What does the Megapack contain?The Panini Portrait Pictures Megapack V 13.2 contains all the graphics which have been created until the 31th of october 2012. The Megapack also contains the pictures as icons.
What are the icons about?The icons are resized, very small versions of the normal Panini pictures. There are used in the search screen for example. In this way you get a first impression what the player looks like without having to switch to the individual profile page.
What about the Update Packages?Update packages are usually released at the beginning of the each month. They contain the pictures which have been edited or updated during the last month.
There are a lot of different links? What do I have to download?Please read the following paragraph
in total to avoid misunderstandings and errors. If there are postings being related to questions dealt with in this tutorial, we will just be forwarding you to read the instructions again.
In order to have the complete set of Panini pictures, you will have to download all the 7 parts of the Megapack. We have uploaded them to different hosters which should enable all free users to get them in an easy way. You may also use different hosters to download all the parts.
However, it is important to have 7 files named *.zip.001 to *.zip.007 to start with.Attention: There is one exeption from the rule: The Megapack being hosted at Uploaded.to is not compatible to the parts from other hosters. If you choose to download from Uploaded.to you will have to download all the parts from there.
The Update Package as well as the Icon Megapack only consist of one file, that means that there is no difference where to download those files from.
How to unzip the files correctly?See the tutorial below!
But how to unzip them really correctly?Seriously, read the tutorial completely. Follow step by step, no matter how much you think you know. Simply do everything which is written in the tutorial and do nothing which has not been mentioned.
How to unzip the files?Use a proper program to unzip the files. We recommend 7zip (
www.7-zip.com).
You have to unzip the first part *.zip.001 only! The following parts of the Megapack are unzip automatically afterwards.
Where to put the unzipped folder?The Panini Pictures folder needs to be put in to the user-folder of the Football Manager, which is typically located at *user-folder*/graphics/players.
What do i have to do now in order to see the pictures ingame?Having just downloaded, unzipped and put the Megapack to the right folder for the first time, it is not difficult to complete the procedure from there on:
Step 1: Start the FM
Step 2: Wipe the cache
Step 3: Reload the skin
Check if the pictures should be displayed correctly, then move to step 4.
Step 4: Tick “Use skin cache” to improve loading times drastically.
If you have installed an
Update pack, there is one additional step you need to follow, and that is to refresh the config.xml file. Just follow these steps:Step 1: Refresh the config.xml file
Videotutorial by OctavianusStep 2: Start the FM
Step 3: Wipe the cache
Step 4: Reload the skin
Check if the pictures should be displayed correctly, then move to step 4.
Step 5: Tick “Use skin cache” to improve loading times drastically.
Why to use a Download Manager?Even though being zipped, the Panini Megapack is very large. That is why we recommend a Download Manager to download the parts. The weapon of our choice is the JDownloader
JDownloader. Using the JDownloader, you are able to download the Megapack using a container which contains all the links. JDownloader is also able to unzip the files automatically, repair broken files and to identify corrupt files. If you are using JDownloader to download the Megapack, you will find yourself presented with one zip-File which the program has already created of the 7-part zip file mentioned above. You will only have to unzip this file according to the tutorial.
There are error messages during the unzip process. What to do now?Most of the problems can be identified following the next steps of diagnosis:
1. Reading the instructions completely may answer a lot of questions.
2. Using WinRar instead of 7zip may cause Unzip errors.
3. The files have not been downloaded completely. Please check the size of the parts: Part 1 to 6 do have a size of exactly 1GB each, Part 7 is 639 MB big. Try to download the parts again which do not match the target filesize.
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