pvt.rylow#6089 - Comments

You can do it straight away, there are newgens from day 1, especially young players in smaller clubs or staff.

But for top 3-5 leagues you probably, as you say, can wait until your first youth intake as biggest clubs have so many young real players added to them, that the game doesnt need to generate anything at the begining.

Cheers, glad you enjoy it! 

You simply install it via the Updates section of the software, new pictures will be used automatically next time you do a scan. For existing saves you do a scan in Preserve mode - that will keep existing faces while using newer pictures for new assignments. 

If you want better faces for female staff you can activate that option on the Settings page, that will also make it active for your next scan.

Added support for FM23

Savefile reader version 2.1.0

Changelog:

• Ported saves: Added support for saves imported from FM24 into FM26.
• PA Filtering: Added an option to limit picture assignments to players who fulfill a minimum Potential Ability (PA) condition. This is currently only supported for players; staff members will always be assigned.
• Fallback Behavior: In rare cases where the PA cannot be read correctly (or where a staff member is mistakenly classified as a player), they will be assigned a PA of 200. This means you might see more 200 PA players than there actually are in your save.
• Bug Fix: Fixed another bug on the manual assignment page (cheers to Drogzar, you are a real gigachad!).

Womens Footbal Pack 3 has been released!

16 completely new categories across all continents, refresh of the spanish pack, and a total of almost 28,000 pictures! The Main Pack (both here and on my web) has been updated to include PP17 and WF3.

The savefile reader software has been updated to 2.0.8. Changelog:

• Fixed issues with the parsing of mappings configuration changes
• Fixed issues on the Mappings page
• Fixed further problems on the Manual Assignment page that made the software ignore the real/regen flag
• Added an option to use the Female Players pack instead of the Female Staff pack

Since the guide says “FM26/FM24 Windows, Mac and SteamDeck/Linux Instructions” you can assume it does

Would it be possible for you to send me your save to [email protected] via either google drive or wetransfer.com? I will check on my end

I hava published a small new picture pack with around 7500 new pictures for ArabGulf and WestBalkan

Hi, do you get any error messages or it just closes/crashes? You use memory reading or savefile reading? The best would be to connect with me on discord to tshoot

Hi, the problem is that migrated saves (24 into 26 and 23 into 24) are not supported with the savefile reader method. The only way for now here is to use the memory reader verison. If you are on windows you can get it here https://ngregens.org/fm26guide?lang=en

Hi, I suppose this is memory reader right? Could you please try with savefile scanner if it is better or worse? https://ngregens.org/fm26savereader_guide

Hi, please make sure you have unpacked the pictures into the FM picture folder. Also make sure your FM graphic settings are as in Step 11 of this guide https://ngregens.org/fm26savereader_guide

Hi, before FM27, but no exact timeframe yet. I have just move houses, so my hands are full of that atm. Im slowly getting back to the project, but it will take time.

Hi, there is one mirror here on this web and another one on my own web https://ngregens.org/fm26savereader_guide - do you have problems with both?

Hello, yes you need to activate it manually as FM26 only loads picture configurations at game start time and at that point in time you dont have your game loaded.

So with FM26 you have to manually activate the profile for the save that you intend to play before you start the game.

With FM24 it is enough to activate a profile and simply reload your skin, you do not need to restart the whole game.

Hi, it is definately a FM glitch. If you are on 2.0.7 there is now a Deactivate button on the profile screen. Try to deactivate your profile, start FM, exit FM, activate the profile, start FM and see if that helps.

Hello, save location is always the same, doesnt matter if you are on Steam, Epic or Gamepass. It is in Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 26/games/

Savereader software updated to 2.0.7:

• GUI improvements to the Profiles page. You can now deactivate your profile to clear all configuration files from the picture folder.
• Added a more user-friendly status screen for active profile swapping.
• Improvements to the FM24 scanner.
• Improvements to the FM26 scanner.
• Fixed the Manual Assignment page, which now properly saves mapping to the config file under all conditions.

Main Picture Pack updated to incluide Picture Pack 16

Yes, but only with the old 25 version of the software. It works on the shortlist export method, I should have old guides on my youtube channel.

You can get the software here http://download.ngregens.org/NG_Regens_Manager_25_Installer.exe

grab the current main pack: https://download.ngregens.org/NG_Regens_MainPack.zip

The old software wont be able to use all the new folders, so you can safely delete the Staff and WF folders if you want to save space. It also wont be able to work with Albania, Azerbaijan, Israel, NorthernSA and Tajikistan folders, but you could theoretically make them work via editing of the mapping file. Or you can delete them or move files to other folders how you see fit.

