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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  • 2024.06 - Released on 17 Mar 2024
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).
Speedo
10 years ago
1 year ago
4
Premium
Yes. Else you don't get the missing that's been added. Just replace the old config.


Cheers man. Might download your hair pack while I'm at it
mons
17 years ago
21 minutes ago
85,496
I've downloaded the new 6.03 and 6.04 face packs I've reloaded the skin in many different ways. This is not my first time doing this however, the faces don't sync...


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.

You should have one folder and one folder ONLY with all the images in there, i.e. circa 140,000. You also need to untick the use skin cache option in the preferences. If you do, and it's still not working, can you post a screenshot of your megapack folder?
Speedo
10 years ago
1 year ago
4
Premium
If I'm downloading the icon folder as well, should that just be in with the normal images, or in a separate folder? At the moment the directory of the icons file is this:

.../Football Manger 2014/graphics/faces/sortitoutsi/iconfaces/example.png
mons
17 years ago
21 minutes ago
85,496
If I'm downloading the icon folder as well, should that just be in with the normal images, or in a separate folder? At the moment the directory of the icons file is this:

.../Football Manger 2014/graphics/faces/sortitoutsi/iconfaces/example.png

This is my main megapack folder: C:\Users\Student\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2014\graphics\players\1. Cutouts\MEGAPACK 6.0

This is the folder I put the icons is: C:\Users\Student\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2014\graphics\players\1. Cutouts\myiconfaces

As you can see, they are in the same path, but within separate folders.
Darkmagicx12
16 years ago
8 years ago
9
I've followed all the steps: Download, unzipped the folder (to my desktop first, then moved to graphics folder) and cleared cache, ticked and unticked the right boxes. But when I load up my game, there are no pictures, not even the default black ones. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
mons
17 years ago
21 minutes ago
85,496
Can you post a screenshot of your megapack folder please? Make sure that the folder path AND the amount of images included are clearly displayed.
mons
17 years ago
21 minutes ago
85,496
Everything looks fine there. Can you confirm that you have a file in that folder named config.xml?

Also, are your preferences set up like this?

http://s23.postimg.org/ve5p5k3gb/instructions.jpg]
Darkmagicx12
16 years ago
8 years ago
9
Do you mean this?

http://imageshack.com/a/img801/430/o91k.png

And yes, I clear the cache and have only reload skin ticked.
mons
17 years ago
21 minutes ago
85,496
Strange

Do you have any other graphic files installed somewhere else?

I assume you've tried to reload the skin again and that you've tried to switch Steam on and off.
Darkmagicx12
16 years ago
8 years ago
9
Yeah i've got the regen hair pack one, but i've tried this megapack before I had that and had the same results as this time :/ And yes, i just tried that now. I don't know if this helps, but it happens with the logo megapack as well? takes all teh logos away, even the default ones so there's just a blank space? (I don't have that installed at the minute.
Darkmagicx12
16 years ago
8 years ago
9
Would it be a problem that i've left the read me file and the megapack picture in there?
Darkmagicx12
16 years ago
8 years ago
9
And i've just got this message pop up now?

http://imageshack.com/a/img853/1541/yz2t.png
mons
17 years ago
21 minutes ago
85,496
Yeah i've got the regen hair pack one, but i've tried this megapack before I had that and had the same results as this time :/ And yes, i just tried that now. I don't know if this helps, but it happens with the logo megapack as well? takes all teh logos away, even the default ones so there's just a blank space? (I don't have that installed at the minute.

I suspect that you've somehow managed to install the file incorrectly But I can't tell what you did wrong now...




Would it be a problem that i've left the read me file and the megapack picture in there?

I have them in my folder and the megapack works perfectly fine.







Try restarting your PC and loading up Steam/FM.

Do you have a lot of programs running on Windows Startup perchance?
genuwino
13 years ago
20 hours ago
1,350
Hey,

I have a question: Why can not I see the face of Rondon (ID 67063933)?
Whenever I add new photos to my Megapack I create a new XML file for the new faces, and after that I go to "Preferences" and click on "Reload Skin When confirm changes in preferences", but never appeared.

I already checked the image and everything is fine. Example: 180x180, format .png

I appreciate your answers. Thanks.
mons
17 years ago
21 minutes ago
85,496
You need to reload skin rather than ticking/unticking that particular box.

Also, are you creating a separate folder when you add images or using the main MP folder?
genuwino
13 years ago
20 hours ago
1,350
I use a single folder. I add new pictures to that folder and when i see that i don't have some picture i create a new XML file.
This happen to me since FM10 or FM11. I never saw the face of that player in the game.
mons
17 years ago
21 minutes ago
85,496
Where are you getting your images from and how are you creating your config file?
genuwino
13 years ago
20 hours ago
1,350
i get the images from this site and i create de config file like this (find attached)
mons
17 years ago
21 minutes ago
85,496
I'll need a screenshot of your megapack folder and contents, then...
genuwino
13 years ago
20 hours ago
1,350
mons,

Find attached the screenshot. This only happen with this player.
dafo_llyr
11 years ago
7 months ago
2
I've downloaded megapack 6.0.. do i need to download megapack 4 and 5 or just 6.1, 6.2 etc?
bakizp
17 years ago
13 hours ago
19,666
mons,

Find attached the screenshot. This only happen with this player.

Check if image has space character before .png
mons
17 years ago
21 minutes ago
85,496
I've downloaded megapack 6.0.. do i need to download megapack 4 and 5 or just 6.1, 6.2 etc?

You will need to download all subsequent update packs, i.e. 6.1-6.5...
mons
17 years ago
21 minutes ago
85,496
mons,

Find attached the screenshot. This only happen with this player.

Adding to what baki said, the smiling version of that player's cut-out is included in the latest update pack, so check if that solves it.

By the way, I didn't ask - are you downloading any update packs at all? If yes, are you installing them within the MP folder or in a separate folder.

Moreover, do you have any other player faces megapacks downloaded?
genuwino
13 years ago
20 hours ago
1,350
I put all the images in the same folder.
When there are new improve I replace.

In this folder I have about 140,000 images.

When I found a picture that i don't have, I create a new xml file and the new player face appears in the game.
The problem only happens with Salomon Rondon.

I have seen that the problem is only mine. Anyway, this happens in 1 player. No problem!

Thank you a lot for your comments.
reeceaitken
10 years ago
2 years ago
7
sorry if im being silly, ive downloaded the pack and got it into the game and lot of faces are coming up but there seems so many missing? like suarez rooney gerrard? any idea?
mons
17 years ago
21 minutes ago
85,496
sorry if im being silly, ive downloaded the pack and got it into the game and lot of faces are coming up but there seems so many missing? like suarez rooney gerrard? any idea?

How many images do you have in total? If you have the latest version, you should have just over 143,000...
reeceaitken
10 years ago
2 years ago
7
Thanks for getting back to me! Where would I find out? Is there a link for the full file?
mons
17 years ago
21 minutes ago
85,496
Thanks for getting back to me! Where would I find out? Is there a link for the full file?

The full file is available from here - Download Complete Pack 6.5

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