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).
kevin innes
4 years ago
2 months ago
5
Premium
when I download the folder for the cutouts im only getting a small amount of cut-outs any assistance
West Walton
16 years ago
6 days ago
47
When I use the Cut Out Player faces - all in game faces disappear. The new faces are still there though.
What could this problem be?

All help is appreciated.

Best regards.
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,494
When I use the Cut Out Player faces - all in game faces disappear. The new faces are still there though.
What could this problem be?

All help is appreciated.

Best regards.

What do you mean by "all in game faces"? Can you give me an example?
West Walton
16 years ago
6 days ago
47
What do you mean by "all in game faces"? Can you give me an example?


The default faces - that already are in the game. As soon as i put the cut out player faces folder in graphics, all of the default faces disappeared.
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,494
The default faces - that already are in the game. As soon as i put the cut out player faces folder in graphics, all of the default faces disappeared.

Read this for an explanation as to why this is happening and why it is intentional
weeniehutjr
6 years ago
6 days ago
5,204
The default faces - that already are in the game. As soon as i put the cut out player faces folder in graphics, all of the default faces disappeared.

I don't know the cause of your issue but a solution is to use the FM20 Resource Archiver (you can find it in your Steam Library under "Tools" in the Games dropdown) to extract the default faces from the game, and save them on your computer. They're all sorted by nation and team, with each team having their own config file, so if you just put the SI faces in a new folder in your existing megapack folder then all should be okay.
West Walton
16 years ago
6 days ago
47
I don't know the cause of your issue but a solution is to use the FM20 Resource Archiver (you can find it in your Steam Library under "Tools" in the Games dropdown) to extract the default faces from the game, and save them on your computer. They're all sorted by nation and team, with each team having their own config file, so if you just put the SI faces in a new folder in your existing megapack folder then all should be okay.


Thanks. What's the name of the file I should extract?
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,494
Thanks. What's the name of the file I should extract?

Graphics/players/normal, I believe.
West Walton
16 years ago
6 days ago
47
Graphics/players/normal, I believe.


I meant the file in FM20 Resource Archiver. For example sitoolkit.fmf?

Edit: found the file now. Thanks.
West Walton
16 years ago
6 days ago
47
I don't know the cause of your issue but a solution is to use the FM20 Resource Archiver (you can find it in your Steam Library under "Tools" in the Games dropdown) to extract the default faces from the game, and save them on your computer. They're all sorted by nation and team, with each team having their own config file, so if you just put the SI faces in a new folder in your existing megapack folder then all should be okay.


I put the extracted files in the megapack folder, but it didn't work. All default faces are blank. So I'm afraid it doesn't work.
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,494
I put the extracted files in the megapack folder, but it didn't work. All default faces are blank. So I'm afraid it doesn't work.

The only way to be sure they'd work is to rename the files you've extracted to UIDs instead of player names, then place them into the megapack folder, overwriting when prompted. When you see the work that takes, you'll see why we don't do it ourselves
lawan4
8 years ago
1 day ago
4
hi!Geat job!i must to download all the files (4.00 until 12.00) or i can just download 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 versions? And can i after download these, to download and replace some pictures from other megapack?
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,494
hi!Geat job!i must to download all the files (4.00 until 12.00) or i can just download 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 versions? And can i after download these, to download and replace some pictures from other megapack?

If you download the 12.0 torrent plus the 12.01 update pack, you'll be fine.

If you want to use this pack in conjunction with other files, I suggest keeping the different styles in separate folders. As long as you ensure that there are no overlaps between folders and that the configs are up-to-date, then you can have them all working at the same time. I have 5 other styles of player pictures filling in the gaps where this pack doesn't reach, for instance

If you don't know how to edit your config files, then read this thread. I strongly recommend backing up your original config in case you mess up
Day Tripper
13 years ago
1 day ago
531
Premium
I've downloaded the latest version of the whole file for the first time - this took about 2 hours. I'm now extracting the files from the Zip folder to the graphics folder and this is estimating to take around 40 hours?!
Is that normal?!
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,494
I've downloaded the latest version of the whole file for the first time - this took about 2 hours. I'm now extracting the files from the Zip folder to the graphics folder and this is estimating to take around 40 hours?!
Is that normal?!

