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).
Jack Legg
7 years ago
2 months ago
2
im not sure if this is the right place but I downloaded the pack and followed all the steps but still no faces. Any ideas of what to do?
mons
17 years ago
5 hours ago
85,497
Don't know if this is the right place to ask, but last time I downloaded the cut out megapack there was a Torrent mirror. But it's not there. Is there any other alternative to download it in 1 go while being skint?

Read the first part of this post and this post for further details.



im not sure if this is the right place but I downloaded the pack and followed all the steps but still no faces. Any ideas of what to do?

How many images in total do you have in your megapack folder? Is there a default black cutout instead of player faces or is it a blank space?
Jack Legg
7 years ago
2 months ago
2
Read the first part of this post and this post for further details.

How many images in total do you have in your megapack folder? Is there a default black cutout instead of player faces or is it a blank space?


Its just the black faces you get default with the game
mons
17 years ago
5 hours ago
85,497
Its just the black faces you get default with the game

How many images in total do you have in your megapack folder?
koulos12
14 years ago
3 months ago
6
Can you put tha parts on mediafire?
Thanks....
mons
17 years ago
5 hours ago
85,497
Can you put tha parts on mediafire?
Thanks....

Mediafire's piracy-detecting bots would delete it pretty quickly unfortunately, plus we have a torrent file to ensure everybody can download it in an easy manner.
Neochrome
11 years ago
3 weeks ago
654
Hello, I do not know or must apply, I allows me to do here.

Are you going to make a pack with the new face of the Arsenal players.

thank you
mons
17 years ago
5 hours ago
85,497
Hello, I do not know or must apply, I allows me to do here.

Are you going to make a pack with the new face of the Arsenal players.

thank you

If you find sources which are improvements to the existing cuts for Arsenal players in the megapack, then you can request them in our new request section.

Keep in mind, however, that most of the Arsenal cuts were produced recently, so there's really no need to take up a cutter's time to produce images which are only slightly different and not genuine improvements.
CastilloFeudal
8 years ago
1 year ago
2
HII
I cant find one single megalink to download the completepack.Only i see multiples parts of the pack and i have to wait more than one hour to start to dowloanding another part.That´s anoying. Can you help me? Thank u everybody
mons
17 years ago
5 hours ago
85,497
HII
I cant find one single megalink to download the completepack.Only i see multiples parts of the pack and i have to wait more than one hour to start to dowloanding another part.That´s anoying. Can you help me? Thank u everybody

Read the first part of this post and this post for further details.
Neochrome
11 years ago
3 weeks ago
654
If you find sources which are improvements to the existing cuts for Arsenal players in the megapack, then you can request them in our new request section.

Keep in mind, however, that most of the Arsenal cuts were produced recently, so there's really no need to take up a cutter's time to produce images which are only slightly different and not genuine improvements.

Ok, merci mons
DannyMac
11 years ago
6 years ago
20
Hi guys, I've downloaded all 20 packs for the facepacks but don't have all the players. I originally had Megapack 7.0 which was amazing - and now I actually have less players faces than I did then.... any help would be appreciated.
jon19933
9 years ago
7 years ago
4
please could someone message me and tell me how to get the graphics (of players faces into my game please!!!!!
mons
17 years ago
5 hours ago
85,497
Hi guys, I've downloaded all 20 packs for the facepacks but don't have all the players. I originally had Megapack 7.0 which was amazing - and now I actually have less players faces than I did then.... any help would be appreciated.

How many images in total do you have now then?



please could someone message me and tell me how to get the graphics (of players faces into my game please!!!!!

Have you read the installation instructions in the readme file? Or watched the installation video on the page from where you downloaded the file?
jon19933
9 years ago
7 years ago
4
How many images in total do you have now then?

Have you read the installation instructions in the readme file? Or watched the installation video on the page from where you downloaded the file?

no sorry i a new so just download the mega facepack now
Dave Arnold
10 years ago
1 year ago
46
Premium
Hope I'm in the right thread to ask, but has the Icon's Facepack been discontinued? It's just that I can't find them anywhere (they used to be in with the main section for the regular Face Megapack).
mons
17 years ago
5 hours ago
85,497
Hope I'm in the right thread to ask, but has the Icon's Facepack been discontinued? It's just that I can't find them anywhere (they used to be in with the main section for the regular Face Megapack).

The whole iconfaces pack is contained within the megapack update pack 9.0. From that point on, each update pack will include the iconfaces within the same download
Dave Arnold
10 years ago
1 year ago
46
Premium
The whole iconfaces pack is contained within the megapack update pack 9.0. From that point on, each update pack will include the iconfaces within the same download


Ah OK. Thanks for letting me know
willroche
11 years ago
3 months ago
13
Premium
The face pack megabuck times out at around 8gb really, really frustrating as this is the only reason I became a premium member. Can you please sort?
mons
17 years ago
5 hours ago
85,497
The face pack megabuck times out at around 8gb really, really frustrating as this is the only reason I became a premium member. Can you please sort?

