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
85,494

If you've installed all the update packs correctly, you should have over a quarter of a million cut-outs in your faces folder
joseluis99
7 years ago
3 weeks ago
2
no me aparece cara del presidente del leicester
mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,494
no me aparece cara del presidente del leicester

This is an English-language forum please.

Have you downloaded all the update packs? How many images do you have in your faces folder? You should have over 250,000 in there.
bra2il
11 years ago
4 months ago
3
Hi All

I am a premium member and downloaded the complete pack (12.07) - 15gb.

After loading up the game, i noticed that some key players are missing like Hazard, marcelo, Daniel james etc

Have i done something wrong? do i need to download another file to get all in one?

I noticed that the file has only 160k items which may indicate pictures are missing.

Thank you all for your efforts with FM

mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,494
Hi All

I am a premium member and downloaded the complete pack (12.07) - 15gb.

After loading up the game, i noticed that some key players are missing like Hazard, marcelo, Daniel james etc

Have i done something wrong? do i need to download another file to get all in one?

I noticed that the file has only 160k items which may indicate pictures are missing.

Thank you all for your efforts with FM

Hiya there. Those players are definitely in the megapack and if you have downloaded the full megapack file, then that is all you should have needed.

What program did you use to extract the downloaded file? It looks like it may not have extracted the full amount of images.

Can you check inside the downloaded file how many images are in the faces folder and compare it to the amount in the faces folder within your user data folder (i.e. Documents \ Sports Interactive \ Football Manager 2020 \ graphics. The amount in both cases should be just over 250,000.
bra2il
11 years ago
4 months ago
3
Hiya there. Those players are definitely in the megapack and if you have downloaded the full megapack file, then that is all you should have needed.

What program did you use to extract the downloaded file? It looks like it may not have extracted the full amount of images.

Can you check inside the downloaded file how many images are in the faces folder and compare it to the amount in the faces folder within your user data folder (i.e. Documents \ Sports Interactive \ Football Manager 2020 \ graphics. The amount in both cases should be just over 250,000.


Hi, I will have to redownload the complete pack as i deleted the zip file.

Im Using Win rar. I suspected the extract failed me.

Thanks for the instructions to check.
mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,494
Hi, I will have to redownload the complete pack as i deleted the zip file.

Im Using Win rar. I suspected the extract failed me.

Thanks for the instructions to check.

As it's such a large file, it's not unheard of for extraction to stop at some point. I'd leave it to extract overnight to ensure everything is extracted without any issues.
bra2il
11 years ago
4 months ago
3
Yep, im amazed at how many files are in this pack!

Richard Longshore
4 years ago
3 years ago
5
I downloaded the premium megapack torrent last night, followed all the steps, and it's showing all the faces except that of french players and staff. I've looked in the image file and the french players images are there, they just aren't generating for some reason.

Previously, ~40% of the faces were showing up, but that 40% included some players who are now not appearing. Now it's everyone but the french

I have a feeling I may have accidentally deleted the config. file that came with the images, so is there any way I can re-download just that file? Or is there anything else anyone can recommend?

I can post pictures of my directories etc. if it helps

EDIT: To be clear, the correct number of files are in the folders, they just aren't generating ingame for some reason.
mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,494
I downloaded the premium megapack torrent last night, followed all the steps, and it's showing all the faces except that of french players and staff. I've looked in the image file and the french players images are there, they just aren't generating for some reason.

Previously, ~40% of the faces were showing up, but that 40% included some players who are now not appearing. Now it's everyone but the french

I have a feeling I may have accidentally deleted the config. file that came with the images, so is there any way I can re-download just that file? Or is there anything else anyone can recommend?

I can post pictures of my directories etc. if it helps

EDIT: To be clear, the correct number of files are in the folders, they just aren't generating ingame for some reason.

For licensing issues, French player faces are not displayed when you go to their profile from the national team page. If you view them from their club page, they would display correctly.

To solve it, you need to download and apply this fix.
Richard Longshore
4 years ago
3 years ago
5
For licensing issues, French player faces are not displayed when you go to their profile from the national team page. If you view them from their club page, they would display correctly.

To solve it, you need to download and apply this fix.


Thanks! Will it work for FM19?
mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,494
Thanks! Will it work for FM19?

Use the FM19 version of the same file
Richard Longshore
4 years ago
3 years ago
5
d879moore
9 years ago
1 week ago
3
Premium
Hi

I've downloaded the full face pack files and now it's extracting it's saying time left is 28 hours!!!

Is this right or have I totally screwed up?

