For anyone who has done everything correctly and the faces haven't changed, go to preferences in your save and search for ' use caching to decrease page loading times ' and turn it off and reload the skin and they will change, you can then change that setting back to on and it works for me :)
Brad... Thank you, thank you, thank you! Zealeand - This is amazing! I have been looking at it for a couple years but played on my Mac so I never download it. Started playing on a PC this year. Thank you, for your time on this.
I’ve had it turn off for a long time bcs I installed many graphics add ons but mine still doesn’t work. Any idea why? Or is there any way to know when they finished replacing all the faces?
@@Rickon2506 if you're using a custom skin try changing to the default skin, clearing cache, reloading skin, and check if they load. if the have then you can change back to your regular skin
That's okay tho, when you're in your 8th year in in-game time inside FM, you'll never bother because they will be at least 24 years old which suits the face very well. But yeah, good suggestion tho
GANs are great at that kind of thing, I think that's what snapchat aging filters use. Anyway yeah I second this, would be great to start them looking young then use filters to age them very slightly each season, then if you do long term saves or experiments they end up looking 60 if they have gone into scouting or coaching or whatever. I'm getting waaay too ambitious here, but it would also be amazing to superimpose their club shirt on the picture too. That's asking too much though, this is great as it is.
Yes the mod is very cool , but there are also some 16 yrs old´s that easily have the face of someone who has 30 years old ahahahah . But anyway , this is the first step of something that in the next FM or FM that´s coming in 2 years would be way better .
This is single-handedly the absolute best thing that you can add to your FM playthrough. I can't stress enough how much immersion this provides for me, and how much i actually care more about every player when i see their stupid (faces are amazing btw) faces. A huge Thank You!
This is how you add faces to new regens in second year: 1) Do the same steps in the video 2) When you saving your RTF file, choose your old RTF file and overwrite. 3) Choose Preserve in mode section. 4) Allow Duplicates > Replace Faces
Pro tip: make sure that when doing the ctrl/cmd+A part to make the rtf file, that you go into the search menu and un-click "exclude [your team] players" so that you don't spend 15 minutes like me wondering why ONLY your newgens didn't get the faces.
For anyone trying to repeat the process the second season. If the replace faces button is grayed out and you can’t change image directory file or rtf file. Click on your profile name and change it to no profile, and then back to your profile name. Should work then.
Played this game since Championship manager days on the Amiga, this is hands down the best facepack I have ever seen introduced. Amazing job everyone who was involved in its creation!
If you do all the steps and it still shows old regen faces do this: FM -> Preferences Select "Interface" in top drop-down Under "SKIN" make sure you: UNTICK "Use caching to decrease page load times" TICK " Reload skin when confirmin changes in Preferences" Enjoy! ;)
FM24 is my first new FM in over a decade and thought I'd splash out on graphics - this was a long process but I followed every step and it worked like a dream. Great video, thanks a lot!
@@andrechaves4567 Yes it was actually in the wrong directory. On my MacBook I have 2 directories named "Football Manager 2021", one is actually used, the other I don't know. I did the whole thing with the other directory and it worked!
Hey Zealand great work. Might I add: when you are searching for newgens in the game using your filter, ensure Exclude >> untick players from your club. This will make sure your own newgens are included in the search. If you do not do this, your own newgens will not get new faces.
@@JuanHernandez-uh5fz I think he does that just because you have certain limitations as a coach (less global knowledge=less players that appear in your search). As the manager you add isn't coaching, he'll have access to every player in the world (I think), so every player will get a face.
A word of note for some who - like me - took 6 days of deleting & reinstalling to figure it out: certain 'skins' stop these faces from showing, no matter how many times you reload skin or clear cache (the FM Scout Instant Result skin was my issue). First make sure you switch to the original FM skin - reload, clear cache, etc. and the faces should show if you've done it correctly. Then you can switch back to whatever skin you want.
My god, I tried to used this pack on 3 separate occasions this year and gave up every time. I just seen your comment and its worked, you brilliant human being
This is incredible Zealand. I hope one day you could present this to SI if you wanted to incorporate this cool feature for everyone since downloading is quite convoluted which isn't necessarily a bad thing, other people might just not understand it. But also if you wanted to keep it independent from SI that's completely fine. Again, amazing work this is really cool as far as advancements go in FM.
For me, the final step was to reload the skin and clear cache. Lmao I started laughing like a madman when it worked. These regens that I've had for 10+ years actually have a recognizable face! lol!
@@owenfalconer4257 Check your preferences. Theres a little reset button in the bottom right. Click it and a menu will drop down and there will be a clear cache button. Clear it and press reload skin.
Thank you! This video made it so simple to work out, I had been struggling to understand why the UI didn't like the RTF but I wasn't using the right view and now all working. Great effort all involved!
@@tazzat8026 idk if your still trying to fix this but mine was i forgot to put the right view on in player search in game. have to have it on the one where it shows unique id and name and everything
@@xjunker If you're still having the problem you will find the newgen is folder inside the 'filters' folder. Just spent 20 minutes trying to work it out myself
Thank you, thank you - you are awesome! This is an amazing amount of work and although it is clear it must have been very stressful - thank you from the bottom of our FM hearts.
@@WanderLucifer This was the KEY error for me. Did not pick up on that the new "player search view" in views had to be placed in the GAME within views. This is an extremely important step that seemed to be glossed over. I proceeded onward after this and with some trial and error, ACTUALLY GOT IT TO WORK. Yea.. Thank you for pointing this out.
Yeah, I found a little workaround. What I did was used the FM Genie Scout 20 because it has a "Is Regen" Filter in it. It's as simple as loading your game into FM20. Then opening FMGS20 and loading the game, then use the filter in the Player List tab, check the 'Is Regen' option, select all players, right-click them and add them to the shortlist, Go to the My Shortlist tab and export the shortlist, Import the shortlist into the game, SELECT the view Zealand has given and follow the steps he has told.
@@UdaySaini11 Hey man, how did you get it to work? I followed alle steps, including your workaround. The NewGan program finishes, but the faces stay the same (yes, I reloaded my skin). Could you maybe help me out with this? :)
@@MrKala06 It worked for me after deleting the cache and then reloading the skin. Also for your own players appear in the shortlist you import into FM20 you have to use a manager without a club (like Zealand did). Then choose the short list version of the view and make your text file. Then use the generator. Then clear the cache and reload the skin.
