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#570636 Cut-Out Faces Megapack TECHNICAL SUPPORT thread - please read first post before posting

dvdvdv

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13 Nov 2020 14:42:55

By mons On 13 November 2020 - 13:42 PM UTC

In your first post you said 'no faces', now you're saying that you 'see many faces'. Am I right in assuming that it's all now working fine?

As the author of the real name fix, I can 100% guarantee it fixes, amongst other things, the issue with French players (and I believe Dutch too) not having their face displayed when viewed from the national team page but seeing them from their club page, if installed correctly, naturally 😉

Yes, I was playing an international campaign and didn't see any faces through the squad view (still don't... probably because of the licensing fix)... so I assumed the face pack was not working.
then I started another "regular" club campaign and noticed plenty of faces including ones that were missing from the international campaign. i will update about the licensing fix later today (can't play right now) in case of sombody else face the same issue

#570614 Cut-Out Faces Megapack TECHNICAL SUPPORT thread - please read first post before posting

dvdvdv

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13 Nov 2020 13:22:21

By mons On 13 November 2020 - 07:59 AM UTC

I believe Ligue 1 is another licensed league so that's what might be giving you the false impression that the graphics you have downloaded are working correctly which may not necessarily be the case since it's just the SI licensed graphics which are actually showing.

As per the Mbappe face not showing in the national team, that's a licensing issue and can be overcome by installing this file. Remember to re-install it whenever a new official SI update is released as each official patch which recreate the issue resolved when installing this fix.

So, in short, if you want to get your downloaded graphics to display if they're not in the default place (i.e. Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2021 > graphics), then you probably do need to undertake the steps in your previous post to change the user data folder. The method works perfectly fine and I use it on my system too.

Don't know what I can say really 😢 Yesterday I downloaded the 35GB background pack and managed to successfully resume the download in the couple of instances it was interrupted, so the method does work, even for files twice the size. Try downloading in incognito mode, in case there's an extension in your browser which stops you from resuming your downloads.

Thank you mons for your replies, however, my graphic folders work fine and always did since FM2017 without tweaking the save folder path in the steam.
just to double-check I popped out the logo folder from the graphics folder reloaded the skin, and Spanish 1 division logos are gone (attachment7) pop it in again reload the skin and they appear again (attachment8).
also, games save in the correct drive\folder (attachment8).

I think the face pack works fine as well since I see many faces when looking at them from their respective clubs. I think you are correct assuming it as to do with the "licensing-and-real-name-fix" which I didn't do yet.

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#570476 Cut-Out Faces Megapack TECHNICAL SUPPORT thread - please read first post before posting

dvdvdv

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12 Nov 2020 23:40:26

By mons On 12 November 2020 - 22:50 PM UTC

You probably do need to change the user data folder as outlined in your penultimate paragraph. though.

When you say graphics working just fine, can you give a few examples, maybe with screenshots? All English teams from the Championship down have real logos and player faces by default with the game so that might give you the false impression that graphics are working correctly which may not necessarily be the case.

In terms of step 7, it's not really necessary. The game will read the files as long as they're anywhere within the graphics folder.

Finally, do you have a file named config.xml within the faces folder?

I guess it's a problem with the game.
In attachment4 you can see that the logos from the graphics folder work fine.
I'm doing an international management save (France) for the beta. When I look at my players through the squad view non of my world-class players have faces(attacment5).
but when I look at them from their respective club (ex. paris sg -> players -> Mbappe) faces show up (attachment6)

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#570442 Cut-Out Faces Megapack TECHNICAL SUPPORT thread - please read first post before posting

dvdvdv

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2 years ago

12 Nov 2020 22:35:22

Hey all,
Never had a problem with faces, kits or logos before, but I just can't get the megapack to work.
Here is what I've done so far:
1. downloaded the megapack via torrent
2. created a players folder inside the graphic folder
3. extracted the sortitoutsi folder inside the players folder (attachment1)
4. unticked "Use caching to decrease page loading time" (attachment2)
5. ticked "reload skin when confirming changes in preferences"
6. restarted the game just in case

no faces to be seen.

So I read the instructions within the rar and noticed:
> My Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 20xx > graphics > sortitoutsi > faces (no players folder)

7. took out the sourtitout from the players folder and put it directly within the graphics folder (attacment3)
8. reloaded the skin (no unticking/ticking since I've already done it in step (4-5)
9. restart the game just in case

no faces to be seen.

notice that my documents folder is on my "D" drive but i've got logos in the same graphics folder working just fine, and the game saves files in the correct document folder so I'm hesitating on following those steps

any suggestion on what I'm doing wrong?

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