allow for more customization (there's even potential to mod source code).

>>16 (OP) 
One thing we could do if we don't mind fighting games AND if we could get at least one custom 3d model per board (or even just miis) is to have a modded Sm4sh or Brawl by just replacing the models with custom ones. Could be fun to have team matches and free for alls.
https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=tjqVXPVDNnk

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>>115
I'd be totally up for a modelswap mod for Brawl/WiiU if the /liberty/ team had both the snekgirl and a Kirby ancapball

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Possible non-sport suggestions:
>Hedgewars (fan-made Worms clone, actually good)
- easy to follow, can be commentated
- games last a decent (and decidable) length
- lots of customization potential, including visual stuff like team uniform sprites, themes and importing images as playable maps.
- not boring or inaccessible
downside: no tactical input from boards

>Totally Accurate Battle Simulator (or UEBS?)
- looks fun and interesting
- boards could plot troop locations on half of each symmetrical map (with a set budget) before the comp and then be randomly played against each other using their predetermined troop positions
- appears to be reasonably moddable
downside: matches can be short if the battles are too small and if you don't abuse slowmotion, I guess
downside: setup time?
>Age of Empires or similar
could go on for too long...

I have some suggestions:
>OpenRA or CNCNet
Open source CnC games, OpenRA could be modded a little bit more.
>AnnexConquer
Anime CnC possible modification 
>Glest
Fantasy RTS could be modded.
>Spreedrunning?
Maybe we could pick from a wheel a challenge for a speedrun?

>>731
Is this like a bootleg worms?
TABS doesn't allow for much customization, but AoE could be interesting if we had some blenderfags.

>>739
>Is this like a bootleg worms?
Yes in the sense that it's an obvious ripoff of early Worms, no in the sense that it's is not some shoddy low-quality clone or commercial moneygrab.
It's a long-standing community-built (free and open source) Worms game. The visual style is an obvious ripoff and the basic gameplay is almost the same, but the game has it's own features and quirks on top of that base (and is still being actively developed).
>but AoE could be interesting if we had some blenderfags
For a second I forgot they moved on from the sprite era lol.
I think TABS would allow customization through modding, I've seen modders making Star Wars characters and stuff. I haven't actually played it though. My main draw to it is that the boards can have actual strategic input without needing to be live managed.

if /ausneets/ win the cup Or if there's demand I'm up to make an AFL based exhibition contest as I looked it up and at a minimum the kits in the AFL games

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>>16 (OP) 
>Wrestling (WWE 2K1X)
Is there any reason to pick WWE over a much better game?

>>742
I'd support that just to see everyone's confusion as to why the goals are half way between rugby and quidditch and why is the grass round.

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>>742
Why not a Cricket Revolution game?

>>774
Is there an AEW one?

>>776
I'd say AFL as honestly tbh I'd say most of us honestly agree that Cricket is boring but it's popular because of it, as it's something you can chuck in the background of a summer barbecue whilst also being the excuse for having one

>>912
I think that was a joke, see the attached gameplay review but wouldn't 5-day banter sessions just be swell...

>>776
I lik criket

Are there any good baseball simulators? I like baseball and next to soccer it's the most entertaining to watch.
It's also the game where strategizing goes a long way. Character stats are important on the field but placement, batting order, and your pitcher have a huge effect.

In essence, I think if there's another Infinity Cup  sport it should be the Infinity Series.

>>965
How far can those games be customized?

>>740
I don't know about TABS but UEBS has a much more active modding community
https://steamcommunity.com/app/616560/workshop/

>>1027
I have never played either, but I just think UEBS just has a more public steam modding community so it looks bigger (except one of the biggest modders deleted all his stuff or something). The game dev made a tutorial to get your characters in the game which is great.
TABS clearly has a powerful modding community judging by YouTube videos, they just all hide in Discord. They just released a map editor mod for crying out loud.

Apart from the more realistic graphics style and importing character model guide, I don't think UEBS has much going for it. The dev seems to have abandoned the game. If modding UEBS beyond player model importing isn't too hard (I haven't modded Unity games before but it should be relatively easy) then it might actually be the better choice simply due to customization.

>>1027
Pretty sure it's dead, it only looks bigger because it's more public, see >>2030.
The only real drawback for TABS is importing custom players (as opposed to using the Unit Creator mod that uses in-game assets). There's the issue of can we do it (and others have, lots of examples on youtube) but the biggest hurdle is to not make them look crap. TABS has a low-poly style. PES and UEBS won't look crap if you put a realistic model in it, TABS probably will.

