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).
mons
17 years ago
4 hours ago
85,497
Hi Mons.

Appreciate your help. I'm struggling to supply you with what you requested. Can't find the folder my screens hits are stored! As you can see I'm not gods gift to computing.

The plot thickens however as I have now noticed that some of the faces have loaded but not all of them. I'm playing a save with Liverpool. All my staff have their faces but none of my playears.....it's like that for almost all he teams actually. Strangely Grujic has his face as well as one of my young signings Kuki.

Clearly it's working just not in totality.

Any advice??

Seems to me like you either did not download the full pack or that you've somehow not installed it correctly, but I just can't give you any meaningful advice without seeing your folder structure. It's a bit like asking your doctor for a medical diagnosis over the phone

Even if you take photos of the screen with your mobile and post them here, perhaps that could be enough.

In addition, can you tell me if you have 178,000 images (or thereabouts) in your megapack folder? And whether you see the default black cut-out where there isn't an image, or whether it's a blank space? Also, have you set up your preferences as per the screenshot in the opening post?
Ross Southgate
7 years ago
1 month ago
18
Seems to me like you either did not download the full pack or that you've somehow not installed it correctly, but I just can't give you any meaningful advice without seeing your folder structure.

Even if you take photos of the screen with your mobile and post them here, perhaps that could be enough.

In addition, can you tell me if you have 178,000 images (or thereabouts) in your megapack folder?


Hi Mons,

I have 179524 pictures in the 'faces folder' and 179521 pictures in the 'iconfaces' folder.

I have attached all the relevant screenshots/photos you requested. Please let me know if you require any more.

Please let me know how to proceed. I have also tried ticking and unticking the 'use caching to decrease page loading times' box without it working.

I also tried removing the folder to the desktop and clearing the cache and then placing it back and reloading the skin without any luck....

I have included faces that work as well at those that don't work. You will also notice that the metallic logos and kit graphics work perfectly.

I look forward to your help
mons
17 years ago
4 hours ago
85,497
Hi Mons,

I have 179524 pictures in the 'faces folder' and 179521 pictures in the 'iconfaces' folder.

I have attached all the relevant screenshots/photos you requested. Please let me know if you require any more.

Please let me know how to proceed. I have also tried ticking and unticking the 'use caching to decrease page loading times' box without it working.

I also tried removing the folder to the desktop and clearing the cache and then placing it back and reloading the skin without any luck....

I have included faces that work as well at those that don't work. You will also notice that the metallic logos and kit graphics work perfectly.

I look forward to your help

Hmm, nothing seems out of place from those screenshots and the amount of images seems about right.

Do you have any other facepacks installed perchance? Also, can I have a screenshot of the contents of the faces folder? Do give your PC time to sort out the folder in alphabetical order. This will allow me to see if there are any sub-folders.
Ross Southgate
7 years ago
1 month ago
18
Hmm, nothing seems out of place from those screenshots and the amount of images seems about right.

Do you have any other facepacks installed perchance? Also, can I have a screenshot of the contents of the faces folder? Do give your PC time to sort out the folder in alphabetical order. This will allow me to see if there are any sub-folders.


Ok.

I have am letting the computer 'open' the folder properly.

I see the load time for that is quite lengthy - it's still showing a loading circle next to my mouse (maybe been 5 mins already).

Perhaps once it has done that the skin will work??
mons
17 years ago
4 hours ago
85,497
Ok.

I have am letting the computer 'open' the folder properly.

I see the load time for that is quite lengthy - it's still showing a loading circle next to my mouse (maybe been 5 mins already).

Perhaps once it has done that the skin will work??

The time the folder takes to open doesn't really have anything to do with whether the game "sees" them or not. It's to be expected that it takes a bit of time, it has 179 thousand odd images to sort, after all...
Ross Southgate
7 years ago
1 month ago
18
The time the folder takes to open doesn't really have anything to do with whether the game "sees" them or not. It's to be expected that it takes a bit of time, it has 179 thousand odd images to sort, after all...


Ok I have attached what I think you're looking for.

