URAN Ultra Realistic Newgan Faces Megapack

Newgans (also known as Regens) are players the game generates as you play, the fake players that join your youth team. Download this Ultra Realistic Regen Player Faces Megapack to give these players super realistic faces in Football Manager instead of the awful player faces the game generates by default.

 

This pack is known as URAN which stands for “Ultra Realistic Allocated Nationally”. When combined with FM.Z Tool AI faces will accurately be linked with your newgens based on both ethnicity and nationality for the most realistic experience possible.

 

With this megapack new young players that the game generators will have realistic photographs of players faces. Thanks to the FM.zweierkette Community

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  • 2024.01 - Released on 09 Sep 2024
URAN Ultra Realistic Newgan Faces Megapack

Installation Instructions

Follow these steps to install realistic newgen/regen faces in football manager.

 

This guide is the latest version and supersedes the original NewGan Manager Guide. Use that guide if you've previously used the NewGan Manager and are continuing an existing save with old configs. In all our other instances use this new guide.

 

Step 1) Extract the Zip

Once you've downloaded the Newfan Faces Megapack you should have a .zip file somewhere on your computer called something like “newgan_faces.zip” (the name may change to include a version number in the future that's fine).

 

You'll need to extract this file which is very easy to do:

 

Apple: Unzip Newgan Faces Megapack on Mac

To unzip the Newgan Faces Megapack on a Mac you can simply double click it.

 

Windows: Unzip Newgan Faces Megapack on Windows

To unzip the Newgan Faces Megapack on Windows simply right click and click “Extract All”

 

Step 2) Move the folder

Once you've extracted the zip file you should have a folder called “players” you will need to move this to a special location where all your Football Manager Add Ons are stored.

 

Apple: Where to put the Newgan Faces Megapack on Mac

You will need to copy the folder to this location:

 

/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2024/graphics

 

You may find it difficult to find this exact location, to make it easier, use the following instructions:

 

a) Open Finder

b) Click “Go” from the menubar and select “Go to Folder” (alternatively press Shift+CMD+G)

c) Copy in the following: ~/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/

d) Open the “Football Manager 2024” folder

e) Open the “graphics” folder (or created it if it doesn't exist)

f) Move the “players” folder into this folder and rename it something more useful like ”AI Newgen Faces"

 

Windows: Where to put the Newgan Faces Megapack on Windows

Simply move the “players” folder to the following location and rename it something more useful like ”AI Newgen Faces"

 

Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2024/graphics

 

If you don't have a “graphics” folder simply create it 🙂

 

Step 3) Download and Install FM.Z Tools

Visit this page to download FM.Z Tools. There is a version for both Windows and Mac.

 

When you download it you will be greeted by a .zip file. Follow the same steps as in Step (1) to unzip this file.

 

Windows Installation

When you download it you will be greeted by a .zip file. Follow the same steps as in Step (1) to unzip this file.

 

You should see a structure like this

 

  • filters
    • is newgen search filter.fmf
  • views
    • SCRIPT FACES player search.fmf
    • SCRIPT FACES shortlist.fmf
    • SCRIPT FACES squad.fmf
    • SCRIPT FACES staff.fmf
  • dist
    • FMZ Tools v1.0.msi

 

Double click on the following file FMZ Tools v1.0 Installer Windows/dist/NewGAN-Manager.msi This will then install the program on your computer.

 

Then copy the “views” and “filters” folders to the following location:

 

Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2024/filters

Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2024/views

 

Mac Installation

When you download it you will be greeted by a .zip file. Follow the same steps as in Step (1) to unzip this file.

 

Double click on the file called FMZ Tools v1.0 Installer Mac.dmg 

 

 

Drag the “FMZ Tools.app” icon onto the “Applications” icon.

 

Then drag the “views” and “filters” folders to the following location:

 

Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2024/filters

Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2024/views

 

Step 4) Open the FM.Z Tools

Open the FM.Z Tools application as you would any other program on your computer.

 

You may receive an error on Mac

 

“FM.Z Tools.app”cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified.”

