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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  • 2024.06 - Released on 17 Mar 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).
Lorenz75
5 years ago
6 months ago
3
Hi! Thanks for the great job! I have a very annoying problem: in my team a couple of players do change face after the first match, I mean there is a photo before the match and during the match I can see from the small photo (like when the player get a yellow card) that it is changed, after match the photo is changed even in the player profile...this happen every time with the same 2 players. I have tried to check the ID but there is not that file in the megapack folder, one ID is the numeber 1394728232 for example. Thanks for helping!
Eastwood
10 years ago
4 months ago
5
Premium
Hi guys, downloaded the complete pack through the mirror sites, all 19 main files and 6 changes. Got a lot of faces but key players such as Barzagli, Alexander-Arnold, van Dijk, Rashford, Oblek etc still missing?

I used mostly the depotnet or whatever mirror choice, but some could have been upload.net, have I got some duplicates by accident? Also said it was 9.7gb or somewhere near, I have used 75.8GB, is this normal after unzipping? File I created in graphics contains 1,811.058 files? Any help would be greatly appreciated to get remainded faces. Thanks kindly
mons
17 years ago
17 hours ago
85,497
Hi! Thanks for the great job! I have a very annoying problem: in my team a couple of players do change face after the first match, I mean there is a photo before the match and during the match I can see from the small photo (like when the player get a yellow card) that it is changed, after match the photo is changed even in the player profile...this happen every time with the same 2 players. I have tried to check the ID but there is not that file in the megapack folder, one ID is the numeber 1394728232 for example. Thanks for helping!

That UID is not from the default FM database and is probably added in a custom editor data file. UIDs are fixed for players in SI's database and variable for anything else. That said, it's not clear what's your problem - can you post screenshots?



Hi guys, downloaded the complete pack through the mirror sites, all 19 main files and 6 changes. Got a lot of faces but key players such as Barzagli, Alexander-Arnold, van Dijk, Rashford, Oblek etc still missing?

I used mostly the depotnet or whatever mirror choice, but some could have been upload.net, have I got some duplicates by accident? Also said it was 9.7gb or somewhere near, I have used 75.8GB, is this normal after unzipping? File I created in graphics contains 1,811.058 files? Any help would be greatly appreciated to get remainded faces. Thanks kindly

I have no idea how you have ended up with 75GB's worth of faces and over 1.8M faces. I suggest you delete everything and download the torrent file. Instructions on where and how to do so are in the opening post of this thread. You will then need to download update packs 10.01 - 10.07 and apply them in order.There is also a video showing you how to do so here so make sure you follow the steps shown in there
Horky
17 years ago
5 minutes ago
450
Good. Does anyone have these photos? 67243881/67184202/67210521/67245476

These are: Javi Galán - Josema - Loureiro - Álvaro Aguado, players of Córdoba C.F.



[img] http://img.fenixzone.net/i/5ZJ7oTC.jpeg [/ img]



[img] http://img.fenixzone.net/i/vgup0af.jpeg [/ img]



[img] http://img.fenixzone.net/i/7Vq8ZM2.jpeg [/ img]



[img] http://img.fenixzone.net/i/vnS5eHl.jpeg [/ img]



THANK YOU!!!
mons
17 years ago
17 hours ago
85,497
Good. Does anyone have these photos? 67243881/67184202/67210521/67245476

These are: Javi Galán - Josema - Loureiro - Álvaro Aguado, players of Córdoba C.F.



[img] http://img.fenixzone.net/i/5ZJ7oTC.jpeg [/ img]



[img] http://img.fenixzone.net/i/vgup0af.jpeg [/ img]



[img] http://img.fenixzone.net/i/7Vq8ZM2.jpeg [/ img]



[img] http://img.fenixzone.net/i/vnS5eHl.jpeg [/ img]



THANK YOU!!!

We have a cutout megapack search tool here: https://sortitoutsi.net/search/cutout
Jonno7074
5 years ago
4 years ago
5
Hi everyone

I am having trouble with the cut out mega pack. I have both a mac and PC and play FM18 on PC

Anyway if i try and unzip the full 10gb file on my PC using Winzip Universal it opens the file and says it has just over 407 thousand files in it but if i try to unzip to a specific folder it gives me an error saying access denied canot create files or folder etc ?

also if i download it on my mac and open it on my mac it unzips ok but if i then transfer it to my PC via copying it to hard drive etc it reads as a 707 thousand files etc so what gives ?

can anyone shed any light and advise me on this ?

