AFC Richmond - FM26 mod (in the Premier League)

Was wondering, is there a way to become Ted Lasso rather than having to become the new manager of richmond ? cause i can see hes in the game i just have no idea how to take control of him.

Open my file In the pre-game editor.  Delete out Ted Lasso, then when you load up a new game just create yourself as Ted Lasso, making the character on screen to look like him and that would be the best way I reckon. 

You are legit the goat!

Do they work with cut out face pack I have installed?

Where do I find the game file for this?

Please find enclosed my fantasy AFC Richmond FM26 (only) patch, where they have just been promoted into the Premier league. 

Sorry, are you referring to the players and staff?  Yes they will work, sometimes the player id number changes, dependant on other players games / datbase size they have loaded up.  What I suggest, is if a player face is missing, then show player id in-game and just copy that new number across to the respective player image, remembering to edit the config line with the same number.  Save game, shut down and the re-load it in, that is what needs to occur to clear the cache and ensure that new player faces are implemented into the game.

It is one of the attachments, top right.  It is an fmf file and will be placed into the editor data folder, which will follow a path something like this …..

C:\Users\xxxx\OneDrive\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 26\editor data

When you load up the pre-game editor, my fmf file should be viewable and then any changes can be made to it, but you may just have to re-save it as another name.

Where to upload my player faces they dont show up

I have slightly tweaked the home shirt, as I wanted to get the collar and back part right, and it looks better with player name on shirt in-game.  This can be downloaded from here, or just hit the last richmond zip file above.

This is my file path, and it is separate from the big players database of pictures that I have (circa 250K!).  

C:\Users\xxxx\OneDrive\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 26\graphics\richmond\faces

You will need to go to the preferences tab in game, and look through the various options and tick allow player id (I think it says for skinning).  If you are not sure how to do that, send me your saved game on a private message.  I can look up the players/staff faces and send you them back with the right i.d's. I may not get around to this until tomorrow morning though, as I have few things to do tonight.

New config file created for those who were having issues with the player/staff faces not showing up in-game.

As an addition:

• Launch Football Manager 26 and go to Preferences.
• Navigate to the Audio & Visual (or Interface) section.
• Ensure the option to "Display pictures of players (and staff) generated by the game" is ticked. This setting allows the game to look for custom graphics for players who don't have default real-life photos.

1. Restart the Game: Completely close Football Manager 26 (and Steam/Epic if necessary) and reload it for the changes to take effect.

There isn't a download link for the lastest updated file

Should be just click on the zip folder, or top right link labelled richmond.2.zip

In essence, the new player/staff faces config file has the added ‘r-’ prior to unique player code line, so it now reads ……….

<record from="2002042512" to="graphics/pictures/person/r-2002042512/portrait"/>
 

The ‘r-’ doesn't get added to the actual player/staff picture.

Stuart

n.b. does not need to be bold in text, just added for extra awareness.

Clicking on the link takes me to another page and not straight to download, however, the download link is now there thanks

I tried it last night, but the profile picture didn't show up. No matter how I tried to fix it, it still displayed a random person's picture, which ruined the sense of immersion. Do you have any solutions?

Are you talking about the manager picture? I think that was removed for FM26 by Sports Interactive and I hope it is something they bring back into the game.

no，bro，i mean the face of player

If you send me private message your game file, I will make sure face pack aligns with your player id's.  As I said, dependant what other databases have been loaded up, that can affect the newly generated player unique id no's.

While I was going through the comments, I realised I hadn't noticed the changes in their UID. I will go back and check whether there have been any changes. If there are changes, I know how to handle it. If there are no changes, I will send you the game files. Thank you for your reply.

Some of the players/staff photos don't match with the IDs, so I switched the file names but it still hasn't fixed it in game despite restarting several times.

Add an r- to the player line in config.  In essence, the new player/staff faces config file has the added ‘r-’ prior to unique player code line, so it now should read ……….

<record from="2002042512" to="graphics/pictures/person/r-2002042512/portrait"/>
 

The ‘r-’ doesn't get added to the actual player/staff picture.

Stuart

Already tried that, here's an example of one of the lines:

<record from="2002042517" to="graphics/pictures/person/r-2002042517/portrait"/>

So yeah, I dunno why it's not working for some of the players/staff :/ Maybe I'll just use fmXML to fix it. I'll update once I do.

Update: fmXML fixed the issue! All good now, thanks!

Ive managed to set everything up and all pictures are displayed but they are the wrong picture for the wrong person e.g Gareth canterbury has Rebeccas face

How did you manage this?

Phil, if you send me your save game file on a PM, I will sort out the player/staff faces for you.

Regards,

Stuart

my players' UID are different from the facespack's file names. how to make sure the UID match with the pictures?  

If you click on show player / staff id’s on preferences in game.  Notw down the number and manually change the config file to match the in-game numbers.  It should only be the last four digits to change on each one.  Save config file.  Close down game and re-load, that should solve the issue.