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 475,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.
- 480,827
- 2025.00 - Released on 29 Oct 2024
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'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.
This is what the MP folder should look like:
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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Rowan
We get a LOT of users that claim to have put the pack in the right place and followed the instructions, but usually after investigating we find they hadn't. That is why mons is trying to get more info from you, and nothing more.
What you are describing doesn't make any sense to us as we have highlighted, thousands of others are using the pack successfully.
What we need to know for DEFINITE is the filepath you have put all your graphics in. A screenshot would be nice, but they MUST go:
User/My Docs/SI/FM13/graphics
and NOT:
Program Files/Steam/SteamApps/common/football manager 2013/graphics
It may be that if you have placed some things in there, some will work while others do not and it may be that this causes crashes.
If you have got it in the right place and the Megapack does contain all the images AND the config.xml file then something has gone wrong with the game itself. In which case can you do the following:
Clear the FM Cache
We do our best to help everyone with the installation of these graphics and we don't get paid anything, all the money earned from subscriptions goes to the hosting of these MASSIVE files, so please show patience and understanding in our attempts to help.
mons
gwentdragoon, I don't know you and I'm trying to help you so there really is no need nor reason for you to feel offended or insulted as that was definitely not my intention. Let's try and solve this problem now
The Honduran
I've never downloaded the Facepack before, so what version should I download? It says Complete Pack (5.4) at the top of the page will that contain them all, or should I download that or download in order 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4?
Thanks and great work on the pack!
mons
Download the complete 5.4 pack and you should be sorted. Make sure you carefully follow the installation instructions in order to ensure that the process goes swimmingly
And that is one weird avatar
The Honduran
Thanks for the reply! Will give it a go just now.
And yeah, it is
mons
What is it from, if I may ask? Looks like it's a customised player face in the FIFA11 arena...
The Honduran
Yep! It's from FIFA 12 not 11 though - Full marks
GabrielQuadri
Rowan
How many images do you have in your Megapack folder and is there a config.xml file?
Also can you tell us EXACTLY where you placed the folder?
it MUST go:
User/My Docs/SI/FM13/graphics/faces
NOT:
Program files/Steam/SI/FM13...etc
Finally did you remember to tick & untick the right boxes in game preferences?
Adam Eaton
Do you know anything about how to save Facepacks and the rest of the graphics etc to external hard drive ?
Cheers
Richard Eaglesham
Could one of you please help me via TeamViewer as I paid for the benefits of being a premium member, and at the moment the faces are not working
Thanks
mons
I will need the following to see what's wrong, ideally accompanied with screenshots.
The folder in which the MP folder is placed. Please make sure that you copy and paste it exactly from the address bar.
The total image count contained therein.
Whether there is a folder named config.xml contained therein.
HappyDude88
I have downloaded the complete facepack selection, including the updates for 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4.
I did the icons too, and this worked without any issues. However, the changes don't seem to have worked. All the faces from 5.0 have come up on my game, having followed the instructions. However, ones in the 5.1 - 5.4 updates haven't. I know this, as I have cut-outs of Dietmar Hamann, Zenden and Jurgen Klinsmann for example in the folder, but they aren't coming up on the game.
All my pictures are in one file. Do the updates for 5.1 - 5.4 need to be separate folders for these new faces to appear in the game? Can you let me know.
Thanks.
Side Splitting Pass
HappyDude88
Side Splitting Pass
Bolouswki
So - anyone know how I can get the randomly generated face pictures to start showing up again?
thanks for any help
mons
Bolouswki
Good man! Totally correct! Thanks!
Jogo Bonito
However, I see there are 2 new updates since then. Do I need to load 5.04 and 5.05 to see all the latest additions, or just 5.05? I assume both but could you confirm please. Also, if I am asked to overwrite at any point, should I say yes or no? I would literally cry if I removed all the images I already have haha.
Second question. There are 2 players that I searched in your image ID thread, and they both have pics that say 5.01 underneath. Does that mean they should have shown when I downloaded 5.03 full version? One of them (24026903) was on the default with a pic but hasn't shown an image since I loaded the megapack 5.03. The other (85120748) wasn't on the default database but despite showing as 5.01 in your ID thread, no face for him is in my 5.03 version.
Finally, what benefit do you get from the Icons pack? How do logos and kits appear different to the existing version that I would have? What other benefits are there? I have never downloaded Icons so just not sure if the benefits make much difference to the experience.
I hope my questions make sense and would appreciate your advice again.
Thanks in advance
mons
To answer your first question, download the 5.04 update packs and then 5.05 and apply them in order, overwriting when prompted. Remember, you should have one folder and one folder only with all the images in there. You should have over 125,600 images, plus the config.xml in there.
In response to your second question, what that means is that the image for the person in question was added in that update pack. It will of course be visible both if you download any subsequent packs or if you download the latest version of the whole megapack.
For more info on the icons megapack, click this link. It refers to the previous version of the icons megapack, but the concept remains the same. It's up to you whether you want them to be in your game. It's got nothing to do with logos and kits, and those are dealt with in separate areas of these forums.
Hope this helps
FrancoRamallo
I'm downloading Megapack 5.0 for the first time but I have this problem.
The Rar is 5.0 gb. I'm running windows on a 32 gb ssd while all the programs are in another disk. How Can i manage to move MyDocuments folder to the other disk? If i paste these 5 gb in the ssd I will not have any other free space left. Please help me.
mons
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.
Jogo Bonito
Thanks mons, I will try and upload 5.04 and 5.05 soon. Also thanks for info on the icons pack too.
Question 2 response also understood, but something isn't quite right (I'm on 5.03 version at the moment after downloading that in full).
ID 85120748 is in my faces folder and somebody even sent me another so now I have two pics in there for him. Both pics show a face when I open in the folder, but no face shows for that player in game. I have 122,345 items showing and config file.
ID 24026903 face was in the default list but upon checking that image number still does not appear in my faces folder or in game.
Any ideas what the problem might be?
Side Splitting Pass
Similarly for ID 24026903 use this to search for the file then download it to your folder & it should appear in game.
Jogo Bonito
Thanks very much for that. Yes, the original pic was 85120748, the latest one was 85120748[1]. Both were png files. I deleted the original now, re-named the latest one, exited game and steam and re-loaded the skin. Still no face appeared. I then did the same from the link you gave, so that only that one image number was in the folder for this player, exited, re-loaded the skin again etc - still it doesn't appear.
You obviously know your stuff and this should work. But sadly it isn't in my version for some unknown reason. Any more thoughts?
I didn't yet try it on the other player ID as he isn't currently one of my squad, hence not so important.
mons
Side Splitting Pass
Alternatively try adding packs 5.04 & 5.05. That'll give you an up to date config file.
Jogo Bonito
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