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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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
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By EoW | Permalink | On 04 August 2013 - 12:09 PM
As always, it`s something simple that is going wrong. I`ll have to download it again, since the megapack from D has 13k files as well, don`t know why . I feel a little embarrassed for not noticing something simple like that. Thank you again.

I recommend downloading the torrent file and then the subsequent update packs - it'll take less time that way...
luizcldo
12 years ago
8 years ago
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Hi guys,

There is a little problem here. I have 130491 files on my Football Manager 2013\graphics\faces folder (megapack 5.8). A few faces don't appear on the game (Pato, Thiago Silva etc ) I have re-generated the config.xml file (9,40MB) with FMXML , but the problem persists. I have checked those players IDs and they are all correct. Can anyone could help me with this issue?

P.S. Forgive my terrible english.
mons
17 years ago
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By luizcldo | Permalink | On 04 August 2013 - 21:50 PM
Hi guys,

There is a little problem here. I have 130491 files on my Football Manager 2013\graphics\faces folder (megapack 5.8). A few faces don't appear on the game (Pato, Thiago Silva etc ) I have re-generated the config.xml file (9,40MB) with FMXML , but the problem persists. I have checked those players IDs and they are all correct. Can anyone could help me with this issue?

P.S. Forgive my terrible english.

That's because you missed some update packs along the way. The full megapack with all update packs released should contain 160,000 images or thereabouts not 130k...
luizcldo
12 years ago
8 years ago
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By mons | Permalink | On 04 August 2013 - 20:59 PM
That's because you missed some update packs along the way. The full megapack with all update packs released should contain 160,000 images or thereabouts not 130k...

Ok, i see. But those faces that i have mentioned (Pato and Thiago Silva) are in the folder and in the config.xml file. Why they don't appear?
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
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Make sure that you tick the check box on the page called ‘Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences' and un-tick the box saying ‘Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time’.
luizcldo
12 years ago
8 years ago
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I have already done it... :-(
oko030
11 years ago
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By mons | Permalink | On 03 August 2013 - 18:32 PM
Got it! It's a licensing issue and can be easily solved by downloading (and applying) the FM13 real names fix file from the FM discussion forum...


Ah yeah, that was it! Thanks for that. I'd installed it before, but extremely incorrectly lol.
Cheers mate.
mons
17 years ago
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By luizcldo | Permalink | On 04 August 2013 - 22:55 PM
I have already done it... :-(

Could you upload a screenshot of your megapack folder please?
Marius Hansen Grøtta
10 years ago
8 years ago
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Hi! Where can i get the config.xml file? i`ts not in the 5.0 or 4.0 megapack when i download and unzip...
luizcldo
12 years ago
8 years ago
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By mons | Permalink | On 04 August 2013 - 22:33 PM
Could you upload a screenshot of your megapack folder please?



http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/585/h48z.jpg
mons
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By luizcldo | Permalink | On 07 August 2013 - 01:50 AM
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/585/h48z.jpg

The correct location for the megapack folder is within Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2013 > graphics. This last folder may need to be created. As long as it's in that path, it will display correctly - you would be well advised to create another folder (name it what you want) and put the megapack in there.
scraff
17 years ago
9 years ago
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why does the download stop and say finished at 2gig not the 5gig it says the size it when first downloading ??
piotro21
13 years ago
11 months ago
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Hi guys, I've just made my comeback to FM games and I've got a little request.
I picked Gloucester City to play and I couldn't help thinking that faces in my laptop FM (without facepack installed - not enough HDD space ) looked to be the latest ones compared to the megapack alternatives on my PC. I've checked the creation dates for some ID's and indeed, some files there date back to 2010 and even 2009 in one case.
Is there a non-manual way of excluding those outdated (or even all of them) megapack faces from ID's that have their own faces in a clean version of the game? In other words, I'd prefer to have original faces overwriting megapack faces, not the other way around (yes, yes, I know the MP faces are supposed to be better than the original ).
Cheers
Side Splitting Pass
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piotro21 the reason for this is that (frankly due to a lack of interest from all but a small number of cutters) only about half of the FM2013 SI cut-outs that were (in my opinion) improvements on the existing megapack cut-outs got 'cleaned up' & included in the megapack. Gloucester were one of the many teams that didn't get done.

Sorry if that sounds like a rant but I spent a LOT of time checking through thousands of SI's cut-outs last year, largely for nothing.

If you want to add the images to your game you'll need to use the resource archiver to extract SI's cut-outs for Gloucester then rename them to their correct ID numbers & add them to your megapack.
piotro21
13 years ago
11 months ago
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This will sound weird, because I checked the graphics.fmf and found the folder but guess what, it only contains a config.xml, there's no pictures there. Other teams' folders contain player-named files, but it isn't the case for Gloucester and other Blue SQ clubs. Weird.
Can anybody confirm the same situation?
LukeyMe
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Just a quick question, Didier Deschamps profile picture is not showing up in my game. I have checked my folder and his picture is in there, also the config is correct. It's a strange one because his icon pic is fine but his main image is not appearing.

Anyway I can fix this?

FD
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
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Download the FM13 Real Names Fix file from the FM discussion forum - the part you're looking for will be save-game compatible.
LukeyMe
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Download the FM13 Real Names Fix file from the FM discussion forum - the part you're looking for will be save-game compatible.


