DF11 NEWGEN - INSTRUCTIONS

This installation manual has been tested and is working.

🔎 The ZIP software you need

• Windows OS users need 'WinRaR' to unzip the downloaded file.

  For smooth file extraction, we recommend using the original free WinRAR software.

  If you encounter any problems, try '7-Zip' or the default zip software on your PC.

  
  

• Mac OS users need 'The Unarchiver' to unzip the downloaded file.

  For smooth file extraction, we recommend using the default Mac Unarchiver software. If you encounter problems, try 'KEKA' or 'Decompressor' for MAC OS.

Note for Mac: With Mac Unarchiver, you might first need to activate Zip Archive + RAR Archive on the 'Archive formats screen.'

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How to use the DF11 NewGan Facepack?

There are 2 ways to use the DF11 NewGen faces. 

1. Automatically (recommended): The assignment of the DF11 NewGen Faces is done automatically through a special application (the so-called 'NewGan Manager app' created by Maradona90).

   
   

   This automatic application includes race intelligence to the game.

   It will sort and display all DF11 NewGan faces by race and origin in the game.

   
   

2. Manually, where you assign a DF11 NewGen face to each NewGen/Regen player yourself.

   With this, you must create the config file yourself to activate the new faces in the game.

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1. Installation with race intelligence application

Let's start with the most popular and recommended installation method, which supports automatic race intelligence and works perfectly with the DF11 NewGen facepacks.

1. Download the NewGan Manager application for the current version of your Football Manager game:

   
   

   FM21, FM22, FM23, FM24 V1.0 up to FM24 V1.3.1 > NewGan Manager 1.3.1

   FM24 V1.4.0 or higher > NewGan Manager 1.4.0

🔎 How to install the NewGan Manager app on your device:

Windows

1. Download the Installer, unzip it, and run the .msi. Go through the installation process

2. Move the views\ and filters/ folder to your Football Manager user folder My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 20XX\

3. Run the Application as Administrator

   
   

Linux

1. Download the .zip file and extract it.

2. Give the AppImage executable rights with sudo chmod +x *.AppImage

3. Move the views\ and filters/ folder to your Football Manager user folder.

4. You might want to run the application with sudo.

   
   

Mac

1. Find the downloaded file, which usually ends up in your Desktop or Downloads folder.

2. Double-click the NewGAN-Manager-vX.X.X.DMG file to mount it. A new Finder window showing its contents should appear.

3. If the window also contains a shortcut icon to Applications, drag and drop the app onto the shortcut.

4. If not, double-click the mounted volume on your desktop and drag the app icon from there to the Applications icon in the Finder sidebar.

5. In your Finder window, add the Football Manager user folder (default: ~/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 20XX to your favorites

6. Move the views\ and filters/ folder to your Football Manager user folder.

   
   

Troubleshooting

If the app crashes for some reason open an issue and please provide the newgan.log file. It helps to figure where exactly the app crashed combined with your description.

Mac

Run the application with Rosetta if its not starting otherwise.

2. Download the DF11 NewGan facepack of your choice.

🔎 How to install the DF11 NewGen facepack:

1. Unzip the downloaded file with the recommended zip software.

2. Add the DF11 NewGen facepack folder to the following directory of your device:

   * Windows (FM21 - FM24) Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 20** \graphics\

   
   

   * Mac (FM21 - FM24) Username\Library (= hidden)\Application Support\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 20**\graphics\

3. Watch the installation video below.

   
   

Since our partner Prisek has made a clear video that has helped thousands of people correctly activate the newgen faces in Football Manager, we recommend using this video as your starting point.

Follow the steps as explained in the video.

A textual step-by-step plan for installing new gens can be found directly below the video.

Credits: Priisek

🎞️ More super handy NewGen installation tutorials

🎞️ English Language - Priisek (Windows / FM24 V1.3.1)

🎞️ English Language - Zealand (Windows / FM24 / 1.3.1)

🔎 Textual installation manual

You can download the 1.4.0 release here: https://github.com/Maradonna90/NewGAN-Manager/releases. If you have Windows, get "Installer-Win"; if you have Mac, get "Installer-Mac." If you have Linux, I'd try the Windows version and run it using Wine.

Note: The 1.4 version of Newgan does not work with versions older than FM24.V1.4.1.

You need to download the 1.3.1 version instead.

1. Extract the zip to somewhere easy to work with, like your desktop or something.

2. Open the "dist" directory and run the app installer.

3. Copy everything in the "filters" directory into your filters directory.

   On Windows, that's usually Documents --> Sports Interactive --> Football Manager <your_version> --> filters.