I'd be totally down for racing, but I don't know the first thing about current year's racing games or how to mod them properly.

>>1242
The problem with those games might be that you actually have to play them.

>>1242
>>1344
Are there any racing games that'll just let you watch an AI play it? Being easily moddable would be a bonus.

>>1416
I wonder if it's remotely possible to mod the F-Zero X expansion kit so that you can watch a CPU-only race and each board involved has a custom track, racer, and machine of their own.

>>1417
Idk, sounds like a lot of blending.

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>>1418
Please don't make me do more Blending, guys.

>>1418
>>1420
I mean, by default there's machine and course customization in said expansion kit.  Getting some drawfag to draw each board's requested racer in the style of F-Zero X might be cool though if remotely possible.
If it's tough to do then Trackmania may be another possibility though.

The issue with racing games is they need to have a 0 player-mode (rare) and decent customization.

The issue with custom maps is you need to teach the computer controlled cars how'to drive on a map properly. The games I know which allow custom maps (exported using Blender or other modelling tools) need you to model an path ("driveline") which basically defines a set corridor for the computer-controlled players to try and drive down.

We could do 3D modelled tracks in something like SRB2K or SuperTuxKart (which would allow modding) but to be honest we don't have the man-power or time. Maybe 4chan could do it, but not us.

However,

You mentioned Trackmania. To me, that seems like a perfect game in terms of customization; well-documented car skin modding and an in-game track editor that any board can pick up and use! The computer-control side though is even worse than the average game, but...
https://invidiou.site/search?q=ai+trackmania
Two people last month, and one a couple of years ago, have made AI programs to drive in Trackmania. This is actual machine learning, not the in-game pre-determined algorithms that gamers like to call AI, these are computer players that you can train by example.
The video by yoshTM made today shows an AI trained for only an hour performing competently on a new (albeit not too complex) track. This is gold. We could train it, run a multiplayer game (either repeated trial races or possibly doing a two or four-player online race) using all AI players with random (or chosen) initial seeds.
If we were doing it via online, I don't know the deal with cameras in those games (since we care about all the cars). We could do it simply and just view the home board's car, or try ffmpeg magic to splitscreen it.

I would vote splitscreen, no matter how convoluted it would make things.

>>1420
Give us some tutorials you learnt from, bud

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>>1431
I don't know if it's feasible on a single computer due to system requirements of the game (never played it), but you could have 4 computers with decent internet all live-streaming an online match on their own bitwave channels.
Then the host runs ffmpeg to download, render and upload the final splitscreen stream. This command will download four streams and combine them (modify this before using in any actual project, it's just a proof-of-concept prototype):

ffmpeg -i https://cdn.stream.bitrave.tv/...........stream1/index.m3u8 
-i https://cdn.stream.bitrave.tv/...........stream2/index.m3u8 
-i https://cdn.stream.bitrave.tv/...........stream3/index.m3u8  
-i https://cdn.stream.bitrave.tv/...........stream4/index.m3u8 
-filter_complex "nullsrc=size=640x480 [base]; [0:v] setpts=PTS-STARTPTS, scale=320x240 [upperleft]; [1:v] setpts=PTS-STARTPTS, scale=320x240 [upperright]; [2:v] setpts=PTS-STARTPTS, scale=320x240 [lowerleft]; [3:v] setpts=PTS-STARTPTS, scale=320x240 [lowerright]; [base][upperleft] overlay=shortest=1 [tmp1]; [tmp1][upperright] overlay=shortest=1:x=320 [tmp2]; [tmp2][lowerleft] overlay=shortest=1:y=240 [tmp3]; [tmp3][lowerright] overlay=shortest=1:x=320:y=240"
 -preset ultrafast -vcodec libx264 -tune zerolatency -b:v 900k out.mp4 #(this would be output to a stream instead of a file in practice)
Vid related is 3 random streams and the Monouncer's stream being combined live with that script.

Sources with explanations:
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/StreamingGuide
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Create%20a%20mosaic%20out%20of%20several%20input%20videos

The issue is that you need 4 computers with good internet speed all playing and livestreaming, unless you can play multiple on one computer. I don't know how it will react if a stream has lag. But, it's possible.

>>1436
Anything in particular?
https://implyingrigged.info/wiki/Blender_tutorials for everything Blender, the importing into PES 2017 was learned from the DLC pages on their wiki and ours.

