Installing newgen and staff facepacks

Facepack Installer links images to people in your savegame through a config.xml file. It is free, but you must supply the facepack; it does not generate images.

Before installing

Load your savegame, then download and extract a compatible facepack. Choose its image folder, not the archive.

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Install a small test set

1. Open Facepack Installer from the toolbar.
2. Choose Facepack Folder and check the detected pack type and face count. If it says No facepack found, check the extracted folder.
3. Check Game graphics Folder. Use Open to inspect it.
4. Select Copy to game graphics folder, or copy the finished pack and config.xml there yourself.
5. Choose Target Persons. Use Custom → Customize for a few people, or a group such as newgens, players or staff.
6. Choose the mode below and whether to Allow Duplicates.
7. Select Install and check the installed, preserved and missing-person totals.
8. Confirm the images and config.xml are in the graphics folder.

Mode	Effect
Preserve	Keep existing mappings
Override but preserve missing persons	Replace selected mappings; keep those outside the selection
Override	Replace existing mappings in scope

Allow Duplicates lets more than one person use the same image. Leave it off if every person should have a different face.

Make FM26 load the new mapping

Reopen the same person's profile in Football Manager to check the face. If your game offers graphics-cache or skin-reload controls, use them. Otherwise, restarting the game is a diagnostic step; a universal refresh sequence is not yet confirmed.

If the face remains missing, check the files below before reinstalling with Override.

Add more faces later

Use Preserve to keep current faces, or Override but preserve missing persons to replace selected ones. Compare installed, preserved and missing totals after each update.

Game graphics Folder is blank, missing or wrong

The destination comes from the running game's user-data folder plus graphics. It is read-only. Facepack Folder is the source pack, not the destination.

1. Load the correct savegame in both apps and reopen the installer.
2. Use Open to check the destination, especially with redirected Documents or a custom user-data location.
3. Create a graphics subfolder there if it is missing.
4. Keep the extracted images and completed config.xml together inside it.

If the destination is blank or points to another installation, report both paths. Changing the install mode does not fix a wrong folder.

Italmed, SAMed or a dictionary-key error

Update FMRTE and check that the pack is supported and fully extracted. If the error remains, report its exact text, pack name, detection result and install mode. Deleting config.xml is not a general fix.

Installation succeeded, but the face is still missing

Check one person from start to finish:

Check	What must match
Person	The unique ID in the loaded savegame
Mapping	That ID in config.xml
Image	The mapped file exists relative to the config file
Destination	The pack is inside this game's graphics folder
Display	Football Manager has refreshed the graphics

Installation totals describe the files processed, not whether Football Manager displayed them.