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:
β€’ the β€œUse caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
β€’ the β€œReload 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 β€˜Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the β€˜Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the β€˜Library’, click to enter then go to β€˜Application Support’ -> β€˜Sports Interactive’ -> β€˜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:
β€’ the β€œUse caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
β€’ the β€œReload 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).
nmwald1
14 years ago
3 months ago
19
Do you have to download the update packs chronologically? Like 12.7 then 12.8 then 13.0? Or does the 13.0 update have all the other updates?
Thanks
Rostislav Stoyanov
8 years ago
2 weeks ago
6
Premium
Do you have to download the update packs chronologically? Like 12.7 then 12.8 then 13.0? Or does the 13.0 update have all the other updates?
Thanks


You need to download the hole pack or if you did download it before, you can download all the updates only.
nmwald1
14 years ago
3 months ago
19
You need to download the hole pack or if you did download it before, you can download all the updates only.


Ok, thanks for the help! I'm not sure if it's just an overload on the server right now but I can't seem to download 12.7 and 12.8. It gets part way through, slows and then says there's a network connection error.
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,497
Ok, thanks for the help! I'm not sure if it's just an overload on the server right now but I can't seem to download 12.7 and 12.8. It gets part way through, slows and then says there's a network connection error.

As you can imagine, this time of year is quite busy so the servers are getting a bit of a battering right now. If you use Google Chrome, you should be able to resume a download if it's stopped.

P.S. As a premium member, it may be easier to download the full file rather than 12.7, 12.8 and all the update packs till 12.18 and also the 13.0 update pack too πŸ˜‰
HeyMyNamesJaack
3 years ago
8 months ago
3
I cannot for the life of me get this to work, is there something that I could potentially be missing at all? Also I am now not getting a folder and instead it’s making me extract the entire download and is saying it’s gonna take 300+ hours, where have I gone wrong 🀦‍β™‚οΈπŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
nmwald1
14 years ago
3 months ago
19
P.S. As a premium member, it may be easier to download the full file rather than 12.7, 12.8 and all the update packs till 12.18 and also the 13.0 update pack too πŸ˜‰


Yeah, I figured the servers are being overloaded still. Thanks for the heads up though. By downloading the full file do you mean the complete pack that's 17 Gib?
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,497
I cannot for the life of me get this to work, is there something that I could potentially be missing at all? Also I am now not getting a folder and instead it’s making me extract the entire download and is saying it’s gonna take 300+ hours, where have I gone wrong 🀦‍β™‚οΈπŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

Bit hard to tell without knowing what you've got and where you're trying to extract it. Screenshots always help πŸ˜‰

If you've got the whole 17GB+ file and you're extracting it with Winrar, you may be on the right track, however. It should take a while given the sheer massiveness of the file, but 300+ hours does sound a tad on the excessive side.

That said, speed of extraction is affected by what you're doing on your PC. If you've got FM running, a browser window or two open and some other apps in the background, then the speed of extraction will slow down correspondingly. Think of it as when you're at work - you may be able to do a job quickly but you won't do it as quickly if you've got 5 other things going on πŸ˜‰

If need be, restart your PC/laptop before going to bed and extract it then - should be done by the time you get up πŸ™‚
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,497
Yeah, I figured the servers are being overloaded still. Thanks for the heads up though. By downloading the full file do you mean the complete pack that's 17 Gib?

Yep.
nmwald1
14 years ago
3 months ago
19
I cannot for the life of me get this to work, is there something that I could potentially be missing at all? Also I am now not getting a folder and instead it’s making me extract the entire download and is saying it’s gonna take 300+ hours, where have I gone wrong 🀦‍β™‚οΈπŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚


Typically you will see a really long amount of time when you first start the extraction/download. That's because the connection starts weak but builds strength as it goes. Give it a few minutes and you'll probably see that 300 hours go down to 30 minutes or so.
nmwald1
14 years ago
3 months ago
19


Thanks for the help again! It's been running about 10 minutes and it's almost complete! Just as fast, if not faster and much, much simpler. Thanks again!
HeyMyNamesJaack
3 years ago
8 months ago
3
Typically you will see a really long amount of time when you first start the extraction/download. That's because the connection starts weak but builds strength as it goes. Give it a few minutes and you'll probably see that 300 hours go down to 30 minutes or so.


