pvt.rylow#6089 - Comments

Hi, thank you for kind words.

How have you manually changed the picture for that player - via the software or by manually editing the config.xml inside of the pictures folder?

If you use bundle, then you need to have Both settings set to ON.

If you use the method with the tool you use “Show pictures of players (and staff) who have been generated by the game” on ON and for “Use pre-generated pictures of players (and staff)…” you use OFF (which are also default game settings)

Hi mate, I would honestly want to help you, but the whole bundle method is a complete black box for me. If it crashes when saving, I honestly don't feel it can be connected to an asset file being changed, but with SI you never know…

I would suggest trying to revert to the default bundle (either by copying back the OG file if you have made a backup or by verifying files in Steam) and check if it fixes that. If it then works, then it really is the bundle, but that is unfortunately out of my power - that means SI have probably broken something in one of the latest patches.

You can also try any other bundle from any other newgen creator to check if it works better for you. Or you can check the full version with the tool (if you are on Windows that is or on Mac, but with a lot of passion)

Hi, this is ID recycling. You can read the “Important FM26 memory-scan workflow” in the bottom of the guide, it explains why it happens and what to do about that.

Yes, one profile represents one game. It stores all configurations for a single save. If you play another save, simply create a new profile, perform a memory scan on that save, and it will store all configurations for the new save.

After that, activate the profile for the save you plan to play before launching the game and it will place the correct config files in the game directory.

@Dan159 yes, “Use pre-generated pictures of players (and staff) rather than dynamically-generated images” must be OFF for the main method to work. I see several people mentioning they cant see that option anymore. Not sure what SI is doing here to be honest, probably they needed to remove it to make UEFA coefficients work, idk… You can try to reset your settings to default in the game (I think I saw that option, cant check now sry) - that should fix that.

@Beringer_DK See above, if you cant see that, means SI have tweaked something again. Are you on on normal or beta brach? I am on normal and can see it, maybe beta breaks it?

Hi, stupid question, you filter for only regens in FM when you search, right? Not including real players? 

Also if you just only had a youth intake please save, go back to main menu, then reaload your save and try to scan again - they might not have been populated into memory yet.

Hola, It is hard to say, but it looks like something is blocking the software from copying the config.xml file into the NG_regens picture folder. The message is "path cannot be found", but that sometimes can be misleading. So basicaly: Scan was successful, the software created a config.xml in its support directory and wanted to copy it to the main picture folder, but couldnt because something is preventing the file to be written there

You can try to start it via “Run as Administrator" to see if that helps. You do not need to do the scan again, it is enough to simply Activate the profile as all information has already been gathered.

You can also right click on the NG_Regens picture folder, go into properties and check folder's permissions, maybe you will see something wonky there.

Hi, You mean during the initial configuration wizard? You have to point the program to the exact top folder of the pack, sometimes some unpacking programs create additional folder on top of it.

You can check on your drive if you open “\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 26\graphics\NG_Regens\" you should see all the ethnicity folders inside. Basically you have to point the program to the top NG_Regens folder that has all the ehtnicity folders directly inside of it

I have added FM26 macOS version yesterday https://ngregens.org/fm26macguide

For some unknown reason SI blocked assignments on network saves in FM24 (I havent tried them personally, but that is what I've been told by people who actually do have friends)… No idea if it has changed with FM26

This must be somehow related to your AV. You can try to download the portable ZIP version, it sometimes works better for some users. Funtionality is the same, you can get it here https://ngregens.org/fm26guide?lang=en

It does work with existing saves, you dont need to start a new one.

Make sure your NG_Regens pictures folder is inside of your graphics folder, so f.e. Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 26\graphics\NG_Regens\

Also check your graphics settings to be

Show pictures of players (and staff) who have been generated by the game - ON

Use pre-generated pictures of players (and staff) rather than dynamically-generated images - OFF

Hello, to be able to help I need to know what is your problem:

Does the program start for you? Were you able to do a memory scan? Were you able to create a config? What exactly doesnt work?

If you could make some screenshots that would be very helpful.

Regarding the bundle problems, I'll have to check the latest patch, maybe SI have changed something. To be honest, I don't check it with every patch, only the tool, since that's what most people use. I'll check next time I boot FM, sorry guys.

I also probably need to repackage it anyway, as I have more stylistically suitable pictures for female players from the new female players pack. But it is very hard to make bundle look good due to its technical limitations unfortunatelly.

@John_Morrison  @Copywriter  The first Mac release is very near, probably tomorrow. It is rather clunky, but thats how MacOS is designed unfortinatelly. I already have a working app, I just need to finish all the guides.

@Xinnamp  @ephraimwindslow  SteamDeck is not supported yet, but it is in my pipeline after Mac is sorted

@Gabwine For the Software first ON second OFF, so basically default settings, no need to change anything

I have compressed the whole pack to only take 2.5GB now, just didnt have time to update this page yet. You can get everything from https://ngregens.org now, I will update this page as soon as I have time

Edit: I'm not able to update this page anymore, whatever I do gets blocked because “it looks like spam”… 

Cheers mate, very much appreciated!

