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#770723 Ultra Realistic NewGan Faces - AI Generated Facepack for Football Manager
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By Evil-Muffin7 03 January 2024 - 00:45 AM UTC 

You have to self assign each member of staff to your own config its not automatic using newgan manager.

 

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 .

#763234 Ultra Realistic NewGan Faces - AI Generated Facepack for Football Manager
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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.

#763230 Ultra Realistic NewGan Faces - AI Generated Facepack for Football Manager
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By Womaz 20 November 2023 - 10:03 AM UTC 

I asked above if anyone actually gets this idea to work on a consistent basis?

I know Jimmythecop above seems to but is there anyone else as I am running into one issue after another.

 

As Jimmy pointed out above Newgan 1.31 just freezes and wont work after a while. For me it was actually the second season. So after my second youth intake Followed the above instructions again and tried to use the Preserve feature. Tried this 3 or 4 times and it just froze.

 

So googled and yeah its a common issue, and the solution is to delete 1.31 and all of its files and install 1.21.

So I did this. First season the software worked a treat, all of the newgen faces worked. Big test would be after my second youth intake…..followed the same instructions and this time used the Preserve faces and it worked. Excellent, I thought i was on my way.

 

Third youth intake , followed exactly the same process and hit the Preseve faces and it froze. Again I have tried it a few times and all it does is freeze.

 

So I decided to try it on my newgens at my club as there are only 62 as I wanted to eliminate the fact that there may be too many newgens (34k) to replace. Same result…..it just froze. 

 

So I can use the generate faces no problem at all, the Preserve is fraught with issues. So every season I can use the tool to get faces in my game, but I jave to accept that my existing newgens will get a new face. I mean its still better than the cartoon character newgen faces in the game …..but it is a bit of a spoiler.

 

Also the CTRL + A select all feature is vert hit and miss, like it can take numerous attemots for it to actually select all of them. I am doing it right arent i? They are both pressed at the same time?

 

The trouble with these facepacks is they add so much to the game that I am not sure I can now revert to playing without them, so I would love to hear from people who are using them succesfully.

 

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

 

 

#763229 Ultra Realistic NewGan Faces - AI Generated Facepack for Football Manager
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By Adam_NUFC 20 November 2023 - 23:15 PM UTC 

Is this instead of the face cut out pictures? 

 

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

#762310 Cut-Out Faces Megapack TECHNICAL SUPPORT thread - please read first post before posting
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By Slashed_thighs 17 November 2023 - 05:09 AM UTC 

Some regens have been get real player faces, i checked the site and they where from people that where on previous games and have a clashing id with the newgen, is there a way to fix this besides removing the ids from the config file (which i've been doing and its really tedious). Thanks in advance.

 

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

#762297 Ultra Realistic NewGan Faces - AI Generated Facepack for Football Manager
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By Arnold Biggit 16 November 2023 - 13:48 PM UTC 

How do you create your own xml?

 

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

#762060 Ultra Realistic NewGan Faces - AI Generated Facepack for Football Manager
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By Ingo Mann Mendes 15 November 2023 - 23:15 PM UTC 

Tried 1.2.1 and it worked! Thanks for the tip.

 

If you're having trouble getting 100% of your players generated, try downloading the 1.2.1 version of NewGAN Manager from here: 

 

https://github.com/Maradonna90/NewGAN-Manager/releases/tag/v1.2.1

 

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. 

#761770 Ultra Realistic NewGan Faces - AI Generated Facepack for Football Manager
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By Ingo Mann Mendes 15 November 2023 - 00:52 AM UTC 

Hey folks, anyone having issues specifically with Spanish/Basque/Portuguese players? 

 

I have zero issues otherwise, but about 50% of spanish and portuguese regens don't get their faces loaded. I suspect it's a Newgan issue, not a facepack one, but just wondering if anyone has experienced this.

 

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

#761036 Ultra Realistic NewGan Faces - AI Generated Facepack for Football Manager
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By Womaz 12 November 2023 - 22:45 PM UTC 

That does not work either, after googling this it appears to be an issue for a lot of people

I had these amazing newgens in my game for one season….I need them back :-)

Thank you for your help

 

did you delete your app data folder?

 

delete this entire tree

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

#761031 Ultra Realistic NewGan Faces - AI Generated Facepack for Football Manager
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By Womaz 12 November 2023 - 20:58 PM UTC 

Thank you I downloaded it , however for some reason it wont open. its the same issue I had with v3

A bit of googl searchinh today lets me know I am not alone. I have no idea how to get it back operational again. Thanks though

 

This is why I ask on here has anyone used this sucessfuly season after season.

 

Right click run as administrator 

#760997 Ultra Realistic NewGan Faces - AI Generated Facepack for Football Manager
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By Womaz 12 November 2023 - 20:39 PM UTC 

Where can I find NEWGAN 1.2 as a google search did not help me.

