Chris717

Could somebody tell me how to make a 95x95 player picture for a facepack.

And if u know how to put it on the game..Thnx

jambos2006

Off the top of my head, download irfanview. Load up the players face, resize to 95x95 (unticking keep aspect ratio). Save as png (will have to change it's name to whatever code the player has in the game) in CMy Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2007\graphics\pictures\players\normal\

Chris717

Is the code the players ID number

debski

yes

Chris717

It's not worked i'm gonna try again

emcfc

You have to make a config file as well to put it into the game

Chris717

Are you sure you save it to that area becoz it ain't showin up

Chris717

I've made a picture for sherman cardenas. And renamed it by his unique ID. Where do i save it to.

emcfc

You need to make a config, look at other configs and change what should be changed like ID and file name

Frankie 7

Creating/Adding Player Pictures
One of the most popular things people like to add to the game are player pictures (commonly known as Face Packs). These are fairly simple to create, even with limited knowledge of graphics packages.

The following is a step-by-step guide to putting a player picture in the game from start to finish using Adobe Photoshop.

Once you have the source image of the player, load it into Photoshop and get ready to cut off his head!


* Select the Rectangular Marquee tool (M)
* While holding the shift key, click and drag so that you get his head area in a perfect square. You can adjust the positioning of this area by using the arrow keys.
* Once you have got the positioning correct, select Crop from the Image menu. This will cut the head area down to size.
* Now you need to resize down to 95x95 pixels.
* Choose Image Size from the Image menu and change both the width and height values to 95 pixels and click OK
* Now we have to work some magic to workaround some transparency problems in the game.
* Open the Layers palette (F7)
* Right click on the active layer (should only be one) and choose Duplicate layer and click OK. Then you need to delete the layer you just copied from, most commonly known as Background.
* Then select the layer you have left and change the opacity value in the layers palette to 99%
* In order for the game to be able to pick these up, they need to be in the data/graphics folder. I recommend putting player pictures somewhere in data/graphics/pictures/players/myplayerpics so that they don’t get mixed up with any official player pictures.
* Save your image as playername.png where playername is the name of the player. Eg (zinedine zidane.png)
* It may also be a good idea to organise these in folders for each club. Eg (graphics/pictures/players/myplayerpics/real Madrid/)



Note: There is a Photoshop Action available that will automate most of this process for you. You can find out more information about that by visiting this topic here: http://community.sigames.com/eve/for...06/m/217204038

Now you are ready to hook these up to the game.

To assign a picture to a player in the game, you need to find out a player’s unique ID. This can be found ‘in-game’ by setting the Show Unique IDs option in the Display section of the Preferences. The unique ID will now be displayed as a number underneath the player’s name when viewing his profile in Football Manager.

Once you have found out the unique ID we can then go about assigning a picture file to a unique ID so that the game knows which picture to show for which player. To do this, we have simple config.xml files where you can enter your picture information.