Yeah, you can spread between "Spain" and "Italia" for now. I also use “Mestizo” folder for them I think for ethnicity code 1, this is not correct, but I dont have “Castizo” pack for that region yet…

It depends on how they look on your pictures. “Mestizo” is a classical “latino” look, typical for Mexico. “IndigenousSA” is a typical Andean look of Peru-Bolivia-Chile region, but it is also used outside of that region. “Afrocaribbean” is very dark skinned, think Haiti or Jamaica but is also used heavily in equatorial countries like Panama, Colombia or Venezuela. “MixedRace” is mixed black/white, kind of “Neymar-look”.

For now it works like this, but I plan to revisit that whole region some day as I think I am able to train more diverse models. I just need to invest some time to understand ethnical structure better and then compare it to how FM generates players there.

Hmmm you have actually found a bug! I somehow managed to distribute an old version of the config file where Latvia and Lithuania were assigned to EastSlavic… facepalm. I have pushed an update, if you restart the software it should pull the new config automatically so that LTU and LVA should now have Baltics as their def folder

sorry I dont understand your question fully, but yes you can generate pictures for south american players

You can check folder_config.json in %appdata%\com.cprrylow\ng_regens_manager\

The first “Ethnics” section shows you the basic nation-to-folder mapping, it works for most of the cases except:

Belgium uses “Netherland” and "France"

Switzerland uses “CentralEurope”, “France”, “Italia” at, I think, 60/30/10% rate

Those countries that have “LatinAmerica”, “Afrocaribbean” and “Brazil” dont use default mapping at all, instead they use a complex system where “Mestizo”, “IndigenousSA”, “Afrocaribbean”, “Portugal”, “Spain”, “Italia", “MixedRace” folders are used depending on nation/ethnicity code combination.

Also a lot of other countries have some additional logic attached to them. For example, ex-USSR countries (like Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and so on) will use “EastSlavic” folder for ethnicity 0 players as those are most probably represent ethnical russian minorities in those countries. And so on.

You can name them anything, but don't use my naming system, otherwise it could get messy if I release more pictures for that folder. Other than that, you can use anything - it could be abc123.png.

Which folder to use is selected based on some factors like player nationality and ethnicity. The pictures from a selected folder are then taken at random, but it will try not to re-use already taken pictures until there are no unused options available.

Thanks for the kind words, mate!

Regarding automatically replacing the regens - you're right, this is unfortunately not possible. FM generates completely random players with random IDs each save game. So in one game you might have ID 123456789 for a black French-Cameroonian player, in another game you could have the same ID for a Korean player, and in your next game it might not get used at all... That's why I need you to do this whole export thing, so that the software gets to know what players you have and generates the most appropriate picture mapping for you.

The most "automatic" way is the FMRTE method, where you still need to run the software every time you want to assign faces, but you don't need to do the shortlist export part because FMRTE is able to "hack" into FM's memory and get all the information by itself. But this approach requires an immense time investment to program and must be updated after each FM patch, otherwise it would stop working. The classic shortlist export method is a bit more cumbersome, but it's guaranteed to work with FM24 until the end of time without my intervention.

You also can add your set of pictures to the folders, the software will automatically pick them up and use in parallel to mine. 

You mean for training? I have collected them manually all around the world. Was very easy in UEFA countries, as there a tons of pictures in very good quality available on club or federation webs (thats why I want to redo Georgia and Armenia, now I should be able to find better pictures from them). But was such a pain for a non-football countries, that was the main showstopper for me on some packs, simply couldnt find good training material. There were a couple of official football federation webs in Asia and Aftica that I couldnt access, because my antivirus blocked that, saying they are a phishing/botnet web, so… yeah. 

And a lack of VRAM. If I had a better graphic card could have trained in better resolution…

Yeah I get what you are saying. Caucasus was one of the first trainings I have done for the model and my picture selection and training settings were not the best. The same is Armenia. 

EastSlavic I think the photos itself are a lot better than Caucasus/Armenia because I have found a better training material. But I have generated them with wrong background color unfortunately (bright white) and the removal tool was not able to get rid of it completly so I suppose that is what you mean by “snow”? 

I will redo them at some point, at least the Caucasus/Armenia, as those are both lower quality, with wrong bg and low in quantity.

My thought process was it is better to release it now, so people can play and then update. Because otherwise I would have never released as I would never be happy with my oldest models and will be stuck in re-training cycle.

thanks for the reply. I have seen all the photos at least once, but you only can see at generated males for so much until you start going crazy (and there are 90000 of them here)… where were you playing of I may ask? Or what nationality were your players? I ask to connect it to a specific picture pack to double check.