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 475,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.
- 480,827
- 2025.00 - Released on 29 Oct 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
Have you changed your preferences like this?
rakadhika
Yes i did..but its still not work
mons
Do you have a config file in that folder? Can you upload it please?
rakadhika
yes, of course..
mons
I'm completely stumped. There must be something wrong somewhere in your files, even though everything looks to be in order, but I just can't tell what it is.
Will you be online at around 2200CET? I won't be on my PC till then, when I can suggest something. Drop me a PM...
Panna
mons
Preferences > Interface > Select bottom tickbox in this screenshot.
Disclaimer: I can't actually see the screenshot cos I'm at work behind a firewall, but I think it should be displayed there...
Panna
Davke1904
can someone help what Si means with : "but if you're downloading packs in multiple parts make sure to unrar the oldest packs first otherwise the old versions will overwrite the new ones."
I downloaded the 20 parts, installed part 1 that i ok!
now i want to extract part 2, do i have to do somethiing with part 1?
thanks in advance
mons
Not sure where SI come into it, to be honest.
If you extract part 1 correctly, it should have extracted the other packs with it and you should have the full complement extracted. How many images in total do you have in your MP folder?
Davke1904
thx for reacting so fastly
I just extraxted part one and i saw with characteristics 9.28 GB ( (9.974.497.723 bytes)!
Is the extracting finished?
mons
That looks fine in terms of file size, but how many images in total do you have in your MP faces folder?
Davke1904
192.690
Do i now have the all the latest faces?
mons
Technically you need to download and apply the 10.01 update pack to be fully up-to-date
Davke1904
20 files through deposit files!!
what do i do with the other 19 and how do i do it?
mons
You download the full 10.0 megapack.
What you need to do now is download the smaller 10.01 update pack.
Davke1904
And just extracting 10.01 changes?
No unrar or unzip the other file?
mons
When you extracted part 1, the program automatically detected parts 2 till 19 and extracted them as well. In fact, you have 192.690 player faces, which is the amount of the whole 10.0 megapack.
All you have to do now is download the 10.01 UPDATE PACK using the link shown in the 2nd attachment in my previous post.
Davke1904
thx for that! I already did that and i think the faces or ok!
I just noticed that my fix has disappaered now so i have do that again damn
mons
What fix are you talking about?
Davke1904
mons
They are installed in different locations, so I can't think what you can have done to lose it.
This thread is only for the cutout megapack, so can you post in that thread please? Ideally with screenshots of the folders which have screenshots in the above thread's installation instructions - will help me understand more than words can
Can you also please quote me when replying? I get a push notification which means I am immediately notified when you do so, and can reply more quickly
Davke1904
Yo Mons,
don't need to open a post in that thread , i already sortet it out! it's all working fine now!
just to need to put the kits as next and i'm fine to go
thx for all your help
juralegend
led wonsaz
mons
There still is a torrent link, you know
a) How many images in total do you have in your megapack folder?
b) What was the size of the file that you downloaded? Did you use Winrar (or a similar program) to extract it?
c) Can you give me a screenshot of what a random player looks like in-game (i.e. one who should have a MP image)?
led wonsaz
a) 13,255 in faces and 397 in iconfaces
b) It was the 9GB one (9.07 i think) and I used The Unarchiver for extraction.
c) I can if needed but there is no change, just the standard black silhoettes
mons
This file has over 192,000 faces and icons, so it must not have extracted correctly.
Can you download the 10.01 pack again and make sure it downloads fully? I also suggest using Winrar to extract it as that's the problem it was created with.
Regis1er
I specify that I use a translator, so sorry.
So, I subscribed to the premium account to make it easier and faster to enjoy your services and download the megapack of faces.
And here is the drama ! (we're talking about 10.01)! when I click on download, it does not offer the possibility to download via torrent! so, while I have a great internet speed, I have almost 2 days download!
Is it acceptable for you to ask people to pay for easier access to files?
I hope I have been clear and that the translator will have transcribed my words.
I do not hide my disappointment and I wonder if in the end I would not have had faster file without paying.
thank you
mons
If you want to download the megapack via torrent, you can do so by downloading the base 10.0 pack. You can then download 10.01 and any subsequent update packs separately, i.e. not via torrent. The reason that torrent files are only released for the base packs is that it is too time-consuming and resource-heavy to create the torrent every time a pack is released, plus it is unlikely there will be enough seeds for each update pack.
While we thank you for purchasing premium membership, I respectfully don't think it is unacceptable "to ask people to pay for easier access to files", no. Keep in mind that it costs actual money to run the site, pay for server costs and bandwidth; also due to the fact that any file hosted on this site for premium members (including this megapack) is available for download for free to those users who do not wish to purchase premium membership. I, for one, would not want to have a file available only to those who may; all our community does this work for free, to share it with the community for free.