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).
Matarese
7 years ago
2 years ago
24
Either get premium membership or be patient and hope that people who download the pack seed it.

Alternately, download 4.0 and get all the 13 update packs and you will be sorted. 4.13 is 5.0, to all intents and purposes.


Hello ! I had the same problem.If you download the torrent and start downloading click on bitcom options,click on emule2. you must download the emule plugin for your torrent client (I use bitcomet) because you can not download the file without this plugin which is important.The eMule Plugin is only a optional plugin. Please remember that it may not speed up your download because the ED2K network will eat your bandwidth. But it may be very useful to complete your download by finding seeds in the ED2K network if there is no seed in the BitTorrent network. That's why there are no seeds-Because the ED2K is locked,and that is why u can not connect to the source of the torrent file and there are no seeds. In order to normally download it download the plugin and at the right bottom u will see that the edk2 now is connected,and u'l see plenty other seeders. Maybe I will now be punished,cuz of the spoiler.Please don't Hammer !

if u have another questions answer me in pvt message.

My problem is that I don't know how to and where exactly to install the megapack 9. ? - Can u help me with that? I am confused because in the instructions it says just install or extract with 7zip it in the graphics folder.But now I saw in the thread I have to install first the 4.0 torrent and some above the line instructions with a new folders in graphics-now I am totally confused !!?? Please help !
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
Hello ! I had the same problem.If you download the torrent and start downloading click on bitcom options,click on emule2. you must download the emule plugin for your torrent client (I use bitcomet) because you can not download the file without this plugin which is important.The eMule Plugin is only a optional plugin. Please remember that it may not speed up your download because the ED2K network will eat your bandwidth. But it may be very useful to complete your download by finding seeds in the ED2K network if there is no seed in the BitTorrent network. That's why there are no seeds-Because the ED2K is locked,and that is why u can not connect to the source of the torrent file and there are no seeds. In order to normally download it download the plugin and at the right bottom u will see that the edk2 now is connected,and u'l see plenty other seeders. Maybe I will now be punished,cuz of the spoiler.Please don't Hammer !

if u have another questions answer me in pvt message.

My problem is that I don't know how to and where exactly to install the megapack 9. ? - Can u help me with that? I am confused because in the instructions it says just install or extract with 7zip it in the graphics folder.But now I saw in the thread I have to install first the 4.0 torrent and some above the line instructions with a new folders in graphics-now I am totally confused !!?? Please help !

I have no idea what you're saying in the first part of your post.

For the second part, just extract the 9.0 megapack file to anywhere within Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 2017 / graphics. If you have downloaded the megapack update files, you need to apply them in the chronological order.
Matarese
7 years ago
2 years ago
24
what torrent client do you use? just install the plugin for your torrent and u will be able to download.


http://www.emule-project.net/home/perl/general.cgi?l=1&rm=download
JamieDownes11
11 years ago
10 months ago
4
Premium
Hey all, I was wondering if anybody else was having a problem installing any of the facepack megapacks? I have the yearly subscription from sortitoutsi so I can download it all in one, but at random points throughout the download, it just fails and I get the message "Failed- network error". I've tried to download it so many times and it keeps failing. Any suggestions?
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
Hey all, I was wondering if anybody else was having a problem installing any of the facepack megapacks? I have the yearly subscription from sortitoutsi so I can download it all in one, but at random points throughout the download, it just fails and I get the message "Failed- network error". I've tried to download it so many times and it keeps failing. Any suggestions?

If you are using Google Chrome, you should be able to resume the download from the point the download was interrupted
JamieDownes11
11 years ago
10 months ago
4
Premium
I just tried to do that and I got another message that said "failed- server unreachable".
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
I just tried to do that and I got another message that said "failed- server unreachable".

Plenty of people have managed to download it, so it may well be an issue with your internet connection rather than our site. I would suggest you either give it another go, or download the file through torrent, then download the update packs through the site...

P.S. If you quote my message when you reply, I get an immediate push notification and I may be able to answer you much quicker in this way
LilNinja22
12 years ago
6 years ago
1
Can someone provide a torrent link for the facepack please?
verdilo
6 years ago
6 years ago
3
I was downloading this megapack as a premium member and suddenly it stoped and says "server unavaible" when i am pressing "resume". Will it be fixed or i need to download again from the beginning? My internet is bad and got almost 40% so it will be very sad for me to start it again...
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
Can someone provide a torrent link for the facepack please?

Scroll to the bottom of this page 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 any subsequent update packs separately.



I was downloading this megapack as a premium member and suddenly it stoped and says "server unavaible" when i am pressing "resume". Will it be fixed or i need to download again from the beginning? My internet is bad and got almost 40% so it will be very sad for me to start it again...

I'm afraid that you would now have to retry to download the file again. An alternative may be to download the torrent file as per the above, as torrents can be stopped and resumed at will.
verdilo
6 years ago
6 years ago
3
I did it again from the beginning when i went sleep. Now its ok. I got all of it but thanks for help.
zülfü
6 years ago
2 weeks ago
3
guys hello i need Cut Out Player Faces torrent link
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
guys hello i need Cut Out Player Faces torrent link

Read the instructions in the second paragraph of the first post in this thread on how to find it.
mariano
13 years ago
6 months ago
7
Hi,
I downloaded the facepack and put the file in the graphics folder, did the 2 tics in the preferences/interface, cleared cache, reload skin......everything....but faces dont appear, im using Apple.