Edit - Now 30 hours!
d879moore
9 years ago
1 week ago
3
Premium
Hi All

It's saying it's gonna take 32 hours to extract all files for the megapack faces file I've downloaded.

Is this correct or have I screwed up?
mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,494
Hi All

It's saying it's gonna take 32 hours to extract all files for the megapack faces file I've downloaded.

Is this correct or have I screwed up?

I've moved both your posts to here

It certainly shouldn't take so long and I hope that by now it's extracted. However, the speed of extraction depends on the power of your system and also if you have a lot of applications open, so if the former is not the best and the latter amount is large, it may take a fair while.
liam cooney
6 years ago
1 week ago
2
Premium
Only some players have the cut out faces when i load into fm, I downloaded the full pack in all. please help fix
mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,494
Only some players have the cut out faces when i load into fm, I downloaded the full pack in all. please help fix

I've moved your post to here

How many images in total do you have in your faces folder? Do you have a folder titled config.xml in there? Have you changed the preferences to look like they do in the screenshot in the opening post?
Resurgam
14 years ago
1 day ago
16
hi all, accidentally deleted my icons folder, the mini facepacks that show a players face when on the right click menu, is there anywhere that i can down the full icon pack?

thanks in advance
mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,494
hi all, accidentally deleted my icons folder, the mini facepacks that show a players face when on the right click menu, is there anywhere that i can down the full icon pack?

thanks in advance

Can you not try and recover it from your Recycle Bin? If not, I'll try and upload it later for you.
Resurgam
14 years ago
1 day ago
16
Can you not try and recover it from your Recycle Bin? If not, I'll try and upload it later for you.


no its gone im afraid, if you could i would really appreciate it thanks so much
mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,494
no its gone im afraid, if you could i would really appreciate it thanks so much

Here you go - this is the whole iconfaces pack up to 12.07

https://mega.nz/#!cMUQBIja!DxSBFAFEHp_RVu0tCTvnrn99Uy6QBkr5d6NpK6GrAJQ
Resurgam
14 years ago
1 day ago
16
Gray Fox
12 years ago
1 year ago
3
Hello.

I downloaded the Mega pack v.12 and i try to extract it with winrar and it says that it will take 20 hours to finish.

Does it really takes that long to extract the face pack ?
mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,494
Hello.

I downloaded the Mega pack v.12 and i try to extract it with winrar and it says that it will take 20 hours to finish.

Does it really takes that long to extract the face pack ?

As luck would have, I provided this answer to the very same query a few posts above on this very page.
Svein Bo Johansen
5 years ago
3 years ago
4
I just downloaded the big facepack 2020 and put the file in the game just as you described. And followed al your instructions . But , now faces in the game.. I can tell you that I did the same thing FM2019, and there it works perfectly . What is wrong ? The game is a free game until 1 of April. Can that be the answer , that I had to buy the game before the facepack works ?
BJ
mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,494
I just downloaded the big facepack 2020 and put the file in the game just as you described. And followed al your instructions . But , now faces in the game.. I can tell you that I did the same thing FM2019, and there it works perfectly . What is wrong ? The game is a free game until 1 of April. Can that be the answer , that I had to buy the game before the facepack works ?
BJ

Graphics work even with the free version if installed correctly.

Are you using a Mac perchance?
Svein Bo Johansen
5 years ago
3 years ago
4
I just downloaded the big facepack 2020 and put the file in the game just as you described. And followed al your instructions . But , now faces in the game.. I can tell you that I did the same thing FM2019, and there it works perfectly . What is wrong ? The game is a free game until 1 of April. Can that be the answer , that I had to buy the game before the facepack works ?
BJ
EW1996
8 years ago
1 week ago
164
Premium
Hi Guys, I've downloaded one of the add on files for Bolton. i have saved it in ' Sports interactive- Football manager 2020- graphics- faces'. Extracted the file. Started the game followed the instructions on the forum and still absolutely nothing, is there anything else that could be preventing the images from appearing on the game? Thanks
mons
17 years ago
7 minutes ago
85,494
I just downloaded the big facepack 2020 and put the file in the game just as you described. And followed al your instructions . But , now faces in the game.. I can tell you that I did the same thing FM2019, and there it works perfectly . What is wrong ? The game is a free game until 1 of April. Can that be the answer , that I had to buy the game before the facepack works ?
BJ

I moved your previous thread yesterday to the technical support thread and answered you here. Let's continue the conversation there

I'm closing this thread so that we can try and keep the forum a bit organised

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