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).
Gregg Leon
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Check if the preferences are the same as in the opening post



What do you mean sorry?
mons
17 years ago
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What do you mean sorry?

In the first post of this thread, there is a screenshot of how your preferences should look like in-game. Check to see it's what they look like on your game
shaunguest
3 years ago
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Help with Mac

Hi

I have downloaded all face pack from mega, now to open with winner etc, but still cannot get face packs to appear on players
mons
17 years ago
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Help with Mac

Hi

I have downloaded all face pack from mega, now to open with winner etc, but still cannot get face packs to appear on players

Can I get a screenshot of where you've extracted the files? As of FM20, the installation path for Macs has changed. You can find it in the opening post of this thread and in the Word document on installation instructions included in the download.
Gregg Leon
10 years ago
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In the first post of this thread, there is a screenshot of how your preferences should look like in-game. Check to see it's what they look like on your game





you were right. it was the caching. thanks so much
kiwi keeper
5 years ago
3 years ago
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Hi guys, quick question.

I have the most recent megapack downloaded and in use. Its a wonderful file and i very much appreciate the work that has gone into it. With this other thread called Facepacks release thread are those all add ons that i need to put into this megapack? or do they get included in later updates?

Many thanks
mons
17 years ago
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Hi guys, quick question.

I have the most recent megapack downloaded and in use. Its a wonderful file and i very much appreciate the work that has gone into it. With this other thread called Facepacks release thread are those all add ons that i need to put into this megapack? or do they get included in later updates?

Many thanks

Each update pack contains all the cuts produced by the community, be it from individual requests or facepacks. If you are up-to-date, all you need to do is therefore to download the periodic update packs
kiwi keeper
5 years ago
3 years ago
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Each update pack contains all the cuts produced by the community, be it from individual requests or facepacks. If you are up-to-date, all you need to do is therefore to download the periodic update packs


perfect. thank you very much for the response. will wait for the next update
shaunguest
3 years ago
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Hi mate, I now have all my regents with new faces but need to change some? how can this be done, I have tried a few things already but struggling, tried dmxml also, please help
mons
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Hi mate, I now have all my regents with new faces but need to change some? how can this be done, I have tried a few things already but struggling, tried dmxml also, please help

You'll need to explain yourself in a more clear manner mate as I'm not sure exactly what the question is. Is it something to do with this megapack? Perhaps screenshots could help
maxiclarkee04
5 years ago
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Hello. Does anyone know why my icon faces aren’t appearing? I have cleared cache reloaded skin and they won’t appear @mons
IAmTheStag
14 years ago
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Hi, think I may have found an error between two player faces.

Mansfield Town staff member Chris Barker (29223079) has had his cutout face over ride with Charlton Athletic U18s defender Charlie Barker. I think the two have had a crossover in ID between FM database updates and Charlie Barker's new ID is 29240147. Can the images be reverted for both individuals in the next megapack update please?

Thanks
mons
17 years ago
5 minutes ago
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Hi, think I may have found an error between two player faces.

Mansfield Town staff member Chris Barker (29223079) has had his cutout face over ride with Charlton Athletic U18s defender Charlie Barker. I think the two have had a crossover in ID between FM database updates and Charlie Barker's new ID is 29240147. Can the images be reverted for both individuals in the next megapack update please?

Thanks

I see what you mean and it'll be fixed in 12.14
mons
17 years ago
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Hello. Does anyone know why my icon faces aren’t appearing? I have cleared cache reloaded skin and they won’t appear @mons

Have you modified your iconfaces config file accordingly? Actually, if you're adding new iconfaces, I strongly recommend having them in a separate sub-folder to be safe and avoid messing up the main iconfaces config file.
maxiclarkee04
5 years ago
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I’ve created a config with FMXML and there in a separate Sub folder to my normal faces but in the same big folder if that makes sense
maxiclarkee04
5 years ago
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And I have added new icon faces from the newest update and copied them into my original icon faces folder and now none are working @mons
FM Bard
9 years ago
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Hey @mons Think the config file is missing from "faces" in 12.13

Cheers
maxiclarkee04
5 years ago
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Btw I have not added my own created icon faces. I have downloaded the most recent update pack. Copied the contents into my icon faces folder now none appear in game. Not even the ones I had before the update
weeniehutjr
6 years ago
6 days ago
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Btw I have not added my own created icon faces. I have downloaded the most recent update pack. Copied the contents into my icon faces folder now none appear in game. Not even the ones I had before the update

See this post: https://sortitoutsi.net/comments/get/542925
mons
17 years ago
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@maxiclarkee04, can you please make an effort to post in the right thread? This has got absolutely nothing to do with tutorials for cutting out I've moved this to the right thread

Read here for an explanation on your iconfaces issue.