Thanks buddy, I’ll just extract and it see how it gets along
HeyMyNamesJaack
3 years ago
8 months ago
3
Bit hard to tell without knowing what you've got and where you're trying to extract it. Screenshots always help πŸ˜‰

If you've got the whole 17GB+ file and you're extracting it with Winrar, you may be on the right track, however. It should take a while given the sheer massiveness of the file, but 300+ hours does sound a tad on the excessive side.

That said, speed of extraction is affected by what you're doing on your PC. If you've got FM running, a browser window or two open and some other apps in the background, then the speed of extraction will slow down correspondingly. Think of it as when you're at work - you may be able to do a job quickly but you won't do it as quickly if you've got 5 other things going on πŸ˜‰

If need be, restart your PC/laptop before going to bed and extract it then - should be done by the time you get up πŸ™‚


Ok so far sounds like good news, I’ll restart it and extract it and leave it to go, fingers crossed that should get it sorted. Appreciate that πŸ™‚
Razoor1860
5 years ago
1 year ago
126
Where can i post new Requests for Cut Out Faces? Didn´t find on the new Website.
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,497
Where can i post new Requests for Cut Out Faces? Didn´t find on the new Website.

There's a link to contribute up at the top.
Jonno_44
6 years ago
4 months ago
4
Premium
HI,

I downloaded the "Cut out Player Faces Megapack" followed the guidelines on how to upload and these settings to change on FM itself, referred back to my FM20,19 etc file structure to make sure it is correct, and the face pack still isn't appearing on FM21.

I'm not sure if this is because FM21 is in BETA or if the megapack isn't compatible with FM21? If anyone has managed to get it to work on FM21, please can you provide some help?

Jonno
Zander86
8 years ago
2 months ago
32
All the graphics work fine, it's something you've done wrong
Jonno_44
6 years ago
4 months ago
4
Premium
I've attached some screenshots. I have the logo pack working fine, but the face pack isn't working. My friend is having the same problem with the same facepack.
jordaf
3 years ago
10 months ago
3
Hi,

I downloaded the full face pack (about 17GB or so) and extracted via 7zip, so it’s now in my graphics > sort it out si folder.

Ever since then, FM21 gets stuck on the loading screen and won’t load up at all. I’ve read a fix would be to remove the pack and reinstall, although reluctant to do so as extraction took hours. Any help?

Cheers!

EDIT: I dragged the face pack out of the FM21 folder and the game loads up fine now. Is there a way I can add the pack without preventing the game loading up?
Capitano80
9 years ago
2 months ago
2
Premium
me too i downloaded but without results.. can somebody explain easily how to do it with fm21? thanks
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,497
Hi,

I downloaded the full face pack (about 17GB or so) and extracted via 7zip, so it’s now in my graphics > sort it out si folder.

Ever since then, FM21 gets stuck on the loading screen and won’t load up at all. I’ve read a fix would be to remove the pack and reinstall, although reluctant to do so as extraction took hours. Any help?

Cheers!

EDIT: I dragged the face pack out of the FM21 folder and the game loads up fine now. Is there a way I can add the pack without preventing the game loading up?

Can you post a screenshot of where you placed the file? I suspect it might not be the right place.
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,497
I've attached some screenshots. I have the logo pack working fine, but the face pack isn't working. My friend is having the same problem with the same facepack.

Can we see inside the faces folder? You should have over 279,000 images in there plus a file titled config.xml, and the total size of the file you should have download should be well over 17GB. If that is not the case, you will not have downloaded the full megapack, but most probably only an update pack.


me too i downloaded but without results.. can somebody explain easily how to do it with fm21? thanks

Same as the above. Ideally you post screenshots of your faces folder, showing clearly the path it's installed in as well.
Capitano80
9 years ago
2 months ago
2
Premium
but where is face folder? because i created it in document... /graphics and opening one called players that didn't exist.
or a different place this year?
jordaf
3 years ago
10 months ago
3
Can you post a screenshot of where you placed the file? I suspect it might not be the right place.


