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).
mons
17 years ago
18 minutes ago
85,283
Esto com problemas para instalar, só aparecem alguns jogadores, mas muito poucos.

Obg

Can you post screenshots of your megapack folder please?

This is an English language forum so please reply in English 👍
Diogosg
12 years ago
3 months ago
2
Premium
Você pode postar capturas de tela da sua pasta megapack, por favor? Este é um fórum em inglês, então responda em inglês 👍


O ponto é que eu faço o Downlaod do pacote completo e então apenas alguns jogadores aparecem para mim. Eu faço tudo conforme as instruções.
mons
17 years ago
18 minutes ago
85,283
O ponto é que eu faço o Downlaod do pacote completo e então apenas alguns jogadores aparecem para mim. Eu faço tudo conforme as instruções.

This post neither contains screenshots nor is it in English, as previously requested. Help me to help you.
Michael Garman
3 years ago
4 months ago
3
Hi Guys. I'm not to sure if i'm being really thick but i need some help.

I downloaded the megapack (12) and then started to download the additional updates but am struggling as i'm not sure where i put the updated packs? Do they sit in the graphics folder as a different name or do they all go into the same folder?

The only reason i ask is that some of the files names, the pictures are two different people but obviously it wants to over write it.

I've downloaded upto 13.4 but need to know where to stick the pictures.

Can someone stick a guide for the updates please as i can't seem to locate one, just how to do the mega packs.


Thanks
mons
17 years ago
18 minutes ago
85,283
Hi Guys. I'm not to sure if i'm being really thick but i need some help.

I downloaded the megapack (12) and then started to download the additional updates but am struggling as i'm not sure where i put the updated packs? Do they sit in the graphics folder as a different name or do they all go into the same folder?

The only reason i ask is that some of the files names, the pictures are two different people but obviously it wants to over write it.

I've downloaded upto 13.4 but need to know where to stick the pictures.

Can someone stick a guide for the updates please as i can't seem to locate one, just how to do the mega packs.


Thanks

You should merge the folders in the update pack with the folder in your megapack folder. You should have one faces folder and once iconfaces folder, and neither should contain a sub-folder. All the images (plus the config file) should be included in the respective folder.

If you are getting a prompt to confirm if you want to overwrite, then you are probably installing them correctly. You should accept all overwrite prompts 👍

There may be the very rare instance where a wrong image is uploaded, but I check all the improvements manually and I am not aware of any current instances in the megapack. In some cases, cut-outs are updated after a number of years so it might be the case that a cut-out of a player when he's 24 looks very different than what he looked like at age 17, for example.

If you come up across an image you believe is definitely wrong, please let us know so that it can be corrected in future update packs 👍
Michael Garman
3 years ago
4 months ago
3
Thanks for the reply.

Yes some have aged and you can obviously tell they are the same person but some are a totally different skin colour or ethnicity.

As long as i accept all overwrite prompts then i should be golden, right? Also, do all the config files go in to?

I'm now merging the 13, 13.01, 13.2, 13.3 & 13.04 updates into one folder and moving them over into the main folder.

Fingers crossed all goes well
mons
17 years ago
18 minutes ago
85,283
Thanks for the reply.

Yes some have aged and you can obviously tell they are the same person but some are a totally different skin colour or ethnicity.

As long as i accept all overwrite prompts then i should be golden, right? Also, do all the config files go in to?

I'm now merging the 13, 13.01, 13.2, 13.3 & 13.04 updates into one folder and moving them over into the main folder.

Fingers crossed all goes well

I would appreciate if you could point out which 'are a totally different skin colour or ethnicity'. There can't be more than a handful correctly cuts previously added incorrectly.

Other than that, you should be fine using the process you've described 👍
Michael Garman
3 years ago
4 months ago
3
So does that mean all the config files need to be there too?

Will let you know when i move the updates into the main folder
mons
17 years ago
18 minutes ago
85,283
So does that mean all the config files need to be there too?

Will let you know when i move the updates into the main folder

The config file in each update pack contains all the images within the whole pack, and not just for the images in the individual update pack.

