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 475,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.
- 480,827
- 2025.00 - Released on 29 Oct 2024
Installation Instructions
1. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using Steam on Windows?
Watch this YouTube tutorial video, which should you guide you on the steps you need to follow to install it. Although it is for an older version of FM, the steps are still the same. You need to use Winrar (or a similar program) to extract the downloaded file.
This is what the MP folder should look like for the respective version of FM you're using:
Anything beyond the blue line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.
The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.
Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).
Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked
After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.
Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
2. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using a Mac OS?
From FM20 onwards, there's been a substantial change to how Mac FM documents are stored. Previously the files would automatically go in the Documents folder here:
Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x
Now the files will instead appear in the following location:
Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x
By default this folder is hidden, so to access you need to do as follows:
Open Finder
Click ‘Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the ‘Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the ‘Library’, click to enter then go to ‘Application Support’ -> ‘Sports Interactive’ -> ‘Football Manager 202x -> graphics’ (create the last folder if necessary
Anything beyond this path line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.
The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.
Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).
Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked
After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.
Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
3. I don’t want to have the megapack in the default user data folder – can I place it elsewhere and how would I do so?
You need to change your user data location. Simple steps on how to do so can be found here.
The above step does not apply if you’re playing on Gamepass, in which case the user data location has to be the default one (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)
It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.
4. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using Gamepass?
If you're using Gamepass, then you have to use the default user data folder - point 4 above does not and can not apply to you.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you're not a premium member, it is recommended that you download the base megapack via torrent by going to our cut-out megapack download page. After which, you should then download all the update packs released to date and apply them chronologically.
If you're a premium member, just download the most recent complete pack.
If you already have a version of our Cut-Out Faces Megapack installed, then click "Download Latest Changes" and you'll be presented with a list of all the updates we've released since you've last downloaded a file. Simply download any you might have missed, starting with the oldest.
This is what the MP folder should look like:
The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.
Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).
Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked
After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.
Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x
Now the files will instead appear in the following location:
Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x
By default this folder is hidden, so to access you need to do as follows:
Open Finder
Click ‘Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the ‘Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the ‘Library’, click to enter then go to ‘Application Support’ -> ‘Sports Interactive’ -> ‘Football Manager 202x’
Anything beyond the blue line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.
The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.
Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).
Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked
After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.
Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
The above step does not apply if you’re playing on Gamepass, in which case the user data location has to be the default one (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)
It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.
Torrent files need a torrent client to be downloaded. I personally use µTorrent but other common clients are BitTorrent, Vuze and Deluge. For those using torrents for the first time, here is a general walk-through on how to download torrents and a specific guide for µTorrent.
Be aware that it will take a substantial amount of time to download the file due to its sheer size and that other people depend on you hosting the file to get it so please leave your torrent client on after you have fully downloaded it. The etiquette is generally accepted to be to upload as much as you download, although this might not always be possible. The older the torrent file, the less likely it is that there will still be users seeding it.
If done correctly, you should be asked if you want to overwrite files – accept. You should have one folder for faces and another folder for iconfaces, and no sub-folder whatsoever in them.
These steps are to be repeated for every update pack downloaded, and they are to be installed chronologically.
Secondly, for files as large as this, the calculation of the extraction time will be wildly incorrect at the start. After a while, it'll show a more realistic timeframe, which shouldn't be more than an hour or two if you have a good setup and few programs running at the same time.
Try using Google Chrome in incognito mode (or the equivalent mode for other browsers) and you should be able to resume the download from the point it was interrupted, if that happens.
The likelihood is that you've put the iconfaces in the faces folder, or used the wrong config file for each folder. As a result, the smaller images (in 25x18) are being upscaled to be displayed in the person's profile, hence the blurring. Re-install the update pack again, making sure you put the contents of each folder in the right place.
Alternatively, you can download fmXML and generate a config yourself. There's a video on YouTube on how to use it but it's really easy and the instructions are quite straight-forward.
To get them to show, you should individually download the cut-out faces that you want from here (or use the UID to find them in your existing facepack if you don't use the cut-out megapack), put them in a separate folder to your existing facepack and create a config file just for them using the method outlined in here (which works for all facepack styles, not just the cut-out megapack).
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aird
The Barisic one is that one, there isn't a newer one than that. I had originally requested him but he grew hair so I came to request a new one and seen that it had been done
Baily currently has the 11.04 version in the pack:
https://sortitoutsi.net/cutoutfaces/11.04/18083491.png
but this improvement/upgrade has been made and completed but wasn't in the 11.05 update pack or full release. Which I redownloaded incase I was doing something wrong.
https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/images/MovwzFcRj2pqdcGNVndWTj91bcTTkkPl.png
mons
The second Bailey cut you posted was from August 2018. Incidentally, another request for him was posted a few days earlier, and that is the cut which got included in the 10.11 update pack. The cut you posted is not as crisp as the other one, in my opinion. There isn't much between them, to be fair, it was just my personal preference.
The current megapack cut is more recent and was from HRiddick's Leverkusen pack from the end of December 2018.
aird
No worries. I didn't realise you individually checked them for the pack until now. Atleast I'm not doing anything wrong
mons
There has to be a quality control system, you know
That said, it's been known to happen that I make a mistake or that I manage to miss out on a valid cut for whatever reason. If/when you think that happens, do let me know and I'm always happy to have another look
Jamieboy8
Does anyone have a fix for this?
