CFL -Canadian Football League mods- are here

[I got the ball now]

here are the mods I did for the CFL. There is 3 leagues that uses the same image file. One has 9 teams compatible with the 21 games schedule in psf 2021. One has 10 teams as I added the future halifax (Atlantic) team and the other has 10 teams plus 7 alterations of my favorite team i.e. the Montreal Alouettes through the years including their stint as the Baltimore Stallions during cfl's failed expansion to US and the Concordes which occured right before they folded in 86.

The work is still in progress. I added proper canadian fields with ads on it like the real thing and it has a mock 110 yards field. it's still technically a 100 yards field but I chage 50 for 55 in the middle to have an aesthetic canadian look. I am thinking of doing the roster of last year as this year's season is cancelled due to the #$%???&& bug we all know. However, if any want to pick this mod i.e. pick the ball and improve something like the rosters or more precise graphics or fields, please feel free to do so and please post your result here. don't forget to set up as Canadian rules *with 3 downs' in the game if you want. Hope you have fun. My next project is to post a mock beta mod of arena football. See you later

LINK for CFL mod

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AxE-x1dsF4tNN6FyE81kvAQ7c4Q4IhfZ/view?usp=sharing

[redwolf9]

A nice effort and I know you are new to graphical editing :-)

I use to do this sort of thing a lot in the past, but had gone away from it for quite a few years and am just "re-learning" again myself as I work through my custom league creations, lol.

Here's some constructive crit (i hope):
It would be better if your helmeted logos had an invisible background rather than showing the white (use Dreamteam's helmeted templates to make it easier for you - he's got some terrific templates on his site to make it easier :-) ).

Also, it is entirely possible to get mini logos on the actual helmets in game, instead of the dots (as you have seen many of the other modders accomplish). The default size is a 4x4 pixel cross-like dot . However, you can get some partial logo distinction if you resize your main logo and use 5x5 pixels (or 6x6 which is doable in some cases, logo dependant- I also usually shave the corners off to make a quasi-cross as well (again, logo dependant)). I recommend either using Smartsize or Bilinear modes for resizing (and set the re-sampling to as sharp as you can if you have that option) - the weighted average (which is normally the best go-to format for resizing doesn't work all that well with things this small as it "mutes" the image too much when you need a bit more color "pop" for these little guys, lol). I am not sure which graphical editor you are using (I personally use PaintShopPro X8) - but both Gimp and PhotoShop all can do the very same thing. Beprepared to use your eraser tool to remove some pixels here and there as you paste them on to the player uniform sheet as you don't want to cover up or go over the back black helmet outline nor the facemask - it's a bit tedious, but at least you don't have to do it twice (you can add a new raster layer of the other uniform set and paste in on so it matches up but doesn't cover the 32 or so logos you've just positioned) Oh also, when you do the uniform colors (I am assuming you are using the in game editor - which works just fine for this), it easier to choose a really contrasting standout color for the logo there as it is easier to see when you cover them with your own using your graphical editor. This is of course if you want to go this route (you may be fine with the dots (?), it's entirely up to you :-) ).

I am sure some of the other great graphical modders can lend some tips as well :) The whole thing can be a tedious process, but it gets quicker and quicker as you learn it and do it more -- and ya, I know the struggle too, lol.

All the best and thanks for this :-)

[I got the ball now]

Thanks redwolf9 for the great feedback. I am using microsoft Paint on windows 10. I don't have unfortunately photoshop. I downloaded gimp but did not take the time yet to learn it. Yeah, I am annoyed not to be able to do an invisible background. Don't know how to do it from paint. I tried to do png transparent but it never work. I know modders use photoshop. I enjoy modding and getting good at it but also the point of all of this is find time to play. So I have to balance between modding and play. But sometimes, modding is playing. If you know how to do an invisible background in either paint or gimp, let me know. The CFL is a work in progress and I would like to improve. Also, if anyone out there wants to improve it (Rosters or graphics) feel free to do so and perhaps post the results here please. Anyway, I will try to look about getting photoshop at one point. once again, thanks for the feedback. Really appreciate it.

[ljbryner67]

Originally posted by I got the ball now:

Thanks redwolf9 for the great feedback. I am using microsoft Paint on windows 10. I don't have unfortunately photoshop. I downloaded gimp but did not take the time yet to learn it. Yeah, I am annoyed not to be able to do an invisible background. Don't know how to do it from paint. I tried to do png transparent but it never work. I know modders use photoshop. I enjoy modding and getting good at it but also the point of all of this is find time to play. So I have to balance between modding and play. But sometimes, modding is playing. If you know how to do an invisible background in either paint or gimp, let me know. The CFL is a work in progress and I would like to improve. Also, if anyone out there wants to improve it (Rosters or graphics) feel free to do so and perhaps post the results here please. Anyway, I will try to look about getting photoshop at one point. once again, thanks for the feedback. Really appreciate it.

