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).
Lennart Kettenis
10 years ago
1 day ago
33
Premium
Can anyone explain to me how i can make the profile pictures of the players larger?
The pictures are pretty small by default and i know its possible to make them larger.
I tried downloading a panel but it was pretty old and it didn't work.
For DF11 facepack it was easy to find to right panel... but i like the cut out photos better.
Who can help me?
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,996
Mons maybe you have forget this cuts from my packs. I think that this faces are all good improvements.

http://sortitoutsi.net/downloads/view/15518/missing-improvements

I'll have another look at them, but a quick look seems to indicate that most of them are not really improvements, I'm afraid. In many cases, the existing MP image was HQ and, although the cuts themselves within that pack are perfectly good, the sources from which they were taken are not the best. I'll have another look at them, nevertheless...



Can anyone explain to me how i can make the profile pictures of the players larger?
The pictures are pretty small by default and i know its possible to make them larger.
I tried downloading a panel but it was pretty old and it didn't work.
For DF11 facepack it was easy to find to right panel... but i like the cut out photos better.
Who can help me?

Something like this perhaps?
Lennart Kettenis
10 years ago
1 day ago
33
Premium
I'll have another look at them, but a quick look seems to indicate that most of them are not really improvements, I'm afraid. In many cases, the existing MP image was HQ and, although the cuts themselves within that pack are perfectly good, the sources from which they were taken are not the best. I'll have another look at them, nevertheless...

Something like this perhaps?


looks great.. but i can not get it installed.. i follow the steps for a game without skins but it just is not working :-/
gazcarter1
11 years ago
2 weeks ago
55
Premium
Hi I'm wanting to download this pack but everytime I go to download a free pack it either cuts out or says something foreign in a red language... If I sign up/pay up to the premium membership will it actually work to just 83p a month? its not a scan is it? others have signed up to it and never been "hacked"

thanks
Jogo Bonito
11 years ago
1 month ago
930
Premium
I can only speak for myself here, but I have used the premium member service for a few years and have had no issues whatsoever with it. You're probably aware that the fee is taken just once a year, and renews automatically by paypal unless you stop it somehow.

To mons, and the cutters/collectors, thanks again for the work and effort put in to the latest update
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,996
looks great.. but i can not get it installed.. i follow the steps for a game without skins but it just is not working :-/

Send me a private message and I'll see how I can help
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,996
Hi I'm wanting to download this pack but everytime I go to download a free pack it either cuts out or says something foreign in a red language... If I sign up/pay up to the premium membership will it actually work to just 83p a month? its not a scan is it? others have signed up to it and never been "hacked"

thanks

Rest assured it's not a scam. I've just tried downloading it and everything seems to work as it should. Can you try again now? If the same error message come up, please post it so I can see what it is and assist you accordingly...
Angel Eyes
16 years ago
7 years ago
45
Hi, extracted megapack to graphics folder a while back now they are not showing. Done the usual stuff, i.e. unticked caache and ticked reload skin (omega). still no joy. Strange, was working before. All i can think is i tried to add a face to the pack and edited config, but sure this was ok. can't locate pic within the pack as there are so many. deleted created player from editor database too, so is this causing a conflict?


Thanks
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,996
Hi, extracted megapack to graphics folder a while back now they are not showing. Done the usual stuff, i.e. unticked caache and ticked reload skin (omega). still no joy. Strange, was working before. All i can think is i tried to add a face to the pack and edited config, but sure this was ok. can't locate pic within the pack as there are so many. deleted created player from editor database too, so is this causing a conflict?

Thanks

Can I have a screenshot of your megapack folder? What version of the megapack are you running?
Womaz
11 years ago
7 hours ago
321
Premium
I paid the upgraded memebership fee, downloaded the pack and it does not work. I used to have it working on last pc.
Transferred all the files over to new lap top and the logos and kits worked, faces did not.
So I downloaded the new faces pack.................still does not work. The logos and kits do ....anyone offer any guidance?
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,996
I paid the upgraded memebership fee, downloaded the pack and it does not work. I used to have it working on last pc.
Transferred all the files over to new lap top and the logos and kits worked, faces did not.
So I downloaded the new faces pack.................still does not work. The logos and kits do ....anyone offer any guidance?

