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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ToninhoPapoose
I'll try via Safari... though with a few people reporting the same issue, it might not be our internet after all?
Mine have been stopping in the first few minutes each time.
mons
Try Chrome and resuming the download
limc
I just got premium and am attempting to download the pack, however my internet is absolutely dreadful and the download fails when attempting to download through a browser. I have attempted to download using a download manager, hoping I would get more success but am only getting a 74kb login file. Are there any settings I am missing I should know about? http://puu.sh/EepRP/26489dcb05.png
Alternatively could someone send me a link to the torrent file?
Cheers
mons
Hiya there. I've moved your post to here. There's a guide in the first post of this thread for where you can get the torrent file from.
If you want to download the full 11.12 megapack instead of the 11.0 torrent file + the 11.01-11.12 update packs separately, try using Chrome, which allows you to resume downloads. If your internet is that bad, though, you'd have to manually resume it time and time again, which isn't that practical tbh. Still worth trying...
Mizta05
weeniehutjr
Yes, you just need to open the config.xml file and add a line of code like this. Replace FILENAME with the name of the image, and UID with the player/staff's UID in the game (you can enable "show UID to assist skinning" in the interface preferences if needed).
<record from="FILENAME" to="graphics/pictures/person/UID/portrait"/>
mons
In addition to what @weeniehutjr said, I would suggest considering having them in a separate folder. Otherwise, you would have to reinsert the added lines into the config every time you download an update pack
Also, if your cuts are of people in the official database, then perhaps you could share them so that we can add them into the megapack for other people to enjoy
Thomas Dreischhoff
Have installed the latest FM19 Facepack, have extracted the faces into a newly created graphics folder, have unticked and ticked the right boxes, but still no faces whatsoever.
Where did I go wrong?
mons
I've moved this to here, otherwise it'd have been missed.
Can I have a screenshot of (a) the location you've placed the downloaded files in and (b) the contents of this folder?
Peter Joenson
mons
That does seem excessive. A tip to get the extraction to run faster is to extract from one drive to another, for example from C: to D: or vice versa.
Thomas Dreischhoff
Think I found the fault.
Had the programme installed in different places / partitions, therefore the faces were not where they needed to be.
Cedinero
I just got a weird bug but I ain't sure if it's on SI or not. So I just thought I'd post about it here to see if maybe I made a mistake.
Been using all the official packs and been updating them since forever. I never had any issues.
Now I have an example to describe my problem. Griezmann's face shows perfectly when I look him up from the search bar when I click anywhere on his name. Thing is if I look for France on the search bar, all faces are default black shadows on the country profile skin. I click on anyone from that page and it's the same default face showing up. Now if I go back to Barcelona for example, and I go back to Griezmann, his face will show. Then I go back to France and his face will actually show on the profile.
It's weird, I know. And it ain't a skin or cache issue as I just tried with the default skin, reset the cache, everything. Now I recently moved my game folder from D to C through the Steam thing. It verified the integrity of files too. Everything seems perfect on my side.
Anyone know anything about it? I know it's weird lol.
mons
It's a licensing issue, fixed by downloading and applying these files.
Cedinero
Are you sure about that? I'm actually using a French file and I just compared the folders with sortitoutsi's, the structure is all the same besides the lnc/all folder which obviously has custom files.
mons
And that's precisely where the file which removes this particular licensing restriction is located, actually.
Cedinero
Oh wow. Alright, man. Thanks!
Ost22
mons
It's not clear what you mean
FYI, the cuts in this pack supersede those included by SI. The reasons for this are explained here. Having checked the SI cut with the one in our megapack, I have to say there's very little difference
Mizta05
So you could have a seperate folder and config file and that would still work? Unfortunately the pictures are of youngsters not yet in the game
mons
Yes, in fact I have different folders for other facepacks so that I get to see faces for players not in our megapack. What's important is that there is no overlap in the config files. So if you have folder #1 with images a, b and c in it, and a config file for a, b and c, and a separate folder #2 with images d, e and f in it, and a config file for d, e and f, then you should see images a, b, c, d, e and f in the game
Elektrikzz
Tried retry several time just keeps saying it has failed?
Can anyone help please?
mons
It may be an issue with your internet connection. As it's such a large file, the chances of a brief interruption happening naturally increase. If you use Google Chrome, it should be possible to resume the download from the point where it was interrupted, rather than downloading it again from scratch.
If that doesn't work, try to look at this: https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000839.htm
Elektrikzz
Hey.. I have tried chrom same issue can download at 3mb a second for everything else?
mons
Did that link I provide help at all?
s15ynwa
krissmed
I moved your post here, since all technical support should be posted here.
When you download a pack it can only overwrite or add new cuts. Its not possible for us to remove any files from your computer. So then either 1) his cut is missing, then you just have to manually download it with the right filename or 2) there's something wrong with the config file, in that case I can send you the correct one on PM
s15ynwa
So I would ask you to send me a private message what to do exactly. Drop by drop is best because, as I say, I am completely unfamiliar with editing and editing the database, uploading individual files.
krissmed
If that doesn't work, just download the latest update pack (11.13) again.
mons