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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  • 2024.07 - Released on 15 Apr 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).
wizm
10 years ago
1 month ago
8
Hi,

I've never had an issue with this pack before, but I'm missing the whole France and Netherlands squad faces, I have tried everything and from reinstalling and redownloading everything again.

Does anyone have any suggestions?
mons
17 years ago
16 minutes ago
85,897
Hi,

I've never had an issue with this pack before, but I'm missing the whole France and Netherlands squad faces, I have tried everything and from reinstalling and redownloading everything again.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

It's a licensing issue resolved by downloading the, you guessed it, licensing fix 😉
wizm
10 years ago
1 month ago
8
It's a licensing issue resolved by downloading the, you guessed it, licensing fix 😉

I have tried this but still no luck 😢 do I have to start a new save?
wizm
10 years ago
1 month ago
8
It's a licensing issue resolved by downloading the, you guessed it, licensing fix 😉


This particular fix has worked!!!
I tried one from another website and no luck.
Appreciate it, man!
JON35Y
3 years ago
1 year ago
6
Hi Guys, Im new here, ive recently installed one of the Kit Packs which is working fine the same with flages/badges, however i seem to be having abit of difficulty with the player faces, I downloaded the cut out mega facepack mega file 13.03 complete file, Followed the installation procedure but the faces are still not showing in game ?
any help apprecaited. Thankyou
mons
17 years ago
16 minutes ago
85,897
Hi Guys, Im new here, ive recently installed one of the Kit Packs which is working fine the same with flages/badges, however i seem to be having abit of difficulty with the player faces, I downloaded the cut out mega facepack mega file 13.03 complete file, Followed the installation procedure but the faces are still not showing in game ?
any help apprecaited. Thankyou

Can I have a screenshot of the location you've installed the faces folder? Showing clearly both the path and the amount of images.

Also, can you check that the preferences in-game look like the screenshot in the first post?
JON35Y
3 years ago
1 year ago
6
thankyou for the reply, here are some screenshots and as far as I'm aware the preferences are the same
https://ibb.co/dW2ZLtd - Path
https://ibb.co/55bQwBW - selected all images to show total images
https://ibb.co/5c83vJZ - selected all images to show total images
Thanks
mons
17 years ago
16 minutes ago
85,897
thankyou for the reply, here are some screenshots and as far as I'm aware the preferences are the same
https://ibb.co/dW2ZLtd - Path
https://ibb.co/55bQwBW - selected all images to show total images
https://ibb.co/5c83vJZ - selected all images to show total images
Thanks

You don't have the full megapack, just the most recent update pack. The full megapack contains 290,000+ faces for a total download size of 18GB+, while the file you downloaded only has 5,000 images and is much smaller in size.
JON35Y
3 years ago
1 year ago
6
Thankyou for the help, which pack should i download ?
mons
17 years ago
16 minutes ago
85,897
Thankyou for the help, which pack should i download ?

Download the torrent, which contains the base 13.0 pack, and install it. Once you do, download the 13.01, 13.02 and 13.03 update packs and apply them chronologically 👍
JON35Y
3 years ago
1 year ago
6
thanks, im currently downloading the cutout megapack which is 18.3gb
mons
17 years ago
16 minutes ago
85,897
thanks, im currently downloading the cutout megapack which is 18.3gb

Remove the files downloaded previously and install the new ones in exactly the same place. When you load up FM, make sure to change your preferences as per the screenshot in the first post of this thread, and you should be good to go 🙂
JON35Y
3 years ago
1 year ago
6
okay ill go remove the previous files i installed, i have just noticed this pack im downloading is sortitout_cutout_megapack_13.03 18.3gb is this correct?
mons
17 years ago
16 minutes ago
85,897
okay ill go remove the previous files i installed, i have just noticed this pack im downloading is sortitout_cutout_megapack_13.03 18.3gb is this correct?

Yes, that's the most recent version 👍
JON35Y
3 years ago
1 year ago
6
brill, thanks for the help, 👏
Søren Bojsen
11 years ago
3 minutes ago
11
Premium
Hello,
How i add the update files to the main one in the folder (i'm on mac)? Do i just place it next to the it, or does it go into it? I have done it before, but i cant seem to remember how exactly to dot it.
Søren Bojsen
11 years ago
3 minutes ago
11
Premium
Hello,
How i add the update files to the main one in the folder (i'm on mac)? Do i just place it next to the it, or does it go into it? I have done it before, but i cant seem to remember how exactly to dot it.


