blackmetalboon - Comments

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1. David Bentley - 5106765

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1. Yven Moyo - 85056664
2. Massadio Haïdara - 85078879

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1. Paulo Henrique Ribeiro da Silva - 19169352
2. Leleu - 19158803
3. Roger Luiz da Silva Teixeira Alves - 19158802
4. Bernard Anício Caldeira Duarte - 19152048
5. Luan Madson Gedeão de Paiva - 19081024

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1. Jemerson de Jesus Nascimento - 19190099

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1. Moussa Sissoko - 8448722
2. Mapou Yanga Mbiwa - 34000001

I think they're improvements, just a shame about their shoulders being so high up!

Hello, I had collected and cut most of Atletico Mineiro's squad but as I've only got FM 08 installed on my laptop at the moment I can't find out these players UID's to check to see if they're improvments/missing etc...and post them in the relevant threads.

Is anyone able to find them out for me?

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1. Roger Luiz da Silva Teixeira Alves 10-02-1992
2. Paulo Henrique Ribeiro da Silva 02-07-1993
3. Luan Madson Gedeão de Paiva 11-08-1990
4. Jemerson de Jesus Nascimento 24-08-1992
5. Bernard Anício Caldeira Duarte 08-09-1992
6. (Leleu) Claudionor Souza de Jesus 05-03-1993

Here is the link to Atletico Mineiro Squad Home Page if this helps.

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1. Player Name: Mamadou Bagayoko - Player ID: 12018162
2. Player Name: Seydouba Soumah - Player ID: 65002504

EDIT - I've posted this in the wrong thread, it should be in the Improvement thread!

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1. Dorival Júnior - 8830371

These source images are alot better that the ones requested, Dario Conca, Zheng Zhi & Zhang Linpeng have been cut from these sources already.

Thanks! Just thought I'd let you know that the image has been saved as a jpeg not png!

I have found some HD images for a few Guangzhou Evergrande players but am having difficulty identifying them, if anyone able to identify them?

Link to images (they're near the bottom).

Player Name: Zheng Zhi
Player ID: 5622363
Link: Link to picture
Existing Images: Search results for: 5622363

Done.

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1. Richarlyson - 317729
2. Pierre - 318118
3. Leo Silva - 3300564
4. Giovanni - 19003815
5. Leandro Donizete - 19008363
6. Lee - 19011670
7. Serginho Mineiro - 19014260
8. Marcos Luiz - 19014340
9. Michel Macedo - 19019226
10. Carlos Cesar - 19028495
11. Eron - 19046035
12. Nicao - 19047094
13. Neto Berola - 19097593

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1. Darío Leonardo Conca - 954501

Player Name: Darío Leonardo Conca
Player ID: 954501

Found a bigger source and have cut it (posted below).

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1. Iain Dowie - 2011540

I use Paint.Net, not GIMP so I won't be much help with it.

It may be worth checking out what "Plug-in's" are available for it as there may be an extration type tool available. The Plug-in that I use for Paint.Net allows you to turn a selected colour transparent, which is brilliant for getting rid of plain background, so might be worth looking for a tool which would do a simular thing.

It reasonably easy, the best way is to use faces from a team pack as they will usually have simular lighting/colouring and makes it blend them together.

Just use one face as you base image, then cut out eyes, noses, hair etc.. from other players and paste them on top of it (usually best to add them as another layer so that you can move them around easier).

To help blend the parts together I use a blur tool on the edges of each item I have cut out.

Finally just save it as a .png file.

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1. Alecsandro - 301702
2. Morais - 315167
3. Rosinei - 316596
4. Rever - 2110905
5. Guilherme - 2111973
6. Araújo - 3301276

I also forgot to mention that there is a "Huge" database size option, you have to download a panels.fmf file to be able to use it and I came across a working download link recently.

My current saved game is the one I mentioned a few post up (27 nations, "Large" database), this gives me around 85,000 players, 35,000 non-players and 12,000 teams.

While the same amount of nations loaded using the "Huge" database gives me around 130,000 players, 45,000 non-players and 13,000 teams.

It also gives you 114 playable national teams!!!

I don't think I've ever had the Japanese national team as playable even with "all players from Japan" loaded!

Also not having leagues "playable" seriously restricts the numbers of players available, even having leagues as "view only" limits this too. With just a top division playable from a nation you will have reserve and youth teams filled with players.

For example, with Brazilian top division "playable" you have full 1st team, reserve team and youth team squads but with "view only" you will only get the 1st team squad and maybe a few of their decent youth players moved into the 1st team squad. A "playable" league will populate clubs youth teams every year with Regens. You will find that "view only" reduces the number of Regens available which becomes a problem a few years down the line (which is why you had very few decent Regens whilst in charge of Hungary).

You had restricted yourself a bit with your initial database size and leagues you had selected, I've had simular problems with not being able to apply for national team jobs because of this.

What specs your PC/Laptop have? I only ask as I don't have the most powerfull laptop in the world (2.00 GHz, 3 GB RAM) but I'm able to play FM08 with a large database and 22 nations with top leagues playable, 4 nations (England, Spain, France & Germany) with all leagues playable and 1 nation (Italy) with the top 2 divisions playable. The only time I notice my laptop struggling are the when various seasons end and relegated/promoted teams are sorted and new Regens are created for the various countries. But you will be able to apply for most top nations around the world.

It might be worth loading players from a few other nations without playable leagues (depending on who you might like to manage) as nations like Egypt, North Korea etc.. won't let you apply for jobs.

Just been reading your FM08 career and I have wondered the same as I still play it.

I have seen no evidence that their coaching attributes effect much, as like you say, you can't implement training schedules at international level.

But, I try to sign backroom staff with good attributes in "judging players abitlity and potential ability" as you will get better more informed feed back when you send them on scouting assignments. The more backroom coaches you have the more competitions you will be able to cover, which comes in handy when you have players scattered throughout various leagues. I usually have a coach with high "potential ability" attributes watching the domestic U18/reserve competions for decent regens that hopefully will appear.

Having a decent member of staff scouting your next opposition is also very helpfull as it can be invaluable in helping you set your team out tactically against your opposition. For example if you have a lack of height/heading ability/jumping ability with your first choice defensive partnership and a report comes back that your playing Serbia who like to use Nikola Zigic's aerial ability, then it can be benificial to choose centre backs to compete with him aerially. Remember, your best 11 players may not be your strongest team!

Also don't be afraid to replace U21 & U18 managers as sometimes these guys can be useless. There have been times when I have had an abundance of quality youngsters in my U21/U18 squads but the team has seriously under performed. Check to see what formation the manager likes playing as well as their tactical knowledge and judging ability attributes, as I've had players not being played in their correct position and in some cases not even being selected.

I also try to sign decent physio's as I hope this will help avoid injuries during tournament football, although it is hard to find any actual evidence that this has an effect or not.

Hope this helps!

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1. Gilberto Silva - 3300764
2. Sidimar - 19069585

I had the same problem due to a Windows update (I'm using Vista) and people using newer versions also had this problem. Which version of Windows are you using?

Have a look at this THREAD for help with solving it.

The edges are very rough, there is snow around his hair and the lighting/colour is awful (which is why it is not an improvement and nobody wanted to cut it).

I'm using his cut from the 2010 World Cup squad (I'm surprised it never made it into the Megapack at any point!) but have changed his shirt and altered the contrast/brightness etc...

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1. Ronaldinho - 3301294