EHM The Blue Line

A league and team logo megapack can be downloaded here: http://www.thebreakaway.net/forums/down ... le&id=4989

It contains 97 league logos and 1,334 team logos for all playable teams and a wide range of non-playable teams. The installation instructions are as follows:

1. Assuming you selected the default installation option when installing FHM, go to the following folder: <<My Documents>>\Out of the Park Developments\Franchise Hockey Manager 2014\data\quickstart_games\Majors.quick\graphics\
2. Optional: Delete the logo_leagues and logo_teams folders.
3. Extract the ZIP file to the abovementioned folder. Ensure that you enable the “Use Folder Names” option in WinZip before extracting.
4. If the files have been extracted correctly, two sub-folders will have been created with the logos in (logo_leagues and logo_teams).

Note that this will only add the logos for newly created saved games. If you want to add the logos to existing saved games, you must also follow the instructions below for each saved game you want to update:

1. Assuming you selected the default installation option when installing FHM, go to the following folder: <<My Documents>>\Out of the Park Developments\Franchise Hockey Manager 2014\data\saved_games\<<Saved game name>>.lg\graphics\
2. Follow steps 2 – 4 above.

Is FHM going to include D1 NCAA hockey programs (WCHA, CCHA, Hockey East, etc)?

The leagues in the game havn't been announced yet I dont think

Any word regarding OOTP's file naming scheme? Here's an excerpt of the readme that explains logos:

OOTP Developments wrote:It might contain more info. I.e. the team colors: background, text and secondary colors in RGB code. The file name might look like this:

Cannibals_204102050_210210001_sometext.png.

In this case, the background color will be R = 204, G = 102, B = 050 (RGB as in Red/Green/Blue is a color code used by many imaging programs). The text color will be R=210, G=210, B=001. And the "sometext" will just be ignored.

So now you can just put logo files into the /logos folder with the proper naming, and whenever a team gets the nickname "Cannibals", it will get this logo and colors.

Or you can name the logo file using the complete team name plus nickname and the same colors as the real team has, put it into that folder, and every time when you create a league with that team, it will automatically use the real logo and colors.

Archi, are you aware of the teams that has new logos/changed logocolours for this year?

AHL: Hershey Bears, Lake Erie Monsters, Syracuse Crunch
ECHL: Las Vegas Wranglers, Wheeling Nailers
OHL: Kingston Frontenacs

Primis wrote:Is FHM going to include D1 NCAA hockey programs (WCHA, CCHA, Hockey East, etc)?

I can't say what is or is not featured in the game. However, I would like to add those logos to the mega pack (but it's low on the list).

B. Stinson wrote:Any word regarding OOTP's file naming scheme?

It's different to OOTP 13. It's simply <team name>.png - e.g. new york rangers.png

Manimal wrote:Archi, are you aware of the teams that has new logos/changed logocolours for this year?

AHL: Hershey Bears, Lake Erie Monsters, Syracuse Crunch
ECHL: Las Vegas Wranglers, Wheeling Nailers
OHL: Kingston Frontenacs

Thank you! I really appreciate that. I did those logos before the summer and so they are quite likely out of date. I will double-check them.

So here's an update on the team logos we've completed so far:

Canada
OHL
QMJHL
WHL
AJHL
BCHL
CCHL
MJHL
QAAA

USA / North America
NHL
AHL
ECHL
MJAHL
NAHL
NCAA
USHL

Europe
Austrian Erste Bank Eishockey Liga
British EIHL
British EPIHL
British NIHL 1st Div
British NIHL 2nd Div
Czech Extraliga
Danish Al-Bank Ligaen
Danish 1st Div
Finnish SM-Liiga
Finnish Mestis
Finnish Suomi Sarja
German DEL
Norwegian UPC-Ligaen
Russian KHL
Russian VHL
Russian MHL
Slovakian Elite
Swedish Elitserien
Swiss NLA
Swiss NLB

Hi Archi,
are there going to be also small and medium logos as in EHM?

dani9 wrote:Hi Archi,
are there going to be also small and medium logos as in EHM?

My guess is no. As with OOTP when you load the logos it automatically resizes them to the different sizes needed. Therefor only one size needs to be created.

No, there's not. This makes like much easier! The game scales the logos to the correct size according to which screen you're viewing.

