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).
mons
17 years ago
6 hours ago
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This was pointed out some weeks ago and is no longer visible if you use the latest version of the megapack. Due to the way the megapack is mapped with the FM database, until a new cut is made, he will still appear in the FM database search tool on this site, but he should not appear within FM




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.

Thanks for pointing this out - I have made a request with this in our request forum
Matteo Galeazzi
10 years ago
5 months ago
1
Link for torrent?
mons
17 years ago
6 hours ago
85,497

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
bernd schmidt
5 years ago
1 year ago
8
Premium
Hello friends,

it is possible to become the Cut-Out Faces Megapack 3.0 from FM2011?
mons
17 years ago
6 hours ago
85,497
Hello friends,

it is possible to become the Cut-Out Faces Megapack 3.0 from FM2011?

The oldest version available for torrent download is 4.00, although I doubt whether you'll find seeds for it, to be honest.

To find and download it, look at the screenshot below:

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/bP0iqdvKY1BE7sbTr5BRwZOZ0BKuW4opGtNHGGkl.png
bernd schmidt
5 years ago
1 year ago
8
Premium
Scott Langshaw
5 years ago
5 years ago
2
Ive got the megapack downloaded and i have placed it in the Graphics folder and followed the steps to apply them but i just cant seem to get the facepacks to take effect?

Anyone got any ideas?
mons
17 years ago
6 hours ago
85,497
Ive got the megapack downloaded and i have placed it in the Graphics folder and followed the steps to apply them but i just cant seem to get the facepacks to take effect?

Anyone got any ideas?

I've moved your post to the correct place

Can you upload screenshots of your megapack folder and also of a profile in-game of a player who should have a face?

Also, can you make sure the preferences in your-game look like those in the opening post of this thread?
Nathswans
10 years ago
4 weeks ago
9
Premium
Ethan Ampadu cut out face doesn't work for some reason?
mons
17 years ago
6 hours ago
85,497
Ethan Ampadu cut out face doesn't work for some reason?

Works fine here

How many images in total do you have in your megapack folder? Can you find one whose filename is 29175064.png?
Nathswans
10 years ago
4 weeks ago
9
Premium
Works fine here

How many images in total do you have in your megapack folder? Can you find one whose filename is 29175064.png?

Yeh I've looked for that filename and it is definitely in the folder.

196,771 files in total

mons
17 years ago
6 hours ago
85,497
Yeh I've looked for that filename and it is definitely in the folder.

196,771 files in total

Can you update your megapack by downloading the packs you're missing and see if that works?
Nathswans
10 years ago
4 weeks ago
9
Premium
Can you update your megapack by downloading the packs you're missing and see if that works?

Think I'm all up to date. The actual picture of him is in the folder just doesn't seem to work. I'm pretty sure I'd had worked and I'm not sure since what update has stopped it.

mons
17 years ago
6 hours ago
85,497
Think I'm all up to date. The actual picture of him is in the folder just doesn't seem to work. I'm pretty sure I'd had worked and I'm not sure since what update has stopped it.

If you were up-to-date you'd have 204,000+ cuts, and you seem to be about 7k short...
Nathswans
10 years ago
4 weeks ago
9
Premium
If you were up-to-date you'd have 204,000+ cuts, and you seem to be about 7k short...

Ok that's strange. I will re-download them all. Would that actually make a difference as his cut out picture is actually in the correct folder already?
mons
17 years ago
6 hours ago
85,497
Ok that's strange. I will re-download them all. Would that actually make a difference as his cut out picture is actually in the correct folder already?

It could be a config issue, and having the latest version of the config would solve it
Nathswans
10 years ago
4 weeks ago
9
Premium
It could be a config issue, and having the latest version of the config would solve it

Brilliant! That's the one thing I didn't check. All sorted!

Thanks for your help
mons
17 years ago
6 hours ago
85,497
Brilliant! That's the one thing I didn't check. All sorted!

Thanks for your help

Excellent - happy to have helped
Roctiv
8 years ago
2 weeks ago
5
Hello everybody,

I have a little problem, Certain characters have no their image in the game, like Dembéle, Diogo Dalot or Achraf, Nevertheless there is well their portrait in the file, You know where from can come this problem?

Thank you in advance and sorry for my bad english
mons
17 years ago
6 hours ago
85,497
Hello everybody,

I have a little problem, Certain characters have no their image in the game, like Dembéle, Diogo Dalot or Achraf, Nevertheless there is well their portrait in the file, You know where from can come this problem?

Thank you in advance and sorry for my bad english

Moved this to here

How many images in total do you have in your megapack folder? How big is your config.xml file and what is its date last modified?

And when you say no image in game, do you mean there is a blank space where their face should be, or is there the default black image instead?
Roctiv
8 years ago
2 weeks ago
5
Wooooooopss, I never put the config;xml in the folder sorry

Red_Dog002
15 years ago
3 years ago
8
Hi guys,

First of all, great job you're doing! Big thumps up!

I've got a small problem with the megapack. I've downloaded it, part by part. But it doesn't show the faces in the game. I checked everything and did all the required steps. Now I discovered that the config.xml file is missing in every map. Is this normal ? Do I have to download it separately ? In the folders with changes, the config file is included, but not in the megapack parts.

Could use some help!

Thank you!
mons
17 years ago
6 hours ago
85,497
Hi guys,

First of all, great job you're doing! Big thumps up!

I've got a small problem with the megapack. I've downloaded it, part by part. But it doesn't show the faces in the game. I checked everything and did all the required steps. Now I discovered that the config.xml file is missing in every map. Is this normal ? Do I have to download it separately ? In the folders with changes, the config file is included, but not in the megapack parts.

Could use some help!

Thank you!

If you use the config.xml file of the last update pack, you should be fine. Otherwise, just wait a little while for 10.09 to be released and use the config file in that one
Red_Dog002
15 years ago
3 years ago
8
Thanks, mons! I will try to be more patient. ;-)
Red_Dog002
15 years ago
3 years ago
8
The pictures of the players in the changes-folders are shown in the game. But the ones of the megapack not. Very frustrating. I copied the config.xml file from the changes folder to the megapack folder. But still nothing.

Anyone knows what the problem could be ?
mons
17 years ago
6 hours ago
85,497
The pictures of the players in the changes-folders are shown in the game. But the ones of the megapack not. Very frustrating. I copied the config.xml file from the changes folder to the megapack folder. But still nothing.

Anyone knows what the problem could be ?

You should have one folder with all the images in it. You should not have update pack images in separate folders; all cuts should be in one folder and one folder only.
Red_Dog002
15 years ago
3 years ago
8
You should have one folder with all the images in it. You should not have update pack images in separate folders; all cuts should be in one folder and one folder only.


Yes!!! You're a lifesaver, mons! You've got my infinitive appreciation!
sleipnirfossa
9 years ago
23 hours ago
612
i start to download 10.0 megapack, does it include latest updates or need to download? Releaseddate says 26-10-2017
mons
17 years ago
6 hours ago
85,497
i start to download 10.0 megapack, does it include latest updates or need to download? Releaseddate says 26-10-2017

The 10.0 is the base megapack. After that, you need to download all the update packs released since then, and apply them in chronological order, i.e. first 10.01, then 10.02 etc. etc.
pacouk
15 years ago
4 years ago
3,077
How do you go about asking for NOID players to be cut who will be in next yrs? Man Utd youth have new pics out on the academy page

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