URAN Facepack – Ultra-realistic newgen faces
You want real faces in Football Manager instead of ugly plastic heads? With the new URAN Facepack, you can give all the newgens in your game a realistic look!
The URAN Facepack (Ultra Realistic, Allocated Nationally) contains 55,000 images – and can be assigned more precisely than ever before with the new „FM.Z Tool“. As a refined version of the renowned NewGAN Manager, it now takes into account a player’s nationality as well as their ethnicity.
Specifically: In NewGAN Manager, there were 14 region folders from which any image is assigned to a player. Now we use the ten ethnicities that Football Manager also uses – and subdivide within the ethnicities according to the associated nations.
Example using an English player with the ethnicity 0 (northern european):
- Previously: The player was given any picture from the ‚Caucasian‘ folder if the ethnicity was suitable
- New: The player is assigned a picture with the prefix ‚ENG‘ within the 0 folder, i.e. a picture of an English-generated player. If the player is English with ethnicity 3 (african caribbean), they will be assigned any picture from ethnicity folder 3.
1. Downloads
To give all the newgens in your save a realistic image, you need two things: the URAN Facepack and the FM.Z Tools.
1.1. URAN Facepack
The URAN facepack is available in two versions: with visible kits and as cut-outs.
- Download URAN Facepack „Cut Outs“:
- Dowload URAN Facepack „Visible Kits“:
* Mega currently stops the download about halfway through and sends you into a 6-hour waiting period if you don’t sign up for a pro account. You can avoid the waiting time by restarting your router or getting a new IP via VPN.
1.2 FM.Z Tools
- For Windows: Download via Mega or FM.Z Discord
- For Mac: Download via Mega or FM.Z Discord
2. How to
2.1 Preparation
- Download the FM.Z tools.
- Move the ‘filters’ and ‘views’ folders to your FM user folder. If folders with these names already exist there, merge them.
- You will normally find your user folder here:
Windows: C:/Users/Your name/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2024
Mac: Users\Your Name\Library\Application Support\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2024 (The folder is hidden.) - If not, go to ‘Settings’ in Football Manager. Then enter ‘User folder’ in the search bar and the path will be displayed.
- You will normally find your user folder here:
- Download one of the two URAN facepacks.
- Unzip them and add them to your user folder under ‚graphics‘ in a separate subfolder (e.g. ‘URAN faces’). We recommend 7Zip for unpacking.
- Install the FM.Z tools with the installation file you find on Windows in the ‘dist’ folder. On Mac simply drag the file into ‚Applications‘.
2.2 Export player information
In order for the tool to be able to assign the images to the individual players, it requires various pieces of information. This information must be exported from Football Manager in the form of an RTF file.
Important: This step is necessary every time you want to assign a realistic image to other newgans – after a youth intake, for example.
- Create a new unemployed manager in your save game
- Go to the player search with this manager
- Import the ‘is newgen search filter’ from the ‘filters’ folder and select it. Now all newgens in your score will be displayed.
- Import the ‘SCRIPT FACES Player Search’ view from the ‘Views’ folder and select it.
- Select all players with CTRL + A (Mac: CMD+A). This may take a few seconds or several attempts if you have integrated many graphic mods.
Test: Right-click on the selected players. The number of selected players must match the number of all newgens in the top left-hand corner. Otherwise, select again. - Create RTF file: Press CTRL + P (Mac: CMD+P) and select ‘Text file’ in the dialogue. Give the RTF file a name of your choice and save it to a location where you can find it again.
2.3 Assign images
Now the FM.Z Tools come into play. They read the information from the RTF file and create a configuration file (config.xml) that tells Football Manager which player image it should display for which player.
- Open the FM.Z tools.
- Create a profile. You need a separate profile for each savegame.
- Under ‘Select Image Directory’, select the subfolder in which you have saved the URAN facepack.
- Under ‘RTF File’, select the RTF file you have just exported.
- Select the desired mode:
- Generate for the first assignment (or to overwrite previous assignments)
- Preserve to assign further player images. Previous assignments are retained. Select this mode if you want to give other new players a realistic face after a youth intake.
- XML Cleanup to remove newgens who have left your game from the list. Attention: If your RTF file is missing newgens that have already been given a face, they will lose their image!
- Select FM version.
- Click ‘Replace Faces’ and wait for the programme to react.
(This may take a little longer than you are used to from the NewGAN Manager. In return, you will receive a list of everything that has been assigned).