All you have to worry about is using transparent PNG images that are 150x150 (or at least, if the image is not square, the largest dimension of the image should be 150px). The file naming is simply <team name>.png. Unlike EHM, you don't use underscores to replace spaces. Also, you have to use the correct accented letter (unlike EHM which allows us to omit many of them). Here are the full file naming rules:

• Unlike EHM, you can use spaces (in other words, don't use underscores to represent spaces).
• You must use the correct accented letter. E.g. Växjö Lakers HC = växjö lakers hc.png
• Forward slash '/' is represented using hyphen. E.g. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins = wilkes-barre-scranton penguins.png
• Apostrophe, speech/quotation mark and colon (i.e. ', " and : ) are simply omitted from the name. E.g. St. John's IceCaps = st. johns icecaps.png

I don't think the game is case sensitive. I always use lower case and it works fine.

I really must get round to posting a full list of the leagues covered. I'm still going through the files and making sure they are correctly named. We have all of the major leagues done - and many many others.

thanks for the answer...but it's shame the logos will be the same type...i like the nhl.com logos but only as small logos, large logos the classic ones and the schedule logos i updated...but that won't be possible in fhm as i understood...anyway looking forward to see those screens, how it will look like...maybe it will look ok just like in football manager...

I'll be working on getting the first version of the logo pack together and finalised as soon as possible. It'll be online ahead of FHM's release so that you can all download it in time for the first beta.

I can help with this, if there's any work left to be done. My failed attempt at editing EHM left me with oodles of these logos lying around on my hard-drive so it wouldn't be hard or take particularly long to do.

Sounds good.

I'm still working on renaming all of the files and compiling a list of which leagues are covered. As soon as I've finished the list, I'll post it here so that you can see whether you have any logos which I don't have.

Here's an update on the team logos we have completed:

AUSTRIA
Erste Bank Ligaen

CANADA
Alberta Junior Hockey League
British Columbia Hockey League
Central Canada Hockey League
Manitoba Junior Hockey League
Maritime Junior Hockey League
Northern Ontario Junior Hockey
Ontario Hockey League
Ontario Junior Hockey League
Quebec Junior AAA Hockey League
Quebec Major Junior Hockey League
Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League
Superior International Junior Hockey League
Western Hockey League

CZECH REPUBLIC
Tipsport Extraliga
1. Liga

DENMARK
AL-BANK LIGAEN

FINLAND
SM-Liiga
Mestis

GERMANY
DEL
Oberliga

GREAT BRITAIN
Elite Ice Hockey League
English Premier Ice Hockey League
National Ice Hockey League (Division 1)
National Ice Hockey League (Division 2)
Scottish National League

NORTH AMERICA
American Hockey League
Central Hockey League
ECHL
Federal Hockey League
National Hockey League
North American Hockey League
Southern Professional Hockey League
United States Hockey League

RUSSIA
KHL
High League / VHL
Youth Hockey League / MHL

SWEDEN
Elitserien

SWITZERLAND
NLB


I also have some additional logos which I am finishing off / checking through and hope to have these in the first release in addition to the above mentioned leagues:

Dutch Elite
Finnish Suomi Div
Ligue Nord Américaine de Hockey
NCAA
Norwegian Elite
Slovakian Elite
Swedish Allsvenskan
Swiss NLA

I also have a logo pack for the Danish 1st Division, but this league isn't presently in the DB.

Version 1.00 of the logo pack is now available for download. Here's the link: http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/vi ... 21&t=10631


Please note that as the game is still in a beta stage and the database is still in development, team names are liable to change. For this reason, there is every chance that following a beta release, team names may have changed and so certain team/league logo filenames may need to be updated.

This logo pack is a work in progress. I will continue to update it as new teams are added to the database and any team names are changed. I also have logos for additional teams that I need to edit and add to the pack (including a number of Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Slovakian, LNAH and NCAA teams) and I plan on adding ACAC and CIS teams (and perhaps others). If anybody finds any missing logos (i.e. where some teams from a league have logos and others don’t) or any low quality logos then please let me know. Please post such information here: http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/vi ... 113&t=9966

Please note that each time you create a new saved game, the team and league logos are added to your saved game. So if you want to update the logos for a particular saved game, you must add the logos not only to the standard FHM folder but also to the folders of each of your saved games. The instructions below explain how to do this.


Installation Instructions

1. Assuming you selected the default installation option when installing FHM, go to the following folder: <<My Documents>>\Out of the Park Developments\Franchise Hockey Manager 2013\data\quickstart_games\Majors.quick\graphics\
2. Optional: Delete the logo_leagues and logo_teams folders.
3. Extract the ZIP file to the abovementioned folder. Ensure that you enable the “Use Folder Names” option in WinZip before extracting.
4. If the files have been extracted correctly, two sub-folders will have been created with the logos in (logo_leagues and logo_teams).

