Major League Baseball 2K10: MLB Developer Insights - Art Direction

[Scottdau]

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Wow!! The stadiums look awesome this year, but am disappointed about not having scores on the out of town scoreboards.

Alan wanted me to share this with you all: "You'll be please to know that we do have fully functional, out-of-town scores where dictated by the real stadiums in 2k10."

This was said by Ronnie.

[DaveDQ]

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This line made me smile:

"I guess you can say we are a little obsessed with grass tech from our football days."

I appreciate the article and the obvious positive work they have put into this title. That goes a long way for me. Nothing is hyped. I'm looking forward to the next Insight.

[Jamin23]

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Alan wanted me to share this with you all: "You'll be please to know that we do have fully functional, out-of-town scores where dictated by the real stadiums in 2k10."

This was said by Ronnie.

Yeah I saw that ablouin mentioned it in this thread.

[ExtremeGamer]

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So far, I'm impressed. Like the out of town scoreboards added, and LOVE the look of the stadiums this year.

[bp4baseball]

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These insights are nice and an interesting read

[Scottdau]

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So far, I'm impressed. Like the out of town scoreboards added, and LOVE the look of the stadiums this year.

Isn't it funny how for those things go for us. Something so little, but is so huge!

[bigfnjoe96]

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We'll looks like Alan left without answering my question about Image Metrics. If the animations are more natural looking than what we've seen, the graphics are gonna be the BEST this series has had since jumping Next-Gen.

This year we added multi-character animations to improve the realism of collisions between the catcher and the base runner for plays at the plate. We also added multi-character animations for pickoff/steal plays as well as double play collisions in which the base runner attempts a takeout slide to prevent the shortstop/2nd baseman from turning a double play. All of these are to minimize the amount of player penetration during these plays to make the outcome more believable. We also updated the movement model to allow for more directional based fielding animations to allow the fielders to follow the ball during its trajectory. We also added more multi-action animations (run, catch, throw all in one file) to allow the player to queue up a throw to a particular base before gathering the ball to quicken the throw to that base and increase the reaction time of the fielder in the hopes of making a play. And we also added new Signature animations for this year’s roster and tried to improve the look of the batting and pitching introductions.

I'm loving the way they've incorporated the New Lighting into the game:

Visually, we wanted to make sure to more accurately produce the lighting conditions of a hot noon summer game, a dreamy afternoon, or even a cool August night with our new lighting model technology. Now, the lighting is also accurate to not only the time of day games are played, but also the actual geographic location and orientation of each stadium and time of year your game is taking place. We consciously desaturated the parks slightly and brought the important time of day of “Dusk” into the product.

Target looks sick in that screen. Hopefully we get some info on GAME PLAY & what changes were made this year

[ExtremeGamer]

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I do love that they put a pic of Wrigley in there. That way we can see they really did fix the stadiums.

[Jamin23]

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We'll looks like Alan left without answering my question about Image Metrics. If the animations are more natural looking than what we've seen, the graphics are gonna be the BEST this series has had since jumping Next-Gen.





I'm loving the way they've incorporated the New Lighting into the game:





Target looks sick in that screen. Hopefully we get some info on GAME PLAY & what changes were made this year

If I glanced at it, I would think it was real.

[Scottdau]

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I wonder if the LCD scoreboards will be in the game? AT&T Park have a LCD one. That would rock if they did.

[bonannogiovanni]

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If I glanced at it, I would think it was real.

It took me 30 seconds to realize it's not a real picture. Impressed!

[Artman22]

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While looking at the stadiums I thought they were real. That's how good they look. Hopefully next week they can talk about the animations.

[Jamin23]

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While looking at the stadiums I thought they were real. That's how good they look. Hopefully next week they can talk about the animations.

Next week is franchise.

[Artman22]

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This shows just how useless ign is for information on sports game.

[wrigleyville33]

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I believe the graphics are pretty ridiculous here, in a good way. I sold my 360 and played the show this year dumping on 2k. But this does look like a huge upgrade from last year's disaster. The stadiums are gorgeous, as well as the lighting. Those stadium pic's took me a while to realize they were from 2k10, not real life. Anyways, I wonder how much they touched up those images in photoshop, but I will be giving this a chance. I would love to see how good it looks on my awesome desktop. Hopefully the upgraded the game play as well. I also love the fact they have geographic specific lighting. That is awesome, as well as specific seasonal lighting.