I don't have the filter available to import, even though it is saved in the correct location. Unfortunately had this issue with a lot of skins and tactics since switching to Mac. Anyone know of a fix? Thanks in advance!
Zealand, do we have to export the text file again when we get new youth intake and then preserve, or just preserve on the first one? If we have to, do we overwrite same text file, or make new one?
I tried and it worked, just export the file again and overwrite, and then preserve. This is the best mod ever made for not only FM, but in history of games. Well done, and thank you.
@@nikolaandjelovic781 Man, can you please explain, step by step, how to do the preserve the old faces and add other faces for the new batch of youngsters in a save?
Can confirm this does work with the Game Pass version of the game, just make sure to put the facepack files in C:\Users\[User]\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2021\Gamepass\graphics Also extract the filter & view folders into this folder ^^
This is a real gamechanger, absolutely fantastic. In previous versions I turned off the newgen faces because I can't stand them. This is so much better. Everyone should use this instead of the build in newgens.
Yes this is amazing. Was home for Christmas so I could play with the face pack on my PC but moving for uni again this week and only have my Mac, so very excited
In notepad, open the rtf file that you save with all the newgen players in it. You'll see a row for each player contains their ID in the game. You need to add "r-" in front of all of those IDs. From what I can see they mostly start with 2002 so I just replaced "2002" with "r-2002". There is probably one or two players that hasn't worked for but if I spot any, I'll just go into the rtf file and update manually. Save that rtf file and it seems to have worked for me
Can confirm this saved me a lot of headache. I had players with different numbers not just 2002, so in notepad I just CTRL + H and replaced /1,/2,/3 etc with /r-1,/r-2,/r-3 and so on. Cheers dude
It looks fantastic, doesn’t work for me yet. At clicking ‘Replace Faces’ , I get the pop-up with ‘The RTF file doesn’t exist’ . Anyone knows what to do?
I'm also having this issue. Using the correct view etc. and the .rtf appears within game as it can be overwritten but it won't appear to put into the profile on NewGAN-Manager
Hey Zealand, great work here. I am trying to use it on mac FM19 and it keeps getting stuck on "Map player to". The bar fills up around 25% right away with no progress to come. I noticed that the rtf file I created just has 2 instead of 3 columns with numbers at the end. Couldn't figure out why, though. Any idea if that might be the problem and why it's happening? Thanks in advance.
EDIT: skip that step, that's just a filter to search for newgens. You can replicate it yourself, just search for players under 17, or if you're in season two, then under 18 and so on. You can create your own regen/ newgen search filter and save it if you want, but it's not necessary to get the facepack working I don't think.
Honest to god, this is such a critical addition to the game. I just added it again for FM23 after having it for 22, and the difference is just night and day. SI should 100% buy this off you and the creators to implement into the game
Hey Zealand, love the content and these faces are incredible. Couple of small requests for the next one of these videos. Can you include how to import the faces player search view as some have been asking why the view doesn't appear to them? As well as the need to untick the filter for excluding your own teams players? Otherwise your regens are the only ones without faces! Keep up the great work!
He covers how to import the view. The coach you're using should have just been created and have no job. The search would be from that perspective, meaning your players with the main coach get included.
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Pasting a comment I saw on the Download page, TO MAKE IT WORK IN FM20: "Seeing as I've gotten it to work perfectly on FM20 and have helped others to do the same I thought I'd post instructions on how to do it here. The issue on older versions of FM is that you cannot import the "is newgen" filter provided and the tool only works on 10-digit UIDs so there cannot be any real players in the .rtf file you save, so you have to make it yourself which requires the in-game editor so you can filter for hidden variables. Follow the instructions provided, but on step 13 instead of importing the filter you go into "Edit Search", click the arrow next to "Add Condition" -> "Hidden" -> "Is newgen". Then you set the condition to "Is Not" and leave the field blank. That filters the search to only newgens (this is exactly what the imported filter does). Make sure this is the only active condition, so you don't filter away any newgens (and that you don't exclude your own players, the provided instructions tell you how to do this). Then you continue to follow the steps in the provided instructions as written. I got this to work on FM20 but it should work the same on older versions of FM as long as the newgens have 10-digit UIDs and you can import the "SCRIPT FACES player search" view so the correct variables are included in the .rtf file." by A.Fant @ FM Base I followed the advice and can confirm it works.
Hi, First of all, this is an awesome feature. I'd really like to use it, but I'm experiencing a problem. Is this installation method FM-Touch (21) compatible? I understand all of the steps, however I can't import the 'views-file' (probably because it is designed for the full version?). I tried doing it manually, but it seems I can't copy all of the needed categories. The error I get presents itself in the NewGAN Manager-app (I'm using Mac btw); it says my .rtf-file is invalid, when trying to generate the faces. I think this is because I ctrl+P it without the correct view. Is there anything I can do to prevent this or is there a way around this? Thank you & keep up the great work!
@@Arrooonnn Not yet :/ Still searching for it sometimes though, but I don't know how to build views with hair color, ... to build the .rtf on in the Touch-version.
How have I only just found this. Incredible stuff. Now, if you can automate it so it just does the regens automatically (Or sell it to SI so they can just include it in the game rather than their Microsoft Paint generator that would be spiffing).
I might have found a bug, I guess. When the player is away on Intl duty or you open a national team squad, they don't have pictures (at least in my case), but if he's a newgen, he'll have the old FM generated face, the ugly one.
