LIVE JAM 08 (Out Now!)

[Andrew]

Andrew, if u want me to make the big head of a player just send me the list of a player...and i try to make some cf's like obama ....
i like it to make our own CF's in that game...hahahaha

If we can't give big heads to all players (J.R. Smith is a prominent example, he's definitely in the rosters) then we might have to skip that, but looking at the list of special characters suggestions we've got so far plus a couple of others that just came to mind:

Barack Obama
Chris Tucker
Jack Nicholson
Mark Turmell
Terrell Owens
Jamie Foxx
Justin Timberlake
Kanye West
The Game
Common
Michael Rapaport
Deion Sanders
Nelly
Bow Wow
Frankie Muniz
Fabolous
Snoop Dogg
Jay-Z
Tom Cavanagh

An idea for the logo would be sth involving the 2 games.NBA live and NBA jam.Maybe try to modify EA's fireball logo.
sth like this,just a quick sketch for it,just to give you the idea

Yeah something like that would be great.

[Healer2k]

Andrew, ah so if we cant do the big head on smith...>???so how bout the others..???still make it in big head or not..???

for the special characters there in big head also..???
or in normal..???

geroge7 nice logo buddy....

[George7]

ej17, thx bro!


Andrew, Why there would be a problem on J.R.Smith for a big head?

If in the team we added some of the Sprite Showdown dunkers?
I also suggest Usher in the celebrity team


If you like it you can keep this as the main logo,there's no problem at all.

[Dee.]

How About adding the Nets Owner as another special character ?

[Andrew]

Andrew, ah so if we cant do the big head on smith...>???so how bout the others..???still make it in big head or not..???

for the special characters there in big head also..???
or in normal..???

I'm just going by what was said before, that some players headshapes couldn't be edited. If that's the case, and we can't give some players big heads, I'd rather none of the players have big heads rather than some with and some without. If we can have big heads for everyone then that's certainly an idea but if we can't give some players big heads then I'd rather skip the whole thing as it would look silly to have some with big heads and others without (and not in a good way ).

Andrew, Why there would be a problem on J.R.Smith for a big head?

I only said that because it was mentioned before that his .ebo couldn't be opened. If it can be then no problem but if there's players we can't give big heads to, they're going to stand out from the rest. In that case, better to not to have any big heads in the first place.

For the moment I don't want to add any more teams because I don't want the mod held up too much while we're trying to get art in place - in few months time I'll be working on the offseason updates and creating all the rookies is a long process so I'll need to dedicate the free time I have for patching to that. If we can get the art in time I'll certainly consider it but I'd rather get the teams I've planned on finished and a v1.0 out there, then we can start looking at add-ons.

As for the logo, I'm happy to run with that. I'll add it to the first post.

How About adding the Nets Owner as another special character ?

Yeah maybe, but that reminds me of another possibility: Mark Cuban.

[Healer2k]

i want to see all the players in big head so i will make new ebo of other player that cant open the ebo...
and i will ask to s_brat to help so now i will start making big head...

[KidJustin]

i havnt had time to work on a logo yet...i was thinking something more custom...when i have time ill work on it/post it asap

ill also see if i can come up with a good free agent jersey...something JAM style...hmm

i created a CF of myself already haha im n o good at ebos though...so i used someone else...isnt perfect but close enough. haha if that plan goes through ill send it over

[Andrew]

i want to see all the players in big head so i will make new ebo of other player that cant open the ebo...
and i will ask to s_brat to help so now i will start making big head...

If you want to give it a shot, I'll post a list of the players that make up the 10-man squads for each team.

[Healer2k]

Andrew, ah yah just give the list of the players buddy....
and i will make it
thnks...

[KidJustin]

what do u think?

[Andrew]

Awesome, love it.

[George7]

I like it!!
But LeBron again
OK ,though it's nice to have Bulls in the background.
But it's not definetely suitable for the mod logo.
I would love to have it as the intro screen though.It's more suitable for the screens as it resembles an intro screen more than a logo ,if u understood what i mean(English is not my mother tongue,so i may messed it up a little )

Maybe if you take him on a dunk and put fire effects in the ball,to be sth like Boom Shaka-Laka!

