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.

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  • 2024.07 - Released on 15 Apr 2024
Cut Out Player Faces Megapack

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've never downloaded the pack before, you should just download the larger "complete pack".

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.
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:
https://i.imgur.com/85lGeDc.png

The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:

https://i.imgur.com/jbZkFfw.png

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.
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’

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:
https://i.imgur.com/jbZkFfw.png

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.
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.
If you're using Gamepass, then you have to use the default user data folder (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)
The torrent file includes the base megapack uploaded just before that year’s FM version is released. Any and all subsequent update packs are to be downloaded separately.
For those who have never used torrents, in the vast majority of cases, it's just a question of downloading the client program (a small file, less than 1MB) and then downloading the megapack torrent file (a tiny file, around 20k) and then letting the program do the job.

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.
You need to copy and overwrite the faces and the new config file from the update pack into the faces folder and follow the same procedure for the iconfaces folder.

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.
Please report this so that they can be reuploaded.
Extracting the file will take a while, but it shouldn't take the hours and hours that the program extracting will sometimes say it will. To speed it up, it is recommended that you have as few programs running as possible so that the system can dedicate as many resources to the extraction as it possibly can.

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.
You might have a poor internet connection or your browser might have some extensions which interrupt this download. Having loads of downloads ongoing and/or streaming may also de-prioritise this download.

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.
This download has two folders: one is the faces folder which contains the cut-outs which should be displayed on this screen. There is also a file titled config.xml which tells the game which images to assign to which person. The other folder is the iconfaces folder which contains the smaller images displayed near a person's name on the menu which comes up when you right-click on them, and also includes a different config file for this folder.

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.
The most recent update pack will include the most recent config file, so you can choose to download it and use it from there.

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.
Down the years, after an update pack was released, it was noted that some images included therein where of the wrong person, with a wrong extension or duplicated. Due to the way the download system is structured, these cannot be removed from the download, so there may well be a couple of hundred images’ worth of difference, depending on the version you download.
Our megapack covers 25,000 teams and it's impossible to cater for these kind of requests since players and staff get transferred or sacked or retire etc and recreating and reuploading 25,000 different smaller packs would be an impossible task. That's why we have all the images in a megapack so that everything is captured therein.
These persons do not appear in the default database for licensing reasons. This means that they only appear in your save-game because they were added via a custom file, generally the real name fix file. However, this means that their UID (which is what is used to map a person's image to the right individual) is different, and so the game cannot assign the image to them from your existing facepack.

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).
Horky
17 years ago
1 week ago
450
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?


I have 191.768 photos.
¿All Right?
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,966
I have 191.768 photos.
¿All Right?

As said earlier, you need to have over 200,000 images in your megapack folder. You clearly don't have the full megapack, and I have no way of knowing which update packs you have missed out. The best way to be sure you are up-to-date is to download the 10.0 torrent file, followed by the 10.01-10.05 update packs.
Horky
17 years ago
1 week ago
450
As said earlier, you need to have over 200,000 images in your megapack folder. You clearly don't have the full megapack, and I have no way of knowing which update packs you have missed out. The best way to be sure you are up-to-date is to download the 10.0 torrent file, followed by the 10.01-10.05 update packs.


Is rare. I've been downloading them from the beginning. I will do it again.
I have to download the torrent 10.0 and then the verions until 10.5 ???

Thank you.
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,966
Is rare. I've been downloading them from the beginning. I will do it again.
I have to download the torrent 10.0 and then the verions until 10.5 ???

Thank you.

I'm afraid that, since you've got 10,000 less images, then you must have either not applied the files you downloaded correctly or missed out on a few without realizing.

As explained, the best way to be sure you're up-to-date is to download the 10.0 torrent file, followed by the 10.01-10.05 update packs
Horky
17 years ago
1 week ago
450
I'm afraid that, since you've got 10,000 less images, then you must have either not applied the files you downloaded correctly or missed out on a few without realizing.

As explained, the best way to be sure you're up-to-date is to download the 10.0 torrent file, followed by the 10.01-10.05 update packs


Perfect, this afternoon I put myself to it. As soon as I see if it has been solved, I'll tell you. Thanks, and apologize for my English
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,966
Perfect, this afternoon I put myself to it. As soon as I see if it has been solved, I'll tell you. Thanks, and apologize for my English

Not to worry, your English is perfectly fine. Hope you manage to get there
Jamie2391
10 years ago
1 day ago
195
Any idea why some of the player faces won't display in my game?
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,966
Any idea why some of the player faces won't display in my game?

Which ones? Have you added them to your megapack folder yourself or are they part of an update pack? Is the black default face displayed or is there a blank space?
Jamie2391
10 years ago
1 day ago
195
Which ones? Have you added them to your megapack folder yourself or are they part of an update pack? Is the black default face displayed or is there a blank space?


it's a case of saving some of them individually from "search cut out faces" rather than as part of packs.
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,966
it's a case of saving some of them individually from "search cut out faces" rather than as part of packs.

The game doesn't recognise the files just because you paste them in the correct folder. You also need to edit the config file accordingly, as it's the config file which maps the cuts to the right person in-game. A guide on how to change the config file can be found in this thread
cptburcea
6 years ago
16 hours ago
9
Can someone post a link with the config.xml file here pleaseee (Cut Out Player Faces Megapack one)?
Can't download any update .
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,966
Can someone post a link with the config.xml file here pleaseee (Cut Out Player Faces Megapack one)?
Can't download any update .

