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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  • 2024.06 - Released on 17 Mar 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).
TomBanks10K
7 years ago
7 years ago
1
I was downloading the previous mega pack (sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_8.00.partXX). I wasn't able to download all of the parts, where will I be able to find them now?

Edit: I see others have had this problem as well, no problem then. Hope they get restored soon. Cheers.
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,497
Where can i find the link for the Cut Out Player Faces Megapack Complete Pack?
Thanks in advance!

Hi there.

I've moved your thread to here. Please read the above comments for an answer to your query
maradao
11 years ago
4 days ago
9
hello
why megapack Cut Out Player it doesn t work for download?
Reasmor
8 years ago
5 months ago
5
I cant seem to find the button to download the full facepack. Is there something wrong with the file?
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,497
@maradao & @Reasmor

I've moved your posts to this thread. Please read this comment for an explanation of the issue...
Nani17
16 years ago
1 day ago
412
Anyone else having problems downloading? I click on the link but says "deceptive site ahead" and won't let me proceed.
vlachogiannis
16 years ago
1 day ago
17
Premium
Hi I have issues with some of the faces in game i have unticked cache thing and reload skin on confirm but wesley sneider and some of the dutch lot arent working what do i do?
MrRion154
7 years ago
7 years ago
3
Why I can download the last update torrent?

CasparDSC
12 years ago
2 years ago
113
Anyone else having problems downloading? I click on the link but says "deceptive site ahead" and won't let me proceed.


Yes, also got some problems with dfiles.eu (strangly for the first time though). Can't even open the side without a safety notice from firefox.

Will there be a new link (perhaps) mons?
MrRion154
7 years ago
7 years ago
3
Anyone having problems with a file not found?
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,497
To all those who have raised issues with the latest download ( @MrRion154 & @CasparDSC & @Nani17 ) , we are aware of them and we are working to fix them. Everything should be back to normal shortly. Just bear with us for the time being.


Hi I have issues with some of the faces in game i have unticked cache thing and reload skin on confirm but wesley sneider and some of the dutch lot arent working what do i do?

Which faces are not showing? If it's French and Dutch internationals, then it's probably because you need to install the latest version of this file, since this solves that particular licensing issue
MrRion154
7 years ago
7 years ago
3
Please fix it the fast you can I really want that facepack :C
CasparDSC
12 years ago
2 years ago
113
To all those who have raised issues with the latest download ( @MrRion154 & @CasparDSC & @Nani17 ) , we are aware of them and we are working to fix them. Everything should be back to normal shortly. Just bear with us for the time being.


Good job mons! Thank you.
Sortitoutsi 0 forum Football Managera
10 years ago
6 years ago
1
Hello
Where's that complete pack torrent file link? Am I blind or what?
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,497
Hello
Where's that complete pack torrent file link? Am I blind or what?

On this page, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the torrents tab. Download the "Complete Pack - sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_8.00.rar" torrent
David123david
7 years ago
3 years ago
2
Someone have the link of the torrent? Please I cant download it, it tells me file not found since yesterday :c
kurtyoafc
10 years ago
18 hours ago
3
Premium
Why is there no option to download the entire megapack? I accidentally deleted my faces file and now there's no option for redownload
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,497
Why is there no option to download the entire megapack? I accidentally deleted my faces file and now there's no option for redownload

I've moved your post to this thread. Please read this comment for an explanation of the issue...

It's proving a bit harder to solve than initially envisaged, but we're hopeful of having the files available for download again very soon
kurtyoafc
10 years ago
18 hours ago
3
Premium
I've moved your post to this thread. Please read this comment for an explanation of the issue...

It's proving a bit harder to solve than initially envisaged, but we're hopeful of having the files available for download again very soon


Thank you
Dima Tkachuk
10 years ago
7 years ago
2
Hi

I am downloading right now the 8.00 megapack as a torrent

I can see there are many changes, am i supposed to download each one? like 8.01 8.02 etc and apply one after another or is downloading the latest change enough?

or is there a 8.00 to 8.07 in one patch that i dont see?

thanks!
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,497
Hi

I am downloading right now the 8.00 megapack as a torrent

I can see there are many changes, am i supposed to download each one? like 8.01 8.02 etc and apply one after another or is downloading the latest change enough?

or is there a 8.00 to 8.07 in one patch that i dont see?

thanks!

I've moved your thread to the right place

Yes, you should download all update packs 8.01 to 8.07 and apply them chronologically in order to have your megapack updated as much as can be

Hope this helps
RafinhaMikinha
10 years ago
4 months ago
5
Bit in bold is what's wrong. Whichever download method you used, you should have substantially more than that. If you just downloaded the 8.0 torrent, then you should have well over 160,000 images.

Additionally, you should place the contents of update packs within the megapack folder. If you do it right, you should be prompted to confirm the overwriting of x amount of images - to which you say yes/OK. Basically, you need to have one folder and one folder only with all the images in it.

Looks like you'll have to re-download the torrent file, I'm afraid...


Just to say that I've got the faces working. Thank for your help.
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,497
Just to say that I've got the faces working. Thank for your help.

Excellent. Out of curiosity, and in case anybody else asks in the future, how many images did you put in each folder please?
delichris
17 years ago
4 days ago
59
In wich update are the faces of Breel Embolo and REnato Sanches?
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,497
In wich update are the faces of Breel Embolo and REnato Sanches?

You can search using this tool.
delichris
17 years ago
4 days ago
59
Thanks but i have a the downloads but still no faces. And i'm reloading the skin. And untick the folder.
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,497
Thanks but i have a the downloads but still no faces. And i'm reloading the skin. And untick the folder.

Then I'm afraid it looks like you've not downloaded the whole megapack or you've installed it wrongly. How many images in total do you have in your megapack folder? Can you upload a screenshot?
delichris
17 years ago
4 days ago
59
I have not the whole 6. packs. Maybe that's the problem? I have all the 7 en 8 packs.
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
85,497
I have not the whole 6. packs. Maybe that's the problem? I have all the 7 en 8 packs.

You need to download the whole 8.0 pack (via torrent or split download), then 8.01 to 8.07. Otherwise you will not have the whole megapack containing over 170,000 images.
delichris
17 years ago
4 days ago
59
I got the whole 8 pack. From 8.00 till 8.07.

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