Force Reload Photos

[Wrathchild]

Is there a way to get the game to force a reload of all historical player photos, some sort of console command or something? I need to test whether my photos are in the right spot, but I'd prefer to not have to wait until a change in seasons to try it.

[La La La Linoleum]

Game Setting > Players & Facegen > Then under Player Picture Functions try Force Update / Generate Player Pictures.

Originally Posted by OOTP 21 Manual

This option is similar to the one above, but it will force the computer to recreate every picture. This is helpful if you have changed team logos or made other underlying changes. This option takes longer than the option described above. The fundamental player pictures, however, will not be changed. That is, if a face has already been selected for a player, that player's face will only be updated, not changed.

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Let me know if that does the trick, I've only ever played with FaceGen so this is my best guess.

[Wrathchild]

I'm not using FaceGen, so I don't think those options are applicable (see image). I haven't yet been able to find a way to force the game to reload historical photos.

[La La La Linoleum]

Originally Posted by Wrathchild

I'm not using FaceGen, so I don't think those options are applicable (see image). I haven't yet been able to find a way to force the game to reload historical photos.

Darn! I found this on the mods/photo sets and facegen forums:

Originally Posted by jasg224

Once you put them in the correct folder, in-game you can go to File -> Settings (Or to Setting in the Main Menu) then under 3D & Facegen there is an option for Picture search mode. Make sure you change this to Search for photo first.

Then, under Game -> Settings and under Players & Facegen there is the option for Player Pictures and you should be able to Force update all player pictures.

It may be referring to the same thing though

This may work if its still showing facegen files:

Originally Posted by Tinman

Just go to the OOTP Baseball 18 folder where you placed the photos. Go to the fg_files folder and delete the contents or move them to another folder in case you want use them in future. Start a new game and the real player pics should be there

This is just ominous:

Originally Posted by ButtersFTW

The only way I found to have real pictures for 2017 season and players appear in profiles was to disable FaceGen entirely. And I had to recreate the league for them to take effect. Doing the "update" and "force update" didnt seem to do anything.

Im sure there is a smarter way. But Im a noob too.

[Wrathchild]

It definitely sounds like those all apply just to FaceGen images, which makes sense. Since the game generates them it wouldn't be much trouble for it to regenerate them. But it looks like it may only search for historical photos when a new season starts, so I may have to wait until the end of the season to see the results. Until then I think I will have to keep manually assigning them. Blank silhouettes drive me crazy! Thanks for taking a look at my issue, though. I appreciate it.