 

To get around this simply go to Library > Applications find FM.Z Tools and click Right Click > Open and then select “Open”

 

When you open the tool you will see something like this:

 

Step 5) Generating an RTF File in Football Manager

Now follow these instructions very carefully:

 

  • Now open Football Manager and load your saved game.
  • Click the FM Icon > Add New Manager and add a new manager
    • (The reason for this is because your manager can be limited by your clubs scouting network, unemployed managers can view all players)
  • Now playing as the new manager click “Shortlist” on the left
  • Then click “New Search” in the top right (It may also say “Edit Search”)
  • Now in the bottom left click the ⚙️ settings cog icon > Manager Filters
  • Click “import” in the top right
  • Now you should see a file called “is newgen search filter” select it and then click “load” in the bottom right
    • If you don't see “is newgen search filter” then you've put the “filters” folder in the wrong place in the last step
  • Now back on the screen we just were click ⚙️ again and now “is newgen seach filter”
  • A new filer will now popup that looks like this:
  • Now make sure the search isn't excluding your own players by clicking “Exclude” and making sure “Own Players” is unchecked.
  • Click “Ok” to search and you will see some search results.
  • Warning: If you have too many results e.g. 10,000 + you may find the next few steps to be very slow or crash you can use other filters like age to make the number of results smaller.
  • Now click the dropdown button that lets you customise the view (you may also be more familiar with right clicking the table headings)
  • Then click on Custom > Import View
  • You should see the views from the views folder that you moved in the last step. If you don't you did something wrong there.
  • Now click “SCRIPT FACES player search” and then click “Load”
  • Now the player search results will look a little weird. That's fine, it's actually meant to look like that, ignore it.
  • Now click on one of the players in the list and click Ctrl + A (windows) or Cmd + A (mac) it may hang for a minute or two if you have thousands of players. DO NOT get impatient and click anywhere else on the page, just wait for it.
  • Now click the “FM” Icon and “Print Screen”
  • Then make sure that “Text File” is selected
  • Click okay and give your file a name such as newganfaces.
  • Now remember the place we've been to twice already where we put the faces and the views and filters folders. Go there again and you should see a file called “newganfaces.rtf” or whatever you called it.

 

Mac: Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 20XX/newganfaces.rtf

 

Windows: Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 20XX/newganfaces.rtf

 

Step 7) Using the FM.Z Tool

  • Where it says “Create Profile” give it a name, something that relates to your save. Then click “Create” then where it says “Select Profile” click the dropdown to select the recently created profile.
  • Where it says “Select Image” browse to the folder where we put the newgan faces e.g.

 

Mac: Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 20XX/Newgan Faces Megapack/

 

Windows: Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 20XX/Newgan Faces Megapack/

 

  • Where it says “RTF File” browse to where we saved the RTF file.

 

Mac: Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 20XX/newganfaces.rtf

 

Windows: Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 20XX/newganfaces.rtf

 

  • If you're doing this for the first time make sure that “Mode” is set to “Generate” if not you may want to consider using “Preserve” instead to keep the faces you've set previously.
  • Now click “Replace Faces”
  • You will see some loading animation and a success message.
  • If you want to confirm that it worked. Check for a config.xml in the location you just selected for “Select Image”

 

Mac: Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 20XX/Newgan Faces Megapack/

 

Windows: Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 20XX/Newgan Faces Megapack/

 

Step 8) Reset your FM Graphics Cache

Now you'll need to reset your Football Manager Graphics Cache to make sure it picks up the new files.

 

Simply follow these instructions:

 

a) Open Football Manager

b) Click Preferences on the start screen (or if you're already in a game FM Logo > Preferences)

c) Click the “Advanced” tab

d) On the right hand side select “interface”

e) Scroll down the Skin Heading

f) Uncheck “Use caching to decrease page loading times”

g) Tick “Reload skin when confirming changes to preferences”

h) Click “Reload Skin”

And now all the faces should be appearing for your newgens

 

You should go back into the preferences and follow the same steps but this time tick “Use caching to decrease page loading times”, this will help with the long term performance of the game, but needed to be unticked to install these graphics.

