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
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Folders are set as per page one as are the Preferences.

I guess the next question is do those 2 images exist in the file?

EDIT - 67276122 (Fati) and 49056243 (Camivinga) don't have images having checked the image file - think I have answered my own question....

Then you don't have the full megapack. You should have one folder with around 268,000 images in it. Is that the case?

Again, screenshots would help.
mons
17 years ago
13 minutes ago
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@Fritz13, I have no idea why you deemed this the right place to upload the screenshot of your megapack folder.

What's wrong with this thread? Click the add attachment button and upload it that way.

Can I now have a look inside your faces folder please?
Fritz13
7 years ago
4 months ago
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Didn’t intend to add an image apologies
mons
17 years ago
13 minutes ago
85,494
Didn’t intend to add an image apologies

No worries. I got to see it and that's all that matters

Now, can upload a screenshot inside your faces folder please?

tombazzlez
8 years ago
4 months ago
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hariom
9 years ago
4 weeks ago
5
Some player faces doesn't appear in the game like van dijk etc i have created a new config file as well and the cutout of the missing faces from the game are there in folder but still its not showing up in the game
mons
17 years ago
13 minutes ago
85,494
Some player faces doesn't appear in the game like van dijk etc i have created a new config file as well and the cutout of the missing faces from the game are there in folder but still its not showing up in the game

Then you either don't have the full megapack or you haven't installed it correctly. Can we have a screenshot of your megapack folder?
hariom
9 years ago
4 weeks ago
5
Then you either don't have the full megapack or you haven't installed it correctly. Can we have a screenshot of your megapack folder?
hariom
9 years ago
4 weeks ago
5
Then you either don't have the full megapack or you haven't installed it correctly. Can we have a screenshot of your megapack folder?

I think i do have the full mega pack and some of the cutouts does appear but most of them are not loading up
mons
17 years ago
13 minutes ago
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I think i do have the full mega pack and some of the cutouts does appear but most of them are not loading up

Looks like you do have the full megapack. There is a screenshot in the opening post of this thread on how the preferences should look like - have yours been modified accordingly? For these players, like Van Dijk, do you get a blank space where his face should be, or do you get the black default cut-out?

Finally, the config file used with the 12.14 update pack contains all the cut-outs in the megapack, so I would suggest using it, instead of any one you may have created/modified as I can't guarantee that one is correct.
hariom
9 years ago
4 weeks ago
5
Looks like you do have the full megapack. There is a screenshot in the opening post of this thread on how the preferences should look like - have yours been modified accordingly? For these players, like Van Dijk, do you get a blank space where his face should be, or do you get the black default cut-out?

Finally, the config file used with the 12.14 update pack contains all the cut-outs in the megapack, so I would suggest using it, instead of any one you may have created/modified as I can't guarantee that one is correct.

I have applied preferences as shown and i get a black default cutout and i tried using the 12.14 config but still the same thing, faces didn't load up
mons
17 years ago
13 minutes ago
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I have applied preferences as shown and i get a black default cutout and i tried using the 12.14 config but still the same thing, faces didn't load up

Hmm, that's strange. Can I have a screenshot of your preferences please?

Also, do you have other facepacks installed? It's not a problem as such, but if the configs conflict, then you might have this kind of issue.
hariom
9 years ago
4 weeks ago
5
Hmm, that's strange. Can I have a screenshot of your preferences please?

Also, do you have other facepacks installed? It's not a problem as such, but if the configs conflict, then you might have this kind of issue.

Well its working now i moved the megapack outside the graphics folder and then reloaded the skin and then moved it back in the graphics folder and restarted the game and did the skin reload and it worked
mons
17 years ago
13 minutes ago
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Well its working now i moved the megapack outside the graphics folder and then reloaded the skin and then moved it back in the graphics folder and restarted the game and did the skin reload and it worked

All's well that ends well
adam bagshaw
3 years ago
1 year ago
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I have this working fine on my old laptop, I then copied them over via a USB stick onto my new one and its not working despite following all the instructions. Why wont it work?
mons
17 years ago
13 minutes ago
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I have this working fine on my old laptop, I then copied them over via a USB stick onto my new one and its not working despite following all the instructions. Why wont it work?

