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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  • 2024.07 - Released on 15 Apr 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).
mons
17 years ago
52 minutes ago
85,997
thx but i wanna a main megapack 7.03 so did you have a torrent? it's to many limit when i download for hosting sites/

Download the 7.0 torrent, then download the 7.01 - 7.03 update packs separately and apply them in chronological order
Cizzu
16 years ago
6 hours ago
11,963
Hi all

I've already installed all the packs, but I can't see Guus Hiddink ... how is it possible?

the image is inside the folder. There are some errors in the config file?

thanks
mons
17 years ago
52 minutes ago
85,997
Hi all

I've already installed all the packs, but I can't see Guus Hiddink ... how is it possible?

the image is inside the folder. There are some errors in the config file?

thanks

When seen from the respective national team pages, persons in the Dutch and French national teams do not have their images displayed for licensing reasons. You can solve this issue by applying the real names fix file...
Cizzu
16 years ago
6 hours ago
11,963
When seen from the respective national team pages, persons in the Dutch and French national teams do not have their images displayed for licensing reasons. You can solve this issue by applying the real names fix file...


Thanks mons, but I can see properly all players. I have already applied the real name fix file.
For example, Didier Deschamps appears as the rest of the staff.
The problem concerns only Guus Hiddink.
mons
17 years ago
52 minutes ago
85,997
I have no idea, it all seems fine in my game
mons
17 years ago
52 minutes ago
85,997
Rob has made this video for those struggling to install the megapack files
George M Thompson
11 years ago
8 years ago
4
Excuse my ignorance but I am 65 and not very PC adept. Anyway I downloaded and installed the Megapack v7.0 and followed the instructions and all went well. I imported them into the game via the instructions given and they all appear in my game now. I have now downloaded updates v7.1,7.2 and 7.3 but am unsure how I add them to the megapack folder in the graphics folder. Do I just unzip them then cut and paste the pics into the main folder in order or is there another way?. I have looked for a how to here but although the install instructions for the main pack are there I am unsure how to add the update packs.
kingtut313
10 years ago
1 month ago
36
What I do is copy the contents of the update folders into my main folder.
mons
17 years ago
52 minutes ago
85,997
Good morning Mr Thompson. Basically it's as kingtut says. Just copy the contents of the update packs into the main megapack folder and overwrite all when prompting. At the end of the whole process you should have all 155,000+ images in one folder only. Do remember to change your preferences in-game as per the screenshot in the OP as well
KoloToure96
9 years ago
8 years ago
2
Hi,

Although I'm not new to football manager games, I am new to adding in-game graphics and skins.

Yesterday I downloaded the near 7GB cut-out faces megapack. Today when I used WinRAR to extract the file, I got diagnostic messages saying "The file directory is corrupted and unreachable" for approximately 20,000 of the images. However, I was still able to successfully extract 6GB of the 6.84GB file, but when I put it in the correct directory in my graphics folder and did the preferences settings in-game, the faces still weren't active.

I extracted the file again, but still got the same error messages and therefore the same missing images.

After searching the file, I've found that unlike my logos pack, there is no config file - which was probably one of the 20,000+ files that weren't successfully extracted.

My questions are - would the pack still work if I could simply download the config file on its own, and if so, is there actually a link for that?
Maybe somebody else using this pack could upload the config file?

Any help and advice would be much appreciated.
mons
17 years ago
52 minutes ago
85,997
I'm afraid it looks like the file either did not download fully or was somehow corrupted along the way.

I would definitely recommend that you retry to download the whole file again, ideally via torrent, to ensure that you have the whole thing and that you have a solid base to build on. After downloading the torrent, download the 3 update packs released since then to be fully up-to-date.

You can always use fmXML to generate a config file for the images you have.
MrMVP91
12 years ago
5 months ago
98
Has Martin Odegaard's face been removed? I'm 99% sure that I had it in my megapack but now I've started up a new save after not playing FM for a few weeks and he doesn't have a face. I thought that maybe I needed to download the latest update pack so I did that but still nothing.

I then searched his player ID with the ID search tool and it says that no images are available. Was his face really never included in the packs? I could've sworn I had it in my previous save.
mons
17 years ago
52 minutes ago
85,997
Has Martin Odegaard's face been removed? I'm 99% sure that I had it in my megapack but now I've started up a new save after not playing FM for a few weeks and he doesn't have a face. I thought that maybe I needed to download the latest update pack so I did that but still nothing.

I then searched his player ID with the ID search tool and it says that no images are available. Was his face really never included in the packs? I could've sworn I had it in my previous save.