I am trying to use the latest file on this site

thanks
Jon
mons
17 years ago
17 hours ago
85,497
Hi everyone

I am having trouble with the cut out mega pack. I have both a mac and PC and play FM18 on PC

Anyway if i try and unzip the full 10gb file on my PC using Winzip Universal it opens the file and says it has just over 407 thousand files in it but if i try to unzip to a specific folder it gives me an error saying access denied canot create files or folder etc ?

also if i download it on my mac and open it on my mac it unzips ok but if i then transfer it to my PC via copying it to hard drive etc it reads as a 707 thousand files etc so what gives ?

can anyone shed any light and advise me on this ?

I am trying to use the latest file on this site

thanks
Jon

Try Winrar
Horky
17 years ago
5 minutes ago
450
We have a cutout megapack search tool here: https://sortitoutsi.net/search/cutout


Thank you very much. There is only 1 of 4. Would someone know who can help me make them? I'm pretty clumsy and I can not do them.


Thank you very much. A greeting!
mons
17 years ago
17 hours ago
85,497
Thank you very much. There is only 1 of 4. Would someone know who can help me make them? I'm pretty clumsy and I can not do them.


Thank you very much. A greeting!

We have a request system here. If you can manage to find sources for them, then feel free to submit them
Horky
17 years ago
5 minutes ago
450
We have a request system here. If you can manage to find sources for them, then feel free to submit them


Of course, I have this request of 3 players. I leave a photo for anyone who can help me. Thank you.

[img] http://img.fenixzone.net/i/vgup0af.jpeg [/ img]



[img] http://img.fenixzone.net/i/7Vq8ZM2.jpeg [/ img]



[img] http://img.fenixzone.net/i/vnS5eHl.jpeg [/ img]
mons
17 years ago
17 hours ago
85,497
Of course, I have this request of 3 players. I leave a photo for anyone who can help me. Thank you.

[img] http://img.fenixzone.net/i/vgup0af.jpeg [/ img]



[img] http://img.fenixzone.net/i/7Vq8ZM2.jpeg [/ img]



[img] http://img.fenixzone.net/i/vnS5eHl.jpeg [/ img]

We have a simple request system as linked to in my earlier post: please use it. This is not the right place or manner to make requests
shuts
12 years ago
1 week ago
5
Premium
Hi..... HELP NEEDED

I'm struggling to extract the files. I'm using 7zip. ive downloaded the mega pack but keep running into an error when trying to extract. (might be a simple solution due to the possibility of me being a moron)

any assistance would be helpful.
mons
17 years ago
17 hours ago
85,497
Hi..... HELP NEEDED

I'm struggling to extract the files. I'm using 7zip. ive downloaded the mega pack but keep running into an error when trying to extract. (might be a simple solution due to the possibility of me being a moron)

any assistance would be helpful.

What is the error message being displayed?

To be honest, I would recommend Winrar...
shuts
12 years ago
1 week ago
5
Premium
What is the error message being displayed?

To be honest, I would recommend Winrar...



message reads - "error opening the archive (check available disk space, that you have a valid password, or that the archive is not damaged or partial)
mons
17 years ago
17 hours ago
85,497
message reads - "error opening the archive (check available disk space, that you have a valid password, or that the archive is not damaged or partial)

How large in GB is the file you've downloaded? It should be over 9GB. If not, you will need to download it again, probably.
shuts
12 years ago
1 week ago
5
Premium
How large in GB is the file you've downloaded? It should be over 9GB. If not, you will need to download it again, probably.


yeah its over 9.... maybe archive is damaged?
mons
17 years ago
17 hours ago
85,497
yeah its over 9.... maybe archive is damaged?

What's the exact size please?
shuts
12 years ago
1 week ago
5
Premium
What's the exact size please?


9.66 GB. I've also downloaded this multiple times.
mons
17 years ago
17 hours ago
85,497
9.66 GB. I've also downloaded this multiple times.

