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 475,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.
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- 2025.00 - Released on 29 Oct 2024
mons
This query is raised every time a new version of FM is released, both for FM13 and for FM14.
Once the Resource Archiver is released, we generally extract the SI images and automatically add those which are not in our megapack. iirc in the last versions there were around 2 or 3 thousand images released by SI, a large chunk of which will already have cutouts in the megapack.
As you may appreciate, manually comparing the bulk of those with the images in the MP takes a lot of time and is tremendously, mind-numbingly boring. Annually, only a relatively small amount are better than the existing MP images, while a good amount would be improvements if they were "cleaned" by our cutters. By cleaning, I mean fixing the poor cutting, snow, cropping and the adding of the occasional iris and ear (and I'm not even kidding).
In addition before doing all this, the files have to be renamed from player name to UID, e.g. John Smith's pic will have to be renamed as 123456. Although this task can be done with the graphics configurator program fmXML, a fair chunk of images every year are incorrectly mapped and so their UID has to be manually sought for in the editor. Again, this is a very tedious task.
As you may have noticed, the amount of cutters is not enormous and I don't blame them for not giving this task priority. But there's only so much I can do, unfortunately.
I only write this so that you, and anybody else asking, can understand why this is not as easy as it may look.
Generally speaking, if somebody points out individual images they think would be improvements, then I can give them a look. Whole teams or divisions is a different kettle of fish, however, although I can make an exception if a particular team's SI cut-outs are significantly better than ours.
Hope this helps
In addition to all the above, something to keep in mind is that, just because an image is newer, it is not automatically considered as an improvement. You have to take into consideration the lighting, face orientation, cutting quality etc. For example, the MP's image may have been cut from an HQ source a year ago, while SI's was poorly cut 2 months ago. In this case, I would tend to prefer to retain ours. After all, players can move clubs in-game, so it wouldn't make that big a difference if 2016/17 Scunthorpe's John Smith is showing the 2013/14 Bournemouth kit instead of the 2014/15 Bolton kit, for example.
Ideally, of course, every player's cut comes from an HQ source from this season, but our resources are not unlimited, unfortunately.
As above, if there's any particular SI cut-outs which you think should be included in the next megapack update, then feel free to get in touch
mons
I lost quite a good number of the teampack request files as well as, more crucially, a handful of recently-released images, which were corrupted and unrecoverable. The bulk of the latter I managed to recover from the forums, but I have two images which I can't find again. I hope somebody has an idea where I can find them:
168133 - Sjoerd Linssen - Fortuna Sittard
40008491 - Robin Gurung - New Delhi
I suspect that both were no ID images, but I've no idea which pack they came from. Perhaps the cutter may remember them, though...
Deano1903
ovidiu10
mons
Haynes
paulskin
mons
We are aware of the issue, but it was only posted yesterday so it may just be the case that the cutters haven to seen it yet.
For the large part, SI tend to maintain each person's Unique ID (which we use to map each image to the correct person), but it has been known that some players have their UID changed from one version of the game to another, for various reasons. Of course, it could also be a mistake from our end - with 150k+ images, there's bound to be some mistakes, after all!
When you come across instances such as what you describe, it would be helpful and much appreciated if you could take a note of the player and his UID so that we are aware of the issue.
JasonLFC10
I appreciate the response and the work that goes into cutting! I wasn't sure how hard a job it would be to add images from the game so thanks for clearing that up for me.
If its possible could you do the below, time allowing, they are all in the FM15 game an not in the latest facepack.
K. McGhan-George - 29140166
Frankie Musonda - 29140165
Liam Gooch - 29140164
Mark Onyemah - 29140115
Daril Nwgala - 29125898
Issac Galliford - 29125895
Osamu Allman - 29125894
Lucas Perry - 29125893
Lee Hawkes - 29125892
Craig King - 29125891
Charlie Smith - 28085108
Ian Rees - 28085107
Zane Banton - 28085103
Leeroy Maguraushe - 28071545
Geo Craig - 29140169
These are the ones on the game but not in the pack. Most of the other Luton players in the game also have improved pics but not as must priority.
mons
emilempenza
mons
If an image is cut by our cutting team and it is missing from our megapack, then it will be added to the next update pack. Improvement images are also added - so you can just wait and download update packs as they are released, roughly ever 4 weeks.
emilempenza
Excellent, cheers. I might have to dig out some pictures of the newly added Man City academy players then.
mons
Before you do so, wait for 7.01 as some may have already been added by then
JasonLFC10
Thanks Mons much appreciated :-)
bladester
mons
Mickey CJ
mons
Mickey CJ
Thank you very much for the help!
Niall93
mons
I refer you to this post.
Craiger6189
rrain
ovidiu10
http://www.futuretalentscup.com/?mod=club&cla=club&fun=showclub&temp=club&id=5
Deano1903
It was working when I first installed FM15 and I haven't changed anything.
mons
What's the folder location?
Deano1903
I also have my MP and MP icon folders inside the faces folder which works no problem.
Fat Penlon
I have tried the resource archiver but once when I try to extract the correct file the program just restarts.
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Can someone do the cutouts of this pack, some of the images may not be improvements or have different IDs so I didn't want to request this in the teampack thread. Some images don't have all of the heads but that's okay, if anyone can just cutout normally and forget about some of them having their hair cut in half! Any help would be appreciated
Hibernian 1575
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ew4hupa0zsj79um/AACds4hCfcW7bVeBRV8Cux0ha?dl=0
Fido797