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).
glenn28
15 years ago
1 year ago
57
Hi Mons,

Joao Cancelo Man City, ID 55041623, Is in your pack and config but image is missing in game (FM 2020) any ideas of the issue?
Many thanks
Glenn
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,497
Hi Mons,

Joao Cancelo Man City, ID 55041623, Is in your pack and config but image is missing in game (FM 2020) any ideas of the issue?
Many thanks
Glenn

Read this.
sixteen_weasels
11 years ago
3 months ago
27
Is it possible to use the original faces that come with the game in addition to use - for example - only player faces for Premier League squads? When I added the faces to my graphics folder and cleared cache etc all the player faces in my League Two squad are now gone, however I do have the Premier League ones. Is it possible to have both?
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,497
Is it possible to use the original faces that come with the game in addition to use - for example - only player faces for Premier League squads? When I added the faces to my graphics folder and cleared cache etc all the player faces in my League Two squad are now gone, however I do have the Premier League ones. Is it possible to have both?

Please read this post as to why it is not as easy to do it as you may think.

You can run multiple facepacks concurrently by having them in separate folders, but you need to make sure that the same image is in one folder only and no more (i.e. in your case, you need to have all the Premier League cuts in one folder with a config just for them, and any others in a separate folder.)
JoeMoon1506
5 years ago
1 week ago
1,436
Premium
Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere but is there any way to use the remove.bg tool without a paid account? I've used all of my alternative emails to claim the " 1 free cut "
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,497
Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere but is there any way to use the remove.bg tool without a paid account? I've used all of my alternative emails to claim the " 1 free cut "

I've done dozens at a time, and only rarely got interrupted by a Captcha prompt. You can't request them in a bunch, though. Have you tried uploading them individually?
JoeMoon1506
5 years ago
1 week ago
1,436
Premium
I've done dozens at a time, and only rarely got interrupted by a Captcha prompt. You can't request them in a bunch, though. Have you tried uploading them individually?


I'll give it a go - cheers
canadagoose
5 years ago
1 month ago
5
Hi, just a general question about how I arrange my face, Logo and Kit folders within the graphics folder. I downloaded and extracted the face pack for FM20 using this path on my NON- default drive D:\ ( I also changed the path in steam to point to this location):

...graphics\faces\sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_12.00\sortitoutsi\faces folder & icon faces folder
and
...graphics\faces\sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_12.00_changes\sortitoutsi\faces folder & icon faces folder

My question is, will this work? I am not sure if I need the sub-folders that were extracted to ...graphics\faces...OR do I have to manually copy the face folder and icon folder files into a separate faces folder which would overwrite the xml file in both? I hope I explained this right.

Regards,
Tom

mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,497
Hi, just a general question about how I arrange my face, Logo and Kit folders within the graphics folder. I downloaded and extracted the face pack for FM20 using this path on my NON- default drive D:\ ( I also changed the path in steam to point to this location):

...graphics\faces\sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_12.00\sortitoutsi\faces folder & icon faces folder
and
...graphics\faces\sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_12.00_changes\sortitoutsi\faces folder & icon faces folder

My question is, will this work? I am not sure if I need the sub-folders that were extracted to ...graphics\faces...OR do I have to manually copy the face folder and icon folder files into a separate faces folder which would overwrite the xml file in both? I hope I explained this right.

Regards,
Tom

Since this seems to be related to this megapack, I've moved this to here

First of all, if you've got the whole 12.0 megapack, you do not need to have the 12.0 changes pack. The latter is there for people who kept up-to-date with previous packs and just need to download the interim pack

Secondly, when you download update packs, you shouldn't have them in a separate folder, but they should go in the main megapack folder, accepting the overwrite prompt when doing so. You should have one folder, and one folder only, with everything in it.

Thirdly, as long as it's within <your user data folder> \ graphics, then the game will read it and it should be seen in-game. I have everything in separate folders according to graphics category (i.e. separate folders for kits, logos and faces), but that's just to keep things organised. Also make sure that the preferences are as displayed in the opening post of this thread.

Hope this helps
canadagoose
5 years ago
1 month ago
5
Thanks that really does help a lot. But no joy at this point. I followed the Preferences in the Opening Post very slowly and I have the face and logo folders located in the graphics folder. The CONFIRM button is grayed out when I go into Interface, so I change the skin option and it becomes active. I pressed CONFIRM and exited the game ( I think think this is the Beta procedure for confirming). I went back in and noticed all the EPL teams still have the default logos (The logos do show up in other Leagues though, not sure about trophies). The faces are not appearing when I click on any particular player. I must be missing something here.

Regards
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,497
Thanks that really does help a lot. But no joy at this point. I followed the Preferences in the Opening Post very slowly and I have the face and logo folders located in the graphics folder. The CONFIRM button is grayed out when I go into Interface, so I change the skin option and it becomes active. I pressed CONFIRM and exited the game ( I think think this is the Beta procedure for confirming). I went back in and noticed all the EPL teams still have the default logos (The logos do show up in other Leagues though, not sure about trophies). The faces are not appearing when I click on any particular player. I must be missing something here.

Regards

Hmm, I still reckon there's something wrong with how and where you've installed the graphics. Can I see screenshots of what you've downloaded and where you've placed them?

Also, can I see a screenshot of the steam bit changing the user data location to be sure you've changed it right?
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,497
Thanks for your patience with this! Here are the screenies.

