Facegens and Foreign Names

[ChapelHeel66]

How should foreign names with special characters be handled in facegen files? I'm Windows 10.

For instance, the "Info" for Martin Necas shows "Martin_Nečas_15_1_1999" as his ID, with a caron over the c.

I tried creating the c-caron in Word and pasting it into the .fg filename for him, and it shows correctly in the Windows directory (martin_nečas_15_1_1999.fg), but when I Auto-Reload Picture from Necas' player profile, it did not update.

Since the historical .fg files I have seen do not seem to have special characters, I also tried it with a standard English c, ignoring the caron (martin_necas_15_1_1999.fg). That does not work either.

What am I missing?

[Castleview]

The problem with including the special characters is that sometimes the
facegens will work correctly, and sometimes they won't. Also it seems to be completely random,
as opposed to being the same specific characters that are consistently at fault.

I found it simpler to just ignore them completely when creating facegens , but that means that you then
have to edit the players name in FHM to remove them, which is undoubtedly a pain. You need commissioner mode
turned on to do that.

I requested in the FHM10 changes that they add an option to remove/ignore the use of special characters, but I've no idea if that is even feasible.

[northjersey]

Originally Posted by ChapelHeel66

How should foreign names with special characters be handled in facegen files? I'm Windows 10.

For instance, the "Info" for Martin Necas shows "Martin_Nečas_15_1_1999" as his ID, with a caron over the c.

I tried creating the c-caron in Word and pasting it into the .fg filename for him, and it shows correctly in the Windows directory (martin_nečas_15_1_1999.fg), but when I Auto-Reload Picture from Necas' player profile, it did not update.

Since the historical .fg files I have seen do not seem to have special characters, I also tried it with a standard English c, ignoring the caron (martin_necas_15_1_1999.fg). That does not work either.

What am I missing?

my fix, which usually works, is to find the original filename, right click and rename, and copy the file name
then rename the new file (in another folder) using paste, and then copy the new file back into the original folder (overwriting the original). Works most of the time

[ChapelHeel66]

When you say "original filename," do you mean from the historical facegen mod pack? Because right now I have no fg files at all. I'm creating the Canes .fg files from scratch.

Originally Posted by northjersey

my fix, which usually works, is to find the original filename, right click and rename, and copy the file name
then rename the new file (in another folder) using paste, and then copy the new file back into the original folder (overwriting the original). Works most of the time

[Castleview]

Originally Posted by ChapelHeel66

When you say "original filename," do you mean from the historical facegen mod pack? Because right now I have no fg files at all. I'm creating the Canes .fg files from scratch.

I think he means the player pics file. The first time you open a player
profile page it will generate a file in the player pics folder. If a facegen exists it will use that , otherwise it creates a fictional picture.

If you create a new facegen you can use the 'Auto-Reload picture' in the Picture Menu to update the fictional picture to the facegen.

[northjersey]

Originally Posted by ChapelHeel66

When you say "original filename," do you mean from the historical facegen mod pack? Because right now I have no fg files at all. I'm creating the Canes .fg files from scratch.

I mean in the <FHM folder>\saved_games\<save name>.lg\graphics\player_pics directory