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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- 2024.07 - 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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MusicboySam
Still getting the same issue with text, tried uninstalling and reinstalling with no joy. HELP please
garyh
Not sure how anyone in this thread can help you mate this is for cutouts, if its the skin that comes with the game and not one you downloaded, this includes mods? then maybe report it to SI its maybe a bug..
Jack Hodder
Jack
mons
Hmm, that's strange, it's working fine for me
What happens when you try downloading it? Do you get an error message, for example?
b28937
I downloaded the whole megapack, no problems, all the faces show up, etc. The problem is simply getting a player image not in the megapack but which I've created to show up in the game.
For my team, like to add my own action images. So I download the images I like, crop them to 180x180 png files, copy to my faces folder and replace original megapack image, do the reload skin under preferences, and the new images show up, no problem.
However, for the player Craig Sutherland noted above, he doesn't have an image in the megapack or its updates. He has the generic face cutout. So I grabbed a pic of him, 180x180 png, copied it into the faces folder, reloaded the skin, etc., but his image doesn't show up. I've tried doing it the same as I always doe (described above) and everything else I can think of - opening closing game, clearing cache, reloading skin before loading the saved game, reloading the skin after loading the saved game,
My interface preferences settings are untick use caching, tick reload skin, untick allow display of custom background, tick show screen id, tick show pictures of real players/staff, tick show pictures of generated players/staff, using default light skin SI 1.0. I've also tried FMXML, not even being sure what it does, but it won't run on my windows 7 comp because it says it's missing some .dll file.
I know there's nothing wrong with my picture of the omitted player because I tested by giving the picture the id of another player and replaced the other player's original picture, and the new picture of Craig Sutherland shows up for the other player.
It's driving me crazy and because I'm nuts I can't play the game until I get that damn generic face replaced with a proper image. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. THANKS!
blackmetalboon
1. The easiest is to use FMXML or FM Graphics Configurator, the chances are that you're getting "MFC70.DLL is missing" when you attempt to run it. If so, this can be downloaded (just Google search for a site to download the file) to fix the problem.
or;
2. Open the config file in your megapack with Notepad and insert this line to it;
<record from="UID" to="graphics/pictures/person/UID/portrait"/>
Just replace the parts in red with the players UID.
b28937
I had success using your latter suggestion (i.e., using notepad to edit the config.xml file located in the faces directory). I didn't try the the other suggestion with the FMXML program.
garyh
Bit in bold is worth downloading mate, takes seconds to use..
mons
jojobuffon
I've downloaded the megapack,moved the zip files into my graphics folders in the fm2013 bit then extacted it, done what iam meant to do in preferences ,but no faces have loaded up but its made all of my own players who's faces were on the game already disapear?
Has this happened to anyone else?
Many thanks in advance
mons
Make sure you've placed them in the correct place, all in one folder, i.e. within Documents > SI > FM13 > graphics and NOT within the installation folder.
jojobuffon
Thanks for responding so quick mons, but I've put them in there and extracted them into a file it called itself sortitoutsi is that right,I don't know if its because i moved the downloaded folders into my graphics folder and then extracted them instead of extracting them into it first.
I don't unnderstand why my Celtic players faces have dissapeard the rest of the Spl players still have their faces?
mons
jojobuffon
It was the megapack 5.02 and it was in 16 parts (14 plus the two update/changes)
mons
ampalaea
/graphics/person/
/graphics/pictures/person
I always cut/paste so there are all photos in one folder and they are in My Documents/SI/.... not in game install folder.
EDIT: I didn't unzip all the parts..I was confused because it say part1, part2, e.t.c. and I thought that unzipping the part1 will unzip them all...so now I will unzip all folders
jojobuffon
ive got loads of folders,i mustve extracted them wrong,iam atm moving the faces over into the one folder
jojobuffon
Eds
However, I've tried to download them three times and each time the download stops after 1.4GB of the 5.4GB with a "Network Error". Any ideas?
Rowan
Sounds like an issue with your connection. Try downloading a Download Manager (lots of free ones off google) and paste this download link into it:
(Make sure you're signed in to this site as well.)
By using a download manager it ensures that should there be any disruption to the download it will continue where it left off, most internet browsers can't do this.
Eds
Rowan
Eds
And I've downloaded [large] files recently too, downloaded a logo megapack a few days ago which worked fine (not from this site, though).
jojobuffon
I went on to play the game tonight and moat of the players faces have dissapeard? Has this happened to anyone else or do u have to do sumthing every time u load it up?
mons
I'm not sure what it is, but you're evidently doing something wrong
jojobuffon
everything is the ec=xact same as the above,ive changed onto the darker skin but i did that last night and every thing was working fine
jojobuffon
i tried to download kits today,and was messing about with the DB steam folder,dont think i did that right but i restored the files from the recyclying there but its still not working?
blackmetalboon
Do you have blank spaces where the players faces should be or are they the default black ones?
If they are the default black faces you probably have the wrong config file in your folder. The config file in your Megapack folder should be over 8mb in size.
jimjam26
Rowan