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 480,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.
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- 2025.01 - Released on 04 Dec 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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Macon
mons
Then it's probably a config issue since the sizes are the same as intended. Can you look into the respective configs and post a screenshot from each?
mons
Started my earlier post before you made your last comment.
Try swapping the configs around and see if that works...
Macon
giftedgiggsy11
mons
Cymro
In the config file, change all where it says portrait to icon.
giftedgiggsy11
oO SioS Oo
I have just transferred my old faces from FM15 to FM16 along with logos and flags etc but my faces dont seem to be working ?
I have a feeling the config file may be missing, please can someone supply me with the mega pack config file so I can try that an see what happens without having to download it ?
Many Thanks
Michael
vonHolzminden
mons
If you have transferred over everything from your FM15 to your FM16 folder, then your config file should be included. It's pretty easy to check whether it's there or not, just open the FM16 megapack folder and search for a file named config.xml.
If it's not there, you can always download the 8.0 update pack and thus ensure you have the latest images and the latest config file.
Did the rar file download fully? What is the size of the file which you have downloaded?
We're working to fix this oversight. In the meantime, you can manually replace all the instances of "portrait" with "icon" in the iconfaces config file.
f18ter
Are you sure that you have downloaded the full file? How many images do you have in your megapack folder?
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Yeah I have 163,029 items in the folder. So I'm not sure what is going wrong
mons
I'm not sure what your issue is then. I'll need more details to hopefully be able to pinpoint the problem; "it's not working" doesn't really give me enough info to work with.
What is the date modified of your config file? Have you modified the preferences to look like the ones in the OP?
Perhaps uploading screenshots of (a) your megapack folder [showing clearly the location and amount of images included] and (b) an example of a player who has an image in the megapack folder yet does not appear in game, would help me further...
f18ter
Perhaps uploading screenshots of (a) your megapack folder [showing clearly the location and amount of images included] and (b) an example of a player who has an image in the megapack folder yet does not appear in game, would help me further...
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Date modified for config file is 10/27/2015 6:01pm . Yeah the preferences are the same. Shaqiri was a player i found while scrolling through the megapack that didnt show up in the game. Heres the screenshots
mons
Everything looks absolutely fine there
Looks like a config issue, however, because there is a blank space where the face should be, rather than the default no cut-out black image.
Tell you what, try creating the config yourself; it's really very easy. Literally a drag-and-drop job. Download this file and follow the steps outline in this video
james muir
its saying that it will take 6 hours. Is that the normal time it takes?
thanks
mons
It really depends on your bandwidth and the server load. It's a 7.5GB file, so it's bound to take a while...
Try using Winrar.
f18ter
Downloaded, made the config file, and unfrotunately didn't ned up fixing anything, just the couple faces that did work are gone also now
It's so frusturating because I feel like I've tried everything and it's been over 10 hours tryign to tget this to work! It's worked so past couple iterations so I don't get whats going so wrong now!
mons
Let's speak via PM, I may be able to offer a solution...
Soilmate
luka1612
Please if I missed it somewhere and it already been mentioned, I downloaded the new 8.0 pack, installed it correctly, but all the players pictures are very blurry, is there something I am doing wrong?
Thank you in advance for help,
BR
mons
How large is the file that you are downloading? And did you download the full file or just the update pack? Either way, it looks like you have downloaded the icons pack instead of the main pack, or that the config files have been somehow swapped.
luka1612
Hello Mons,
I have downloaded the full pack(I like to download from scratch for every new FM version), and the file is all ok, it is the exact 163029 images like it is written in OP. But yes I also downloaded small icons pack as well, and put all of them as usual, graphics folder in FM16 folder in Documents. If you can help regarding the config file issue you r mentioning, I would be much grateful.
Thank you
mons
caaz7
luka1612
Dear Mons, yeah that is what is causing the problem, only that both Megapack and icon pack have the same config file whit all the lines ending in portrait.
Thanx for help,
BR,
mons
You don't need to wait. Go to the config.xml in the icons folder and open it with notepad. Click the edit button then choose replace. Replace /portrait with /icon. Job done
luka1612
You r the best... thanx a lot Mons...