4. Copy everything in the "views" directory into your views directory.

   On Windows, that's usually Documents --> Sports Interactive --> Football Manager <your_version> --> views.

   
   

Download the DF11 NewGen facepack of your choice.

Once you've downloaded the new-gen facepack, you'll need to place it in your graphics folder. If you've got kitpacks or anything like that, you've already got a graphics folder. It's typically located at Documents --> Sports Interactive --> Football Manager <your_version> --> graphics. If you don't have a graphics folder, just create one.

You can create the folder and place the facepack in it.

Now that you've installed the app, the views and filters, and the facepack in your graphics folder, let's activate your DF11 newgen faces!

These instructions are geared towards FM24 but should also apply to earlier versions.

1. Run FM24 and load your save.

2. Open Scouting

3. I'm going to use "Players in Range" here. There are ways to replace every regen face in the world, I'll mention that at the end.

4. With "Players in Range" open, open your view dropdown (probably says "Overview"), go to "Custom", then go to "Import View".

   Then select "SCRIPT FACES player search.fmf".

5. Select that view in the dropdown, it's often listed as NewGAN.

6. Go to "New Search" and click the cog icon in the bottom left corner of the search pop-up window. Click "Manage Filters," then "Import," select the "is newgen search filter," and then "Load."

7. Now go back to the "New Search" popup, click the cog in the bottom left and select "is newgen search filter".

   NOTE! While you're here, click the Exclude dropdown and uncheck your team.

   
   

Now we've got it all set up and almost ready. Your scouting search page should show the UID (a string of numbers), Nationality, second Nationality, Name, etc. You may want to click around and double-check that you've got regens and not other players because we're about to change all of these players' faces.

At this search page, click a single line, then hit Control-A to select all. It may take a second if there are a lot of players. You can tell it's working on that if you mouse over lines (but don't click), they don't highlight. If they do highlight, it didn't take, and you'll need to leave that screen (just hit back) and go back to it.

With all of your regens highlighted, hit Control-P to print. A pop-up should ask how to print. Select "Text File," then save the file somewhere you can easily find it.

After saving that file, you should open NewGAN Manager.

In Windows, it is in the Start menu.

1. Open the NewGan Manager app and create a profile (just type in a name and click Create), then select that profile in "Select Profile".

2. Now click the three dots next to "Select Image" and select the directory where you saved the DF11 NewGen facepack (Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2024\ graphics\_Name of the DF11 Newgen facepack_)

3. Click the three dots next to "RTF File" and select the RTF file you saved previously.

4. If this is your first time generating faces, in the "Mode" dropdown select "Generate". To the right of that, click the "Allow Duplicates".

5. Let it rip! Click "Replace Faces"

   
   

Once you've generated the faces the first time, you can change the mode dropdown to "Preserve." That will just replace the faces of that years regen crop.

Final step: Open Football Manager > Open Preferences and click "Reload Skin".

Your DF11 newgen faces should now be visable in the game.

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2. How to use the DF11 NewGen faces manually?

This guide is for users who want to assign the DF11 newgen faces manually and do not use the NewGan Manager application.

1 - Go to the 'graphics' folder in your Football Manager directory.If you don't have a 'Graphics' folder yet, create one yourself.

2 - The next step is to open the graphics folder, where you create another (new) folder.

Name the new folder as you like. For example 'DF11 NewGens '.

Now you'll have the following directory:

WINDOWS (FM21 - FM25):  Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 20** \Graphics\DF11 NewGens

MAC (FM21 - FM25):  Username\Library (= hidden)\Application Support\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 20**\Graphics\DF11 NewGens

3 - Download the DF11 NewGan Facepack of your choice.

4 - Unzip the downloaded file.

5 - Select the DF11 NewGen image you want to use for your newgen player in the game..

6 - Save the player image in the new created folder 'DF11 NewGens' from step 2.

7 - Rename the DF11 NewGan player image with the unique FM ID number of your regen.(You can 'Find the Regen ID in your FM game' = Tutorial)

Repeat steps 4, 5, and 6 for every regen player you like.

You can add an endless amount of DF11 NewGen images!

7 - Download & Install the application 'FMXML' from our website to create a config file.

The new Config File will activate the new NewGen faces added to the game.

8 - Create the config file as shown in the tutorial(s).

9 - Open your Football Manager game > Go to 'Preferences' > 'Interface'.

* Click the "Clear Cache" button 1x. 

* Untick the following line: "Use caching to decrease page loading times".

* Tick ON: "Reload skin when confirming changes in preferences". 

* Confirm the changes to reload the skin.

There should be a box that pops up saying: "loading image data for the new skin".

10 - The new added DF11 NewGen face(s) will be visible in the game now.