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 480,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.
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- 2025.01 - Released on 04 Dec 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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georgel
Thank you very much. but this config is only for patch 10.3. anyway, I thank you from the heart
mons
No, the config is for the whole pack. All 197,000+ images.
iStrom
mons
I'll fix it for 10.04. Can you make a request for the correct face for Ørjan Børmark-By then?
Cook-Star
I'm just looking for some help here. I've played FM many years and have always downloaded the graphics for the games and have always worked fine for me until this year.
I've downloaded all the images again this year as I normally would but for some reason, when I extract the player faces multipack (the full download) it seems to corrupt my hard drive.The images go onto the hard drive no problem but shortly after adding them, the hard drive seems to pack up and I have to format it to get it working again.
I don't quite know why this is happening and googling doesnt seem to be of any help. Just wondering if anyone come across something like this and/or you could give me some advise.
Thanks for your help
Martin.
3hizb1ndr3
hi , is there the torrent link for this ?
Swedie
mons
That's very strange and not something I'm come across. Looks like you may have an issue with your hard drive; is it old? Could be it's coming to the end of it's lifetime and the load involved in extracting such a large file is tipping it over the edge. What program are you using to extract the pack btw?
Cook-Star
I think the fact a large number of images get added to it and then loading the game and the game pulling thousand of images from this drive has caused it to have these issues, but as I said before its been fine in previous years. The Hard Drive is only 3 years old so wouldn't expect it to be coming to an end just yet.
I've been using WinRar to extract the images.
mons
I was going to suggest Winrar if you weren't using it, so I'm excluding that as a possible cause. That's not an older hard disk, so shouldn't be having any issues relating to it, although you never know.
So, to be clear, you are downloading the pack without issues but you don't manage to extract the files? Is that right? What happens exactly?
Cook-Star
I download the multipack, into my C drive, extract the images from here to where my FM18 graphics folder is located which is on my D drive (one that's having issues). The images extract fine and I can see them appearing in the folder.
I have set FM18 launch options to launch from the D drive which I assume collects all the images to load into the game.
I then run the game and I get an error that FM cannot start and check on My Computer and the hard drive is missing. It's so strange, almost like it cannot cope with all the images.
mons
That's very strange. I have FM installed on 2 different PCs, with the graphics also on a different hard disk, and have had no issues whatsoever in 3 different versions of FM.
I'm assuming it's not near being full, right?
Can I have a screenshot of the FM18 launch options from Steam? Perhaps it's an issue there?
Cook-Star
It's almost like it causes it to lose power but that's not the case because I can run other games on steam and other applications work from the D drive.
The drive is nowhere near full. I have formatted it twice and its 3TB in size so its almost empty.
mons
I thought it may have been an issue with how the launch options were put down, but it looks perfectly fine
Can you try something? Load FM without any graphics. I assume it loads anyway. Once it's loaded, alt-tab out of the game and move all the graphics back onto the D drive. Then reload the skin and untick the skin cache tickbox. What happens then?
Also, do you have any other FM graphics in place?
Cook-Star
FM will load fine as long as I don't have the player faces megapack lol. I currently have the kits and trophies installed and they work no problem.
Before when I added the player faces I downloaded each segment separately because I wasn't a premium member. I decided this year to cut that out and download the full player faces pack and this year seems to be the year I'm having issues.
I have always had the "reload skin when confirming changes in preferences" ticked. Could this be an issue as its trying to pull the images every time?
I've added a screenshot of the Kits working in game.
mons
I'm stumped; everything you seem to describe seems to be in order. How large is your cutout faces megapack folder? Both in terms of file size and amount of images.
Cook-Star
I have deleted it but will have to re download it but it was the one from the Cut Out Player Faces Megapack section (9.23gb).
Perhaps I will try the Exclusive 10 faces megapack to see if this gives me the issues. I guess its worth a try.
Cook-Star
Well the other faces megapack works... lol
mons
Bit strange and all, but at least that's a temporary solution for you. This file works for hundreds and thousands of people on many different system configurations, so I don't think it's the file itself which is causing the issue at your end, although it's clearly related to the file. So possibly either a download or installation error. Now that you've deleted it, I can't really tell, though...
Cook-Star
Thanks for all your help and advise. I've re downloaded the player pack and I am adding the images into the graphics folder in stages. Hopefully this will work.
Thanks again.
Smashing Around
Anyone know how to fix this issue?
mons
Can I have a screenshot of the inside of your megapack folder please? How many images in total do you have in there?
Smashing Around
Inside my folder there are 197,273 images.
mons
That looks fine.
How large is the config file? And can you give me some examples of players aren't showing? How do they display in-game? Is it a blank space or the default black silhouette?
Smashing Around
No longer require help. Turns out I forgot to extract the config file into my folder, which when done fixed my problem. Sorry for wasting your time and thank you for the help.
Cook-Star
Thought I'd give you an update.
The images are working fine now. As I say I put them into the graphics folder in stages and all is well.
Thanks for your help and assistance.
Martin.
mons
All's well that ends well
bigpole
mons
How many cuts in total do you have in your megapack folder? They were both added in 10.01, so it may be related to your installation somehow. Do you have all your images in one folder, or do you have any in sub-folders?
Do you have images with the filenames 7982798 and 69002017?
Pino889
se apro il link mi dice che la pagina non esiste
mi potete aiutare?