I suspect it's probably something minor you're doing wrong your end. Can I have a screenshot of your megapack folder contents pls? Do you have a config file in there? I imagine you've already set up your preferences as per the OP...
Womaz
11 years ago
7 hours ago
321
Premium
Hi
I am not that good with PCs and I have a feeling that I did not extract the file correctly...I have attached the screen shots.
Regards
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,996
Hi
I am not that good with PCs and I have a feeling that I did not extract the file correctly...I have attached the screen shots.
Regards

I'm afraid you've made a right royal mess of everything there, no wonder it doesn't work. Quite easily rectifiable, however, so never worry

First of all, and totally unrelated to the megapack, the editor data, games, skins and sounds folders should NOT be within the graphics folder. I've no idea how and why you placed them there, but the correct place for them is in the folder before, i.e. Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2015. Having them here may cause issues with your FM not picking up your save game, skins and any editor data files. By way of reference, here's what my folder structure looks like (some of the folders may not exist in your folder structure - don't worry about that ):
http://i518.photobucket.com/albums/u344/maltamons/fm%20folder.png~original.

Secondly, you need to extract the megapack file you've downloaded. Delete the items in the red squares in the below screenshot - you don't need them they'll just slow your game down as well as taking up HD space uselessly: http://i518.photobucket.com/albums/u344/maltamons/dda6eccf-dc8d-4dfe-b752-4ef4a31d10ea.jpg~original.

I don't know what's contained within the faces folder, but I suspect it also needs to be deleted since it may possibly conflict with the megapack - can you upload a screenshot of that folder? Next, you need to download a program to extract the compressed file. I recommend WinRar. Once you download and install this program, double-clicking on the remaining sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_7.05 file should see it open with WinRar. Click the extract button in the menu bar near the top of the program, take note of the folder it will be extracted to (I believe it'll be your Downloads or Documents folder by default, but it may be slightly different) and press ok. Since the file is rather large, this may take a very long time. Be patient; it's worth it.

Once this process is over, move the resulting large folder to Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2015 > graphics. Again, in view of the folder's large size, this may take a while. This is the final step, so be patient. This should result in a folder containing circa 158,000 images plus a config.xml.

To make sure you are up-to-date with these cut-out faces in the future, update packs are released every 5 weeks or so which add new images as well as improvements to the existing images. These are generally around 150mb in size and should be transferred directly into the megapack folder and not into a sub-folder

Hope this helps, but do feel free to post again if you want further assistance
Womaz
11 years ago
7 hours ago
321
Premium
I will try this thanks.

the faces folder contains thousands of player faces......should I delete this?
Womaz
11 years ago
7 hours ago
321
Premium
I have installed winrar and followed the above guidelines and it appears to extract it as a PDF file???
Is this correct/
Womaz
11 years ago
7 hours ago
321
Premium
i have no idea what i am doing wrong but when i try to extract the file it does it in PDF format. This is even when i USE WINAR
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,996
I will try this thanks.

the faces folder contains thousands of player faces......should I delete this?

I would think best to do so, yes - but would prefer to have a screenshot to be sure.



i have no idea what i am doing wrong but when i try to extract the file it does it in PDF format. This is even when i USE WINAR

Right-click on the file and choose properties.

Once you do, you should have a menu which look similar to this:

http://i518.photobucket.com/albums/u344/maltamons/properties.png~original

However, within the red square, yours will have Adobe PDF instead of WinRar Archiver. To change this, click the change button and click on WinRar. Press OK twice and try to open the file again. Should work this time.

If it still doesn't work, drop me a PM and I can get into a bit more depth
Womaz
11 years ago
7 hours ago
321
Premium
Thanks again.
I deleted the faces folder.

