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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Regis1er
I did not want to say that I found it unacceptable to charge people for access to your files. I just wanted to say that I did not find everything normal to pay for ultimately not having a service "much" more advantageous! I do not question your economic model and I do not regret having subscribed to the premium account.
For this example, I am not super convinced but it does not matter.
I expected to be able to quickly download the file which, in the end, will take almost 2 days to download. I download videos much bigger than this file in less than thirty minutes.
For example: forza motorsports 7, 95 giga in one afternoon with my internet debit.
I did not mean anything else.
led wonsaz
Firstly thankyou for your help. So I uninstalled everything and tried again, and got to ~150,000 items before my computer ran out of space. Subsequently I bought an external hard drive online (hence the delay) and after successfully downloading the ~190,000 items I realised that I could not get the data on the external to be applied in-game.
I would like to request that You may be able to assist me and get this to work, or if not possible like I suspect, you will be able to issue me a refund, because the files took between 25 and 30 GBs of space, now this on top of the 9GB already downloaded and as advertised I don't think is unreasonable to be annoyed that even when having 4x the advertised space, it still is not enough.
Thanks.
mons
I'm not sure why you say that you could not get the data on the external to be applied in-game. I and many others do that successfully. Have you changed your user data folder as outlined here and as also indicated in the OP?
I'm not sure how you've managed to get a 9GB to take between 25-30GB of space, and what that's got to do with whether and how this file works tbh
Jens Nordström
mons
It really depends on your usual download speed as that's around 250kb/sec which is a bit slow, truth be told...
Jens Nordström
Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. When I test my Internet speed online it says 15 mbit/sec but I suppose that varies a fair bit. Oh well, thanks!
led wonsaz
Okay so I went to the link and changed my user data folder, following the steps to a T yet when I load FM all the sub folders are not created like it says in the post you linked. I hope this is because I have not done "and as also indicated in the OP?" because I don't know the acronym as 'original post(er)' doesn't fit. I hope this is the only problem left now, please explain
Thanks a lot.
mons
I'm not sure what you've done as it's not entirely clear, sorry.
What you need to do is
a) change your user data folder on Steam
b) manually move your whole "old" Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 2018 folder (not just the graphics, all of it) into the folder specified in the above step, in your case presumably on your external hard disk.
If you still can't figure out what you've done wrong, please post screenshots of
a) your user data folder as amended on your Steam profile
b) the user data folder on the external HDD, clearly showing the patch
c) your megapack folder in this folder
I don't think you're too far off from having it working as intended, truth be told.
Jim Thomas
mons
Can I have screenshots of:
a) the location where your MP images are saved
and
b) the size and amount of images in your MP folder
and
c) an example of a player whose face is having this issue
Jim Thomas
https://gyazo.com/83c89899a209205a8b0b42f56d38b11e.png
8.37gb
https://i.gyazo.com/0785d987b8386e195d7769ce73601f8a.png
There is just nothing where the face should be
mons
That's because you don't have the full megapack, somehow, I'm afraid. The whole megapack would be just over 9GB to be precise, and you have some images missing. The fact that there is an empty space instead of the default black silhouette also indicates this fact, because that happens when the config points to an image which is not there.
Jim Thomas
Yeah that makes sense thanks, not sure why I don't have it though because I just downloaded it normally
mons
That's not a question I can really answer. Maybe the download stopped close to the end, or maybe the files did not fully extract. To solve the latter problem, I suggest using Winrar for Mac. Also,you need to have 192,000+ images in your faces folder to be fully up-to-date...
Jim Thomas
I'll try torrenting instead of just downloading straight from here maybe?
mons
That would certainly ensure you get the full file.
Out of curiosity, do you still have the compressed .rar file you downloaded from here? If you do, how large is it?
Jim Thomas
I do yeah, it is 9.68gb, so I think the problem is with The Unarchiver, which is what I used to extract it.
mons
That sounds about right, filesize-wise.
I had an inkling it might be the case, which is why I mentioned it. Try opening the file with Winrar for Mac
Jim Thomas
Have you got an installation link for that?
mons
Can't check right now as I'm at work, but you should find it if you Google it
Molda222
mons
I agree with you and hopefully some skin-makers will tweak the cutout face size in any skins they release. Hopefully it won't take too long for good skins to start appearing.
Swedie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8LKEtw0Pgw
Chuz
(My faces are up to date with latest changes downloaded)
That's odd...
This is the image showing up:
https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-2017/player/18096972/tibeau-auwers
That's the correct ID but clearly a different person. Did the ID change to a different person somehow?
What the... https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-2018/player/18096972/osah-bernardinho
mons
That's bizarre. Clearly the Belgian researcher decide to overwrite the FM17 player with Bernardinho for some reason, instead of creating a new entry. If you could make a request with the new face, hopefully it'll get fixed by the next update pack
RonaDON22
Still asking me to subscribe to do so? :/
mons
It takes a wee while for premium membership payment to be activated, so you shouldn't have to wait too long
Slappy
Many thanks in advance for all help
mons
Hi there. I have no idea what you mean "downloading certain parts". With premium membership, you should be able to download the whole 10.01 megapack in a single file....
wlade
I've downloaded whole pack and done everything as usual (as described) but I cannot see any faces in my Arsenal team but for example I can see faces of new players I've bought in transfer windows (e.g. de Ligjt).
Any ideas? tnx in advance!