@@maxsoffe4702 I have the same issue. If I check in finder, I can see the .fmf files, but when I try to select them for views or filters, they're not there
When i click "Replace faces" it fills a quarter of the bar and says "map player to".. It doesn't do nothing else, but I can click again on "replace faces" and it fills the bar all the way up and then stays like that.. I was so hyped for this I'm crying rn :'(
I've got a problem launching the NewGAN-Manager UI. The whole problem started a couple of days ago when I was trying to give my newest youth intake faces, but I hadn't used the correct view when searching for Newgens. The UI would say 'RTF file is invalid', but I eventually realised I was being an idiot and just used the right view and filter. Next problem came when I tried to use the right RTF file in the UI. I clicked 'replace faces' and all that happened was the bar went up slightly. I waited a while and impatiently pressed the button again, and immediately the bar shot up another little bit. I did this 3 or 4 times until it got to the end of the progress bar and I realised it must be buggy, so I closed the window and turned my PC off for the night. When I came back on in the morning the UI simply would not open. Normally I'd only have to double click it once and it would open right away, but it wouldn't open at all. I eventually decided to uninstall it completely, but now that I've installed it again it still won't open. Can anyone help this problem, or is it a lost cause?
you have to delete all the files that are newgan-manager related and install again. this has happened to me like 10 times now its incredibly annoying and hopefully it'll get fixed
@@joegill533 just in your PC folder, search newgan and delete everything thats there (you can keep the face pack, but everything that’s got to do with the installer you’ll need to delete by right clicking and choosing delete) after that you can reinstall and it should work
second time trying after deleting everything, everything went fine but the faces just arent in the game, only thing i noticed that was different than in the video is when replacing the faces it only took like 2 seconds before it said finished. can anyone help?
Same issue. Had no errors during the process, followed it multiple times to make sure I'd done eveything, but I don't see the faces in game afterwards. I suspect something went wrong during replacement of the faces as it only took about 5 seconds. Doing this in FM22
@@mtl1675 hey guys, just solved the issue myself. there is a step in the guide which is not included in the video, but if faces dont load, try this. Open Football Manager. Click on "FM", then go to "Preferences". Use the drop-down option and select "Interface". Scroll down to the skin section and ensure that "Use skin caching to decrease loading times" is unticked but ensure that "Reload skin..." and "Show screen IDs..." is ticked".
Awesome stuff man, this is one of the most insane mods i know. I just tried to manually add non regens but still players without a face to the .rtf file to get them some new shiny faces. Unfortunately that did not work. Should that generally be possible or are the faces limited to actual regens only?
@@synapsenfick6841 provided filters doesn't work with versions older than FM21, how did you bypass that to get list of newgens with proper filter applied?
Unfortunately this doesn't work for me. I've done all the steps, everything seems to go okay, then I go to the game and see if it all worked and all have a regen face still.
Will this process be simplified in future? Is there plans to improve process or is this it. Would def be interested if it automatically done it each year to regens.
boggles my mind, utterly, that a group of people came up with this, it's genius, just taken the dive. SI should go all in on developing this for the games properly (they won't) but just looks a million million times' better than the awful (they even got worse for 22) regen faces.
I'm far from a technician when it comes to computers, but even I pulled this one off in FM 2020. The filter wasn't visible, but I just exported a list of players younger than 23. This works fine as well and you don't have to be afraid it replaces already existing player faces. They just replace the newgen faces. Furthermore i put the original skin back in order for it to work and i needed to reload the skin as well at preferences (advanced). I'm so happy now :)
Whats going on with the rtf files now? I was about to update my newgens in my current game and suddenly its saying the rtf file is invalid no matter what I do?
The pack is great! It has made its way into the small cicrle of mods I can't play FM without. I tried to replace staff faces, but failed. Could you shine a light on what pannels the different views can be used? Thanks a lot in advance. SCRIPT FACES player search - player search SCRIPT FACES squad - squad view SCRIPT FACES staff - ?? SCRIPT FACES shortlist - ??
So, it's June 2022. I've tried for months (since Zealand launched the new Facepack for FM22) to find a way to get this to properly work on my M1 Macbook Pro running Monterey. Sadly, there's no work-around that I can find anywhere online to get the NewGan Manager to work. I go through all the steps, move the icon to Applications. Open it, open the security panel and allow, just like Zealand shows in the video. When selecting the "Open Anyway" option, hit "Cancel" on the other window, and then "Open" on the new window that pops up... Nothing. No new window, no programs popping up, nothing. And after a bit of online browsing on the subject, it looks like I'm far from the only one with this problem. Here's to hoping that FM23 has work around, or better yet, that SI picks up on the need for this sort of addition to their game and add life-like new-gen faces (unlikely, I know). For further feedback, I hope hope in future iterations that the pathway to achieving the adding of this facepack be much more simple, or that there's some workaround that bypasses this NewGan Manager program altogether. Sorry, I know this is a long comment, but I feel foolish for spending 6 months trying to make this work and without any results. Fingers crossed for a working, simplified approach for FM23 and beyond.
Zealand has already a Regen Facepack for FM20 on FMBase . You go into the FM20 Forum, and then FM20 Downloads. One of the first Posts is Zealands Real Faces on Regens. He also has an Installation Guide Video on the Channel.
@@miguelmorgado5280 So your steps where: Place faces in correct folder -> generate .RTF -> close FM -> Generate faces? I tried this but still no luck..
@@UncleEdson yes, i've done exactly like Z. But when I finish creating the rtf file inside FM, I close the game. Then I do the steps in the generator app. I open FM again and it worked
i cant open it, i searched for the problem, came across solutions saying" open %localappdata%\Programs\NewGan-Manager\app\ .config and copy the files and paste it into ....NewGan-Manager\ .config but the problem is there exists no .config folder in \Programs\NewGan-Manager and there is no. config folder in Programs\NewGan-Manager\app either....however there is one config folder inside Programs\NewGan-Manager\app ewganmanager and i have pasted that entire config folder into the directories where there is supposed to be a .config folder and yet i cant open the app, pls help 🦋
Hello great video! I was super excited to learn that this is possible. However I am encountering an issue when following process. I was able to download NewGAN-Manager and FMNEWGANv2 to my mac. I also followed your steps and placed the "filters" and "views" folder within my football manager 2021 folder. When I go to to "player search" and then "Manage Filter" and "Import" and "Filters" nothing is there. I went to check the filter folder downloaded from NewGAN-Manager I can see the "is newgen search filter.fmf" file. I would appreciate any suggestions/ideas/help with this. Thank you in advance!
Followed the video exactly and it doesn't work for me. Really dissapointing. Got to the final stage says faces replaced succesfully & none of them have changed :( Also takes a few seconds not 20 minutes to run... Reloaded skin, game etc
Thank you for this, it's amazing. I wonder if the faces would be updated again further in the future. If so, it would be nice to have that rare cool hairstyle in every ethnicity as I don't see pictures with long hair, afro, braids, mohawk, bald hair etc. but definitely should be rare to come across and not on a lot of pictures. But yeah, it's just an idea I thought id share. Thank you for this and stay awesome
For anyone who has done everything correctly and the faces haven't changed, go to preferences in your save and search for ' use caching to decrease page loading times ' and turn it off and reload the skin and they will change, you can then change that setting back to on and it works for me :)
Brad... Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Zealeand - This is amazing! I have been looking at it for a couple years but played on my Mac so I never download it. Started playing on a PC this year. Thank you, for your time on this.
