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
15 minutes ago
85,285
Can someone help me ? i download all parts but its taking me like 30 hours to extract is that normal?

It shouldn't take that much, but the more applications you have running at the same time, especially if you don't have a powerful system, will see the estimate timeframe for extraction increase a lot...
bigpole
12 years ago
11 hours ago
9,331
Can someone help me ? i download all parts but its taking me like 30 hours to extract is that normal?


And it depends on your drive, you'll get better results on ssd sata/nvme than hdd.
BrianCloughALegend
17 years ago
12 hours ago
222
Quick question guys,i have re-formatted my computer and lost everything but i backed up facepacks from 12.00 up until 12.08 do i need to download 11.00?thanx
mons
17 years ago
15 minutes ago
85,285
Quick question guys,i have re-formatted my computer and lost everything but i backed up facepacks from 12.00 up until 12.08 do i need to download 11.00?thanx

Do you have the 12.00 full megapack? Or is it just the update pack? I.e. do you have 250k-odd images or is it 3-4k only?
BrianCloughALegend
17 years ago
12 hours ago
222
i think i will download the torrent 12.00 and then update the packs one by one,thanx


Do you have the 12.00 full megapack? Or is it just the update pack? I.e. do you have 250k-odd images or is it 3-4k only?
mons
17 years ago
15 minutes ago
85,285
i think i will download the torrent 12.00 and then update the packs one by one,thanx

If you're not sure, that's possibly the best way

If you've still got the individual 12.01 - 12.09 update packs, then you can just apply them - no need to redownload them individually
BrianCloughALegend
17 years ago
12 hours ago
222
thanx so im downloading 12.00 torrent file now,then i need to download 12.00 update pack,12.01 update back etc?

If you're not sure, that's possibly the best way

If you've still got the individual 12.01 - 12.09 update packs, then you can just apply them - no need to redownload them individually
mons
17 years ago
15 minutes ago
85,285
thanx so im downloading 12.00 torrent file now,then i need to download 12.00 update pack,12.01 update back etc?

No need to download the 12.0 update pack, start from 12.01 onwards.
BrianCloughALegend
17 years ago
12 hours ago
222
me again sorry,so downloaded 12.00 torrent file and there is no config file,do i have to put update packs in were they have a config file?

No need to download the 12.0 update pack, start from 12.01 onwards.
BringMeTheHorizon
10 years ago
1 year ago
10
Guys, one question: which pack do you recommend me to use on FM2008?
mons
17 years ago
15 minutes ago
85,285
Guys, one question: which pack do you recommend me to use on FM2008?

The earliest available torrent is from FM12 so perhaps you could try that, if there's anybody still seeding it.
BringMeTheHorizon
10 years ago
1 year ago
10
The earliest available torrent is from FM12 so perhaps you could try that, if there's anybody still seeding it.


Thank you for the feedback!

One more question: I actually downloaded the version 5.0, which I believe belongs to FM13. However, I cannot download the updates 5.1 and onwards... will I miss and IDs for not downloading the update versions or should I be okay?

Thank you again!
mons
17 years ago
15 minutes ago
85,285
Thank you for the feedback!

One more question: I actually downloaded the version 5.0, which I believe belongs to FM13. However, I cannot download the updates 5.1 and onwards... will I miss and IDs for not downloading the update versions or should I be okay?

Thank you again!

You could download the FM20 torrent if you wanted to, it's just that there will be a very large amount of players who were not in FM08 so you'd have the majority of images being obsolete. If you've downloaded 5.0 to use with FM08, then you can safely assume that the bulk of images in there will work and you won't need to get any updates at all
filipe2583
9 years ago
1 year ago
10
The download of Cut Out Player Faces is slow and giving an error after a few minutes of download.
mons
17 years ago
15 minutes ago
85,285
The download of Cut Out Player Faces is slow and giving an error after a few minutes of download.

I have a really poor internet connection, and I'm managing 3MB/s, which I don't think is too bad. Looks like the issue is at your end. Are you downloading something else in the background?

As it's such a large file, the chances of a brief interruption happening naturally increase. If you use Google Chrome, it should be possible to resume the download from the point where it was interrupted, rather than downloading it again from scratch.