2.4 In Football Manager
- Clear cache and reload skin: In Football Manager, go to Settings to clear the cache and reload the skin. This will import the created config.xml and the FM will then display the images.
Note for multiple savegames: Only the config.xml of the selected profile is active. If you change your save, you must also switch to the corresponding profile in the tool (and then empty the cache/reload the skin) so that the appropriate image assignment is loaded. - The created manager is no longer needed. You can therefore either end his career or load a savegame before creating it.
Video tutorial
The following video from our friends at Sortitoutsi explains how to assign the URAN faces using the FM.Z Tools:
Wichtige Hinweise
FM.Z Tool and URAN Facepack are only compatible with each other! The folder structure created in the facepack and the naming scheme of the files must not be changed. Configs created with the NewGAN Manager cannot be adopted.
Have fun with our pictures and the nation assignment!
3. Staff faces
You can also use the URAN player faces for staff. The procedure is as described in the instructions above, with two exceptions:
- Create your RTF in the staff search with the ‘SCRIPT FACES staff’ view
- Then add the images to your current profile using Preserve.
Please note that these are the same pictures as used for the players. We released a special staff pack a while ago, but this is only for manual assignement.
4. Troubleshooting
If something did not work, go through the instructions again step by step. The problem is often due to one of the following points:
- Have you selected the URAN faces folder in the FM.Z Tools? You need to select the main folder – not one of the sub folders (like „players“ or „male“)
- By the way: The subfolders must exist! So if you deleted or renamed them, reset to the original state: /players/male/0-10
- Have you selected all players in the player search? Compare the number of the complete list with the number of marked players.
- Have you loaded the correct view? The RTF file should contain the player’s ID, nationality, name and three numerical values. If your RTF looks different, go back to the player search and select the ‘SCRIPT FACES Player Search’ view.
- Is the correct FM version selected in the FM.Z tool?
- Did you clear the cache in Football Manager at the end and reload the skin?
If you seek further support, join our discord. We have smart people there.
5. Credits
A project like this is only possible with lots of helpers. Therefore, many thanks to the following people for their commitment:
Image creation: Flouw, Salty_Toad, Faro21R, FreshMo, Philipp, Latscher, LiquidSnake89, pfanne1988, pumiii, Rondon25, RoterBaron, Timii09, timmyfck, DBodes, LiverBird_FM, MikaNr2, Ruksson, Dave00, GameCrasher, Arnaud Feld
Image processing & quality control: GameCrasher, Arnaud Feld, DBodes, NorsemanLP
Banner creation: Rock’n Rolla
Beta testing: juve2004, Pitt77
Development FM.Z Tools & National Allocation: GameCrasher
Project management: GameCrasher, Arnaud Feld, DBodes
Special thanks
Lust but not least our special thanks goes to:
- Maradonna90/gestalt for the development of the NewGAN Manager, with which he revolutionised the topic of newgen images forever, and for the permission to continue developing on its basis.
- Rock’n Rolla, who originally initiated the project
- Tery Whenett and the FM.Zweierkette community, without whom the project would never have come to life
Hello , i was having trouble where only singapore face didnt work, every nation get the image but strangely singapore player didnt generate face. The xml file and rtf file is different in size
Hi, I unfortunately have no idea what could have caused that problem. Please join our discord and describe your problem there:
FM.Zweierkette.de/discord
Cheers
Tery
Hi sir, actually i’m done following your step. but when i’m trying generate all of it into the FMZ Tools, when i click the „Replace Faces“ nothing happen. i click couple time and nothing happen. btw i’m using mac. so yeahh nothing happen. please help, love your work.
Hi Gebetan,
please check if the folder structure of the face pack is correct:
– In FMZ Tools you must select the top folder
– the folder structure within this selected folder must be as follows: 📂 players 📂 male 📂 0-10
If that’s in place AND you created the RFT file with the correct view (Script faces Player search) everything should work.
If the problem still occurs, please join our discord server – there are the true experts, who can help you for sure.
Cheers
Tery
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I’m getting the correct list, but not enough players are in. The list is 20005 players long, but for example, River plate sub-20 team only has 3 out of 11 players with a new face, the rest are missing.
I tried on another save and the outcome is the same
Hmm… please join our discord and post your problem in the english support channel. I’m sure there is a solution to this, I just don’t know it right know:
https://FM.Zweierkette.de/discord
Download links don’t work, they don’t start downloading (mega stuck on initialization and the other one looks like the click doesn’t work)
Here everything works just fine. Please try again.
I did everything and some faces changed but most of them are still the same. I think the filter its not selecting all players, any solution?