I’ve had it turn off for a long time bcs I installed many graphics add ons but mine still doesn’t work. Any idea why? Or is there any way to know when they finished replacing all the faces?
di u know why i dont have an rtf file?
@@koji8k you have to export one. The instructions for that start with making the new manager, at 10:50
@@Rickon2506 if you're using a custom skin try changing to the default skin, clearing cache, reloading skin, and check if they load. if the have then you can change back to your regular skin
This is amazing Zealand, I think the next step would be to categorize into age-groups. There are some shady-looking 16 year olds
That's okay tho, when you're in your 8th year in in-game time inside FM, you'll never bother because they will be at least 24 years old which suits the face very well. But yeah, good suggestion tho
GANs are great at that kind of thing, I think that's what snapchat aging filters use. Anyway yeah I second this, would be great to start them looking young then use filters to age them very slightly each season, then if you do long term saves or experiments they end up looking 60 if they have gone into scouting or coaching or whatever. I'm getting waaay too ambitious here, but it would also be amazing to superimpose their club shirt on the picture too. That's asking too much though, this is great as it is.
Yes the mod is very cool , but there are also some 16 yrs old´s that easily have the face of someone who has 30 years old ahahahah . But anyway , this is the first step of something that in the next FM or FM that´s coming in 2 years would be way better .
Anyway , my doubt is how do you get 3 rd Season , youth intake´s faces ?
@@tiagoalmeida3508 You have to add faces at the start of every season, or every couple years
instructions unclear I'm now hositing the champions league cup with Hartlepool.
Albaniaaaa
where do i get this rtf file i didnt have it?
@@gordonlam7057 same
I just got relegated from our second season in the prem with Hartlepool :(
@@gordonlam7057 did u find it, I can't
This is single-handedly the absolute best thing that you can add to your FM playthrough.
I can't stress enough how much immersion this provides for me, and how much i actually care more about every player when i see their stupid (faces are amazing btw) faces.
A huge Thank You!
What do I do if the New Gan won't let me choose the image directory
This is how you add faces to new regens in second year:
1) Do the same steps in the video
2) When you saving your RTF file, choose your old RTF file and overwrite.
3) Choose Preserve in mode section.
4) Allow Duplicates > Replace Faces
then what?
Nvm I figured it out
Must you do this before the regens intake, or after the regens intake?
@@DJNITON After
@@zZesterr can you help me? I can't find the RTF file
Pro tip: make sure that when doing the ctrl/cmd+A part to make the rtf file, that you go into the search menu and un-click "exclude [your team] players" so that you don't spend 15 minutes like me wondering why ONLY your newgens didn't get the faces.
Too late mate!
Bro!!!!! i was about to uninstal my game lol lmao thanks !!!!!!
You're the best! Thank you!
:D thx mate
For anyone trying to repeat the process the second season. If the replace faces button is grayed out and you can’t change image directory file or rtf file. Click on your profile name and change it to no profile, and then back to your profile name. Should work then.
still not working :/
Still did not work
First time I've ever played beyond 5 seasons without getting bored due to regens. Absolutely great tool, awesome work!
This has changed my game for the better, great work to you and the team! Now my regens have much more character to them and more memorable - LOVE IT
I just wanna say that this whole project is ruddy insane big man!
Played this game since Championship manager days on the Amiga, this is hands down the best facepack I have ever seen introduced. Amazing job everyone who was involved in its creation!
up the villa
Amazing facepack - adds so much more to the fun of the game; it’s really worthwhile installing
If you do all the steps and it still shows old regen faces do this:
FM -> Preferences
Select "Interface" in top drop-down
Under "SKIN" make sure you:
UNTICK "Use caching to decrease page load times"
TICK " Reload skin when confirmin changes in Preferences"
Enjoy! ;)
THNANK YOU KIND SIR
Legend
Oh thank god. I was getting sooo frustrated.
Awesome my man. Default skin worked but now it works on the custom.
@Matt Wade You have to do it again every season. Listen carefully to the video. Don't replace though, conserve the ones you have
FM24 is my first new FM in over a decade and thought I'd splash out on graphics - this was a long process but I followed every step and it worked like a dream. Great video, thanks a lot!
Thank you so much for this, it's genuinely incredible. All your hard work has paid off, and for that I'll be eternally grateful
Done this tonight on my Mac and it’s a game changer for, don’t think I will be able I could start a save on fm 22 without this now! Thank you so much
Did you have any problems with the "is newgen filter"? It's in the right directory but it doesn't show in the list ingame when I try to import it
@@toentoeroen I had this problem 2, did u solve it?
@@andrechaves4567 Yes it was actually in the wrong directory. On my MacBook I have 2 directories named "Football Manager 2021", one is actually used, the other I don't know. I did the whole thing with the other directory and it worked!
@eroen Can you explain what you did? I'm having this same issue...I only have the one FM folder or whatever so idk why the filter isn't showing up
Hey Zealand great work. Might I add: when you are searching for newgens in the game using your filter, ensure Exclude >> untick players from your club. This will make sure your own newgens are included in the search. If you do not do this, your own newgens will not get new faces.
If you are doing it the way he is (with a new manager) it won't matter because the manager isn't coaching
Bro, you saved my life, thank you very much!
@@diogorodrigues9595 Does adding a second manager give more faces to the newgens? I dont get the point.
@@JuanHernandez-uh5fz I think he does that just because you have certain limitations as a coach (less global knowledge=less players that appear in your search).
As the manager you add isn't coaching, he'll have access to every player in the world (I think), so every player will get a face.
@@diogorodrigues9595 Thanks bro!
A word of note for some who - like me - took 6 days of deleting & reinstalling to figure it out: certain 'skins' stop these faces from showing, no matter how many times you reload skin or clear cache (the FM Scout Instant Result skin was my issue). First make sure you switch to the original FM skin - reload, clear cache, etc. and the faces should show if you've done it correctly. Then you can switch back to whatever skin you want.
mate! i was trying to delete and re-install shit then i came across to ur comment, BOOM! EUREKA!!