That looks to be the right size. Can you please try Winrar?
MoreSpecialOne
10 years ago
2 years ago
11
Question; when I click on download full pack will this include all the updates or will this just be the main file to which I need to apply all updates?
mons
17 years ago
17 hours ago
85,497
Question; when I click on download full pack will this include all the updates or will this just be the main file to which I need to apply all updates?

If you download the full pack, you'll get the absolute latest version of this megapack, i.e. 10.07
MoreSpecialOne
10 years ago
2 years ago
11
Thank you very much
Alex Mahone
10 years ago
1 week ago
129
Premium
Hello!

I have been thinking about it for quite sometime...
Is there a way for us to select only the pic files for players and staff currently in the database we use?

I have a feeling that a pack of 200 000 files might affect game speed and i doubt we use a database in our saves close to 200 000 people.

Any tips on that?

Thanks in advance!
mons
17 years ago
17 hours ago
85,497
Hello!

I have been thinking about it for quite sometime...
Is there a way for us to select only the pic files for players and staff currently in the database we use?

I have a feeling that a pack of 200 000 files might affect game speed and i doubt we use a database in our saves close to 200 000 people.

Any tips on that?

Thanks in advance!

First of all, graphics added to the game won't affect game speed as they are cached.

Secondly, there is no way to categorise cuts automatically as far as I know. Especially because it's not a one-time thing. People irl transfer in and out of clubs, divisions and/or nations and staff members move. Short of manually saving cuts, there's no way to provide a smaller database. And where does it stop? Do you just want the Spanish, French, English, Italian and German top tiers? What if Fulham get promoted and Stoke relegated what happens then? What if Levante buy a Greek international from Panathinaikos, or if Frankfurt's coach is an Argentine? And so on and so forth. That's not even considering the fact that players and staff in your game will move around, so you will have gaps pretty soon after starting the game.

Will anybody ever see more than a relatively small proportion of the 200k+ cuts in the megapack? Almost certainly not - but the small proportion I'll see will almost certainly not overlap with yours' or with your mates'. It makes no sense to have a bespoke megapack imo, especially with the work involved in doing so...
RoCCo_42
17 years ago
1 hour ago
7,501
Hi there.

I think Craig Morris pictures is false. (74017477)

True picture is this - https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-2018/player/74002019/craig-morris (Duplicate player- After 18.3.0 this profile deleted)

I'm not sure which player owned actual photo .

SOURCE: https://welsh-premier.com/player_detail.php?player_id=1032

And this is latest updated pic: https://www.wpl.cymru/uploads/images/large/z-WPL43714Squad1.jpg
mons
17 years ago
17 hours ago
85,497
Hi there.

I think Craig Morris pictures is false. (74017477)

True picture is this - https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-2018/player/74002019/craig-morris (Duplicate player- After 18.3.0 this profile deleted)

I'm not sure which player owned actual photo .

SOURCE: https://welsh-premier.com/player_detail.php?player_id=1032

And this is latest updated pic: https://www.wpl.cymru/uploads/images/large/z-WPL43714Squad1.jpg

I'll have to check this and see who's who
cutty
14 years ago
4 years ago
32
Why is there now no torrent for 10.0 like when the game first came out?

My hdd went a month back so I lost all my FM graphics and to download 26 parts is going to take forever to do!
mons
17 years ago
17 hours ago
85,497
Why is there now no torrent for 10.0 like when the game first came out?

My hdd went a month back so I lost all my FM graphics and to download 26 parts is going to take forever to do!

Eh? It's there as normal

From the opening post of this thread:
If you're having trouble with finding 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.

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/bP0iqdvKY1BE7sbTr5BRwZOZ0BKuW4opGtNHGGkl.png
FinallyAngel
9 years ago
9 months ago
1,899
Carlos Martínez (67067044, forward, Tokyo Verdy)
https://s15.postimg.cc/rldcjbwqj/67067044.png

Carlos Martínez (1511410, right back, Real Sociedad)
https://s15.postimg.cc/j33wf2iiz/1511410.png

I think it's obvious that they are the same person, so this is the most recent photo of 67067044:

https://s15.postimg.cc/rpbrdejwr/1612741_l.jpg

The Tokyo Verdy player isn't in the FM18 database, but it is in FM17 (my version lol), thanks for the help!

PD: And sorry for the bad grammar or if I should not post this here.

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