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).
Rowan
16 years ago
2 weeks ago
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Can you confirm where you have placed these packs - exact location please.

Also, what packs do you have? It could be that some of them are clashing with each other. We know for sure that the Faces Megapack is fine, so maybe if you have other Facepacks in the route folder this may be a problem....
byssaNferreira
11 years ago
7 months ago
6
I have solved the problem (i think), the was the sub folder's (ex: my docs > sports interactive > fm13 > faces > megapack) now that i put everything in faces is OK..

But thanks for the help!
ShortSharpShock
11 years ago
6 years ago
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I currently have a megapack in use in my game but not sure what one it is??

I would like to update it to the newest version which contains more faces.

My current megapack contains 90,197 faces. Any ideas what one it is so that I can download the appropriate file/s.

**Also, does a premium membership enable faster downloads??**
Rowan
16 years ago
2 weeks ago
1,970
Check the "date Created" of your config file and then compare that against the date release of each update. I'd say you're probably on 4.something...

Yes being a Premium Member gives you direct access to our servers so each update can be downloaded directly.
El Jefe
13 years ago
4 years ago
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Created a folder called 'faces' in this location: documents > sports interactive > football manager 2013 > graphics > faces, it has ALL of the faces from the mega pack, just the individual photos, no sub folders. started up FM, go into preferences, tick reload skin and unticked use chaching to decrease loading times, didn't work. No new faces turned up. I tried it with the use chaching box ticked as well still didn't work. What could I be doing wrong?

edit: not sure if there should be any other files there, config files maybe? But there isn't any there. This might be irrelevant but I just thought I'd give you as much information as possible so I don't waste too much of your time, appreciate the help guys!
mons
17 years ago
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By Jay.11 | Permalink | On 19 January 2013 - 01:15 AM
Created a folder called 'faces' in this location: documents > sports interactive > football manager 2013 > graphics > faces, it has ALL of the faces from the mega pack, just the individual photos, no sub folders. started up FM, go into preferences, tick reload skin and unticked use chaching to decrease loading times, didn't work. No new faces turned up. I tried it with the use chaching box ticked as well still didn't work. What could I be doing wrong?

edit: not sure if there should be any other files there, config files maybe? But there isn't any there. This might be irrelevant but I just thought I'd give you as much information as possible so I don't waste too much of your time, appreciate the help guys!

You need to have a config file in there as it is what makes the game assign the images to the respective players.

When you say ALL the images, how many do you mean? I only ask so that I can be sure that you do indeed have them all, which in my experience is not necessarily the case. We would then advise you on how to create or download the right config file.
El Jefe
13 years ago
4 years ago
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By mons | Permalink | On 19 January 2013 - 08:40 AM
You need to have a config file in there as it is what makes the game assign the images to the respective players.

When you say ALL the images, how many do you mean? I only ask so that I can be sure that you do indeed have them all, which in my experience is not necessarily the case. We would then advise you on how to create or download the right config file.

There's 120,541 pictures or something like that, definitely over 120k. But there's no config file anywhere, I actually remember deleting it, I thought it just had the instructions on how to install everything. That's probably it, is there any way I can download the file on it's own?
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
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By Jay.11 | Permalink | On 19 January 2013 - 20:29 PM
There's 120,541 pictures or something like that, definitely over 120k. But there's no config file anywhere, I actually remember deleting it, I thought it just had the instructions on how to install everything. That's probably it, is there any way I can download the file on it's own?

Download the latest update, overwriting everything when prompted. The file will include the latest config
El Jefe
13 years ago
4 years ago
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This one? "Update Pack - 5.3 3451 Images 04-01-2013"
mons
17 years ago
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El Jefe
13 years ago
4 years ago
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It's working, thanks! Adds so much to the game!
wexicoish
12 years ago
2 weeks ago
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hi, when i try and download the complete pack i get a page saying 'internet explorer cannot display the webpage' any help or alternative links?
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,496
It's working fine for me Can you try to download it using another internet browser?
wexicoish
12 years ago
2 weeks ago
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ahh new that would be the problem, firefox was updating so i was using ie, funny that though :s , thanks a lot , working now
lostintravise
12 years ago
3 weeks ago
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Hi everyone, I am having a really weird problem. I just reinstalled football manager (deleted the documents folder and everything of it on my computer) but I still have faces that appear in my game. Has anyone ever had this problem? I do not have any facepack installed. Anyone know any other place on a Mac that pictures could be stored?


Thanks
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
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By lostintravise | Permalink | On 21 January 2013 - 18:27 PM
Hi everyone, I am having a really weird problem. I just reinstalled football manager (deleted the documents folder and everything of it on my computer) but I still have faces that appear in my game. Has anyone ever had this problem? I do not have any facepack installed. Anyone know any other place on a Mac that pictures could be stored?

