Pitch types

I know when finding parameters in the DIY file.

pitch\pos	51 52 53 54	5140 5141
frozen	00 00 00 00	00 00
muddy	00 00 01 00	01 00
wet	00 00 02 00	02 00
soft	00 00 03 00	03 00
normal	00 00 04 00	04 00
dry	00 00 05 00	05 00
hard	00 00 06 00	06 00
seasonal	01 00 FE FF	FE FF
random	00 00 FF FF	FF FF

Question: why SWOS have two place with pitch type? Probably (I don t research more data) one place it physic (5140), two place it look pitch type (54).

Maybe the first one is to determine which images to use (brown pitch, green pitch, white pitch) and the other one to determine which characteristics (speed of ball, heigth of bounce, etc) to use?

I mean that I suspect the image files aren t linked to the settings, so if you switch around just the pitch image files of the frozen and the muddy ones, that the game you will get a brown pitch with high bouncing balls. So, to make sure the right stuff shows up, the numbers are listed twice.

an interesting thread...

sorry if it s slightly digressional, but i thought i d mention this again:

through prolonged play using the swos pack, It s noticeable how each team inhabits a certain pitch as their home ground... take the english premiership as an example:

pitch 1: birmingham city, chelsea, man city, portsmouth, stoke city, wolverhampton.
pitch 2: arsenal, fulham, hull city, man utd, west ham utd.
pitch 3: burnley, everton, liverpool, tottenham.
pitch 4: aston villa.
pitch 5: blackburn, bolton, sunderland, wigan.
(pitch 6: training pitch)

i m wonderin whether these preset pitches might feature in certain strands and could be changed through hex editing...

presumably, this would enable us to select which pitch each team plays on. and with a little endeavour we can alter the pitches to host different standards of football for different continents. let s roughly imagine, for example (without indgulging in too much detail):

pitch 1: superstadia: international venues/top flight stadia belonging to elite european clubs. eg barca, arsenal.
pitch 2: modest standard: grounds that belong to other top flight clubs.
pitch 3: lower league standard: older, smaller, humble-looking grounds.
pitch 4: continental modest standard: perhaps with stands further away from ptich/different hoardings etc
pitch 5: continental lower league standard.

dunno, but anyway, you get the picture! i think it would really add something.

btw, twould also herald one other question... is it possible to add extra pitches to the current six?

an interesting thread...

sorry if it s slightly digressional, but i thought i d mention this again:

Your post is very digressional. You talk about 5(6) pitches, but SWOS have 7 diffrents pitches.

Second, using pitches from team is unreal (we need the Open SWOS Project).

It s just an infromations which pitch was selected during creating DIY tournament. Information about physics and colors must be stored in sws.exe file (swos2 for Amiga).

Exactly, all information about pitches are the executive SWOS files. Maybe who know where is position about pitches?

Maybe it s tied to the kit style? (horizontal stripes, vertical stripes, colored sleeves, plain shirt)

Kit style nothing mean how I see. This information about stripes must be somewhere other place.