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.
- 480,827
- 2025.00 - Released on 29 Oct 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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mons
You should have read the instructions more carefully, my friend. You should have one folder and one folder one with all the images therein. Just copy the 6.01 images and the config into the main megapack folder, overwriting when prompted.
metsfan1115
Does anybody know why this isn't working, I thought I followed the instructions exactly. Thanks
mons
lord_mandrake
First of all, sorry for my english. I'm from Argentina and my english it's not to good.
I've got a premium membership but I had a problem trying to download the complete 6.1 megapack.
The download speed is not higher than 20/25 KB/s but if I try with rapidshare or uploaded links, I had 50/60 KB/s.
What do you recommend me ??? I do not understand why is happening this if I colaborate for a premiun membership.
Thanks for all !!!!
Lord Mandrake.-
mons
Could you try restarting your modem and trying again?
rkelly85
peterpansnr
Just upgraded to Facepack 6.0, got some of the faces i didn't have before, but lost some I did have before on FP 4.0 even though when I checked the ID the missing player faces were in the same folder as the others, but for some reason they hadn't registered by the game. Any idea as to why?
mons
Use the megapack search tool to look for the person's UID to see if he is in the megapack.
Can you confirm that the preferences are in the manner displayed in the screenshot in the OP and that all your images are located in one folder and one folder only? If yes, then please upload your config file and tell us how many images you currently have in your megapack folder.
peterpansnr
Thanks for getting back to my post.
Yes, I can confirm that it's as the OP is.
They are all in one folder.
There are 113,376 files in the folder.
However, I don't know how to upload the config file.
mons
peterpansnr
Ok, i'll look into this. Thanks. Still, some players who are in the pack I have don't show...
emreozmen
mons
You can use fmXML (available from this link) to create a config file for any folder containing pngs named as UIDs. Hope this helps.
dreofficial
In short, I've downloaded the face pack but it wont work on my mac. I created a 'graphics' folder and within that a subfolder called faces (which is where the images are).
The problem I have is when I try and run FM from steam, it doesn't work. I get as far as the load up screen, and the 'kick it out' message and then it starts saying 'loading' in all these different languages repeatedly. I then have to force quit.
What do i need to do?
Rowan
I have a Mac and it works fine if you have followed the instructions.
PS. We have a Technical Support thread HERE, please use it in future.
dreofficial
It probably takes about 5mins to fully load all the images, so be patient (it doesn't slow gameplay down, just game-start)
I have a Mac and it works fine if you have followed the instructions.
PS. We have a Technical Support thread HERE, please use it in future.
Thank you Rowan. I saw the technical support thread afterwards and am going through it now. When you say game start your're not talking about 'loading saved games' are you? I ask because im not even getting to that point. It's not letting me launch football manager, it's still not responding after 15 mins, when i leave the load up screen and return to the dock. After hovering over the FM icon it says 'not responding'
mons
Be patient, it's entirely normal for it to take a while to load and even for it to appear not to be responding, it's just loading. If 30-40 minutes have gone by and it's still not loaded, then you may have to ctrl+alt+del the application, but I've never known of an instance when that had to happen...
peterpansnr
I downloaded the Megapack again but still only have 113,376 images in there.
However, the main issue is players who are in the megapack (amongst the 113,376) are not showing whilst others are. This must be a config issue. How can I upload the config file? I've tried to attach it here.
I didn't download via torrents but rather the 'download complete megapack 6.1' button here: http://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/style/1/cut-out-player-faces
I've been trying to sort this for a week now and it's doing my nut in.
MarkP2470
Whey
So basically what I have to do here is to just install the pack as previous, but stay away from the steam workshop?
Or do I have to first create the graphics folder outside of the Football Manager 2014 folder, add the facepack logo folder into the graphics folder and then put it into the FM 2014 folder?
I'm kind of a little confused here. I'm pretty sure it's very simple once I get it explained it to me but, yeh... That's me.
Whey
rigge77
I have made an facepack for missing pictures of Luton Town but don't get it to work, i have done everything that has to be done, with a sperate folder for them, i have downloaded the mp and that is working, but i don't understand what's wrong with my pictures, they are png files in 180x180 size and the config file is attached here, can you see what's wrong?
mons
LIAM A MILLS
Just got a question ive downloaded all of the megapack and there are faces missing for a few liverpool players but on the cut out search thread its says they have cutouts but they dont appear on my saved game was wondering if anybody could explain why this is happening cheers
heres the players whose pictures arent showing up
Harry Wilson
Sergi Canos
Pedro Chirrivella
Ryan Kent
Jordan Rossiter
mons
jasmcgov
Is the pack available at smaller sizes - 1gb per file for example?
Footygamer
How would that make any difference? Downloading 6 1gb files will be the same speed as downloading one 6.6gb file
jasmcgov
Conection would stay on for 1gb per download if downloaded separately.
jasmcgov
mons