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).
jmurphy812
12 years ago
9 years ago
2
Hi there

Sorry, I'm sure there is probably a topic somewhere already about this, but anyways.

I downloaded the face pack and then went to extract it, but both the unarchiver and another program both said it couldn't extract the file. Does anyone know this is?

Thanks for any help!
mons
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,496
Hi there

Sorry, I'm sure there is probably a topic somewhere already about this, but anyways.

I downloaded the face pack and then went to extract it, but both the unarchiver and another program both said it couldn't extract the file. Does anyone know this is?

Thanks for any help!

What was the total size of the file you downloaded, which version of the megapack was it and what download method did you use please?
Si Ford
11 years ago
2 years ago
231
Mons,

a few months ago i downloaded 6.00 all 14 parts

i also downloaded 6.01, 6.02 6.03, 6.04 changes.....

do i have to do 6.05 now

or must i download all parts of 6.05 ???

sorry "I am a little thick when it comes to this"
stevio11
15 years ago
6 years ago
8
Can someone help please, I have megaback 6.0 but when I download the 6.0 update,i mess things up and lose all the main pack pics and am just left with the update. Can someone run though it please on the steps to download the updates
mons
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,496
Can someone help please, I have megaback 6.0 but when I download the 6.0 update,i mess things up and lose all the main pack pics and am just left with the update. Can someone run though it please on the steps to download the updates

If you have megapack 6.0, you should start downloading from updates 6.1 onwards. Also, remember that you should have one fodler and one folder only with ALL the images in it, i.e. update packs should not be in separate folders.

If what I'm saying isn't really clear, then please upload a screenshots of your megapack folder so I can further explain things for you
mons
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,496
Mons,

a few months ago i downloaded 6.00 all 14 parts

i also downloaded 6.01, 6.02 6.03, 6.04 changes.....

do i have to do 6.05 now

or must i download all parts of 6.05 ???

sorry "I am a little thick when it comes to this"

Sorry for missing this but you posted immediately before I replied to another post in the other thread and so I missed it.

With every update pack released, you just need to download the files for that pack and not the whole thing. Hope this helps.
Si Ford
11 years ago
2 years ago
231
understand

thanks Mons.....
timtim11
17 years ago
1 week ago
323
Premium
Im wanting to download the megapack on my laptop but as its for work not sure i would be permitted. Am I able to download onto a dongle/memory stick and plug in when I use the game.
mons
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,496
Im wanting to download the megapack on my laptop but as its for work not sure i would be permitted. Am I able to download onto a dongle/memory stick and plug in when I use the game.

Shouldn't be a problem, I would think...
Adam Eaton
11 years ago
5 years ago
89
Im wanting to download the megapack on my laptop but as its for work not sure i would be permitted. Am I able to download onto a dongle/memory stick and plug in when I use the game.


I save all my game data on an external hard drive.

Jut change your preferences so the game knows where to look for its graphics.
timtim11
17 years ago
1 week ago
323
Premium
How big a memory stick or external hard rive would I need to get all the pictures on please
mons
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,496
The whole file is over 6GB and it can only increase in the future
retro robbie
17 years ago
1 month ago
0
Need some help please!

i cant download anything now! everytime i use the links i get the traffic limit error!! i cant download anything!!!

any ideas on what to do! i need to download the whole lot! got the first two packs downloaded now none of the others work!
mons
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,496
Need some help please!

i cant download anything now! everytime i use the links i get the traffic limit error!! i cant download anything!!!

any ideas on what to do! i need to download the whole lot! got the first two packs downloaded now none of the others work!

Try downloading the torrent first and then downloaded the update packs only - perhaps that might work better for you...
mattu29
14 years ago
2 weeks ago
72
Premium
Ive downloaded an update pic pack and it seems to have deleted some other facepacks, can anyone help with this? Thanks
mons
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,496
Remember that you should have one folder and one folder only with all the images in it. So when you download an update pack, you should move its contents into the megapack folder, overwriting when prompted. If you place each update pack in a separate folder, you'll only have that pack's images visible in the game and not the rest of the cut-outs.

If this is not the case, which update pack did you download and what version did you have previously?
mattu29
14 years ago
2 weeks ago
72
Premium
ahhh that makes sense! all in one folder, altho how would i sort out the config file for that? thanks for the reply
bakizp
17 years ago
10 minutes ago
19,666
ahhh that makes sense! all in one folder, altho how would i sort out the config file for that? thanks for the reply

Whenever you import new images into faces folder use THIS,and you're fine.
muMIKEfc
13 years ago
1 month ago
2
Premium
The download speed for the megapack is shocking. I'm getting 64kb/s maximum. Does anybody know why?

I've never had this issue downloading anything off this website before. I can download torrents from elsewhere at 7mb/s which makes this issue very frustrating. My friend downloaded the megapack the other while he was at my house and connected to my internet, it only took him half an hour. Mine is projected to finish in 1 day and 2 hours.
jupiter105
14 years ago
9 years ago
3
Mine is the same as yours, its the second time trying to download it after it received an error after half a day of being on download.
MarkC1984
11 years ago
6 months ago
213
Premium
Downloaded a 6.6 GB file from here yesterday morning at a speed of 6 to 7 MB a second.
mons
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,496
To all of those who have trouble downloading this file and others, please post in here
mons
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,496
FAO those who have been having trouble downloading files in the last few days:

From this post by the site owner and admin Rob:

...something was switched off late on Friday that should not have been so some downloads may have not downloaded properly.

It's fixed now
Riordave1875
12 years ago
14 hours ago
740
Premium
Hello

I have the megapacks all up to date, downloading each update individually and then merging them and they worked fine

However, I copied all the face images of Hibs players from my 2013 megapack (the megapack for last game was updated with this years Hibs squad photos) and pasted them in the 2014 megapack, updating the config as I went along.

However, when I loaded the game up, most of the people who had faces now have the generic blank face and there are people (non-Hibs players) who used to have generic blank faces that now have their actual face.

I'm not sure what is causing it. I cut the megapack for 2013 and stuck it on a pen drive as I thought it might have been causing a conflict but there's been no change.

I'm all out of ideas, reloaded the skin a bunch of times & restarted the game a few times as well but no change at all
mons
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,496
Can you upload a screenshot of your megapack folder please?
Riordave1875
12 years ago
14 hours ago
740
Premium
Can you upload a screenshot of your megapack folder please?


The inside of it or how it looks in the graphics folder?
mons
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,496
The inside of it or how it looks in the graphics folder?

Both, if possible...
Riordave1875
12 years ago
14 hours ago
740
Premium
Here

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m11/DEINNES/graphicsfolder.png

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m11/DEINNES/facesfolder.png


I think I may have stopped the megapack from working, so the game is showing the default faces it came with, all the Sky Bet leagues & Skrill leagues have players faces whilst the Premier League doesn't.
mons
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,496
I see the problem. You should have over 140,000 images in your megapack folder and not just over 23k. This way the config is assigning an image to a player who is simply not in the folder. To solve it, you need to download the whole megapack...
Riordave1875
12 years ago
14 hours ago
740
Premium
And there's my problem as well; I tried downloading the whole megapack, but it got to a certain point and then just stopped. Only a certain amount of it was downloaded before it just seemed to give up

Edit: I'm able to restore the faces megapack I deleted from my FM 2013 folder (there's over 125k images in it), would it work if I copy & paste it into my FM 2014 graphics folder then download all the update packs?

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