Thanks
Qvordrup
Try downloading it again from here: https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/style/1/cut-out-player-faces and follow the instrucktions in the clip.
the download is a zip file and I would recommend using winrar to unzip it. get it here : https://www.win-rar.com/start.html?&L=0
I would also recommend using google chrome as you can resume your download if it is interrupted.
Jamieboy8
When I start the download it starts at the bottom of the screen however its icon is just a blank white page instead of the normal folder icon, which is the same as it was last time and it didnt work
Qvordrup
well install winrar and restart your computer.... that should solve your problem
Jamieboy8
Ill give it ago! Thanks!
Yo Sho
I have a megapack installed for my FM17 save with no issues. I've changed some pictures from the megapack and those also are accurately displayed in-game. However, I have tried adding faces for some players who did not have a picture in the megapack (i.e. still have a blank face), and I've run into an issue. The small pictures for these players are appearing, but the normal sized pictures are not - there is still a blank face on the player's profile. I have updated and checked the config files, and I believe that they are set to the correct UIDs because the small pictures are working. All of the normal pictures are set to a 180 x 180 size. I've tried reloading the skin after clearing the cache, unticking the "use caching to decrease page loading times", moving the graphics folder to the desktop and clearing cache/reloading skin and then moving it back - no luck so far.
Any ideas on what the issue might be? I also tried adding a player face for some regens just to experiment, and that doesn't work for me either. I've double and triple checked the config file because it would seem that this would be the problem, but everything matches, and again the small versions of the faces are working fine. I've included some pictures for reference.
Thanks much in advance!
Qvordrup
this is how the config line for "normal" size faces should look (180x180 or 250x250) :
<record from="1000042" to="graphics/pictures/person/1000042/portrait"/>
this how the config line for "small" size faces should look (25x18):
<record from="1000042" to="graphics/pictures/person/1000042/icon"/>
you could just remember to add both lines to the config if you only have one folder, but you should have 2 folders one for normal and one for small faces and a config in each folder.
I use this program for configs.... makes it a hole lot easier
https://sortitoutsi.net/downloads/view/848/fm-graphics-configurator-for-pc
I would also like to recommend this facepack: https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/forum/1/40/cut-out-player-faces
Yo Sho
FunkyGibbon70
I have just downloaded the TCM Logos megapack & Cut Out Player Faces megapack, please could you tell me how to get them from the Downloads folder on my laptop into the game?
I'm new to this, is there a step by step instruction? Do you have to drag them into Program Files or anything?
Thanks
mons
Use Winrar to open the files you've downloaded and extract them. Once you've done so, the faces megapack contains an installation instructions file explaining in more detail where you need to place the extracted files
FunkyGibbon70
Thanks. I did this, opened with WinRAR and then saved in documents/football manager 2019, but for some reason it still doesn't load a new game with the logos. I changed the Interface settings in Preferences too.
Also, when loading and in Preferences, it says I have version 9.3.3, but on starting a new game it says 9.3.0! Any more advice please? Is there a specific part of ocuments/FM2019 I need to save the files in, e.g. Graphics?
mons
The game version is different to the database version; you're fine by what you're saying.
As for the installation folder, it must be Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 2019 / graphics. How you arrange things inside there is up to you, but inside there they have to be.
Can I have a screenshot of the folder you're placing the downloaded graphics in? That may help me spot what's wrong. An image taken from your mobile phone will do, as long as it's large and clear enough
FunkyGibbon70
Thanks, I'm sure I'm not far off - must just be missing something. I don't seem to have a 'graphics' folder in the FM/2019/documents, maybe that's what's gone wrong? Not sure why as it's a new, legit CD of the game. Screenshot attached:
mons
Just create it and put the sortitoutsi folder inside. Can I have a screenshot of inside the sortitoutsi folder too?
FunkyGibbon70
I've attached the screenshot of the sortitoutsi folder I downloaded.
mons
Rename the Graphics folder to graphics (all small letters).
Apart from that, all looks good. How many images are there in the faces folder?
Finally, have you loaded the game yet? What does the profile of a player who should have a cut-out look like in-game?
FunkyGibbon70
There are 17,114 faces, apparently!
Yes, I just loaded a new Career, but still no joy with faces or logos unfortunately …
mons
You haven't downloaded the full megapack, which should have over 122,000 images. Remove the existing sortitoutsi folder and inserted the new one once fully downloaded.
LeumasBall
Any help would be much appreciated. thanks.
mons
Can you take a screenshot of the page and button which you're clicking to download? It's working fine at my end...
FunkyGibbon70
Do you know what this means and if this is why I can't get the facepacks into my game? It happens every time I try to download the sortitoutsi faces megapack.
I then get another error message saying ;This file is corrupt', and only about 8,400 of the large faces have downloaded. I thought it would all work smoothly if I paid for Premium.
Any fixes please?
mons
Quite simply you have not downloaded the full file, which should be over 11.5GB in size and contain over 220,000 images. If you don't have the whole pack, then it stands to reason that you don't see all the images. In fact, when you try to extract it, that error message indicates that the file was not fully downloaded.
I can't tell why this happened in your case. Maybe your internet connection cut out or there may have been an issue with our servers. If you download the file using Google Chrome, you should be able to resume the download from the point when it stopped, if this is the case.
LeumasBall
mons
What if you click this link?
FunkyGibbon70
That's fixed it, thank you for your help!
mons
Good to hear that. Enjoy
Keep your eyes peeled for update packs, which are periodically released on our forum. One is planned later today, in fact. These update packs add new images and improve existing ones, thus increasing and improving the quantity and quality of cuts in your game