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).
fabri55
11 years ago
3 months ago
5
Hello guys, I can't see Joao Cancelo's face. Do you have the same problem?
https://i.ibb.co/m6knhpj/Screenshot-6.png
mons
17 years ago
7 hours ago
85,281
@fabri55, it's a known issue and will be solved in 12.01

If you've updated your config manually, you need to refresh the skin cache for him to appear in-game
dimipan9
4 years ago
3 years ago
1
Guys I tried to unzip the file with two different unzip programms and the progress is too slow (100kb/s). Do you know why?
mons
17 years ago
7 hours ago
85,281
Guys I tried to unzip the file with two different unzip programms and the progress is too slow (100kb/s). Do you know why?

It's a large file and it does take a while to get going. Extracting all 13GB+ of it and the just under half a million images can take a while, yeah Not sure how fast that is tbh, but if it's going so slow, best to do it overnight perhaps
Hochan
5 years ago
7 months ago
3
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?

Yes. I have followed the instructions from going through 'library' by pressing alt to deleting cache and all those stuffs inside the in-game preferences. The things is when I try to refresh my skin data inside the game, it doesn't seem to load anything because there is no lag. I don't think the game is reading the graphic files and I was suspecting the OS for not giving the permission...
Rowan
16 years ago
1 week ago
1,970
Yes. I have followed the instructions from going through 'library' by pressing alt to deleting cache and all those stuffs inside the in-game preferences. The things is when I try to refresh my skin data inside the game, it doesn't seem to load anything because there is no lag. I don't think the game is reading the graphic files and I was suspecting the OS for not giving the permission...


Nothing to do with OS permissions, hoever;

There's a weird glitch when you have to "Force" a refresh, try choosing a different skin to get it to refresh. ... Or... In Preferences, tick / untick the clear cache option (I can't remember which way round it is set up by default). Then you can shift+R to refresh the skin from anywhere in the game.
mons
17 years ago
7 hours ago
85,281
Yes. I have followed the instructions from going through 'library' by pressing alt to deleting cache and all those stuffs inside the in-game preferences. The things is when I try to refresh my skin data inside the game, it doesn't seem to load anything because there is no lag. I don't think the game is reading the graphic files and I was suspecting the OS for not giving the permission...

In addition to what Rowan said, can I have a look at the inside of the megapack folder? Just want to be sure it's fine in there. And what do you get in-game when you look at a player (e.g. Harry Kane)? Do you see an empty space or the black default face?
Hochan
5 years ago
7 months ago
3
In addition to what Rowan said, can I have a look at the inside of the megapack folder? Just want to be sure it's fine in there. And what do you get in-game when you look at a player (e.g. Harry Kane)? Do you see an empty space or the black default face?

resolved I think I had an error in the extraction process...Checking the folder size, I figured out that it is too small. Extracted again and it works! Thanks for your help guys!!!
fabri55
11 years ago
3 months ago
5
@fabri55, it's a known issue and will be solved in 12.01

If you've updated your config manually, you need to refresh the skin cache for him to appear in-game


I tried to refresh the skin but I haven't solved the problem.

I will wait 12.01 version
mons
17 years ago
7 hours ago
85,281
I tried to refresh the skin but I haven't solved the problem.

I will wait 12.01 version

Can you try changing the skin to see if that works?
fabri55
11 years ago
3 months ago
5
Can you try changing the skin to see if that works?


Great! Now it works!
thank you for the help
Daz10N
9 years ago
3 hours ago
126
Premium
I need a password to extract files in my UnRar, anybody having the same problem?
mons
17 years ago
7 hours ago
85,281
I need a password to extract files in my UnRar, anybody having the same problem?

Shouldn't be the case at all What file is this?
Daz10N
9 years ago
3 hours ago
126
Premium
Shouldn't be the case at all What file is this?


The mega cutout face pack. When I used a password unlocker it wont let me unlock the file as it says there is no password but it is still asking for one. I was able to download the megapack changes file out but can not get the big one.

It says "Can't analyze. it is fully encrypted archive."
mons
17 years ago
7 hours ago
85,281
The mega cutout face pack. When I used a password unlocker it wont let me unlock the file as it says there is no password but it is still asking for one. I was able to download the megapack changes file out but can not get the big one.