IGTBN - as Redwolf was saying, nice effort! I would recommend using either one of these free open source image editing tools: Gimp or Paint.NET. The former, in particular, does a pretty decent job emulating most of Photoshop's functionality and it's relatively easy to use. And best of all, it should also allow you to use DreamTeam's templates to easily create and edit your helmets and other images. Give it a shot.

[I got the ball now]

Thanks...will look into it right now. I also mod in Hockey games so paint.net should be interesting to ....question: where ae Dreamteams Templates? I'll look in the forums. Thanks again!

[I got the ball now]

ooops...you said the former..yikes...I already have GIMP somewhere in my files...I will look into it.

[redwolf9]

Originally posted by I got the ball now:

Thanks...will look into it right now. I also mod in Hockey games so paint.net should be interesting to ....question: where ae Dreamteams Templates? I'll look in the forums. Thanks again!

http://www.cjohnsonphoto.com/mfl_psf/downloads.html - scroll down towards the bottom :)

(and these templates are great, and totally suffice - I mean I have a full 3d helmet with shading and full 3-d look, but it doesn't really "fit" for the graphics and feel of this game -- and the one DreamTeams has available completely works really well) - anyway, look through, they are there to help you :-) (though I recommend using the in game editor for the actual uniforms (easier and works fine - but you will need to play around with the .png game outputted uni files in a 3rd party graphics program (eg. Gimp) if you want to add proper logo's on the helmets) - Also you need a rgb to hex color conversion utility to get precise colors if using in-game editor for uni's - like this one: https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/color/rgb-to-hex.html ).

[I got the ball now]

Thanks...trying to work through transparent image. I will play around with all these tools and hopefully update CFL better soon.

[apollo1980]

When you feel the teams are good to go, after graphical editing, may I include the link on the PSF2021 mod page?

[I got the ball now]

yeah, for sure, it may take some time but will let you know here when update is done. Thanks

[kerry.batts]

Very impressive!

[briangallaway]

I love the mod. Thanks so much for creating it.

I've started tinkering with it a bit. For way to get higher quality helmet graphics, I'm doing some light editing of the helmets from here http://www.nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/

Snips from my early test with the Als helmet are here:

http://www.greatawesome.com/psf2021/Helmet_Standings.png
http://www.greatawesome.com/psf2021/Helmet_Game.png

Unfortunately that site has only left facing helmets. For some teams you can just invert it, but for others that'll make for backwards writing or logos. For now I'll just live with the inversion. Later I could try to edit them to fix it, or just create new helmets using the higher resolution templates that DreamTeams made. I won't put much work into it just yet since I know others are already working on this mod.

For the field, I'd suggest that instead of making midfield as the 55 yard line, we could mark it with.a 'C' like many Canadian fields do (see https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jt6-sIms8-k/maxresdefault.jpg ). That makes it a bit less jarring in the game while retaining the Canadian look. Of course it is also more work to create than just copying the 5, so there is a downside.

I created a generic championship logo that'd work for any CFL season.

http://www.greatawesome.com/psf2021/Grey_Cup.png

I'll post some of these files once I'm done tinkering.

[briangallaway]

A tip for anyone using the mod. If you want to use it in career mode, you can modify the league from a 1 conference 2 division league to a 2 conference league (with just a single division in each conference). If you run the playoffs with 2 division winners plus 4 wildcards, you get a very CFL-like playoff system, just without the cross-over rule.

[I got the ball now]

This is great feedback...looking forward for your designs and if you want to improve or rework the mod (rosters or graphics, feel free to do so and please post your results here. I am very impressed by the feedback. We're going places!!

[kerry.batts]

Originally posted by briangallaway:

A tip for anyone using the mod. If you want to use it in career mode, you can modify the league from a 1 conference 2 division league to a 2 conference league (with just a single division in each conference). If you run the playoffs with 2 division winners plus 4 wildcards, you get a very CFL-like playoff system, just without the cross-over rule.

Nice!!

[briangallaway]

So I did one set of helmets where I just flipped them. You can see with BC and Saskatchewan the logos are the wrong way on the right facing helmets. For Ottawa And Edmonton, I made a second version where I flipped the logo inside the helmet. If you look too closely at Ottawa's, you would see it isn't a very good edit:

http://www.greatawesome.com/psf2021/Helmet_Standings1.png

For a better BC helmet, I used an alternate logo with no lettering. For Saskatchewan, I used their current alternate logo and edited from there. It is a bit easier to flip since it is roundish.The result adding these alternative helmets is here:

http://www.greatawesome.com/psf2021/Helmet_Standings2.png

It'd be nice to turn some of the remaining white outline into transparent outline, but that'd take more work and skill than I have tonight.

Helmet files and midfield logo can be found here:

http://www.greatawesome.com/psf2021/cfl_20201013/