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Maple Leaf Park at Hanlan's Point 1910 by Archmagechemosh for MLB The Show 25 🇨🇦

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Preakness Sporting Grounds

A fictional stadium by StableMcGenius for MLB The Show 25

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Creating teams & logos -mysteries/explained MLB The Show 24+

SDS doesn't do a good job of providing comprehensive tutorials to the inner workings of their games. So, some areas are left for the customer to explore and figure out. Eventually, you learn a few lessons and this sub-forum's primary purpose is to allow folks to pass along some of those lessons learned the hard way.

So, when creating a custom team, here are some important lessons to apply:

First, the three critical logos that will appear on the scoreboards, screen menus, and in game screen crawls are the main team logo, home cap logo, and road cap logo. Of these three, the most prevalent by far are the cap logos. The home cap logo will show on screen crawls and scoreboards for home games, and the road cap logo will show on the same items during road games. Digital scoreboards are programmed in different ways, so some will show only cap logos, while others only the main team logo, and some a combination of them all.

Second, to ensure the crawl menus are fully readable, you want to ensure that your second team color is a dark enough shade so that both the cap logos and main team logo, plus the white text of written information are legible. You do not want to use a whitish shade color for your second team color. Nor, do you want to make a whitish color your primary team color. If your team has just two colors, say red and white, then make the first and second color the same shade of red, and the third color white.

Third, perhaps the most critical of all hidden lessons is that whenever you open up any logo screen to add, create, or modify a logo, you absolutely must save the logo. Even if you goofed something up, you must save it. Even if you make no changes, you must save the logo. If you choose the option to cancel the new logo save, the program will almost certainly fail to properly link the logo back to the team. This is the primary cause of missing logos on scoreboards, uniforms, and screen menus and crawls. Again, save regardless. If something was wrong, save it, and then go back in to redo it, by pulling up your logo source file and redo the work, and then save it.

Fourth, while this is not required for custom uniforms and logos in offline modes like Franchise, it is absolutely required for Diamond Dynasty custom teams. You must ensure that all logos used on Diamond Dynasty team uniforms are saved to the vault. This is just like the situation with custom stadiums, where they don't have to be in the vault to be used in Franchise, RTTS, Moments, or Exhibition modes, but they must be in the vault to be used in Diamond Dynasty. So, this is the second most common reason for logos disappearing from uniforms, menus, and crawls -- you don't have the logo in the vault.

Fifth, when putting together uniforms, follow this procedure for creating the home and road uniforms. Always cycle through every uniform item that features a logo and select and tailor that logo for that uniform item. Again, do this for all uniform items featuring logos. Don't worry at this time about uniform colors or tailoring. Once you get all logos on the uniform items, then cycle through the uniform items a second time and tailor them with colors and special settings. If at any time in this process, you change or even bring up the logo editor for a uniform, the program will change the colors back to match with the selected team default colors.

Sixth, the same process can also happen when you change the default team colors. It will often result in your home and away uniform colors changing to match those default colors. The logos won't change, but the colors often will.

Seventh, especially if you desire to create in Franchise mode a custom team for all 30 teams in the league. You have only 30 total slots to save logo files. There are two ways to overcome this limitation. First, you can bring up multiple logos for each team you create, and then when you have finished and save that team, you can overwrite the same logo files with the next team and use them. Franchise doesn't care about the original logo file. Once you save the team, the logos used are part of that save and are retained in that team save. The other option is to use team uniform set files, where you have on one logo file a myriad of different logo items. You can then bring up that same logo file for each uniform item (plus the main team logo) and isolate just the logo or logos you wish to apply to that uniform item and save as you wish. You isolate these various, or just one, logo items on a set file, by using the "select item" option in the logo editor, which will check one or multiple individual logo items in the set. To have only the desired logo or logos from the set file appear on the uniform item, you select the ones you don't want, and then delete them from the set file. Don't worry! The set file itself is unaffected. Your deletions only affect logos for that individual team uniform item. When you save the logos for that uniform item only that uniform item's logos are saved. Once you are finished with that item, you proceed to the next uniform item and load up the same logo set file and start anew.