Hi Mathias,
did you create a new and unemployed manager before searching for the players?
Cheers Tery
hi! yes I created a new and unemployed manager and it didn’t work. Then I tried creating another one, also unemployed, but the outcome was the same. Not sure what could be causing this
I guess the ‚is Newgen‘ filter is the problem. Try both options and see which gives you the correct list.
after following all the instruction, the faces are on the unemployed save but not in my real save what do I do?
Hi Taiwo,
you have to create the unemployed manager in your main save.
Cheers Tery
Details of how to use FMRTE (free version is OK, too) to install facepacks (in English):
https://www.fmrte.com/features/fmrte/facepack-installer/
Hey, first of all thanks for the work y’all put in.
I’ve followed all the steps and got the old newgan manager working, but when i want to use the uran facepack with FMZtools then nothing happens when i hit the replace button.
Maybe the Issue is that there is no xml file in my uran-Facepack Folder. but how do i get the file?
I also got the FMXML tool but nothing worked out so far.
Thanks in advance for any help 🙂
Hey Sali,
the config.xml is created by FMZ Tools, so that’s not the problem.
My guess is that the folder structure is not correct. Please make shure to select the URAN faces folder within FMZ Tools. Within the URAN faces folder the structure needs to be as follows: 📂 players 📂 male 📂 0-10
Then it should work. If not you can find further assistance in our discord:
FM.Zweierkette.de/discord
Cheers
Tery
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Hello I’m having some issues,
this is my first time doing this and anytime I try to click on „replace faces“ nothing happens, the button remains highlited but no loading or anything happens. I already tried to uninstall and redo all steps from the beginning but it’s the same. The image directory I select it’s „C:\Users\MyUser\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager2024\graphics\Uran faces/“ I also tried creating a subfolder in the graphics folder were I moved the „Uran faces“ folder, but still it didn’t worked. The rtf file is correct and has all newgen players currently in my save, so I don’t really know what to do. Hope you can help, thank you for your time.
Hi Tommaso,
seems good so far, just check the folders below „URAN faces“. This should look like this: players/male/0-10
Then it should work.
Cheers Tery
I was missing the „players“ folder, so I just had to create it again, my bad thank you very much!
Glad to hear – have fun!
Thanks so much for this really helpful guide, I wonder if you could help with an issue I’m having – when selecting the graphics folder on FMZ tools I get an error message saying ‚Folder 8 is missing in the image directory‘. Any idea what the issue is? The I had selected the ‚Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2024/graphics‘ folder, which has ‚players‘ as a sub-folder
Hey Stefan,
‚players‘ needs to have the subfolder ‚male‘ followed by folders 0-10.
I guess you chose a folder or two to early, so it should look for example like this:
Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2024/graphics/players/URAN Faces
Hope that helps
Tery
i already have the Ultrarealistic NewGAN Faces the one that released in 2023. is this any different from the one that i have ? can i combine both of them together ?
The old one works with the Newgen manager, the new one has a lot of new pictures and works with the brand new FMZ tool.
So as long as you want to stay with Newgan Manager you have to keep the old pack.
Cheers
Tery
Ethnicity gets messed up pretty badly. Seems to go into Not Responding while mapping ethnicities. Anyone else had this?
Hey Scappy,
I hear this for the first time. Does this affect lots of players or just some?
Cheers Tery
Having the same problem. It worked the first time, now next year with a new intake. Followed the steps to update the newgen faces. FMZ tools gets stuck on Mapping players to ethnicity. 😦
Tool is freezing when I press replace faces. Loading bar starts then gets stuck on „Map player to ethnicity.“
Just wait, should get the job done anyways.
waited for 25min, but i´ll try again next season ;)
„Create RTF file: Press CTRL + P (Mac: CMD+P) and select ‘Text file’ in the dialogue. Give the RTF file a name of your choice and save it to a location where you can find it again.“
This step isn’t working… I’m on a PC. It took a long time for the CTRL-A to select all (there are 21627 players, and they’ve all now been selected). But nothing happens when I press CTRL+P.
You can go to the FM menu and then select Print. That’s the same function.
thanks! got it working now – looks sick!
Glad to hear, mate! Enjoy!
Hi, first – thanks for all the hard work that everyone has put into this! I’m working my way through the setup.
Quick question:- once I complete the steps, will it be able to retroactively add the faces to regens that have already been created?
Yes, it only works this way. Before the Newgens are created it doesn’t work, because there is no information about the ethnicities. So it only works afterwards – and therefore you have to run it after every youth intake.
