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.
- 463,302
- 2024.07 - Released on 15 Apr 2024
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'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.
This is what the MP folder should look like:
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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Simon Charlton
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mons
How many images in total do you have in your megapack folder?
Adam Eaton
I've just received my copy of 14 this morning as I was still playing 13 with all the updates etc .
I store all graphics and such on an external hard drive, always have done, without any problems, apart from today.
I tried to use my 13 face packs and they don't seem to work and have also deleted all the other faces in the game as well, e.g. league 1 players and Scottish leagues. Note, the kits and logos etc I have copied over have worked successfully. So what's the best way to get the old face packs from fm13 to work in this years copy ?
Cheers
Eaton
mons
How many images in all do you have in your MP folder on the external hard-disk?
Adam Eaton
Alright mate.
I've got Megapack 5.00 parts 1 - 14, then 0.1-0.5 of the changes + 6.04 changes (which I didn't have for fm13).
Computer > :E > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2014 > Graphics > Pictures ... is the layout of the files, and as I mentioned, the logo's and kits have worked fine which are in the same file layout (just in their respective folders)
Really am stuck, and its driving me mad !
mons
Can you screenshot the folder contents so I can see how many images in all you have?
Not sure what 01. to 0.5 are
Adam Eaton
Cracked it.
One other question though, you know the Megapack Search Tool, when I get images from there now to replace ones I don't like from the megapack, and save them to a folder and use FM Graphics Configurator v1.2 to create a Config file, those images aren't appearing, or don't seem to be overwriting the image from the Megapack at least.
Do I need to delete the previous image from the Megapack to make the new ones work, because I had a few cases on fm13 where I did that that and was then left with no image for that player .
Any advice with this pal ?
Cheers for your help so far ..
mons
This...
Adam Eaton
Okay I'll try that.
As I mentioned though, I've done that a few times in the past and I've been left with no face at all after deleting the one from the Megapack, and then not been able to get the new ones to work.
I'll see how this goes anyway ...
Adam Eaton
Unfortunately, exactly what I predicted, has happened.
I've deleted the originals from the MP, and now have no face at all appearing in game for 7 of my first 11 for Wolves after downloading replacements and creating configs from the search tool.
Really annoying.
Any idea's ?
O'Leary's Trainee
Try just putting the images (not the config you created) into the megapack folder instead. The config should already have those ID's assigned, and currently the game is trying to read those images over the ones you've added separately.
Any time you want another image than what comes with the megapack, you just need to copy over the preferred image. No need to create new config files unless the image is previously missing.
Adam Eaton
Okay mate cheers, will try when I get home.
What do you recommend I do with the folder I have created to store the 7 pictures in, just delete it ?
Cheers
Adam Eaton
Cheers
mons
Keep in mind that having two separate images for the same UID in different folders causes the game to load only the one whose config is in the first folder in alphabetical order and therefore disregard the other one. If you just remove the image from the first folder, it still won't work and actually will display no image whatsoever because the config is still pointing towards a location which is now empty.
As always, do remember that you should have one folder and one folder ONLY for the MP's current images to be displayed.
In order to have a different image to that in the default MP, there are two options:
a) you replace the MP image with the one of your choosing. This may however be overwritten if future update packs contain a replacement; or
b) you create a new folder with the new image(s) you want and create a config with fmXML. At the same time, you delete their equivalents from the megapack AND create a config to replace the previous one in the MP folder.
Hope this is clear...
Adam Eaton
So, would it be safe to assume the best way for me to proceed, would be to create a new config for each of the 15 parts of the MP I have , + a new config for the folder I created with the 7 images in?
That way all the configs will be up to date ?
Seems logical ... ?
mons
Then, from this folder, remove the images with the filenames similar to the ones you created, then create a config file with fmXML. You should have a bit more than 140,000 images in there. Then put the 7 images you created in a separate folder (i.e. NOT WITHIN this previous folder) and create a config for that one.
Should do the trick.
Adam Eaton
I'm not at home now bit will have a play tomorrow.
Cheers.
Adam Eaton
To clarify, if I now create one big folder and call it say MegaPack, and then create a config for that, and delete the 15 smaller folders, will that then work ?
And also if I start to download the latest megapack piece by piece will this just over right the old images ?
harrygittings
any help will be greatly appreciated
thank you.
mons
As already said, you need to create one big folder and put all the images in there and create a config for all of them. Stop faffing about with the 15 smaller folder nonsense, it's unnecessary and confusing, for you and for us...
When you download an update pack, you will then just copy the images from it into the MP folder, overwriting everything when prompted.
mons
Remember, you need to have one folder and one folder ONLY with all the cut-outs in there. Should be around 139,000 in total.
mons
Can you post a screenshot of your megapack folder maybe there's something wrong there?
jkishthe1
Thanks
mons
Individual update pack 6.0 is just that particular update pack and will not contain all the images from the MP. Couldn't you try transferring the 6.0 rar over to a large pendrive or another large external device?
Speedo
MEGAPACK 6.0 - this definitely works as it's supposed to
pictures - I think this is the metallic logo pack I downloaded
sortitoutsi - This is Update 6.1
sortitoutsi-1 - Update 6.2
(I haven't downloaded 6.3 or 6.4 yet)
Do I need to move the contents of the two update packs into the MEGAPACK 6.0 folder (potentially requiring a manual overwriting of duplicates)? Or should I just move the folder 'faces' from each update pack into MEGAPACK 6.0?
Edit: My bad - I think this might be answered like 3 posts above. Oops. 'Remember, you need to have one folder and one folder ONLY with all the cut-outs in there. Should be around 139,000 in total.'
Speedo
O'Leary's Trainee
Yes. Else you don't get the missing that's been added. Just replace the old config.
rossmane
What's odd is when I left click on their profiles the new updates pics appear. (Will post pics when on PC) for now could you guys please help.
Maybe I have to alter the configuration files?
Thanks in advance.