Thanks

You might need to clear your cache.

Keep in mind, however, that the game comes with some images already, for Spanish and Dutch teams and for English divisions lower than the Championship for example, and these will display nonetheless.
lostintravise
12 years ago
3 weeks ago
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Ah, that might be it. Players that I saw with faces: Messi, Isco, .. all in a Spanish team. Thanks!
Andrew Kennedy
11 years ago
3 years ago
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Hi,

I have followed the steps to install the facepacks and then gone onto preferences etc etc, but they still don't show, is this because i dont appear to have the 'Config' file in the folder, how can i get hold of the config folder?
Andrew Kennedy
11 years ago
3 years ago
7
Premium
Ok, just downloaded the update and some of the faces appeared as it had a config. file.

But, it deleted all the faces originally in the game, for some reason there were no faces from the championship and the spanish league etc.....

Alos, im getting this message when uploading the rar file to winrar ' C:/Users/Andrew/Downloads/sortitousi_megapack_5.03.rar/unexpected end of archive

please help!
Rowan
16 years ago
2 weeks ago
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When you say you downloaded the update.....did you follow the instructions of moving the CONTENTS of the update folder into your Megapack folder or did you just move the entire folder into it?

What is the total number of images you now have in your MP folder?
Andrew Kennedy
11 years ago
3 years ago
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By Rowan | Permalink | On 26 January 2013 - 12:12 PM
When you say you downloaded the update.....did you follow the instructions of moving the CONTENTS of the update folder into your Megapack folder or did you just move the entire folder into it?

What is the total number of images you now have in your MP folder?



Ah, have i missed something? I just added the new files from the update into the original mega pack. I opted to replace files that were already in there.... where are the instructions?

cheers
Rowan
16 years ago
2 weeks ago
1,970
There is a read me file included in the update. But it sounds like you did everything correctly - ie, moving the contents of the update folder and not the folder itself.

Can you answer my original question - how many images do you now have in your Megapack folder and what size is the config file that is also inside?
Andrew Kennedy
11 years ago
3 years ago
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I have 46,614 pictures inclding update photos, the config file i have is 8.46MB

I did not get a config file in the original mega pack, also i am running this on windows 8 (incase that changes things)

Cheers,
Rowan
16 years ago
2 weeks ago
1,970
Well, sorry to state the obvious, but not all the players are showing because you clearly haven't got them all....

It says on the first page, in the title and lots of other places that there are over 100,000 images....

I suggest you download either 5.0 torrent and apply each update in order or download the most recent Complete Pack HERE - it will take a while as it's over 5gb

Best of luck with it.
Andrew Kennedy
11 years ago
3 years ago
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By Rowan | Permalink | On 26 January 2013 - 13:31 PM
Well, sorry to state the obvious, but not all the players are showing because you clearly haven't got them all....

It says on the first page, in the title and lots of other places that there are over 100,000 images....

I suggest you download either 5.0 torrent and apply each update in order or download the most recent Complete Pack HERE - it will take a while as it's over 5gb

Best of luck with it.

Fair point!! haha!

Torrent may work better, where do i get the torrent from?

cheers,
allforone
12 years ago
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By Andrew Kennedy | Permalink | On 26 January 2013 - 08:37 AM
Fair point!! haha!

Torrent may work better, where do i get the torrent from?

cheers,


http://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/style/1/cut-out-player-faces

Torrent is at the bottom of the page. After that you can download the 5.1 .2 and .3 individually at the top.
brooksy08
15 years ago
10 years ago
15
Hi new to the forum, having a few problems i can install 5.0 fine but then when i install the updates my other pictures are not there. i have deleted all of the facepacks and installed 5.03 full pack but alot of the pictures i want for my mcfc reserves and youth arent there? any suggestions?
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
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Are you sure you've downloaded the whole pack? You should have one full pack with 122,000 images and a config.xml file.
brooksy08
15 years ago
10 years ago
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By mons | Permalink | On 04 February 2013 - 21:38 PM
Are you sure you've downloaded the whole pack? You should have one full pack with 122,000 images and a config.xml file.


Think ive sorted now thanks anyway
Jogo Bonito
11 years ago
1 week ago
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Following on from earlier posts a few pages back, I finally decided to download the new 5.3 megapack from scratch (took about 12 hours - is that about right?) due to only having partial success with 5.2 version.

I am very pleased and surprised to say that it has worked fine this time and it makes the game so much more enjoyable. Now I can pick a team to manage based on actual preference rather than on who has the most player images!

So now, thanks without reservation to the time and effort of the people that created this and made it available to us.

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