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).
juralegend
7 years ago
3 months ago
14
This was maybe adressed, but is it enough to download complete pack and then update above for all pictures to be updated to this season?
mons
17 years ago
23 minutes ago
85,496
This was maybe adressed, but is it enough to download complete pack and then update above for all pictures to be updated to this season?

Yes, that's it 🙂

There'll be an another update soon to bring you even more up-to-date, and another one after that, and so on and so forth 😉
MT55
12 years ago
3 days ago
172
Hey @mons I've just got home and installed FM and I've created the graphics and faces folder, just extracting them now but I haven't played FM on PC for years so was wondering how long should it take to extract? I'm on 1% after 10 minutes and says it will take 10 hours. It's been about 6 years since I played on PC but I'm pretty sure it didn't take that long, unless I did something wrong.
mons
17 years ago
23 minutes ago
85,496
Hey @mons I've just got home and installed FM and I've created the graphics and faces folder, just extracting them now but I haven't played FM on PC for years so was wondering how long should it take to extract? I'm on 1% after 10 minutes and says it will take 10 hours. It's been about 6 years since I played on PC but I'm pretty sure it didn't take that long, unless I did something wrong.

Reboot your computer, so you are sure the computer is not running an over load of programs. Then just unzip the file... sometimes with such a big file the computer gets the calculation of extraction time wrong and it speeds up after a while.
MT55
12 years ago
3 days ago
172
Hey @mons after I messaged you it started to pick up and I've now got it sorted, thanks anyway!
riccardoditommaso
8 years ago
1 month ago
1
Hi guys I have a problem with the cut cut, I don't know what I did but not but the game doesn't show me the smileys anymore, (of some) I use the skin polish, but also changing skin following all the procedures in the non ni options he reads the smilies, which until recently he read to me. I also tried to remove the various editors but nothing changes.
(I use last year's cut cut)
Tips
mons
17 years ago
23 minutes ago
85,496
Hi guys I have a problem with the cut cut, I don't know what I did but not but the game doesn't show me the smileys anymore, (of some) I use the skin polish, but also changing skin following all the procedures in the non ni options he reads the smilies, which until recently he read to me. I also tried to remove the various editors but nothing changes.
(I use last year's cut cut)
Tips

I'm sorry but I really can't understand what your issue is.

If you could post some screenshots, that would help. It's important that you make sure that the preferences in-game look like the screenshot in the first post of this thread.
MT55
12 years ago
3 days ago
172
hi @mons I've noticed an error in the megapack Kyran Clements has Charley Barker face, not sure if barker has Clements as he's not in my game

EDIT: Just checked both have swapped unique ID on here so been saved wrong.
mons
17 years ago
23 minutes ago
85,496
hi @mons I've noticed an error in the megapack Kyran Clements has Charley Barker face, not sure if barker has Clements as he's not in my game

EDIT: Just checked both have swapped unique ID on here so been saved wrong.

Seems like both were saved correctly in update pack 12.11 but were swapped around in 12.16. I'll be sure to get them the right way round in 13.02 👍
FOTIS TSORONIS
3 years ago
2 years ago
9
Do i have to download all the parts of the faces for fm21 or just the torrent ?
Stevie W
11 years ago
2 months ago
2
Premium
Can you try using Google Chrome in incognito mode? You should have less chance of it being interrupted by a conflicting extension this way, and you should be able to resume downloads should that happen anyway.

Plus the less items being downloaded in the background, the less likelihood there'll be that your download gets interruped.


Thanks mate. That worked perfectly!
mons
17 years ago
23 minutes ago
85,496
Do i have to download all the parts of the faces for fm21 or just the torrent ?

If you download the torrent and the 13.01 update pack, you should be up-to-date 👍
FOTIS TSORONIS
3 years ago
2 years ago
9
If you download the torrent and the 13.01 update pack, you should be up-to-date 👍


So,what i have to download is only the torrent file and not all from 1 to 19 ?
mons
17 years ago
23 minutes ago
85,496
So,what i have to download is only the torrent file and not all from 1 to 19 ?

