JimmysTheBestCop - Comments

lock fm fps to 6o or 30. your gpu is probably too powerful

get the installer from the patreon

that would be super amazing. you are doing gods work pal

Possible to change Nation Team stadium? I keep trying but failing. It looks like it should work but doesnt.

thanks for any help or just to tell me not possible

The Staff pack is not sorted and separated like the NewGen pack that is why you cannot run the NewGan app on it. 

You would either have to go and sort all of the staff phots properly based upon the original Zealand newgen folder so the python app can detect it.

or you have to create the config.xml for staff manually and manually assign the uid to the photos.

I chose to use excel to help me assign random staff photos to staff members. It is completely random so you can get a White face for an Asian as an example. But I am good with that. Anything to avoid seeing the awful Generated FM photos.

I dont understand how each version the generated faces get worst. Fm24 was a disgrace with people looking like that got dirt or poop on their faces. Like SI should be embarrassed it was so awful.

So I made a semi automatic solution to have Staff members get a face. It does not compensate race, ethnicity, nationality, hair, or gender into the equation. I just export ALL STAFF uid and name to RTF basically like newgan but with only 2 columns. I then created an Excel sheet to automate the process of assigning a random Staff Pic to the UID of newgen staff.

I first had to use a bulk rename utility to set all of the pics to Numbers. I then decided to manually delete all Female staff pics since newgen female staff does not happen often enough and there is no way to suck out gender from FM that I know of. So the pack started with like 1160 pictures and ended up with 985 pics.

The excel file basically generates the bulk of the config.xml file. I could have further automated it but I just copy and paste from excel to the config.xml.

I am perfectly fine with losing nationality sorting because the newgen staff pics are piss poor and have gone down in quality each version.

If anyone wants anything I used to do my staff I can upload or help you recreate. Works great for me.

The problem is the Staff pack isnt sorted into the correct categories. If it was then you can use NewGan manger on it. Right now you could have 2 copies of the rocknrolla player newgan images and use 1 for staff and 1 for players. Two separate folders with 2 separate config.xml files.

If the staff images were categorized like the players image folders it would work perfectly. Iv tested it with 2 copies of the player images and just used 1 for staff. just use the staff view from the NewGan installer zip .

Figured someone might find this useful

Ok I repacked RockNRolla newgen image pack into a single master folder labeled 01-36,512 in a completely random order to mix up the faces. Then I created a master config.xml that will just assign a image to any fictional uid in order 01-36,512 repeated for like a million lines. This is an automatic drag n drop mod. Just unzip it in your grpahics folder remove any other newgen image pack you were messing with. This is a 1 time thing. You never have to do it again. Just players nationalities or races wont match. But there is NO tinkering around

Downsides:

1. Well it doesnt take into consideration nationality or race in match engine; this is just random numeric assignment 1 time only
2. it changes all fictional uid. meaning players, staff, press, your club assistant or press officer i think even board members. basically whoever has a fictional uis automatically gets an image now.

Here is the link

https://www.mediafire.com/file/gqypdasj6ix5bk5/repack_rocknrolla_newgens_automatic.zip/file

just unzip it in your graphics folder. reload skin no cache. ya know the usual mod steps

i only verified it i fm23 im pretty sure it should work in fm24 as well. since it is a million uid.

It certainly has always be a pain in the nuts that is just how the game is designed. And the keyboard commands are laggy as hell cause the game engine cant handle highlighting 40k-200k players at 1 time. You got to be super patient especially show if you have a potato cpu lol.

I had 140k newgens in my fm23 save where i played until like 2050s. So yeah ctrl a and ctrl p is a pain in the ass and my processor is 13th gen i7.

But come to think of it I was using the original Zealand AI face pack sine this one wasnt out at the time. So technically it could be a problem with the pack.