I did try a different facepack prior to this one and it worked fine but I didn't like the style. I have since deleted it permanently. I think it's one of the outdated ones on your site with the players name underneath the pic...
mons
17 years ago
4 hours ago
85,497
Ok I have attached what I think you're looking for.

I did try a different facepack prior to this one and it worked fine but I didn't like the style. I have since deleted it permanently. I think it's one of the outdated ones on your site with the players name underneath the pic...

I needed to see the folder from the top, not the bottom. My bad, I wasn't clear. This basically, but once it's been ordered.

Are there any sub-folders in the folder? Also, is there an image named 92021718 in the main MP folder?
Ross Southgate
7 years ago
1 month ago
18
I needed to see the folder from the top, not the bottom. My bad, I wasn't clear. This basically, but once it's been ordered.

Are there any sub-folders in the folder? Also, is there an image named 92021718 in the main MP folder?


There are no subfolders I can see. The only other files are 'config' and a word readme which were visible on my previous attachment...

There is an image named 92021718 in the folder.

It is still 'organising' the images at present...
mons
17 years ago
4 hours ago
85,497
There are no subfolders I can see. The only other files are 'config' and a word readme which were visible on my previous attachment...

There is an image named 92021718 in the folder.

It is still 'organising' the images at present...

Ok, you can close that folder then.

Can I have a screenshot of the folder before this one? i.e. Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2017 > graphics

Also, when you are next in-game, can you untick the use skin cache box, quit the game, close Steam, then try to load up the game and check Can's profile to see if his face has appeared...
Ross Southgate
7 years ago
1 month ago
18
Ok, you can close that folder then.

Can I have a screenshot of the folder before this one? i.e. Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2017 > graphics

Also, when you are next in-game, can you untick the use skin cache box, quit the game, close Steam, then try to load up the game and check Can's profile to see if his face has appeared...


I have attached the screen shot you requested.

I also tried what you requested and unforrtunately Can's image has not appeared...
mons
17 years ago
4 hours ago
85,497
I have attached the screen shot you requested.

I also tried what you requested and unforrtunately Can's image has not appeared...

Looks fine here too. I'm a bit mystified now tbh as everything appears to be in order.

Perhaps it's a config issue, so let's try to create a new one. Can you try downloading this file? Have a look at this video to operate it - it's really as easy as dragging the faces folder into the text box and generating a new config file to overwrite the existing one.

Do you think you can manage to do that?
Ross Southgate
7 years ago
1 month ago
18
Looks fine here too. I'm a bit mystified now tbh as everything appears to be in order.

Perhaps it's a config issue, so let's try to create a new one. Can you try downloading this file? Have a look at this video to operate it - it's really as easy as dragging the faces folder into the text box and generating a new config file to overwrite the existing one.

Do you think you can manage to do that?


I'll give it a crack.

Do you think the previous facepacks may have disrupted something?

Ross Southgate
7 years ago
1 month ago
18
I'll give it a crack.

Do you think the previous facepacks may have disrupted something?


The one I installed previously (outdated style) is what I'm referring to in my previous message...
mons
17 years ago
4 hours ago
85,497
I'll give it a crack.

Do you think the previous facepacks may have disrupted something?

It's possible there may be some of them still around, but it doesn't explain why some cuts appear and some not...

Can you go to Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2017 and search for 62076152 and give me a screenshot of the result?
Ross Southgate
7 years ago
1 month ago
18
It's possible there may be some of them still around, but it doesn't explain why some cuts appear and some not...

Can you go to Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2017 and search for 62076152 and give me a screenshot of the result?


Is this what you're looking for?
mons
17 years ago
4 hours ago
85,497
Is this what you're looking for?

