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 475,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.
- 480,827
- 2025.00 - Released on 29 Oct 2024
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'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.
This is what the MP folder should look like:
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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Rowan
And if so how many images do you now have in the folder and what is the size (in MBs) of the config file?
Cam3012
Thanks for the help, I'm trying it now. Hope it works this time
iceheart3131
PurpleHaze420
Documents (From the OSX Task Bar) -> Sports Interactive - > Football Manager 2013 -> Graphics ???
***EDIT***
Hah, as a side note, just noticed that this is my first post in 3 1/2 years. Good effort on my part.
ytfc_fezzy
I have downloaded version 5.00 through premium subscription and extracted it through 7zip into a graphics folder.
For some strange reason I can only get approximately 30,000 files to work. The other 86,000 files dont seem to extract/work properly. I am not sure why.
If i access the files, they are all there, all 116,000 of them or however many it is and yet some of them are listed as being 0kb in size and when you click on them it says that 'photo gallery cannot display this image because it is an empty file', yet when you click on any of the working photos, it shows the picture clearly.
Any ideas?
tobiboi
Could it be because I've already started a career and transferred some players?
Mullen18
We need some more detail
Where have you placed the folder ?
Do you have a config in the megapack folder ?
How many images do you have ?
Have you changed the settings on FM preferences ?
quike1992
tobiboi
I have placed the folder in the graphics folder.
No I dont have a config file.
I have over 10,000 images.
I have changed the settings in FM Preferences.
Mullen18
Tommy_boi
Rowan
Tommy_boi
Edit - Ok found one now, hopefully it works this time!
Rowan
mons
Try extracting the pack with winrar instead.
Same here, try extracting it winrar.
Van der Cincar
Side Splitting Pass
Duda34
I have downloaded all of the parts of this style, and i put them in the folder graphics/facepacks. I check the option of reloading skin and uncheck the cache skin option, in the interface of the game. But in the game, the faces dont appear... What can i do? I think i did everything ok...
McAvennie
I'm not certain if this is a related problem, but since downloading and installing this pack yesterday, I am getting "unpacking errors" when coming out of the match screen. I can skip past the errors, but I then get graphical glitches from that point. Restarting fixes the glitches.
Would also like to say that after years of playing FM I had never tried changing ANYTHING graphically. The clarity of your instructions and quality of the support you offer here gave me the confidence to go ahead and try these - also changed skins and am working on logos!
Thanks very much for this pack, and also for the quality of this site.
bigdorl9
Just want to say a huge thank you to the guys who put in all the work making this facepack, and to the admin who are trying their hardest to sort out everyone's issues on this thread, which appears to be Mons, Mullen18 and Rowan!
I downloaded the entire pack as one yesterday, which took the best part of 12 hours overnight! But was nonetheless well worth the wait! I followed your instructions to the word, and it has worked a treat first time! To the facepack I've added the icon megapack, the logos, the kits, and my game now looks fantastic! It just never feels right until youve got all the photos and add ons in your game.
So thanks again for all your hard work making the pack and then dealing with all the problems and issues, some of us out there really appreciate all your efforts!!
Happy customer,
Cheers!
mons
How many images in all do you have? Do you have a config.xml file?
How good a PC do you have? Could be that your system is not too good and it can't cope with FM and the amount of graphics it's loading.
mattz1991
Unzipped them all what is the next stage?
As I have noticed there is no .XML file with all the code on as usual
If someone could help me that would be great
Thanks
mons
Extract each zip file separately to a temporary folder.
Move all the images from all these folders to the folder path indicated in the installation instructions.
You can create the config yourself using fmXML, or you can download update 5.01 which will add and improve loads of images as well as adding the whole config file.
mattz1991
Is there software to extract these zips to a folder? as at the moment Im having to copy all the files which is time consuming.
So once the update (5.01) is downloaded all the files will be included on the .xml?
Thanks for the help.
Arron69
I have now tried to download the 5.01 megafacepack, i have a fast line and it only take an hour, but i cant get past 74%, i have tried 3 times now with the same result, i have downloaded the logos megapack and installed it, hope you can help.
Regards Andi.
KenzieQP
I’ve followed the instructions and extracted the 5.0 mega pack into the graphics folder, then added the contents of the 5.01 update pack into the 5.0 mega pack folder. I now have a total 118,255 items in this folder, including an 8.18MB config xml document. I’ve also selected the correct in game preferences as shown. I’ve tried changing skins and extracting the mega pack and update pack into separate folders, which have made no difference.
From what I can see very few faces are showing up in the game. A few well known faces that are showing up are Lionel Messi (+ the majority of Barcelona), Edgar Davids, Alexander Buttner and Craig Bellamy. No Ronaldo, Rooney, van Persie, etc. Also, very few English Championship and Scottish Premier League faces appear, which used to appear originally.
Any advice to get all faces working in my game would be appreciated. I’m enjoying the in game appearance with the graphics from this site, improves the FM experience.
Rowan
Sounds like you may have other facepacks with other configs conflicting...? The Megapack has to be the only one, much like the Highlander.
If it's not that, try Clearing The Cache
Andi -
I'm not sure why that keeps happening. I don't think the problem is at this end. Obviously it's a very large file and requires a reliable connection. You could try downloading a Download Manager (check google, lots of free ones) and copy the link into that and trying to download that way. If there are any breaks in connection it won't effect the download and will resume.
KenzieQP
The only face packs I have are the mega pack 5.0 and update pack 5.01 (with the contents of this within the mega pack). I’ve just tried the config from the mega pack 5.0 (which had been overwritten previously when I added the update pack) instead of the config from update pack 5.01, however nothing has changed.
Clearing the cache also made no difference.
Rowan
KenzieQP
Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2013 > graphics
I’ve also tried it in a sub-folder called ‘faces’.