weeniehutjr - Comments

Just FYI, if you have multiple images to upload in a short timeframe, please use the Upload Multiple/Upload Pack function - it makes it a lot easier for the Cutout Megapack's curator (mons) to collect the images, and you can also upload more images at once (50 instead of 6)

Looking at the FM24 Database I think you're correct that they do appear to be duplicates (same birthdate and full name in the FM24 database), however the player's club Africa Foot actually has two players named Ibrahim Diarra in real life so there's a small possibility it's just confusingly similar data profiles for what's supposed to be two different players (which has happened before as researchers get things mixed up).

One is Ibrahim Diarra nicknamed “Forlan”, the other is Ibrahim Diarra nicknamed “Kaka” who is the one in the media recently for the Mali U17 national team and being linked with signing for Barcelona.

fyi @mons 

Just to be clear, should this source be moved to Aleks Ristić's page?

Additionally, if you upload a wrong image or notice a mistake in the megapack in the future, please tag @mons in your comment, as otherwise it's possible it can get missed unintentionally

Which Rodrigo Herrera does this cutout belong to instead?

If you notice a mistake in the future, please tag @mons so that your comment doesn't get accidentally missed 👍

@Michael Nordin Unfortunately the cutout you uploaded is quite pixellated - I found a better quality source 👍

First off, Leo Messi already has a UID in the game, so you're posting this in the wrong place entirely (this thread is only for posting completed cutouts for players/staff who AREN'T in the default database, such as Lamine Yamal before the release of FM24). Plus, the thread title even says “NO REQUESTS”.

Secondly, if you want to upload source images to request cutouts, you should do so here on the Cutout Megapack section of the site (I've linked Messi's page there). However, he already has a recent, high quality cutout from a few months ago (along with several other recent, high quality cutouts) including a 250px cutout made from the very same source image you just posted.

Fixed 👍

There's some snow on these cutouts as well: (fyi @mons so they aren't accidentally added to the megapack before he realises)
https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/submissions/show/3079065
https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/submissions/show/3079076
https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/submissions/show/3079098

But good work aside from that 👍

@muserock2a Do you still have the source image for this cutout? It looks like remove.bg has removed part of his right ear because it was overexposed.

@chinoracing The same applies here as in my other comment - and you've also left too much space above the head. We want the player's face to fill the canvas for the 250px cutout, which would mean cropping the image along these red lines:

@chinoracing A cutout made from this source image is already in the Megapack.

Additonally, your cutout includes way too much neck, and doesn't include a collar. We ask that all cutout images are cropped to a few pixels below the player's chin (like the current Megapack cutout), and if necessary that the collar is manually moved upwards. These videos show how to do this:

 

@Matias_77 In this case, and perhaps also for the other players you submitted requests for, I found a larger source image on SoRareBase (image link). Larger source images mean that the final cutout will be of higher quality, especially compared to the source images from UEFA's website which often have the player's face smaller than the 250px we need for high quality cutouts.

It seems there was an issue with the cutout being uploaded twice in the latest Megapack (one with the filename “2000254793.png” and one with “2000254793 (1).png”). I'd recommend reporting the issue in this thread 👍

@Adasko612 The images you submitted here are far too small to be useable - to create a good quality 250px cutout, which most of the players in the pack already have, the person's face must be that size or larger in the source image. In your pack, the faces are only about 90 pixels tall, which is half the size required for even a 180px cutout. Scaling them up to fit the cutout faces megapack size would make them incredibly blurry/pixellated, which isn't what we want.

@tv_capper Not criticising the quality of your cutout. but the source image (from Rennie's linkedin) looks a bit washed out and compressed - I've uploaded an edited version from the original photo that I've brightened and that's more saturated, and might make for a better cutout. 

They're just different styles, essentially. “SS” was the first major kit styles to come about, some years before the game had anything similar. Then “FC12” followed a few years afterwards. The “Standard” kitpack just looks to recreate the in-game licensed kits as faithfully as possible.

Puma 728 with the collar from 723

They changed the club colours for this season
"The city side will be sporting a brand new kit in 2023-24 with the traditional blue colours ditched in favour of an orange and black home shirt with black shorts & socks.

The away shirt for next season will be yellow and blue with dark blue shorts & socks."

I think that's because of the “Detail Level” in-game - to speed up processing time, by default most leagues except your own are set to “None” which means those matches don't use the Full Match Engine, but a “Quick” Match Engine and cannot be viewed. This video shows how to change the Detail Level:

Atlético B (Atlético Madrid's B team) are misspelled "AtlÚtico B" in the FM24 db

edit: similar typos in the names of other Spanish clubs
https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-2024/competition/67/spanish-first-division
https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-2024/competition/68/spanish-second-division
https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-2024/competition/2000048844/spanish-federation-first-division-a

https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-2024/competition/2000048846/spanish-federation-first-division-b

In your preferences search for “Match scheduling options”, do you have it set to “Saturday and Wednesday matches”?

I can't makle out what the second word says unfortunately (possibly ending in -sése?), but the rest is:

“Région ???”
“Courage et Humilité”

It's from an illustration by Sergio Salma from his book “Pays Noir” depicting a coal miner in front of the Bois du Cazier

You can see the illustration it was taken from here: http://www.bdzoom.com/180540/lart-de/%C2%AB-pays-noir-%C2%BB-quand-sergio-salma-retourne-au-charbon/

fyi @Footygamer 

When I've tried it just redirects me back to that page

fyi @mons 

I've moved HRiddick's cutout over to Costelloe's timeline, it's better quality than the current MP cutout of Costelloe as well.

1. and 2. Bundesliga and 3. Liga kits have been made by JRs FM Kits

Please request retro kits here: https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/alternatives/topic/retro-kits

Did you use an AI image enlarger for your second cutout? The details in the hair and beard, and around the eyes as well, seem to have been smoothened. We prefer not to use AI image enlargers because they just just “guess” what certain pixels should look like when you make the image larger, and the result looks blurry/out of focus on certain details, with unrealistically smoothened skin, and unnatural looking hair/beard/eye/teeth details.