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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mons
You'll have to give us a bit more information. What do you mean you can't download? Do you get an error message? What is the problem exactly?
yusuf141
yusuf141
yusuf141
mons
If you have problems with the individual download links for the cutout megapack, why not download it via torrent? To find the download link for the torrent, scroll to the bottom of this page until you come to the torrent tabs and download the 10.0 version. To be fully up-to-date, you would still have to download any subsequent update packs separately.
I completely do not understand your last post either. Do you want an FM18 skin for FM17? I don't think it exists.
James Little
Was wondering why certain player cut outs I downloaded aren't able to be applied in game. Literally every cut out is loaded bar the players that only feature in fm18 and none previously. I've cleared the cache and loaded the new skin countless times with slight changes but none of the mentioned ones are added.
Hopefully someone can help,
Thanks.
mons
Moved your post to here as this is the right place for it
I'm not sure what the problem is. Can you be a bit more specific and mention a player's UID which isn't working for you?
Also, are you placing the new cut in the megapack folder? Are you modifying the config file so that the game can read the cut?
James Little
Thanks for moving it for me!
The issues I've noticed have been with Swansea and Ajax youth players. Such as Victor Jensen (27135741) and Jordan Garrick (28109988).
I was placing the new cut in the Megapack folder and haven't modified the config file, I'll try doing so, thank you!
RoCCo_42
mons
Good spot, it's the wrong image.
It looks like that UID was used for Niels Tulleneers up till FM16 and that the OH Leuven researcher, instead of creating a new player like he was supposed to, just changed the details of the guy.
This is the only image I've been able to get of him: http://www.ohl.be/images/teams/players/diarramamadou/pasfoto_fiche.jpg
Is there any way of getting it bigger, I wonder?
Villa2498
https://ibb.co/kbUSbS
Ive used this megapack for years, never having any problem before, but not having any luck at the moment. I had it up and running before christmas but I uninstalled fm18 and here we are. The megapacks i have for kits and logos are all working fine its just the facepack that seems to be affected. Ive dowloaded the complete pack which didnt work, then i tried adding all the update packs since 10.0 which didnt either. Then I tried replacing the config file with the one uploaded earlier in this forum since you mentioned the rar extractor on mac potentially affecting the config file but that didnt help either. I tried the complete pack one more time before giving up. Everytime i cleared the cache, unticked "Use caching to decrease page loading times" and ticked "Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences" before reloading skin.
Sorry for the overwhelming information, i just wanted to show ive tried to cover all my bases here, Its a great megapack and i'd appreciate any help you could offer.
Villa2498
mons
Sorry about that, mate. I thought I'd replied to you, but it looks like I didn't.
Can you download and apply the latest update pack maybe that solves it for you? Tbf, it looks like you have everything in order, but I'm sure there'll be something somewhere stopping the game finding the images.
ghast13
If have the 10.0 megapack downloaded already, can I just jump to the latest one or do I have to download all the updates in between?
Also does version 10 compatible with FM17? I don't have FM18 yet.
Thanks,
ghast
mons
Answers in bold above
Villa2498
Ah no luck mate, thanks for your time anyway
Villa2498
Deleting my kits worked for some reason, they must have been the thing interfering, so you were right in the end!
Horky
Sorry!
I'm having problems since I've updated everything with version 10.5 and for example Arsene Wenger can not see me. Do you know what could be the cause of that?
mons
I've already answered you on this here
Horky
Thank you!!
I have downloaded that file but the problem is not the names of the competitions, but some images like Arsene Wenger that can not be seen
mons
One of the licensing issues solved by that file is the fact that players and staff members in the French national team are not displayed by default. In your screenshot, Wenger is French national team manager. If you download and apply that file correctly, your issue should be solved
Giro
mons
It's clear that what you're saying is the case; in fact, the names in the database have changed exactly as you have said as per the attached screenshot. Good spot
For the time being, just keep it in mind so that you can submit the request for cutting when your requests are cut. There's a couple of them I have my eye on for the weekend when I have a bit of time
Giro
No problem, cheers!
Horky
Thank you very much, but it does not just happen to me. It happens to me also with other trainers like this ...
mons
Can you open your megapack folder and confirm there is an image with the file name 7449882? Can you take a screenshot of your megapack folder showing this file?
Horky
You're right
mons
Hi there - what am I right about?
Is that image in your folder or not?
Horky
No, it does not appear in said patch
mons
Then you must not have the full megapack. You need to have over 200,000 images in your megapack folder. You'll have to download it again, how many do you have then?