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).
kanewfc
13 years ago
4 years ago
53
Hello,

Was just wondering if anyone could help, I love the megapack, however I spend much of my career in the lower leauge's of England where SI have already included most of the latest faces. Is there a way I could avoid the megapack overwriting these, or better yet, accessing these images so that I could overwrite the Megapack with the SI images.

Any help would be much appreciated,
Thanks.
Phil Armitage
10 years ago
10 years ago
5
Just after some pointers, guys. I've uninstalled everything and am starting again in an effort to get this working. The next hurdle is that two Sports Interactive files have appeared in my documents.

One contains;
Editor Data
Games (in which my current saved game is located)
Matches
Skins
Sounds
Tactics
and a PNG image called 'Texture Sheet'

The other contains;
Editor Data
Games (with no saved games)
Skins
Sounds

Has anyone else had this?

Any ideas where to locate the graphics folder? On my previous attempt i deleted the Sports Interactive file that didn't have a saved game and put the graphics folder in the other one. Obviously i don't want to replicate that method as it didn't work.

Thanks in advance.
Maxinho94
12 years ago
8 years ago
1
Hi guys and thanks for the amazing job on the cut out face pack.

I'm trying to get the 6.0 update changes but it doesn't seem to be working properly. Can anyone help me please? Once I get on rapidshare and select the link to download, it stops working and get an error page... weird...

Thanks for your help.
mons
17 years ago
43 minutes ago
85,307
Hello,

Was just wondering if anyone could help, I love the megapack, however I spend much of my career in the lower leauge's of England where SI have already included most of the latest faces. Is there a way I could avoid the megapack overwriting these, or better yet, accessing these images so that I could overwrite the Megapack with the SI images.

Any help would be much appreciated,
Thanks.

Read the bottom part of this post.





Just after some pointers, guys. I've uninstalled everything and am starting again in an effort to get this working. The next hurdle is that two Sports Interactive files have appeared in my documents.

One contains;
Editor Data
Games (in which my current saved game is located)
Matches
Skins
Sounds
Tactics
and a PNG image called 'Texture Sheet'

The other contains;
Editor Data
Games (with no saved games)
Skins
Sounds

Has anyone else had this?

Any ideas where to locate the graphics folder? On my previous attempt i deleted the Sports Interactive file that didn't have a saved game and put the graphics folder in the other one. Obviously i don't want to replicate that method as it didn't work.

Thanks in advance.

Don't delete anything, just create a graphics folder in the first folder (i.e. the one in which your save games are placed). Please remember to tick and untick the respective boxes in the preferences as well.



Hi guys and thanks for the amazing job on the cut out face pack.

I'm trying to get the 6.0 update changes but it doesn't seem to be working properly. Can anyone help me please? Once I get on rapidshare and select the link to download, it stops working and get an error page... weird...

Thanks for your help.

What error is being displayed?
rabadidah
10 years ago
8 years ago
15
RapidShare download link is down, can you reupload please?
mons
17 years ago
43 minutes ago
85,307
Can you give the link for the Rapidshare download which is down please?
Andy Crank
11 years ago
2 years ago
1
Premium
Hi,

I have subscribed to premium membership & appreciate the job you guys fo - just have a question about the face pack download - I am downloading the full file (6GB) and the download logo that I am presented with is a word document logo - is this correct?

It is not finished yet so may well create a zip file but just not sure of this is right?

Cheers
mons
17 years ago
43 minutes ago
85,307
If the file is 6GB, then it's safe to assume that the extension is .rar. You'll need Winrar to extract it. I'm not sure where you're seeing a download logo or what that means, but I don't think you have anything to worry about...
Mrjooleo
12 years ago
1 year ago
9
Can anyone help about rapishare ?? is there any secret i need to do? for donwload the updates?
Friberi
10 years ago
4 days ago
1
When I download the 6.0 cut-out megapack the download finishes before it reached 6.1GB. Sometimes it have only downloaded about 800MB before it finishes and sometimes about 2.5GB before it finishes... But it should be about 6.5GB as it says when I download it. What is the problem? And yes, I am a premium member! Would really appreciate a quick response. Ty!
daveo72
15 years ago
3 years ago
31
I'm unable to get the cut out faces to load into the game. I have downloaded the file through torrents, unzipped and place in the graphics folder in my FM14 folder for the game*(which I had to create as was not there) "C:\Users\user\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2014\graphics\MEGAPACK 6.0". I've reloaded the game over and over again but they will not show. Do I need to change the folder name of the torrent down load from "megapack 6.0?"

What am I doing wrong as most people say they work (I'm not too handy when it comes to this kind of thing)

Regards and many thanks for any advise
O'Leary's Trainee
15 years ago
7 years ago
2,636
Go into Preferences/Interface and first click the "Clear Cache" button. Choose to reload skin on confirm, and untick the "use cache" button. Player faces should now appear after the skin has reloaded.