Thanks - have attached the path.
Ben Morrison
6 years ago
1 month ago
4
Hi, Im downloading the megabuck on Mac. Every time it downloads 2/3GB it then say there has been an error and to click to reload the download. When I click this however it just stops the download there and I have to start it all again. It has happened a couple of times. Is this a laptop issue or an issue with the megapack? I have the Subscription to increase download speed.

Thanks
Tedium_Kits
3 years ago
1 year ago
2
I can't get the torrent file for the whole facepack. I followed the instructions in the first post of this topic, but after clicking the "Download Complete Pack" button, it takes me to https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/megapack/361 and there is nothing on that page indicating a torrent download: http://prntscr.com/vi41z7. Pressing the "Download Now" button just takes me back to https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/1/download
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,497
but where is face folder? because i created it in document... /graphics and opening one called players that didn't exist.
or a different place this year?

Lo scriverò in italiano perché non capisco quello che hai scritto.

Non ho idea di come sia la struttura della tua cartella perché è la TUA cartella non la mia; non ho il controllo su cosa sia o cosa contenga. A meno che non mi mandi una screenshot della TUA cartella, non ci sono molti altri consigli che ti posso dare 😒

A proposito, va nello stesso posto dell'anno scorso.



Thanks - have attached the path.

That's fine. Remove the sharing to OneDrive option for the graphics folder as that could cause a fair bit of slowdown on your PC in terms of ensuring the same files are present on both your system and OneDrive.

Can we see inside the faces folder?

How long were you waiting for the game to load? It should take a little while the first time you install the files, but much less thereafter. We're talking 5-10 minutes, plus it also depends what applications you're running at the same time and the speed of your system.



Hi, Im downloading the megabuck on Mac. Every time it downloads 2/3GB it then say there has been an error and to click to reload the download. When I click this however it just stops the download there and I have to start it all again. It has happened a couple of times. Is this a laptop issue or an issue with the megapack? I have the Subscription to increase download speed.

Thanks

Use Chrome to download it. It contains a resume download option which allows resumption from the spot it was interrupted. In some instances, you may need to resume one or more times. This should allow you to overcome this issue.



I can't get the torrent file for the whole facepack. I followed the instructions in the first post of this topic, but after clicking the "Download Complete Pack" button, it takes me to https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/megapack/361 and there is nothing on that page indicating a torrent download: http://prntscr.com/vi41z7. Pressing the "Download Now" button just takes me back to https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/1/download

Is there not an option here to download it?
Tedium_Kits
3 years ago
1 year ago
2
@mons
Is there not an option here to download it?


No. Following that link, there are two "Download Complete Pack" buttons, as shown here: http://prntscr.com/vi4wea
Clicking either one takes me back to https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/megapack/361 where there is no option to download the torrent.

A member on the Discord did share the torrent file with me, so I am currently in the process of downloading it.
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,497
@mons

No. Following that link, there are two "Download Complete Pack" buttons, as shown here: http://prntscr.com/vi4wea
Clicking either one takes me back to https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/megapack/361 where there is no option to download the torrent.

A member on the Discord did share the torrent file with me, so I am currently in the process of downloading it.

Thanks for that πŸ‘

I'll raise it as a bug on the site because I can see it on that page just beneath were you put your arrow, possibly because I'm a staff member.
Jonno_44
6 years ago
4 months ago
4
Premium
Can we see inside the faces folder? You should have over 279,000 images in there plus a file titled config.xml, and the total size of the file you should have download should be well over 17GB. If that is not the case, you will not have downloaded the full megapack, but most probably only an update pack.

Same as the above. Ideally you post screenshots of your faces folder, showing clearly the path it's installed in as well.



Here you go, attached my files. You'll see that it is 17.3GB, and I've attached the paths of both files. Also attached both config files. Attachment 4 is thegraphics>faces config file, and attachment 5 is config for icon faces folder
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
85,497
Here you go, attached my files. You'll see that it is 17.3GB, and I've attached the paths of both files. Also attached both config files. Attachment 4 is thegraphics>faces config file, and attachment 5 is config for icon faces folder

All looks fine there.

And have you changed the preferences as outlined in the first post?

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