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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mons
Good to hear. Enjoy the pack
Mateus w
Grimnir
What sort of problem?
Barış Altay
mons
Move the images in each update pack into the main faces folder. If you do it write, you will be prompted to replace the current cuts - click OK.
Barış Altay
thank you for your answer. i did it already but new face packs do not work when i try to use the new files in main face folder. I checked some images which is in 9.01, 9.02...Some old images gone and there is no shadows also. Maybe problem is in config file.
mons
You must not have installed it correctly I'm afraid. Can you give me a screenshot of your megapack folder? Perhaps I can see what's wrong...
Barış Altay
main file is 9.00. im playing with it and it works. when i take images or file from 9.01 or other one, i cant see new images.
mons
I meant a screenshot of inside your faces folder.
Barış Altay
sorry
mons
No worries. All looks fine there. What exactly is the issue then? When you add the update packs and replace existing megapack images, does the player get an empty space in-game or what?
Also, have you set up your preferences as in the first post of this thread? This is very important.
Barış Altay
I maked preferences yep. Megapack images mostly looks fine but some images doesnt work from megapack and yes there is empty spaces without shadow. New images which is coming from update pack not work totally. Well i will wait megapack 10
finalthrd
using The Unarchiver on Mac. almost definitely not related to this download but figured I'd ask.
mackie2424
Funnily enough my friend is having the same problem so curious if anyone else is?
It's just Neymar's face as far as I'm aware.
mons
a) I suggest using Winrar for Mac to extract this download.
b) That error message is usually displayed when a file is not fully downloaded. Can you check if the file size is the same as displayed on the download page? If not, you may need to redownload it.
Unfortunately, it's something wrong in the 9.10 config file. Read here for more info on how to make it work. I'm hoping to find the time to release 9.11 this week to fix this issue and also to add the many images released since I uploaded 9.10
mackie2424
Brilliant! Thank you for the fix, keep up the great work!
coldpost
Im having this problem aswell... started yesterrday... just blank (black space)
mons
Read this and the posts following it
Tommys_89
I have downloaded the megapack but a lot of profiles still have the default blackout avatar even though their picture is in the file. The picture shows up very small when I right click the name on the tactics screen. Any solutions to this issue?
mons
Looks like you have either somehow not downloaded the whole megapack or you have installed it incorrectly. Never worry, we'll try to figure it out.
How large is the megapack file you downloaded and what download method did you use? Also, how many images do you have in your faces folder?
Tommys_89
Oh ok, well any help would be great!
I have 517,477 Files in the Faces files. I downloaded the individual packs as torrents. The last pack I downloaded was sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_9.03_changes then I stopped.
mons
I have no idea how you ended up with so many files - there were only around 177,000 images in the main pack
If I were you, I'd wait until v10.0 of the megapack is released near the end of October and get everything in one go then
Tommys_89
Thats weird
mons
That's because you've somehow downloaded more files than you've needed to and I suspect the configs are all over the place. Without having a look at the files, I cannot be exactly sure what you did and/or what you need to do, so it's better that I don't risk aggravating the issue.
Or you could try to download it again from scratch...
Waz
When I click to download full pack (or any other graphic pack) it does not redirect me or actually download anything. If I try doing it via torrent, the same thing.
Sure it is an easy fix but I am stumped.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
mons
That's a bit strange. What browser are you using?
BanOly
Edit: Just scrolled up and found your previous reply, tried editing it myself to include the UID but still not working.
mons
If you wait a couple of days or so, I'll be uploading 9.11 which fixes this issue and adds the usual cuts - it's easier that way
Waz
Chrome. Still not working today either.
mons
Working perfectly fine for me right now
Can you try using incognito mode (with no extensions), logging onto the site anew and downloading the torrent using this link?