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ok thanks, i found how to customize the panels. haven't tried it yet, but this is where he got the customizations.

http://sortitoutsi.net/downloads/view/13216/player-overview-panel-mods?page=2

does anybody know how to get the personal details box like in this screenshot? Is that something customized or only shows up at higher resolution or what?

http://i0.wp.com/sisportscentre.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Filipi.png

hah this is the same info i came here looking for, i love the skin but can't do without the height/weight info in player profiles, is there a way to add it?

Thanks for the input. There is indeed a tickbox in preferences for "Show pictures of real players and staff," but the way it works is if you untick it, it shows no images at all, just empty space where a player's face normally would be. If I tick it, then it shows the SI shipped cuts. (Obviously you have to turn off caching and turn on reload skin, which I have done, to make any graphical changes take effect.)

The way I thought it worked was if you ticked the box for "Show pictures of real players and staff" and had a graphics/pictures/faces directory with a config.xml file, the config.xml file would tell the game to use whatever images are indicated by the config.xml file.

So if I have a config.xml file that says use the default silhouette images for all players, then all players should get the default silhouette image; if I have a config.xml file that says use 123456.png image for player id 123456, then player 123456 will get the corresponding image; if I don't have a config.xml file, then the game will use the default SI cutout images. At least that's the way I understood it to work.

But what's happening to me is the game is not following the instruction in the config.xml file to use the default silhouette image for all players. I'm guessing it's user error somewhere on my part, but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong and that's the reason I made this thread hoping to get some help. I can't figure out how to tell the game to use default silhouette image for all players. It had been working the way I wanted it to until Steam automatically upgraded the game to 13.2.2.




The only reason is I'm managing in the lower leagues and the megapack doesn't have images most of the lower league scrubs, thus the megapack just ends up telling me which players are good or are going to be good by showing real pictures for them. I'd rather just have anonymous silhouette images for all players at this low level, then use the megapack again when I move up to a higher league where the megapack has images for all/most players.

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Thanks to the other person who suggested the config generator, but it would not run for me on a mac.

I'm still getting regular player faces in the game, even though I want every player to have the default silhouette no face image created by Rowan.

Since the facepack is totally deleted, I'm wondering whether the SI had its own faces that shipped with the game and those are what I'm seeing. I'm not sure. If I look at the player id of a player with a face and then search the data directory for that player id, it comes up with no results. Since the image of that player's face is nowhere to be found, I can't figure out where it's coming from.

If anyone can tell me how to get rid of player faces from the game, whether by deleting something or adding a config file somewhere or whatever, I would appreciate it. For now I just have player faces turned off altogether, but I don't like it and would much rather see all players with the default silhouette "no face" image rather nothing at all.

btw, I have the default "no face" silhouette image and accompanying config files installed in the graphics/faces/default folder and in the interface preferences have caching unticked and reload skin on save ticked.

Any help is appreciated. Everything had been working fine before the game upgraded to 13.2.2. Thanks.

thanks, that's what I thought too -- I did click clear cache, unticked use caching, ticked reload skin when confirming changes and made sure it reloaded, but the faces are always still there (I also tried every other combination just to make sure I wasn't misremembering how do deal with these issues in preferences). I've closed and reopened the game, rebooted the computer, basically everything short of uninstall/reinstall.

Before the 13.2.2 patch got applied, there were no faces in my game, every player and staff had the silhouette like I wanted, but post-patch all the faces reappeared and I can't figure out where they are coming from since I combed my computer and deleted every facepack file.


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just some more info: the data directory structure I have now is,

C:\Users\xxxxx\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2013\graphics\pictures\faces\default

under default I have a subdirectory for male and a subdirectory for female. In each of those subdirectories, there is an silhouette image named "none.png" and a config.xml file. Specifically, these are the none.png images and config.xml files posted at this site by Rowan in post Replacement FM13 Default Player Image - Light Skin without modification.

I installed the fantastic facepack from here, but then I decided I didn't want faces and just want the default face silhouette.

I had it working fine, but after updating with the 13.2.2 patch, the real player faces came back into the game.

So not only did I confirm the facepack was out of the data directory, I deleted it completely from every place on my computer. I have no faces anywhere, but now the faces are showing up in the game? I don't even understand how that is possible. My save game is only 20 mb, so they can't be saved in there.

I just want the default face silhouette for all players. How do I get the game to do that?

I'm trying out playing without using a facepack.

I have turned on the option to "show pictures of real players and staff," which has the effect of giving everybody the default face. That's fine.

My question is: can one edit the config file or something so that different default faces show up for players and staff (i.e., all players will have one default face and all staff will have a different default face)?

Thank you so much for the prompt reply (happy new year) and good advice.

I had success using your latter suggestion (i.e., using notepad to edit the config.xml file located in the faces directory). I didn't try the the other suggestion with the FMXML program.

I'm trying to add a picture for a player who doesn't have one in the megapack or updates (specifically: Craig Sutherland, id 29085714)

I downloaded the whole megapack, no problems, all the faces show up, etc. The problem is simply getting a player image not in the megapack but which I've created to show up in the game.

For my team, like to add my own action images. So I download the images I like, crop them to 180x180 png files, copy to my faces folder and replace original megapack image, do the reload skin under preferences, and the new images show up, no problem.

However, for the player Craig Sutherland noted above, he doesn't have an image in the megapack or its updates. He has the generic face cutout. So I grabbed a pic of him, 180x180 png, copied it into the faces folder, reloaded the skin, etc., but his image doesn't show up. I've tried doing it the same as I always doe (described above) and everything else I can think of - opening closing game, clearing cache, reloading skin before loading the saved game, reloading the skin after loading the saved game,

My interface preferences settings are untick use caching, tick reload skin, untick allow display of custom background, tick show screen id, tick show pictures of real players/staff, tick show pictures of generated players/staff, using default light skin SI 1.0. I've also tried FMXML, not even being sure what it does, but it won't run on my windows 7 comp because it says it's missing some .dll file.

I know there's nothing wrong with my picture of the omitted player because I tested by giving the picture the id of another player and replaced the other player's original picture, and the new picture of Craig Sutherland shows up for the other player.

It's driving me crazy and because I'm nuts I can't play the game until I get that damn generic face replaced with a proper image. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. THANKS!