Player Faces

[Wrathchild]

When there is a transition from one season to another there is a face where it generates new players and updates player photos. I have two questions on this:

1) It doesn't touch players already assigned photos, does it?

2) Why don't 'generic' players get pictures? I thought it was supposed to randomly assign a photo from the Generic folder for these.

[Frozen Stiffer]

I can only answer one of these for sure...

1) No. It does not change existing players who already have photos.

[Bustoff]

Wrath, I have seen instances where a fictional player will not be assigned a picture, and in every case that I can recall, it was a scrub.

If you tell PS to AutoAssign player photos from the Configuration Options dialog box, it will assign different pix to all of the fictional players...so Joe Bagodonuts may lose/gain facial hair etc. and may even change skin color (There must be a joke in there somewhere, but I can't seem to find it.). And I am not sure if the scrubs will be assigned pictures when you do that. They may still be faceless nobodies.

It might be worth a try...but back up your current database before you do.

[MPHopcroft1]

Related question: What is the most reasonable way to organize your faces directory for maximum coverage? Mine is organized by decade, and severeal significant players who probably have pictures don't display them.

[Wrathchild]

Mine all are organized by decades and I haven't really seen any problems with real players getting a photo if one exists. What it looks like to me, though, is that if you are playing a historical association then fictional players won't be assigned random faces from the Generic folder.

[Frozen Stiffer]

Wrath,
 
I don't believe so, but I wasn't 100% sure so I didn't want to respond at first. If the teams you are playing with are relatively new or newer teams, PadresFan's site has a pack of face images for fictional players but with uniform of real teams. i.e. you can find a generic face for a Marlins player or someone from the Yankees. It's a much better alternative, in my opinion, than the blank face slot.

[Wrathchild]

FS,

I do have the faces from PadresFan's site, but forgot about them. My Generic folder has the pack of 2600 random faces (non-team specific), and I've been using those, though I have no idea why I wasn't using the fake faces from the real teams. I think I simply forgot that I had them.

[Frozen Stiffer]

Wrath,
 
I have that pack too. I use it for ficional associations. When I'm doing a REAL association, there's nothing better than that other pack. Glad you remembered you had it!
 
=oD

[MPHopcroft1]

Where is your faces directory located? I don't know if mine are in the right place, because the program can't find the faces of guys like Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.

[Wrathchild]

The faces directory should be under \mods.