Cut Out Player Faces Megapack

Our Cut-Out Faces Megapack is the biggest collection of Football Manager Player Faces available. All players are available in the default cut-out style. When you download our Cut-Out Faces Megapack, you'll receive over 450,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.

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  • 2024.06 - Released on 17 Mar 2024
Cut Out Player Faces Megapack

Installation Instructions

1. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using Steam on Windows?

Watch this YouTube tutorial video, which should you guide you on the steps you need to follow to install it. Although it is for an older version of FM, the steps are still the same.  You need to use Winrar (or a similar program) to extract the downloaded file.

 

This is what the MP folder should look like for the respective version of FM you're using:


Anything beyond the blue line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders. 

 

The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:

 

To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.

 

Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).

 

Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked

 

After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.

 

Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.

 


2. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using a Mac OS?

From FM20 onwards, there's been a substantial change to how Mac FM documents are stored. Previously the files would automatically go in the Documents folder here:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x

 

Now the files will instead appear in the following location:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x

 

By default this folder is hidden, so to access you need to do as follows:

Open Finder
Click ‘Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the ‘Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the ‘Library’, click to enter then go to ‘Application Support’ -> ‘Sports Interactive’ -> ‘Football Manager 202x -> graphics’ (create the last folder if necessary

 

Anything beyond this path line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.

 

The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:

 

To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.

 

Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).

 

Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked

 

After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.

 

Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.

 


3. I don’t want to have the megapack in the default user data folder – can I place it elsewhere and how would I do so?

You need to change your user data location. Simple steps on how to do so can be found here.

The above step does not apply if you’re playing on Gamepass, in which case the user data location has to be the default one (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)

It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.

 


4. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using Gamepass?

If you're using Gamepass, then you have to use the default user data folder - point 4 above does not and can not apply to you.

Frequently Asked Questions

If you've never downloaded the pack before, you should just download the larger "complete pack".

If you're not a premium member, it is recommended that you download the base megapack via torrent by going to our cut-out megapack download page. After which, you should then download all the update packs released to date and apply them chronologically.

If you're a premium member, just download the most recent complete pack.

If you already have a version of our Cut-Out Faces Megapack installed, then click "Download Latest Changes" and you'll be presented with a list of all the updates we've released since you've last downloaded a file. Simply download any you might have missed, starting with the oldest.
Watch this YouTube tutorial video, which should you guide you on the steps you need to follow to install it. Although it is for an older version of FM, the steps are still the same. You need to use Winrar (or a similar program) to extract the downloaded file.

This is what the MP folder should look like:
https://i.imgur.com/85lGeDc.png

The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:

https://i.imgur.com/jbZkFfw.png

To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.

Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).

Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked

After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.

Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
From FM20 onwards, there's been a substantial change to how Mac FM documents are stored. Previously the files would automatically go in the Documents folder here:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x

Now the files will instead appear in the following location:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x

By default this folder is hidden, so to access you need to do as follows:

Open Finder
Click ‘Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the ‘Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the ‘Library’, click to enter then go to ‘Application Support’ -> ‘Sports Interactive’ -> ‘Football Manager 202x’

Anything beyond the blue line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.

The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/jbZkFfw.png

To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.

Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).

Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked

After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.

Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
You need to change your user data location. Simple steps on how to do so can be found here.

The above step does not apply if you’re playing on Gamepass, in which case the user data location has to be the default one (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)

It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.
If you're using Gamepass, then you have to use the default user data folder (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)
The torrent file includes the base megapack uploaded just before that year’s FM version is released. Any and all subsequent update packs are to be downloaded separately.
For those who have never used torrents, in the vast majority of cases, it's just a question of downloading the client program (a small file, less than 1MB) and then downloading the megapack torrent file (a tiny file, around 20k) and then letting the program do the job.

Torrent files need a torrent client to be downloaded. I personally use µTorrent but other common clients are BitTorrent, Vuze and Deluge. For those using torrents for the first time, here is a general walk-through on how to download torrents and a specific guide for µTorrent.

Be aware that it will take a substantial amount of time to download the file due to its sheer size and that other people depend on you hosting the file to get it so please leave your torrent client on after you have fully downloaded it. The etiquette is generally accepted to be to upload as much as you download, although this might not always be possible. The older the torrent file, the less likely it is that there will still be users seeding it.
You need to copy and overwrite the faces and the new config file from the update pack into the faces folder and follow the same procedure for the iconfaces folder.

If done correctly, you should be asked if you want to overwrite files – accept. You should have one folder for faces and another folder for iconfaces, and no sub-folder whatsoever in them.