Thank you!
Your a Legend mate thank you
THIS RIGHT HERE!! You're a frikking LEGEND DEAR SIRE! THANK YOU!!!
My god, I tried to used this pack on 3 separate occasions this year and gave up every time. I just seen your comment and its worked, you brilliant human being
@@PaulLedwith Me too!! Thanks @odera
MacOS Installation starts at 5:00
Still struggling with the Mac set up - won't work for me
This is incredible Zealand. I hope one day you could present this to SI if you wanted to incorporate this cool feature for everyone since downloading is quite convoluted which isn't necessarily a bad thing, other people might just not understand it. But also if you wanted to keep it independent from SI that's completely fine. Again, amazing work this is really cool as far as advancements go in FM.
I finally took the time to do this and omg is it absolutely amazing. Completely outstanding work by you guys😍
HOW DID YOU MANAGE IT BY WATCHING THE ZEALAND VIDO IS IT?
I thought the FM20 facepack was good, but you've outdone yourselves here! Superb work! Thank you for all your efforts!
For me, the final step was to reload the skin and clear cache. Lmao I started laughing like a madman when it worked. These regens that I've had for 10+ years actually have a recognizable face! lol!
THANKS KING
How do I do that
@@owenfalconer4257 Check your preferences. Theres a little reset button in the bottom right. Click it and a menu will drop down and there will be a clear cache button. Clear it and press reload skin.
THANKS MATE!!!
Thank you!!! Was panicking I missed something.
Thank you! This video made it so simple to work out, I had been struggling to understand why the UI didn't like the RTF but I wasn't using the right view and now all working. Great effort all involved!
what did u do to get the RTF file?
same problem saying RTF file is invalid how did u fix?
how did you fix? mine says rtf does not exist
@@trevorwest9881 did you manage to fix this?
@@tazzat8026 idk if your still trying to fix this but mine was i forgot to put the right view on in player search in game. have to have it on the one where it shows unique id and name and everything
Done all the steps in the video and when it says finish and go back into the game it doesn't work the regen faces are still the same
It seems small but this really helps immersion and really brings more life to the game. This is insanely cool.
Thanks so much Zealand. Works on FM23 also! This is a total game-changer. Makes my long term saves much more immersive!
how did you get it to work? mine says that the .rtf file is invalid
@@clintmeatwood8425 u need to keep watching the video and do the text file through the newgen filter and add it to rtf
Absolutely amazing !! Genuinely impressed with the genius level of this ! Hats off to the team !!
14:30 onwards to redo next year intake (little note for future me) :)
After I hit import on filters I don't have any options for "is newgen search filter" I have done all other steps, but nothing shows up at this part.
same here man, It would be much appreciated if someone could help us out.. a bit frustrating to be stuck halfways...
@@xjunker If you're still having the problem you will find the newgen is folder inside the 'filters' folder. Just spent 20 minutes trying to work it out myself
Thank you, thank you - you are awesome! This is an amazing amount of work and although it is clear it must have been very stressful - thank you from the bottom of our FM hearts.
anyone else get a little pop up saying that the RTF file doesnt exist?
You need to put the custom view on when control a-ing
@@alexsevic550 Could you explain It better?? Pleaseee
@@oscarprieto1424 watch closely what he does at 11.15 onwards. I had the same problem but then I rewatched the video again xD
@@WanderLucifer This was the KEY error for me. Did not pick up on that the new "player search view" in views had to be placed in the GAME within views. This is an extremely important step that seemed to be glossed over. I proceeded onward after this and with some trial and error, ACTUALLY GOT IT TO WORK. Yea.. Thank you for pointing this out.
@@paulclough8541 no problem mate! Good luck in your games.
The views and filter files don't appear within their folders for me on FM20 and MAC. Any work around?
Yeah, I found a little workaround. What I did was used the FM Genie Scout 20 because it has a "Is Regen" Filter in it.
It's as simple as loading your game into FM20. Then opening FMGS20 and loading the game,
then use the filter in the Player List tab,
check the 'Is Regen' option,
select all players,
right-click them and add them to the shortlist,
Go to the My Shortlist tab and export the shortlist,
Import the shortlist into the game,
SELECT the view Zealand has given and follow the steps he has told.
@@UdaySaini11 Hey man, how did you get it to work? I followed alle steps, including your workaround. The NewGan program finishes, but the faces stay the same (yes, I reloaded my skin). Could you maybe help me out with this? :)
@@Sturx0r same here
@@MrKala06 It worked for me after deleting the cache and then reloading the skin. Also for your own players appear in the shortlist you import into FM20 you have to use a manager without a club (like Zealand did). Then choose the short list version of the view and make your text file. Then use the generator. Then clear the cache and reload the skin.
@@Sturx0r Yeah I did everything with another manager
Now i will try clearing cache
I don't have the filter available to import, even though it is saved in the correct location. Unfortunately had this issue with a lot of skins and tactics since switching to Mac. Anyone know of a fix?
Thanks in advance!
Zealand, do we have to export the text file again when we get new youth intake and then preserve, or just preserve on the first one? If we have to, do we overwrite same text file, or make new one?
I tried and it worked, just export the file again and overwrite, and then preserve. This is the best mod ever made for not only FM, but in history of games. Well done, and thank you.
@@nikolaandjelovic781 So basically do the exact same thing and instead of selecting generate, select overwrite and then select preserve?
@@gregongao8675 Overwrite the text file when exporting it. And preserve in program.
@@nikolaandjelovic781 Man, can you please explain, step by step, how to do the preserve the old faces and add other faces for the new batch of youngsters in a save?
Why am I watching this, I haven't even bought FM21
Nice
@@hoiss it does
Im waiting for a good crack too :)
Trying to do this on FM2020, I got the error "invalid rtf file"
Can confirm this does work with the Game Pass version of the game, just make sure to put the facepack files in C:\Users\[User]\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2021\Gamepass\graphics
Also extract the filter & view folders into this folder ^^
The filter and views dont show in game so how do I select them in game?
This is a real gamechanger, absolutely fantastic. In previous versions I turned off the newgen faces because I can't stand them. This is so much better. Everyone should use this instead of the build in newgens.