>>1438
I just realized that unless you need to see ghost cars, you don't even need to be in a multiplayer match. Just have four streamers play solo on the same track at the same time. Ghost cars would just make the job harder for the already braindead AI driver.

So of those 3 videos of AI drivers, two of the programmers aren't sharing which leaves us with this one:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pWWjF-lneNo
This one is trained for Trackmania Forever Nations (so I can test it for free!), but nothing about it is specific to that game apart from their trained model. The documentation for the AI is nearly none but it's reasonably simple and well-presented enough that hopefully it can be retrained easily.
The Python code uses uinput to control the game (up, left, right keys) so it's made for Linux, but I'd guess it could be easily modified to run on Windows too.
The framework itself is quite basic. It has no concept of braking, it's made for full acceleration only, so sharp corners and narrow jumps will defeat it. The current training is also simple, it currently doesn't understand dirt roads at all and has been trained for first-person view, so hopefully it can be retrained for a view where the car model is visible.
That said, it is capable of finishing a race under certain conditions: it scored a silver medal on track A03 and a bronze on the third attempt of C01 (kept hitting an obstacle and then a wall).

Of course, if there is a racing game where we don't have to resort to training a computer to drive for us, now would be the time to tell us.

>>1453
I made a couple of searches and there seem to be four candidates:

>Grand Prix 4
>RaceRoom Racing Experience
>Automobilista
>rFactor 2

Customization levels on these games can be hit or miss though

>>1468
Thanks for that, it helps a lot! The biggest issue with Trackmania is that the vehicles are functionally identical making it a glorified RNG. Part of PES is the tactical side, which you can find in racing sims.

rFactor [1,2] looked promising, you can allow the AI to control your car, even when online on a dedicated server. There are online tutorials for making custom vehicles and tracks with 3D models (using 3dsmax and gMotor, from what I could find) and there is a 4chan thread on /ovg/ who made it easy to find ""free"" versions that anti-virus engines don't even screech at. If having tactical input from boards is important, a racing sim is the way to go.

>>1474
So does that mean that the racing derby idea will be done with rFactor in mind? Will Trackmania be put aside then?

>>1504
The only counterarguments I can make to support Trackmania are:
>I think it is intrinsically a more fun and entertaining game
>modding tracks and car skins is less time consuming (not sure about importing models yet, but probably same) although you would only ever need one to two per board.

So I would say, if a racing sim can be entertaining to non-racers in the same way PES can be entertaining to non-sport people, then yes rFactor would be the best idea so far and Trackmania can be abandoned.
If you/anon are adamant about having splitscreen view, as opposed to broadcast style switching between cameras and views as the host decides, it would probably require [x] number of computers spectating which would make it a big deal to co-ordinate and run. Otherwise, it could easily be hosted solo.
(To be clear, I'm just exploring this idea in spare time. No commitment whatsoever just yet)

>>1506
This seems like it would be neat,  less opportunity for rigging, just as much competititon and 'board culture' space.

>>1540
Quick update:
>rFactor 2, haven't tried any 3d modeling (and probably won't unless this generates enough interest) but can certainly make a cup of the same car with different skins (paint jobs) and AI parameters (personalities, if you will, like composure, aggression, start reaction time see https://forum.studio-397.com/index.php?threads/rcd-talent-file.52996/ ) creating a competition where boards could paint their car and choose to boost certain stats, then race.
The biggest issues at this point would be entertainment and balance; if no-one overtakes in a 3 lap race, it's hardly interesting, and if stats have no effect or disproportionate effect, it's either a bad competition.
There is a parameter I have boosted that makes the AI occasionally screw up intentionally, so they don't just all drive a perfect driveline forever and nothing happens.  Hopefully I can find some balance.

>>1576
You should look into doing stock car/NASCAR type racing. Most games let you make the computer aggressive, the sport encourages bumping into each other, and a lot of the tracks encourage a style of racing where you're either close to each other the entire time or must draft with each other to stay with the other cars.

It may not be "real racing" but it's far more interesting to watch for someone that doesn't enjoy the sport of racing already.

>>1576
>>1598
Forgot to mention that most NASCAR type games allow you to make custom art for the cars so it'll give each board a chance to design something unique.

