Problems with faces, but NOT newgens...

[steve.battisti]

Hi all,

 

So, in my save, I manually set up faces for just the players on my team, not just newgens. I play in a fictional world, so no one has "real faces." I do my own configuration in the config.xml. I'm familiar with the recent patch that changed the pattern to require a "r-" in front of the ID for newgens. I don't use NewGan or any program to do this.

 

That worked great in my prior save, in which I was in 2050 so everyone was a newgen. However, I just started a new save in 2024, and I'm stumped. I have 20 pepole on my squad. Only one is a regen. I set up all of the player photos with r-, and only my one newgen works. I removed the "r-" for the other 19, but they still don't work. In other words, it seems to be working just fine for any newgens, but I can't get the faces to change for any NON-newgens.

 

So, for example this is the record for my sole newgen, and his player photo works fine:

 

<record from="SWE432" to="graphics/pictures/person/r-2002047977/portrait"/>

This is the record for another fictional player automatically created at the start of the game, and his player photo does NOT work, whether I leave it like this or add a "r-" in front of the ID:

 

<record from="ENG44" to="graphics/pictures/person/2000297457/portrait"/>

Anyone have any ideas? I've of course tried clearing my cache and reloading the skin, and I've confirmed that the relevant image files are in the correct folder.

[Hovis Dexter]

If you are playing with fake players face packs will not work with non-newgens. I raised this a couple of editions ago. SI don’t want real players’ faces to be applied to a random name with the same UID as the real player.

[steve.battisti]

2 hours ago, Hovis Dexter said:

If you are playing with fake players face packs will not work with non-newgens. I raised this a couple of editions ago. SI don’t want real players’ faces to be applied to a random name with the same UID as the real player.

Oh. That's annoying. (Seems like a pretty simply problem to fix from a development perspective. If the player chooses "fake players," then start the unique IDs at a range outside of where "real players" fall. Boom, no random names with same UID as a real player.)

[Brother Ben]

Yeah its an annoying one, your only option really is to holiday for 20 seasons until its all newgens.

As a side note Its a good challenge too as the players will have proper variable personalities

[steve.battisti]

On 19/01/2024 at 09:13, Brother Ben said:

Yeah its an annoying one, your only option really is to holiday for 20 seasons until its all newgens.

As a side note Its a good challenge too as the players will have proper variable personalities

This is actually how I typically do it, but this time I tried using the "start with all fictional players" option instead. But I have since simmed to 2050 and started over, and all is well, thank you!