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
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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Davke1904
I changed the skin to the original football manager skin and
started a new save. Same result …..
did also a new graphics search like u asked it is in the attachment
Davke1904
New test
mons
Documents \ Sports Interactive \ Football Manager 2022 \ Graphics
Can I see this folder? Please note - I don't want to see the OneDrive version, I want to see the one directly in your Documents. Before taking the screenshot, click on the path so that I can see it in full like the below if possible (instead of the breadcrumbs version)
I'd also like to see the faces folder in there, so that I can be sure it's identical to your OneDrive equivalent.
mikeowl
Thanks @mons appreciate the help
Screenshots attached - both followed the FAQs
Half of the original game faces have disappeared too (ones from Championship etc), so not sure if that is correlated?
mons
Both seem fine.
When you say they aren't working, what is that you mean? Do you get an empty space where the player image would ordinarily go, or is it the dark default face for players without an image? Can I have a screenshot of one of these players?
At the start of this conversation, you say that you have copied over the folders from a previous version. Did you add an update pack for any of those facepack styles perchance? I suspect you have installed it wrongly - when you get an empty space where a player image should be, that's what happens.
mikeowl
It's just the generic default face for players without an image (as per the attached) - coincidentally, before trying to use the graphics folder, this player had an actual picture in the original game
I've not used any updated packs
I was using the same graphics folder for 2021, but on a PC
For 2022, I've copied the same folder into a hard drive and moved across to the new Mac
Background stadiums are working fine, but for some reason the faces aren't
mons
In this post, the screenshot showed that you are running multiple facepack styles at a time. It could be that one or more of them do not have the full megapack and just an update pack instead. Perhaps FM reads files differently on Macs when compared to Windows, which might lead to this anomaly. Since you have 4 folders and 4 different facepacks, there are up to 4 folders in which things could be potentially going awry, which is a bit hard to diagnose via screenshots.
Barry Bannan's UID is 29010507. Can you check inside all four of the packs and see if you can find an image with that filename in there?
I would also suggest that you move any 3 of the folders to a temporary folder elsewhere, to see if the issue can be localised in any one folder. (e.g. leave the sortitoutsi folder, and move the 3). Then reload your skin to see if the faces start appearing.
mikeowl
Thanks @mons
I'll do a bit of trial and error and see if I can make it work
Copywriter
Since this year am i playing at a Mac Book Pro.
Now i have the problem that on the Mac the cache will not clear and i only see a part of the faces.
On my old computer (Windows) the same faces are visable.
I have followed the instructions. in the post to clear the cache.
Could somebody tell me where on the Mac the cache is located?
I have also cleared already the preferences map
mons
At no point in the installation instructions is it specified that you have to clear the cache to get the graphics to appear. That is not what is needed, and will make no difference at all, since clearing the cache will not display images which aren't installed correctly, which is generally why images don't display.
Can I have a screenshot of your preferences (showing the bit displayed in the installation instruction), and screenshots of the folder you've installed your faces in (showing clearly both the full path) and of the amount of images in your faces folder? 👍
Copywriter
What do you mean with above?
mons
I want to see your equivalent of this:
Copywriter
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mons
@Copywriter, this thread is about the cut-out faces megapack, not the DF11 pack. I can't really help with something I don't have anything to do with…
Copywriter
The faces are png with a xml file so the principale is the same.
I am disapointed.
mons
Perhaps, but this is not a general FM helpdesk.
Copywriter
I think i change to Cut Out to get support
mons
Follow the installation instructions and it should all be reasonably straight-forward 👍
Smoggy1986
Hi.
I've download the complete pack & extracted it into the graphics folder. I've cleared the cache, ticked “Reload skin” option & unticked “Use caching” option but the faces are not appearing after reloading the skin. I had the face pack for last years game & had no issues with it but the new 1 will simply not appear. I've checked & the config file is present in the folder.
Any suggestions what I can do?
Thanks
mons
Can I see a screenshot of your faces folder, showing clearly (a) the full path and (b) the amount of files in the folder (in Windows this is usually in the bottom left corner of the Windows explorer window)?
Smoggy1986
mons
Looks fine.
Can I see what's in your graphics folder, and what's in your graphics/faces folder please?
Smoggy1986
mons
What's in the _MACOSX folder in the first screenshot, and what's in the Custom Faces and faces 0102 folders in the second screenshot?
Can I assume that the sortitoutsi folder contains just 2 folders? One titled faces and one named iconfaces?
And when you say the pack isn't working, what exactly do you mean? Can I have an in-game screenshot of Salah or Kane, for example?
Smoggy1986
The _MACOSX folder is a different stadium pack folder. Custom faces is what I use for faces I've created using FMXML for players that are not in the face packs. 01/02 is a face pack folder for players from the 01/02 season database.
Basically none of the player faces are showing in game. Yes the pack includes both faces & iconfaces.
AndreasCZ
is there a way how to replace a single face in the facepack with a different one?
mons
It's as easy as overwriting the old image with the new one 🙂
HayzenFM
hi guys, got a problem, my cutout pack doesnt want to load ig, i dunno why but i tried it various times, deleted all game files on my pc, redownloaded it and nothing works.. im confused cause my TCM Logos pack works if i put it in the graphics folder…
could someone help me?
thanks
As you can see, TCM Logo is OK, but not the Messi cutout face…
mons
Can I have a screenshot of your faces folder, showing clearly) the amount of files in the folder (in Windows this is usually in the bottom left corner of the Windows explorer window)?
HayzenFM
Hi, thanks for your help, here you go.