I suggest you save the filename of each player as his UID

Does anyone know if FMXML will still work on the latest version of Windows? I cannot seem to get it to work, I get some dll error everytime. I'm trying to create an config file for some faces I'm trying to insert into my game. Thanks for any assistance.

It's worked fine at my end over different setups over many years. If any dll files are missing, I'm sure they'd be downloadable

Is there a tutorial for installing the newer updates, I have 12.0 Complete Pack installed fine, but when I attempted to do the 12.1 update, it seemed to overwrite the Config, and only have the .1 faces in it, and not others from the complete pack. Any help is obviously appreciated!

Each update pack contains an amount of cut-outs (some of which are new, and others are improvements on existing megapack images). Overwriting the config file and some images is what each update pack is supposed to do. Can't really see anything amiss in what you're explaining.

I think it just clicked in my head, am I supposed to be unzipping the update pack into the existing faces folder? I was previously unzipping it to a new location.

Adding images to the megapack
N.B. Any teampacks and individual images are included in each update pack; this is for the impatient who want cuts to be included in their MP folder before then.

1. Save the image(s) to a temporary folder (e.g. Desktop or a folder in there)

2. Copy the image(s) into;

- My Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 201x/graphics/your MP folder

Overwrite only if you are absolutely sure as the previous image will then be lost!

3. Use fmXML (or a similar program) to rebuild the config.xml file to reflect the new changes.

4. Load up FM, to confirm that the new cut/s has/have appeared.





Getting an Individual picture to appear in game:

1) Save your chosen picture as the correct ID into the following folder:
My Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 201x/graphics/anywhere apart from your MP folder
(You may need to create the last 3 folders)

2) Next you need to create a config file, (the file that links the game to the image) and put it in the folder "Individual" with your picture.
You can download fmXML (Instruction Video) which will do it automatically for you. Save it.

3) Go back to your game prefs and untick "Show unique IDs" click confirm and hey presto your picture should be there.


Any questions, please feel free to ask.

Does this site have any places to upload content that won't break my pc.

Hi,

I'm using the Megapack and it works perfectly - as it always has, but there are two additonal players I'd like to add photos for. I named the files [uniqeID].png, placed them within the graphics folder (created a new folder for these two), generated the config.xml using fmXML and have it in the same folder as the photos, but I can't make the photos appear in the game (cache is turned off).

I checked the XML and it seemed odd that while the megapack is using a format where these codes are the same

<record from="1000042" to="graphics/pictures/person/1000042/portrait"/>

my fmXML-generated config file had a line like this

<record from="2000032797" to="graphics/pictures/person/2820163613/portrait"/>

So I was thinking of manually updating "graphics/pictures/person/2820163613/portrait"/> to match the unique ID, but still no joy.

Then I was thinking maybe there was something wrong with my photos, so even tried taking two random pictures from the megapack and renamed them to my IDs (and copied them into my own folder), but those didn't appear either.

Any ideas what I may be missing?

Thanks!

Thanks mons,

I uploaded them here

I made the UIDs visible in the GUI and took them from there.

Sure thing.

I have no idea why you changed the UIDs in the config file to point to completely different numbers to the ones which the respective persons use in game 😕

Here they are attached, config corrected and images cleaned up a bit 👍

Thanks, but that is the thing - I didn't change the config file, this is how fmXML generated it so I have no idea where those other IDs the config file was pointing to were coming from either. Once it didn't work, and I started checking what could be the issue, I actually made the same changes you just did, but it still didn't work.

I now tried with what you sent, but still no joy.

Where have you placed the folder I sent you? And have you changed the preferences in the manner shown in my above screenshot?

Preferences have been like that since I installed the megapack, so didn't change anything.

The folder is in
\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2021\graphics\extrafaces

Sure:

All looks fine there, as far as I can tell. What OS are you using?

Win10

Replace the image in your pack with the one from here, and reload the skin.

Does that work?