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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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).
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By KenzieQP | Permalink | On 26 November 2012 - 18:40 PM
Nope, just the one. Would yourself, or someone else, be able to make a config file available for download that works for the megapack with the 5.1 update?

It was mentioned earlier that it should be bigger than 8.18mb (not sure if that’s correct or not), but mine is that size and the person previously trying to help (Rowan) who suggested it should be 8.6mb put up a config for me to download. However, when I downloaded it, it was also 8.18mb.


Kenzie 8.18 mb is the size of the 5.1 config file.
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By KenzieQP | Permalink | On 26 November 2012 - 19:40 PM
Nope, just the one. Would yourself, or someone else, be able to make a config file available for download that works for the megapack with the 5.1 update?

It was mentioned earlier that it should be bigger than 8.18mb (not sure if that’s correct or not), but mine is that size and the person previously trying to help (Rowan) who suggested it should be 8.6mb put up a config for me to download. However, when I downloaded it, it was also 8.18mb.

I doubt it's an issue with the config as it looks like it's all fine to me.

Have you unticked use skin cache and ticked always reload skin on confirm from within the preferences?
Rowan
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mons - Kenzie said he'd already made sure he's done that correctly....

A screenshot to confirm would be nice though Kenzie?

The last viable option before we advise a game re-install would be Clearing the Cache, give that a go and come back to us.
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Thanks all for trying to help.

I’ve tried unticking skin cache and ticked always reload skin on confirm (and all possible combinations, and reloading the game with all different combinations).

@ Rowan: you had suggested clearing the cache before, unfortunately it made no difference.

Thanks again. Due to coursework and exams over the next month I won’t be playing much FM (an uninstall, then reinstall might be a doubly wise move! ). I’ll try again around X-mas time and probably start the whole downloading process from scratch to hopefully resolve any problems.
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So weird mate, as you know thousands of others are successfully using it, so I'm not sure what the issue is...

I presume you didn't have TWO Sports Interactive folders in My Documents (or even two My Documents)? Windows 7 does that sometimes....
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Could you try downloading the full icon megapack as well and telling us if it works?

Are you (a) playing FMC or (b) using a different skin perchance? It should really work anyway tbh, but I'm scraping the barrel. Everything seems to be fine
skey295
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i get an error about CRC files.I tried downloading again, but Rapidshare files have been deleted.Crocko already slow.

Solution?
patton93
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is there a torrent file for 5.1 like last time? not coming up on the download page just mirrors.
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As per some of the previous comments Ive downloaded the full megapack 5.1 and successfully downloaded all 5.3GB. When I then use 7-Zip to extract the files to sports interactive > FM2013 > graphics it all begins as you would expect. However, every time it stops extracting at 24% and will not go any further. I have followed all these thread comments and tried your suggested fixes to no avail. Ive replaced the config file with the larger one and even tried re-extracting the file and selecting do not replace any existing files, so technically it should fly through to 24% and pick up from there but still the thing locks up at 24%. I dont think its 7-Zip although its the first time Ive used it as winzip really couldnt handle such a large zip file. So in a nutshell my game has 24% of the pictures from the pack. Please help
mons
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Try using winrar to extract the pack.
MCFCFAN2009
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Unable to download.....it gets to 75 percent and then crashes. Please can anyone send me another link or torrent as the download is not working for me at least.
Mullen18
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Try using a download manager
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I can't inderstand why but my faces stoped to apear in game, all other graphics I have (kits, logos, stadiums, and incon faces) still work. I tried to do a new config file but without result, any help?
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By mons | Permalink | On 29 November 2012 - 22:41 PM
Try using winrar to extract the pack.


Winrar cant cope with the size of the file and gives a corrupt file error message mentioned earlier in thread. This is an eroneous error message and is in fact that just winrar isnt good with large compressed files.

Any other suggestions?
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By A. Simões | Permalink | On 02 December 2012 - 23:50 PM
I can't inderstand why but my faces stoped to apear in game, all other graphics I have (kits, logos, stadiums, and incon faces) still work. I tried to do a new config file but without result, any help?

Wait for the upcoming 5.02 pack, it might help solve the problem.




By kieran davies | Permalink | On 03 December 2012 - 02:57 AM
Winrar cant cope with the size of the file and gives a corrupt file error message mentioned earlier in thread. This is an eroneous error message and is in fact that just winrar isnt good with large compressed files.

Any other suggestions?

