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
Excellent stuff - I knew it would be something really simple to fix


Thanks! Not so simple for simple people

On a serious note, I have two questions to ask:

1) If there is a player with no photo in the game, or in any pack, can he be added separately if a pic is cut - or would it need to wait until the next update pack was made?

2) Browsing some of the other threads, I see people are doing specific team packs, or adding youth players, obscure players/staff etc. Once these are done, are they automatically put in to the next update pack, or must we download/extract/add them separately?

Apologies for the questions, which I hope make sense, I'm just not quite sure how you amalgamate all the new stuff in to the packs and curious to know.
mons
17 years ago
18 hours ago
85,497
Thanks! Not so simple for simple people

On a serious note, I have two questions to ask:

1) If there is a player with no photo in the game, or in any pack, can he be added separately if a pic is cut - or would it need to wait until the next update pack was made?

2) Browsing some of the other threads, I see people are doing specific team packs, or adding youth players, obscure players/staff etc. Once these are done, are they automatically put in to the next update pack, or must we download/extract/add them separately?

Apologies for the questions, which I hope make sense, I'm just not quite sure how you amalgamate all the new stuff in to the packs and curious to know.

1) Anybody can add a new cut-out by manually adding it to the megapack folder and then using fmXML (available elsewhere on this site) to generate a new config file to enable the game to "read" the image. If it's a missing or an improvement image, then it will probably be added to the next update pack, if you can wait.

2) The point of the update packs is that they include all the individual cuts and the images in the released facepacks, as well as a good amount of images from outside the forum. Of course, one is free to use the steps in 1) to add them manually to his game if he can't wait till the update pack is released
Jogo Bonito
11 years ago
1 week ago
930
Premium
1) Anybody can add a new cut-out by manually adding it to the megapack folder and then using fmXML (available elsewhere on this site) to generate a new config file to enable the game to "read" the image. If it's a missing or an improvement image, then it will probably be added to the next update pack, if you can wait.

2) The point of the update packs is that they include all the individual cuts and the images in the released facepacks, as well as a good amount of images from outside the forum. Of course, one is free to use the steps in 1) to add them manually to his game if he can't wait till the update pack is released


Thanks mons, understood. It's way beyond my capabilities, but good to know anyway.

I wanted to ask for an image to be added in the next pack, so I'll need to check out the procedure and what info I need to supply.

mons
17 years ago
18 hours ago
85,497
Thanks mons, understood. It's way beyond my capabilities, but good to know anyway.

I wanted to ask for an image to be added in the next pack, so I'll need to check out the procedure and what info I need to supply.


It's really much easier than it sounds.

Download this file and watch this video to see how easy it is

If you want to ask for an image for a player who does not have a cut-out in the megapack, use the missing image thread.

If you want to ask for an improved image for a player who already has a cut-out in the megapack, use the improvement image thread. To be sure it's an improvement, read the spoiler at the bottom of the opening post of that thread.

All you'll need is the player's name, UID and a source image from which you want the cut-out to be produced
stevotrueblue
13 years ago
2 months ago
24
Premium
Hi there,, can someone give me some advice on how to update my face packs correctly?

I looked in my graphics folder in FM14 and can see I have one big file called MEGAPACK 5.0,, there is also another sortitoutsi folder with a much smaller faces folder,, im guessing thats an old update but it has no info on it saying exactly what one.

Can someone tell me,, if I want my facepacks totally up to date,, do I need to install in order update 5.1,,,,5.2,,,,5.3 and so on to I get to update 7.1 ??? Or do I just install update 7.1 ???

Cheers
mons
17 years ago
18 hours ago
85,497
First of all you should have ALL the images in one folder only as you will only see a small amount of faces if you have an update pack in a separate folder.

To know which update pack you have in that folder, check the date modified on the config.xml and compare it to the date of release of the update packs. If it's a day or two out to any of the update packs, then it's probably that one.

Each update pack contains only the images of that pack and not others from previous update packs. If you are still on 5.0, it would probably be simpler to download 7.0 via torrent then download 7.01 to be up-to-date, rather than downloading the 20 or so update packs released since 5.0 was made available.
Walks316
17 years ago
4 months ago
8
I've just tried downloading the megapacks for cutout faces and metallic logos. However, when downloading the faces megapack, it reports that the file size is 6.9GB, but after it informs me it's complete, the file size is only 3GB. A similar thing is happening with the logos pack.

Any suggestions/ideas as to what might be happening?
mons
17 years ago
18 hours ago
85,497
I've just tried downloading the megapacks for cutout faces and metallic logos. However, when downloading the faces megapack, it reports that the file size is 6.9GB, but after it informs me it's complete, the file size is only 3GB. A similar thing is happening with the logos pack.

Any suggestions/ideas as to what might be happening?

It seems that the download is getting interrupted somehow.

I'd give it a day or two, then try again - sometimes it may be an issue with your internet service provider. If in a couple of days, it's still not working then please let us know so we can see whether it's something at our end
Nathswans
10 years ago
4 weeks ago
9
Premium
C:\Downloads\sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_7.01(1).rar: Unexpected end of archive

this keeps coming up everytime I extract the zip file.

it does carry on and extract but it only seems to have 130,000 odd files not 150,000?

can anyone help?

cheers
mons
17 years ago
18 hours ago
85,497
C:\Downloads\sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_7.01(1).rar: Unexpected end of archive

this keeps coming up everytime I extract the zip file.

it does carry on and extract but it only seems to have 130,000 odd files not 150,000?

can anyone help?

cheers

I'm afraid it looks like the file didn't download fully and therefore the archive cannot be fully extracted. You'll have to download it again...
Nathswans
10 years ago
4 weeks ago
9
Premium
Okay cheers

Will try downloading it again.
Nathswans
10 years ago
4 weeks ago
9
Premium
Anyone else experiencing the same problems as me.
I have over come the problem, by instead of saving the file I've clicked open with and extracted it that way. Seems to have done the trick.
Walks316
17 years ago
4 months ago
8
It seems that the download is getting interrupted somehow.

