Action shots

TWolf · Post by **TWolf** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:11 pm

I'v been doing mainly NHL/AHL level player actionshot and for some ECHL and other league players too. Now I have roughly 1100 jpg actionshots, but I would say 1000 is closer number due there are some non related actionshots in mix right now. Anyway here is a preview shot of the pack that I hope to finish someday. Not all the pictures are as good quality as in this preview, because finding pictures of some players is hard task itself, not to mention high quality ones. Anyway the quality is overally quite good. I think even better than my previous packs at susie. This preview pic is a bit compressed, so the actual quality is a bit higher.

Post by **inSTAALed** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:20 pm

May I ask what they are for exactly?

TWolf · Post by **TWolf** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:22 pm

inSTAALed wrote:May I ask what they are for exactly?

They are used as news content. You see them instead of the mugshot when you get news regarding some player.

Post by **inSTAALed** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:19 pm

Ah, sweet.

I would much rather have those, keep it up.

Systemfel · Post by **Systemfel** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:50 pm

Those are great!

Keep up the work!

Post by **Alessandro** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:01 pm

When are they due to the release?

Post by **Minstrel** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:56 pm

Fantastic work as always Brother TWolf

Great to have you back on the scene! We've had a lot of people not experience problems uploading large file directly via the upload forms so when youa re ready give that a shot first. If it gives you problems send it up to YouSend and email/message me the link and I'll git 'er done

And yeah, these give you a great variety because you get a dual layer of player pics. In news instead of the cards you see these action shots if you have one (they go in your news/players folder instead of regular players folder where profile graphics go); very cool.

TWolf · Post by **TWolf** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:27 pm

Update. Right now I have about 1400-1500 jpeg actionshots for mainly NHL/AHL, but some of them are for ECHL/CHL/UHL players. Some NHL and AHL players don't yet have an actionshot, but I'm slowly progressing with the project. Today I completed 132 actionshots for various players.

Post by **Alessandro** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 12:06 pm

Congrats. This project rules

Post by **Minstrel** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 12:43 pm

TWolf wrote:Update. Right now I have about 1400-1500 jpeg actionshots for mainly NHL/AHL

Today I completed 132 actionshots for various players.

so cool to have you back active again; I'm sure people that didn't see your previous projects are looking at those numbers with a bit of a

but maybe now they have an idea of why were all

when we heard the you were working on an EHM project again!

Post by **B. Stinson** » Tue May 09, 2006 12:17 am

Good work so-far, TWolf. I can't wait to see these in action!

TWolf · Post by **TWolf** » Tue May 09, 2006 5:21 pm

I'v done about 1700 actionshots. I might make a few more, but we will see. Most of the work is already done however. Some euroleague guys might be there, but I can't be bothered to track them down from the vast sea of pictures. It shouldn't take too long for me to finish this. I even found pictures for some guys of Omaha Knights and Iowa Stars. In the current state when packed it weighs about 76 megabytes.

TWolf · Post by **TWolf** » Wed May 10, 2006 2:18 pm

I had some upload problems to tbl, but I'm trying to figure something out. About the pack, about 1700+ pictures made the pack. The pack contails also some college guys.

Post by **Minstrel** » Wed May 10, 2006 3:26 pm

Just sent you a message about how D88 and I usually go about coordinating the larger file uploads with our current server

If you've got the file ready we can probably make it available fairly soon,, maybe even today

jockeh · Post by **jockeh** » Thu May 11, 2006 4:59 pm

I have one question; When you look at the players, you know the info, will you see the pictures then? Or are they just for when you look at the news?

TWolf · Post by **TWolf** » Thu May 11, 2006 5:17 pm

jockeh wrote:I have one question; When you look at the players, you know the info, will you see the pictures then? Or are they just for when you look at the news?

Well they can be used in the place of the mugshots, but they are meant to used alongside news items related to the player. The default folder for them is the news\players folder.

The pack is uploaded temporarily to yousendit, but it shouldn't be too long before the pack is here.

jockeh · Post by **jockeh** » Thu May 11, 2006 5:21 pm

Ok!

But what is "mugshot"? I'm not the best on speaking English, so...

Post by **Calv** » Thu May 11, 2006 6:06 pm

jockeh wrote:Ok!

But what is "mugshot"? I'm not the best on speaking English, so...

In game face, when you click on their name and it comes up with a picture

Post by **Minstrel** » Thu May 11, 2006 6:09 pm

"Mugshot" is commonly used to describe pictures taken of people arrested. So since the 'card' type photos and the default photos are just face pictures people call them mugshots. Also, as in "Look at his mug" is a common slang usage so mugshots are the face pictures accompanying players' profiles (those are the pictures that we call "facepacks", and have thousands of them converted to the 'vintage hockey card' style).

These are alternate pictures that are action photos, not "posed" pictures. So these go into your 'players' folder in the News folder instead of the 'Pictures' folder. When you get news items dealing with a particular player you will have these action shots displayed instead of the standard profile pictures which are used if there is not alternate news picture available. Hope that clears things up.

I'm downloading the pics right now and as soon as I get them and send them up to our server I'll post a link, but it shouldn't be long now

EDIT: Strangely enough, two of the file messages made it to me and two I had to fish out of my spam folder

Post by **Minstrel** » Thu May 11, 2006 8:13 pm

The delay is that I haven't been able to connect to their downlad server to get the files yet

I'll keep checking and let people know when the set goes live.

Post by **Minstrel** » Thu May 11, 2006 10:36 pm

It appears this is actually an internet-wide problem; it's an UGLY day on the internet right now; if you notice that the site is running in slow-mo. I've mentioned this in General but if you ever wonder if the 'net is really bogged down or if it is just your connection or the site you are connecting to check this out:

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/

It lists the major servers that form the backbone of the 'net and right now things are running on a scale from 43-64 out of 100 scale which is actually the worst I've ever seen...

jockeh · Post by **jockeh** » Sat May 13, 2006 1:05 pm

Are the files available for downloading soon?

Post by **Minstrel** » Sat May 13, 2006 4:45 pm

I've just been able to get on to d/l the files, after using their beta site instead of the regular site

It's four files but I've only grabbed 3 of the 4 yet as I'm still having problems accessing one; but I'm transferring them to the server now and make them available when ready. I'll fill in the E-K set when I am able to grab that one.

jockeh · Post by **jockeh** » Sat May 13, 2006 5:29 pm

Great

Post by **Minstrel** » Sat May 13, 2006 6:19 pm

Okay, the full project is now available for download! Here are the links to those download pages:

TWolf's Actionshots A-D, E-K, L-R and S-Z