Frequently Asked Questions

New players are generated in the game at multiple points throughout the season. Generally running it once a season should be okay, but you may occasionally find players come through in February or March and they won't have a face if you only run it once in say June. It's up to you how often you find seeing these new 16 years olds without a face annoying.
If you are running two saves at once then the IDs and Configs will clash. You will have to manually move the config.xml to another location of your choice and reload your skin everytime you switch saves. E.g. create a folder called "My Documents/Newgan Configs" and move the configs to "leeds save.xml" and "tottenham save.xml" then when you start your Tottenham save move "tottenham save.xml" to where your newgan faces are saved and name it "config.xml". Then when you switch to your Leeds save move the config.xml back and rename it "tottenham save.xml" and move the "leeds save.xml" instead.

You will have to reload the skin as per the installation instructions each time as well.
Womaz
11 years ago
1 week ago
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Just to report something that has just happened to me and I have no idea why.

My youth intake come in and they were already populated with the Newan faces……I did not even run tte Newegan app. 

So I added a Manager to do a wider serach and it looks like all of the Newgens have the Newgen faces. I mean its good but I have no idea how this has happened.

 

One other thing I have the in game editior and i often use it to change the Newgen names. I did this before for one of them and a player in my first teams name also changed? 

What is going on? :-)

To be more precise I changed my Newgens first name from Duban to Anderson.

My first team LB also called Duban is now called Anderson too 

chaddroid
6 years ago
2 days ago
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Hello new one here,

I've already do as instruction said, but there's nothing, my newgen still have the same plastic faces

i have a real player facepack already installed, is that the problem ?

 

sorry if my english is bad

Andreh
12 years ago
10 months ago
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By phd_angel 01 December 2023 - 05:43 AM UTC 

OK. Try this:

 

1. In your graphics/newgan subfolder (probably named "6- _UltraRealistic NewGan Face..."), look for the file config.xml and open it with your notepad application (other text applications should also work).


2. In notepad, click Edit on the top bar, and then click Replace. Type "person/" in the top field, and "person/r-" in the bottom field. Click Replace All, and save the file config.xml in the same folder you found it.


3. Go to FM, under Preferences/Interface, unclick use caching and click reload skin. Then reload skin. You should be able to see the same AI photos applied to your players before the FM patch update.

 

Does this work?…  Good luck. Have fun!

 

thank you man,lost all day trying to figure out, should have come here first :-)

but for some reason players from Mongolia are on the print rtf file,but dont get through the newgan config… andthats where Im playing,,,

Dregganor
12 years ago
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Works mostly on 1.3.1… but not perfectly.  Expored 18k players and got about 11k faces generated, not sure where the disconnect is between the .rtf file and it not generating for every line.

 

I see some of you are saying it works fine on 1.3.1, any thoughts on what I should do?

Ninja777
14 years ago
3 days ago
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By chaddroid 03 December 2023 - 15:52 PM UTC 

Hello new one here,

I've already do as instruction said, but there's nothing, my newgen still have the same plastic faces

i have a real player facepack already installed, is that the problem ?

 

sorry if my english is bad

 

Go take a look at your config file. What does it say?

Ninja777
14 years ago
3 days ago
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By Andreh 03 December 2023 - 23:08 PM UTC 

thank you man,lost all day trying to figure out, should have come here first :-)

but for some reason players from Mongolia are on the print rtf file,but dont get through the newgan config… andthats where Im playing,,,

 

What does your NewGan log say for the the players, when it tries to create Mongolia players?

chaddroid
6 years ago
2 days ago
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By Ninja777 04 December 2023 - 22:04 PM UTC 

Go take a look at your config file. What does it say?