It says "Can't analyze. it is fully encrypted archive."

That's bizarre because it's not password-protected. Which program are you using to extract it? Apologies, I wasn't entirely clear when I asked what file you downloaded. Did you download the torrent or the whole 13GB pack?
Daz10N
9 years ago
3 hours ago
126
Premium
That's bizarre because it's not password-protected. Which program are you using to extract it? Apologies, I wasn't entirely clear when I asked what file you downloaded. Did you download the torrent or the whole 13GB pack?


The whole 13GB file. Im using UnRar windows to extract it. The full 13GB pack will not extract but the latest changes file extracted fine but now I am missing the original faces that were in the game. I have deleted and downloaded 5 times, same issue.
mons
17 years ago
7 hours ago
85,281
The whole 13GB file. Im using UnRar windows to extract it. The full 13GB pack will not extract but the latest changes file extracted fine but now I am missing the original faces that were in the game. I have deleted and downloaded 5 times, same issue.

Try using Winrar
tugboat
11 years ago
5 days ago
5
Premium
Hi

I've downloaded the cut out players faces and it's got to 12.1 gb then stopped downloading and saying it's failed , any idears? Ps i'm a premium user
mons
17 years ago
7 hours ago
85,281
Hi

I've downloaded the cut out players faces and it's got to 12.1 gb then stopped downloading and saying it's failed , any idears? Ps i'm a premium user

Tends to happen sometimes, I'm afraid. If you're using Chrome, you should be able to resume the interrupted download
Daz10N
9 years ago
3 hours ago
126
Premium


Thanks for the recommendation, still can't extract the file. Is there any other file I can download as this obviously will not work for me or can I get the file in an email??
mons
17 years ago
7 hours ago
85,281
This is what I keep getting

That's Unrar. Try Winrar. I don't know what to tell you, there is no password protection on the file and I have no idea how it's appearing like that for you

As for sending the pack to you via email, not sure which mail servers will allow a 13GB file to be transferred
Daz10N
9 years ago
3 hours ago
126
Premium
That's Unrar. Try Winrar. I don't know what to tell you, there is no password protection on the file and I have no idea how it's appearing like that for you

As for sending the pack to you via email, not sure which mail servers will allow a 13GB file to be transferred


This is with WinRar, is that the only link I can download from?
mons
17 years ago
7 hours ago
85,281
This is with WinRar, is that the only link I can download from?

How large is the file you've downloaded? That error message usually appears when the file isn't fully downloaded.
pottersmad
14 years ago
13 hours ago
556
Premium
In the latsest update joao cancelo is not in the config file id nimber 55041623...His picture is
Qvordrup
16 years ago
3 hours ago
137,127
In the latsest update joao cancelo is not in the config file id nimber 55041623...His picture is

This is a known issue and will be fixed in next update.
Brasciolo
10 years ago
6 months ago
5
Hello,
I wanted to ask if I can use the FM19 face pack for FM20. My last downloaded package is called "sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_11.00". Do I have to download the whole mega packet again or not?
Mustang13297
8 years ago
4 days ago
22,873
@Brasciolo If the last pack you downloaded is 11.00 and you haven't downloaded any update packs, I would suggest downloading the update packs from version 11.01 and up to have the most up to date megapack https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/download-changes/1
AgincourtTui
6 years ago
4 months ago
2
Hi guys. Apologies if this has been covered. I've downloaded all of the mega facepack files (the ones that are just shy of 1gb) but Winzip doesn't seem to be able to access them. When I right-click on one, and select unzip to, it takes a few minutes of 'thinking' then lets me select a folder (I assume to unzip to) but when i click 'select folder' it just prompts me to choose again. I get the same results when I try opening via Winzip's program interface.

Any ideas?
mons
17 years ago
7 hours ago
85,281
Hi guys. Apologies if this has been covered. I've downloaded all of the mega facepack files (the ones that are just shy of 1gb) but Winzip doesn't seem to be able to access them. When I right-click on one, and select unzip to, it takes a few minutes of 'thinking' then lets me select a folder (I assume to unzip to) but when i click 'select folder' it just prompts me to choose again. I get the same results when I try opening via Winzip's program interface.

Any ideas?

Try using Winrar

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