I'd like to see evidence of ball park influence

[Admin]

I think ballparks may be my next area to work in after the projects I am working on now.

One great thing is that since ballparks were implemented, browsers have gotten better; most if not all browsers now support a "Canvas" object that lets me draw on it directly. That means I should be able to render ballparks from your dimensions, not just the default look. If I can do that, I may be able to actually show where on the field long hits go.

Chris

[mattyb5000]

I think I'd like a little more specificity. I'm trying to imagine what you mean, and all I can think of are scenarios that would require massive amounts of coding specific to to the dozens and dozens of ballpark designs available to users and then I think about the time requirement that would require of Admin and then I think about the issues we have just keeping the game interface up and running and then I shake my head a lot.

Not necessarily. I actually wrote this code ages ago.

The football sim uses a detailed physics simulation for kicks, so it knows precisely where the ball is when it crosses the plane of the goalposts. I adapted that simulation to baseball, which is a bit different (look up the Magnus effect, it's fascinating), and in tests, I was able to determine exactly how far above or below the top of the wall the ball is. I actually had enough detail to be able to say, specifically, "This ball that would have been a home run in the default park was just a double in this park".

And then.... the code got shoved in a drawer. I didn't have access to the soft chewy center of the sim yet, and it was too much work for too little benefit to integrate my code with Tyson's as they were radically different approaches.

How did this work? Right now, the sim uses five "rays" out from home plate to define a park. So no matter what angles or curves a park has, parks of similar sizes behave similarly. I simply subdivided the park into more rays, overlaid them on the original park drawings (which I did in Visio, so getting precise measurements was easy), and hand-keyed all that data into a spreadsheet. So a stadium with a funky corner would occasionally have balls go into that funky corner and actually behave properly.

The question is whether or not I can still locate this data. (rummage rummage rummage) It's not close at hand. I do have the foul area calculations; that was another planned upgrade that was never implemented.

So it has definitely been on my mind to revisit this.

Chris

Find that code! This would be amazing!!!

[WillyD]

Cool getting a look inside SD.

Come play with us in the beta site if you like that sort of thing! If you're interested, drop me a support ticket.

Chris

It would be cool to get a few more beta players. Everyone would be more involved, and pay more attention to box scores, etc.

[WillyD]

Cool getting a look inside SD.

Come play with us in the beta site if you like that sort of thing! If you're interested, drop me a support ticket.

Chris

Chris, you should've rec'd a support ticket from Corked to join the 2TL Beta League.