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
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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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mons
Genk has 75 players with cut-outs in the megapack. Looks like you didn't install the megapack correctly.
Can we have screenshots of your megapack folder, showing clearly the full path it’s located in as well as how many images are in that folder?
Ben0404
mons
Can I see screenshots of the actual folders, as well as how many images are in each folder? Also, I want to see what's before the Library bit - I need to see the full path.
Also, can I see your preferences, and confirm they look like the installation instructions?
Ben0404
Ben0404
mons
@Ben0404, you have given me two different paths
These do not seem to be the same place, since the first one has graphics / Faces and the second one has graphics / Players. Which is the correct one?
Also, I'd suggest having the folder names in lower case, not starting with a capital letter.
Ben0404
ah sorry i changed the folders. both icon faces and faces are in the Players folder. I will change them to lowercase
Paul Holbrook
First of all, I'm sorry if this has been answered before, or in the FAQs, I have looked but can't find the answer I'm looking for.
I have downloaded and installed the cut-out face pack and all is good. However, there were a few faces missing, so I downloaded some further face packs using the ‘browse’ function.
So I now have another unzipped folder containing some further faces, but I'm not sure where I need to put these. I've tried putting into the graphics folder and they didnt show up in the game when reloading the skin, I've also put them into the ‘faces’ folder and again they didn't show up.
What am I doing wrong?
Many thanks 🙂
mons
Since posting this, I can see you download some other update packs, which presumably include the images you were missing. Are you fine now?
If not, check this thread. Adding the images is not enough, you need to edit the config file for the game to be able to assign the right image to the right person.
Paul Holbrook
Thanks…
Yeah, I downloaded the updates which replaced the missing faces. I think I was being thick and trying to do it myself when i didn't need to.
Thanks again forthe response 🙂
Satch.84
I am hoping someone can help.
I had to reinstall windows last week which wiped the whole computer along with my face pack download, I have re-downloaded the facepack and it seems to have worked but there seems to be a lot of players that now just have a black box where there face should appear, I am unable to view the whole of the Brazil, Belgium & Argentina player faces.
I've unticked the cache and re-loaded skin but I cant seem to get them to work.
Any suggestions on how I can fix this as its driving me a little nuts haha
mons
An empty space instead of a cut-out indicates a config issue. How many images do you have in your faces folder?
Satch.84
Thanks, I managed to sort it in the end.
I uninstalled the game and deleted everything from my documents and just redownloaded it all. A bit time consuming but least its sorted.
jonasthern
Does anyone have the default cut-out images for those players/staff with no picture? I remember that there was onde for male and one for female.
mons
Here they are.
Armamaddon
Is there a compression put on the final cut-outs? I see a lack of quality in the pack compared to the files from the database here.
SpainMan
Who can make Everton? On sofifa nice photos, please Everton FC 24 Oct 4, 2023 SoFIFA
mons
Yes, and it's been the case for almost 2 years now, actually. It was the only way to avoid having the filesizes of the full megapack and the update packs be so large as to deter people from downloading them.
That's not how this forum works. Collect the images yourself for requesting a pack, making sure to follow the guidelines and request them on the submissions forum. Those images are no good to cut, though, frankly, as they're not the largest, so they won't result in improvements.
Armamaddon
Oh, hell, I missed on that.
Werley Wiermann
hey guys, i downloaded facepack but when i extract it asks for a password. Does anyone have this password?
nolan tate
Is the torrent link still available
mons
Yeah, but you may as well wait for the FM24 version, coming very soon…
mons
The file doesn't have a password 😕
nolan tate
when you say soon how long do you mean, whats the torrent link in the mean time ?
killyouridols
Hi All
I've got a new PC and already have the main Pack and the updates which I copied over from my old PC, however, due to the New PC and no downloads folder I can't see what month my last downloaded update was. Is there anyway of telling? I've looked in my account here and seen my last update was 8 months ago but that wasn't even a facepack. I've looked in the config but that doesnt have any kind of date to it, but properties says 30th May 2023, Is this likely to be accurate?
mons
In the coming days. There should be a link here to download it.
The download update pack page, available from the above link, will tell you what was the last update pack that you downloaded. Or you too could wait a few days and download the 2024 torrent when it's released, and save yourself a lot of faffing about 😉
killyouridols
Even now, Its not showing the packs I downloaded last night. My Download history inside the Download hub says I've never downloaded a facepack, which I certainly have.
mons
Not sure what page you're referring to, but this does.
killyouridols
Ah, thank you. I was here….
mons
That doesn't include megapack files and its updates, which have their own respective dedicated page.
For example, for the cut-out pack, this page will show you which update packs you downloaded.