Is there a file created in your downloads folder? If yes, can we have a screenshot of it?
willroche
11 years ago
3 months ago
13
Premium
If your still getting the pre loaded ones mate it sounds like the config to me, do you have a config?


Same here, turns out there's no XML files in any of the other downloads, there is one in logos but I also can't get it to work.
willroche
11 years ago
3 months ago
13
Premium
Is there a file created in your downloads folder? If yes, can we have a screenshot of it?


I sorted it by plugging it into the router direct.
stevotrueblue
13 years ago
2 months ago
24
Premium
Just curious to know if all my updates are working. I have just updated every available patch and when I look at players in my game like Messi for eg he still has the original photo with dark hair. In the picture advertised it shows him as he is now,, so it got me thinking are all my other updates not showing up?

I have followed instructions as per and have everything extracted to the graphics folder.
Swedie
12 years ago
7 hours ago
5,592
Premium
Just curious to know if all my updates are working. I have just updated every available patch and when I look at players in my game like Messi for eg he still has the original photo with dark hair. In the picture advertised it shows him as he is now,, so it got me thinking are all my other updates not showing up?

I have followed instructions as per and have everything extracted to the graphics folder.
Have you reloaded the graphics after you downloaded the facepack?
Nkunku
12 years ago
2 months ago
4,624
Is it possible to extract the cut-outs FM17 delivers in game?
Borell
13 years ago
2 weeks ago
21
The price of Premium Membership to Brazil is very expensive because the currency is very undervalued. Please make an exception. We Brazilians are passionate about this style. And we have one of the slowest internet in the world, and we lose the connection at all times. So we often miss the download in half and can not restart by the limitations of free servers.Torrent is our salvation. =\
mons
17 years ago
5 hours ago
85,497
Is it possible to extract the cut-outs FM17 delivers in game?

Yes, using the resource archiver tool, available separately on Steam as a free download, similar to the editor.

Read this thread to better understand how to do so and what additional steps are necessary.



The price of Premium Membership to Brazil is very expensive because the currency is very undervalued. Please make an exception. We Brazilians are passionate about this style. And we have one of the slowest internet in the world, and we lose the connection at all times. So we often miss the download in half and can not restart by the limitations of free servers.Torrent is our salvation. =\

A torrent is already available and has been for many years now Scroll down this screen until you come to the torrent tabs and download the 9.0 version. To be fully up-to-date, you would still have to download the 9.01 update pack separately as a single file download.
mons
17 years ago
5 hours ago
85,497
Just curious to know if all my updates are working. I have just updated every available patch and when I look at players in my game like Messi for eg he still has the original photo with dark hair. In the picture advertised it shows him as he is now,, so it got me thinking are all my other updates not showing up?

I have followed instructions as per and have everything extracted to the graphics folder.

How many images in total do you have in your megapack folder? P.S. You should have one folder and one folder only containing ALL the MP images, otherwise it won't work as intended...

Can you upload a screenshot displaying clearly the location in which the megapack is installed?

Finally, can you check your megapack folder for the file named 7458500.png and tell us which of these versions it is?

I suspect you have either installed it in the wrong place or you have skipped an update pack somehow...
stevotrueblue
13 years ago
2 months ago
24
Premium
Yeh it has installed all the updates into their own folder within the graphics folder. There is a faces folder within that Sortitoutsi folder,,do I just move the faces folder into the megapack folder and that should work??

The messi I have showing is 7.0

Cheers
mons
17 years ago
5 hours ago
85,497
Yeh it has installed all the updates into their own folder within the graphics folder. There is a faces folder within that Sortitoutsi folder,,do I just move the faces folder into the megapack folder and that should work??

The messi I have showing is 7.0

Cheers

Not really. What you need to do is select all the images within the sortitoutsi folder, right-click/cut, then go into the Megapack 7.0 folder and click paste in there. If you have done it right, then you should be prompted whether you want to overwrite the existing images - say yes.

To be honest, however, if you have the 7.0 Messi face showing, I don't know how you can be sure that you have every available patch and I can't be sure from here what you downloaded when and how you installed it. To be safe, I would recommend that you download the 9.0 torrent as outlined a few posts back and then download, and apply, the 9.01 update pack.

Remember, at the end of the process, you should have a folder within Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2017/graphics (anything within here is fine, name it what you likely) which includes ALL the images in there, without sub-folders.

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