Hi i know this isn't the proper way to request but as with every year when the new game comes out there are faces that are in the game that are not in the mega pack, usually youth, or ones that have better quality faces than in the mega pack ie more recent pic. I notice these mostly with Peterborough and Luton, two teams I play as.

Is there a way to quickly add these faces from the game into the mega pack rather than someone having to re cut them all??

Sorry if this is a silly question.

For the new 7.0 release will players who have moved to clubs with game-included faces have their faces removed?
E.g. moves from EPL to championships, so the game's up to date default pic is better than the year old mega pack one?

I just moved my old megapack file across to FM 15 (currently downloading new one), and some players have gone back years in term of their pictures when they had good ones in default. (Of course megapack is better for thousands of other players)

I posted in the improvement thread, but my post was overlooked.Maybe it was the wrong thread..Anyhow i started a new save with the default si data.I done a scout for some players and some of the faces for players are for old faces when they should be 28 or 19 years old.does the database change old peoples id number to something else in more recent games.its annoying.please help or explain whats happened

This query is raised every time a new version of FM is released, both for FM13 and for FM14.

Once the Resource Archiver is released, we generally extract the SI images and automatically add those which are not in our megapack. iirc in the last versions there were around 2 or 3 thousand images released by SI, a large chunk of which will already have cutouts in the megapack.

As you may appreciate, manually comparing the bulk of those with the images in the MP takes a lot of time and is tremendously, mind-numbingly boring. Annually, only a relatively small amount are better than the existing MP images, while a good amount would be improvements if they were "cleaned" by our cutters. By cleaning, I mean fixing the poor cutting, snow, cropping and the adding of the occasional iris and ear (and I'm not even kidding).

In addition before doing all this, the files have to be renamed from player name to UID, e.g. John Smith's pic will have to be renamed as 123456. Although this task can be done with the graphics configurator program fmXML, a fair chunk of images every year are incorrectly mapped and so their UID has to be manually sought for in the editor. Again, this is a very tedious task.

As you may have noticed, the amount of cutters is not enormous and I don't blame them for not giving this task priority. But there's only so much I can do, unfortunately.

I only write this so that you, and anybody else asking, can understand why this is not as easy as it may look.

Generally speaking, if somebody points out individual images they think would be improvements, then I can give them a look. Whole teams or divisions is a different kettle of fish, however, although I can make an exception if a particular team's SI cut-outs are significantly better than ours.

Hope this helps

In addition to all the above, something to keep in mind is that, just because an image is newer, it is not automatically considered as an improvement. You have to take into consideration the lighting, face orientation, cutting quality etc. For example, the MP's image may have been cut from an HQ source a year ago, while SI's was poorly cut 2 months ago. In this case, I would tend to prefer to retain ours. After all, players can move clubs in-game, so it wouldn't make that big a difference if 2016/17 Scunthorpe's John Smith is showing the 2013/14 Bournemouth kit instead of the 2014/15 Bolton kit, for example.

Ideally, of course, every player's cut comes from an HQ source from this season, but our resources are not unlimited, unfortunately.

As above, if there's any particular SI cut-outs which you think should be included in the next megapack update, then feel free to get in touch

For players not in the Facepack, if we post a picture in the request thread, do they get added to the next megapack update? Or do we have to manually add the pictures that we want instead? Cheers for any help

If an image is cut by our cutting team and it is missing from our megapack, then it will be added to the next update pack. Improvement images are also added - so you can just wait and download update packs as they are released, roughly ever 4 weeks.

I have a folder with around 400 images still to compare, but I've extracted the Luton images and will try my hardest to have them included in the next update

Either you check using the pre-game editor or you tick the box in the in-game preferences which displays UID and you go the person's profile where it will be displayed near his name

In this new cut-out update pack is the latest version of the 14/15 Celtic faces in it? In the 7.0 mega pack it's all just last seasons? Thanks!