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
That's the torrent file itself, which is that small, but which then allows you to download the larger file. How big is this latter file?
cdrxgon
Is that not the file I showed in my first post? This one:
https://i.gyazo.com/5d3502da305be63af306e1b147861b4c.png
mons
It wasn't there when I saw it - did you add that screenie later? That looks about right, so it's an extraction issue. I'm not on a Mac, but other users have recommended using the Unarchiver to extract the file
cdrxgon
I did add it a few mins after because I realised I messed the screenshot order up haha. I did use the Unarchiver last time but I'll try again in case there was an issue. This time I'll try moving the .rar file to the weird new FM folder, rather than extracting the file in 'downloads' and copying the results over.
mons
I'd recommend doing this, however.
cdrxgon
Was halfway through extraction when I read this so just kept going and it's eventually worked! Everyone now has a face. Thanks very much for your help
mons
As long as it's worked, that's all that matters
If you want to, we've subsequently released 10 more update packs, adding new images to the megapack and replacing existing ones with newer and better cuts
cdrxgon
I'll be honest mate, most of my disk space is occupied rn but when I get a better machine I'll be sure to. Thanks.
lufcberg22
mons
When extracting it, try not to extract it to the same hard drive it's currently on (if you have multiple hard drives) and try to avoid having lots of other applications open at the same time. It will take a while to extract, but it shouldn't take that long.
lufcberg22
mons
Like I said, if you have multiple hard drives, it's better to extract it to the same one you downloaded it to, rather than another one. Only you know your laptop's setup, so only you can assess whether this is the case.
Extracting it when you have other applications running will incrementally slow down the extraction process, plus extraction depends on how much memory your system has among other things. If your system is busy with doing other stuff, extraction will take longer. Whether it's an internet browser window with multiple tabs, Spotify or similar apps etc.
babareto1
i've downloaded torrent file then all the updates, so i've put extracted folder in graphics then loaded the game clearing cache and reloading skin. I've other graphic packs, as logos, that are fully working. This megapack give me issues: there are default plack faces instead of faces of your megapack. Who can help me? thanks a lot
mons
That is the right location. Can I see inside your faces folder? Do you have any sub-folders in there?
babareto1
no, i haven't any subfolder. I have 47808 face files and a config file. I've downloaded the config file in the previous page of this discussion to try to solve the issue.
I'll attach also config files.
mons
You should have over 250,000 images in the faces and also the iconfaces folder. How big was the file downloaded via torrent? Looks like it either didn't download fully or didn't completely extract.
babareto1
i don't know because i have already erased the archive. i'll download it again.
babareto1
davidob1804
thanks
mons
It's all written here: Download the full pack.
davidob1804
mons
Have you extracted it with Winrar or a similar program? How many images in total do you have in your faces folder? Make sure your preferences are as per the screenshot in the opening post.
Screenshots of your megapack folder if the above don't resolve it please
hopesid
mons
There is no password for this megapack.
To extract the files you've downloaded, you need to download all the parts and then just start extracting from part 1, which will then extract all the files at the same time.
hopesid
mons
You need to download all the parts; they are linked.
croc1977
Any advice?:s11:
mons
a) I'm not sure why you're asking us for help with another graphic pack. If you buy a Mazda car, you don't go to complain about it at the Toyota showroom, do you?
b) You're not using the default user folder document (i.e. the Documents \ SI \ FM20 folder). Have you changed it within Steam? There's a guide on how to do so in the opening post of this thread
c) That folder structure is an absolute mess. I suggest having different folders for different packs, and you put everything in its own folder structure.
d) As far as I'm aware, the DF11 pack folder structure is the same as this one, i.e. you have a base folder and any subsequent update packs are NOT put in separate folders but placed in the main base folder, overwriting where applicable.
mchb1993
mons
I've moved the post to here.
What kind of error? Really, we need a bit more information to be getting along with...