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.
- 482,917
- 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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mons
I'd love to help but I haven't the slightest idea how to do something like that
Zeo
No worries, I wish I knew enough to build something myself but unfortunately I don't.
mons
You can either follow the instructions included in the readme file, or watch the helpful video guide on this page.
If you still have issues, feel free to post them here and we'll try to give you a hand.
vincenzo88
ok then just end up downloading the file open and inside there is the explanation of how to do?
vincenzo88
Noobmaster69
Everytime I try to extract the parts it says "CRC failed" What does that mean? Thx in advanced
mons
1.open rar using winrar.
2.go to tools ,repair archieve.
3.select "treat corrupt file archive as rar "
4.click ok.
5.repairing starts and close and new rar file is recovered and its name is repair.file.rar.
It could well be that one or more of the files you downloaded got corrupted at some stage of the download, for example.
vincenzo88
Noobmaster69
mons
I use a PC, so wouldn't have an idea. Trying downloading winrar for Mac, or look for an online guide to get a better idea of what to do...
mons
Amico, e meglio che scrivi in Italiano perche non fai molto senso in Inglese...
Zeo
When creating the manager profile I used my own pic to generate a face on the 3d manager model and it looked quite good to be honest. Now i've started my game and when i go to my manager profile I just see a completely different and generic face there.
Have you had an issue like this?
I'm thinking about just putting a nice cut out profile pic in there as I've always done, but I actually was liking the way the 3d model was created.
Zeo
Probably you have the same issue I had where the files were corrupt. Mons advised me to download it via torrent using this link and it did the trick. Perfect file.
mons
It's a known bug, I'm afraid. Hopefully SI sort it out soon...
vincenzo88
ok
Zeo
Thanks for your help again. I hope they fix it soon.
mons
Non ne sono a conoscenza di una problema simile.
Pero, il file da scaricare e un puo grande e puo succedere che la connezione del internet si interrompe parzialmente, e cosi si fermo.
Suggerisco allora che provi a scaricare il megapack con torrent. Se hai problemi a trovare il link per scaricarlo via torrent, scorrere sul fondo di questa pagina fino ad arrivare alla scheda torrent e di la scaricare la versione 9.0. Per essere pienamente aggiornato, si dovrebbe anche scaricare eventuali pacchetti di aggiornamento successive.
Per favore, se rispondi a questo post fallo con quote, e non reply, perche cosi mi si viene uno notificazione e ti posso rispondere piu rapidamente...
vincenzo88
mons
Quelli dovrebbe essere abbastanza
vincenzo88
allora ho scaricato il mega pack per le facce e lo inserito nella cartella player che sta dentro quella della crafica ma le facce non sono state aggiunte. io ho scaricato il file zip che si chiama: sortitotsi_cutout_megapack_9.00_canges. e esatto ? aspetto risposta il file e grande 321.516KB
mons
Credo che ai scaricato il file sbagliato. Quanto e grande? Dovrebbe essere allincirca 8.3GB.
vincenzo88
quello quando finisce di scaricare mi da errore e non trovo quello che mi ha detto di torrent. potrebbe darmi il link diretto per il download per quello di torrent
mons
Te li ho gia dati qua
vincenzo88
si sono andato però non trovo il modo per andare a scaricarlo su torrent sotto alla pagina non ci sta scritto...
mons
vincenzo88
come scarico mi scarica un file bianco che non si apre come provo a aprirlo mi dice scegli il metodo come aprire il file cosa devo fare? scusami ma non riesco proprio
vincenzo88
cosa devo fare aprire il file megapack poi aprirlo con utorrent? e scaricarlo?
mons
Se ti capisco bene, si. Se possibile, prego usare la punteggiatura nella tua scritta, perche non sono sicuro che ti sto capendo.
Qua c'abbiamo una sezzione per aiutare la gente riguardante il megapack delle faccine. Forse e meglio se usi Google Translate, forsi riesci a capire che cosa si deve fare.
Dan Arlow
Ive had the 7.0 MP over the last 2 iterations of the game and its suited me fine (as a long save player I normally end up with regens faces before to long anyway). Anyway, I thought Id get the facepacks up to date as there are some players coming through now who didnt have faces before (Donnarumma being the one who tipped me over the edge).
I play in the ITA structure, specifically doing the San Marino Challenge. Before I started I had the faces of most of the players in my squad and throughout the division, but since I updated the MP I have lost a significant number of player faces.
I started by going through and sequentially installing the updated MPs (7.01-9.01) and this caused me to lose the faces I had already but gained some who I didnt have. I then downloaded the full MP, deleted all player faces I had and re-installed the new full MP. I am still left without the majority of my squad Including all of the player faces from the SM national side. Is there any reason for this? Also is there anyway to restore the faces I had originally?
Thanks in advance for any answers and I hope this makes sense because Im a few pints deep whilst writing
EDIT: Looking a little deeper it would appear that I have lost all of the faces of players who are included in the base game. How would I go about retrieving those?
mons
Can you please check and tell us how many images you have in your MP folder? P.S. You need to have one folder and one folder only, i.e. no sub-folders for each update pack.