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).
Demyan
3 years ago
1 week ago
1
Hi! I'm extracting the megapack and the app asks me if I want to replace files. I don't have any other face packs. What should I do? Here's how it looks like https://drive.google.com/file/d/11KFMrJbodyrFC_DyxUxsT83FGTGQT3DH/view?usp=sharing
mons
17 years ago
11 minutes ago
85,283
Hi! I'm extracting the megapack and the app asks me if I want to replace files. I don't have any other face packs. What should I do? Here's how it looks like https://drive.google.com/file/d/11KFMrJbodyrFC_DyxUxsT83FGTGQT3DH/view?usp=sharing

No idea, to be honest - just say yes. It may be a false positive.
MarcLister
16 years ago
11 hours ago
38
Premium
Hi! I'm extracting the megapack and the app asks me if I want to replace files. I don't have any other face packs. What should I do? Here's how it looks like https://drive.google.com/file/d/11KFMrJbodyrFC_DyxUxsT83FGTGQT3DH/view?usp=sharing
I think it's where there's two images with the same filename but one is of a .png format and the other is a .PNG format.
cazalx
3 years ago
3 years ago
3
Hey, i've been trying to extract the file called "sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_12.00", but the extraction takes way too long (7zip is telling me it will take 8 hours, 1% after 30 min waiting). I already tried using WINRAR but WINRAR can't even open the rar. because there are too many files i guess?

I used torrent to download the megapack and tried reinstalling it twice already but it won't work. Obviously putting the rar. into the graphics folder without extracting it doesn't work aswell. Anyone has a fix for me?
mons
17 years ago
11 minutes ago
85,283
Hey, i've been trying to extract the file called "sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_12.00", but the extraction takes way too long (7zip is telling me it will take 8 hours, 1% after 30 min waiting). I already tried using WINRAR but WINRAR can't even open the rar. because there are too many files i guess?

I used torrent to download the megapack and tried reinstalling it twice already but it won't work. Obviously putting the rar. into the graphics folder without extracting it doesn't work aswell. Anyone has a fix for me?

It's an enormous file and it'll certainly take a while to extract, and there's not much which can be done to speed that up tbh. Try and have as few concurrent applications running as possible to focus all the system resources and speed up the extraction process.
cazalx
3 years ago
3 years ago
3
It's an enormous file and it'll certainly take a while to extract, and there's not much which can be done to speed that up tbh. Try and have as few concurrent applications running as possible to focus all the system resources and speed up the extraction process.


Alright i guess i have no other choice, it just seemed strange to me as i have a rather good pc and never had any problems with something like that. Longest time it took me to extract something with similar size (15gb) was probably around 30 minutes. Was thinking the zip file was corrupted or something.

Anyways thanks for the quick answer!
mons
17 years ago
11 minutes ago
85,283
Alright i guess i have no other choice, it just seemed strange to me as i have a rather good pc and never had any problems with something like that. Longest time it took me to extract something with similar size (15gb) was probably around 30 minutes. Was thinking the zip file was corrupted or something.

Anyways thanks for the quick answer!

It shouldn't take you that amount of time either, tbh, but the issue is not just that the file is very large but that it contains well over half a million files, which amount affects how slowly it extracts. Let it extract overnight
sleipnirfossa
9 years ago
6 hours ago
611
Alright I'm downloading "Complete Pack - sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_12.00.rar" do I have to download olders too? like "Complete Pack - sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_11.00.rar" "Complete Pack - sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_6.00.rar" etc. etc. or they are all include in latest complete pack?
julkjulk
4 years ago
1 year ago
17,319
Banned
Alright I'm downloading "Complete Pack - sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_12.00.rar" do I have to download olders too? like "Complete Pack - sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_11.00.rar" "Complete Pack - sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_6.00.rar" etc. etc. or they are all include in latest complete pack?


you do not have to download older packs.
algerst
8 years ago
3 years ago
1
Hi guys, just upgraded my membership to premium to download this pack and am unfortunately having issues downloading

Every time I download, it stops..

https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2020/39/2/1600763303-capture-d-ecran-2020-09-22-a-16-27-12.png

I just downloaded a large file on Uptobox for example, and no problem, it was very fast.
mons
17 years ago
11 minutes ago
85,283
Hi guys, just upgraded my membership to premium to download this pack and am unfortunately having issues downloading

Every time I download, it stops..

https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2020/39/2/1600763303-capture-d-ecran-2020-09-22-a-16-27-12.png

I just downloaded a large file on Uptobox for example, and no problem, it was very fast.