If that doesn't work, try to look at this: https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000839.htm
C_Cartledge
4 years ago
2 years ago
5
I downloaded the megapack, extracted it with unarchiver and nothing happened, no folder was created
mons
17 years ago
15 minutes ago
85,285
I downloaded the megapack, extracted it with unarchiver and nothing happened, no folder was created

Where did you extract it to? Are you sure the full megapack downloaded?
C_Cartledge
4 years ago
2 years ago
5
the full megapack was downloaded, I don't know where the folder is with all the images
I'm on Mac, when extracting the pack, it got to the end then nothing happened
mons
17 years ago
15 minutes ago
85,285
the full megapack was downloaded, I don't know where the folder is with all the images
I'm on Mac, when extracting the pack, it got to the end then nothing happened

Well, then you really should have checked where you were extracting the files in the first place before actually doing so Have another look and see where they go. Screenshot it if need be
C_Cartledge
4 years ago
2 years ago
5
I did the extraction of the megapack in the faces folder within graphics but it didn't show up
mons
17 years ago
15 minutes ago
85,285
I did the extraction of the megapack in the faces folder within graphics but it didn't show up

Are you aware the installation folder for Macs had changed? Have a look at the opening post to see the correct place.

Can you try again and take a screenshot beforehand within the unarchiver of the location you're extracting the files to?
C_Cartledge
4 years ago
2 years ago
5
I now have no storage to extract the mega pack again
mons
17 years ago
15 minutes ago
85,285
I now have no storage to extract the mega pack again

You seem to have a multitude of sub-folders in the faces folder unnecessarily, which is certainly taking up a lot of space unnecessarily and which I can have no idea what they contain and how they got there.

This is how they look like on a PC, and what the faces folder should look like on your system:

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/gq5WH7x02eeFzgwC9FTIkiUSwHtEiGo1ucoXY7aT.png

Move the 16 GB zip file to somewhere outside of that location, delete everything else in the faces folder and try to extract it again.

Also, I can't tell from your screenshot as I don't use a Mac, but 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

Now the files will instead appear in the following location:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive

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 2020’
C_Cartledge
4 years ago
2 years ago
5
I have done everything you said however, I can't extract the pack again as I have no storage. All the GB I had went on the first extract.
mons
17 years ago
15 minutes ago
85,285
I have done everything you said however, I can't extract the pack again as I have no storage. All the GB I had went on the first extract.

Empty the Recycle Bin or remove some files you don't need any longer to make some space then.
tiago toreiro
3 years ago
3 years ago
3
Hi,

I downloaded all the files and did everything as suggested.


https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/LnDeLj9L1MhJQGeGdyEGFpcbkfkSWQUalS5JzmDq.jpg
https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/cmxY4WM7kE2fbELam5XzZlaRs7GZmbovWWLYR2oP.jpg

But a lot of top class players like, CR7, Messi or Griezmann don't seem to have images.

I cleared the cache and loaded the skin again afterwards. In total I have 75 728 files inside the sortitoutsi folder.

Any advise?
mons
17 years ago
15 minutes ago
85,285
Hi,

I downloaded all the files and did everything as suggested.


https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/LnDeLj9L1MhJQGeGdyEGFpcbkfkSWQUalS5JzmDq.jpg
https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/cmxY4WM7kE2fbELam5XzZlaRs7GZmbovWWLYR2oP.jpg

But a lot of top class players like, CR7, Messi or Griezmann don't seem to have images.

I cleared the cache and loaded the skin again afterwards. In total I have 75 728 files inside the sortitoutsi folder.

Any advise?

You don't have the full megapack, I'm afraid. You should have over 500,000 files in the sortitoutsi folder, half in the faces folder and the other half in the iconfaces folder.

Which file(s) did you download and what was the filesize?
rutherford577
5 years ago
2 months ago
3
Why when Im downloading the cut out mega face pack the download is failing saying th file is in wrong format or corrupt?

Any help would be appriciated.
mons
17 years ago
15 minutes ago
85,285
Why when Im downloading the cut out mega face pack the download is failing saying th file is in wrong format or corrupt?

Any help would be appriciated.

As it's such a large file, the chances of a brief interruption happening naturally increase. If you use Google Chrome, it should be possible to resume the download from the point where it was interrupted, rather than downloading it again from scratch.

If that doesn't work, try to look at this: https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000839.htm
tiago toreiro
3 years ago
3 years ago
3
You don't have the full megapack, I'm afraid. You should have over 500,000 files in the sortitoutsi folder, half in the faces folder and the other half in the iconfaces folder.

Which file(s) did you download and what was the filesize?


This is what I've downloaded.

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/dIybCJP9BiPPeT4gYTKRoM82NhHWe7z1fThfYTms.jpg


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