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).
Francesco Videtta
9 years ago
2 months ago
2
Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere but I've spent about an hour looking... but is there a way to have the default FM faces override the ones in the facepacks? I love having faces instead of the 'shadow' pics, but would also much prefer to have official updated player pics. Good examples are Rugani, Dybala, Sturaro at Juventus. The default images on FM without the facepack are updated, but when I install my facepack, they go back to older pictures. Spent all of yesterday making sure I was updated with the right packs and updates. Cheers!
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere but I've spent about an hour looking... but is there a way to have the default FM faces override the ones in the facepacks? I love having faces instead of the 'shadow' pics, but would also much prefer to have official updated player pics. Good examples are Rugani, Dybala, Sturaro at Juventus. The default images on FM without the facepack are updated, but when I install my facepack, they go back to older pictures. Spent all of yesterday making sure I was updated with the right packs and updates. Cheers!

There is a way, but it'll take you a bit of time. Read this thread and follow the steps outlined inside. Although they refer to FM13, the steps are broadly similar.
Francesco Videtta
9 years ago
2 months ago
2
There is a way, but it'll take you a bit of time. Read this thread and follow the steps outlined inside. Although they refer to FM13, the steps are broadly similar.


Thanks
panosab
11 years ago
2 years ago
3
panosab
11 years ago
2 years ago
3
i have an account but i dont have the option to download with torrent
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
i have an account but i dont have the option to download with torrent

The torrent file can be downloaded from the torrent tab at the bottom of this page.
seanceltic67
10 years ago
7 years ago
2
Downloaded the full pack from the site and put it into the graphics folder with my other stuff and changed the required preferences, but it didn't work. I'm on a macbook if that makes any difference, any ideas of how to fix it? Cheers
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
Downloaded the full pack from the site and put it into the graphics folder with my other stuff and changed the required preferences, but it didn't work. I'm on a macbook if that makes any difference, any ideas of how to fix it? Cheers

Are you sure you downloaded the full pack? You should have just over 165,000 images in your megapack folder...
seanceltic67
10 years ago
7 years ago
2
Are you sure you downloaded the full pack? You should have just over 165,000 images in your megapack folder...


Yeah, it was the full pack. It was just under 8GB storage. Deleted and re-download it and it's working fine now so no issues anymore
CampingForGoals
8 years ago
8 years ago
3
I subscribed to the site and then downloaded the player facepack so it will download quicker like it said if I subscribed. However it says my download will take 23 hours. Anybody know a fix or why it is saying that?
Swedie
12 years ago
57 minutes ago
5,592
Premium
Downloading at 3Mb/s so no problem here. What is your internet connection speed? Go to speedtest.net and post your result.
CampingForGoals
8 years ago
8 years ago
3
I have 21 Ping. 22 Download Speed and 5 Upload Speed. Is that why it is taking so slow? I also live in America.
Swedie
12 years ago
57 minutes ago
5,592
Premium
Then you should definitely get higher speeds, do you have anything else running that uses your bandwidth? Try once again and see if it get higher speed.
dalemarshall
8 years ago
8 years ago
17
I have a problem , I downloaded an update for the face pack and after i finished downloading the update, i added them to were the normal face pack is stored, now it's not working, all the faces are gone. Any help ??

mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
I have a problem , I downloaded an update for the face pack and after i finished downloading the update, i added them to were the normal face pack is stored, now it's not working, all the faces are gone. Any help ??

Hi there.

When you say the faces are gone, do you mean that the default blank face is displayed or that there is a blank space where the face should be?

If the latter, then it's an installation issue. I suspect that you have placed the update pack folder inside the main megapack folder. This would be wrong; you should have one folder and one folder ONLY, with ALL the images contained within it. When transferring the new images into the main megapack folder, you should accept all overwrite warnings when prompted.

Hope this helps...
dalemarshall
8 years ago
8 years ago
17
Hi there.

When you say the faces are gone, do you mean that the default blank face is displayed or that there is a blank space where the face should be?

If the latter, then it's an installation issue. I suspect that you have placed the update pack folder inside the main megapack folder. This would be wrong; you should have one folder and one folder ONLY, with ALL the images contained within it. When transferring the new images into the main megapack folder, you should accept all overwrite warnings when prompted.

Hope this helps...





It's the default blank space , i also realized that the new ones i downloaded are showing but the older ones aren't.
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
It's the default blank space , i also realized that the new ones i downloaded are showing but the older ones aren't.

Looks like it's a config issue then. How large is your config file?

Also, can I have a screenshot of your megapack folder?
dalemarshall
8 years ago
8 years ago
17
dalemarshall
8 years ago
8 years ago
17
Looks like it's a config issue then. How large is your config file?

Also, can I have a screenshot of your megapack folder?


It's around 7gb .
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
There's a file within that folder named config.xml. That's the one I want to know the size of. Also, if possible, I'd like to see the contents of the megapack folder...
dalemarshall
8 years ago
8 years ago
17
There's a file within that folder named config.xml. That's the one I want to know the size of. Also, if possible, I'd like to see the contents of the megapack folder...



The config file is 11.0 MB. How do i show you the contents of the megapack folder? Thanks.
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
Just go into the folder itself and take a photo of it, like you did in the above photos
dalemarshall
8 years ago
8 years ago
17
Just go into the folder itself and take a photo of it, like you did in the above photos


OK. Here it is
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
Nothing looks out of the ordinary there
dalemarshall
8 years ago
8 years ago
17
Nothing looks out of the ordinary there



They're not showing up in game , they were until i downloaded the updated pack ??
Swedie
12 years ago
57 minutes ago
5,592
Premium
They're not showing up in game , they were until i downloaded the updated pack ??
Have you reloaded your skin? (shift+r)
dalemarshall
8 years ago
8 years ago
17
Have you reloaded your skin? (shift+r)



Yeah
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
And have you unticked the use skin cache tickbox?
dalemarshall
8 years ago
8 years ago
17
And have you unticked the use skin cache tickbox?



Yeah
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
Can you try using this config file and tell me if the issue persists?

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