I'd give it a day or two, then try again - sometimes it may be an issue with your internet service provider. If in a couple of days, it's still not working then please let us know so we can see whether it's something at our end


Tried again today and the same thing is happening, it's still only partially downloading the file.
carlhelms
11 years ago
1 year ago
4
Hi all.

I have downloaded FM2015 this evening and the various kit/badge/faces packs

Normally I have the following folder :

"My Documents » Sports Interactive » Football Manager 2013 » graphics".

But this time round I dont? Has something changed? Any advice as to where to place the packs would be appreciated. My FM was a digital download from STEAM and all I have pertaining to FM are the files in the Program Files > Sports Interactive > Common folder.

Help?
ReMoe
10 years ago
8 years ago
4
Hello together. I have a little problem. I edited the cutout face and iconface from Martin Ödegaard and added a line for him with his ID in both configs, but the picture doesn't disapper ingame...what habe i done wrong or forgot?

Thanks a lot!
ReMö
mons
17 years ago
18 hours ago
85,497
Hi all.

I have downloaded FM2015 this evening and the various kit/badge/faces packs

Normally I have the following folder :

"My Documents » Sports Interactive » Football Manager 2013 » graphics".

But this time round I dont? Has something changed? Any advice as to where to place the packs would be appreciated. My FM was a digital download from STEAM and all I have pertaining to FM are the files in the Program Files > Sports Interactive > Common folder.

Help?

The above folder in black is only generated when you load the game for the first time

Can you load the game once and confirm this is the case please?




Hello together. I have a little problem. I edited the cutout face and iconface from Martin Ödegaard and added a line for him with his ID in both configs, but the picture doesn't disapper ingame...what habe i done wrong or forgot?

Thanks a lot!
ReMö

Is your use skin cache button ticked? Untick it and reload the skin.
ReMoe
10 years ago
8 years ago
4
Of course i reloaded the skin several times and cleared the cache before.
mons
17 years ago
18 hours ago
85,497
Hmmm, can I have a screenshot of your megapack folder then, with Odegaard and his UID clearly visible, and also one of your config with the relevant line showing?
ReMoe
10 years ago
8 years ago
4
Screens not yet. But the line in the config is <record from="1394631496" to="graphics/pictures/person/1394631496/portrait"/> and thats the number of the pic too. The pic is a png and 180x180. And the iconface pic 25x18.
Walks316
17 years ago
4 months ago
8
I've just tried downloading the megapacks for cutout faces and metallic logos. However, when downloading the faces megapack, it reports that the file size is 6.9GB, but after it informs me it's complete, the file size is only 3GB. A similar thing is happening with the logos pack.

Is anyone else experiencing the same issue?
mons
17 years ago
18 hours ago
85,497
It's probably an issue related to your internet connection rather than our servers, although I do not exclude the latter. Try shutting down your modem and re-downloading it later tonight, tomorrow or in a day or two. If it's still not downloading fully, do let us know...
mons
17 years ago
18 hours ago
85,497
Well, yes, you can use last year's packs, but in the case of our pack, there's around 18,000 new images as well as around that amount of improved images. It's probably the same for the logo packs. As for kits, you can use them but most teams will change their kits from one year to another so you won't be very up-to-date...
ryanpark
12 years ago
2 days ago
56
Premium
Hi, can someone help, ive downloaded the facepack but the original player faces that come with the game have either dissapeared or been overwritten. How do i add the facepack but keep the default faces too that come with the game.

Thanks
mons
17 years ago
18 hours ago
85,497
Hi, can someone help, ive downloaded the facepack but the original player faces that come with the game have either dissapeared or been overwritten. How do i add the facepack but keep the default faces too that come with the game.

Thanks

Please read this post as to why it's not that easy to have both our pack and the default SI images.The overall bulk of images in our megapack are of a better quality than the SI ones, if perhaps a bit older on occasions, however, which is why it is not that big a deal in my opinion.

If there's any particular team(s) you want to have the SI images of, just let us know and we'll see what we can do.
Ducky Dinh Nguyen
10 years ago
1 year ago
3
Hey guys i really have a problem with making the player faces working. Kits, Logos, all are working only faces dont seem to work at all.
You can see in the screenshot where i have put the cutouts and my config file. Really need your help cause i tried everything already to fix this.

Thank you

http://imgur.com/a/FG2Kv
mons
17 years ago
18 hours ago
85,497
Have you changed your preferences as displayed in the OP?

Though it shouldn't make a difference, you have around 18,000 less images than the total in the megapack so I would recommend that you download the packs you're lacking in order to be up-to-date.
Ducky Dinh Nguyen
10 years ago
1 year ago
3
Yeah i changed my preferences to always refresh like told...
mons
17 years ago
18 hours ago
85,497
Hmmm, do you have more than one Sports Interactive folder in your Documents perchance?
Ducky Dinh Nguyen
10 years ago
1 year ago
3
mons
17 years ago
18 hours ago
85,497
I'm mystified. Everything appears to be in order, though. Do you have any other facepacks installed?

When you view players from leagues who have default SI cuts, which are displayed? For example, can you screenshot Messi and/or Ronaldo's profile pic?

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