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
@Gunbuster903, check in your preferences to see what the exact user data location is.
Go to the Preferences Menu, Select the Advanced option then in the drop-down menu on the right select General, then scroll down until you find the Location option that should look something like this:
The game should then display the file path to your current location, if you are unable to read the full location in the address bar then click the
Change Folder
option and that will allow you to view the full location path.
Gunbuster903
@mons - thanks for the response
Checked that as well…
I really don't know what I've managed to do here or how to fix it…
mons
Hmmm. What is it you get in-game? Is it the default silhouette, or a blank space?
Gunbuster903
@mons
The default blank space, like I say it doesn't work for any graphics packs. I read elsewhere about setting up a new folder C: FM24 Data and putting the packs in there - going to try that next…
seb1394
Hello,
I've downloaded the entire facepack folder with my premium account but I'm missing a lot of photos. For example, Renan Lodi (ID 19259027), his number corresponds to a file in the folder, but there is no photo (file size 0 bytes).
please help
jbonfield
Im having a strange issue where place faces are loading for their club but not on their national team profile. For example if i look at Liverpool and see Virgil van Dijk his face is their, but if i search netherlands and go to the national team profile his face isnt showing up as captain or if i click on his profile through the national team.
any suggestions>
bigpole
Probably a real name fix will solve this. I believe you can't see dutch and french NT faces without it.
Gunbuster903
No, that didn't work either…
chile
Iconfaces missing. Faces not working. Anyone have link to download iconfaces?
mons
If it were just the one image, you could use the browse function to download it manually. But given it seems to be widespread, I would suggest you download the megapack again.
I'm at a loss. The only thing I can think of is that the images aren't in the One Drive Documents folder, but in the Documents folder on your hard drive.
Delete what you have, and download the torrent file.
seb1394
I thought about doing it manually but it's thousands and thousands of images...
That's the strange thing, I've downloaded it 3 times, and I have the impression that the missing images are random.
The first time it was missing the Brighton goalkeeper, for example, and the second time it was there.
I'm going to try a fourth time
Rubendhl
Hi there,
Seems like there's an issue with the latest changes file. Now I have the faces of newly added players (Nypan, Estevao…) but I've lost the rest. Well not lost, because they are in the folder, but they do not appear.
mons
You've not installed it correctly, somehow.
Can we have screenshots of your megapack folder, showing clearly the full path and the amount of images in it?
Rubendhl
Hi
Thanks for the quick reply. I just extracted it, as usual. I had no errors in the process. Screenshot below:
Thanks again!
mons
That's the amount of images in the base megapack folder, and not with the 2024.01 update pack installed. If the update pack is placed in a separate folder, as I suspect is the case, then the game will only show the images in the update folder and not for the whole remainder of the megapack.
Move the contents of the megapack folder into the folder of the above screenshot, overwriting when prompted, and you should be fine 👍
Peterd80
Guys, can you download the parts from: https://getfiles.co.uk/split/25 I get the message: NoSuchKeyThe specified key does not exist.
seb1394
I tried it for the 3rd time. I downloaded the full pack and didn't get an error message. But still the same, thousands and thousands of player photos are missing.
mons
How large is the downloaded file?
mons
You can use the torrent file to download the megapack.
xinvictusxplayx
I seem to be having a really tough time extracting the cut out faces. The extraction has been running for 5 hours now on a fairly new PC with good specs (DDR5 etc) - almost tempted to say that it is running in circles!
mons
It's a fairly big file, so it's to be expected that it takes a while, but it shouldn't take that long. Best not to have anything else running in the background as it'll take up system resources.
seb1394
Thanks for your reply.
12,22 GO
Rubendhl
You enlightened me mate! Files were extracted to a different folder within the Football Manager one, so the game charged only the folder of the new faces. Moved them to the main graphics/face folder and it works perfectly.
Thanks heaps!
xinvictusxplayx
yeah, nothing else running (except temporary to post here etc)
How many files should be in the folder in total? think I'm at 520k (from properties)
only using 14% CPU and 30% Ram so PC has plenty of juice left to squeeze out
chile
Did it, two time, but there isnt iconfaces folder!
mpolo22
Sorry I know this has 100% been asked a thousand times but can;t see the answer anywhere - Can you keep all the faces already on FM at release, but add the ones in the facepack? For example, I'm playing as Wigan so the standard version of FM has the up to date faces already. I want to keep these but add all the faces from the megapack for people who don;t have faces already. Thanks
mons
Not sure what to say, it's supposed to be 11.38 GB 😕
What program are you using to extract the files? Try Winrar.
There should be around 440k+ in the faces folder and same again in the iconfaces folder. Perhaps you could leave it to install overnight?
I don't know what to say, but it's supposed to be there 😢
Here's a post on why doing so might not be as easy as it might seem to be, and here's another post as to why it might not even be worth the time to do so…
Gunbuster903
@mons - fixed it!
Had to move the FM24 Folder directly onto the C: Drive
"C:\FM24 Data"
Everything works now, not sure how or why this has happened with FM24, like I said before, never had a problem with any of the older versions. Thanks for the advice - much appreciated.
mons
I didn't actually do anything though 😆
xinvictusxplayx
9 hours, 47 minutes. that is how long it took to unpack in the end! will have to look at installation instructions etc tomorrow. Got the newgan facepack still to go!