 

can you take a closer look ? at glance there's npthing wrong on the config file

Ninja777
14 years ago
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By chaddroid 04 December 2023 - 23:54 PM UTC 

can you take a closer look ? at glance there's npthing wrong on the config file

 

After the new update, you will have to change so that the ID says “r-” in front. 
<record from="Scandinavian/NOR221" to="graphics/pictures/person/r-58156112/portrait"/>
<record from="MESA/YEM213" to="graphics/pictures/person/r-2002160828/portrait"/>
<record from="Caucasian/NIR4" to="graphics/pictures/person/r-2002190547/portrait"/>

Go read the earlier entries of this debate, and you would know.
After changing that, your faces should work.

Andreh
12 years ago
10 months ago
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By Ninja777 04 December 2023 - 22:05 PM UTC 

What does your NewGan log say for the the players, when it tries to create Mongolia players?

 

The Mongolian players are included in the print rtf file,but for some reason they are completely ignored by the newgan, and their IDs does not appearin the log. When Ive made a rtf file with only mongolians the Gan log output is completely empty.

 

 

Edit -

So the steps Ive done to kind of solve it

Uninstalled newgan 1.3, installed 1.2, no difference

 

Switched MGL nationality to CHN at the rtf, didnt work

Switched MGL to several nationalities looked like it worked. So switched  allMGL to HKG it worked for the first 100ish and kept the SI faces for the rest

Swittched first MGL to HKG than the rest toCHN, and allowed duplicate faces.I guess duplicate is better than SI faces. It seems Newgan doesnt recognize MGL nationalit at the rtf file

Ninja777
14 years ago
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By Andreh 05 December 2023 - 10:27 AM UTC 

The Mongolian players are included in the print rtf file,but for some reason they are completely ignored by the newgan, and their IDs does not appearin the log. When Ive made a rtf file with only mongolians the Gan log output is completely empty.

 

 

Edit -

So the steps Ive done to kind of solve it

Uninstalled newgan 1.3, installed 1.2, no difference

 

Switched MGL nationality to CHN at the rtf, didnt work

Switched MGL to several nationalities looked like it worked. So switched  allMGL to HKG it worked for the first 100ish and kept the SI faces for the rest

Swittched first MGL to HKG than the rest toCHN, and allowed duplicate faces.I guess duplicate is better than SI faces. It seems Newgan doesnt recognize MGL nationalit at the rtf file

 

Probably a bug somewhere in the program. There could be somewhere to locate the MGL / Mongolia nationality. I have an idea, but not sure it would change anything (or might corrupt the program)

 

Evil-Muffin7
16 years ago
18 minutes ago
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i like this megapack etc but my question has anyone got icon version of the faces so i can use icon also?

BoBzls
9 years ago
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Hi Have followed all the steps and cannot see any of the regen faces and cannot see an obvious mistake I have made. 

 

I have done Step 6 and generated an RTF and I waited after pressing ctrl+A and made sure every regen in the list had been highlighted before I printed the screen. And in step 7 after I have used the NewGan face tool, got the success response and have a config file in my newgen faces pack which has all the relevant data in it. But when I do step 8 and reset I cannot see the faces.

 

Have attached some photos to help but anyone with any advice on what I am missing would be much appreciated

 

Ninja777
14 years ago
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By BoBzls 06 December 2023 - 02:18 AM UTC 

Hi Have followed all the steps and cannot see any of the regen faces and cannot see an obvious mistake I have made. 

 

I have done Step 6 and generated an RTF and I waited after pressing ctrl+A and made sure every regen in the list had been highlighted before I printed the screen. And in step 7 after I have used the NewGan face tool, got the success response and have a config file in my newgen faces pack which has all the relevant data in it. But when I do step 8 and reset I cannot see the faces.

 

Have attached some photos to help but anyone with any advice on what I am missing would be much appreciated

 

Read through this thread, and you will see that you will need to add r- in front of every ID in your config-file for it to work. The config file you have is wrong. 🙂

BoBzls
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By Ninja777 06 December 2023 - 06:32 AM UTC 

Read through this thread, and you will see that you will need to add r- in front of every ID in your config-file for it to work. The config file you have is wrong. 🙂

 

Have added “Person/r-” in the CONFIG and still cannot see AI Faces in game. Have attached the CONFIG file is there something else I am missing?

