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).
mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,500
Yes, no matter what download link I click on, it just gives me the html instead of a zip/rar file.

Can you try using a different internet browser perhaps? I'm baffled. Can you take a screenshot of exactly which link it is you're clicking?

This is what I'm getting when I try to download it:

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/q6y1q5KdVfSyQi6iByU32CzSa5yopNIRdOsouGkl.png
Jilech
13 years ago
5 days ago
16
Premium
Can you try using a different internet browser perhaps? I'm baffled. Can you take a screenshot of exactly which link it is you're clicking?

This is what I'm getting when I try to download it:

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/q6y1q5KdVfSyQi6iByU32CzSa5yopNIRdOsouGkl.png

Oh well, it was a Chrome extension that made the error. I disabled all Chrome extensions and now it works. Sorry

Thanks for trying to help

mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,500
Oh well, it was a Chrome extension that made the error. I disabled all Chrome extensions and now it works. Sorry

Had me worried for a while there! All's well that ends well
sam17111989
14 years ago
1 week ago
16
Premium
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



I've done that but nothing still happens.
mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,500
I've done that but nothing still happens.

Can I please have screenshots showing (a) the content of your megapack folder and (b) its exact location/path? Bit hard to assess what's wrong otherwise...
sam17111989
14 years ago
1 week ago
16
Premium
Can I please have screenshots showing (a) the content of your megapack folder and (b) its exact location/path? Bit hard to assess what's wrong otherwise...


sam17111989
14 years ago
1 week ago
16
Premium


Think It's attached. Like I Said, no issues on any other FM.
Andi
12 years ago
2 weeks ago
11
I had the same issue (confirm not reloading the skin and applying graphics) and just fixed it by selecting those options and then changing my skin from default to dark which forced the skin to reload.
mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,500
Think It's attached. Like I Said, no issues on any other FM.

As @Andi said, try changing the skin to force the cache to reload. Also, you don't seem to have the whole file complement in the megapack folder - do you have a file titled config.xml in there?
sam17111989
14 years ago
1 week ago
16
Premium
I had the same issue (confirm not reloading the skin and applying graphics) and just fixed it by selecting those options and then changing my skin from default to dark which forced the skin to reload.


That's helped me. Thanks
zachalxnder
6 years ago
2 weeks ago
48
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?

I’ve attempted multiple programs and attempted to extract them in multiple locations. This is the only file that I’m having trouble with. I’m away, so can’t get a screen shot, but I was continuously being asked to “Check access rights.”
mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,500
I’ve attempted multiple programs and attempted to extract them in multiple locations. This is the only file that I’m having trouble with. I’m away, so can’t get a screen shot, but I was continuously being asked to “Check access rights.”

I'm afraid that's not specific enough to understand what the issue is. Perhaps when you're at your PC you can take a screenshot?
zachalxnder
6 years ago
2 weeks ago
48
EDIT: disregard
zachalxnder
6 years ago
2 weeks ago
48
I'm afraid that's not specific enough to understand what the issue is. Perhaps when you're at your PC you can take a screenshot?

In transit, so here’s an upload:

https://ibb.co/jZmGpj5
zachalxnder
6 years ago
2 weeks ago
48
I believe I’ve figured it out. As long as I don’t attempt to extract the .url, I’m fine. Haven’t had that problem before, but that’s no issue. Thanks again!
KrsteMalovski
12 years ago
3 weeks ago
36
It's working fine for me, I'm afraid

Can you give me a screenshot of your icons folder?


https://i.gyazo.com/03b1cbaae4a2287458646a216861e326.png

here is the pic of the iconpack folder
mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,500
https://i.gyazo.com/03b1cbaae4a2287458646a216861e326.png

here is the pic of the iconpack folder

That looks fine. Have you tried changing the skin to force the cache to reload and maybe display the icon faces?
mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,500
I believe I’ve figured it out. As long as I don’t attempt to extract the .url, I’m fine. Haven’t had that problem before, but that’s no issue. Thanks again!

That's strange, but I'm happy the problem seems to have resolved itself
LostInBKK
13 years ago
4 months ago
14
Hi Guys,
Got the packs downloaded and extracted in the FM2020 graphics folders but none are loading. I also have the cache turned off and the reload skin selected. What else can I do please as none of the face or logos are loading?

Cheers
Lost
KrsteMalovski
12 years ago
3 weeks ago
36
That looks fine. Have you tried changing the skin to force the cache to reload and maybe display the icon faces?


Thanks,man,for replying,anyway i downloaded the whole zipped 12.0 pack via torrent and i recopied it in the same place,before i deleted the old ones,and it worked like a charm
mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,500
Hi Guys,
Got the packs downloaded and extracted in the FM2020 graphics folders but none are loading. I also have the cache turned off and the reload skin selected. What else can I do please as none of the face or logos are loading?

Cheers
Lost

Hiya there. Are you using a Mac? The installation folder for graphics on Macs has changed this year, there's instruction in the first post on where they now need to go

If this is not the case, can you post a screenshot of the path the graphics are in please?
mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,500
Thanks,man,for replying,anyway i downloaded the whole zipped 12.0 pack via torrent and i recopied it in the same place,before i deleted the old ones,and it worked like a charm

Glad to see it's all working fine
LostInBKK
13 years ago
4 months ago
14
Hiya there. Are you using a Mac? The installation folder for graphics on Macs has changed this year, there's instruction in the first post on where they now need to go

If this is not the case, can you post a screenshot of the path the graphics are in please?


I am on Windows 10

D:\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2020\graphics
mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,500
I am on Windows 10

D:\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2020\graphics

The default folder is usually generated on the C drive. Is the C drive the one on which Windows is installed?
LostInBKK
13 years ago
4 months ago
14
The default folder is usually generated on the C drive. Is the C drive the one on which Windows is installed?


Yes but C is my SSD

I have a large Data Drive D: and that worked in FM18 and FM19
mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,500
Yes but C is my SSD

I have a large Data Drive D: and that worked in FM18 and FM19

To change your user data folder, you need to tell Steam where to look for it. Follow the steps here to do so (substituting FM19 with FM20 where applicable, naturally )
LostInBKK
13 years ago
4 months ago
14
To change your user data folder, you need to tell Steam where to look for it. Follow the steps here to do so (substituting FM19 with FM20 where applicable, naturally )


Yeap did that

--user_data_location="D:\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2020"


LostInBKK
13 years ago
4 months ago
14
Thanks Mons

D:\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2020

is the correct location but I had Steam looking at

D:\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2020

So, of course, it was not working.

Thanks
Lost
mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,500
Thanks Mons

D:\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2020

is the correct location but I had Steam looking at

D:\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2020

So, of course, it was not working.

Thanks
Lost

Good to see you've managed to sort it out - enjoy FM20
devilgaz
12 years ago
5 days ago
20
thanks a lot guys

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