Posting that once was enough

It's a big file, it's to be expected it'll take a while That does seem to be a bit too long tbh, but if you leave your system working overnight, I'm sure the extraction speed will speed up a fair bit
Day Tripper
13 years ago
1 day ago
531
Premium
Posting that once was enough

It's a big file, it's to be expected it'll take a while That does seem to be a bit too long tbh, but if you leave your system working overnight, I'm sure the extraction speed will speed up a fair bit


Sorry, should have just posted it in this thread!

Also, a couple of times during the extraction a message popped up saying there were duplicates and did I want to overwrite the duplicate files - is that normal too?
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,494
Sorry, should have just posted it in this thread!

Also, a couple of times during the extraction a message popped up saying there were duplicates and did I want to overwrite the duplicate files - is that normal too?

Not at all, that's quite strange. What program are you using to extract it and how large is the file you've downloaded?
Day Tripper
13 years ago
1 day ago
531
Premium
I'm using WinRAR and the file size is 13,927,141 kb.
Estimated time is now up to 108 hours?!
BosscBear
4 years ago
3 weeks ago
4
Premium
Hi all,

following on from the FM20 update today, my player pictures have disappeared but my megapack files remain in the same place. Please advise.
TIA
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,494
I'm using WinRAR and the file size is 13,927,141 kb.
Estimated time is now up to 108 hours?!

File size looks great. Where you extracting the file to? That's definitely not normal - but it depends on what you're running in the background, the speed of your computer and many other factors. It could also be a false estimate in that it starts of slowly and then quickens on. That's said, it's not a 2-minute job (but it shouldn't be taking 108 hours either!!)
BosscBear
4 years ago
3 weeks ago
4
Premium
Hi guys,

Ive had some issues since the update today.

I deleted my megapack and tried to re-download. As I get to around 70% I get an error message stating that the download has been interrupted, when I click resume, it finishes the download but its incomplete and will not allow me to extract. Any advice please? Thanks.
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,494
Hi all,

following on from the FM20 update today, my player pictures have disappeared but my megapack files remain in the same place. Please advise.
TIA


Hi guys,

Ive had some issues since the update today.

I deleted my megapack and tried to re-download. As I get to around 70% I get an error message stating that the download has been interrupted, when I click resume, it finishes the download but its incomplete and will not allow me to extract. Any advice please? Thanks.

I'm assuming your first post is superseded by the second. It looks like you may well have to re-download the file...
BosscBear
4 years ago
3 weeks ago
4
Premium
I'm assuming your first post is superseded by the second. It looks like you may well have to re-download the file...


Yes, as stated in my second post, I proceeded to delete and attempt a reinstall but came across the problem, again stated in my second post.
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,494
Yes, as stated in my second post, I proceeded to delete and attempt a reinstall but came across the problem, again stated in my second post.

I understood that, but it seems that the file did not download fully, hence my proposal to retry downloading it

Can I have a screenshot of the downloaded file's properties and also of the error message being displayed? Maybe they can confirm my theory...
sidron
12 years ago
20 hours ago
59
I wonder if you can help. I cant see Joao Cancelos face in the game. I think it is because one config file is missing in the FacePack.

Per
[email protected]
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,494
I wonder if you can help. I cant see Joao Cancelos face in the game. I think it is because one config file is missing in the FacePack.

Per
[email protected]

Download update pack 12.01, which resolved this issue
sidron
12 years ago
20 hours ago
59
Download update pack 12.01, which resolved this issue



But now Pogba is gone. I cant see his face.

Please
sidron
12 years ago
20 hours ago
59
Pogba has nr 85028014.
mons
17 years ago
14 minutes ago
85,494
Pogba has nr 85028014.

There's a pinned thread in this forum, detailing how to get him back.
Freke
4 years ago
1 year ago
5
Hello there. I just did the megapack download twice...twice times 1,5 hours and in the end it failed. In my downloads i have a "index.php" and the "sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_12.0.1.rar" (failed). Any idea where the problem is? Alreday invested the money and some hours...withour success. Hope you can help. Thanks.

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