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 480,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.

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  • 2025.01 - Released on 04 Dec 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
18 years ago
5 hours ago
91,859
This is what I've downloaded.


You've downloaded the update packs only then. You need to download the base megapack, i.e. the 12.0 torrent., then install all the update packs in order
rutherford577
6 years ago
4 months ago
3
I downloaded the megapack, extracted it with unarchiver and nothing happened, no folder was created

Same happened to me
mons
18 years ago
5 hours ago
91,859

Read the feedback I gave him and see if that works. Failing that, can I have the same screenshots I asked him?
filipe2583
10 years ago
2 years ago
10
My internet is 200MB / s. I downloaded other things from this site without any problem on the same day. I tried to download again today and the download speed remains low then it shows an error.

I forgot to mention it, but I'm downloading the full package.
mons
18 years ago
5 hours ago
91,859
257/5000
My internet is 200MB / s. I downloaded other things from this site without any problem on the same day. I tried to download again today and the download speed remains low then it shows an error.

I forgot to mention it, but I'm downloading the full package.

I really don't know what to say. It's working fine here so the issue must be somehow at your end. What error message is displayed? Have you tried using Google Chrome to download it?
filipe2583
10 years ago
2 years ago
10
I really don't know what to say. It's working fine here so the issue must be somehow at your end. What error message is displayed? Have you tried using Google Chrome to download it?


Yes, I use google chrome. The message is: Failure - Network error.
I already disabled antivirus and firewall and it didn't work.

I don't know if the information is useful, but I live in Brazil and I don't appreciate the option to choose a mirror before downloading it.
mons
18 years ago
5 hours ago
91,859
Yes, I use google chrome. The message is: Failure - Network error.
I already disabled antivirus and firewall and it didn't work.

I don't know if the information is useful, but I live in Brazil and I don't appreciate the option to choose a mirror before downloading it.

If you click resume in Chrome after the download stops, does it then do so?
filipe2583
10 years ago
2 years ago
10
If you click resume in Chrome after the download stops, does it then do so?

No, it downloads a shortcut to the file download page on sortitoutsi.
mons
18 years ago
5 hours ago
91,859
No, it downloads a shortcut to the file download page on sortitoutsi.

Can I have a screenshot of the file when it's interrupted and of what you're clicking to go here please?
filipe2583
10 years ago
2 years ago
10
Can I have a screenshot of the file when it's interrupted and of what you're clicking to go here please?

I managed to download it through the torrent file.

The error message is really simple, no more than what I put.

When I click on the error message a text appears with the possible problems, but I have tried everything based on the message.

I accessed the page https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/style/1/cut-out-player-faces by clicking on the Download the complete package button before downloading the torrent.

Thanks for listening!
mons
18 years ago
5 hours ago
91,859
I managed to download it through the torrent file.

The error message is really simple, no more than what I put.

When I click on the error message a text appears with the possible problems, but I have tried everything based on the message.

I accessed the page https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/style/1/cut-out-player-faces by clicking the Download Full Pack button.

Thanks for listening!

I'd still have liked to see what error message was displayed as I'm sure you could have got it to resume

Good to see you've downloaded it. Remember that the torrent is the base pack and that to be up-to-date, you'd have to download the 8 subsequent update packs and install them sequentially.
filipe2583
10 years ago
2 years ago
10
I'd still have liked to see what error message was displayed as I'm sure you could have got it to resume

Good to see you've downloaded it. Remember that the torrent is the base pack and that to be up-to-date, you'd have to download the 8 subsequent update packs and install them sequentially.

It is the only message I see.
filipe2583
10 years ago
2 years ago
10
I'd still have liked to see what error message was displayed as I'm sure you could have got it to resume

Good to see you've downloaded it. Remember that the torrent is the base pack and that to be up-to-date, you'd have to download the 8 subsequent update packs and install them sequentially.

In the Microsoft download manager program, the error described in the attached file appears.
mons
18 years ago
5 hours ago
91,859
It is the only message I see.

The screenshot in your other post seems to indicate that the download is being interrupted (I don't speak Portuguese sorry so I may be completely wrong)

When you're downloading it, can you click the arrow and resume the download using this method?
filipe2583
10 years ago
2 years ago
10
The screenshot in your other post seems to indicate that the download is being interrupted (I don't speak Portuguese sorry so I may be completely wrong)

When you're downloading it, can you click the arrow and resume the download using this method?

That's right.

By clicking on this button in your print, a cut-out-player-faces.html file is created.
mons
18 years ago
5 hours ago
91,859
That's right.

By clicking on this button in your print, a cut-out-player-faces.html file is created.

That's strange, for me the download continues normally. Do you have Winrar installed? Can you try with Winrar associated to compressed files?
filipe2583
10 years ago
2 years ago
10
That's strange, for me the download continues normally. Do you have Winrar installed? Can you try with Winrar associated to compressed files?

