Sims

Don't know if its been asked before but how do you put a picture on the profile of a created player?

nMLasKi

First of all you must know your player ID (to see this, just activate the option show players ID on the preferences menu).

Then, you must edit or create a new config.xml file inside graphics/players folders, something like this:

<record from="name of your picture" to="graphics/pictures/person/xxxxxxxx/portrait" />

Name of your picture: obviously the name of your .jpg or .png
xxxxxxx must be your player ID.

You should try this editing any of the config.xml files in your players folder (if you got one), just add another line and thats it !!

Good luck

Soul_Linneus

This may be a bit more comprehensive:

Create a directory with the name of your player.

Make sure the pic has the right resolution. In FM2007 pics had 95x95 resolution. I know it's a higher resolution now. You should look it up on the graphics forum to be sure, but I think it's 180x180 now.

save the pic as: name player.png (not .jpeg or anything else, it must be .png) For example "johnny speed.png" ('photoshop' allows you to do thid, but also 'Microsoft picture it!'

Put the pic in the directory you've created.

Create a config.xml: you can use the default config-file located in data/graphics/pictures/players/normal/default (may be a diffferent location in FM2008). Open the config file with wordpad. There's a line that you can edit:

<record from="none" to="graphics/pictures/person/none/portrait"/>

You need to replace 'none' with the filename of the picture and the unique-id of the player. The line should look something like this:

<record from="johnny speed" to="graphics/pictures/person/2000146839/portrait"/>

Save as: config.xml

Put the file in the same folder as you picture. This file actually links the picture with the player.

How can you acquire the unique-id?
- preferences, enable unique-id, you should see a number under the name of the player.
- Do a search with genie scout (when it is released )

Next step: put the directory you've created somewhere in a file with other regen pictures: data/graphics/pictures/players/normal/...

Last step: preferences -> display & sound -> tick 'always reload skin on confirm' -> confirm -> the skin should reload and your pic should appear.