If i remember correctly the program/app is not actually freezing it actually has an error but it doesnt show us this was later fixed in 1.3.1 but it had its own bugs lol

And what would happen is the program can hit 1 bad pic or 1 bad nation combination of a player it could handle and the program errors out just 1.2.1 didnt display the errors and didnt handle the progress bar properly.

as a test you could download the zealand face pack and see if that works long terms. There is a lot more faces like 150k+ just the faces are nearly 9gb. while this pack is only 3gb.

The pack itself is the only thing i can think of. as i did not use it long term. i only used the zealand pack long term and that was in both fm22 and fm23 and preserve always worked fine until 1.3.1

Cut Outs are for Real Players this is “CUT OUTS” for NEW GENS aka fictional generated players that come during youth intake.

it is an SI database problem not a mod problem though. So anything would just be work around until Si stops the bugs from happening

It is sort of easy but extremely  tedious. Guess easiest way is to you need excel and a program called bukrenamer

1st you need all image in 1 directory

2nd you use bulkrenamer in random mode to rename all the images from 1 to whatever. this will jumble the pics so its not named per nation order

3rd you would need to know what uid newgens start with in fm 24 and estimate where you want to stop probably like 500k  or 1 million uid

4th you could use excel to create a master xml file that just adds +1 to the image name and +1 to the uid and start over from 1 when you hit the last image

This is an example of the config file i used in fm21 and fm22 before NewGan had its bugs worked out. it does not work in fm23 or fm24 because the uid numbers are different, i never looked up the newgen uid in fm24 as of yet

<record from="1" to="graphics/pictures/person/2000000000/portrait"/>
<record from="2" to="graphics/pictures/person/2000000001/portrait"/>
<record from="3" to="graphics/pictures/person/2000000002/portrait"/>
<record from="4" to="graphics/pictures/person/2000000003/portrait"/>
<record from="5" to="graphics/pictures/person/2000000004/portrait"/>
<record from="6" to="graphics/pictures/person/2000000005/portrait"/>
<record from="7" to="graphics/pictures/person/2000000006/portrait"/>
<record from="8" to="graphics/pictures/person/2000000007/portrait"/>
<record from="9" to="graphics/pictures/person/2000000008/portrait"/>
<record from="10" to="graphics/pictures/person/2000000009/portrait"/>
<record from="11" to="graphics/pictures/person/2000000010/portrait"/>
<record from="12" to="graphics/pictures/person/2000000011/portrait"/>
<record from="13" to="graphics/pictures/person/2000000012/portrait"/>
<record from="14" to="graphics/pictures/person/2000000013/portrait"/>
<record from="15" to="graphics/pictures/person/2000000014/portrait"/>
<record from="16" to="graphics/pictures/person/2000000015/portrait"/>
<record from="17" to="graphics/pictures/person/2000000016/portrait"/>

In Fm23 I believe the uid started with 2002000000 and went to something like 2002500000

So yeah the config file is like 500,000 to 1,000,000 lines long.

Once that is done it will just assign whatever random face that is connected to the UID in the config file automatically. No running a separate program and exporting stuff every season. But its DUMB XML. So no matching nationalities or multi-nationalities up to specific faces and it wont MATCH the match engine 3d model. 

Technically all of this is pretty easy its just a pain the balls lol

No idea why other communities even link to 1.3.1. It never worked correctly from when it was released. 

If you read the history of it on the Zealand forum post it's just problem after problem and people saying go back to 1.2.1 

I think Zealand dropped it. And Maradonna has been completely MIA from all things FM. He use to be on here back in day. 

Now everyone is making AI packs for an app no one is developing anymore with the last version completely broken. Doesn't make sense. 

The other thing that can be done is just not care about matching nationality to face. You can create a config.xml that just assigns a random AI pic to a random newgen id. And it works for every save and you never have to do anything. 

You just lose faces matching nationality. But honestly it is a lot less freakin headache. And it's just drag n drop like the all other graphical packs. 

