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We also improved our services on fmfaces.net. We now have a better Website, a new Section for Skins and much more coming the next weeks!

So, visit fmfaces.net!

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, Panini-users and especially Panini-creators.

I've taken control of the Panini Portrait Pictures Facepack 9 months ago. It was a hard time. We released 2 new megapacks, some big updates but had also a time in which nothing happend.

At 1st of July we released the new megapack. But it was, again, really difficult to offer the download free for everyone without waiting a week to download all the files. The megapack contains nearly 7 GB of data and we found no satisfying solution.

So what should we do? It was a big question and we had no clue. But born from a stupid idea we started a project two weeks ago. And now I am proud to present you the result. We now officially launch a new website, www.fmfaces.net, where we offer the Panini megapack.

What is FM Faces?
Well, we have an own server, stored the megapack on it, made a nice webpage, et voila. FM Faces was born.

Why are we doing this?
We want to offer fullspeed downloads to everyone and not just only to the few person which have an Premium Account for any of our hosters.

We have no clue how long the website is able to run. We have monthly costs and no income, so we offered a possibility to donate to us. But be sure, no one will have to donate if he doesn't want to, our full service is free. Also we won’t collect any money for our services in the future.

And finally: A very special thanks to:
White, for writing all the Articles
Favre, for helping build the website and spending a lot of hours
Kaliumchlorid, for doing such a great job with the graphics for the website.

So, visit www.fmfaces.net, the new way to download Paninis!

We recommend to use a download manager like JDownloader.
Visit the original topic on www.meistertrainerforum.de for more information. (English and German)
We will answer Questions there much faster.




If you have any further questions or want to talk with us, just write an E-Mail to: support {at} fmfaces {dot} net

Installationmanual & advices english
What does the Megapack contain?

The Panini Portrait Pictures & Icons Megapack 14 contains all the graphics which have been created until the 30th of June 2013. The Megapack also contains the pictures as icons.

What are the icons about?

The icons are resized, very small versions of the normal Panini pictures. There are used in the search screen for example. In this way you get a first impression what the player looks like without having to switch to the individual profile page.

What about the Update Packages?

Update packages are usually released at the beginning of the each month. They contain the pictures which have been edited or updated during the last month.

There are a lot of different links? What do I have to download?

Please read the following paragraph in total to avoid misunderstandings and errors. If there are postings being related to questions dealt with in this tutorial, we will just be forwarding you to read the instructions again.
In order to have the complete set of Panini pictures, you will have to download all the 8 parts of the Megapack. We have uploaded them to different hosters which should enable all free users to get them in an easy way. You may also use different hosters to download all the parts. However, it is important to have 8 files named "Panini Portraits & Icons Megapack 14.part1.rar" to "Panini Portraits & Icons Megapack 14.part8.rar" to start with.

The Update Package as well as the Icon Megapack only consist of one file, that means that there is no difference where to download those files from.

How to unzip the files?

Use a proper program to unzip the files. We recommend to use WinRar (http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm). Other programs are 7zip (www.7-zip.com) for Windows user and The Unarchiver for Mac user. You have to unzip the first part *.part1.rar only! The following parts of the Megapack are unzip automatically afterwards.

Where to put the unzipped folder?

The Panini Pictures folder needs to be put in to the user-folder of the Football Manager, which is typically located at *user-folder*/graphics/players.

What do i have to do now in order to see the pictures ingame?

Having just downloaded, unzipped and put the Megapack to the right folder for the first time, it is not difficult to complete the procedure from there on:
Step 1: Start the FM
Step 2: Wipe the cache
Step 3: Reload the skin
Check if the pictures should be displayed correctly, then move to step 4.
Step 4: Tick “Use skin cache” to improve loading times drastically.

If you have installed an Update pack, there is one additional step you need to follow, and that is to refresh the config.xml file. Just follow these steps:
Step 1: Refresh the config.xml file Videotutorial by Octavianus
Step 2: Start the FM
Step 3: Wipe the cache
Step 4: Reload the skin
Check if the pictures should be displayed correctly, then move to step 4.
Step 5: Tick “Use skin cache” to improve loading times drastically.