 

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

#760656 Ultra Realistic NewGan Faces - AI Generated Facepack for Football Manager
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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

#757142 NewGan Faces Manager
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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.

#757134 sortitoutsi.net Standard Kits Megapack for FM2024
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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.

#756778 FM23 "Increase Realism"- Megapack FINAL OCTOBER Update by Daveincid
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Curious does this help build a nation type saves? 

#718963 SS' Fantasy Kits Request Thread (NO REAL KITS)
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By Jamie Lavin 13 December 2022 - 18:12 PM UTC 

Just out of curiousity, does anyone do FC'12 style requests?

I've been using that style for a while and would like some new Wigan Athletic kits but can't figure the templates out myself.

 

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

 

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

 

#718458 SS' Fantasy Kits Request Thread (NO REAL KITS)
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By Charo 10 December 2022 - 18:28 PM UTC 

Thanks a lot send when you are done🙂

 

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

#712498 💡 Alternative Metallic Logos Request Thread
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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

 

#712086 SS' Fantasy Kits Request Thread (NO REAL KITS)
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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

 

#711783 SS' Fantasy Kits Request Thread (NO REAL KITS)
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By Reaper9292 10 November 2022 - 10:20 AM UTC 

Hiya Both,

 

yea sorry SS style if that can be done? 

Appreciate your work both 🙂

 

cheers,

 

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

#711768 SS' Fantasy Kits Request Thread (NO REAL KITS)
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By Reaper9292 10 November 2022 - 09:47 AM UTC 

I love the design on that home and the away! I was hoping I could get them in the old style though as these don't fir into my current kit pack styles, if this was possible that would be amazing!

 

With the Third may I ask the kit be made White rather than black please?

 

Thanks 🙂

 

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

#711571 sortitoutsi.net Standard Kits Megapack for FM2023
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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

#710192 3D Kits Official Thread (NO REQUESTS)
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By wfm18 06 November 2022 - 14:32 PM UTC 

But we're not creating Fantasy kits over here, there is another thread related to that.

 

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?

 

 

#710184 3D Kits Official Thread (NO REQUESTS)
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By wfm18 06 November 2022 - 10:44 AM UTC 

Not in high quality - Kit basher is only useful for fantasy kits IMO. Let's try to collect PES kits.

 

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

#710084 3D Kits Official Thread (NO REQUESTS)
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By Tricolor de Coração! 05 November 2022 - 23:43 PM UTC 

Yep. Wholeheartedly agree! Which is why I haven't purchased those 2D and 3D kits. But what can we do @priority76 , but be super patient, super polite, and super grateful for all these Graphic Team members here on SortItOutSI.net, right!? 😁🤷‍♂️ And in some cases we must wait for over 7-8 months for just a few various 3D kits, but not a comprehensive, current zip-file of ALL the current teams/clubs and leagues. It does try anyone's patience.

 

Anyway, “hurry up and wait some more” seems to be the popular mantra. 😉

 

Just install Kit Basher and make all the 2d/3d kits you WANT in about 5 minutes. I literally refresh the kits for all leagues in the country i am playing ever year in game. It takes minutes. 

#577481 SAGKRZealand Facepack - Regen Face Generator
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For the preserve bug. A temp. fix was posted on FMbase until they are able to update the app. After you use the preserve option and the app finishes running, before you reload the skin, go to the config.xml file in the facepack's folder. Use replace all and replace ".png" with blank (leave the space empty). This will fix all the preserved faces. Now you can reload the skin and it should work.


Yeah I posted the fix on the Zealand boards and his discord. Both preserve and overwrite functions add ".png" to each record in the config.xml file. So if you use notepad++ and do a find/replace for .png with nothing in the replace field. Then save and close the file. Rest cache/skin in FM it'll work fine.
#575374 FM NewGAN Faces V1
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It's out
https://fm-base.co.uk/resources/sagkrzealand-facepack.1266/updates

yeah uses the python script we were all talking about but they did make it easier with a complete UI built for it so that is really damn cool.
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Thanks! Do you know which video it was?


It was 2 or 3 videos he mentions it. I think his last upload he said he'll have a video on the pack Tuesday morning est.
#573954 FM NewGAN Faces V1
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Zealand announced this pack is going launch on the day fm21 comes out of beta. It was in one of his youtube videos.
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Would it be possible to make this compatible with this script? If you could create a new batch of faces, we could make a collaborative effort to remove snow and sort by haircolor and skincolor

I already sorted @HRiddick's pack to the best of my abilities and I can confirm it's working with a custom set of images.

Here's the .zip for anyone interested:


If it's that python script that floats around then it should work fine. You would just have to sort the pics first into the folders.

I was going to use that script but I never wanted to sort all the faces. I just took the original upload of faces from post replicated to 14256 images and used a script to assign a random face to every single newgen forever.

It does get hair color and ethnicity wrong since the script I used doesn't count for that. I have python script just never wanted to sort the pics.

The python script def works though that's what all of the chilled moose followers use for those packs