Yes 👍
FOTIS TSORONIS
3 years ago
2 years ago
9
Bridgbum
5 years ago
1 year ago
2
Premium
Hi, I seem to have a couple of problems;

1. The faces added seem to be blurry
2. Some players/managers missing faces still

Attached some images as well as where the file is placed.
mons
17 years ago
23 minutes ago
85,496
Hi, I seem to have a couple of problems;

1. The faces added seem to be blurry
2. Some players/managers missing faces still

Attached some images as well as where the file is placed.

1. The folder structure is right but you're using the iconfaces with the config for the main faces folder. God knows how you've managed it, but it's obviously not correct.
2. You probably haven't downloaded the full megapack, but just the 13.01 update pack.

Delete whatever is in your sortitoutsi folder and download the full megapack again.

At the end of the process, you should have a faces folder with 283k+ files in it, and an iconfaces folder with the same amount of files in that one.
wauterss
3 years ago
3 months ago
1
So i recently bought a premium membership for downloading the cut out facesmega pack but for some reason the game only shows me several players in the ajax team but nobody else. I've done everything you would normally do: My pc - documents - SI - fm21 - made a graphics folder and put the facepack in there (also tried with maps called faces or sortitoutsi in the graphics folder) but it just doesn't work properly. i have most of the ajax main squad that works properly but not a single player outside the ajax team has a face. Could someone please help me with this because it's really frustrating and i don't enjoy a game when there are these silhouettes instead of players faces
Bridgbum
5 years ago
1 year ago
2
Premium
1. The folder structure is right but you're using the iconfaces with the config for the main faces folder. God knows how you've managed it, but it's obviously not correct.
2. You probably haven't downloaded the full megapack, but just the 13.01 update pack.

Delete whatever is in your sortitoutsi folder and download the full megapack again.

At the end of the process, you should have a faces folder with 283k+ files in it, and an iconfaces folder with the same amount of files in that one.


That is wierd seems like it never extracted the faces folder, will try again! Thanks!
mons
17 years ago
23 minutes ago
85,496
So i recently bought a premium membership for downloading the cut out facesmega pack but for some reason the game only shows me several players in the ajax team but nobody else. I've done everything you would normally do: My pc - documents - SI - fm21 - made a graphics folder and put the facepack in there (also tried with maps called faces or sortitoutsi in the graphics folder) but it just doesn't work properly. i have most of the ajax main squad that works properly but not a single player outside the ajax team has a face. Could someone please help me with this because it's really frustrating and i don't enjoy a game when there are these silhouettes instead of players faces

Have you changed the preferences as per the screenshot in the main post of this thread?

If yes and it still ain't working, please upload a screenshot of your faces folder.

I believe Ajax has some default faces with the game so you're probably seeing them rather than anything from this pack.
Hristu13
12 years ago
1 month ago
11
Have you changed the preferences as per the screenshot in the main post of this thread?

If yes and it still ain't working, please upload a screenshot of your faces folder.

I believe Ajax has some default faces with the game so you're probably seeing them rather than anything from this pack.



I have the same problem. I only get a few pictures of some players
mons
17 years ago
23 minutes ago
85,496
I have the same problem. I only get a few pictures of some players

And have you tried changing the preferences as I suggested in the post you quoted?
Hristu13
12 years ago
1 month ago
11
And have you tried changing the preferences as I suggested in the post you quoted?


yes. the same thing happens...
mons
17 years ago
23 minutes ago
85,496
yes. the same thing happens...

Can I see a screenshot of the preferences?
mons
17 years ago
23 minutes ago
85,496

That looks fine.

In the faces folder, do you have a file titled config.xml?
mamede
12 years ago
2 days ago
4
Hello, i lost all of my cut-out facepacks, so now i downloaded the torrent "complete pack (17.7GB).

My question is, this complete pack includes all the other packs from the beginning, to the last update version (13.01)?

Thanks
mons
17 years ago
23 minutes ago
85,496
Hello, i lost all of my cut-out facepacks, so now i downloaded the torrent "complete pack (17.7GB).

My question is, this complete pack includes all the other packs from the beginning, to the last update version (13.01)?

Thanks

The torrent is for the 13.0 pack. To be fully up-to-date, you'd have to download update pack 13.01 as well 👍
mamede
12 years ago
2 days ago
4
The torrent is for the 13.0 pack. To be fully up-to-date, you'd have to download update pack 13.01 as well 👍


But the 13.0 includes all the previously packs right?

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