Thanks
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
Hi,
I downloaded the facepack and put the file in the graphics folder, did the 2 tics in the preferences/interface, cleared cache, reload skin......everything....but faces dont appear, im using Apple.

Thanks

Going by the screenshot, you have somehow managed to download only a partial amount of the megapack images. You should have over 183,000 images in your megapack folder, and I don't believe you do.
mariano
13 years ago
6 months ago
7
Going by the screenshot, you have somehow managed to download only a partial amount of the megapack images. You should have over 183,000 images in your megapack folder, and I don't believe you do.


Thanks, loos like you are right
JamieCSC
6 years ago
3 days ago
2
Guys, please help. I installed the megapack and most of the images worked perfectly, but for the update packs, the images do not show. I checked the graphics folder and the images were there, but reloading skin doesn't seem to solve the problem. Am I missing anything?
JamieCSC
6 years ago
3 days ago
2
Guys, please help. I installed the megapack and most of the images worked perfectly, but for the update packs, the images do not show. I checked the graphics folder and the images were there, but reloading skin doesn't seem to solve the problem. Am I missing anything?

I guess I just found a way and added the config.xml in the forum. The problem is solved now, thanks a lot.
shoy35
11 years ago
4 months ago
11
Premium
Bonjour. J'ai renouvellé mon abonnement prénium et je voulais telecharger le fichier. Impossible de le télécharger, ca mec echec erreur reseau et si je reprend, ca reprend 0

Je voudrais le telecharger avec Jdownloader car on peux reprendre mais impossible d'avoir l'adresse pour activer sur jdownloader.

Aidez moi s'il vous plait, je souhaite mettre a jour mon FM 17 mais avec cette erreur reseau, impossible de telecharger.

Merci

Google traduction :

Hello. I renewed my prenium subscription and wanted to download the file. Can not download it, Ca mec fault network error and if I resume, ca resumes 0

I would like to download it with Jdownloader because we can resume but can not have the address to activate on jdownloader.

Help me please, I want to update my FM 17 but with this network error, impossible to download.

Thank you
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
Bonjour. J'ai renouvellé mon abonnement prénium et je voulais telecharger le fichier. Impossible de le télécharger, ca mec echec erreur reseau et si je reprend, ca reprend 0

Je voudrais le telecharger avec Jdownloader car on peux reprendre mais impossible d'avoir l'adresse pour activer sur jdownloader.

Aidez moi s'il vous plait, je souhaite mettre a jour mon FM 17 mais avec cette erreur reseau, impossible de telecharger.

Merci

Google traduction :

Hello. I renewed my prenium subscription and wanted to download the file. Can not download it, Ca mec fault network error and if I resume, ca resumes 0

I would like to download it with Jdownloader because we can resume but can not have the address to activate on jdownloader.

Help me please, I want to update my FM 17 but with this network error, impossible to download.

Thank you

What internet browser do you use? If you use Google Chrome, you should be able to resume your downloads, and would not need Jdownloader or any other apllication.
Kenni J
11 years ago
4 months ago
3
Is there any way, to just download the 9.0 version in one big file ? I can't seem to find the option on the download section, only ALOT of small files. The pack is just a great piece of work, and im sorry for not being able to download it, cause it will take days with the small packs in mirror thing, as u can only download 1 and then wait for an hour. I hope someone has a solution.

Kindly Regards - Kenni.
Grimnir
16 years ago
2 months ago
2,727
There is a torrent link.

When you go to the download section, scroll to the bottom and click on torrents.

Don't know if this will work:

https://sortitoutsi.net/file/torrent/15113
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
There is a torrent link.

When you go to the download section, scroll to the bottom and click on torrents.

Don't know if this will work:

https://sortitoutsi.net/file/torrent/15113

@Kenni J - to be sure he sees it now that I've moved his thread...
Kenni J
11 years ago
4 months ago
3
@Kenni J - to be sure he sees it now that I've moved his thread...


Thank you so much! <3
Vetle R. Andersen
10 years ago
6 years ago
6
Hi!
I can't load the facepack i downloaded from this site, and i don't know what i'm doing wrong. I have followed the tutorial, cleared cached and loaded new skins, but it doesn't show. I have tried to restart the game as well..


mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
Hi!
I can't load the facepack i downloaded from this site, and i don't know what i'm doing wrong. I have followed the tutorial, cleared cached and loaded new skins, but it doesn't show. I have tried to restart the game as well..

How many images do you have in total in your megapack folder? Can I have a screenshot of the folder and the path it's in please?
Vetle R. Andersen
10 years ago
6 years ago
6
How many images do you have in total in your megapack folder? Can I have a screenshot of the folder and the path it's in please?

It contains around 36500 images. Some of this is in Norwegian, sorry bout' that
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
It contains around 36500 images. Some of this is in Norwegian, sorry bout' that

I don't know where you downloaded it from, but you clearly did not download the full pack, which should contain around 184,000 images. I'm afraid you're going to have redownload the file, which should be 8.64GB in size in total...
Vetle R. Andersen
10 years ago
6 years ago
6
I don't know where you downloaded it from, but you clearly did not download the full pack, which should contain around 184,000 images. I'm afraid you're going to have redownload the file, which should be 8.64GB in size in total...

I downloaded it from here today, I even bought a membership. But i will try again then.
mons
17 years ago
15 hours ago
85,497
I downloaded it from here today, I even bought a membership. But i will try again then.

Hmm, sometimes the file pauses partway through the download, which may give the impression it's done. It should be possible to resume it. Do make sure that the final file is8.64GB and that the amount of images within it is 184,000+. Let me know if you have any further issues

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