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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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).
detari10
17 years ago
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I ve made it work !!!! these preferences are pretty different than the old ones...So you untick the use caching bla bla bla then you reload skin and success!!!!
mons
17 years ago
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I've added a screenshot to the OP and updated the instructions on how to configure the FM preferences to enable the displaying of the images
moniola
13 years ago
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By mons | Permalink | On 27 October 2012 - 18:45 PM
As long as you've got a folder containing 116,600 images within Documents > SI > FM13 > graphics, then you can name it whatever you want. It doesn't have to be either Megapack 5.0 nor faces, but for the sake of order, I suggest it is named something along those lines.

If you've somehow not got the config file, you can easily generate one yourself using fmXML.


I seem to be having issues with fmXML, every time i try installing it, an error message pops up saying that MFC70.DLL is missing on the computer and the program can't be opened. Would you mind sending me the config file in a message? Appreciate your help!
bakizp
17 years ago
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By moniola | Permalink | On 28 October 2012 - 14:39 PM
I seem to be having issues with fmXML, every time i try installing it, an error message pops up saying that MFC70.DLL is missing on the computer and the program can't be opened. Would you mind sending me the config file in a message? Appreciate your help!

Download MFC70.DLL from HERE
(save it,don't open it)
Move that file to C:\Windows\System32 and your fmXML should work.
moniola
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By bakizp | Permalink | On 28 October 2012 - 17:58 PM
Download MFC70.DLL from HERE
(save it,don't open it)
Move that file to C:\Windows\System32 and your fmXML should work.


Cheers mate, much appreciated!
nunoedge
14 years ago
3 years ago
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Hey, I have a problem, players pics are working fine, such as staff but...when I check staff profile, they don't show up

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/IL0TY8VZign8zTTkuNuXAdwaiYgei4VoTrNqhWIL.jpg
mons
17 years ago
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Everything's working fine for me

How many images in all do you have in your MP folder?
Joe Bob
11 years ago
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After importing the new faces the picture for my manager profile disappeared. Any ideas?
garyh
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By Joe Bob | Permalink | On 30 October 2012 - 00:44 AM
After importing the new faces the picture for my manager profile disappeared. Any ideas?


Start a new save game import it again and see if its there in a new save game, if so maybe a bug report it to SI on there forums.
Joe Bob
11 years ago
9 years ago
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False alarm. I thought I'd reloaded the game at some point before posting, but when pulling the game up this morning the profile was back to normal. Disregard, heh.
babak g
12 years ago
1 year ago
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For some reason all the faces show up on an FMC game but when I restart to make a full FM13 game the faces do not show up anymore. Tried reloading skin cache but no luck. Anyone facing similar issues?
babak g
12 years ago
1 year ago
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Sorry to hog the thread, but does anyone know the answer to the above?
Mullen18
14 years ago
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Where have you placed the megapack ?
Do you have a config.xml file ?
bluemoon.
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By nunoedge | Permalink | On 29 October 2012 - 17:59 PM
Hey, I have a problem, players pics are working fine, such as staff but...when I check staff profile, they don't show up

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/IL0TY8VZign8zTTkuNuXAdwaiYgei4VoTrNqhWIL.jpg

I'm having this problem as well and it's starting to piss me off. It's only a problem on the profiles of my staff or other managers.
mons
17 years ago
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Is it only Portuguese-based staff perchance?

How many images do you have in your MP folder?
nunoedge
14 years ago
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I have them all (116,000), I have 5.0 Megapack. (updated since 4.0 torrent file)

This "Bug" is for all staff profiles.
Baja
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By nunoedge | Permalink | On 31 October 2012 - 22:40 PM
I have them all (116,000), I have 5.0 Megapack. (updated since 4.0 torrent file)

This "Bug" is for all staff profiles.

If you have only 4.0 torrent and 5.0=4.13 update,than you are missing all updates from 4.01-4.12
bluemoon.
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By mons | Permalink | On 31 October 2012 - 21:12 PM
Is it only Portuguese-based staff perchance?