Cheers Tery
I cannot download file on REEDlink. It said wrong captcha while I already put the correct one. please help.
Please try again
still same bro.
Then you unfortunately have to wait and try again later or use another mirror. We have no impact on the recaptcha. Sorry.
FMRTE now supports this pack and can be used together with its facepack installation feature.
Good news for Christmas! Happy holidays mate
Thanks! The same for you!
please can you divide it into several parts in google drive example 2gb per part because often stop download in the middle and can’t resume it
We had to remove Google Drive, because the downloads exceeded the daily limit. Please use one of the other mirrors instead.
Cheers,
Tery
i mean can you upload again with several divide not in one file , please because my download stop in the middle and i don’t resume it
The URAN faces work fine. Although I have one concern, since I play a lot with Finnish teams. Under the previous Newgan setup, Finnish faces were drawn from a pool of all Northern Europeans. Now in the current system, there is only 205 faces for Finland – not a whole lot. The same faces will show up regularly. Are Finnish faces limited to those 205 because I downloaded the Visible Kits version?
Hi Jaakko,
if you check „Allow Duplicates“ the same 205 pictures will be repeated. If you don’t allow duplicates, the tool will use pictures from the same ethnicity (until all are assigned, after that newgens won’t get a picture).
If you want, you can add pictures for Finnish playern by naming them properly.
EDIT: If you use the XML-Cleanup function every now and then, the tools frees pictures that are not longer used and can reassign them.
Hope that helps!
Cheers Tery
Just upload this file to google drive. There is no daily limit whatsoever.
I thought there was. Just added it, let’s see how that works out.
There still is a daily limit. So we had to remove the Google Drive link again.
gofile dot io would be another alternative.
Bro, I had to restart my router like 7 times, no joke, vpn slowed my download speed. Now I’m having a error to extract, guess it came corrupted, idk. It’s almost 2025 dude, please torrent this already, mega is dead. (No hate comment)
We didn’t get it to work, but I just added an alternative mirror.
Please upload faces to https://pixeldrain.com/
Fast, Very friendly, no ads, no invisible clicking, generous daily quota.
Thanks.
Does the daily quota exceed 10 GB?
Why does preserve take forever or doesn’t even work?
Works for me. Maybe there’s something wrong (wrong view when creating the RTF?)
Yes I got it to work I was adding in extra file manually. Fixed now.
Perfect! Have fun :)
„We are also working on offering the files on another hoster.“
Any update on this? Restarting the modem proven to bring more trouble in my case.
We have found hosters that allow us to upload such big files – BUT they restrict download for (not paying) users just like Mega. So unfortunately no news here – besides that you can use the workaround (VPN or restart).
Still happy to take any advice for user-friendly hosters.
Cheers
Tery
Maybe you can host the files on Terabox, or even a torrent. Just giving ideas
No matter what I do this does not work … unless having nearly 90,000 regens is too many …
Hi Steve,
no, that shouldn’t be a problem. Please join our discord for support:
FM.Zweierkette.de/discord
Cheers
Tery
I have followed all the steps correctly, but when I will click „generate“, the application does not want to generate, I have clicked several times it still does not want to work.
Hey Phentam,
please join our discord for further support:
https://FM.Zweierkette.de/discord
Cheers Tery
I’ve followed all the points, but when I hit Replace Faces nothing happens. This also used to happen on the old NewGan Manager. Any idea where it’s going wrong? Maybe it’s just my laptop being weird..
Please join our discord for support (we have an English channel there), I’m you’ll get a solution there:
FM.Zweierkette.de/discord
Are there any staff images ( in suits & tracksuits) that makes them look more like staff than players?
Hey Mark,
we have published staff faces alongside our first pack here:
https://fm.zweierkette.de/en/ultrarealistic-newgan-faces-english/
Please note that they are for manual assignment only.
Cheers Tery
„is newgen search filter“ doesn’t work with Staff Search‘.
Doesn’t matter, the tool only assigns newgen IDs and ignores everything else.
It doesn’t work anyway. Do you have another method or recommendation for staff?
Unfortunately not; at least not if you don’t want to assign them manually.
You can try and ask on our Discord, if you need help.
https://FM.Zweierkette.de/discord
Cheers
Tery
Seems like staff file does not have a config file therefore it does not load in FMZ tools with the same instructions but changing RTF? Or do we need to do staff faces manually?
You can assign the URAN facepack to staff the same way as to players; you just need to use the Staff Search view ingame.