Note that this will only add the logos for newly created saved games. If you want to add the logos to existing saved games, you must also follow the instructions below for each saved game you want to update:

1. Assuming you selected the default installation option when installing FHM, go to the following folder: <<My Documents>>\Out of the Park Developments\Franchise Hockey Manager 2013\data\saved_games\<<Saved game name>>.lg\graphics\
2. Follow steps 2 – 4 above.


League List

Logos are included for all teams in the following leagues:

Canada
Alberta Junior Hockey League
British Columbia Hockey League
Central Hockey League
Manitoba Junior Hockey League
Maritime Junior Hockey League
Northern Ontario Junior Hockey
Ontario Hockey League
Ontario Junior Hockey League
Quebec Junior AAA Hockey League
Quebec Major Junior Hockey League
Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League
Superior International Junior Hockey League
Western Hockey League

North America
American Hockey League
Central Hockey League
ECHL
Federal Hockey League
National Hockey League
North American Hockey League
Southern Professional Hockey League
United States Hockey League

NCAA
Division 1 - Atlantic Hockey
Division 1 - CCHA
Division 1 - ECAC
Division 1 - Hockey East
Division 1 - Independents
Division 1 - WCHA

Austria
Erste Bank Ligaen

Czech Republic
1. Liga
Extraliga

Denmark
AL-Bank Ligaen

Finland
Mestis
SM-Liiga

Germany
2 Bundesliga
DEL
Oberliga

Great Britain & Northern Ireland
Elite Ice Hockey League
English Premier Ice Hockey League
National Ice Hockey League (Division 1)
National Ice Hockey League (Division 2)
Scottish National League

Netherlands
Eredivisie (some teams are currently missing)

Norway
GET-League

Russia
High League (VHL)
Kontinental Hockey League (KHL)
Youth Hockey League (MHL)

Slovakia
Extraliga

Sweden
Allsvenskan
Elitserien

Switzerland
NLA
NLB

I don't have any experience on using any photoshoppin programs but I can search the finnish lower league logos for someone to edit them as they should be.

Not to be a pain Archi, I do appreciate the work! Atlant Mytishchi (KHL) their logo is now this one..

Thanks Archi Logo's are now waiting for the beta.... gonna be long 2 days. Hope they don't get too lonely

I love you Archi!

Sebastian posted a useful bit of information about the historic team logos. I think I'll look into adding the historic logos to the pack:

For people who are interested in historical (NHL) logos I want to describe the way FHM handles them:

The graphic should be 150x150, have a transparent background and be saved as png.

Naming: "name nickame_year.png"

The game will take the last logo available and change them automatically between seasons.

Example:

Boston Bruins, starting in 1947. First logo would be "boston bruins_1934", second one "boston bruins_1948" and third one "boston bruins_1949" (just early years). Starting in 1947 the game would import the first one, after the season, before the 1948 season it would change to the second one and one year later the third one. If no newer logo is available it would continue with the third logo forever.

gazzw87 wrote:Not to be a pain Archi, I do appreciate the work! Atlant Mytishchi (KHL) their logo is now this one..

Thanks. I'll update the logo.

Saapas wrote:I don't have any experience on using any photoshoppin programs but I can search the finnish lower league logos for someone to edit them as they should be.

That would be great. Trying to find logos for the lower Finnish leagues has proven to be very difficult (partly because I don't know what they're supposed to look like). We need source logos as large as possible (and ideally a minimum 150px high and/or wide). If you're getting FHM, take a look at the league list when you're playing the game and you'll see which Finnish leagues we need logos for.

Just a note to say that the Dusseldorfer logo is out of date. I've replaced it with the new/correct one.

just wanted to tell all you guys what a great job you did with the logo pack. I'm very impressed and glad you did it. I only regret not helping out but i just have way too much on my plate at the moment.

Will all the logos be in one folder or will they be organized like in EHM with many subfolders? I personally like subfolders, keeps things more organized.

jhcjobpb wrote:Will all the logos be in one folder or will they be organized like in EHM with many subfolders? I personally like subfolders, keeps things more organized.

No I'm afraid not. Just one folder for team logos and another for competition logos. Although I personally think this makes things easier because it means you don't have to rename folders if a league name changes or if a team switches leagues.