I have also deleted the other folder you told me to extract, and I am now in the process of downloading it again from your site.
I am downlosading this to my desktop and I will then try and follow your guidelines again.

In my other folders within the graphics folders for eg the Belgian der klasse folder - when i double click on them it takes me to other folders and all of the kits are then displayed. I would assume thats where I need to be with this file.

I will follow the guidelines above again although it is taking over an hour each time
premiumplayer
11 years ago
3 years ago
3
Why the torrent isn't working?
premiumplayer
11 years ago
3 years ago
3
The torrent is working? because i can't download...
peterpansnr
13 years ago
1 week ago
15
Premium
Hi.

Since the 15.3 update, the game crashes. If I remove the Facepack it's fine. If I put it back it crashes. So the Facepack is now making the game crash. Anyway I can have the Facepack AND play the game?
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,996
Hi.

Since the 15.3 update, the game crashes. If I remove the Facepack it's fine. If I put it back it crashes. So the Facepack is now making the game crash. Anyway I can have the Facepack AND play the game?

That's very strange and the first time I think I heard anything of the sort. Can I have a look at your megapack folder please? Have you added any other graphics?
peterpansnr
13 years ago
1 week ago
15
Premium
That's very strange and the first time I think I heard anything of the sort. Can I have a look at your megapack folder please? Have you added any other graphics?


I'm on a Mac if that helps. No other graphics in that folder. I downloaded the whole folder again with updates and it still crashes. Before this, I ended up selecting specific faces from the older facepack so the amount was limited. It worked ok then, so it must be the amount of face s that is causing the game to crash. But this only started after the Jan window update.

How can I show you my megapack folder?
coombsey2557
14 years ago
1 day ago
22
Premium
I have downloaded the latest file for cut out faces but the netherlands faces are missing, can anyone help, thank you
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,996
I have downloaded the latest file for cut out faces but the netherlands faces are missing, can anyone help, thank you

Due to licensing issues, neither the Dutch nor the French national team faces appear in the game.

Download this file to fix the issue
St.loony
10 years ago
2 months ago
3
Premium
Hey guys. For the first year I'm having problems with this and I have no idea. I've tried to solve this myself to no avail and I'd rather not sift through 59 pages of solutions so apologies if my problem has been solved before.

Anyway; the problem is simply it's not working. This is for Football Manager 2015 and I have version 7 with all 5 updates. I'm 100% right I'm doing this correctly (I've done it enough times!) so if you could give me a hand it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,996
Hmm, that's strange but I need a bit more details. How are you sure that it's not working? Are all the images displaying the default blank player image, or is there a blank space instead of the cutouts?

Do you have any other facepacks installed? It's not a problem per se, but you may have a config conflict somewhere causing the problem.

Do you have a config.xml file included within the megapack folder? If not, the images can't be mapped to the right person in-game?

How many images in total do you have in your megapack folder? You should have over 158,000 with all the update packs.

And finally a screenshot of your megapack folder could maybe help me locate anything amiss. Hope this helps
St.loony
10 years ago
2 months ago
3
Premium
It's showing the default blank images still

No other facepacks; only a logo pack which I can't imagine would conflict.

Config.xml is present.

I have 18,026 files ( Oh, maybe there's an issue).

Attachment not working so here are the screenshots .

I'll have another go at installing it making sure it's all there and get back to you.
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,996
You definitely have too little images there - you should have around 140,000 more. No wonder it's not working

Should be fine once you download everything...
St.loony
10 years ago
2 months ago
3
Premium
I'm pretty sure I got everything every time round unless I'm being a bigger morn than I have made myself out to be!

I'm downloading the torrent for the mega pack 7.0, then obviously the updates from 7.0, 7.1 etc then unzipping them in that order. That is the correct way, right?

EDIT:
Right, I don't know where I was going wrong but I got it to work. Thank you for helping me find the problme

Keep up the good work, man

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