And even if nationality wrong it's still 100x better then awful SI newgen faces. I mean that is just embarrassing game development. 

if 1.3.1 doesnt work try 1.2.1

1.3.1 of Gan Manager is too buggy and broken. And the creator has gone MIA and its already 2 years old with no chance of it being updated. so kind of sucks everyone is making new AI faces using a mod from 2 years ago that is DEAD

did you delete your app data folder?

delete this entire tree

C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\NewGAN-Manager\

Right click run as administrator 

This is the developers original github page, he use to be contributor here but havent seen or heard of him in like 2 years basically

https://github.com/Maradonna90/NewGAN-Manager

NewGan 1.3.1 is severely bugged for long term saves it will stop working. You can read all about it on the original Zealand forums about 1.3.1 stopping to assign names after like 5 seasons. I highly recommend switching to NewGan 1.2.1 for long term saves.

Technically you can also use Ultra Realistic Newgan Faces Megapack for staff as well. Just use the staff search feature and the staff view to export the RTF.

what you want to then do is copy and paste the data from the staff config.xml over to the end of your player config.xml. First you just rename the player config.xml to like config.old Run through NewGan for staff it will generate a new config.xml you copy that info and paste it in the config.old. Then delete the config.xml and rename config.old to config.xml

sure the staff is a lot younger looking but anything is better then Default FM NewGen Faces.

technically RockNRolla does have a staff pack but it isnt sorted in the folders that NeWGAN looks for. so if we sort that pack we would have better looking staff photos and we could keep 2 config files separate 1 for players and 1 for staff

This version 1.3.1 is kinda bugged for long term saves the more times you have to “preserve” eventually it will stop assigning new faces to the new youth. Only way to get around it is trashing the config file and starting fresh which loses the preservation feature.

In my long term Fm23 save Hungary in the 2050's I eventually had to down grade to version 1.2.x and I never had any problems again. There was a release 1.3.0 between 1.3.1 and 1.2.1 but I never tried it. There are a lot of posts about preserve and new youth not working in 1.3.1 if you look at the various FM sites and reddit.

Here is the original github page You might think about including all 3 versions.

https://github.com/Maradonna90/NewGAN-Manager/releases

I forget the exact number of seasons but eventually 1.3.1 breaks.

Man this pack would be legendary if it was still sorted by nation like the FM22 pack. It is too much of a pain if you want to custom/fantasy kits for the country you are in for future seasons.

before in fm22 pack you could just replace whatever was in the country folder as each nation folder had its own config file. IF you were say going to take a dump from KitBasher it was just drag and drop. now you would have to go into the 2024 config and remove every line for your nation. 

its a great pack not trying to sound ungrateful not sure why the format was changed from fm22 it was far superior.

Curious does this help build a nation type saves? 

If you have kits in 3d you can convert between the three 2d styles

https://fmkitcreator.com/tools/minikit-generator/

Just install KitBasher and make as many kits as you want. Takes a couple minutes to do an entire league. 

Can anyone help out with an alt logo for ZTE/Zalaegerszegi TE preferably round.

Here are some ideas for inspiration. Their logos just seem old and outdated need to be freshed up and think it would be cool in metallic

Working on a fantasy Germany Tier 1-3. Here is some of the Bundesliga wit German sponsors. If there is any interest I can upload the finished pack when ready.

Dortmund

Bayern

Leipzig

Wolfsburg

Oh sorry forgot to convert to SS you mean like this???

i added a reverse version of the home kit, just in case. here are some ideas for 3rd white kits i had some fun. think i like the 2nd best

old style? do you have a link/pic? Third kit you want white primary and green secondary?

FM22 format was better broken down by country. It is easier to replace Kits for leagues/nations you want to replace. I'm just going to stick with the fm22 pack. I like to have all my kits sorted by nation/league. 

But great work and thanks

Yeah I get that. But I am saying if users are complaining about time for official kits then the alternative is load up Kit Basher and do it yourself.  Sure I guess its a so called “fantasy” kit. But its 100 times better then complaining about modders and the modding the community, right?

as soon as you play 2 years it is fantasy though.