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).
Jonasinho
15 years ago
2 months ago
14
Premium
My facepacks does not work.

Have downloaded the 5.0 and it worked last night. Then I added in the logos to the "graphics" folder. Now, the faces nor the logos seem to work.

Any idea what I can do?
Mullen18
14 years ago
7 years ago
311
whats the exact location of the files ?
do you have a config.xml file in the megapack folder ?
you dont have the logos inside the megapack right ? and you've changed the settings on FM preferences ?
Jonasinho
15 years ago
2 months ago
14
Premium
Football Manager 2013/graphics and there there are two seperate folders called "faces" and "logos". Both have all the configs. Checked it earlier.

Preferences have been changed to suit them.
tmoney2273
14 years ago
7 years ago
2
Im missing the Config File. Anyone know how or where I can get it??

Please im up for a Friday night FM Session
mons
17 years ago
6 hours ago
85,497
By BigMarv | Permalink | On 02 November 2012 - 02:51 AM
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!

With 4.0 for FM12, we had a number of users who had error messages when extracting the pack with winrar but the files were extracting nevertheless. I don't believe we had a report of a similar occurence this year, but it's not beyond the realms of possibility.

What is your folder's total size after all the images were extracted?




By Jonasinho | Permalink | On 02 November 2012 - 19:50 PM
Football Manager 2013/graphics and there there are two seperate folders called "faces" and "logos". Both have all the configs. Checked it earlier.

Preferences have been changed to suit them.

Probably an issue with config files from the logos pack you have downloaded. You can re-config themusing fmXML.




By tmoney2273 | Permalink | On 02 November 2012 - 20:01 PM
Im missing the Config File. Anyone know how or where I can get it??

Please im up for a Friday night FM Session

You can easily create one using fmXML.
Kaje
15 years ago
4 months ago
5
Premium
I downloaded 5.0 and it feels like there are less pictures than the 4.0 series.

There are players on FM13 who used to have pictures with the 4.0 series packs but now, with the 5.0 pack, don't. I really don't understand why!
mons
17 years ago
6 hours ago
85,497
By Kaje | Permalink | On 02 November 2012 - 21:25 PM
I downloaded 5.0 and it feels like there are less pictures than the 4.0 series.

There are players on FM13 who used to have pictures with the 4.0 series packs but now, with the 5.0 pack, don't. I really don't understand why!

There's definitely something wrong with the file you've downloaded. How many images in all do you have in the 5.0 megapack folder?
pacouk
15 years ago
4 years ago
3,077
how do you remove the polygon in fm13 i tried using the old panels file but it made the player pictures dissapear
frankie 7
17 years ago
9 years ago
12
Hi guys

I have just downloaded the full version of the game and now all my faces have gone. They worked fine with the beta and i havent touched any setings. Checked the settings after the full game download and everything still the same.

Also my logos & Kits have also disappeared. Just seems all my custom graphics dont work no more. Any ideas?

Thanks
Mullen18
14 years ago
7 years ago
311
Whats the exact location of the megapack ?
Do you have a config.xml file ?
If you are using windows 7 check if its made 2 sports interactive folders
frankie 7
17 years ago
9 years ago
12
By Mullen18 | Permalink | On 03 November 2012 - 12:58 PM
Whats the exact location of the megapack ?
Do you have a config.xml file ?
If you are using windows 7 check if its made 2 sports interactive folders



Figuered it out. I downloaded Steklo skin which for some reason when removed everything worked again even on the default skin.

So guys if you have a skin installed, try removing it and see if anything works. Could be skins are conflicting with custom graphics some how.
iceheart3131
12 years ago
2 weeks ago
12
Premium
Hi,
I ve downloaded 5 times the pack and i encountred a corrupted files error .
(With winrar)
Have you the same error ?
mons
17 years ago
6 hours ago
85,497
By iceheart3131 | Permalink | On 03 November 2012 - 16:47 PM
Hi,
I ve downloaded 5 times the pack and i encountred a corrupted files error .
(With winrar)
Have you the same error ?

Which download method did you use? What was the total file size? What program are you using to extract it?
iceheart3131
12 years ago
2 weeks ago
12
Premium
By mons | Permalink | On 03 November 2012 - 16:07 PM
Which download method did you use? What was the total file size? What program are you using to extract it?

I ve download with the ftp method . I have a 5.24 go file and i extract with winrar 4.2
mons
17 years ago
6 hours ago
85,497
When you attempt to extract the files, what error message is displayed? And does it allow you to extract the files nonetheless?
DannyLCFC1
14 years ago
3 weeks ago
43
Premium
Hi guys

I transferred all my graphics from fm12 to 13 and everything works except the icons, any ideas why these wont work?

Thanks
iceheart3131
12 years ago
2 weeks ago
12
Premium
By mons | Permalink | On 03 November 2012 - 16:27 PM
When you attempt to extract the files, what error message is displayed? And does it allow you to extract the files nonetheless?