Or does the new config file simple contain all the player faces from the original pack together with the new one?
mons
17 years ago
16 minutes ago
85,897
Hello,
How i add the update files to the main one in the folder (i'm on mac)? Do i just place it next to the it, or does it go into it? I have done it before, but i cant seem to remember how exactly to dot it.

You should have one folder and one folder only with all the images and the config file within it, i.e. not with update packs as sub-folders. I recommend extracting the update pack(s) then copying the contents of the faces folder from the downloaded file and moving them into the faces folder in your graphics folder. Same for your iconfaces folder 👍




Or does the new config file simple contain all the player faces from the original pack together with the new one?

The config file included in the update packs contains all the player faces, not just those of that particular update pack.
Søren Bojsen
11 years ago
3 minutes ago
11
Premium
You should have one folder and one folder only with all the images and the config file within it, i.e. not with update packs as sub-folders. I recommend extracting the update pack(s) then copying the contents of the faces folder from the downloaded file and moving them into the faces folder in your graphics folder. Same for your iconfaces folder 👍

The config file included in the update packs contains all the player faces, not just those of that particular update pack.


Makes sense. Thanks!
Rabidear
11 years ago
3 days ago
4
Not a technical question per se, but I don't know where to post this: Mark Connolly, Dundee Utd, ID 28030487 has a dot in the config ("28030487." ) which makes the game not reading his picture. The line is repeated directly after witouth the dot, but because the game already has assigned the non-existing picture to that ID it doesn't help.

And thanks for an awesome face pack, guys.
mons
17 years ago
16 minutes ago
85,897
Not a technical question per se, but I don't know where to post this: Mark Connolly, Dundee Utd, ID 28030487 has a dot in the config ("28030487." ) which makes the game not reading his picture. The line is repeated directly after witouth the dot, but because the game already has assigned the non-existing picture to that ID it doesn't help.

And thanks for an awesome face pack, guys.

Oh dear, I'll be sure to sort that out for 13.04. In case you haven't worked it out, all you need to do till then is to remove the line in the config with the extra dot in it 😉
Charliemc
6 years ago
4 months ago
1
Premium
Have downloaded the file for previous games but had to clear out my pc and trying to download the full pack again but can't find the option to do it via torrents, just downloading it via chrome and it will take ages, any recommendations?
mons
17 years ago
16 minutes ago
85,897
Have downloaded the file for previous games but had to clear out my pc and trying to download the full pack again but can't find the option to do it via torrents, just downloading it via chrome and it will take ages, any recommendations?

The ability for premium members to download the files using torrents was removed since the prevailing thought was that they wouldn't need it if they downloaded directly through the site. Over the past weeks, it appears some premium users feel they should have it back and so we're seeing if we can add it back again in the near future.
imba#7241
3 years ago
5 months ago
14
Hello guys, i would like to download the complete pack, but i dont know how to do that. I arrive in a moment where it says to download every part (part 1, part 2, part 3 etc) but i don't find a complete link to download everything. How can i do that? Thank you for your help.
mons
17 years ago
16 minutes ago
85,897
Hello guys, i would like to download the complete pack, but i dont know how to do that. I arrive in a moment where it says to download every part (part 1, part 2, part 3 etc) but i don't find a complete link to download everything. How can i do that? Thank you for your help.

The best way to do it is to download the torrent file, which contains the 13.0 base pack, then download the 13.01, 13.02 and 13.03 update packs and install them all chronologically 👍
imba#7241
3 years ago
5 months ago
14
The best way to do it is to download the torrent file, which contains the 13.0 base pack, then download the 13.01, 13.02 and 13.03 update packs and install them all chronologically 👍

Hi, and thank you for your answering. Do you have a guide about what you mean with "install"? Thanks
mons
17 years ago
16 minutes ago
85,897
Hi, and thank you for your answering. Do you have a guide about what you mean with "install"? Thanks

There's a video here showing you the steps on how to do so, which is more easy-to-understand than anything I could write. It's for Mac, but it's the same process for PCs.
enziocosta
5 years ago
15 hours ago
4,679
@mons

Is there any where that I can download the whole iconfaces pack latest version 13.03? I accidentally deleted my iconfaces folder. (blame the FM resource archiver tool)
mons
17 years ago
16 minutes ago
85,897
@mons

Is there any where that I can download the whole iconfaces pack latest version 13.03? I accidentally deleted my iconfaces folder. (blame the FM resource archiver tool)

Send me a PM so I remember to upload it for you tomorrow 😉
Diogosg
12 years ago
4 months ago
2
Premium
Esto com problemas para instalar, só aparecem alguns jogadores, mas muito poucos.

Obg

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