Yes this is amazing. Was home for Christmas so I could play with the face pack on my PC but moving for uni again this week and only have my Mac, so very excited
In notepad, open the rtf file that you save with all the newgen players in it. You'll see a row for each player contains their ID in the game. You need to add "r-" in front of all of those IDs. From what I can see they mostly start with 2002 so I just replaced "2002" with "r-2002". There is probably one or two players that hasn't worked for but if I spot any, I'll just go into the rtf file and update manually. Save that rtf file and it seems to have worked for me
Can confirm this saved me a lot of headache. I had players with different numbers not just 2002, so in notepad I just CTRL + H and replaced /1,/2,/3 etc with /r-1,/r-2,/r-3 and so on. Cheers dude
I couldn't get NEWGAN Manager to accept the altered .rtf file, so I just edited the config.xml I had already generated and it worked fine.
@@OliGear and what do you did after edit the .xml file? i still can't get the program to read the .rtf file
you hero, this sorted for me, easiest was is is replace the path, for me that was faces/ with faces/r-
the new release of newgan manager supposedly fixes the need to do this but I haven't confirmed it yet
Great, great stuff. Amazing realism and super easy to install, even for me!
Keep up the awesome work.
GO Dragons!!
It worked fine at first but now the App just won't open for me anymore. Tried reinstalling a few times, but it didn't help. Edit: Windows PC
Same
It looks fantastic, doesn’t work for me yet. At clicking ‘Replace Faces’ , I get the pop-up with ‘The RTF file doesn’t exist’ . Anyone knows what to do?
Maybe you saved you new RTF file in a different location? Just select it again and try again
@@europalette3640 thanks for the help. Unfortunately did not succeed..
@@jensdamsma3397 Me too 😩😩😩
Having an issue with Rtf file not appearing after saving it. Any suggestions? On Mac.
I'm also having this issue. Using the correct view etc. and the .rtf appears within game as it can be overwritten but it won't appear to put into the profile on NewGAN-Manager
@@allyscarlett9433 I saved rtf file into documents instead of football manager folder and managed to access it from there mate👍
followed all steps says it finished but nothing replaced? i also have the updated version for 22
Did you manage to solve it?
Hey Zealand, great work here. I am trying to use it on mac FM19 and it keeps getting stuck on "Map player to". The bar fills up around 25% right away with no progress to come. I noticed that the rtf file I created just has 2 instead of 3 columns with numbers at the end. Couldn't figure out why, though. Any idea if that might be the problem and why it's happening? Thanks in advance.
Yeah I have the same issue on fm 21, just keeps getting stuck on "map player to" and I can't figure out why its not working either
i have the same issue
Same issue for me
did you find out what the map player to issue is? and how to resolve?
Did this for me just now, is there a workaround for this?
YES. once the transfer window closes at the end of the month you already know it's time for a new save
Bruh this straight up doesn't work anymore. The print file isn't showing up the filters don't work
I have the same problem.
With the new version it does not detect the rtf file anymore. Any solution?
@@jesusduque4502 I've been trying to tweak it over and over but nothing working
It actually worked perfectly as you said and explained. THANK YOU very very very much.
This makes the game much more fun
Does it work for FM20? Because I am trying to import the filter but it doesn't apper..
EDIT: skip that step, that's just a filter to search for newgens. You can replicate it yourself, just search for players under 17, or if you're in season two, then under 18 and so on. You can create your own regen/ newgen search filter and save it if you want, but it's not necessary to get the facepack working I don't think.
@@alliedatheistalliance6776 true, but recreating the custom view is an issue unfortunately. Or did you manage to do that somehow?
Honest to god, this is such a critical addition to the game. I just added it again for FM23 after having it for 22, and the difference is just night and day. SI should 100% buy this off you and the creators to implement into the game
Hey Zealand, love the content and these faces are incredible. Couple of small requests for the next one of these videos. Can you include how to import the faces player search view as some have been asking why the view doesn't appear to them? As well as the need to untick the filter for excluding your own teams players? Otherwise your regens are the only ones without faces!
Keep up the great work!
I could use this too! Where is that player search view?
He covers how to import the view.
The coach you're using should have just been created and have no job. The search would be from that perspective, meaning your players with the main coach get included.
Really struggling to get it to work for me , any advice ?
Excited for red dead redemption 2 today loving your reactions to the gameplay and story glad to see you appreciate Rockstars humour, in there storytelling one of there strengths
Pasting a comment I saw on the Download page, TO MAKE IT WORK IN FM20:
"Seeing as I've gotten it to work perfectly on FM20 and have helped others to do the same I thought I'd post instructions on how to do it here.
The issue on older versions of FM is that you cannot import the "is newgen" filter provided and the tool only works on 10-digit UIDs so there cannot be any real players in the .rtf file you save, so you have to make it yourself which requires the in-game editor so you can filter for hidden variables. Follow the instructions provided, but on step 13 instead of importing the filter you go into "Edit Search", click the arrow next to "Add Condition" -> "Hidden" -> "Is newgen". Then you set the condition to "Is Not" and leave the field blank. That filters the search to only newgens (this is exactly what the imported filter does). Make sure this is the only active condition, so you don't filter away any newgens (and that you don't exclude your own players, the provided instructions tell you how to do this). Then you continue to follow the steps in the provided instructions as written. I got this to work on FM20 but it should work the same on older versions of FM as long as the newgens have 10-digit UIDs and you can import the "SCRIPT FACES player search" view so the correct variables are included in the .rtf file."
by A.Fant @ FM Base
I followed the advice and can confirm it works.
Doesn't work 😢
I used this, but had to go to preferences and reload the skin and it worked. Thanks a lot man
how can i do it without he in game editor?
the filter doesn't show up
You're a life saver. Thank you so much.
Hi,
First of all, this is an awesome feature. I'd really like to use it, but I'm experiencing a problem. Is this installation method FM-Touch (21) compatible? I understand all of the steps, however I can't import the 'views-file' (probably because it is designed for the full version?). I tried doing it manually, but it seems I can't copy all of the needed categories.
The error I get presents itself in the NewGAN Manager-app (I'm using Mac btw); it says my .rtf-file is invalid, when trying to generate the faces. I think this is because I ctrl+P it without the correct view. Is there anything I can do to prevent this or is there a way around this?