The post above yours' contains a link to show you how to create a config file yourself for all the cutouts in your folder
cptburcea
6 years ago
16 hours ago
9
Ty mate .Have a nice day !
tom1612
6 years ago
2 years ago
4
hi there everyone! I’m having problems getting the facepacks to work on mac. anyone able to help me? i have downloaded, extracted the file (un-RAR) placed in graphics folder, opened fm, ticked required boxes, cleared cache and reloaded skin etc. still not working. is there anything i haven’t done, thanks.
Swedie
12 years ago
8 hours ago
5,648
Premium
hi there everyone! I’m having problems getting the facepacks to work on mac. anyone able to help me? i have downloaded, extracted the file (un-RAR) placed in graphics folder, opened fm, ticked required boxes, cleared cache and reloaded skin etc. still not working. is there anything i haven’t done, thanks.
How many files do you have in your faces folder?
nimster1980
6 years ago
3 years ago
7
Hi,

When I'm trying to download the full face pack, I keep getting network errors saying that the network connection has been lost? I've attempted at least 5 times to download the pack the failure can come anywhere between 1Gb d/l and 6Gb d/l. All other packs I've downloaded have worked perfectly. Any ideas?

Thanks
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,966
Hi,

When I'm trying to download the full face pack, I keep getting network errors saying that the network connection has been lost? I've attempted at least 5 times to download the pack the failure can come anywhere between 1Gb d/l and 6Gb d/l. All other packs I've downloaded have worked perfectly. Any ideas?

Thanks

If you download it using Chrome, then you should be able to resume the interrupted download at the spot it was terminated...
nimster1980
6 years ago
3 years ago
7
If you download it using Chrome, then you should be able to resume the interrupted download at the spot it was terminated...


Cheers for the suggestion. Tried it multiple times today using both Safari and Chrome and still failing though. Nightmare! Any other suggestions?
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,966
Cheers for the suggestion. Tried it multiple times today using both Safari and Chrome and still failing though. Nightmare! Any other suggestions?

Are you not able to resume the download when downloading it with Chrome?
nimster1980
6 years ago
3 years ago
7
Are you not able to resume the download when downloading it with Chrome?


Unfortunately not. Just says network connection disconnected (which it isn't at my end) and no option to resume. Then with Safari, when I try to resume the download I get the notification that I don't have permission to do so.
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,966
Unfortunately not. Just says network connection disconnected (which it isn't at my end) and no option to resume. Then with Safari, when I try to resume the download I get the notification that I don't have permission to do so.

There is an option to resume download in Chrome, but I can't get to see it yet as the download's working fine at my end

iirc in the bottom bar where the download is displayed, there is an arrow to the right of the download which would give you the option to resume. Can you send me a screenshot of what happens in your case please?
SYATFC
8 years ago
1 year ago
9
Sorry if this is a stupid question, I downloaded a facepack for last years game, can I just drag & drop in from the FM17 to the FM18 folder?
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,966
Sorry if this is a stupid question, I downloaded a facepack for last years game, can I just drag & drop in from the FM17 to the FM18 folder?

Yes, sure. If you want to be up-to-date, just download all the update packs released since then, but your existing images should work just fine anyway.
nimster1980
6 years ago
3 years ago
7
There is an option to resume download in Chrome, but I can't get to see it yet as the download's working fine at my end

iirc in the bottom bar where the download is displayed, there is an arrow to the right of the download which would give you the option to resume. Can you send me a screenshot of what happens in your case please?


I've tried all buttons that I can to resume the download but there's nothing there for that.

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/XKOUluEWQSEtEoVAVqeRxG4GZmA0Mu7DCixRdOJr.png
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,966
I've tried all buttons that I can to resume the download but there's nothing there for that.

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/XKOUluEWQSEtEoVAVqeRxG4GZmA0Mu7DCixRdOJr.png

This is where I usually resume downloads.

http://techdows.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Chrome-download-bar.png
nimster1980
6 years ago
3 years ago
7
This is where I usually resume downloads.

http://techdows.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Chrome-download-bar.png


Yeah, I can see the resume option, but it's greyed out for me

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/ILd28c2oKVbOMQsx9ZIt7SDNjQnet7FBaskKEQQM.png
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,966
Yeah, I can see the resume option, but it's greyed out for me

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/ILd28c2oKVbOMQsx9ZIt7SDNjQnet7FBaskKEQQM.png

Can you try it on a new download instead of the old one?
Ashley Tromans
8 years ago
4 months ago
4
I've recently become a premium member in order to download the megapacks in one file yet when I download the cut out player pack it only downloades 85% and the file type says that its a partial download any help would be appreciated
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,966
I've recently become a premium member in order to download the megapacks in one file yet when I download the cut out player pack it only downloades 85% and the file type says that its a partial download any help would be appreciated

Hi there. Can you follow the conversation trail from here onwards? It's pretty much the same issue; you should be able to resume the interrupted download with Chrome
nimster1980
6 years ago
3 years ago
7
Can you try it on a new download instead of the old one?


Tried it again on a new download and still with the same issue...

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/vvskeHk2HOmdCxaOgyAMFmiajMQDjgVvrMoUS39T.png

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