Yes, and how about 92021718?
Ross Southgate
7 years ago
1 month ago
18
mons
17 years ago
4 hours ago
85,497
Everything looks absolutely fine - I can't for the life of me figure out what's wrong

Did you do the fmxml thingy?
BrianCloughALegend
17 years ago
4 days ago
224
Just downloaded all the packs,now do i have to extract each file,or can i just extract the last one (part 19)
mons
17 years ago
4 hours ago
85,497
Just downloaded all the packs,now do i have to extract each file,or can i just extract the last one (part 19)

If you extract the first one, it should be automatically extract all the others.
ScottyP1
14 years ago
1 month ago
59
Premium
Hello, I'm new to the site so apologies if I'm asking a dead silly question.
I've downloaded the face pack for FM17 and installed it as directed but it still doesn't seem to be working? It's for a MAC so assume it's roughly the same installation process?
HELP!
Thanks, Scott
mons
17 years ago
4 hours ago
85,497
Hello, I'm new to the site so apologies if I'm asking a dead silly question.
I've downloaded the face pack for FM17 and installed it as directed but it still doesn't seem to be working? It's for a MAC so assume it's roughly the same installation process?
HELP!
Thanks, Scott

Moved this to right section

Can I have a screenshot of the location you've placed the files you've downloaded? How many images do you have in your megapack folder? And how do players appear in-game?
ScottyP1
14 years ago
1 month ago
59
Premium
Moved this to right section

Can I have a screenshot of the location you've placed the files you've downloaded? How many images do you have in your megapack folder? And how do players appear in-game?


Hi mons, thanks for that - as I say, I'm new!

The path for the file is this - Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2017 > graphics > 9GB .rar file

I'm sure I've installed it properly? I'm really new to the Mac so not sure how to screenshot, sorry. The players faces just don't appear - I get the 'shadow' if that makes sense?

Hope you can help? Thanks, again, Scott
mons
17 years ago
4 hours ago
85,497
Hi mons, thanks for that - as I say, I'm new!

The path for the file is this - Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2017 > graphics > 9GB .rar file

I'm sure I've installed it properly? I'm really new to the Mac so not sure how to screenshot, sorry. The players faces just don't appear - I get the 'shadow' if that makes sense?

Hope you can help? Thanks, again, Scott

Remove the rar file from there.

Use Winrar for Mac to extract the files...
ScottyP1
14 years ago
1 month ago
59
Premium
Remove the rar file from there.

Use Winrar for Mac to extract the files...


Thanks again mons, I've dowloaded win-rar now, I'm not sure where I move the big file to now however? Can you help?
mons
17 years ago
4 hours ago
85,497
Thanks again mons, I've dowloaded win-rar now, I'm not sure where I move the big file to now however? Can you help?

Just put it on the desktop or Downloads or somewhere else for the time being. Extract the file and place the ensuing sortitoutsi folder in the location you had earlier placed the rar file.
ScottyP1
14 years ago
1 month ago
59
Premium
Just put it on the desktop or Downloads or somewhere else for the time being. Extract the file and place the ensuing sortitoutsi folder in the location you had earlier placed the rar file.


Sorry mons, I'm definitely doing something wrong - I've now got a rar folder on my desktop and the 9GB file in the graphics folder where I said it was earlier? Sorry if I'm being a pain in your backside, I just can't work out what I'm doing wrong?
mons
17 years ago
4 hours ago
85,497
Sorry mons, I'm definitely doing something wrong - I've now got a rar folder on my desktop and the 9GB file in the graphics folder where I said it was earlier? Sorry if I'm being a pain in your backside, I just can't work out what I'm doing wrong?

Have you extracted the rar file with winrar? The file you've downloaded is compressed, unless you extract it, it simply can't work.

If you're not sure that what you've done is right, just upload a screenshot of your megapack folder
ScottyP1
14 years ago
1 month ago
59
Premium
Have you extracted the rar file with winrar? The file you've downloaded is compressed, unless you extract it, it simply can't work.

If you're not sure that what you've done is right, just upload a screenshot of your megapack folder


Ok, I don't think I've extracted the file with winrar in that case? Do you know how I do that?
mons
17 years ago
4 hours ago
85,497
Ok, I don't think I've extracted the file with winrar in that case? Do you know how I do that?

When you download winrar, there's a button called extract. Click it and take note of the folder it is extracted to. Then put the ensuing extracted folder in Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 2017 / graphics.

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