Thank you & keep up the great work!
did you find a way?
@@Arrooonnn Not yet :/ Still searching for it sometimes though, but I don't know how to build views with hair color, ... to build the .rtf on in the Touch-version.
@@louisbracke3444 hi! i am having the same issue. did you find a solution since?
Is it just me or does clean shaven Zealand look 5 years younger than he does now?
How have I only just found this. Incredible stuff. Now, if you can automate it so it just does the regens automatically (Or sell it to SI so they can just include it in the game rather than their Microsoft Paint generator that would be spiffing).
most confusing install guide I've ever seen.
I might have found a bug, I guess. When the player is away on Intl duty or you open a national team squad, they don't have pictures (at least in my case), but if he's a newgen, he'll have the old FM generated face, the ugly one.
Is the facepack able to work on FM20, because the file doesn't show up when I try to import it
Bump. I'd also like to know this
@@Matchstickman90 Same for me. Im afraid not then :S
When I go to replace faces on my Mac with mode on generate and allow duplicates ticked, I get an error that says the RTF file doesn’t exist
me too!
Me too
I don’t have the text file?
Same! Someone help haha
It worked perfectly till 2nd or 3rd youth intake/year. Now new intakes are not getting faces. Any idea why that could happen?
Same problem for me
I’ve followed every instruction and the player faces don’t change when I finish?
When I get to the import views part the only thing that comes up is desktop and nothing else can anyone help???
I have the same issue
Can you manually click into the relevant folder?
That’s weird but you can manually click back to the football manager folder
Hi Zealand when I manually click back to the football Magee 2021 file the only things that pop up are editor data games and skins and no views?
@@maxsoffe4702 I have the same issue. If I check in finder, I can see the .fmf files, but when I try to select them for views or filters, they're not there
When i click "Replace faces" it fills a quarter of the bar and says "map player to"..
It doesn't do nothing else, but I can click again on "replace faces" and it fills the bar all the way up and then stays like that..
I was so hyped for this I'm crying rn :'(
I managed to make it work by only selecting regens from my team.
Still doesn't work with every one of them in my DB (6000+)
@@millsouche5499 I have the same problem, but only sometimes, and it is fucking annoying
rtf file doesn't show up... What do I do now?
I have the same problem.. anyone else?
Same here
I've got a problem launching the NewGAN-Manager UI. The whole problem started a couple of days ago when I was trying to give my newest youth intake faces, but I hadn't used the correct view when searching for Newgens. The UI would say 'RTF file is invalid', but I eventually realised I was being an idiot and just used the right view and filter. Next problem came when I tried to use the right RTF file in the UI. I clicked 'replace faces' and all that happened was the bar went up slightly. I waited a while and impatiently pressed the button again, and immediately the bar shot up another little bit. I did this 3 or 4 times until it got to the end of the progress bar and I realised it must be buggy, so I closed the window and turned my PC off for the night. When I came back on in the morning the UI simply would not open. Normally I'd only have to double click it once and it would open right away, but it wouldn't open at all. I eventually decided to uninstall it completely, but now that I've installed it again it still won't open. Can anyone help this problem, or is it a lost cause?
same problem
you have to delete all the files that are newgan-manager related and install again. this has happened to me like 10 times now its incredibly annoying and hopefully it'll get fixed
@@pztter7838 thanks I’ll give it a try, where do I find the files to delete?
@@joegill533 just in your PC folder, search newgan and delete everything thats there (you can keep the face pack, but everything that’s got to do with the installer you’ll need to delete by right clicking and choosing delete) after that you can reinstall and it should work
Every so often i come back to this video just to hear Zealand saying "NEWGAN MANAGER" in that thick southern drawl 3:29
second time trying after deleting everything, everything went fine but the faces just arent in the game, only thing i noticed that was different than in the video is when replacing the faces it only took like 2 seconds before it said finished. can anyone help?
Yes I have the same issue. Was there an update or something?
Same issue. Had no errors during the process, followed it multiple times to make sure I'd done eveything, but I don't see the faces in game afterwards. I suspect something went wrong during replacement of the faces as it only took about 5 seconds. Doing this in FM22
@@mattlowe9675 same, i tried this once a few months ago aswell and it was the same, except that some random players had faces but not accurate ones
@@mtl1675 hey guys, just solved the issue myself. there is a step in the guide which is not included in the video, but if faces dont load, try this.
Open Football Manager. Click on "FM", then go to "Preferences". Use the drop-down option and select "Interface". Scroll down to the skin section and ensure that "Use skin caching to decrease loading times" is unticked but ensure that "Reload skin..." and "Show screen IDs..." is ticked".
@@softkoala omg it worked, thanks so much!
Awesome stuff man, this is one of the most insane mods i know. I just tried to manually add non regens but still players without a face to the .rtf file to get them some new shiny faces. Unfortunately that did not work. Should that generally be possible or are the faces limited to actual regens only?
wow you got the ethnicity aspect fixed? thats great!
Zealand, does this work with FM20?
I know it is a bit late but I got it running on FM19 so I guess it should work on FM21.
@@synapsenfick6841 provided filters doesn't work with versions older than FM21, how did you bypass that to get list of newgens with proper filter applied?
@@ihu99ify In-game editor has a filter you can use for regens.
Unfortunately this doesn't work for me. I've done all the steps, everything seems to go okay, then I go to the game and see if it all worked and all have a regen face still.
Will this process be simplified in future? Is there plans to improve process or is this it. Would def be interested if it automatically done it each year to regens.
its really not that complicated lmao
@@R2Sytchannel neither is changing a new car engine if you know how to it. Lmao...
boggles my mind, utterly, that a group of people came up with this, it's genius, just taken the dive. SI should go all in on developing this for the games properly (they won't) but just looks a million million times' better than the awful (they even got worse for 22) regen faces.
Followed step, by step and it didnt work buddy. *EDIT* dont forget to RELOAD SKINS worked for me after that. Seen a few ppl say it didnt work
How do you reload skins?
@@benbrown938 it's under preferances mate
I had to uncheck "use caching" as well then reload skins. It worked after that then i turned "use caching" back on.
my mac doesn't open newgan-manager 1.3.1. I overwrite the unidentified app hiccup and it still says mac cannot open application. :(
same, let me know if you find out how to fix the problem :)
Tried it 2 months ago, didnt work then. Tried again today and it worked!!!