[Andrew]

I think it makes a great promotional image though.

[KidJustin]

i wanted to make a "boom shaka laka" with josh smith and his buzzer beater dunk against orlando....

but there isnt any good pix of it

as far as "logo" i was going the route of nba live for this one...and made that bar thing with the "nba live" i thought that was a good enough logo

if one that has more of a jam-style is better than i can think of one for that

[George7]

KidJustin, i'm not telling you that this is not great,but i believe that when i see your image,the first thing coming into my mind is that it is used as a intro screen.The whole thing it resembles.

about the DVD screen i have only one word for it: EPIC!!!
i just love it!

Maybe just add only one add-one team:Looney tunes all-star team from Space Jam!

[Healer2k]

KidJustin, nice one buddy ur doing great ...love it...
but in my opinion i want Rajon rondo in that screen...
for a change buddy hehehe

[KidJustin]

George7, don't worry man, i understand

im just saying that i didn think of it as a single image for a logo...cuz all the nba live covers/logos are basically a player + "NBA LIVE "

but i get what u mean...and NBA JAM is more like a logo....

so i came up with this...


its got a little retro feel to it

...just not sure where to put the NLSC logo

ej17, if u can find me a really good picture of any player hitting a 3 pointer...i'll use it as the "he's on fire" (the lebron pic i thought was just really good...cuz it was a buzzer beater from half court...and he shot it so clean!)

or if u can help me find a REALLY good dunk pic...perferable with the ball in the rim already so i can make an exploding rim effect and put "boomshakalaka!"

[Andrew]

Great logo! Love the retro feel.

[joemmel]

Andrew, , how about Manny Pacquiao??

[Healer2k]

KidJustin, maybe kobe bryant against the heat...
w/ his buzzer beater shot against wade to win that game...
i send to u if i can find good quality image of kobe ....

[George7]

KidJustin, i love the retro feel of it.
Maybe put it fading in the background?

this will be great!
http://www.crazyups.com/wp-content/uplo ... 4/6550.jpg

I talked with Phoenix aka Mer$uRy and he saw about the new project.He asked me if there's any consideration about adding a custom soundtrack.

[onics]

in my opinion, the idea of a Space jam team is awesome!

by the way this is my Spiderman, to use as a special character






I'll try to do a series of Marvel superheroes if i have free time after study..if you want this art just contact me


PS how can i remove the name of the player?

[Andrew]

Andrew, , how about Manny Pacquiao??

Maybe. We've got a fairly long list for the moment but any suggestions are welcome, if I can get faces for them I'll add them to the roster at some point.

[KidJustin]

maybe if we get enough celebrities from different regions/groups

we can create multiple 10-man teams (when we get to that point)

like
superheros (and/or villains)
rappers/sings/actors
asian celebrities/figures
american celebrities/figures
..etc

i guess for the sake of a quick release...just throw whoever we can get into the pool for now and we will sort them later

Andrew, any ideas on getting art work from other EA games like NBA Street to create players/teams?

i'll see what i can do about the free agent jerseys tonight
and look into created a basketball....shouldn b too hard i hope (but then its okay that the ball will always be glowing?

would a plain looking arena b okay? i mean...this is the original


that image reminds me...let's add Fresh Prince version of Will Smith as a special character (we can just used Robert Horry's CF and give him a flattop or a hat)

it also kind of looks like the old jam arenas for each team had the jam logo at the center..but everything else team colors....would that be something u would want to do?

George7, i was tempted to use that one! but i really want one at the rim already so i can make the exploding rim effect (rim can't explode if there's no dunk yet...)

more special chacataers:
Mars Blackmon (spike lee's alter-ego)

Teen Wolf (michael j fox)

[Andrew]

We can certainly look at making some celebrity teams etc at some point, as I said I envision that stuff as v2.0 or via add-ons.

I don't think we're going to be able to get any art from the console games as we can't open those files with any of our tools (so far as we know). It'd be great if we could, though.

A plain/generic arena wouldn't be a bad idea, no need to re-do every team's arena if we want a Jam court.