Are your preferences as per the screenshot in the first post?
adam bagshaw
3 years ago
1 year ago
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Are your preferences as per the screenshot in the first post?


Yes
mons
17 years ago
13 minutes ago
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Can I please see screenshots of:
a) your preferences
b) the folder(s) you've placed the megapack in, showing clearly the amount of images included and the folder path?
cruyff14
17 years ago
1 day ago
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Hi I just downloaded the complete pack and whilst extracting the folder it picked up three errors which caused my game to crash
mons
17 years ago
13 minutes ago
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Hi I just downloaded the complete pack and whilst extracting the folder it picked up three errors which caused my game to crash

Try searching for the three cuts from here and saving them in your megapack folder.
cruyff14
17 years ago
1 day ago
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Try searching for the three cuts from here and saving them in your megapack folder.



Okay I'll give that a go and let you know if it works
Papp0u27
5 years ago
2 months ago
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Hey guys

Signed up for premium to get this pack. Im downloading the complete pack worth 16 gb or so. Do I need any updates or does this complete pack have it all included? Because I can see tons of updates, even though some updates are old, Im assuming my complete pack is AIO? It says version 12.15
mons
17 years ago
13 minutes ago
85,494
Hey guys

Signed up for premium to get this pack. Im downloading the complete pack worth 16 gb or so. Do I need any updates or does this complete pack have it all included? Because I can see tons of updates, even though some updates are old, Im assuming my complete pack is AIO? It says version 12.15

Not sure what AIO stands for but you should be fine with that file you're downloading
Papp0u27
5 years ago
2 months ago
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All in one just wanted to confirm I didnt have to download any updates thank you, mons
mons
17 years ago
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All in one just wanted to confirm I didnt have to download any updates thank you, mons

Ah yes that makes sense

Welcome, carry on then
Patric Groß
3 years ago
2 months ago
1
Hey Guys!

I've signed up for Premium to download the Full Pack but everytime i want to download it it won't start (using Safari Browser). The Download for the Latest Changes is working fine.
I've also tried to download it using Crome, the Download starts but it always ends after it has downloaded 1GB.

It looks like it won't let me connect to the Download Server using the Safari Browser and i also don't have the Option to Download it via Uploaded like a friend has done it.
Any help to solve this is appreciated!
mons
17 years ago
13 minutes ago
85,494
Hey Guys!

I've signed up for Premium to download the Full Pack but everytime i want to download it it won't start (using Safari Browser). The Download for the Latest Changes is working fine.
I've also tried to download it using Crome, the Download starts but it always ends after it has downloaded 1GB.

It looks like it won't let me connect to the Download Server using the Safari Browser and i also don't have the Option to Download it via Uploaded like a friend has done it.
Any help to solve this is appreciated!

Does Safari have the equivalent of Incognito mode? Try using it - it could be one or more extensions block the downloading of such a large file, and these extensions are disabled in the Incognito equivalent.

If not, using Google Chrome means you can resume the download from the point it stops, should that happen, so try that too
carl kulus
11 years ago
3 years ago
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Why my fm2020 cant load a few face like greenwood, bissaka but its works for the rest of player. i already download their faces
mons
17 years ago
13 minutes ago
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Why my fm2020 cant load a few face like greenwood, bissaka but its works for the rest of player. i already download their faces

I've moved this to here

It really depends on your setup. Can I have a screenshot of your megapack folder? What version of the megapack do you have download? Do you have a config file? Have you changed your preferences as per the screenshot in the opening post?
searmh
13 years ago
5 months ago
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HI i have installed megafacepack on pc and installed but no jordan shipley at coventry, for one example, no biamou, coventry, either so i think i have installed it wrong. can someone confirm these two are in the pack before i delete and redownload.

thanks

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