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.
- 463,302
- 2024.07 - Released on 15 Apr 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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newbs86
Any help would be massively appreciated. I spent all last night downloading Facepack updates. whilst this seems to added a lot of missing players faces I now have a number of players photos missing - Steven Gerrard as one, but many other well known players as well.
Any ideas?
mons
Moved your thread to here.
How many images in total do you have in your megapack folder please? You should also have one folder and one folder only containing all the images therein, not sure if this is the case at your end.
newbs86
Hi, I think i have around 60,000 player faces - they are all in one folder in the 'graphics' folder??
mons
Erm, that's the DF11 megapack and not this one
If you downloaded our megapack, you'd have over 177,000...
newbs86
Would you suggest i delete the DF11 megapack and down load yours?
mons
Personally, I run both concurrently, so that in cases where our megapack doesn't have a face, but the DF11 does, then the latter is displayed.
If I had to choose between the two, I think ours' includes substantially more images and I would prefer it, but I shouldn't really be expect to say anything else, should I?
newbs86
Hahahaha very professional answer ;-)
How do I run both concurrently? Save both in the 'graphics' file in different folders or individual?
mons
The game reads files in alphabetical order. So what I do is make sure that the cutouts and df11 are in the same root folder. This ensures that the game first reads the cutouts folder and looks for a particular UID. If it is not found, it then does so in the other folders in alphabetical order. This way, I have the cutout, panini, pms, df11 and my own rudimentary images all running concurrently in that order.
For hard-disk space purposes, I also have a duplicate file finder application, which locates images available in more than one of the above folders and I periodically delete these duplicates by hierarchy
newbs86
Ok, I think I get it. :-/
So put both megapacks in the 'graphics' file but in separate folders. (forgive my lack of tech knowledge)
This application that deletes duplicates sounds good. Where do I find one and do they work on macs?
mons
Yes to the bit in bold. I'll put up a screenshot of my folder structure when I'm at home later so you can be sure.
I just use a freeware one I found online but I only have a PC. Just have a look on Google for duplicate file finder which can search by identical file names
newbs86
Thanks - done everything you said but still missing lots of players - any other ideas?
mons
How many images in total do you have in your cutout faces megapack? Unless you have 177,000+, you will have missing images, yes.
Dan Arlow
Ah, I had a sub folder out of place in the graphics folder, removing it has restored all of the missing images. Thank you very much
newbs86
There are 166,585 in the Sortitout megapack and 69,155 in the DF 11 Megapack. I have them in two separate folders within the 'graphics' folder. Is this right?
newbs86
I think i've sorted the issue. I removed a second config file that I found in the folder. looks to be sorted. thnks for all your help.
mons
Good to hear; enjoy.
As promised, here's what my folder structure looks like.
markrae1
The download appears to finish, but it's only a 2.1GB file that appears to have downloaded, and when I open it I get message saying "Unexpected end of archive".
Am I doing something wrong?
mons
I'm afraid it looks like the file isn't downloading fully; it should be over 8GB. Perhaps you can use a download manager to ensure the download is resumed if it stops halfway through?
markrae1
I'm not sure what's happening. I've now tried to download the file four times. The best it manages is around 5GB. Used a download manager the last two attempts, get the error message "File changed on remote server" then the download stops.
mons
What operating system are you using? E.g. mac/windows
What browser are you using e.g: Chrome/Firefox/Opera
Does it always stop on the same file size, if so what is the exact size in bytes?
In your downloads you should see something like files1.sortitoutsi.net?key=12345 what does it say?
markrae1
Got round it by using the torrent instead of the direct link, torrent worked first time.
Thanks for the help though.
mons
Good to hear - make sure you download the 9.01 update pack and the upcoming 9.02 one to be fully up-to-date
MarcekYNWA
please uplooad to mediafire or zippyshare
mons
Is there a problem with the current mirror site?
MarcekYNWA
uploaded - 50kb/s ? Its horrible.
dfiles is problem on Poland and not working.
mons
Unfortunately, those are the only file-sharing sites which allow us to automatically upload our files to their servers
Swedie
mons
@Rob
I can't check this myself as I'm at work and the firewall doesn't allow me to download the file from here anyway
Footygamer
mons
Thanks as usual
FYI @Swedie