It's definitely not been removed and is still there afaik. However the UID is dynamic since he was added after the game was released and I'm led to understand that it can differ from one save game to the other depending on what editor data files you have. He also has a new UID in 15.3.0 and this will be added in the megapack update 7.04, and the old UID will of course also be retained.

What is his UID in your game, out of curiosity?
MrMVP91
12 years ago
5 months ago
98
It's definitely not been removed and is still there afaik. However the UID is dynamic since he was added after the game was released and I'm led to understand that it can differ from one save game to the other depending on what editor data files you have. He also has a new UID in 15.3.0 and this will be added in the megapack update 7.04, and the old UID will of course also be retained.

What is his UID in your game, out of curiosity?

His UID in my game is 53095137.
mons
17 years ago
52 minutes ago
85,997
That's his new UID. He's in 7.04 which'll be out in the coming days...
MrMVP91
12 years ago
5 months ago
98
That's his new UID. He's in 7.04 which'll be out in the coming days...

Cool, thanks.
thagaffer
9 years ago
4 months ago
22
how do you resize a player picture to use as an icon? The aspect ratio keeps messing up in paint
Moe Odeh
9 years ago
1 month ago
4
Premium
Ok so i have tried to download the complete pack of the cut out player faces megapack and when i do download and open it using winrar my computer tells me unexpected end of archive. So i open the folder and i only see like 30 or 40 player faces and at times only 20. Can someone please help because i alos cant download the DF11 facepacks either because i am getting the same problem. By the way the icons pack downloaded just fine.
gary_human
15 years ago
2 years ago
32
Premium
Hey I just tried to download the complete file too and it just downloads a small piece and I keep getting a connection was lost problem in my download manager and the file only gets up to 40 mb max, could i get the link to the individual parts rather than the torrents ?
gary_human
15 years ago
2 years ago
32
Premium
also nothing wring with my connection as i mistakenly downloaded a 7.04 changes file no problem
jamesbrady
12 years ago
6 years ago
4
For some reason when i try download the facepack it just cancels straight away?
mons
17 years ago
52 minutes ago
85,997
There appear to be some issues with downloads at the moment. Rob, the site owner and administrator, will be investigating to get to the root of the problem, but in the meantime I guess you'll just have to be patient...
Tincy
12 years ago
6 years ago
7
Having real difficulty downloading this, ive never had a facepack on my game before so i click the download complete pack, i think it's going to take quite a while to download as there are so many images, which is fine, but nope it downloads within 10-20 secs i think ok thats great, i open up winzip to extract file to my game and the file i have downloaded only contains 300 odd images, bearing in mind i have clicked downloaded complete pack, i unzip it anyway and just before the unzipping ends i get some kind of message saying about a corrupt file?

Anyone help me out it would be much appreciated, all i want is players faces on my game, i also bought a premium membership so feel like ive wasted my money on that as i cant get the players faces to download correctly

Thanks
mons
17 years ago
52 minutes ago
85,997
It appears there's been a temporary issue with premium member downloads in the past couple of days. Never fear, though. Rob, the site owner and administrator, is aware of the issue and will hopefully solve it shortly. I'm afraid I can't tell you anything else than ask for your patience till the matter is brought to a conclusion, perhaps even later today...
Tincy
12 years ago
6 years ago
7
It appears there's been a temporary issue with premium member downloads in the past couple of days. Never fear, though. Rob, the site owner and administrator, is aware of the issue and will hopefully solve it shortly. I'm afraid I can't tell you anything else than ask for your patience till the matter is brought to a conclusion, perhaps even later today...


Thank you for getting back to me.

I look forward to when the issue is fixed and i can see my players faces lol!
Forsaken
13 years ago
1 year ago
33
I can download the facepack, but it only takes up 7,11 MB, and contains 252 images... Surely that can't be right?
I'm a premium member and am downloading the complete 7.04 pack...
maavro
14 years ago
9 years ago
2
hi i downloaded this megapack + metallic logopack but they don't work in game. I put them into graphics folder in unticked skin cache and clicked reload skin but nothing happens
mons
17 years ago
52 minutes ago
85,997
For all those who had issues in downloading the megapack yesterday or earlier today, the matter is now solved, and you should be able to download freely again.

maavro, not sure if your issue is related but do make sure you have downloaded the respective whole packs and not just partial incomplete downloads or update packs...
abcde123
11 years ago
7 years ago
1
hi, i can't download Complete Pack - 7.0 - torrent (can't connect to peers)...Can someone to help me??? Thanks
gcs
14 years ago
1 week ago
1
same, just reformated my pc, torrent seems to be dead

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