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.
- 482,917
- 2025.01 - Released on 04 Dec 2024
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'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.
This is what the MP folder should look like:
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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mons
The facepack does include the config, so you most probably have not downloaded the full pack. How many images in total do you have in your faces folder?
deltaco18
160 000. Do you know in which of the parts the config file is found?
mons
As suspected you haven't downloaded the full pack. I have no idea which part the config file is found in, but whichever one it is, you'll have around a third of the pack missing.
If you're downloading the split files, why not use the 12.0 torrent, which is a quicker and more efficient method of downloading the file?
deltaco18
Where can I find that torrent?
mons
There's a link and a guide on how to get it in the opening post of this thread
To be fully up-to-date, you then need to download the 9 update packs.
chresinho
doesnt work
mons
Are you using a Mac? How many images do you have in your faces folder?
Let's have screenshots of your faces folder, showing clearly the path it's located in.
hectorfg35
And when I enter the game I spend hours and hours with the splash screen.
My theory is that my Mac can't read all the files. Anybody has a solution? In my other Macbook (not the iMac) I can see the folder content correctly
Thanks
Icetuga
I checked the folder and even the pics went missing, i don´t know why this happens because i just add the latest changes pics. Then i do new config via fmXML like i did before, and some pics gone which i can´t explain why.
I mean i add the latest changes and click to replace older pics and then make the new config, why does it delete pics that where there before?
And i know for sure some pics where there before, because they showed up in my saves and gone missing after i added the latest changes packs.
mons
You will not have installed the update pack correctly somehow, I'm afraid. And you should not need to "do new config via fmXML like i did before", the config file in each update pack is tested and works perfectly fine.
Can I have a screenshot of your megapack faces folder?
8_Gerrard_8
I'm just wondering which files do i copy into my fm20 graphics folder. Is it 'sortitoutsi' on its own, or both 'faces' and 'icon faces' seperate?
thanks guys.
mons
Doesn't make a difference really, as long as they're in the graphics folder. Best to leave them in the sortitoutsi folder to be sure they don't get mixed with something else in the future.
If you're on a PC, it should be in Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2020. Create the graphics folder if it doesn't exist.
If you're on a Mac, 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’
hectorfg35
No, no syncring with iCloud or any other platform
Alex Peace
Thanks
mons
If you use the site's FM fatabase, you can find his cut-out and download him easily.
However, if you want to see it in your game, then you will need to modify your config file to include, there's no 2 ways around it. Use the method outlined in this thread to do so
If you're having persistent issues with internet connectivity, with regular disconnections, I suggest using Google Chrome to download it. With it, 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
Icetuga
Yeah i know i could have put each pack without touching it, but i have a tick that bothers me when i see to much folders there. So i just copy/paste the pics into one big faces folder i have instead of multiple folders, thats why i make a new config with fmXML.
It worked all the years i play FM just fine.
This year it remains a mystery why this action would randomly delete a few pictures. I am pretty sure the packs or the files from here are not the reason, because like i said i do it the same way for years and it never happened.
I don´t even know why it happens because there is no logic explanation to this, there is no action i do that involves deleting anything. Just copy and overwrite, and last time i checked overwriting is not exactly deleting.
Something is weird with this years FM anyway because some pics sometimes just don´t show, just to appear again the next time i am on the same screen.
I was just thinking that maybe anyone had something like this and could help.
Thx for answering, if i find the reason why it happens i post it here.
Jack Franklin
The button "Download full pack" on the cut out player faces megapack (https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/style/1/cut-out-player-faces) is not working.
Clicking it takes me to `https://fileserver7.sortitoutsi.net/index.php?key=35034750&domain=sortitoutsi.net` and the error:
> This site can’t be reached
> fileserver7.sortitoutsi.net refused to connect.
Is there an alternative link I could use to download the pack?
Cheers,
Jack
mons
Hi there. Worked fine for me just now. Can you retry now? Also, can you try downloading it using a different browser (or in incognito mode), in case it's an extension conflict issue.
Jack Franklin
Incognito works! Not sure what extension I have that's causing a problem. Not sure why I didn't think of that sooner either
ilgmsx
Was just checking do I now download all the updates 1 by 1 from oldest to newest? Thanks.
mons
You start at 12.01, then 12.02 and so on till 12.09
ilgmsx
Cheers
So when it says just the contents not the folders do I just move the images direct using select all etc? Sorry to be a pain not very good at all this tech stuff lol
mons
Yes, that's correct. If done right, you should get a prompt asking if you want to overwrite existing files - say yes
ilgmsx
Your a diamond cheers pal. Donated £10 to the site as well gave me brilliant quality when needed especially with this and a few other things hope it helps keep doing what your doing
mons
Thank you. Long may it last
Do check for updates from time to time. One is due in the next few days, for example
cdrxgon
edit: looked in the folder which was only 7GB and found a lot of numbers missing- is this an issue with BitTorrent?
https://i.gyazo.com/6a5aa569c68abb4c95940e0e425cb4d8.png
mons
No idea what happened there. Either the file didn't download fully or it didn't extract fully? How large was the file you downloaded?
cdrxgon
The megapack I downloaded is here, 14GB looks right?
However, when it gets extracted, the file is only 7GB?
I'll give extraction another go in a bit cos it seems like that is the problem here.
mons
The file itself which downloaded on your PC - how large was it? Was it the full 14GB?
cdrxgon
This is the file that first downloaded on my PC, however that file size can't be right surely ahahaha