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>>1598
>all races are on Daytona International Speedway
>except the final race, which is Nordschleife in the rain at midnight

>>1607
honestly we should have tracks that match to each board
for example the Mt Panorama/Bathurst Track should be /ausneets/

>>1607
Daytona and Dega would have to be on the schedule for sure but I was thinking along the lines of Martinsville and Bristol. As long as you avoid the cookie cutter tracks it'll be interesting.

A lot of NASCAR games have a rival system where the AI will remember who raced them dirty and wreck that car on purpose. The last one I played kept track of it over an entire season/career. So if you dumped a guy 6 races ago he'll spend you out the next time he gets close to you.

IF you can get a driver from each board it could be interesting to have them race each other. Just fill the rest of the field with AI drivers and let them go at it. The only problem is you might get one troll that wants to drive the wrong direction the entire race.

I'd be willing to help out with streaming and running this.

What kind of influence do we have on racing games? With football we can make the formation, the strategy, and so on. But for racing, what is there to do? Just watch? It's worse than pron.

Also, quick timed laps on small tracks could be less boring than long races on big tracks. For example, see the stadium racing in raceofchampions.com.
Related video in rFactor 2 -> youtube.com/watch?v=A2DfueIGzI8
For oval racing, I think it's better something like Bristol than Daytona. The slower speeds are more forgiving when cars hit one another, so they can be more dirty, and easily recover the lost distance if they spin or make mistakes in the pits.

Back on football, has anyone tried Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions?

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>>1612
>What kind of influence do we have on racing games? With football we can make the formation, the strategy, and so on. But for racing, what is there to do? Just watch? It's worse than pron.
That would depend on the game,  but racing has its own tactical nuances which could be adjusted for each team. Cars especially have a million parameters that you could fiddle with to suit your needs.

>>1612
>>1614
We could also possibly make some interesting tracks depending on what game we choose.

>>1609
I was also thinking of Mt. Panorama for the /ausneets/, it's a good dynamic track that I believe would be reasonably interesting for non-racers due to the nearly rollercoaster-like section at the back of the mountain. I wonder what pre-existing tracks could work for the non-national boards.
>>1611
>I'd be willing to help out with streaming and running this.
I think that will have to be the case, as my internet is too slow to stream a decent quality video.
>>1612
>With football we can make the formation, the strategy, and so on. But for racing, what is there to do? Just watch? It's worse than pron.
I've only tested rFactor but mods have Talent files where you can define the AI's aggression, composure, start reaction time, etc., see >>1576

>>1623
edit: can define those traits per car

I doubt that anyone else would think that this is a good idea, but I'd love to see us try American football. I know the majority of people out there participating aren't American, but if we are just throwing out ideas, I'd enjoy that. I think that we could try to do multiple competitions in addition to just soccer, and if that is a possibility, we could try American football. Of course, if no one else finds it interesting, then just disregard this idea.

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>>1809
The problem with Amefuto (sorry I just really can't shake off that name after reading Eyeshield 21) is that you'd need at least two or three threads devoted solely to explaining the game to complete newbies and Europeans. Basketball is much easier to grasp as even the more technical aspects are easier to understand. Heck, even Baseball is easier to explain away.

But I would really, definitely like to see what our riggers would come up with given the chance of editing some Football game. What are some with good customization options?
>multiple competitions
Originally back on ye ole 8chan we wanted to make a Basketball tournament to stand out from the crowd and keep the 8chanmania as a secondary, parallel event, but the two things went their separate ways.
Again, if you could give a good, comprehensive tutorial on how to edit stuff and find some guys willing to host, I'm sure we could do multiple Inter-Board tournaments.

>>1815
To be 100% honest with you, I have no idea how we could get a game to work, I'm horrendous at anything related to technology. Hell, I sometimes have trouble with unedited games. I know that I could help explain a lot of the game if anyone was willing to try it, but we would need some other people willing to edit a game to get it to work. I wish that I knew how to do it, but unfortunately, that is not one of my skills.

>>1815
>>1817
Actually, after doing some research, I found a game that might work. Key word being might, because I haven't looked too deeply into it. The possible game is Gridiron Champions, and is set to come out sometime this year. It is supposedly going to allow you to customize and recruit a full team, but I'm not sure if it would work for this kind of thing. Maybe I'm just retarded and this is nowhere near what we need, but it seems like an okay idea. Of course, we wouldn't know if it would work or not until the game comes out.

>>1815
>Amefuto
I would prefer Gridiron or even Amefuto over American Football. English societies need to stop calling games where you barely kick the ball 'football'.