Thank you very much
Ashveer
10 years ago
1 year ago
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I am new here,

I have never downloaded any of these facepacks before.

I am not sure about which base pack to download V5.0 or V4.0

Any help would be welcomed.

Sorry if i posted this in the wrong forum.
mons
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I am new here,

I have never downloaded any of these facepacks before.

I am not sure about which base pack to download V5.0 or V4.0

Any help would be welcomed.

Sorry if i posted this in the wrong forum.

Hi there and welcome to our forums. As the number indicates, v5.0 is the most recent base pack version - it was released in October 2012. You can either choose to download it via split files or via torrent. Once that large download is completed, I suggest that you download all the 9 update packs released since then to be fully up-to-date with all the new and improved images cut since that date.
Ashveer
10 years ago
1 year ago
2
Hi there and welcome to our forums. As the number indicates, v5.0 is the most recent base pack version - it was released in October 2012. You can either choose to download it via split files or via torrent. Once that large download is completed, I suggest that you download all the 9 update packs released since then to be fully up-to-date with all the new and improved images cut since that date.


Thank you very much. I have downloaded the V5.0 and now I am downloading the updates now ... How do i install the updates to my base pack?
Side Splitting Pass
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Thank you very much. I have downloaded the V5.0 and now I am downloading the updates now ... How do i install the updates to my base pack?


Start with update 5.1. Move all the contents of that folder into your megapack base pack folder then delete the (now empty) 5.1 folder. Do exactly the same thing with the 5.2 folder. Keep doing this in numerical order with all the updates finishing with the just released 5.9 update.
JayJay777
16 years ago
4 days ago
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I just went to update the cut of Will Hughes with the new one from the England u21 pack, but for some reason it won't change from the old one no matter what i do.

I've checked the id multiple times (29086005) it doesn't even come up in windows windows asking me to replace it like it normlly does.

Every other face in the game shows up apart from this one?


any ideas?
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
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I just went to update the cut of Will Hughes with the new one from the England u21 pack, but for some reason it won't change from the old one no matter what i do.

I've checked the id multiple times (29086005) it doesn't even come up in windows windows asking me to replace it like it normlly does.

Every other face in the game shows up apart from this one?


any ideas?

Will Hughes' image was part of the licensed images included by SI when the game came out, which is what you are seeing. His image was "officially" included in the megapack in 5.04, as can be seen here.

This leads me to think that either you are still with the base 5.0 megapack (and are therefore missing the MP image) or that you have not downloaded from update pack 5.04 onwards (and the config line for the player therefore does not exist).

Either download and apply all the missing update packs in order, or generate a new config file using fmXML.
JayJay777
16 years ago
4 days ago
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I went for the fmXML option due to my unreliable internet connection but that hasn't solved the problem.

I then decided to delete the config altogether and checked in game before i made a new one, but the faces are still showing up in the game even without it.

How is this even possible?
blackmetalboon
14 years ago
1 year ago
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I went for the fmXML option due to my unreliable internet connection but that hasn't solved the problem.

I then decided to delete the config altogether and checked in game before i made a new one, but the faces are still showing up in the game even without it.

How is this even possible?


Either you have a second config file somewhere (although this is unlikely) or the faces you are seeing are the ones included by SI with the game.
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
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JayJay777, how many images in all do you have in your megapack folder?

Can you upload your config.xml file?
JayJay777
16 years ago
4 days ago
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Either you have a second config file somewhere (although this is unlikely) or the faces you are seeing are the ones included by SI with the game.


I've used the windows search box and checked myself (multiple times) there is no config file in my megapack folder.

JayJay777, how many images in all do you have in your megapack folder?

Can you upload your config.xml file?


I only updated my megapack up to 5.1 as i lost patience with the amount of times i lost connection during the downloads.

My internet is slow and regularly cuts off during downloads unless it's a torrent.

I've just been going through the improvement and team pack release threads, updating the megapack myself.

I currently have 118,282 images in my megapack and no config, yet it is still working in the game.

This is the config i have just made using fmXML, but don't need as it's working even without it.
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
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I'm sorry, but what you're saying makes no sense.

How can you have no config in your megapack folder, when you have just posted one? To be absolutely crystal clear, there is no way that the megapack is working if you don't have a config file in the MP folder. It's a bit like saying my car is working without an engine, it's simply not possible. If the MP's working, there's a config file in there somewhere.

The windows search box sometimes does not find all the files within a non-indexed folder, which is possibly why you're not finding the config file in there.

The config file you've attached includes the line respective to the person in question, so it's not the problem.

I suspect there's something wrong in your folder set-up. Perhaps you could take a screenshot so we can gauge what the problem might be...
JayJay777
16 years ago
4 days ago
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This is the config i have just made using fmXML, but don't need as it's working even without it.



I didn't have a config file in my megapack as i deleted it, but you asked me to upload one, so i edited my post to include a copy of the one i was using (If that makes sense).

As i stated, the config i posted is one i've just made using fmXML, which i made to drop into the megapack folder to see if it would ask me to overwrite the one that should be in there somewhere (that i can't find)

Apologies if i have confused you, thats my fault. I appreciate your help on matter.

I understand how crazy it sounds by the way, as i know it should not work without the config file in there.

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