If you use Google Chrome, you should be able to resume the download at the point it was interrupted.
cazalx
3 years ago
3 years ago
3
Hey it's me again. I downloaded the megapack called "sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_12.00" via torrent and everything is working now.
My question is what updates should i download now? Do i only have to download the lastest changes (12.17) or every single update so 12.01 to 12.17?
mons
17 years ago
11 minutes ago
85,283
Hey it's me again. I downloaded the megapack called "sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_12.00" via torrent and everything is working now.
My question is what updates should i download now? Do i only have to download the lastest changes (12.17) or every single update so 12.01 to 12.17?

All of them (i.e. 12.01 to 12.17) and apply them in chronological order.

FYI, when installing the update packs, you should be getting overwrite prompts. If you aren't, then you aren't installing them correctly
sleipnirfossa
9 years ago
6 hours ago
611
I'm wondering why you guys dont using mediafire for the updates? Mediafire is way too simple and fast...
mons
17 years ago
11 minutes ago
85,283
I'm wondering why you guys dont using mediafire for the updates? Mediafire is way too simple and fast...

Due to the frequency of the release of update packs, the uploading to mirrors is automated. I am not too technical, but the way it was explained to me is that the mirror sites chosen are the only ones which permit the customisation required to allow the update packs to be uploaded automatically on them when they are released on our site. mediafire and mega, amongst others, do not allow this, which would therefore require manual uploading.

Many, many years back, I used to upload them myself for this reason on mediafire to but my account got blocked due to high activity on suspicion of copyright infringement, so I'm not to keen on trying again tbh.
sleipnirfossa
9 years ago
6 hours ago
611
Thanks for the answer @mons
Kureo
3 years ago
2 years ago
1
Hey there !
As i'm playing a Korean career, i need some faces. But this file is way too big for my internet connexion and i just need the Korean faces. Is there a way to download only these without having to download the full file ?
It would help me a lot, thanks.
mons
17 years ago
11 minutes ago
85,283
Hey there !
As i'm playing a Korean career, i need some faces. But this file is way too big for my internet connexion and i just need the Korean faces. Is there a way to download only these without having to download the full file ?
It would help me a lot, thanks.

Other than checking every team in the country from here and downloading each team's cuts manually and individually, it's not possible
krashd
14 years ago
8 hours ago
15
I think it's where there's two images with the same filename but one is of a .png format and the other is a .PNG format.


Which are exactly the same format.

I would also like an answer to this. An archive being extracted into a completely empty folder should never ask if you want to replace files, but this one does, how is that possible?
mons
17 years ago
11 minutes ago
85,283
Which are exactly the same format.

I would also like an answer to this. An archive being extracted into a completely empty folder should never ask if you want to replace files, but this one does, how is that possible?

However illogical it may seem, they are not the same, believe it or not. Try having a png and a PNG file with the same filename in the same folder; Windows won't let you
krashd
14 years ago
8 hours ago
15
However illogical it may seem, they are not the same, believe it or not. Try having a png and a PNG file with the same filename in the same folder; Windows won't let you


The whole reason Windows won't let you is BECAUSE they are the same, extensions are not case sensitive so .png and .PNG are both the extension for Portable Network Graphics.

The cat in me was so intrigued at an archive requesting permission to write over itself that I scanned "sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_12.00.rar" for duplicates and found four sets...

iconfaces\91185039.png
iconfaces\91185039.PNG

iconfaces\768274.png
iconfaces\768274.PNG

faces\91185039.png
faces\91185039.PNG

faces\768274.png
faces\768274.PNG

It seems that while NTFS won't allow two files with the same name to occupy the same location a .rar archive has no such qualms so these files sit happily right next to each other until it comes time to extract them wherein the second file in each set will require permission to overwrite the first one.

You should probably include whichever four are the most recent in an update pack just to make sure people have the newest version as I clicked "Yes to all" ensuring I have the .PNG versions but others might have clicked "No to all" in which case they will see the .png versions. Meaning two footballers will look very different on some computers.


Rob
mons
17 years ago
11 minutes ago
85,283
The whole reason Windows won't let you is BECAUSE they are the same, extensions are not case sensitive so .png and .PNG are both the extension for Portable Network Graphics.

