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Player Pictures

Digital Diamond Baseball will display player pictures inside the Player Information Popup if the pictures are copied to the correct location and the Player Picture Options (shown below) are configured correctly.  The Player Picture Options dialog can be accessed via the Options->Player Picture Options menu item.

Digital Diamond Baseball does not come with any player pictures.  However, if you have a collection of player photos you can include them in the game.  Please be sure to respect the copyright privileges for any of the images you obtain.  To get Digital Diamond Baseball to display your player photos, you must tell the game where to find them by editing the Player Pics Subfolder option located in the Player Picture Options dialog box.  If you leave this option empty, the game will look for a player's photo in the PlayerPics folder, which is a folder that is created automatically for you in the Digital Diamond Baseball installation folder.  However, it usually makes sense to organize your photos by placing them in subfolders inside the PlayerPics library (for example, you might wish to organize them by year). If you organize your photos into a subfolder of the PlayerPics folder, you must enter the name of the subfolder into the Player Pics Subfolder field.  For example, if you place all of your 2008 player photos into a subfolder named 2008Players, you need to set the Player Pics Subfolder option to 2008Players for each library will be using these photos.

 

Once you have the images in the correct folder, you must make sure that the photos follow the required naming convention used by Digital Diamond Baseball.  By default, the game looks for photos based on the players' first name, last name, and team.  For example, if you want an image of Ryan Braun to be displayed by the game, and Ryan is playing for MIL, the photo for Ryan Braun should be named ryan_braun_mil.jpg.  If the game cannot find a photo that matches this name it will look a second time, but without including the team as part of the filename.  For example, if the file ryan_braun_mil.jpg does not exist the game will look for the file named ryan_braun.jpg.  If this second attempt fails, the image will not be shown. 

The file naming convention used by Digital Diamond Baseball is configurable via the Player Picture Options dialog, which is accessible via the Options->Player Picture Options menu item.  You can configure the naming convention rules by editing the following two options:

  • Primary Player Pics Template: This option specifies the first template that the game will use to locate a player photo.  The default value for this option is first_last_team.jpg.  When searching for a player's photo, the game will replace first, last, and team with the player's first name, last name, and the name of the team they play for (not including the team year).  For example, if Jimmy Rollins is on PHL the game will look for a file named jimmy_rollins_phl.jpg.  Unless you are playing the game on Linux, the case (upper case/lower case) of the filename does not matter.  If you want the game to use a different file naming convention, you can change the Primary Player Pics Template.  For example, if your photos are in PNG format instead of JPG; they use team name, followed by last name, followed by first name; and they use dashes as a separator instead of underscores; then you should change the Primary Player Pics Template template to team-last-first.png.  
  • Secondary Player Pics Template: This option specifies the second template that the game will use to locate a player photo.  This template is only used if the game fails to find a matching file using the primary template.  The default value for this template is first_last.jpg.  For example, if you want an image of Chipper Jones to be displayed in the game, the photo for Chipper Jones should be named chipper_jones.jpg.

Currently, player photos are shown in the Player Popups window.  By default, the height and width of the pictures will be 75x75.  However, you can specify your own custom dimensions in the Player Picture Options dialog.  If you specify a size that is different than the size of your photos, the game will scale the photos.