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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  • 2024.07 - Released on 15 Apr 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).
bennyj22
5 years ago
1 year ago
16
As a premium member, you should be able to download the full 11.14 megapack at 12.96GB, which'll mean you'll be up-to-date. You can then download and apply each subsequent update pack when they are released periodically over the coming months.

That said, I'd wait for 12.0 to be released, which should be really soon now


Oh, I had to torrent the file as it was so big, so could only download the 11.0.

So does that mean I need to download 11.1, 11.2, 11.3 etc? I don't mind, just checking in case only downladoing the last one will do.
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,000
Oh, I had to torrent the file as it was so big, so could only download the 11.0.

So does that mean I need to download 11.1, 11.2, 11.3 etc? I don't mind, just checking in case only downladoing the last one will do.

If you're downloading the 11.0 base pack, then yes you'll need to download 11.01 - 11.14.

If you're willing to wait a couple of days, we are hoping to have the 12.0 torrent file available by then, so would just need to download the one file instead of multiple ones
bennyj22
5 years ago
1 year ago
16
If you're downloading the 11.0 base pack, then yes you'll need to download 11.01 - 11.14.

If you're willing to wait a couple of days, we are hoping to have the 12.0 torrent file available by then, so would just need to download the one file instead of multiple ones


Ohhh. Okay. Thanks!
montrosefc
17 years ago
3 months ago
195
LOL I wish I noticed your username last night . Guess what team I've just been putting together a request for?

Can I ask where did you get the new first team squad pics from? I couldn't find them anywhere. Also a few of the pics seem to have been increased in size a lot, any reason for that?


I'm club website designer and have access to the original full size photos. I'm also stand in photographer and sometime do the photos myself e.g. player photos in the new third kit.
montrosefc
17 years ago
3 months ago
195
If I remember right from a similar request last year, and awaiting his answer/confirmation, the guy is the Montrose FM researcher and/or webmaster, which explains how he got his hands on them


Yep, website designer/stand-in club photographer/FM researcher/FM Beta Tester. Guess I'm what you can call an obsessive Montrose fan!
Qvordrup
16 years ago
1 hour ago
137,205
I don't understand why don't use png optimization, my pack lose at least 20%, with some skin and "mega pack" even 40/50%

https://psydk.org/pngoptimizer

not like the placebo effect but the game seems more reactive, secure space gains and bandwich.....

I've run my entire cut out facepack and my entire metallic logo pack and all my SS' 09-20 kits through the program and agree with the fact that my game has become much more responsive and perhaps a slight quality lift in the graphics it self as well . I will use this on any future updates of the metallic logo pack. Thanks
Qvordrup
16 years ago
1 hour ago
137,205
My version of the pack has 54 faces with UID from 1394630980 to 1394691683. Don't know if they are all in your version of the pack @mons , but they can all be deleted as they are UID for players added to the game with the editor.
So I will delete them from my pack, and just wanted to let you know so they can be deleted from the config (they are easy to find.. they are last if you sort by name)
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,000
My version of the pack has 54 faces with UID from 1394630980 to 1394691683. Don't know if they are all in your version of the pack @mons , but they can all be deleted as they are UID for players added to the game with the editor.
So I will delete them from my pack, and just wanted to let you know so they can be deleted from the config (they are easy to find.. they are last if you sort by name)

Be careful - there are at least 3 players in the megapack with UIDs in that range which are actually in the game's database. I don't know how that happened, but I remember adding a Brazilian staff member into an update pack some months back and checking the UID in the editor before deleting him, only to find him there. I also remember at least two more, in previous versions of the game, to which the same circumstance applied. I also remember deleting a number of images from my megapack from within that range, which means they aren't included in the config. Naturally, if somebody downloaded them, I can't exactly delete them from their MP folder But, since they're not in the config anyway, the game simply won't read them
sam17111989
14 years ago
2 weeks ago
16
Premium
How do you add the megapack on FM20? I'm struggling to do it this year. Can't find reload skin. So it doesn't load.

Thanks
Alex lyons
10 years ago
1 week ago
1
Premium
How do you add the megapack on FM20? I'm struggling to do it this year. Can't find reload skin. So it doesn't load.