These steps are to be repeated for every update pack downloaded, and they are to be installed chronologically.
Please report this so that they can be reuploaded.
Extracting the file will take a while, but it shouldn't take the hours and hours that the program extracting will sometimes say it will. To speed it up, it is recommended that you have as few programs running as possible so that the system can dedicate as many resources to the extraction as it possibly can.

Secondly, for files as large as this, the calculation of the extraction time will be wildly incorrect at the start. After a while, it'll show a more realistic timeframe, which shouldn't be more than an hour or two if you have a good setup and few programs running at the same time.
You might have a poor internet connection or your browser might have some extensions which interrupt this download. Having loads of downloads ongoing and/or streaming may also de-prioritise this download.

Try using Google Chrome in incognito mode (or the equivalent mode for other browsers) and you should be able to resume the download from the point it was interrupted, if that happens.
This download has two folders: one is the faces folder which contains the cut-outs which should be displayed on this screen. There is also a file titled config.xml which tells the game which images to assign to which person. The other folder is the iconfaces folder which contains the smaller images displayed near a person's name on the menu which comes up when you right-click on them, and also includes a different config file for this folder.

The likelihood is that you've put the iconfaces in the faces folder, or used the wrong config file for each folder. As a result, the smaller images (in 25x18) are being upscaled to be displayed in the person's profile, hence the blurring. Re-install the update pack again, making sure you put the contents of each folder in the right place.
The most recent update pack will include the most recent config file, so you can choose to download it and use it from there.

Alternatively, you can download fmXML and generate a config yourself. There's a video on YouTube on how to use it but it's really easy and the instructions are quite straight-forward.
Down the years, after an update pack was released, it was noted that some images included therein where of the wrong person, with a wrong extension or duplicated. Due to the way the download system is structured, these cannot be removed from the download, so there may well be a couple of hundred images’ worth of difference, depending on the version you download.
Our megapack covers 25,000 teams and it's impossible to cater for these kind of requests since players and staff get transferred or sacked or retire etc and recreating and reuploading 25,000 different smaller packs would be an impossible task. That's why we have all the images in a megapack so that everything is captured therein.
These persons do not appear in the default database for licensing reasons. This means that they only appear in your save-game because they were added via a custom file, generally the real name fix file. However, this means that their UID (which is what is used to map a person's image to the right individual) is different, and so the game cannot assign the image to them from your existing facepack.

To get them to show, you should individually download the cut-out faces that you want from here (or use the UID to find them in your existing facepack if you don't use the cut-out megapack), put them in a separate folder to your existing facepack and create a config file just for them using the method outlined in here (which works for all facepack styles, not just the cut-out megapack).
mons
17 years ago
37 minutes ago
85,496
I am having a mare with this face pack. Now extracted all images, they're sat in graphics, in a sortitoutsi folder, then faces. Config file is present and all faces are viewable. I've reloaded skin and cleared cache in game and still not getting the faces in the game. I have noticed that the standard shadow picture which is on all player profiles is no longer present.

Any suggestions now? Sorry to be a pain.

Thanks

Can you upload a screenshot of your megapack folder please?

Alternatively, contact me via PM, I may have a solution...
mons
17 years ago
37 minutes ago
85,496
.............Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand again. Unbelievable!!!

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/plfleazd0ihS475EbyR3dZ5jJk7bSixq0MXY6WAa.png

I've merged your thread to here. Sorry to hear about your problem. Could you perhaps try to use the workaround used in this post?

Alternatively try seeing if your issue is solved using the steps here...
LukeBlues5
11 years ago
3 years ago
7
i am having a rather odd problem.

i have the facepacks installed however none of the faces work on the france national team page. Oddly, i can see the faces of the players if i access them via their clubs,

ie cant see Paul Pogbas face on french national team page, but when i go to the Juventus page it works.
any tips?

i am having this problem on my PC and my laptop.
mons
17 years ago
37 minutes ago
85,496
i am having a rather odd problem.

i have the facepacks installed however none of the faces work on the france national team page. Oddly, i can see the faces of the players if i access them via their clubs,

ie cant see Paul Pogbas face on french national team page, but when i go to the Juventus page it works.
any tips?

i am having this problem on my PC and my laptop.

It's a licensing issue and easily solved, even in the middle of a save game, by downloading this file.
JustinAero
10 years ago
1 year ago
1
When I attempt to download the 8.0 Torrent, I get an error page saying "Unfortunately this file could not be found on our servers. We apologise for this error, please report this error to an administrator." at http://sortitoutsi.net/file/torrent/7523
Jiří Robenek
9 years ago
1 year ago
1
Premium
When i want to download it by torrent:

Unfortunately this file could not be found on our servers. We apologise for this error, please report this error to an administrator.