The cat in me was so intrigued at an archive requesting permission to write over itself that I scanned "sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_12.00.rar" for duplicates and found four sets...

iconfaces\91185039.png
iconfaces\91185039.PNG

iconfaces\768274.png
iconfaces\768274.PNG

faces\91185039.png
faces\91185039.PNG

faces\768274.png
faces\768274.PNG

It seems that while NTFS won't allow two files with the same name to occupy the same location a .rar archive has no such qualms so these files sit happily right next to each other until it comes time to extract them wherein the second file in each set will require permission to overwrite the first one.

You should probably include whichever four are the most recent in an update pack just to make sure people have the newest version as I clicked "Yes to all" ensuring I have the .PNG versions but others might have clicked "No to all" in which case they will see the .png versions. Meaning two footballers will look very different on some computers.


Rob

Thanks for that. It's probably a by-product of the fact that the update packs are actually created automatically based on files that I upload on FTP. Looks like the 2 original cuts (768274 and 91185039) where the .PNG files as they're not appearing in the respective cut-out page and that the more recent cut-out is fine. I'll include it in the next update pack to be safe

P.S. They won't look any different because (a) they're of the same player after all and more importantly (b) FM doesn't read .PNG files but only .png files, for some arcane reason.

P.P.S. Is that Sensi in your avatar?
krashd
14 years ago
8 hours ago
15
It is indeed the sensible old game, I believe it's SWOS as each player had a star rating in SWOS as you can see in the avatar. I also remember that each player had three letters attached to them such as VHS or THP and I remember spending an afternoon trying to deduce what each letter stood for and V threw me a bit until I worked out that it was shot velocity. I loved SWOS, if you gave one of the unknowns in your reserves a couple of stints in the first team he would accrue a basic price tag but then if you gave him a couple more games the game would assign a value of roughly the team average and you could sell him for a small fortune.
DEVRAN ÇAĞLAR KILIÇ
6 years ago
3 weeks ago
2
Merhabalar;

prumium üyelik satın aldım.AMA İNDİRME YAPTIĞIMDA HATA VERİYOR.BİR SÜRE SONRA DOSYALAR DA HATA VAR MI İNDİREMİYORUM.ŞİMDİDEN YARDIMCIM OLURSANIZ SEVİNİRİM.
mons
17 years ago
11 minutes ago
85,283
Merhabalar;

prumium üyelik satın aldım.AMA İNDİRME YAPTIĞIMDA HATA VERİYOR.BİR SÜRE SONRA DOSYALAR DA HATA VAR MI İNDİREMİYORUM.ŞİMDİDEN YARDIMCIM OLURSANIZ SEVİNİRİM.

This is an English-language forum. Please post in English
Piotr Dytkowski
3 years ago
3 years ago
4
Hi guys.

I am a premium member and I am trying to download a Cut-Out Faces Megapack from download link on the post, but every single time the download is starting after 40mb it is stopping and after a couple of seconds i have a message about network issue, always exavtly in the same moment. Does anybody have the same problem and knows how to fix it?

Thanks a lot
mons
17 years ago
11 minutes ago
85,283
Hi guys.

I am a premium member and I am trying to download a Cut-Out Faces Megapack from download link on the post, but every single time the download is starting after 40mb it is stopping and after a couple of seconds i have a message about network issue, always exavtly in the same moment. Does anybody have the same problem and knows how to fix it?

Thanks a lot

Try downloading the file using Google Chrome, which allows interrupted download to be resumed from the point they were stopped.
Piotr Dytkowski
3 years ago
3 years ago
4
That's exactly what I am doing since beggining. The problem is the downloading it stopping itself and then the message with issue appears. I cannot resume download, need to start over again and once again it stops after 40mb.
mons
17 years ago
11 minutes ago
85,283
That's exactly what I am doing since beggining. The problem is the downloading it stopping itself and then the message with issue appears. I cannot resume download, need to start over again and once again it stops after 40mb.

It must be something specific to your PC and/or connection then, because it's working fine for me. In the time it took me to type this, it's downloaded 0.5GB already. Maybe it'll stop in the future, but I'd resume it if that was the case.

Try downloading it using Incognito, maybe it's an issue with some extensions?
Piotr Dytkowski
3 years ago
3 years ago
4
It must be something specific to your PC and/or connection then, because it's working fine for me. In the time it took me to type this, it's downloaded 0.5GB already. Maybe it'll stop in the future, but I'd resume it if that was the case.

Try downloading it using Incognito, maybe it's an issue with some extensions?


Same. No changes. I've tried edge browser, incognito and all of these always stop exactly on the same place. One interesting thing is if you are downloading another file on the same file this issue will stop every other downloads from your website...

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