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
2 hours ago
85,954
It should be around 10,000 images less. Did you say yes/OK when prompted to overwrite images?
Rodrigo Fuser
13 years ago
4 years ago
6
Yes of course, that's strange because I have the new 7.08 faces in game (such as 45.png with Maldini)
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,954
Can you upload a screenshot of the contents of part of your MP folder?
Leoreytt
8 years ago
8 years ago
4
I have a problem with the cut out pack, the problem is that the facepack only load the faces of the players of the leagues i selected to play, example: i want to play a save with only england teams, well i selected only england and the facepack load the faces of all england leagues i load, but for example the faces of second divison of Spain don´t load, or first division of Belguim, etc, but the game load the faces of some other leagues i don´t load like first division of Spain .
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,954
I have a problem with the cut out pack, the problem is that the facepack only load the faces of the players of the leagues i selected to play, example: i want to play a save with only england teams, well i selected only england and the facepack load the faces of all england leagues i load, but for example the faces of second divison of Spain don´t load, or first division of Belguim, etc, but the game load the faces of some other leagues i don´t load like first division of Spain .

You seem not to have installed the megapack correctly, as the megapack is not sorted in any way, shape or form.

How many images in all do you have in your megapack folder and which version of the megapack are you running? Even better, could you upload a screenshot of your megapack folder?
JohnnieJames
8 years ago
7 years ago
128
btw, I've got the latest megapack how many images should there be I have on top of my head as I'm using my other laptop so can't check 131,568
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,954
btw, I've got the latest megapack how many images should there be I have on top of my head as I'm using my other laptop so can't check 131,568

That's amazingly precise for an off-the-top-of-my-head figure

It should be over 161k images, so best to check again when you're home...
JohnnieJames
8 years ago
7 years ago
128
That's amazingly precise for an off-the-top-of-my-head figure

It should be over 161k images, so best to check again when you're home...


Haha, I have 151,568 but that's just 7.0 Megapack with no update packs. is that right?
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,954
Haha, I have 151,568 but that's just 7.0 Megapack with no update packs. is that right?

Sounds about right to me
Angel Eyes
16 years ago
7 years ago
45
Hi, I have had to re-install windows but saved megapack / game saves to external drive. reloaded game on steam and placed savegame, megapack (under my docs/graphics, etc), game loads fine but images won't show. i've done the usual, skin cache, etc. Any ideas?

Cheers guys
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,954
Have you changed the user data folder in the preferences in-game?
RobinVanChris
9 years ago
8 years ago
2
isn't there a way to torrent these files?
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,954
isn't there a way to torrent these files?

Scroll on the bottom of this page
peterpansnr
13 years ago
1 week ago
15
Premium
Hi.

I have downloaded the megapack, done all that you need to do, but some faces don't show. They are in the pack though, I've checked. And there is a config file. Any ideas what's up?

Thanks!
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,954
Hi.

I have downloaded the megapack, done all that you need to do, but some faces don't show. They are in the pack though, I've checked. And there is a config file. Any ideas what's up?

Thanks!

That's a bit strange. How many images do you have in your megapack folder and up to which version of the megapack have you downloaded? Also, what is the date modified of the config file?
peterpansnr
13 years ago
1 week ago
15
Premium
That's a bit strange. How many images do you have in your megapack folder and up to which version of the megapack have you downloaded? Also, what is the date modified of the config file?


No. images = how do I find this out on a Mac? When I select all of em the bloody beach ball goes mental...
Version = Latest, downloaded this week.
Config = 28 Aug 2015 20:31
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,954
Right click on the folder from outside, then click properties (or the mac equivalent) and it should tell you the amount of files contained within.

It would help if you told us which players are not being displayed, and their UIDs.
peterpansnr
13 years ago
1 week ago
15
Premium
Right click on the folder from outside, then click properties (or the mac equivalent) and it should tell you the amount of files contained within.

It would help if you told us which players are not being displayed, and their UIDs.


Sadly, I can't seem to get that info. As for the players, there are so many missing it's too strenuous a task to type them all up! I realise this means you cannot help me, but thanks for trying.
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,954
If there are so many images missing, then I suspect you have not downloaded the whole megapack. What was the size (in MB) of the 7.0 file which you downloaded?
peterpansnr
13 years ago
1 week ago
15
Premium
If there are so many images missing, then I suspect you have not downloaded the whole megapack. What was the size (in MB) of the 7.0 file which you downloaded?


I had to do it at work as I live in the middle of nowhere and the broadband is so bad it can never download the whole thing.

The odd thing is, the faces are in the pack as is the config file, but some don't show.
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,954
If you could perhaps pinpoint a handful of these images which are in the folder and the config file, but which don't show in-game, then perhaps I may be able to think of what may be causing the issue...
redscouse08
11 years ago
7 months ago
7
I've made numerous attempts to dl the Megapack 7.8 but its been an incomplete dl each time, only a few mb. Is it just me? Similar problems with Metallic Logos.
Real Names, Icons Megapack and Extra Leagues dl and installed without any problem.

Edit: Using torrent for now.
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,954
I've tried downloading both now without problems so it may well be some kind of issue from your end. What browser are you using and what kind of error message are you getting when the download stops?
redscouse08
11 years ago
7 months ago
7
I've tried downloading both now without problems so it may well be some kind of issue from your end. What browser are you using and what kind of error message are you getting when the download stops?



Hi mons...

I use Google Chrome and there was no message when it stopped. The dl just stopped as if it was complete. When I check the size of the .rar, it is just a few mb. When I extract it, I get the message it is a broken/incomplete dl. I think I just picked the wrong time of the night to dl. It was just that I tried so many times without success.
Anyway, like I said, I used utorrent without any problem and its all installed now

Just tried again. 3 times. Only 16kb each time. When I extract, the message is;
.....Checksum error in sortitoutsi\faces\93049556.png. The file is corrupt
.....Unexpected end of archive

Thanks for the reply....
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,954
Can you try downloading it with a different browser? I have this idea that it might help...
peterpansnr
13 years ago
1 week ago
15
Premium
Hi, sorry, me again.

Ok, now no faces are showing bar those already in the game (Sisto etc). I've got the config, the set up is all ok (reload skin on confirm etc). Any ideas of what to do next?
ProcterCFC
9 years ago
1 day ago
31
Premium
Got a weird problem in my game. Every so often when I load the game up, faces are missing for players and staff that are part of the France and Holland national teams. Is there any reason why this is? Config file is correct and all their pictures are in my face pack, every one else's pictures are showing perfectly.
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,954
Got a weird problem in my game. Every so often when I load the game up, faces are missing for players and staff that are part of the France and Holland national teams. Is there any reason why this is? Config file is correct and all their pictures are in my face pack, every one else's pictures are showing perfectly.

This is due to licensing restrictions. If you download the licensing fix file, this issue should not appear any more
budwaiser4
16 years ago
1 week ago
139
Hi, I've download the full multipack 8.0 when I extracts the files with winrar I get an error saying that the part 9 is corrupt.
Why?
Sorry for my english, thanks.
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,954
Hi, I've download the full multipack 8.0 when I extracts the files with winrar I get an error saying that the part 9 is corrupt.
Why?
Sorry for my english, thanks.

Where did you download it from please?

You may have to download part 9 again...

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