Any help?
mons
17 years ago
37 minutes ago
85,496
Hmmm, I'll bring it to the attention of the site owner and administrator
Basshooter
10 years ago
3 weeks ago
1
For some reason I can't download the torrent ones...
moquiwa
16 years ago
3 weeks ago
4
When i want to download it by torrent:

Unfortunately this file could not be found on our servers. We apologise for this error, please report this error to an administrator.

Any help?

Same here...
gerant1972
8 years ago
2 years ago
8
I downloaded the facepack not appear faces of some players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Firmino, etc.

How I can do to keep them?

Thanks.
llewllew
15 years ago
2 weeks ago
6
As has been said I am getting the same error as above. Is there an alternative link?
mons
17 years ago
37 minutes ago
85,496
I understand the torrent problem has now been solved. Could any of you try again and confirm please?



I downloaded the facepack not appear faces of some players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Firmino, etc.

How I can do to keep them?

Thanks.

Both of those players are in the megapack and so there must be a problem with the installation of the file.

There could be 2 issues.

Either:
a) You did not download the full megapack.
b) You did not install it correctly.

In the case of (a), this can be easily verified if you check the amount of images in your megapack folder. There should be 163,800 images or thereabouts. If this is correct, then please upload a screenshot of your megapack folder so that I can check if (b) is the case...
Ciccione
9 years ago
9 months ago
8
Premium
Hi, for FM14 and 15 I've used the same folder placed in H:\Steam\Documenti for this megapack in order to not increase the space occupied in C:\
In this FM16 there isn't the option to change the default folder from C:\Users\user\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2016 to H:\etc

I want to place the megapack inside my H:\ hd.. How can it be done?

Thank you
mons
17 years ago
37 minutes ago
85,496
Hi, for FM14 and 15 I've used the same folder placed in H:\Steam\Documenti for this megapack in order to not increase the space occupied in C:\
In this FM16 there isn't the option to change the default folder from C:\Users\user\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2016 to H:\etc

I want to place the megapack inside my H:\ hd.. How can it be done?

Thank you

Copied from this page on the official forums

This feature was removed because it was apparently causing confusion among users, however it is still possible to adjust your Saving Location if you don't want it in the default location, however you now need to add a command line to the game launch options.

(NOTE: You only need to follow the below instructions if you want to move the location, these instructions aren't needed if you are just wanting to add content to the default location).



To do this follow the instructions below:

- Go into Steam -> Library -> Games view.

- Located Football Manager 2016 and right-click on the game.
- Select 'Properties'
- Click 'Set Launch Options...'
- Copy the following into the dialogue box: --user_data_location="<path>"
- In the <path> section, enter the exact path you wish the folder to be generated (ie D:\Users\ etc)

So for example if you wanted your Saving Location to be S:\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2016

You would add the following text to the dialogue box:

--user_data_location="S:\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2016"

So your Launch Options box should look something like this:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0yMZPPEiZfk/VjJ37eiKN7I/AAAAAAAAAt8/045bZ_iGM34/s1600/fm16_userdatacommand%2Bcopy.jpg

Note that this folder location needs to already exist on your hard drive before setting the launch option, then when you next launch FM2016 the game will automatically generate the needed subfolders (such as graphics, games and skins).

If done correctly the contents of your custom User Data Location should look something like this after having run the game with the launch option set:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFvG6uwD8YU/VjJ37r8x0UI/AAAAAAAAAuA/c69J6bxvlzc/s1600/fm16_userdatasubfolders%2Bcopy.jpg

Also note that if you have any already created anything in game with the default location set (such as save games, shortlists, or tactics) you will need to manually copy the items over to your new location.

To reset your Saving Location to the default position you just need to delete the command line and on your next restart of FM16 the game will go back to using the default location. (Again you'll need to maunaly copy over any existing files from your old custom location to the default location for them to be read by the game).
Ciccione
9 years ago
9 months ago
8
Premium
Solved! Thank you
gerant1972
8 years ago
2 years ago
8
I downloaded the facepack and faces missing me like Cristiano Ronaldo, Reus, Hendersson ...
What I can do to keep them?

Thanks.
batiron
9 years ago
1 week ago
276
The complete pack has already downloaded and applied. After I applied the `Latest Changes` by creating a sub-folder under the folder faces (There become 2 `config` folders exsist), ALL the faces disappeared.... Tried to save and load a game but still no faces ....Any one know how to fix it???
mons
17 years ago
37 minutes ago
85,496
The complete pack has already downloaded and applied. After I applied the `Latest Changes` by creating a sub-folder under the folder faces (There become 2 `config` folders exsist), ALL the faces disappeared.... Tried to save and load a game but still no faces ....Any one know how to fix it???