Eighth, if you wish to modify a previously saved custom team used on a Franchise team, there is a somewhat clunky method whereby you can start afresh with those previously saved settings. You act like you are starting a new Franchise career (but you don't have to actually begin it). When the menu appears for the 30 teams, select the one you want to change, and load the previously saved team file. Then, go right back to that same team and select the option to create a new team. What will happen is that the settings populated initially will be those in that previously saved team file. Tweak what you wish to tweak, and then resave the updated team data, either as an overwrite to the same previous save slot, or a new slot as you desire.

In conclusion, the best order of action for creating a team is to first apply your home cap and jersey logos, so that it features the colors. Then, go into the team setup and carefully match the first team color so that it matches up with the logos' color. At this point, you can assign the second and third colors to provide contrast, or match what the actual team's colors are if you're replicating an existing team. But, remember, your second team color must be dark enough to be a good background for the main team logo and both cap logos, plus any white text that the game will display on the screen crawls. After getting all three colors determined, then go to the logo editor option and create or load your main team logo, and then save it. This is because there is no uniform item logo that will automatically fill in that main team logo slot.

After this, go back into your home team uniform setup and apply logos to all uniform items that feature logos. Once this is done, cycle through all home team uniform items to tailor the colors and features. Repeat this process for the road uniform, first cycling through to apply all logos, and then cycling through a second time to set up colors and features.

Final step will be to assign a custom stadium to the team. However, this is the one area that you can change within the game menus at any time, so it isn't all that critical. After this is done, if in Franchise mode, be sure to save your team into one of the available 30 team file slots available

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Utah Heights Field - A fictional stadium by Murph075 for MLB The Show 25

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Houston Astrodome

Rotmg88 - (made for MLBTS 23)

Archmagechemosh - (A rework of Rotmg88’s version for MLBTS 24)

Murph075 - (made for MLBTS 24)

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Borchert Field 1902-1952 by Archmagechemosh for MLB The Show 25

Built in 1888, the field stood at Burleigh and 8th Streets. The park was home to the major league Milwaukee Brewers (1891), Negro League Milwaukee Bears (1923), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Milwaukee Chicks (1944), and the minor league American Association Milwaukee Brewers (1902-1952).

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Here's our project for MLB The Show 25

ATG Post War: Golden Age

Kicking off in 1949

AL, NL, NeL, international, minors, semi-pro

stadiums, unis, logos, 3000+ players

built for franchise play/multiple seasons

coming soon

@themoejorgan.bsky.social @americascatch237.bsky.social

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Milwaukee County Stadium 1976-2000 by Archmagechemosh for MLB The Show 24.

This is my last stadium for ‘24 -Archmagechemosh

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Your Business Here Field

A fictional stadium by Jason_43950 for MLB The Show 24

..”it’s one I was making for the expansion team challenge, but just couldn’t finish it in time.“ -Jason_43950

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Colt Stadium 1962 by Archmagechemosh for MLB The Show 24

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Comets Field

A fictional minor league baseball stadium by Suel21 for MLB The Show 24

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Prohibition Park

A fictional stadium by ObituaryTurtle for MLB The Show 24

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Arlington Stadium 1985 by Archmagechemosh for MLB The Show 24

Just a note, I used the south west desert sand for the landscape to give it the red dirt look behind home plate but it does give off a red glow in night games to the stadium and all the props. If this becomes annoying then just change that part of the ground cover to Concrete or one of the grasses and it will have a more normal night time effect. -Archmagechemosh

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The Mothership, a fictional stadium by GreatScott18660 for MLB The Show 24

“First real time trying a futuristic stadium, but I think it turned out pretty well!” -GreatScott18660

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Devil Rays Park

A fictional stadium by Archmagechemosh for MLB The Show 24

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Steel City Ballpark

A fictional stadium by Suel21 for MLB The Show 24

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Madison Grove

A fictional college stadium by Archmagechemosh for MLB The Show 24

“Madison Grove. Fictional big College Stadium if the Wisconsin Badgers had a Baseball team....” -Archmagechemosh