I have this message : "the file is corrupted" but winrar follows his works ( ihave 4 or 5 times the message)
mattkentuk
13 years ago
6 days ago
11
Hi

Is anyone else having problems downloading the Megapack parts from Radidshare today? I've downloaded parts 1-5 and have just gone to download part 6 and Rapidshare encountered an error saying that either the server is busy or the file has been marked as illegal. I tried every link and got the same message.

Is there anywhere else I can download parts 6-12?

Thanks

Matt
mons
17 years ago
6 hours ago
85,497
By DannyLCFC1 | Permalink | On 03 November 2012 - 17:28 PM
Hi guys

I transferred all my graphics from fm12 to 13 and everything works except the icons, any ideas why these wont work?

Thanks

Why don't you try downloading the whole pack again? It's not too huge, around 300MB iirc. Not sure what could be the case tbh





By iceheart3131 | Permalink | On 03 November 2012 - 17:44 PM
I have this message : "the file is corrupted" but winrar follows his works ( ihave 4 or 5 times the message)

You mean the file continues to extract the images? If yes, how many images are extracted in all?





By mattkentuk | Permalink | On 03 November 2012 - 17:55 PM
Hi

Is anyone else having problems downloading the Megapack parts from Radidshare today? I've downloaded parts 1-5 and have just gone to download part 6 and Rapidshare encountered an error saying that either the server is busy or the file has been marked as illegal. I tried every link and got the same message.

Is there anywhere else I can download parts 6-12?

Thanks

Matt

It's probably a Rapidshare problem. Wait till later tonight or tomorrow and retry. If it still isn't available by then, let us know.
Kaje
15 years ago
4 months ago
5
Premium
By mons | Permalink | On 02 November 2012 - 20:30 PM
There's definitely something wrong with the file you've downloaded. How many images in all do you have in the 5.0 megapack folder?


116, 631 - but there are players who had a picture in 2012's series 4 sets but not in this set.
Mullen18
14 years ago
7 years ago
311
what is the size of your config file ?
and have you checked if the players are in the megapack folder and just not showing in fm ?
mons
17 years ago
6 hours ago
85,497
By Kaje | Permalink | On 03 November 2012 - 18:31 PM
116, 631 - but there are players who had a picture in 2012's series 4 sets but not in this set.

Like who? I suspect you've got an incomplete or old config.xml file.
iceheart3131
12 years ago
2 weeks ago
12
Premium
By mons | Permalink | On 03 November 2012 - 17:14 PM
Why don't you try downloading the whole pack again? It's not too huge, around 300MB iirc. Not sure what could be the case tbh

You mean the file continues to extract the images? If yes, how many images are extracted in all?

It's probably a Rapidshare problem. Wait till later tonight or tomorrow and retry. If it still isn't available by then, let us know.

if have 25587 error...
mons
17 years ago
6 hours ago
85,497
That's a bit much. It seems like the download somehow got corrupted on the way down. It's not an error from the file as such, since other users downloaded it without any issues.

Perhaps trying this program might help?
Sheddy
14 years ago
2 years ago
4
I am trying to extract the megapack using winzip and I am getting the error message "Error: Central Directory Not Found", When I click OK I then get a longer error message (see attached) saying "cannot open file doesnt have a valid archive". The megapack has taken 5 hours to download and now I get this, any solution?
iceheart3131
12 years ago
2 weeks ago
12
Premium
By mons | Permalink | On 03 November 2012 - 18:22 PM
That's a bit much. It seems like the download somehow got corrupted on the way down. It's not an error from the file as such, since other users downloaded it without any issues.

Perhaps trying this program might help?

it doesn t work for zip files .... I will try to download by another way...
Allan Skou Kristensen
11 years ago
1 year ago
1
Can't download the full megapack. I click the download button and nothing happens.... I purchased premium just for the fast download... Kind of dissappointed now

EDIT: Well, it worked now (after about 40 tries). But the download speed is only ca. 400 kb/s. The torrent is way way faster. Incredibly dissapointed, and now I'm wishing I never supported this site Won't recommend to others.

I am dissapointed.
M4ciek
17 years ago
1 year ago
2
Icon Pack 5.0 is available only via Rapidshare, which does not work. Files have been deleted. Change file hosting solution to something else.
kezman9
14 years ago
11 years ago
1
i downloaded the mega pack via the torrent link and when i open it theres nothing in the folder even though its over 5gb... Whats that all about?
connorp28
12 years ago
11 years ago
1
I've downloaded the cut out megapack from rapidshare (all 12 parts). There is no MP5.0 file to open up? Instead, I've unarchived all 12 parts and still can't find any file named MP5...though I have found the config file... I'm using a mac, so maybe that makes a difference. I'm a bit new to FM13 but I'd like to add faces! Thanks

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