No, I have installed it is 7-Zip. The html file is very different in size than it should be if it were the right file, 363 KB.
mons
18 years ago
5 hours ago
91,859
No, I have installed it is 7-Zip. The html file is very different in size than it should be if it were the right file, 363 KB.

I don't know what to tell you. It looks like the issue is at your end somehow, but I can't seem to understand what it is. Are you using a download manager? Can you try downloading it in incognito mode to see if the issue persists?
filipe2583
10 years ago
2 years ago
10
I don't know what to tell you. It looks like the issue is at your end somehow, but I can't seem to understand what it is. Are you using a download manager? Can you try downloading it in incognito mode to see if the issue persists?

I tested the anonymous tab in the chrome browser, but it didn't work. I tried to use VPN for a server in the USA to download it through chrome, but it also didn't work.

Never mind, downloading the torrent file worked.
di_cello
8 years ago
1 year ago
8
I downloaded the megapack and all the changes. Applied in order. Pictures are shown in the game but i have an odd problem. I came across in Dutch players for now but there may be others.
When I look in the Netherlands National Team Profile Page there are no pictures of Van Dijk, D.Blind and the Manager. Than I go to Liverpool to check the players Van Dijk photo is shown in there.
I go back to National Team and it is now shown in there too. After wandering around other teams i check Netherlands again and pictures are gone again.

Do you have any idea where it is related to? I mean the picture is there but not shown sometimes.
mons
18 years ago
5 hours ago
91,859
I downloaded the megapack and all the changes. Applied in order. Pictures are shown in the game but i have an odd problem. I came across in Dutch players for now but there may be others.
When I look in the Netherlands National Team Profile Page there are no pictures of Van Dijk, D.Blind and the Manager. Than I go to Liverpool to check the players Van Dijk photo is shown in there.
I go back to National Team and it is now shown in there too. After wandering around other teams i check Netherlands again and pictures are gone again.

Do you have any idea where it is related to? I mean the picture is there but not shown sometimes.

Due to licensing restrictions, player faces are not displayed when viewed through the national team pages for some Dutch players and all French players. The issue is fixed with this file.
di_cello
8 years ago
1 year ago
8
Due to licensing restrictions, player faces are not displayed when viewed through the national team pages for some Dutch players and all French players. The issue is fixed with this file.


I have the database files in place. I only don't have the editor files because of Gamepass. Maybe their absence is causing trouble then.
mons
18 years ago
5 hours ago
91,859
I have the database files in place. I only don't have the editor files because of Gamepass. Maybe their absence is causing trouble then.

a) That's not how the lnc folder should look. Have a look at the screenshot of that folder in the main post of the other thread to see what I mean; the all, greek and temporary should be removed
b) There's also another file related to this issue in the edt/permanent folder, which again needs to look the same as in the screenshot in the other thread.

Gamepass users may have some issues getting that fix to work fully and as intended, but that's not got anything to do with the cut-out faces megapack...
Kevin Coleman
4 years ago
3 years ago
6
Moved this to here.

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


Sadly it keeps getting a Network Error and won't resume. This is infuriating. Madness that there aren't 2 or 3 smaller files to avoid this situation.
mons
18 years ago
5 hours ago
91,859
Sadly it keeps getting a Network Error and won't resume. This is infuriating. Madness that there aren't 2 or 3 smaller files to avoid this situation.

Does this not work at all then?

Kevin Coleman
4 years ago
3 years ago
6
Does this not work at all then?



No, I got about 6gb through, paused the download, went to resume and it immediately gave me a network error failed message and wouldn't resume from that point.
mons
18 years ago
5 hours ago
91,859
No, I got about 6gb through, paused the download, went to resume and it immediately gave me a network error failed message and wouldn't resume from that point.

I suggest trying again with a download manager
Kevin Coleman
4 years ago
3 years ago
6
I suggest trying again with a download manager



It's just not meant to be it looks like. Tried a download manager, let it run for a while, hit pause, then resume, and failed again.

Kevin Coleman
4 years ago
3 years ago
6
Ok, I think the problem is the download link you're given when you click Download Pack expires after a certain amount of time. That's why the download fails when you pause, because the original download link isn't valid anymore.

I think i've found a download manager that lets you find the new link if you have to pause after the link has expired (basically go back and click "Download Pack" again) and it picks up where the first one left off. Will report back if/when it's successful.
Tobias Woodhouse
4 years ago
1 year ago
3
Hello,

I have recently download the full 15.2GB cut out player faces megapack. When I attempt to extract the file with either Winrar or 7-Zip, the estimated extraction time is greater than 12 hours. Is this usual for the extraction speed? I appreciate the file is large but wasn't expecting it to take quite that long!

Cheers for any help!

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