>>1823
I personally think that the best games to use are those you can actually mod 3d players in or have high amounts of customization to the actual players as opposed to just their jerseys. Case in point:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=QpVEQXxWVhQ

>>1840
I agree that that would be best, but I don't know about any American football games where you can do that. Of course, I seem to be in the minority in desiring an American football game, and if everyone else prefers something else, I can shut up about it.

>>1841
Madden NFL might have some modding abilities but I haven't delved too much into it for now

>>1842
That was my first thought, but Madden has pretty limited in-game customization, so I assumed that it would require some pretty heavy modding. I don't know though, it could end up being really easy.

>>1841
>>1842
>>1843
If you don't mind 8-bit, the original Tecmo Bowl has been roster edited to hell and back. Though visually I don't know much that could be done with it...

>>1868
I know that I wouldn't have any problems with 8-bit, but I imagine that most people would much rather have a more recent game than that.

Is there a cricket game compatible

If anyone wants to try their luck at NBA 2K games there's an entire forum dedicated to modding the game
https://forums.nba-live.com/viewforum.php?f=107

>>97
I like this idea a lot tbhj=

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>>2069
Hedgewars seems like a fun and easy one to set up. It's free and open source so modding is far simpler.
Pic related: normally CPU teams can't have flags, but we can delete the code that enforces it and recompile!

Cosmetic customization examples
>Hats
As you can see in the picture, a hat is overlayed over the character. It can cover the whole player. I can make the base player invisible if people wanted to do full body mods (I would choose to keep arms and legs) but it's easier to just not do that.
>Flags
Flag at the bottom.
>Grave
A marker placed when a player on your team dies on land.
>Colors
Alliance colors chosen at start of match.
>Voice
In-game reactions and banter from your team.
>Theme
If we use a randomly-generated map, this controls stuff like background music and textures.

Functional customization examples
>Image-based Maps
Maps to play on.
<However we can make more customizations ourselves
>Scheme settings
We can let teams choose a modifier active in their games. e.g. /lego/ has unlimited girders, /fascist/ has each team start in a section of the map instead of randomly scattered, /otter/ could have an early or faster sudden-death water rising
>Arsenal
Normally there are 5 bot levels, but we can probably add one for each team. We could use this to make each team's AI forget how to use the weapons, then have teams pick 8 (for example) weapons that their AI knows how to use.

Would anyone be interested in a game of baseball or basketball inspired by the concept in >>2264 >>2266? I've started to mess around with MLB 2K12 creating a sort of roster for PLW and Smug as an example.

>>2438
What kind of effort are we talking about here?
Anyhow, it'd be cool to have a Little League of IBs.

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>>2439
Ignore the mouse cursor, I was using ffmpeg to record the screen
I've put up a roster using some of the players from both of those site's team that participated in ICUP 6 and the G-cup.
Made some texture changes, mostly player portraits. I haven't done the logo changes yet but I'll probably go for the sakura and Seiga's head for it.
Lastly I need to check into the modelling aspect of it, considering that this game is quite old. Going for what I've seen of the NBA counterpart for this one, the most I can try is to see if the heads can be replaced.

>>2442
This looks real freaking neato man
Problem is I know next to nothing about baseball but if it works and someone feels like hosting I'm game for a game

>>2442
I agree that having teams made out of the main boards as opposed to a single team per board would make things not only much easier to edit, but also faster to setup even for the host.
What IBs should be invited?

>>2445
erischan!

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>>2442
>>2445
>Siteball World Series
I'm interested.

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>>2442
Thank you. I know that this effort may not be necessary, but my autism just refuses to leave at it.
>>2445
>>2446
I had an idea floating around which is to combine teams who have their own bunkers into one. So this would mean a team with
>/eris/
>/fascist/
>/kind/
>/otter/
all together. Would that sound good?

>>2448 
>putting /eris/, /fascist/ and /kind/ in the same team
Holy shit. I don't even know what sort of banter would come out of that Frankensteinian mess. Sounds fun!

>>2448
>>/fascist/
But they don't have their own bunker, do they? They're on 16chan

>>2446
a side note, but I really appreciate a lot the addition of /eris/ to the collective of the webring. they bring in so much energy and fun with anything they're involved with.
>>2448
I think it's doable

Julay
8moe
Smug Loli
Anon Cafe
Sportschan
/animu/'s bunker
tvch
sleepychan

and possibly fatchan and endchan? Would those teams be enough?

