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).
Jogo Bonito
11 years ago
1 week ago
930
Premium
Thanks for taking the time to answer, all clear now. From my point of view it's better to ask if any specific order was necessary before doing it (wrong) and then having to start over again. It's a bigger challenge for me to do this right than it is to manage a club to promotion!

Cheers to you and Mons.
mons
17 years ago
11 hours ago
85,497
Thanks Mons, yes I'm aware of that. But when 6.7 is available, do I need to remove 6.0 before I download the new one?

Are we just talking literally a few days then?

In addition to what was said already, yes to the bit in bold, hopefully.
cachirro
17 years ago
3 years ago
66
just for information, in case someone was curious, here is how my gazillion graphics ended up, it was over 600.000 files, very stressful for hard drive, even to delete the files it took forever

http://s18.postimg.org/7cmd9my3d/fmfs.png
Jonathan Scott
9 years ago
3 months ago
4
Premium
I've managed to download the megapack but don't know what to do next. I've followed the instructions that I found but it hasn't worked plus I've noticed the instructions are for FM2013 rather than 2014. I cant find anywhere on the website that gives me instructions of what to do once downloaded. Any help will be appreciated!
Jonathan Scott
9 years ago
3 months ago
4
Premium
I've followed instructions:
Extract download to the Sports Interactive Folder > Football Manager 2014> Graphics (created the folder myself as wasn't there)
I've then gone into preferences> more interface settings>reload skin when confirming changes in preferences> reload skin

But nothing has changed when i load up my game
Footygamer
17 years ago
2 days ago
75,252
We need more information

1) Did you download the "complete megapack" or the "latest changes only"?
2) Which players have you tried looking at and are still missing faces?
3) Can you take a screenshot of the folder with all the images in, in graphics
mons
17 years ago
11 hours ago
85,497
To add to Rob's advice, have you extracted the file?

In total, you should have over 144,800 images plus a config file in your megapack folder, once all is said and done...
cachirro
17 years ago
3 years ago
66
and the path is inside your documents, not the programs/games.

default example for windows 7:
c:\Users\user-name-here\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2014\graphics\
Franz Meyer
9 years ago
7 years ago
2
Hello i istalled metallic logo pack and i would like to install now the face pack. There is problems with that like conflits?

Many thanks
Footygamer
17 years ago
2 days ago
75,252
No of course there aren't any conflicts
Jogo Bonito
11 years ago
1 week ago
930
Premium
I seem to have successfully installed pack 6.7 - happy with that!

Firstly, thanks to all who help create the packs. Secondly, thanks to you Mons, not just for answering my previous queries (and Cachirro), but for alerting me to the fact that if I waited a few days, I could have 6.7 instead of 6.6. That notification saved me valuable time.
mons
17 years ago
11 hours ago
85,497
Happy to have been able to help.

If you want to keep up to date, just download each update pack as it is released (roughly every 4-6 weeks) and paste all the images into the megapack folder, overwriting when prompted. It's really rather easy
Alex911
13 years ago
9 years ago
1
If i have the 6.0 pack downloaded, where i can get 6.1, 6.2 ? Or if i download 6.7 it contains the 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 ?
mons
17 years ago
11 hours ago
85,497
If i have the 6.0 pack downloaded, where i can get 6.1, 6.2 ? Or if i download 6.7 it contains the 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 ?

You can download the 6.x update packs from here.

You have to download each update pack separately as each update pack does not contain the contents of the preceding ones.
simonloschiavo
14 years ago
4 days ago
31
Can someone post the config.xml file for 6.07 facepack??thank you very much!!
mons
17 years ago
11 hours ago
85,497
Can you not download the latest megapack update? This is the 3rd or 4th time you've requested just the config file
simonloschiavo
14 years ago
4 days ago
31
Can you not download the latest megapack update? This is the 3rd or 4th time you've requested just the config file

I've requested any time the newest config.file because i cannot download the facepacks from the link..and i download singularly the cut out from sortitoutsi cut out engine search..sorry
mons
17 years ago
11 hours ago
85,497
I believe there's more than one download link available - do none of them work for you?

Here's the config file
finalthrd
10 years ago
2 years ago
245
I downloaded the complete 6.0 Megapack a while ago and just started updating the other day (I'm up to 6.5 now!)

In the 6.1 to 6.5 updates, I've simply copied all of the images (and NOT the config file) and placed them in my Megapack 6.0 folder. I get the appropriate message for duplicates (improvements), replace all, and reload the skin when copying completes. Am I supposed to be copying the updated (6.1, for example) config file into my Megapack folder as well? I'm 99% sure I saw a new picture for Eto'o since updating, so I'm assuming the answer is no.

To save me some time, if I am supposed to be updating the config, would placing the 6.6 update cover from 6.1-6.5? I ask because I'm about to install that one now. If not, I have 6.1-6.5 on my hard drive.

PS the images are fantastic, thanks for all your work.
mons
17 years ago
11 hours ago
85,497
I don't know why you didn't copy the config file, I haven't posted or seen anything which says you shouldn't. It's an integral part of the file. Each update pack contains the updated config file for the whole pack and not just the update pack, so you can just use the config file of the update pack you're up-to-date with.

So yes, just copy the config from the 6.6 pack.
finalthrd
10 years ago
2 years ago
245
I don't know why you didn't copy the config file, I haven't posted or seen anything which says you shouldn't. It's an integral part of the file. Each update pack contains the updated config file for the whole pack and not just the update pack, so you can just use the config file of the update pack you're up-to-date with.

So yes, just copy the config from the 6.6 pack.

Alright, thanks!
Malve14
13 years ago
9 years ago
16
Hi all,

I have a problem. I want to download the update 6.7 of Cut-out megapack but the uploaded.net link doesn't running.

Can anyone help me?

Thx in advance.
leo blombäck
10 years ago
9 years ago
4
Can some one please help me with my problem.
I've downloaded the facepack files and extracted them to the graphics folder but when hit reload every players faces are missing (not even the "black" standard face are there)
What have I done wrong?
mons
17 years ago
11 hours ago
85,497
Can some one please help me with my problem.
I've downloaded the facepack files and extracted them to the graphics folder but when hit reload every players faces are missing (not even the "black" standard face are there)
What have I done wrong?

What file did you download and how many images do you have in total?

What is the exact location of the megapack folder?
mons
17 years ago
11 hours ago
85,497
Hi all,

I have a problem. I want to download the update 6.7 of Cut-out megapack but the uploaded.net link doesn't running.

Can anyone help me?

Thx in advance.

Just tried myself and it's working fine
Malve14
13 years ago
9 years ago
16
So, probably there is a problem in Italy with uploaded.net because i tried to ask to a friend if he's able to download and he has the same problem like me.

It is possible to upload in a different site? Like Rapidshare or what you prefer.

Thanks.

EDIT: Problem solved. Now i am premium member. Thx anyway.
leo blombäck
10 years ago
9 years ago
4
I downloaded the megapack 6.0 and placed it in C:\Users\Leo\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2014\graphics
mons
17 years ago
11 hours ago
85,497
I downloaded the megapack 6.0 and placed it in C:\Users\Leo\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2014\graphics

How many images are there in total in the megapack folder?
leo blombäck
10 years ago
9 years ago
4
134 583 images
mons
17 years ago
11 hours ago
85,497

That is the correct amount of images and the correct location. Probably best if you screenshot your preferences from within the game as well as your megapack folder.

Do you have any other facepacks installed?

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