Winrar was used to create the file and has worked with extracting the images for many, many other users, so I doubt it's the problem here. What error message was displayed? If you press ok on the error message, many users have reported that the images are extracted nonetheless...
Deicide
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hey lads, just go done downloading the "Complete Pack - 5.0 with a release date of 13-10-2012" torrent is that all i have to download, or do i also have to download update pack 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2?


sorry, i'm new to this torrent stuff.
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The rapidshare download is "exhausted". What happened to the megauploads files?
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By Deicide | Permalink | On 05 December 2012 - 05:40 AM
hey lads, just go done downloading the "Complete Pack - 5.0 with a release date of 13-10-2012" torrent is that all i have to download, or do i also have to download update pack 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2?


sorry, i'm new to this torrent stuff.

Download the 5.0 torrent pack and extract and install it. Then download 5.01 and 5.02 and apply them in order



By Meguel | Permalink | On 05 December 2012 - 17:03 PM
The rapidshare download is "exhausted". What happened to the megauploads files?

By mons | Permalink | On 04 December 2012 - 22:12 PM
For all those requesting Rapidshare links, please be informed that Rapidshare has, since a short while ago, restricted all uploads by individual users to a maximum of 1,000 total downloads a month and it seems like this has acceeded the limit for sortitoutsi. Rob is working to get alternate mirrors, but it's easier said than done...

Plus, megaupload was closed down aaaaaaaaaages ago...
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Okay well if I try open the file in Winzip it says 'the central directory cannot be found' and suggests downloading the file again not a viable option when using Sky broadband as thats a days work and I dont want to keep downloading the file. If I right click the file and select extract it starts to extract the file but gives errors during extraction of '! C:\Users\Default.Default-PC\AppData\Local\Temp\sortitoutsi_megapack_5.01.zip: The archive is corrupt' if you click on the red x button it continues but after two of these errors Winzip closes and nothing happens. Out of interest at this point it is saying extraction is 0% complete although it runs through files for couple of mins.

Further help please, I only went premium on this for these downloads as the rapidshare ones are past their limits :-s
mons
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Try extracting it with winrar.
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Hi,

I can't seem to upload the logos. I've completed the face packs with no problem, but downloading the "small logos" and "left/right logos", as well as the standard "normal logos" has caused a problem.

I used fmxml 1.2.0 to make a config. following the simple instructions, i.e. clicking "normal/large logos" & "club/team" on fmxml 1.2.0 and making a config for the "normal" folders in "alts" and the "normal" folder itself, both within the "clubs" folder..to follow in the same example. I did the same process for the "comps" and "nations" folders. The fmxml 1.2.0 uses "small logos", "left bg logos", "right bg logos" for the logos, which are found in the downloaded file.

But when I went to reload the skin, the logos didn't appear. I've followed all the instructions, the cache box was un-ticked, the reload was ticked and the logo folder was next to my face pack folder, both within the graphics folder.

I'm on a Mac too, if this makes any difference.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks in advance.

José Fernandes.
Mullen18
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Best to ask for help with logo's in a logo thread mate, not a facepack one
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Hi, im having major problems with this, downloaded the megapack and have tried unzipping with 7Zip,it says Errors - 89068 "unsupported compression method for...." and then the pic number. I tried unzipping and it gets to file 120542 and freezes, on 25% done. can anyone help me out please ?
Mullen18
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Try using winrar
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By mons | Permalink | On 07 December 2012 - 05:41 AM
Try extracting it with winrar.


Winrar was what I was using to extract when it wont go past 24%. It doesnt work :-(
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hey guys, added some of rowans regen faces to my game C:\Users\HomePC\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2013\graphics\faces\Regen then made a normal folder and small folder added configs but they wont show, cleared the cache too and reloaded the skin.
anyone got any ideas as Ive done this before and they worked with no issues at all
thanks
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By US ARSENAL | Permalink | On 09 December 2012 - 14:42 PM
hey guys, added some of rowans regen faces to my game C:\Users\HomePC\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2013\graphics\faces\Regen then made a normal folder and small folder added configs but they wont show, cleared the cache too and reloaded the skin.
anyone got any ideas as Ive done this before and they worked with no issues at all
thanks

The capacity to assign cut-outs to regens was removed by SI for FM13

Rowan's made a petition on the official forums for them to be re-enabled, so we'll have to wait and see...
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oh that sucks , thanks for the quick response mate , hopefully they do something about that and quick because these odd regen faces look crap
thanks again

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