Why to use a Download Manager?

Even though being zipped, the Panini Megapack is very large. That is why we recommend a Download Manager to download the parts. The weapon of our choice is the JDownloader JDownloader. Using the JDownloader, you are able to download the Megapack using a container which contains all the links. JDownloader is also able to unzip the files automatically, repair broken files and to identify corrupt files. If you are using JDownloader to download the Megapack, you will find yourself presented with one zip-File which the program has already created of the 7-part zip file mentioned above. You will only have to unzip this file according to the tutorial.

There are error messages during the unzip process. What to do now?

Most of the problems can be identified following the next steps of diagnosis:
- Althoug, some of our hoster change the Filenames and set a minus(-) instead of a space( ). We have sadly no influence to this problems. We recommend to check all Filenames if they are correct. So if they have only spaces or minus in it. Also each File should end with .partX.rar. If some of the Filenames are incorrect just change them.

- The files have not been downloaded completely. Please check the size of the parts: Part 1 to 7 do have a size of exactly 950 MB each, Part 8 is 110,41 MB big. Try to download the parts again which do not match the target filesize.




Installation english
Installation:
Extract the folder to your graphics-folder within your userfolder (User/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 20xx/graphics/players)
Refresh the skin and all pics are ingame.

Updates
Any add-on for the Panini Portrait Pictures Megapack will be resized for this pack.


The Panini Portrait Picture Megapack on other fansites:
Meistertrainerforum.de (Original Topic. All new stuff here!)
FM Faces.net - The Host of PPP megapack
cmportugal.com (portugese) by CM.PT.85
fmsite.net (spanish) by Markitos
Football Manager Slovakia by Patres10
footmanager.net (french) by Don
fm-view.com (english) by Don
sortitoutsi.net (english) by Don
sigames.com (english) by Don (registration necessary)
fm-base.co.uk (english) by Don
fmscout.com (english) by Don
FM Greece (greek) by White
Footballmanager Forum (italian) by White
Cro-Manager.net (croatian) by White

Credits
Massive thx to all authors who made these phantastic pictures!! These are:
@Guismoso, Aachen4ever, Alidance, Anderkopuolos, andrebocao, armagedon55, Asket, AXA, Bärenmarke, BBB Croatia, bbds, beggar, Benno, Bernardo', Bill xanthi, Cairbre, calcioplayer, CanCann, Chuscentro92, Cimmi, core_zsul, CountVladimir, crocodile, Cubano, dan99, Daniel Ferreira, Daniel Lozano, Daur, Diogo, djalma8, dNs, Don-Muchacho, Enigmatic Heart, fmfan.ru, fgtv, FiNcH, fireblade, foxer114, garynsmon, Geromel_21, ggpofm, GodofSheep, guih12, Hambugerjung, harryhausen, IndioBAIANO, IvanRakitic, izzax, Jake13, James, jeanjunim, jira17, jojo_cat, Joílson, Júnior_SpAwN.d, Kaliumchlorid, karamel, lamser, Leo Miguel, lukas.87, maalivahti, Madman99, Mariscador, Markitos, Marwijk, Matheus Bruno, matze616, Meistermacher, MiNDmaZing, mineral, Mortiis, motoclub, Mysterio, nadeshiko, noor73, NUNOKOPIO, Octavianus, P-Jo, Pedriiin Fedayin, prilli_brilli, Prof. Barata, ralf95, redemptor, Reitmeier, remus, rettke, RuffRyder, Ruslanincha, Salvador, Sanogo24, savvie, scott123, sebrof77, SERGI, sheduardo, SM2212, smedhult, smithjjustin, Spanish, Stay Heavy, SteFF, stefg, Steifus, Stiff-Meister, svennos, TheBoyFromDownUnder, ThisIsAnfield, Tobi, tommotommo, tpakmopucm, Trickstyler, Tua, TuNdRaLoWeR, Urban Classic, Veyron, VirginDreams, Vitaloop, Waldi98, warchlaczyk, White, yveslaessig.

