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#103887 Any other matters - related to Cut Outs but not to any particular thread
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The problem I see with your suggestion is how do you (or anyone else) decide what is an 'easy' pack to cut? I know very little about cutting but I know that not all 'plain background' photoshoots will be easy to cut. An example pic let's the potential cutter decide if they want to cut the pack without having to download it first.
#103743 Official Teampack Request Thread - Read the OP before requesting
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Here's that Real Madrid request.

Real Madrid 2013-2014. Example pic.
24 players & 2 staff.
#103679 Official Teampack Request Thread - Read the OP before requesting
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Blimey those Hungarian teams pics are a lot better than when I last checked. Very good work ArturM

Just a quick heads-up (in case anyone is tempted to cut the uefa.com pics) that I'll be posting a HQ request pack for Real Madrid later today. It'll also include a couple of pics not on the uefa site.
#103658 Megapack - Missing image request thread
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Player Name: Manoel

Player ID: 19196067

Link: Link to picture

Existing Images: Search results for: 19196067


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Originally wrongly posted by Gyver in the improvement thread.


Here is the full size version of that pic. It's not the best quality photo ever but I think it'll still make a better cut-out than the smaller version.

http://s.glbimg.com/es/ge/f/original/2013/08/09/dsc02234.jpg
#103351 Official Teampack Request Thread - Read the OP before requesting
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It's not but I'll (kind of) answer your question.

If you go on the websites of nearly all the English league teams there are squad photos in a similar tiny size. There is no way of getting bigger pics from these websites.

If anyone could get access to useable sized pics for teams like Everton it'd probably be me (that's not boasting just a matter of fact).

I've been posting request packs for English league teams for the past 4 seasons & so far I've never found a single decent sized set of photoshoot pics for Everton.

The same applies for most of the other premiership teams & a lot of the other English League teams.
#103208 Official Teampack Request Thread - Read the OP before requesting
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Request for an English non league team.

Chippenham Town 2013-2014. Example pic 1. Example pic 2.
15 players & 4 staff.
12 currently without a cut-out.
#103206 Cut-Out Faces Megapack TECHNICAL SUPPORT thread - please read first post before posting
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If you have the main megapack 5.0 set up with the cut-outs & config file in it then all you need to do (starting with update 5.1 & finishing with 5.9) is move the cut-outs & config file from each update folder into the megapack 5.0 folder. Don't copy the update folders into the megapack just their contents.

When you have added all 9 updates (in numerical order) you should have slightly more than 131,500 images & one config file in your 5.0 megapack folder.

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#103053 Facepacks Release thread - NO REQUESTS
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They won't be in FM2013 with the correct IDs as SI have not included them in the game. They will be in FM2014 with the correct IDs.
#103051 Cut-Out Faces Megapack TECHNICAL SUPPORT thread - please read first post before posting
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You should have a faces folder inside the graphics one then add all the cut-out faces & the config.xml file into that
#102735 Official Teampack Request Thread - Read the OP before requesting
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Request for the reserve & youth team squads of a lower league Scottish team. Small team big pics.

Rangers FC Reserve & Youth Squads 2013-2014. Example pic.
23 players & 3 staff.
10 currently without a cut-out.
#102323 Official Teampack Request Thread - Read the OP before requesting
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#102315 Official Teampack Request Thread - Read the OP before requesting
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Request for a Belgium Second Division team.

KSK Heist 2013-2014. Example pic.
12 players & 2 staff.
3 currently without a cut-out.
1 player is not in FM2013 but should be in FM2014.
#102314 Official Teampack Request Thread - Read the OP before requesting
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please facepack Real Madrid 13-14! thanks


Please ask Real Madrid to have a photoshoot of all their players. Otherwise it will be a very small facepack with just one player in it.
#102203 Home thread for the FM24 Cut-Out Megapack - 2024.07 OUT NOW [15/04/2024]
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It's no surprise really that Mons makes the occasional 'mistake' with checking cut-outs. It's a very time consuming task & too much for one person to do really. What would help is for people to stop making (& cutting) 'non improvement' improvement requests.
#102183 Megapack - Improvement Image request thread - NEW RULES IN OP
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Player Name: Memphis Depay
Player ID: 37024470
Link: Link to picture
Existing Images: Search results for: 37024470

http://i43.tinypic.com/2pyynx4.png

Player Name: Karim Rekik
Player ID: 28068818
Link: Link to picture
Existing Images: Search results for: 28068818

http://i42.tinypic.com/33tjhfn.png

Better?


No there is too much shoulder in 'your' cut-outs. Strangely these identical pics also have too much shoulder.
Not my cut-out 1
Not my cut-out 2.

I look forward to seeing more of 'your' work.
#101978 Megapack - Improvement Image request thread - NEW RULES IN OP
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I've almost done over 100 improvements in the dutch Eredivisie, and make more later it this weekend.
The Belgium Pro League also got (good quality) and 13/14 images(512x512). England, Spain, Italy and Germany don't got good size pics (112x112)
I was celebrating to early.. Only checked Holland/Belgium and the top countries above. So there could be more!


