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 480,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.
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- 2025.01 - Released on 04 Dec 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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LennySUFC
My WinRAR is saying it's going to take 9 hours to extract the faces into the FM22 Graphics folder.
Is that normal, or is it just that my PC is that old!
Thanks for the pack btw!
mons
Have a look at point 11 of the FAQ in the first post 😉
LennySUFC
You did that reading thing… very clever.
Thanks!!
Qvordrup
the attached image is with indexed color and as expected it looks like this:
Footygamer
Sorry @Qvordrup I messed up and somehow uploaded the Rashford image when I was meant to attach the one that was in the post, I just assigned it to Rashford's ID so it would appear for sure in FM16.
Can you try this attached image.
This image is significant because it's exactly as it was uploaded by @P-Jo and nothing to do with our compression. It may be that the way some users are saving the image initially is causing this.
Qvordrup
This picture is RGB color and as excepted it works just fine
I think you are right in assuming that it (for normal faces) has noting to do with the compression of the pack and that people for some reason just upload pictures in indexed color 👍
Footygamer
Sorry again, i've got confused and thought you said in this comment that 2001040995 (that image) was indexed colour and had the issue but you seem to be saying it's RGB now.
I still don't really understand the problem to be honest so i'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to resolve it, if at all.
Qvordrup
Sorry for the confusion, but this is what it is in the comment:
"I've come across another problem: some of the iconfaces that are indexed color have also lost there transparency.
some examples: 2002040995, 2001040995, 2000147332 (I've no idea of how big this problem is, as I have only done a small sample)"
So the problem with “2002040995” is NOT the normal face that is RGB color, but the iconface that is indexed color and have lost its transparency.
So a lot has got RGB color for normal face, and indexed color for iconface.
This is the comment where I've looked after indexed color for normal faces : https://sortitoutsi.net/comments/get/665656
Qvordrup
@Footygamer just to let you know how I look and see if a picture is indexed color or RGB color :
bakizp
@Qvordrup you don't even need to browse the menus,if image is with indexed color, layer will be named Index.
DexyT_3
I'm on Mac i've done the rar they're now files (ive downloaded the latest update file and the big file) i just need help with putting them into the right place, i've tried putting them into the graphics folder but it didn't work for some reason. I also did the Badges and Real names downloads and they worked fine. i just cant get the cut out faces to work. any help would be appreciated.
Cheers
mons
I'd missed this earlier, being as it was posted in a new thread, so I've moved it here.
Have a look at the FAQs in the first post. If they don't help, upload screenshots of the location you placed the downloaded files, showing clearly (a) the full path and (b) the amount of images included in the faces folder 👍
hulken
Whats happening with the search function? For example if I search up “Bayer Leverkusen”, the Reading FC manager pops up instead of the team. It´s like that with a lot of other teams awell, Lazio, Sevilla etc.
mons
Everything's working perfectly fine at my end. Can you take a screenshot of what you mean? What pages/sections are you seeing this one?
hulken
Bayer Leverkusen comes up, but ones I click in the Reading manager is the one that pops up.
See pics
hulken
The same goes for Sevilla:
mons
Ah I see now.
Both entries have the same UID in the FM database, albeit for different categories. In cases like this, the forum search defaults to displaying the timeline of the player with that UID. In instances like this, if you want to see the team's cut-outs, use the site's search tool and click on cut-outs.
hulken
That makes sense. Thanks for the help
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GarviLoken
Ignore this post.
mons
I'd actually seen it before you edited it, but didn't get the time to actually reply! I'm assuming you sorted it out then 🙂
willyfk
Hi!
I wanted to add Angelo's face, so I did the same I had been doing in every FM before.
I saved the sortitoutsi file with his id number (2000055284) in the pictures folder and edited the config file to match.
In blue the change I made, as usual.
Problem is in the config file the numbers don't match and I ended up with Angelo being 70.
Does anyone know what to do?
Thanks!
mons
@willyfk Remove what you added to the config file, it's not correct.
The code starts with
<record from=, not finishes with itweeniehutjr
You've pasted the code for Angelo's config in the middle of the config for whoever has the UID 0, and the game reads the red block and the blue block as separate config entries.
Replace those two parts with the following:
Joshua Brick
i have all the faces downloaded for a while now and notice hansi flick face image doesnt work on either my laptop or pc, i was wondering if there is a fix for it?
mons
It's not actually an issue with the megapack but a licensing issue. Read point 3 of the FAQ on the licensing fix file for more info and a potential solution.
Joshua Brick
Much appreciated
KeremAli62
Despite being in the Megapack, photos of a few players such as Zalazar and Reus are not visible. What is this due to?
mons
I'll have a look, but it would help if you gave me the UIDs of the players. There are many Zalazars and Reuses in the database after all 😉
KeremAli62
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