Go back into preferences and set the game to use cache and not reload on confirm again, for faster loading times.
daveo72
15 years ago
3 years ago
31
Thanks O'Leary's Trainee, You my friend are nothing short of a genius and I take my hat off to you

many thanks mate
mons
17 years ago
43 minutes ago
85,307
Go into Preferences/Interface and first click the "Clear Cache" button. Choose to reload skin on confirm, and untick the "use cache" button. Player faces should now appear after the skin has reloaded.

Go back into preferences and set the game to use cache and not reload on confirm again, for faster loading times.

Is it possible for you to take a screenshot of the FM14 beta preferences as indicated above so that I can add it to the OP? This would help us display the solution in a graphical manner for users who suffer this issue...
mons
17 years ago
43 minutes ago
85,307
Can anyone help about rapishare ?? is there any secret i need to do? for donwload the updates?

What is the problem? Are you getting an error message or what? Help us help you by being a little bit clearer in explaining your problem


When I download the 6.0 cut-out megapack the download finishes before it reached 6.1GB. Sometimes it have only downloaded about 800MB before it finishes and sometimes about 2.5GB before it finishes... But it should be about 6.5GB as it says when I download it. What is the problem? And yes, I am a premium member! Would really appreciate a quick response. Ty!

What internet browser are you using? Looks like your internet connection is timing out, so you might want to use a download manager which would enable you to resume stopped downloads.
O'Leary's Trainee
15 years ago
7 years ago
2,636
Thanks O'Leary's Trainee, You my friend are nothing short of a genius and I take my hat off to you

many thanks mate


You're welcome

Is it possible for you to take a screenshot of the FM14 beta preferences as indicated above so that I can add it to the OP? This would help us display the solution in a graphical manner for users who suffer this issue...


Something like this?

http://s23.postimg.org/ve5p5k3gb/instructions.jpg
mons
17 years ago
43 minutes ago
85,307
Mathias Jensne
11 years ago
1 week ago
2
Premium
how do i get it to Work it says i should get a .zip file but mine is a .rar
mons
17 years ago
43 minutes ago
85,307
how do i get it to Work it says i should get a .zip file but mine is a .rar

It's still a compressed file - use winrar to extract it and follow the installation instructions in the readme file and in the opening post of this thread.
xixuphan
17 years ago
2 months ago
1
I'm looking for the link to download 5.10 update. Pls help.
mons
17 years ago
43 minutes ago
85,307
I'm looking for the link to download 5.10 update. Pls help.

On this page, scroll down to where there is a tab named Version 5. It's in there.
MetalHeroChris
13 years ago
3 days ago
4
If I download all the files from say 5.0 right up to 5.10 then go for the 6.0 update only pack will it work still?

Thanks for your help.
mons
17 years ago
43 minutes ago
85,307
Yes, you should be fully up-to-date that way.
joe ranger
10 years ago
1 week ago
18
Im having trouble with the megapack. while its downloading it dosent fully download. it automattically stops i put the downloaded file into the graphics file and extract it and it comes up with a message saying this file is corrupt..... help?
mons
17 years ago
43 minutes ago
85,307
Im having trouble with the megapack. while its downloading it dosent fully download. it automattically stops i put the downloaded file into the graphics file and extract it and it comes up with a message saying this file is corrupt..... help?

Try using a download manager to ensure that if the file is for whatever reason stopped, then it is subsequently resumed from that point later. If this still does not work, then you may best be advised to use the torrent file. Please, also let the download complete fully before moving the file.

If the download is not completing, then it's not that surprising if the file does not extract correctly.
joe ranger
10 years ago
1 week ago
18
Try using a download manager to ensure that if the file is for whatever reason stopped, then it is subsequently resumed from that point later. If this still does not work, then you may best be advised to use the torrent file. Please, also let the download complete fully before moving the file.

If the download is not completing, then it's not that surprising if the file does not extract correctly.

I have downloaded the torrents. what do i do with them?
the graphics that has downloaded are on the game. its just getting the download over the finishing line. on my old computers its worked no problem. but bought a new pc and it wont do it
Ben Getty
10 years ago
2 years ago
37
Hi just joined this site and paid up so I could download Megapack 6.0. Downloaded and extracted however it is only showing 974 images as being available as opposed to the 100,000+ that is meant to be there. Any thoughts? Also the read-me doc says it is version 5.0 but I definitely selected 6.0 and it downloaded 6Gb odds of data. Using a Mac if that makes any odds.

Thanks.
Ben Getty
10 years ago
2 years ago
37
Cancel my above, the Mac is just incredibly slow and I am stupid.
mons
17 years ago
43 minutes ago
85,307
I have downloaded the torrents. what do i do with them?
the graphics that has downloaded are on the game. its just getting the download over the finishing line. on my old computers its worked no problem. but bought a new pc and it wont do it

Read the opening post of this thread to understand how to use the torrent file for the 6.0 megapack, which is the only one you need.

I have no idea what you mean by "the graphics that has downloaded are on the game". Please try to be as clear as possible in your explanations to help me help you
peps_place
17 years ago
2 weeks ago
26
Hi!
I can´t download from rapidshare. This is the file sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_6.00_changes.rar. Nothing happens when i try to download it?!!
What should i do? Other links?
Nothing happens when i click on the page

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