If you install it correctly, you should be prompted to overwrite all files. It's really all very simple: press yes/ok, that's all you need to do. This will mean that the config file at the end of the process should be the most recent one.
mp_87
11 years ago
19 hours ago
4
Premium
Hi.

Not sure if this is a stupid question, also apologies if it's already been asked many times before...

Downloaded the packs for years with no issues, this time though I think I've hit a snag. Maybe it's just me being dumb and faces are that size this year, but swear they should look bigger than this?

(If I have done it wrong, then only thing I can think of is that when extracting I had duplicate files it wanted me to overwrite, and I just hit 'yes to all' absentmindedly, was that the problem?)
mons
17 years ago
18 minutes ago
85,283
Hi.

Not sure if this is a stupid question, also apologies if it's already been asked many times before...

Downloaded the packs for years with no issues, this time though I think I've hit a snag. Maybe it's just me being dumb and faces are that size this year, but swear they should look bigger than this?

(If I have done it wrong, then only thing I can think of is that when extracting I had duplicate files it wanted me to overwrite, and I just hit 'yes to all' absentmindedly, was that the problem?)

Hitting yes to all, absent-mindedly or not, is what you should have done, so that's not the issue 😉

You seem to be using the default skin, which is set by default to display the skins in a smaller size than this megapack allows. If you want to enjoy the megapack cuts in their full intended glory, try downloading one of the skins from our forum, most of which use the space on that screen differently and in a way to maximise the size of the face within them.
mp_87
11 years ago
19 hours ago
4
Premium
Hitting yes to all, absent-mindedly or not, is what you should have done, so that's not the issue 😉

You seem to be using the default skin, which is set by default to display the skins in a smaller size than this megapack allows. If you want to enjoy the megapack cuts in their full intended glory, try downloading one of the skins from our forum, most of which use the space on that screen differently and in a way to maximise the size of the face within them.


Will do! Thanks for the answer mons
Grantsimpson78
9 years ago
1 day ago
82
Premium
Hi is there a quicker way to extract the files onthe mega pack currently using winrar and the time left to completion is 189hours any advice would greatly welcome. thanks
mons
17 years ago
18 minutes ago
85,283
Hi is there a quicker way to extract the files onthe mega pack currently using winrar and the time left to completion is 189hours any advice would greatly welcome. thanks

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.

Be prepared for it to take a fair while. It may take around an hour or slightly less with all conditions being ideal.

If you can't find the time to leave your PC alone to extract the files, perhaps it might be worth letting it extract overnight, making sure there aren't any power settings which send the system to sleep if inactive after a period of time.
William Botchway
3 years ago
1 year ago
3
Premium
I don't know why I can't figure this out, but I'm trying to update my 13.00 facepack. When I did it before, once I entered the game almost all of the faces were gone. So, I deleted my update folders and I'm back to where I started. I'm pretty sure it's because I extracted the files to the wrong folder, so here's my question. Starting with 13.01, do I extract the whole update folder to?

a) graphics
b) sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_13.00
c) sortitoutsi (the folder within the b folder)

or do I go into faces and iconfaces individually and try to extract these into the corresponding existing folders, replacing all?

Attached are screenshots of my proposed file paths.

Let me know if you need more info. Thanks in advance.
mons
17 years ago
18 minutes ago
85,283
I don't know why I can't figure this out, but I'm trying to update my 13.00 facepack. When I did it before, once I entered the game almost all of the faces were gone. So, I deleted my update folders and I'm back to where I started. I'm pretty sure it's because I extracted the files to the wrong folder, so here's my question. Starting with 13.01, do I extract the whole update folder to?

a) graphics
b) sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_13.00
c) sortitoutsi (the folder within the b folder)

or do I go into faces and iconfaces individually and try to extract these into the corresponding existing folders, replacing all?

Attached are screenshots of my proposed file paths.

Let me know if you need more info. Thanks in advance.