Everything appears to be installed in the right place, but the below needs to be fixed:

https://sortitoutsi.net/comments/attachment/14850/CORSAIRONE-2019-nov-7-004.jpg

Follow the steps in this thread to see the correct stuff to paste in that box
canadagoose
5 years ago
1 month ago
5
OK, I rechecked the data location and noticed I was missing " --user_data_location" on the front of the location and I changed it. To my delight I went in and re-did the Preference procedure and everything now shows up, faces, logos and kits. Just one thing, I have the real name fix installed but notice that Juventus is still named Zebra. Not sure how to fix that.

Again, thanks for your outstanding help!

Regards,
TS
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,497
OK, I rechecked the data location and noticed I was missing " --user_data_location" on the front of the location and I changed it. To my delight I went in and re-did the Preference procedure and everything now shows up, faces, logos and kits. Just one thing, I have the real name fix installed but notice that Juventus is still named Zebra. Not sure how to fix that.

Again, thanks for your outstanding help!

Regards,
TS

Thought that might do the trick

For the Juventus/Zebra fix, the files need to be in place BEFORE starting a new game. Is this the case in your game? If you started a new game with the fix in place and it didn't work, you probably haven't installed it 100% right. Make sure the path for the editor data files in <your user data folder > \ editor data and everything is directly in there, i.e. no sub-folders
FMdata
5 years ago
2 months ago
2
How do you apply 'Latest Changes'?
plz help me
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,497
How do you apply 'Latest Changes'?
plz help me

You place the downloaded files into your megapack folder. If you do it right, you should be asked if you want to overwrite - say yes. You should have one folder, and one folder only, for the faces, and another one for the icons; no sub-folders.
Johnny_05
10 years ago
3 years ago
21
It is possible to have cut out big size in the game?

Best regards
JDubsNZ
15 years ago
2 months ago
25
Premium
Hi there, have usually played on FMTouch on the ipad but am now playing FM20 on the PC. Have downloaded the megapack from scratch, created a graphics folder and have followed the instructions but nothing is changing - I don't seem to get the message 'loading image data for the new skin'. Anything obvious I am doing wrong?
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,497
It is possible to have cut out big size in the game?

Best regards

Do you mean for the cut-outs to be larger in your skin? You need to either download a skin which supports such a larger display of the face, or to change the panel for the player faces yourself.




Hi there, have usually played on FMTouch on the ipad but am now playing FM20 on the PC. Have downloaded the megapack from scratch, created a graphics folder and have followed the instructions but nothing is changing - I don't seem to get the message 'loading image data for the new skin'. Anything obvious I am doing wrong?

There is a screenshot in the first post of how the preferences should look like in-game. If that doesn't work, can I have screenshots of the location you've placed the megapack in please?
JDubsNZ
15 years ago
2 months ago
25
Premium
There is a screenshot in the first post of how the preferences should look like in-game. If that doesn't work, can I have screenshots of the location you've placed the megapack in please?


figured it out - i had to change the skin to FM Touch for the changes to take place. Thank you for the reply though!
Johnny_05
10 years ago
3 years ago
21
Do you mean for the cut-outs to be larger in your skin? You need to either download a skin which supports such a larger display of the face, or to change the panel for the player faces yourself.

Yes, in previous FM was possible for the cut-outs to be larger, and sometimes just need to put a file in the game.

I like the default dark skin, but cut-out in that skin are too small.

Thanks in advance
Kruskay
7 years ago
1 week ago
52
Hello,

I have downloaded the megapack but I don't have the config file. I would redownload the megapack if I could but that'd take a day if not two. Could someone upload it somewhere for me please?
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,497
Hello,

I have downloaded the megapack but I don't have the config file. I would redownload the megapack if I could but that'd take a day if not two. Could someone upload it somewhere for me please?

I don't have the version for 12.0 right now, I'm afraid. You can either generate one yourself with fmXML or download the latest update pack and use just the config from there
kilombos
13 years ago
3 days ago
144
hi, I need help
I have the full facepack (235296 faces) but in the game there are many players who do not show me their picture, but IF this in the folder player (correct config)
Someone knows why it can be? or I put it all down again from scratch?
More thanks
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,497
hi, I need help
I have the full facepack (235296 faces) but in the game there are many players who do not show me their picture, but IF this in the folder player (correct config)
Someone knows why it can be? or I put it all down again from scratch?
More thanks

It'd help if you were a bit more specific. Can you mention 2 or 3 players who are in your megapack folder but don't appear in the game?

Can I also have a screenshot of the contents of your megapack folder?
kilombos
13 years ago
3 days ago
144
It'd help if you were a bit more specific. Can you mention 2 or 3 players who are in your megapack folder but don't appear in the game?

Can I also have a screenshot of the contents of your megapack folder?


Ronald Araujo 78085068
Hiroki Abe 45106153
but they are much more

IMAGES:
https://ibb.co/fXT9rcf
https://ibb.co/pw7tHrH
https://ibb.co/cr1pccM
https://ibb.co/FJcV4fR
https://ibb.co/6wJ7yTr
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,497

The fact you're getting an empty space where the face should indicates that you have another config file with those UIDs somewhere within your user data folder. This config is in a folder which doesn't contain those UIDs. Maybe it's a folder of an old update pack, or it's one you created yourself. Find it, remove it, reload your skin cache and they'll appear in your game
Hochan
5 years ago
7 months ago
3
Has anyone using mac os Catalina succeeded in adding and applying graphics?? please let me know how,,, I know the directory has changed and I tried everything and it does not seem to work for me.
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
85,497
Has anyone using mac os Catalina succeeded in adding and applying graphics?? please let me know how,,, I know the directory has changed and I tried everything and it does not seem to work for me.

The change in folder location is the only difference. Did you change the preferences in-game? If yes, can you upload a screenshot of the graphics folder?

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