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LansdowneSt · 12-11-2021, 12:52 PM

I think a lot of them are the old naming convention. A great many were hand-me down facegens that FancySkunk inherited when others quit the CU Facepack effort and so those fg's are just duplicates that don't even correctly tag to a player anymore. Following silvam14's work here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...d.php?t=330868 led me to believe that while a lot of them can be corrected - the value of those corrections isn't worth the pain as many are just zombies. In that thread, Lukas confirms which naming convention is correct and it's the one I post.

When I decided to do a wholesale QA/QC on my fg's and post the ones I redo, I didn't just make a checklist to track the ones I had done, I committed myself to one man, one facegen. Also, while I load MLB, minor and foreign facegens into one fg_files pack for gameplay, my off-line storage of the fg's segregates those players out so that my MLB fg folder should have precisely 22,457 files less those without pictures to work off of (adding new debuts each year). Though admittedly, at the moment, that MLB folder has only 921 fg's in it.

The problem with those duplicates is that every install of the CU Facepack reinstalls any that you may have deleted. That reinstall/duplication issue is why I decided to build up instead of tear down when it came to my fg revamp effort.

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LansdowneSt Global Moderator Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: From Duxbury, Mass residing Baltimore Posts: 8,322	I think a lot of them are the old naming convention. A great many were hand-me down facegens that FancySkunk inherited when others quit the CU Facepack effort and so those fg's are just duplicates that don't even correctly tag to a player anymore. Following silvam14's work here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...d.php?t=330868 led me to believe that while a lot of them can be corrected - the value of those corrections isn't worth the pain as many are just zombies. In that thread, Lukas confirms which naming convention is correct and it's the one I post. When I decided to do a wholesale QA/QC on my fg's and post the ones I redo, I didn't just make a checklist to track the ones I had done, I committed myself to one man, one facegen. Also, while I load MLB, minor and foreign facegens into one fg_files pack for gameplay, my off-line storage of the fg's segregates those players out so that my MLB fg folder should have precisely 22,457 files less those without pictures to work off of (adding new debuts each year). Though admittedly, at the moment, that MLB folder has only 921 fg's in it. The problem with those duplicates is that every install of the CU Facepack reinstalls any that you may have deleted. That reinstall/duplication issue is why I decided to build up instead of tear down when it came to my fg revamp effort. Last edited by LansdowneSt; 12-11-2021 at 02:54 PM.