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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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).
ducc
11 years ago
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I think I may be missing some images after all. Should José Bosingwa (741143) have a picture? 741143 is mentioned in the xml, but I do not have the image in the faces folder. The faces folder contains a png without a name however (.png), but its not Bosingwa.

How many png files should there be in the faces folder? I have 115 729. Judging from the xml file's line numbers, there probably should be 123 991.
mons
17 years ago
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I know this was discussed at some point earlier in the thread, but I can't for the life of me remember the outcome. You should definitely have at least around 8k more images to be fully up-to-date.

I know it might seem like a ball-ache now that you went to all the effort of downloading the separate packs, but you could always try to download the 5.0 megapack via torrent, available at the bottom of the page you link to above. You would then download the 4 update packs released thus far to ensure you are fully up-to-date...
ducc
11 years ago
3 weeks ago
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I think the update packs were the last 4 separate packs I downloaded. Gotta give the torrent a go then.
Adam Eaton
11 years ago
5 years ago
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Oreyt lads.

Face packs have destroyed the memory on my pc, I'm literally down to 900mb left, so I've purchased an external hard drive.

Is it possible to save Face packs to external hard drives?


Cheers
mons
17 years ago
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I've not tried it, but there's no reason why not, I guess...
Adam Eaton
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Does it not need to follow the : my documents>sports interactive>etc etc... Path?
mons
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By Adam Eaton | Permalink | On 04 March 2013 - 22:20 PM
Does it not need to follow the : my documents>sports interactive>etc etc... Path?

Not really, you can change the user folder from within the preferences to wherever you like.
Joel Lucketti
11 years ago
6 years ago
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Hi all

Got a copy of football manager 2013 through the other day. Decided I wanted to use the face pack which a friend from work had given me a mega pack 4 which I have put as a folder containing all the faces in the graphics folder of the sports interactive folder, doing exactly the same as what he has done which works fine for him.

After doing the change round in preferences and fiddling around a lot with it, everything I do the pictures still don't appear in the game. Can anybody help or give me some advice.

cheers all
mons
17 years ago
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I've just replied to your other thread.

Can you tell us how many images there are in the megapack folder and if there is a file named config.xml in there, please?
Joel Lucketti
11 years ago
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Hi sorry about that

there's 65,518 files and as far as I can see there's no config files only the png picture files
mons
17 years ago
9 hours ago
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I can't tell which version you downloaded but that's around half the current total image count so you've got a fair amount missing.

The config file is what makes the game "read" the images. The lack of it is the reason they're not showing.

I'd suggest downloading the 5.0 torrent file from the bottom of this page, then downloading and applying the 4 subsequent update packs to be up-to-date.
caddy
15 years ago
6 months ago
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Why's there no config files in the packs? Unfortunate that i've just spent 2 days downloading each pack and they don't work. So i've got to now dowload the 5GB megapack.
caddy
15 years ago
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Just to expand on above, Pack 12 and the Update Packs have .xml within them, none of the others do so they're pretty useless..
mons
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By caddy | Permalink | On 09 March 2013 - 20:30 PM
Why's there no config files in the packs? Unfortunate that i've just spent 2 days downloading each pack and they don't work. So i've got to now dowload the 5GB megapack.


By caddy | Permalink | On 09 March 2013 - 20:33 PM
Just to expand on above, Pack 12 and the Update Packs have .xml within them, none of the others do so they're pretty useless..


caddy, I'm afraid you're mistaken. You need only one config file in the base megapack download packs, which is then overwritten with each megapack update pack. The base megapack download packs are not separate entities but rather part of large folder. You do not need to have a config file in each - remember they will all end up in one folder and not separate folders.
caddy
15 years ago
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Ah, i do apologise Mons. My bad.

I just extracted each one to seperate folders (i downloaded them in all the seperate parts) - should i instead have just the one folder containing every imaged?

Thanks for your response by the way
mons
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By caddy | Permalink | On 09 March 2013 - 21:52 PM
Ah, i do apologise Mons. My bad.

I just extracted each one to seperate folders (i downloaded them in all the seperate parts) - should i instead have just the one folder containing every image?

Thanks for your response by the way

gwentdragoon
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Hello since I have downloaded the pack my game keeps crashing all the time? can anyone help?
mons
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By gwentdragoon | Permalink | On 10 March 2013 - 01:46 AM
Hello since I have downloaded the pack my game keeps crashing all the time? can anyone help?

It's something wrong at your end then, I'm afraid. What is the exact path where you installed the megapack? With screenshots, if possible.
gwentdragoon
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Thanks for the reply I downloaded it through rar and extracted it to the graphics file in fm13. I deleted all other facepacks I had previously but it now wont go past a day or two ingame.
Adam Eaton
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By Adam Eaton | Permalink | On 04 March 2013 - 19:45 PM
Oreyt lads.

Face packs have destroyed the memory on my pc, I'm literally down to 900mb left, so I've purchased an external hard drive.

Is it possible to save Face packs to external hard drives?


Cheers



Any other advice on this please ?

...
mons
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By gwentdragoon | Permalink | On 10 March 2013 - 13:07 PM
Thanks for the reply I downloaded it through rar and extracted it to the graphics file in fm13. I deleted all other facepacks I had previously but it now wont go past a day or two ingame.

Again, please provide me with the exact path; copy and paste it from the address bar if necessary.

Given that you are a premium member, I am assuming that you have downloaded the file using the single-click download from this site. Can you confirm this?