And I also recomend to check this page in about a weeks time, there will be a giant update coming with > 45k new pictures and the vast majority will also be usable with old software

If all graphics has disappeard that is definately on SI… You can try to wipe game cache and settings to try to make it reload everything: I have asked AI(so take it for what it is), you might try to wipe your settings file so it will revert everything (laguage, resolution, graphics etc) to default:

Game Settings & Preferences (Resolution, Language, etc.)
These are stored in the AppData folder, which is hidden by default.

Path: C:\Users[Your Name]\AppData\Local\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2026\Preferences

Quick Access: Press Win + R, paste the following, and hit Enter:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2026\Preferences

Inside this folder, you’ll find files like version.xml or general preference files that store your UI choices. If the game is acting up (e.g., resolution is broken or language won't change), deleting the contents of the Preferences and Caches folders in this directory is the standard "hard reset" fix.

Hmmm.. I need to find a way to reliably get a list of clickable female staff regens in FM26, that is my main bottleneck currently. I have to either search in-game, which is almost impossible, last time I have spent 30 minutes and have literally only found 1. Or I have to go from my config.xml file, but there are also press and agents mixed in, so again: I take an ID, look for the name, search for the name, find nothing (means is press), go again…

I’m a bit baffled... stupid question, but do you actually have female staff pictures? If you go to NG_Regens/Staff/NorthCentralEurope/female/, do you see images in there along with a config.xml file that looks correct?

I have tried to find female staff regens on my save, my god SI doesnt make it easy… but I have found one and she had a picture… 

Chief Doctors are unclickables, so they are essentially impossible to troubleshoot with currently known methods. Some of them do get pictures, some not, nothing I can do unfortunatelly… I will just leave this screenshot here for all of us to enjoy

If your current version is 0.9.4 - you do not need to update the software. Only the pictures packs as they come out if you want the newest pictures.

If your current version is 2.0.x - you can update to the latest version that the software suggests you, you should get a notification in the Updates page. You can also update picture packs as they come out.

Hmm yes, the way would be to either manually modify the config.xml inside of the profile folder and after that re-apply the profile via the software. Or to use the “Assign pictures manually” page. If nothing works - that is really on SI then, in that case the game simply refuses to map pictures for that entity for some reason…

Hi, sorry, I dont fully understand your question, what do you mean?

You mean how do you update your software? Does your software interface is light themed or dark themed? 

If light themed, then you use the memory reading method, there were no updates there, it already functions very stable. 

If you interface is dark themed, then you should get the 2.0.4 installation file for your platform from the list above or use the Updates section inside the software.

Moin, yes, there must be. You start the same process as with the save reading, but you select manual assignment at that screen:

BTW did your issue with female pictures got solved? If not could you please send me your save via wetransfer.com or google drive to [email protected] + mention UIDs of missing personell? I get reports from time to time, that people have issues with female staff, but it is so damn hard to find regen female staff on FM26 as there is no filter for gender…

Hi, you are still confusing both methods together. You have downloaded the .bundle file, but are trying to use it with the software method.

If you go to https://ngregens.org/fm26savereader_guide there a link right at the top of the page to download the main picture pack - https://download.ngregens.org/NG_Regens_MainPack.zip 

That is a ZIP file that has NG_Regens folder inside that you need to unpack to Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 26\graphics\.

I hope that helps, cheers

Version 2.0.4

Changelog:

• Improvements to the FM24 scanner.
• Fixed the Manual Assignment page, which should now properly save your mapping to the config file under all conditions.

Hi,

There are two methods you can follow. You are now talking about the bundle method witch is 1 file with 7000 images total. I do not really advice you to go that way, this method is only good if you play a single season and then drop the save. The reason for that is that the image count is simply very low and you will see duplicates left, right nad center. If you still want to go that route, then you should use your Xbox App to check the exact location of the folder - right-click FM26, select Manage > Files > Browse to jump straight to the correct root directory.

What I advice you to do is to follow this guide for the software method: https://ngregens.org/fm26savereader_guide It will use the folder that you have already found.

Hmm again, never heard of that before… the only thing that comes to my mind that could be realted to national teams somehow is that fake files that you remove when you install Real Name Fix - that fix not only fixes names, but unlocks kits and some national teams, but I have no idea what has that to do with face assignment…

You can check the ID of a player whose face has disappeared on two places if you find it there:

In the Database tab of the Savegame profile section of the app (anoter user above has attached an image of how it looks)

In the Files tab of the same section you can open the .xml configuration file and search for that ID there.