How many images do you have in your MP folder?

No. I should add, though, I've just realised it's on all the 'Attributes' pages for players too.

I have absolutely no idea what's going on.

112, 072.
deadw00d
15 years ago
1 year ago
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where do i find the skin thing, making the heads in real size?
nunoedge
14 years ago
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By BajaHater | Permalink | On 31 October 2012 - 21:46 PM
If you have only 4.0 torrent and 5.0=4.13 update,than you are missing all updates from 4.01-4.12


I was misread, I mean I have 4.0 torrent + all updates until 4.13. (4.13 update too)

I have all images

116,578 in total.

I just noticed, this staff profile pics don't show up with FM 2013 skin, but with FMC (Classic mode skin) skin they work. Any idea why?
Mullen18
14 years ago
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Where have you placed the files ?
ttp2120
16 years ago
5 years ago
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Hi there,

I have downloaded the complete 5.0 mega pack and looking through the games images are missing that really should be there and always have been. for example chelsea are missing cech,ivanovich essien.

man united missing smalling.ferguson,linderguard.

I have downloaded all 116,000 faces so im a bit confused??
mons
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By ttp2120 | Permalink | On 01 November 2012 - 23:22 PM
Hi there,

I have downloaded the complete 5.0 mega pack and looking through the games images are missing that really should be there and always have been. for example chelsea are missing cech,ivanovich essien.

man united missing smalling.ferguson,linderguard.

I have downloaded all 116,000 faces so im a bit confused??

Where have you installed the megapack folder? Exact path please.
ttp2120
16 years ago
5 years ago
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By mons | Permalink | On 01 November 2012 - 23:45 PM
Where have you installed the megapack folder? Exact path please.


same as every year - sports intercative - football maanger 2013-graphics-faces

all other logos and club badges and kits work fine just this doesnt.
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
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By ttp2120 | Permalink | On 01 November 2012 - 23:53 PM
same as every year - sports intercative - football maanger 2013-graphics-faces

all other logos and club badges and kits work fine just this doesnt.

How big is your config.xml file?
ttp2120
16 years ago
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By mons | Permalink | On 01 November 2012 - 22:57 PM
How big is your config.xml file?


8.06 MB (8,454,851 bytes)

CASE CLOSED!!!! THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!! FOR SOME REASON RE STARTED A NEW GAME AND SORTED!!!
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
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And I'm assuming you've got all the images in one folder only, together with config file.

Do you have any other facepacks loaded? Or just this megapack?

Edit - good to see that
tmoney2273
14 years ago
7 years ago
2
Monsy,

Me again. Sorted the Facepack last year but having problems again this year

I downloaded and unzipped in the right place but when I play the Beta game im only getting the Face pics which are pre loaded. All others are blank. I am following all the instructions and not quite sure where im going wrong.

Any ideas.

Im using Mac 10.6.8

Still love you x
BigMarv
13 years ago
2 months ago
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Hi Guys,

Downloaded as premium member. Have tried extracting with 7zip and got an error (apologies, can't remember which), then tried using winrar and have been told "archive is corrupt" and I had a lot of 0kb pictures. Deleted the folder & started again, still get the "archive is corrupt" message from winrar, but the images are no longer downloading as 0kb. So QQ, is anyone else getting the "archive is corrupt" message, but the pack working fine.

Love your work guys!
garyh
16 years ago
4 years ago
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By tmoney2273 | Permalink | On 02 November 2012 - 00:11 AM
Monsy,

Me again. Sorted the Facepack last year but having problems again this year

I downloaded and unzipped in the right place but when I play the Beta game im only getting the Face pics which are pre loaded. All others are blank. I am following all the instructions and not quite sure where im going wrong.

Any ideas.

Im using Mac 10.6.8

Still love you x


If your still getting the pre loaded ones mate it sounds like the config to me, do you have a config?

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