If I've missed anyone, please contact me!

Yeah. Winrar would not unpack the files corectly, we don't why it wont do this but we have a solution:
Try to use 7zip (www.7-zip.com), it will unpack the files corectly. We are also working on a solution for the problems with winrar, but this could take some time.

Edit: We have some trouble with the files on rapidshare. Our account is banned at the moment, we guess it could be a cause of the huge amout of downloads. We are working on that to get these files running again, but you have still 6 other hosters to download the files.

After the trouble with our hoster lately, it is my wish to apologize to you. I hope the problems are gone now.
Because it was impossible to recreate the old megapack we had to do a new Megapack - Version 13.2.
But don't be afraid, you don't have to download it again.

Panini Portraits Pictures and Icons Megapack 2013 v2
This Pack contains the original Megapack 2013 v1, the Icon-Megapack and all Updates for both, pictures and icon. We decided to upload much bigger files to multiple hosters, which is more freeuser-freindly. So it is possible to download the complete Megapack in few hours - also as free user.
To do this, you could download one file from each hoster for example.
All hosters except uploaded.to are compatible. Because of the terms of uploaded.to we had to use smaller files, but many Users have a Premium-Account on uploaded.to, so we decided to use this Hoster too.
We also recommend to use a download manager like JDownloader.

Download Megapack v13.2:
If you use a download manager you can use one of the following Container Links.

Container for premium users of one of the following hosters: Rapidshare, Netload, Freakshare, Bitload, Sockshare, Putlocker or 4shared: http://www.foldr.us/foldr.php?id=131d6098ecc8848f33c107fa8

Container for free users: [all Hosters in one Folder, you need to choose by yourself]
http://www.relink.us/view.php?id=ac6064054620310636eace825456df

Download Megapack v13.2 [All parts are compatible]
Rapidshare
Netload
Freakshare
Bitshare
Sockshare
Putlocker
4shared

Download Megapack v13.2 on uploaded.to: (We recommend to use this Hoster only if you are a premium user.)
Container - just one click
uploaded.to - recommended for ul.to premium users

The Icon Megapack is also available as single download. It's for people who already got the first picture-megapack, but missed the icon-megapack. It includes both icon updatepacks:
Icon-Megapack, Multihoster

Of course we did not forget the people who got the first megapacks but missed the updates. So we also have the links to the both updates for pictures and icons.
Picture-Updatepack 1:
Picture-Updatepack 2:
Icon-Updatepack 1:
Icon-Updatepack 2:



If you got any further question, please ask. If you may find some dead links in the future please report them to us, so we can renew these.

@Floro Flores: Thanks for your comment, it is corrected in this Updatepack.



Update 2 contends all pics between 01/10/12 to 31/10/12.
The next update will be released at the beginning of december.
Size: 242MB
Missing: 1.137
Improvements: 4.550

Installation:

Unzip the pictures to *Userfolder*\graphics\players. If you are asked to overwrite files confirm it.
Renew the config.xml. - Videotutorial by Octavianus (English).
Refresh your Skin and you should have the new Pictures.







Installation:

Unzip the pictures to *Userfolder*\graphics\players. If you are asked to overwrite files confirm it.
The config.xml is already renewed!
Refresh your Skin and you should have the new Pictures.

The Panini Facepack is under new management.
In the future I will post the monthly update of the Megapack here and at other sites. The Megapack and the updates contain all Pictures, but if you want the newest Paninis each day visit us in our german Forum:
http://www.meistertrainerforum.de/index.php/topic,15250.0.html

Although I wont update the Paninis each day I will look in here regularly and answer all your question. Or you just contact us in the germen Forum.
I'm going to write an detailed explanation how to install the updates of the Paninis in my next post.

Sincerly,
Don