>>2449
It's in line with the utter chaos of Erischan
Friendly Discordian Authoritarians for Otter preservation

>>2450
Yes but they're the only ICUP team on that site afaik so they would still fall into that 'Others' team.

>>2460
I mean, we have (had?) a resident natsoc, kind anons and an otter bunker thread. The prophecy speaks.

>>2460
Should we, uh, ask those boards first?
also how many teams do you even need for a baseball tournament? I don't know anything about it

>>2450
Yes. As >>2476 has pointed out, they're the only board in that site that had been a member of the webring board, so I thought their inclusion could be considered. Guess I misspoke calling 16chan their own bunker, but still.
>>2459
I'm still fleshing out the teams but something along those lines would be the idea. But there are a couple of teams that I need to know exactly how to approach them. For example:
>sleepychan
Sleepychan has two teams: /japan/ and /v/. However, /v/ is a joint effort between Sleepy and 8moe. If we include /v/'s roster, what team should go in? And to some extent this is also why I haven't included /latecomfy/ into my idea of a Cafe roster because these two boards are sharing a team too.
>fatchan and endchan
I haven't considered Fatchan mostly because the teams are comprised of the boards that participated in this last ICUP and the GCup. Plus, is there any active board in there that isn't the meta board?
As for Endchan, there is a team.
>>2477
I wouldn't ask the boards unless there's more concrete stuff consolidated, like a hostfag.
>how many teams do you even need for a baseball tournament? I don't know anything about it.
I'm going to be honest, I don't know much about baseball either. I'm just playing around with the game and seeing how much it can be modded.

>>2478
>However, /v/ is a joint effort between Sleepy and 8moe.
never gonna happen, they hate each other thanks to a few bad apples

>>2483
Drama aside, the question still remains. And for now I'm figuring out Cafe's roster. If you guys think you have a solution to it, be my guest.

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>>2485
You WILL put /lego/ on the team or else we will have no choice but to contact our associates

>>2487 
Put /icup/ :^) in.

>>2485
Pardon my ignorance in all things Baseball related, as I don't know how many players go into each team, but wouldn't it be much faster to just pick the players from each board's respective wiki page?
Maybe for Imageboards with very few competing boards you could just pick all their soccer players, while for those with more boards playing in the Infinity Cup you could just start from the Gold/Silver/Bronze ones and go lower and lower in terms of importance.

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>>2485
>>2492
According to a very quick wiki search, 9 players are required on the pitch and up to 25 can be on the bench. With those numbers in mind, we could go on like this, let's say that all the Infinity Cup participating boards of an IB agree to play ball, i.e. for Julay we have /cow/, /sw/, /ita/ and /strek/.
You could make a team like this:
-Sheev Palpatine 
-Revan the KOTOR Mulletman
-Thrawn
-Kyle "Star Wars Jesus" Katarn
-Miles O'Brien 
-William Shatner
-Gul Dukat
-Swolecard 
-Chris-chan 
-DSP
-Wizardchan
-JULAAAAAAAAY
-Rita Ciano 
-Filone
-Lupo Lucio
-Dante II

With the remaining players coming from the team that most represents the Imageboard, like in this case, /cow/. If one or more boards refuse/ignore the invitation, you could just remove their own players and fill the spots with representatives from the boards that agreed to participate.

>>2493
Now this is a neat idea. Fund it.

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>>2492
>>2493
Guess I should've said/shown it earlier, my bad. Yes, the rosters are being made using mostly the medal players of the participant boards, as exemplified by the rosters of PLW and Smug. These two have that case of not having enough players, but in the case of Cafe I had the opposite.
Cafe had 8 boards participating (not counting /fascist/, /otter/ or /latecomfy/ because it's a shared one; same case as /v/) and that meant that there were 28 people. So I went and selected medal players based on performance in either or both of the events. I hope that the /lego/ anon is happy. If there's a consensus to put /latecomfy/ into the Cafe roster I'll update it accordingly.

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>>2492
>>2493
Guess I should've said/shown it earlier, my bad. Yes, the rosters are being made using mostly the medal players of the participant boards, as exemplified by the rosters of PLW and Smug. These two have that case of not having enough players, but in the case of Cafe I had the opposite.
Cafe had 8 boards participating (not counting /fascist/, /otter/ or /latecomfy/ because it's a shared one; same case as /v/) and that meant that there were 28 people. So I went and selected medal players based on performance in either or both of the events. I hope that the /lego/ anon is happy. If there's a consensus to put /latecomfy/ into the Cafe roster I'll update it accordingly.