This is such a wonderful thing. Realy ups the game.
Thank you for your efforts
My “NewGAN- manager” app isn’t opening I don’t know why
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I'm far from a technician when it comes to computers, but even I pulled this one off in FM 2020. The filter wasn't visible, but I just exported a list of players younger than 23. This works fine as well and you don't have to be afraid it replaces already existing player faces. They just replace the newgen faces. Furthermore i put the original skin back in order for it to work and i needed to reload the skin as well at preferences (advanced). I'm so happy now :)
Whats going on with the rtf files now? I was about to update my newgens in my current game and suddenly its saying the rtf file is invalid no matter what I do?
Same here. Did you solve somehow?
EDIT: Solved installing v1.1.0
@@TheGhostWriter. of what?
Zealand you genius! Thank you for all the hard work!
Can not get it to open on Mac. Have followed all the steps. Click on open when the the Mac warning comes up but the app simply doesn't open.
The pack is great! It has made its way into the small cicrle of mods I can't play FM without. I tried to replace staff faces, but failed. Could you shine a light on what pannels the different views can be used? Thanks a lot in advance.
SCRIPT FACES player search - player search
SCRIPT FACES squad - squad view
SCRIPT FACES staff - ??
SCRIPT FACES shortlist - ??
So, it's June 2022. I've tried for months (since Zealand launched the new Facepack for FM22) to find a way to get this to properly work on my M1 Macbook Pro running Monterey. Sadly, there's no work-around that I can find anywhere online to get the NewGan Manager to work. I go through all the steps, move the icon to Applications. Open it, open the security panel and allow, just like Zealand shows in the video. When selecting the "Open Anyway" option, hit "Cancel" on the other window, and then "Open" on the new window that pops up... Nothing. No new window, no programs popping up, nothing. And after a bit of online browsing on the subject, it looks like I'm far from the only one with this problem.
Here's to hoping that FM23 has work around, or better yet, that SI picks up on the need for this sort of addition to their game and add life-like new-gen faces (unlikely, I know). For further feedback, I hope hope in future iterations that the pathway to achieving the adding of this facepack be much more simple, or that there's some workaround that bypasses this NewGan Manager program altogether.
Sorry, I know this is a long comment, but I feel foolish for spending 6 months trying to make this work and without any results. Fingers crossed for a working, simplified approach for FM23 and beyond.
u figured it out? i have the same problem
@@tosexe2535 same...
Why do i not have an RTf file? is it bcause i play fm20?
I followed every step several times... it just doesn't work for me
Doesnt work for loads of people but they dont care
Looks great! Are you all working on a version of this that works for FM20?
Zealand has already a Regen Facepack for FM20 on FMBase . You go into the FM20 Forum, and then FM20 Downloads. One of the first Posts is Zealands Real Faces on Regens. He also has an Installation Guide Video on the Channel.
For some reason it finishes after just a second and has not replaced any face...
same here
EDIT: ok, i've sorted it out.
You just have to close FM, and do the Generate faces again, and then open FM, it worked for me
@@miguelmorgado5280 So your steps where: Place faces in correct folder -> generate .RTF -> close FM -> Generate faces?
I tried this but still no luck..
@@UncleEdson yes, i've done exactly like Z.
But when I finish creating the rtf file inside FM, I close the game. Then I do the steps in the generator app.
I open FM again and it worked
@@miguelmorgado5280 Nice to hear you solved it man. Third time now I repeat all steps without any luck..
@@UncleEdson try do delete everything and run it again
any reason why the weird text file for the rttf file doesn't appear for me on mac?
same here can't get it to work
i cant open it, i searched for the problem, came across solutions saying" open %localappdata%\Programs\NewGan-Manager\app\ .config and copy the files and paste it into ....NewGan-Manager\ .config
but the problem is there exists no .config folder in \Programs\NewGan-Manager and there is no. config folder in Programs\NewGan-Manager\app either....however there is one config folder inside Programs\NewGan-Manager\app
ewganmanager and i have pasted that entire config folder into the directories where there is supposed to be a .config folder and yet i cant open the app, pls help 🦋
Hello great video! I was super excited to learn that this is possible. However I am encountering an issue when following process. I was able to download NewGAN-Manager and FMNEWGANv2 to my mac. I also followed your steps and placed the "filters" and "views" folder within my football manager 2021 folder. When I go to to "player search" and then "Manage Filter" and "Import" and "Filters" nothing is there. I went to check the filter folder downloaded from NewGAN-Manager I can see the "is newgen search filter.fmf" file. I would appreciate any suggestions/ideas/help with this. Thank you in advance!
Are you still struggling with this maybe I can help I just overcame a similar problem
@@EM.Bricklayingpleasee help me. I’m struggling with this
@@EM.Bricklaying I have the same problem!
@@dannolan89 same here, if anyone has found a fix please help
Followed the video exactly and it doesn't work for me. Really dissapointing. Got to the final stage says faces replaced succesfully & none of them have changed :( Also takes a few seconds not 20 minutes to run... Reloaded skin, game etc
I've sent an email with some screenshots showing where I've put the files & also the log file
I have done everything like u did, but the regens just dont have faces
same here...
how to reload skin? maybe helps?
@@karlkrey7601 dosent work for me still, after reloading
Has anyone found a solution for this?having the same issue
Try to do it all again from the beginning maybe? Just in case you missed something
Thank you for this, it's amazing. I wonder if the faces would be updated again further in the future. If so, it would be nice to have that rare cool hairstyle in every ethnicity as I don't see pictures with long hair, afro, braids, mohawk, bald hair etc. but definitely should be rare to come across and not on a lot of pictures. But yeah, it's just an idea I thought id share. Thank you for this and stay awesome
The RTF-file at ua-cam.com/video/pmdIkhfmY6w/v-deo.html ? Why am I´m not having a text file like that....?
me to Andreas .. i don t have.. how you fix it ?
I don't have an RTF file either and have followed all the instructions.. any idea what we're doing wrong?
Same here
@@horvathbenceadrian Can someone help? Doesn't work on Mac after following all guidelines
did you know how to do it? haha
The NewGen Manager does not open for me any more. I had it open two times and now it just stopped. I reinstalled but still not opening
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