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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jimjam26
jimjam26
Eds
Any ideas? And if this doesn't work, would it be possible to get a refund because I payed a tenner for this, really.
jkishthe1
Having waited a full day for it to finish I appear to be having problems. I used winrar to extract the files, it gave me a couple of error messages. I clicked through them and kept going. But when I open the folder I only have 92,678 files. This is not enough right. I tried using that fix programme but it appears not to have worked. Do I need to download the pack again?
Thanks
jojobuffon
Hi metal boon thanks for replying, its just the default black faces , I've got over 110k faces in my faces folder in the graphics folder ,it was working fine Tuesday nite once i finished extracting them I had them in all seperate folders at first but moved them all into the one faces folder.
blackmetalboon
The first thing to check is if you have a config file in your faces folder. If you do it should just over 8mb in size.
If you don't have the config file or it's smaller in size than 8mb then you can either;
1. Download update pack 5.2 as this will have the latest config file in it.
2. Or download FMXML (use the search function to find the download link) and you can create your own.
jojobuffon
The first thing to check is if you have a config file in your faces folder. If you do it should just over 8mb in size.
If you don't have the config file or it's smaller in size than 8mb then you can either;
1. Download update pack 5.2 as this will have the latest config file in it.
2. Or download FMXML (use the search function to find the download link) and you can create your own.
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I'll check once i get in later on is the update pack just the two folders of changes then?
bazmaestro
I've noticed a few players faces 'missing'....when through the images in windows explorer many of them come up blank rather than load up and show as a thumbnail. Have I extracted correctly or are these to be added at a later date?
Thanks,
Baz
mons
jkishte1, are you sure the file downloaded fully? 5.2GB is the correct size. If you wait a bit, I shall be uploading the new update pack and perhaps you can download the complete pack then.
I'm not sure I understand the issue. Could you give us an example of a player suffering from this issue or post a screenshot?
jkishthe1
It's 4.22 GB, so it seems something went awry in download. Am trying again using a DL manager but may wait for the new pack now.
Thanks
mons
The new update pack should be out in the coming day(s) so I would wait for that...
jojobuffon
If I even done my usual daftness and deleted it ,it should still be in my reycleing folder
Do I just move it back into the sortitoutsi faces folder in my graphics folder?
mons
Wait for the 5.03 update pack. You will have the new images and the new config file. Less chance of you mucking something up
jojobuffon
Cheers mate will do, first time in over 15 years I pimp this game up wa graphics and it works for one night only,just to piss me off lol
jojobuffon
the config file is still in the folder its 8,538 KB, should the images still work then?
Eds
Okay, cheers.
bazmaestro
Thanks for the reply...I only checked a few teams' players, but an example would be Andrea Bertolacci's ID is 43028376
when I find it it explorer it shows like this
(hope the quality is okay)
As you can see most of the faces load up, but the ones that don't load up in Windows Explorer correspond with the faces that don't load up in the game....hope this makes sense, thanks again!
Koloale
I downloaded the latest pack moved the faces folder in my Graphics folder (which is in the Documents/Sports Interactive/FM13 folders) went on prefrences, unticked the first box, ticked the last three and clicked Reload Skin. A logo pack which I downloadedf from a different site worked but this pack didn't. Furthermore, it's deleted the other players with faces, such as the players from the K-League and the Championship, for example.
Any help?
blackmetalboon
That looks about right so I'm not sure why it's not working. Are you sure that you have your "Faces" folder in the Sports Interactive folder in Documents/Sports Interactive/FM13?
It looks like this may not have extracted properly, I would suggest trying it again using winRAR.
Which pack did you download? If this is the first time you've downloaded the Megapack you need to download the complete pack which is over 5GB and contains over 120,000 images.
Koloale
The latest pack (16 parts), the complete pack and the pack contains around that amount of images. i've downloaded the pack twice and nothing changed.
jojobuffon
I don't think I've extracted mine right,I extracted them by just right clicking the mouse and extract all was one of the options,it just unzipped the folder into another folder with all the images in it,I then manually selected every image and moved it into the faces folder it took a while but it worked at first?
wacko
Please help!
Mullen18
What size is your config file ?
and whats the exact path ?
also do you have windows 7 or 8 as you will have two si folders if you do, so it mught be in the wrong one
jojobuffon
wacko
Also how do i find how many images?
Windows 7
c:\users\my name\documents\sports interactive\football manager 2013\graphics
thanks for the quick reply!
wacko
jojobuffon
ive got 112,480 images
my config file is 8,017 KB
C:\Users\joecarolynn\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2013\Graphics\sortitoutsi\faces
ive got windows 7 and its in the first SI Folder with the editor data,games,matches,skins folders already there?
and only a faces folder in a sortitoutsi folder in the graphics folder
my images were working on tuesday night aswell
blackmetalboon
That all looks fine, just double check that you have the right boxes ticked/unticked in your Interface section of Preferences menu.
blackmetalboon
You have about 109,000 faces missing from your Megapack! I think you may have downloaded one of the "update packs" instead of the "complete pack".
Rowan
Wacko - I think you probably already realise the problem (3,451 images) Firstly did you wait for the the entire download to finish before extracting, and secondly you must use winRAR to extract the file or UnArchiver on Mac; - best to extract it to your desktop, check you have all 112k ish images and a config and then move it to your SI/FM13/graphics/faces folder. You can find the size of the config by right clicking it and selecting properties.
Blackmetal - snap! At least we're thinking the same things