Apologies for the double post, my Internet fucked up there.

>>2496
What would cafe be without comfy?

>>2496
I would argue that if a board put some actual effort in their players, they should be selected over faceless goons. So characters like Aniki, Gondola or the otters should take precedence.

>>2500
Don't know what you mean by that, or who gets to decide that.

>>2500
If you mean to just put the medal players, I tested that early on, even going as far as modifying the players value in the roster. Unfortunately that crashed the game. There might be a possibility but I'm not fully certain of it.
>>2499
I'll try adding /comfy/ then and see how it turns out.

>>2500
If you mean to just put the medal players, I tested that early on, even going as far as modifying the players value in the roster. Unfortunately that crashed the game. There might be a possibility but I'm not fully certain of it.
>>2499
I'll try adding /comfy/ then and see how it turns out.

>>2501
I meant it as, if a team created or used a 3d model for one of their players, especially if it's a medal player, it should be ported over with some higher priority.

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>>2504
Porting is a whole other can of worms. According to what I found, the only version that works with the scripts for this game is 2.49b, a really old version. And it appears to only be able to export heads, so players like Gondola and Gondolina I have no idea what to do with them.
I do want to offer a second version of the Cafe roster with /comfy/ added.

>>2040
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMkZd5zluFA

>>1809
>American football
too many players, need 11 players for the offense  and another separate 11 players for defense plus all the specialty positions for kicking. It would be better just to play rugby because there are only 15 players on the field and no specialty positions just for kicking

>>2595
Can you put models in those?
>>2599
Do you know what rugby game can be used?

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Here's some progress on the Cafe team.

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>>2710

>>2710
Looks cool, but 
>no /otter/ or /islam/ players?

>>2712
>/otter/
By the time I started working on it the otters had moved to their own bunker. That's why they aren't there.
>/islam/
There are 3 players in the roster. See >>2506. As for why they don't appear in this particular game, RNG that's why.

>>2711
This is really fucking cool, anon. Any way we can help you out?
Also those clothing textures look comfy af

>>2714
So far I only need to find portraits for some of the players on all of the 3 teams so far, and also go and try to see how custom models work for this game. Maybe something else that I haven't touched still, but if you have any other questions go ahead.

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Quick question: If I couldn't find a way to make custom models work, would you guys be still on board with this game?

>>2716
Sure, so long as the shirts are as garish as possible

>>2717
He said "Couldn't," anon.
>>2716
I really wouldn't mind if you kept going ahead with it regardless. If you want a bit of a workaround, move the rosters to the All-Star teams. Those uniforms are consistently ugly year-in year-out.

>>2718
I'll continue on with the game, then.
>move the rosters to the All-Star teams
I need to look if there's an option for that because as far as I'm aware, the only category separating teams is by affiliates. As in, the game has a one big list and the All-Stars team is counted as such.

>>2722
Yeah, it would basically just pull a team from each half of the league. You can spread players out a bit that way, and pick the best of the best. And give them the shittiest shirts you can think of.

>>2726
Sorry if I'm not getting your point across, but do you mean the game picking players from different teams and putting them into the All-Star team?

>>2731
Yeah that's how the all-star teams work.

>>2735
From what I've seen, the game has a duplicate entry for the players in the All-Stars/Greatest teams. I want to check if any of the players from any of the teams created is in there but I want to finish the rest of the rosters first.

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Here's the roster for the upcoming Julay team.

>>2745
Great! Can hardly wait for an exhibition match.

>>2745
Gonna love to see it.
Did you perhaps make some webm to share with us so that we can see what the games will look like?

>>2765
I'll try and get OBS working within this week.

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>>2765
>>2773
I tried messing around with OBS but all I got was either high quality but very choppy or less choppy but less quality.
Serves me right for using a 6-year-old shit laptop.

>>2785
Have you tried running it windowed? Very interested in seeing how this goes.

>>2785
The game does not offer an option to run it windowed, but I can try and test windowing programs.
In the meantime, I'll be trying to use one of the decent-ish recordings and make some clips so you can see how it looks in action.

>>2795
Unregistered Hypercam 2 Cup HYPE

Ice hockey would be nice if there are any good sims since its fast and fun to watch

>>2862
Is the backyard series moddable?

>>2863
I don't think so.
The last NHL game for PC is NHL 09 but it seems like NHL 04 has a stronger fanbase and modding scene.