By Adam Eaton | Permalink | On 10 March 2013 - 14:23 PM
Any other advice on this please ?

Already answered earlier.
Adam Eaton
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Sorry Mons, cheers.

How exactly do you go about changing the user folder from within the preferences tab, ive had a quick look but i want to be 100% sure what im doing before i mess about with it because it could up up in me ruining the game and not being able to see any faces at all .. ?

Cheers
caddy
15 years ago
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Got it working after my bout of noobness.

Really nice, really adds a missing element to the game.

Thanks all for your hard work

PS.....is there a similar torrent for logo packs?
mons
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By Adam Eaton | Permalink | On 10 March 2013 - 16:07 PM
Sorry Mons, cheers.

How exactly do you go about changing the user folder from within the preferences tab, ive had a quick look but i want to be 100% sure what im doing before i mess about with it because it could up up in me ruining the game and not being able to see any faces at all .. ?

Cheers

Use this page - the official FM13 manual and search for YOUR GAME'S FILES on that page. If you're not sure what you're doing, then I'm not sure I can recommend that you mess about with the folder structure. It's quite straight-forward imo but I recommend that you ensure you know what you're doing. Tbh, I don't think this is the right place for you to do so...




By caddy | Permalink | On 10 March 2013 - 16:39 PM
Got it working after my bout of noobness.

Really nice, really adds a missing element to the game.

Thanks all for your hard work

PS.....is there a similar torrent for logo packs?

Best to ask in one of the logos forum, I think.
gwentdragoon
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[quote name='mons' user_id='3076' id='60224' timestamp='1362925880']
Again, please provide me with the exact path; copy and paste it from the address bar if necessary.

Given that you are a premium member, I am assuming that you have downloaded the file using the single-click download from this site. Can you confirm this?

Yep I downloaded it through this site the one click download, all other add ons have worked fine but for some reason since this one it just crashes. I have recently updated with the new fm13 january update. Since taking off the face pack it has not crashed.
mons
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By gwentdragoon | Permalink | On 10 March 2013 - 19:18 PM
Yep I downloaded it through this site the one click download, all other add ons have worked fine but for some reason since this one it just crashes. I have recently updated with the new fm13 january update. Since taking off the face pack it has not crashed.

You still have not told me the exact path the MP's been placed in. Help me help you here.

The pack works fine for me and thousands of others so it's pretty clear there's something wrong at your end. Either you've installed it incorrectly or your PC can't somehow cope with the size of it, but this is imo unlikely.
gwentdragoon
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By mons | Permalink | On 10 March 2013 - 18:29 PM
You still have not told me the exact path the MP's been placed in. Help me help you here.

The pack works fine for me and thousands of others so it's pretty clear there's something wrong at your end. Either you've installed it incorrectly or your PC can't somehow cope with the size of it, but this is imo unlikely.


If you could please state what you mean by exact path? do you mean sports interactive-football manager 2013-graphics ? as I have done it the same with all other graphics as it states in the installation guide. My computer cost 2k only last year and has plenty of memory etc.

Furthermore as I have paid for premium membership I do not appreciate to clear attitude that you are showing a customer.
mons
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Is that in the Steam folder or the Documents folder? It should be in the latter, but users have been known to erroneously place it in the former where it's known to cause issues. I was thinking that might have been the case.

The price of your computer is not really relevant at this point but, as I've explained before, it's unlikely that it's related to your system, even more now that you've indicated that removing the facepack seems to remove the problem.

When exactly was the game crashing? Was it crashing during matches? Was it crashing when clicking on a particular page (player/team/competition)? Was it crashing during processing? Are the player images displaying at any point before crashing? Have you extracted the megapack file download? How many images do you have in there? Any more info you can provide will help us maybe pinpoint the problem. It seems to me that you've somehow installed it incorrectly from the little evidence that I can gather, but remote assistance is rather difficult unless you can provide me with some furthe details.

I'm not sure what your problem with me is here. It's a Sunday evening and I'm trying to help you find a solution to your problem so I don't believe your attitude is warranted tbph.
The Honduran
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Sorry bit of a daft question but how long roughly does the download take?

Thanks
gwentdragoon
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By mons | Permalink | On 10 March 2013 - 20:05 PM
Is that in the Steam folder or the Documents folder? It should be in the latter, but users have been known to erroneously place it in the former where it's known to cause issues. I was thinking that might have been the case.

The price of your computer is not really relevant at this point but, as I've explained before, it's unlikely that it's related to your system, even more now that you've indicated that removing the facepack seems to remove the problem.

When exactly was the game crashing? Was it crashing during matches? Was it crashing when clicking on a particular page (player/team/competition)? Was it crashing during processing? Are the player images displaying at any point before crashing? Have you extracted the megapack file download? How many images do you have in there? Any more info you can provide will help us maybe pinpoint the problem. It seems to me that you've somehow installed it incorrectly from the little evidence that I can gather, but remote assistance is rather difficult unless you can provide me with some furthe details.

I'm not sure what your problem with me is here. It's a Sunday evening and I'm trying to help you find a solution to your problem so I don't believe your attitude is warranted tbph.


It is in the documents folder, it crashes the moment I click on players sometimes maybe a day into the game. there are over 120000 images in the file and they do show before it crashes.

I understand you are trying to help me but ive paid to use this site and you say I still havent done what you asked and 'help me help you' when im not sure what you are asking, therefore did not appreciate that especially as paying for the privilage.

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