The bit in bold is not right. You need to put all the changes into the main megapack folder, overwriting when prompted.
Davey Boy
15 years ago
4 months ago
6
The bit in bold is not right. You need to put all the changes into the main megapack folder, overwriting when prompted.

Hi, i have more or less the same problem as this guy except i put them all in the same folder after downloading "latest changes" but i don't know which config to keep?
also are all the Liverpool FC youngers in this, ie Yan Dhanda and Bobby Akenbye etc? if so i have not applied the latest changes properly.

EDIT

is there a video up on how to deal with adding updates to already big mega face graphics?

thanks
mons
17 years ago
37 minutes ago
85,496
Hi, i have more or less the same problem as this guy except i put them all in the same folder after downloading "latest changes" but i don't know which config to keep?
also are all the Liverpool FC youngers in this, ie Yan Dhanda and Bobby Akenbye etc? if so i have not applied the latest changes properly.

EDIT

is there a video up on how to deal with adding updates to already big mega face graphics?

thanks

Overwrite everything when prompted

If you want to check whether those players are in the megapack, then find out their UID and use the megapack search tool to check
KevyMatts
15 years ago
3 weeks ago
16
Premium
Can someone confirm how many files there should be? Winrar has tried to extract but saying an error about a heading. Should I redownload?

Regards
Kevin
mons
17 years ago
37 minutes ago
85,496
Can someone confirm how many files there should be? Winrar has tried to extract but saying an error about a heading. Should I redownload?

Regards
Kevin

Should be just under 164,000. How large is the file you've downloaded?
KevyMatts
15 years ago
3 weeks ago
16
Premium
Should be just under 164,000. How large is the file you've downloaded?

Double checking now and there is 127569
mons
17 years ago
37 minutes ago
85,496
Looks like you're going to have to re-download the file as it didn't fully download...
KevyMatts
15 years ago
3 weeks ago
16
Premium
Extracting it now so hopefully this be it without no errors thanks mons
Aljo24
10 years ago
1 week ago
1,090
Hello!
Are there no more torrent download links or am I missing something?

Thanks!
mons
17 years ago
37 minutes ago
85,496
Hello!
Are there no more torrent download links or am I missing something?

Thanks!

It's in the torrents section at the bottom of this page.
starby
13 years ago
2 months ago
5
Premium
I'm a premium member and this is the first FM version where I just cannot get the faces to load in my game. I've even tried simply copying the entire FM15 graphics folder over to my FM16 docs but it still doesn't work. Logos, kits, trophies etc are all fine. I'm using Win 8.1. Could I be missing this config file? If so how do I get it? Should I just download the entire pack again although it would take forever unless I use a torrent which I've never done before. I'm slightly wary downloading one of these as it might not be safe....

Anyhow any advice would be greatly appreciated. You can take it as read that I am familiar with how to tick and untick the relevant boxes etc in Preferences.

Thanks
mons
17 years ago
37 minutes ago
85,496
I'm a premium member and this is the first FM version where I just cannot get the faces to load in my game. I've even tried simply copying the entire FM15 graphics folder over to my FM16 docs but it still doesn't work. Logos, kits, trophies etc are all fine. I'm using Win 8.1. Could I be missing this config file? If so how do I get it? Should I just download the entire pack again although it would take forever unless I use a torrent which I've never done before. I'm slightly wary downloading one of these as it might not be safe....

Anyhow any advice would be greatly appreciated. You can take it as read that I am familiar with how to tick and untick the relevant boxes etc in Preferences.

Thanks

Hi there, sorry to hear you're having trouble. As you're a previous user, I'm going to assume that you've not made a mess of the installation.

It's very easy to see if you are missing the config file. Open your megapack folder and sort the files alphabetically. Go to the bottom of the list, and there should be a file named config.xml. If there isn't, wait a few days until I release 8.02 and you can add the new images and use that config file. The torrent is safe, I created it myself and haven't had a problem in the past years with it - but if it's just the config you're missing, then it's not worth re-downloading the whole thing all over again.
Kallum Brindle
8 years ago
1 week ago
2
Premium
hi, i have recently encountered a problem with this face pack, i have downloaded it a few times just fine, but this time it is taking sooo long, it is giving me an estimated wait time of 20 hours for the download and is barely downloading even if i wait, for some reason it appears to just be the face packs, i have no problem with anything else. Please help cant play FM without the face pack any more

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