Womaz
11 years ago
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By BoBzls 06 December 2023 - 14:53 PM UTC 

Have added “Person/r-” in the CONFIG and still cannot see AI Faces in game. Have attached the CONFIG file is there something else I am missing?

 

I am far from an expert witb this, but that is a very small config file. Very short list of players there. 

Check one of the r- numbers on that config file and they may have a face allocated. 

If this is the case you have not selected all of the players when in the print screen phase. My search had over 40K newgens.

Hope this helps

Ninja777
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By BoBzls 06 December 2023 - 14:53 PM UTC 

Have added “Person/r-” in the CONFIG and still cannot see AI Faces in game. Have attached the CONFIG file is there something else I am missing?

 

Nope you did it wrong. You did: <record from="SpanMed/POR118" to="graphics/pictures/Person/r-/2002081198/portrait"/>
Should be : <record from="SpanMed/POR118" to="graphics/pictures/person/r-2002081198/portrait"/>



 

BoBzls
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By Womaz 06 December 2023 - 15:22 PM UTC 

I am far from an expert witb this, but that is a very small config file. Very short list of players there. 

Check one of the r- numbers on that config file and they may have a face allocated. 

If this is the case you have not selected all of the players when in the print screen phase. My search had over 40K newgens.

Hope this helps

 

My whole Config File has about 28,000 so don't think it is that

BoBzls
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By Ninja777 06 December 2023 - 16:10 PM UTC 

Nope you did it wrong. You did: <record from="SpanMed/POR118" to="graphics/pictures/Person/r-/2002081198/portrait"/>
Should be : <record from="SpanMed/POR118" to="graphics/pictures/person/r-2002081198/portrait"/>

Was hoping this would be it. Re did the Config-File and have attached it again with the above error corrected. Reloaded the skin and still cannot see the AI Regens. In the CONFIG I can see the ID number it relates to in game and the AI Picture it is picking up. Just baffled as to why it is not showing in Game. Have again attached the CONFIG if anyone can see an obvious error.

 

 

 

Sylvain Luce
11 years ago
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Yo,

I'm having a problem generating a .rtf file with the full list of my newgans.

I'm on a Mac with a French keyboard.

When I follow the methodology, when I try to select all players, I click ⌘A.

The game then asks me to quit the game, as if I had pressed ⌘Q.

I tried pressing ⌘Q, but it also asks me to quit the game.

So, I can't select all players using this keyboard shortcut.

I manually selected all players, which gave me a list of over 10,000 players.

When I took a screenshot, I generated a .rtf file.

But when I opened it to check, I saw that the file never contained more than 250 to 280 players.

Any ideas on how to work around this issue and generate a file with the full list of my newgans?

Cheers

Ninja777
14 years ago
3 days ago
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By BoBzls 07 December 2023 - 00:37 AM UTC 
 

 

I don't know if the capital P messes up something. At mine the p is not with capital-letter. Else than that, my config-file looks the same.

 

Womaz
11 years ago
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By BoBzls 07 December 2023 - 00:37 AM UTC 
 

 

As Ninja 777 states above it is the capital P that is causing the issue.

I tested this today for you. I changed two of my players to a capital P in my config file and reloaded the skin…..the faces were replaced with SI faces.

 

So you just need to replace the capital P with a small case p and I think this will be your issue sorted.

Womaz
11 years ago
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I had a weird thing happen to me on this years youth intake. The faces were alreday populated with the faces in the pack when they come in my youth intake.

 

I thought I was seeing things. The only thing I can think is the newgen ID numbers are created in the game some time before they actually appear in the youth intake?

I say this as I changed the face pack I was using to the one used here about 2 months before my youth intake was due. So of course I ran the NEWGEN manager tool again to populate the faces. So the only thing i can asume is the IDs are created maybe when you get the first message about the youth intake expectations.

 

I also checked the other newgens in the game by adding a new manager and they also had the faces in the pack…….a nice little welcome surprise. 