And I'm afraid it's not very clear what your other issue is. Screenshots would help



Thanks for the heads-up @FM Bard. Read here for a temporary workaround.
maxiclarkee04
5 years ago
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I’m sorry for the wrong thread

Not sure why it has made all my other existing icon faces not work. And I have created a config on FMXML for the icon faces

I’ll try fix now! Sorry only just seen the other link
maxiclarkee04
5 years ago
3 days ago
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I’m sorry for the wrong thread

Not sure why it has made all my other existing icon faces not work. And I have created a config on FMXML for the icon faces

I’ll try fix now! Sorry only just seen the other link

Is there a way to quickly change all the text that says portrait” to icon”?
mons
17 years ago
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Is there a way to quickly change all the text that says portrait” to icon”?

Clicking Ctrl+H in Notepad brings up the replace function. Then do the below:

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/aohRVQX502ikH0f02kFulxsJvY4UyvuKyptJGntn.png
maxiclarkee04
5 years ago
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Thank you! Problem sorted now
MarioBeg7
3 years ago
3 years ago
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Salve,
Se come non voglio scaricare tutto il face pack 16 gb, mi potete aiutare se inizio a scaricare i file dal 2017 fino al 2020?
Grazie.
mons
17 years ago
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Salve,
Se come non voglio scaricare tutto il face pack 16 gb, mi potete aiutare se inizio a scaricare i file dal 2017 fino al 2020?
Grazie.

Se vuoi scaricare solo quelle immagini, dovrai scaricare tutti i singoli pacchetti di aggiornamento dal 9.03 al 12.13 da qui. Potresti scaricare l'intero pacchetto ed evitare tutto lo scareggio a dire il vero.

This is an English-language forum so please post in English from now on.
Taylor Allan
6 years ago
3 years ago
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I downloaded the faces mega pack and began to extract it to docs>si>fm>graphics>faces but after a few attempts my WinRAR says that one of the files is corrupt and I keep getting error messages and it clearly isn't extracting all files as when I go to look in the folders the numbers go like 1,2,3,6,12,20 or whatever. I was going to delete them all and try redownloading it but its going to take far too long. Can anyone help?

Another thing: does my faces have to be in docs>si>fm>graphics>faces or can I have it setup like this: docs>si>fm>graphics>faces>then here have the two folders (faces and iconfaces) so I don't have to move thousands of images back into the first faces folder or do I have to do that?

Also the thousands of faces I did download I seem to still be seeing mainly blanks on the game which makes me think the paragraph above is the problem. All help is greatly appreciated in advance!
mons
17 years ago
5 minutes ago
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I downloaded the faces mega pack and began to extract it to docs>si>fm>graphics>faces but after a few attempts my WinRAR says that one of the files is corrupt and I keep getting error messages and it clearly isn't extracting all files as when I go to look in the folders the numbers go like 1,2,3,6,12,20 or whatever. I was going to delete them all and try redownloading it but its going to take far too long. Can anyone help?

Another thing: does my faces have to be in docs>si>fm>graphics>faces or can I have it setup like this: docs>si>fm>graphics>faces>then here have the two folders (faces and iconfaces) so I don't have to move thousands of images back into the first faces folder or do I have to do that?

Also the thousands of faces I did download I seem to still be seeing mainly blanks on the game which makes me think the paragraph above is the problem. All help is greatly appreciated in advance!

Just because you have gaps in the sequence of numbers doesn't necessarily mean there is an issue because (a) not all UIDs are in use in the game and (b) we don't (yet!) have cuts for every single person in the game What is of more importance is that you have the full amount of cuts, which is around the 267,000 amount at the moment. If you have significantly less than that, as I suspect is the case if your WinRar is not extracting everything, then I'm afraid your best bet is to redownload the whole file again from scratch.

In terms of folder structure, as long as it's within docs>si>fm>graphics, then the folder structure after that is entirely up to you. The setup you describe in the second sentence is perfectly fine, for example.

Thirdly, if you have a blank space in-game where a cut-out should be, that means that the config file (which assigns the image to the correct person) is searching for an image which isn’t in your folder. If player X’s UID is 12345, but the file titled 12345.png isn’t in your megapack folder, then you’ll see a blank space when you go on his profile in-game.

Hope this helps
DiuDiu
3 years ago
6 days ago
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I have purchased the membership, but the download speed is super slow, and it will take me about 40 days to complete the download. For me, maybe use a torrent is way better to use Google Chrome to download this file. So, is there a torrent for the 12.13 version?
mons
17 years ago
5 minutes ago
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I have purchased the membership, but the download speed is super slow, and it will take me about 40 days to complete the download. For me, maybe use a torrent is way better to use Google Chrome to download this file. So, is there a torrent for the 12.13 version?

The only torrent available is for the 12.0 version. You would then have to download the 12.01-12.13 update packs separately.

I'm getting a stable and reasonably quick download speed, and my internet connection is usually quite slow. Do you have any other downloads and/or streaming services going on at the same time perhaps?

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