Remove the black silhouettes (no face) from all the database with NewGan

Very nicely done, love it already. 

thanks man

Finally got  it done .. Beauty .

if i am doing a preserve update .. than I just copy paste these at the end of the list again ?

My silhouettes are missing by default, even before loading this in. Any help?

Hi, good job. Could you please give some more details?

• Does the preserve function work later on when the file is manually edited?
• Does your config file make use of the cut out megapack? I couldn't see reference to it, only to newgan-files

After thinking a bit, is it maybe like this:

1. Cut-out megapack has one config.file
2. Newgan has one config.file.
3. And you add yours to a third location.

What I do is revert my changes on config.xml, then do a preserve update, then paste again at the end. Otherwise the file will keep growing a lot.

Maybe something wrong with the skin you are using? Default game settings and skin should have this silhouettes

I noticed that preserve overwrites this manual changes, so i suggest to remove this changes before generating with preserve, then apply again.
My file doesn't use megapack files, but I used it as reference to know which faces are missing.

So it is like this:

1: Cut out megapack for most of the players & staff already existing in the game. 

2: Regens faces generated by newgan and their config file.

3: My file for players & staff already in the game (no regens) without a face in cutout megapack. Since I'm reusing the faces files from newgan megapack, this changes have to be made in newgan config file.

It works good, thanks! I duplicate the Newgan file before i add worldV2.txt. Next year, delete the config.xml, rename copy back to config.xml and then run Newgan/preserve. And repeat process. 

Good idea!

can you please explain in a bit more detail please . Thanks 

First you need the two packs at top. Cut-out faces and Newgan.

They both have instruction on how you install them. You must do that first.

When you have got that to work:

• when using Newgan the program makes a Config.xml file. This is the file that describes the graphic of the newgan faces. This is the file you want to use.
• Make a backup of that one, and keep it in the same directory.
• The same with worldv2.txt: keep a backup in the same directory.

You are going to edit the Config.xml as described. You paste worldv2.txt at the botton, and then config.xml ALSO make references to the newgan pictures for the black profile faces

You do this once a year. So next year, (or next time) you are going to use Newgan to give all the new regens faces you have to use the PRESERVE function in Newgan.

This function looks at the OLD config.xml file to see what changes that should be done.

Since you have edited this file this will clutter the file up.

So therefore, before you begin NEWGAN the second time you delete your editet Config.xml file, and replace it with the untouched old config-copy.xml.

That way NEWGAN can use the PRESERVE.

And after the process you copy the config.xml once more so you keep a raw-file to next year when you do the preserve once more.

And add worldv2.txt to the new config-xml file.

you have to do this every year. A bit process but goes fast when you know the drill.

i want to ask you few questions.

1. Why do we need …. Cut-out faces . I don't see it being touched throughout the whole procedure.
2. Make config file for newgan by changing pictures of regan .and make a copy of this and keep it in the same directory.
3. u paste worldv2.txt at the bottom of that config file …what do you mean by “ALSO make references to the newgan pictures for the black profile faces”.
4.  

1. Because Cut-of Faces gives faces to a lot of persons and MattyOlav has only listed the faces that are not covered by these faces.
2. It was probably bad english but:
   1. If you drop Cut-out faces you probably will have a lot of black siluhouettes because Cut-off faces replaces a lot of those.
   2. you MUST have NewGan correctly installed for using this.
   3. This is just a add'on to Newgan. Newgan only takes regen-faces. This file add pictures to black silhouttes that cut-of faces has not replaced.

New version V3: Updated to latest megapack and game version. 

If you update to it from V1 or V2, the faces of the players will change, since the file had to be created from scratch for this new versions.

is there any chance somebody could make a video of how to do this process as the steps above are fairly confusing it would be much apricated 

It worked for me, but when the black silhouettes disappear, no face appears, an empty space remains, this error is because I have another facepack to use with the NewGAN-Manager. My question is: how do I create a new config.xml (like the one downloaded here) with the facepack I have?

Dont know if you solved it already. I used another facepack and it puts the cfg.xml in that folder , then i add the sting of lines while having the cutouts in the normal folder and that seems to work almost perfect

Hello, could you specify in more detail the steps you took? Thank you very much, so we can clarify it for everyone.

Well sure I can try. 

First you do like you would with for example the newgan guide that gives all the newgens faces with that pack. You do that to completion and check so it has replaced the new gens with new faces. You will still have the black faces by this point. Followed this guide : https://beta.fm-base.co.uk/articles/sagkrzealand-facepack

Now you follow what 1Amazing Player put : 

"When you have got that to work:

• when using Newgan the program makes a Config.xml file. This is the file that describes the graphic of the newgan faces. This is the file you want to use.
• Make a backup of that one, and keep it in the same directory.
• The same with worldv2.txt: keep a backup in the same directory."
  
  The config.xml will be in the Faces folder of the newgen facepack, the folder you selected in newgan when generating faces. I paste the text from worldv2.txt into that and reload skin thing in fm24 and it works.
  
  It seems very importan to install Cut Out Player Face Megapack (2024.08): https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/style/1/cut-out-player-faces in the correct folder for it to work :

Can you make a video showing it on Macbook? It seems a lot tricky

Hey!

I have almost got it to work I still get some black silhouettes, at the same time some of the players get a Newgen picture.

I have got the Newgen facepack to work. But when I copy paste worldv3.txt I still won’t work.

Tried starting from scratch, clearing cash, reloading the skin, but when I insert the Worldv3.txt either nothing happens or some players get a new face. 

Is there supposed to be a torrent download for all the faces, because I don't see it on the page and found older posts mentioning it's somewhere at the bottom. I can't see it and downloading the facepack through a million of direct mirrors is hell.

EDIT: I was looking for it for hours. And just hittin CtrlF and searching for torrent instantly showed the torrent link. I feel stupid, please shame me and ignore this comment.

Thanks for this. I've just done it with the latest Cut Out Player Face Megapack and the new Newgan tool FM.Z Tool and it all worked a treat. All players have faces!