Ninja777
14 years ago
3 days ago
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I found an interesting post on another forum regarding this issues. I have not yet tried it.

 

https://github.com/Maradonna90/NewGAN-Manager/pull/189 

Elg4 over at Siforum posted this:
https://community.sigames.com/forums/topic/572099-creating-newgen-faces-using-midjourney/?do=findComment&comment=14249532 
 

 Hello folks, since I found the “Ultra-realistic Newgen Faces by RockNRolla & FM.Zweierkette”, I’m itching to improve how “NewGAN” replaces the newgens faces, specially because the pack has a lot of specifics nations player pictures.

Looking over the RTF file, script view in FM and in the mapper file I’ve noticed the following.

The view allows the RTF to gather the “ID”, “Nationality”, “Second Nationality”, “Player Name”, “Hair Lenght”, “Hair Colour” and “Skin Tone” values.

Hair Lenght value vary between 1 to 4, being 1 (short), 2 (medium), 3 (long) and 4 (bald).

Hair Colour value vary between 1 to 5 and 7 to 17 (and I’m not sure yet which value corresponds to an specific hair tone or if correlates to the players nationality  - I didnt found the 6 value yet). But in resume, there is 04 major colours (Black, Brown, Blonde and Ginger).

The skin tone has values betwen 0 to 10, being correlated to the nation of the player. For instace a value of 10 usually refers to a east asian, except if the player is from a south america nation.

I addressed that looking over the 3D faces and in the scripts of the mapper file.

Does someone knows more about those values and its correlations?

And do you know if the hair style of a newgen changes throught the years?

If I manage to find it out, I could try to make "Newgan" pick images according with the nation, skin tone and hair style (and maybe in the future by age and gender).

Edit - NewGAN fix for FM 24

Qinusty just dropped the fix in NewGAN github.
 

You need to change the 80th string of the profile_manager.py in this way.


 

Edited Friday at 16:01 by elg4

Tx James 92
5 years ago
6 hours ago
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Could anyone help me please? I have been using the Newgen facepack for over 2 years now but all of a sudden within the past week it has just decided to stop working. I have tried re-installing the manager and the face's but it still refuses to work and I have no idea why. Please help

Womaz
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By Tx James 92 07 December 2023 - 17:33 PM UTC 

Could anyone help me please? I have been using the Newgen facepack for over 2 years now but all of a sudden within the past week it has just decided to stop working. I have tried re-installing the manager and the face's but it still refuses to work and I have no idea why. Please help

 

Have you looked at the posts above about having to change the 200 prefix to r-200 ? 

BoBzls
9 years ago
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By Womaz 07 December 2023 - 08:45 AM UTC 

As Ninja 777 states above it is the capital P that is causing the issue.

I tested this today for you. I changed two of my players to a capital P in my config file and reloaded the skin…..the faces were replaced with SI faces.

 

So you just need to replace the capital P with a small case p and I think this will be your issue sorted.

Thank you much appreciated got it working now. Cheers lads.

 

umurat15
7 years ago
1 week ago
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hey guys. i tried everything but couldn't fix it. I edited the config file, some of the regens have the new face, but most of them are still the same as before. Is there anything I'm missing that I haven't done? can someone help me pls 😢

Burge1989
2 years ago
5 months ago
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Having just installed the latest Geforce Driver - my newgans have stopped loading. Anyone else getting this? 

Ninja777
14 years ago
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By umurat15 08 December 2023 - 06:46 AM UTC 

hey guys. i tried everything but couldn't fix it. I edited the config file, some of the regens have the new face, but most of them are still the same as before. Is there anything I'm missing that I haven't done? can someone help me pls 😢

 

What did you do to troubleshoot?

Ninja777
14 years ago
3 days ago
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By Burge1989 08 December 2023 - 16:39 PM UTC 

Having just installed the latest Geforce Driver - my newgans have stopped loading. Anyone else getting this? 

 

What did you do to troubleshoot? Looked through your config file etc.?

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