NHL09 was released over 11 years ago. The .viv archive (portapt) responsible for the facepacks counted 3827 instances at 70.110 kb.

Since then the archive has grown to more than 8000+ instances (latest ELITE Addon portapt.viv archive). It's time for a revamp!

We're starting from scratch basically with an empty portapt.viv (except for an updated 0000.big file) - no more old EA facepacks, no more old facepacks from previous seasons.

I asked jcNYR7 if he wanted to contribute his facepacks for the NHL/AHL and he said yes (huge thanks!).

Vojghi has given the green light to implement project as the new facepack Elite Addon.

If anyone has created facepacks for the 2019-2020 season and wish to contribute, please let us know

It is highly appreciated if you use syndicateflo's facepack size template in order to create a coherent visual experience.

Contributors:

Tyson12 (Project manager // New 0000.big file + IIHF + other facepacks)

jcNYR7 (NHL/AHL/TELH facepacks)

sergio52 (KHL facepacks)

Vojghi (Elite Roster 2019-2020)

More info + first release coming soon....

New 0000.big file preview

Quote from Garner

All photos and cybers will have new numbers allocated?

Huge task but at least a lot of old and dispensable pics will be removed... at least until someone begins to create some Burmese league and asks for numbers

The player IDs (faceIDs) remain unchanged, don't worry [Vojghi is responsible for any ID changes]

It's the number of .big files/instances in the portapt.viv that changes.

The installation process is exactly the same as with ELITE Addons.

Right now, jcNYR7 is working hard at getting all the NHL/AHL facepacks ready. I'm working on the IIHF facepacks.

Here's the starting point before importing the 2019-2020 facepacks (no leftovers, no old EA/user created facepacks).

To combat photos overlapping, the solution will likely be to create two versions:

a) portapt.viv (league version)

b) portapt.viv (IIHF World Championship version)

Quote from stlouis26

LIke the project but don't get the point with two versions. What if someone want to play e.g. NHL team vs. Latvia (IIHF) ?

And sorry I'm no 09er - portapt.viv has nothing do with cybers "only" facepack- just asking as Garner wrote something about cybers - but I could be totally wrong as I don't know 09 "strutures" that much

Thanks

To clarify what I suggested:

Elite Addon League vesion: Import all IIHF facepacks -> Import NHL/AHL on top of them. Example: Leon Draisaitl (Germany) will have his Edmonton Oilers photo. So players who play for a league team, will have their player portrait for that specific league team.

(optional) Elite Addon IIHF version: Leon Draisaitl will have his Team Germany IIHF portrait. Why an IIHF version? Because if someone wants to play a World Championship tournament, the visual experience will resemble that of real life.

Switching between the two is very easy and offers the end-user some flexibility.

This project has nothing to do with cyberfaces (faces.viv). A similar method could be applied there, but I'm not going to track down the cyberfaces created for the current roster. I'd be happy to manage that project, if someone collects the cyberfaces. But that's a totally different project.

The first release is almost ready for release thanks to the tremendous work effort by jcNYR7 more than 2000 brand new player photos have been created

Currently anticipating a release later this week, so stay tuned