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Updates in regards to the baseball thing:
>Recordings
Choppy. No matter if it's OBS or ffmpeg. WEBM related. GIF has been ran through ffmpeg to speed it up.
>Models
Tried again. Better luck this time, but the game is very autistic about the number of vertices so custom models are probably (definitely) a no.
>Roster
I’m considering redoing some of the rosters based on current events (/pol/ purged, /bmn/ moving to Snooze), so here’s where the current distribution is. Some boards appear twice because they have bunkers in one site and another. But the main thing that I want to deal with now is whether to replace the /pol/ players from the Cafe team with those from /sw/, and if that means that the Julay team will be scrapped. And once again, shit like the /v/ team or even 8moe appearing.
And should /inch/ be included in the Bunker team?
If you guys have any ideas about what to do with any of those feel free to tell me.

>>2865
it's sad that robowaifu refuses to participate otherwise julay would have at least two teams
not counting cow at all cause they don't care

>>2865
>/pol/ purged
Such a shame. That team had a lot of soul and the board was very nice.

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/2hu/ has moved to zzzchan and therefore the PLW roster needs to be retooled (pic related). This also means that the zzzchan will now have four teams in it: /2hu/, /bmn/, /japan/ and /v/.
Yes, /v/.
For simplicity's sake I've decided to put the team in Sleepy's side. If by any chance very minimal at this point there's a Markchan anon in here who disagrees with this then go ahead and speak, otherwise I'm making this change definitive.

>>2868
It does. /robowaifu/ is the only good board (outside of maybe /ita/) left on Julay.
>/cow/
They don't care and I'm not including them because of the incident in ICUP 6 and how they are in general.

>>2869
Sucks that they got purged by the admins but what can you do. If you want any consolation I think there's a /pol/ thread on /server/.

>>2880
Oh yeah how about having a /server/ team too?

>>2881
The thing with /server/ is that they didn't reply to SKF's invitation. See >>>/server/768
And even if they joined, the Cafe roster is already crammed as is. For now I'll replace the /pol/ section with /sw/ medal players.

I fucked up the link. It's >>>/server/678

>>2883
I mean, who's gonna respond? Nobody just uses /server/, they use the different generals. If somebody's gonna put together a team, it has to be someone representing the entire board.

>>2880
>I'm not including them because of the incident in ICUP 6
What was that again?

>>2888 (checked)
Basically they went to the ICUP cytube and started being a pain in the ass dolphin included

>>2889
when is ICUP7?

>>2890
Ask SKF

>>2890
After the other tournament... What was it called... Oh yes! WW3.

>>2865
How far into this were you?

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>>2995
>Recordings
Not much that I can do to improve quality.
>Models
I've pretty much given up on that. If someone else wants to give it a try be my guest, but it's not going to be easy.
>Rosters
Smug is fine.
PLW and zzzchan were updated due to /2hu/ moving to the latter.
Anon Cafe also got an updated roster to accomodate their current boards.
Sportschan and tvch were not finished but can be done so at some point.
Endchan and the other bunkers are still pending.
No word on 8moe as I started planning it before they got blacklisted, and even then anons are really mixed on them.
Julay will probably be discarded as they only have one board remaining on their site (/ita/).

Besides this, I also made some progress in changing team logos and player portraits (although some players don't have them as I'm not good at finding what some of those represent).
Another aspect I've worked on is the audio. In MLB2K the PA sometimes plays licensed music for certain events. I've replaced most of those with the songs that each board's team uses (eg. for PLW I've put the songs listed on /animu/ and /mecha/'s page).

>>3024
I see, I was just inquiring on the rosters but thanks for the clarification
>/ita/
How about fitting all the national boards in a single team? Sort of like a world all star to include the indonesians, the japs etc

>>3028
>I was just inquiring on the rosters
I imagined so, but I kinda wanted to expand on the progress from my other previous posts and give the full scope of it.
>world all star
My original plan was just to make teams based on the boards' sites but I could give that a try. Hopefully there are enough players to fit in.

>>3035
>My original plan was just to make teams based on the boards' sites but I could give that a try. Hopefully there are enough players to fit in.
Off the top of my head the national teams are:
/britfeel/
/ausneets/
/ita/
/dup/ if you consider them american
/librejp/
/inch/ (dead site)
/fsschan/

Maybe per se wouldn't amount to much but taking their medal players you'd get a considerable amount of characters.