Thanks


Having the same issue aswell
MOD45
10 years ago
2 days ago
1
Premium
zachalxnder
6 years ago
11 hours ago
49
I’ve never had issues with this until recently, but I’ve started to receive a message that I don’t have the right to access the file once I begin to unzip it. I only get this with the FacePack and once with the Metallic logo pack. Any ideas?
devilgaz
12 years ago
3 weeks ago
20
Hi all,
I tried to add facepack for fm20 but it doesn't work I followed the instructions (as usual)but I don't find the clear cache button. Anyone have the solution?
Thx
VP.
13 years ago
4 weeks ago
25,271
Hi all,
I tried to add facepack for fm20 but it doesn't work I followed the instructions (as usual)but I don't find the clear cache button. Anyone have the solution?
Thx

Certain there is a clear cache button in preferences you just to scroll, can't look at moment but certain I used it last night!

Everything in preferences is much harder to find now...
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,000
How do you add the megapack on FM20? I'm struggling to do it this year. Can't find reload skin. So it doesn't load.

Thanks


Having the same issue aswell



This is a screenshot for how to get to the reload skin part:

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/rGXaZCKTDb4ARrv7KHZPVcbCMyn29lEAXTviyHsT.png

If the issue is elsewhere, this year, there's been a substantial change to how Mac FM documents are stored. Previously the files would automatically be generated in the Documents folder here:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Documents/Sports Interactive

Now the files will instead appear in the following location:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive

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 2020’

Hope this helps




I’ve never had issues with this until recently, but I’ve started to receive a message that I don’t have the right to access the file once I begin to unzip it. I only get this with the FacePack and once with the Metallic logo pack. Any ideas?

There have been no changes in the way the download itself is structured, so this is something to do either with your PC/laptop's configuration or to how you are attempting to extract the files.

What program are you using to extract the files? And where are you attempting to extract the files to? Can I have a screenshot of the error message?
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,000
Hi all,
I tried to add facepack for fm20 but it doesn't work I followed the instructions (as usual)but I don't find the clear cache button. Anyone have the solution?
Thx

I've moved your thread to the dedicated cutout megapack help thread.

The preferences should look like this:
https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/rGXaZCKTDb4ARrv7KHZPVcbCMyn29lEAXTviyHsT.png
KrsteMalovski
12 years ago
10 hours ago
36
can't seem to manage the small icons facepack to work...idk what is the problem
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,000
can't seem to manage the small icons facepack to work...idk what is the problem

To be honest, I'm not even sure where the icons are displayed these days
KrsteMalovski
12 years ago
10 hours ago
36
To be honest, I'm not even sure where the icons are displayed these days


They are with the megapack,and their folder is called iconfaces
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,000
They are with the megapack,and their folder is called iconfaces

I know I meant in-game
KrsteMalovski
12 years ago
10 hours ago
36
I know I meant in-game


right click on player's name and u will see small face icon on the top of the box u clicked,it shows generic to me
MattoX88
11 years ago
1 month ago
3
the face of joao cancelo disappeared from the database 12.0

mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,000
right click on player's name and u will see small face icon on the top of the box u clicked,it shows generic to me

It's working fine for me, I'm afraid

Can you give me a screenshot of your icons folder?



the face of joao cancelo disappeared from the database 12.0

No idea how that happened He's not in the config rather than not in the megapack It'll be rectified in 12.01
MattoX88
11 years ago
1 month ago
3
in the pack the image does not exist, in the config file I don't know.
Thanks for the reply

mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,000
in the pack the image does not exist, in the config file I don't know.
Thanks for the reply

He's certainly not in the config, but he is in the megapack
Jilech
13 years ago
2 weeks ago
16
Premium
I can't download anything. When trying to I just get to download html-file.
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,000
I can't download anything. When trying to I just get to download html-file.

What are you trying to download and can you give me a screenshot of what happens when you do?

It's working perfectly fine at my end
Jilech
13 years ago
2 weeks ago
16
Premium
No matter what I try to download, I get this

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/TFGYvNgtqsdVQ6SF99FsamscdKwVDk1SfvL1c4L0.png
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,000
No matter what I try to download, I get this

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/TFGYvNgtqsdVQ6SF99FsamscdKwVDk1SfvL1c4L0.png

Even if you click download full file from here?

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/JnbMQTeGvqS77S8KfZ4ys9XsxTX7adBsfXouuUTH.png

Edit: The filename isn't that (it should be "sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_12.00.rar" ) so you're clearly trying to download something else
Jilech
13 years ago
2 weeks ago
16
Premium
Yes, no matter what download link I click on, it just gives me the html instead of a zip/rar file.

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