To avoid messing things up, extract each update pack to a separate, temporary folder, and then move the contents of the faces and iconfaces folder respectively into the megapack folder, overwriting when prompted. Repeat for each update pack.
William Botchway
3 years ago
1 year ago
3
Premium
Great advice. Will do. Thank you so much, you're the man
George Morris
3 years ago
1 year ago
1
I am struggling to download packs on my MacBook. Everyone's tutorials online look very different to what I have in front of me, can someone help with some advise to do it on my MacBook? In addition, I use Steam to play FM21 on my laptop.
mons
17 years ago
18 minutes ago
85,283
I am struggling to download packs on my MacBook. Everyone's tutorials online look very different to what I have in front of me, can someone help with some advise to do it on my MacBook? In addition, I use Steam to play FM21 on my laptop.

What exactly is the issue? The screenshot you uploaded shows a random collection of images you've downloaded and created a config for, unless I'm mistaken. That doesn't have anything to do with the megapack not downloading or installing properly.

We'll need a bit more info on what exactly you're trying to do.
cidinhu_77
14 years ago
6 months ago
4
Hi!
After downolad and install facepacks my FM21 became very slow and don't proceed on the loading screen.
How can I fix this issue? Thanks all!
mons
17 years ago
18 minutes ago
85,283
Hi!
After downolad and install facepacks my FM21 became very slow and don't proceed on the loading screen.
How can I fix this issue? Thanks all!

The first time you load FM up after installing the pack should see the loading screen time take a fair bit longer, but we're only talking a few minutes more. Can I have a screenshot of the place you've installed this file?
cidinhu_77
14 years ago
6 months ago
4
The first time you load FM up after installing the pack should see the loading screen time take a fair bit longer, but we're only talking a few minutes more. Can I have a screenshot of the place you've installed this file?


I wait 10, 15 minuts and nothing happens... I'm worried.
I'm on Mac. There is the screenshot. I place on the graphics folder.

Thanks!
mons
17 years ago
18 minutes ago
85,283
I wait 10, 15 minuts and nothing happens... I'm worried.
I'm on Mac. There is the screenshot. I place on the graphics folder.

Thanks!

I don't speak Spanish very well and I don't use a Mac, so my capacity to help is a bit limited. It's saying there's nothing in there. Can I see inside the folder, rather than the properties?
cidinhu_77
14 years ago
6 months ago
4
I don't speak Spanish very well and I don't use a Mac, so my capacity to help is a bit limited. It's saying there's nothing in there. Can I see inside the folder, rather than the properties?


I attach properties to see the path.
The folder is this. Folder faces on the folder graphics.
mons
17 years ago
18 minutes ago
85,283
I attach properties to see the path.
The folder is this. Folder faces on the folder graphics.

All fine so far. What's inside the faces folder? Ideally I can see the properties of that folder too 🙂
adambell5
8 years ago
1 day ago
15
Premium
how do i add a single pic to the game. ive downloaded a pic and put it in my fm21 graphics folder with the right IDs number and done the clear cache and reload skin.
every other pic ive downloaded in a megapack is on the game apart from single pic ive downloaded separatley
mons
17 years ago
18 minutes ago
85,283
how do i add a single pic to the game. ive downloaded a pic and put it in my fm21 graphics folder with the right IDs number and done the clear cache and reload skin.
every other pic ive downloaded in a megapack is on the game apart from single pic ive downloaded separatley

Follow the steps in this thread.
adambell5
8 years ago
1 day ago
15
Premium

thanks for the quick reply

ive download fmXML but when i try to open it it says
the code execution cannot proceed because MFC70.DLL was not found
mons
17 years ago
18 minutes ago
85,283
thanks for the quick reply

ive download fmXML but when i try to open it it says
the code execution cannot proceed because MFC70.DLL was not found

Google that dll file and add it to the downloaded folder.
adambell5
8 years ago
1 day ago
15
Premium
Google that dll file and add it to the downloaded folder.


thanks alot for your time but now it tells me i have to down load Msvcr70.dll which i have and i cant open it because ive not got the right app on my laptop to do it

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