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).
ToninhoPapoose
4 years ago
3 years ago
1
Premium
I'm also having issues downloading with the premium link (Firefox on a Mac) I now have 7 partial downloads in my 'downloads' folder, lol.

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
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,284
I'm also having issues downloading with the premium link (Firefox on a Mac) I now have 7 partial downloads in my 'downloads' folder, lol.

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.

Try Chrome and resuming the download
limc
4 years ago
3 months ago
8
Premium
Hi
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
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,284
Hi
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

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
16 years ago
2 months ago
692
Is it possible to use home made cut outs with the cut out mega pack? How would I do that?
weeniehutjr
6 years ago
1 week ago
5,204
Is it possible to use home made cut outs with the cut out mega pack? How would I do that?

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
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,284
Is it possible to use home made cut outs with the cut out mega pack? How would I do that?

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
4 years ago
2 years ago
3
Premium
Hi,
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
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,284
Hi,
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?

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
4 years ago
4 years ago
1
Anyone else having trouble with extraction? After having run for an hour, Winrar had done 1%. That seems excessive. Am I doing something wrong?
mons
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,284
Anyone else having trouble with extraction? After having run for an hour, Winrar had done 1%. That seems excessive. Am I doing something wrong?

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
4 years ago
2 years ago
3
Premium
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?

Think I found the fault.
Had the programme installed in different places / partitions, therefore the faces were not where they needed to be.
Cedinero
13 years ago
6 days ago
48
Premium
Hi,

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
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,284
Hi,

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.

It's a licensing issue, fixed by downloading and applying these files.
Cedinero
13 years ago
6 days ago
48
Premium
It's a licensing issue, fixed by downloading and applying these files.

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
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,284
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.

And that's precisely where the file which removes this particular licensing restriction is located, actually.
Cedinero
13 years ago
6 days ago
48
Premium
And that's precisely where the file which removes this particular licensing restriction is located, actually.

Oh wow. Alright, man. Thanks!
Ost22
4 years ago
1 year ago
2
Hey, can u help me? After installing your pack, I lost the original photos from SI. For example Naby Diallo 89023959 . There is no ID in congif. Why is his photo replaced by default image? Thx
mons
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,284
Hey, can u help me? After installing your pack, I lost the original photos from SI. For example Naby Diallo 89023959 . There is no ID in congif. Why is his photo replaced by default image? Thx

It's not clear what you mean That cut is in the megapack and the UID is in the config

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
16 years ago
2 months ago
692
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


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
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,284
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

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
4 years ago
2 months ago
2
Premium
Hi guys.. I have purchased premium and began the download for the facepack however my download is now sayin failed at £8.8gb out of 12.7gb left?

Tried retry several time just keeps saying it has failed?

Can anyone help please?
mons
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,284
Hi guys.. I have purchased premium and began the download for the facepack however my download is now sayin failed at £8.8gb out of 12.7gb left?

Tried retry several time just keeps saying it has failed?

Can anyone help please?

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
4 years ago
2 months ago
2
Premium
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

Hey.. I have tried chrom same issue can download at 3mb a second for everything else?
mons
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,284
Hey.. I have tried chrom same issue can download at 3mb a second for everything else?

Did that link I provide help at all?
s15ynwa
9 years ago
14 hours ago
48
Hi. I download 11.13 pack but face for Erik Botheim is disappeared. There have never been such problems. For now, only this player does not have his picture, although he previously had it. I would like to have a quick fix for this because I don't know myself about rummaging at the base.
krissmed
9 years ago
41 minutes ago
35,259
Hi. I download 11.13 pack but face for Erik Botheim is disappeared. There have never been such problems. For now, only this player does not have his picture, although he previously had it. I would like to have a quick fix for this because I don't know myself about rummaging at the base.

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
9 years ago
14 hours ago
48
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


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
9 years ago
41 minutes ago
35,259
Just right click on this image and save it to the MP folder.

If that doesn't work, just download the latest update pack (11.13) again.
mons
17 years ago
29 minutes ago
85,284
@s15ynwa, if that doesn't work - how many images do you have in your megapack folder, and do you have any sub-folders?

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