I'm still not seeing many 'improvements' to be honest, newer doesn't automatically mean better (or even as good). When you say you've 'done' over 100 improvements I assume you're not just resizing the pics to 180x180 size? Virtually all the pics have way too much shoulders showing to make improvements. The pics will need cropping first then resizing to 180x180, & some of the pics look like they could do with a bit of a 'clean-up' as well.
#101965 Any other matters - related to Cut Outs but not to any particular thread
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Benno Schmitz (91126210) has a wrong Cut-Out.
The Cut-Out shows Rico Strieder(91105556).

I requested a good pic for Benno Schmitz.


Good spot. The incorrect cut-out was done last month. I'll edit your request to make sure people realise it's a different person.
#101921 Official Teampack Request Thread - Read the OP before requesting
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Request for a Scottish Premier League team.

Motherwell FC 2013-2014. Example pic.
26 players & 6 staff.
6 currently without a cut-out.
#101910 Megapack - Improvement Image request thread - NEW RULES IN OP
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Just found this.
http://www.futhead.com/14/leagues/holland-eredivisie/
and you can also just sort by team or club!

When you click right to see the image there images are already cutted and 13/14 (new)
The only thing what needs to be done is save the images and give the players the FM ID's.

Don't know where I can post this. But there are a lot of improvements who can be found in a sec on the website!


wessel I've randomly checked about 20 teams & all of the pics are from last season or older. I've not noticed any obvious improvements so far & the quality of a lot of the cut-outs aren't especially good either. I'll do a thorough check of the website over the weekend though.
#101739 Megapack - Missing image request thread
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How did you get the pic this size?


Check the image URL & you'll see that all I did was remove the end part of the original (smaller) version of the pic. FYI I only found twp players pics at that site & the other one definitely wasn't an improvement.
#101738 Official Teampack Request Thread - Read the OP before requesting
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Ok I see. I have changed both which had 40 images and reduced the number to 20.

I'll write how many are "new" when I have the time to check that up, but I focused only on players without a cut-out. So some packs are all "new" players and some with maximum 2-3 that already has a cut-out. So in total more than 90% of all the images in total across all the packs are new players.


That's great, and now everyone else knows that most of the pics are 'new' hopefully someone will cut them.
#101721 Official Teampack Request Thread - Read the OP before requesting
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Request for a mixpack

Swedish Mixpack # 6 . Example Pic

40 Images. 39 Players & 1 Staff


I think it's unlikely that anyone will cut mixpacks with 40 pics in. You might be better doing more packs and put about 20 pics in each pack. Additionally I'd suggest mentioning how many pics in each pack are currently without a cut-out. Someone is more likely to cut a request pack (particularly a mixpack) if they know the pack has a lot of 'new' pics.
#101720 Official Teampack Request Thread - Read the OP before requesting
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Request for Schalke 04
Example Pic.

25 players


Is it possible to make pictures less shining?


Frohus I don't think it's possible to make those pics 'less shiny' enough to make them worth cutting. The current cut-outs for this team are good & those almost certainly won't make as good cut-outs.
#101695 Megapack - Improvement Image request thread - NEW RULES IN OP
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Many thanks for that BlindEskimo.
#101689 Megapack - Improvement Image request thread - NEW RULES IN OP
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I d'dnt even know there was a team request, I just got these pics myself. (this is relating to the Truro City images)


Fair enough. Bit baffled why you didn't cut the other players or staff though. Anyway no problem I'll request them myself.
#101687 Megapack - Improvement Image request thread - NEW RULES IN OP
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FAO SancoSanchez I have removed most of your requests s they have either already been cut or are definitely not improvements on the current cut-outs.
#101499 Home thread for the FM24 Cut-Out Megapack - 2024.07 OUT NOW [15/04/2024]
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Can I request that the 6.0 pack takes no more than 25 seconds to download, otherwise this forum will be filled with first time posters moaning about how useless this site is.

On a slightly more serious note. It'd probably be a good idea to release 6.0 a day or two before the 'two week early' release of the game is made. Hopefully that'll give (some) people time to download the pack before the game is available & may cut down on the moaning.

Ideally this would be followed by a small 6.01 update pack two weeks later to coincide with the 'official' release date of the game.
#101401 Official Teampack Request Thread - Read the OP before requesting
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Blimey 5 'bad' requests on one page is that a record?

Request for an Austrian Regionaliga team.

Simmeringer SC 2013-2014. Example pic.
15 players & 1 staff.
13 currently without a cut-out.

I previously requested this team 3 seasons ago & no one from that request is still at the club now. It's amazing how quickly entire squads 'move on' nowdays.
#101392 Megapack - Missing image request thread
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Player Name: Yasuto Hoshiko

Player ID: 72022375

Link: Link to picture

Existing Images: Search results for: 72022375

Edit. Now cut by NiceLad, many thanks.
#101219 Image finder thread - assistance in finding a source image
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Hi! I remember that SSP were master on finding images in HQ. Mate I find some images of Gareth Bale on GettyImages, but as you know, they cost a lot.
So please tell me where can I find http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/gareth-bale-poses-during-his-official-presentation-as-a-new-news-photo/179358978
This photo for example, I would cut-out new Gareth face for MP and I want to do some wallpapers but I need this images on HQ (there must be somewhere).
Thanks


Sorry I can't help with the pic you are after. As Mons said he's already been cut for the megapack.