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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ferociousblazze
a quick fix for the new ids is to go to your config that has the newgens and use “find and replace”.
Replace “person/” with “person/r-” and the faces will load again
James Lighty
Hi,
Looking for some help, I have paid the £10 and tried to download the complete cut out players faces facepack, I have enough space on my laptop, but when i click the download button nothing happens? It's not going into my downloads. - Any suggestions?
mons
Going by your download history, would it be right to say you've managed to sort this out?
James Lighty
I have but in the process of downloading the face pack from winrar to shared folder graphics within football manager folder.
issue i got got like 2 hours left but cant see a config file or icons within it. Just faces?
will it be okay and display correctly in game.
David Buckley
Hi, ive downloaded the full 13 files for the faces on FM24.
for some reason, my FM is now just stuck on the loading screen.
Can anyone help & why this is happening?
Cheers
mons
Without knowing exactly what you downloaded, I can't answer that, really 😕
James Lighty
thats been sorted now,
but i have been charged twice for premium will i get a refund on this?
as attached.
regards
mons
That's got nothing to do with this thread, and I've spoken to you via private message about it already, albeit just a few seconds before you posted this 😉
destino32
Mr. Mons. Hello. thank you always. I'm preparing photos of referees who are active in Japan's J League, but have you thought about creating a folder? I would like to offer it.
JDubsNZ
hi there, I've just downloaded the 2024.02 cut out player faces update file (https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/1/download) but their doesn't appear to be a config file in the faces folder, only in the iconfaces folder.
Also same issue when downloading the AFC Ajax pack here, no config file: https://sortitoutsi.net/content/24805/afc-ajax
Thanks in advance.
Cheers
JW
mons
I believe referees will be updated on the site's database in the next couple of weeks when the data update comes on board. Until then, you'll just have to wait 👍
You must not have downloaded the file correctly. I've downloaded it again now, and the config file is there just fine in the faces folder 😕
The Ajax pack you've linked to is from 2015. I don't know what you're doing downloading it, frankly, when all those images have been replaced many times over since then 😕
David Graf
Hey!
I ve invested several hours to download all 13 parts of the cut out player faces pack, but unluckily it appears that not all of them are included in the download. Every time I unpack the downloads, not all faces were there. (f.I. in part 6, there only is 1 image). Anyone else had the same problem or anyone who knows how comes?
mons
Just download the torrent file (read the FAQ at the top of this thread) and you'll definitely have an easier time of it 👍
David Graf
Hey, I ve downloaded the 13 parts of the pack separately and have invested several hours, but some download parts were nearly empty (just 1 player face inside). Anybody else, who had the same problem?
mons
As my reply to your earlier post above.
I've merged your threads into this one, because there's no need for separate threads.
David Graf
I wanted to, but I wasn‘t able to find a torrent downloader which wasn‘t blocked by my Mac.
David Graf
Thanks, I thought someone deleted my first post.
mons
I use µTorrent, but there are plenty of others.
David Graf
Hey!
I tried to download the torrent file on my mac, but apparently my PC always blocks any download of a torrent downloader.
any torrent downloader recommendations for mac?
mons
What's wrong with you? I explicitly said
Why have you created a new thread, and one for which I've answered you already? 😕
David Graf
Hey! Today I downloaded the cut out player faces pack. I tried to open the rar version of the data twice, extracted it twice, but in the end, the folder with the images just disappeared. Anyone out there, who knows, why this happens? In the middle of the download I got some messages popping up, saying that some images weren't written correctly. Could that be the reason for the problem?
thanks
mons
It can't just disappear 😕
Are you sure you have sufficient hard drive space for its extraction? You'll need a significant amount of disk space, around 15-20GB iirc.
How large is the file you've downloaded? It could also be that it hasn't downloaded correctly or completely, and you're trying to extract a file which isn't completely downloaded yet.
Also, as stated previously, there is no need to start a new thread with your every question. I've been moving them here, but from now on, if you ignore this, I'll just delete them.
Simonboi
Hey Fm-mates, I tried to download the Cutout Pf. Pack recently. Worked fine. After that i extracted the files, but my pc always told me that a great amount of files in the torrent file aren‘t „written correctly“. After the extraction process has been finished, the finished folder has just been deleted.
anybody, who has the same problem?
David Graf
I‘m so sorry, as you could imagine, I didn‘t read the first post. I just wanted to say thanks, I tried a different unarchiver and it finally worked.👍
Now I got just one final question … what to do with the changed folders? Should i just put it into the graphics folder or do I need to copy it into the Main Player Faces folder?
mons
The FAQ explains how updates should be installed 👍
Panna
I want to update the facepack but I can't open the folder, I asked it before but maye it wasn't clear. The folder tries to load forever and just crashes. Is there anyway to update it without having to open the folder? Or is there a way to get it loading?
kkkacm
Hello everyone,
I ve just downloaded faces megapack, all 13 parts + 2 with changes. I Installed it, all went propely but I have immpression that i dont have all photos. For example i have invisible photo o Y.Lamal from Barcelona, and other younger players, but when i browsing filile that fotos ale inculded inside pack. Sometimes i have older version of photos ( or the same like in fm 23) despite the fact there ale newer available.
Does enyone have the same problem or know how to fix it ?
mons
Seems like you either did not download the full megapack or did not install it correctly.
How many images in total do you have in your faces folder?
kkkacm
Hey,
I have 447 533 pics inside the folder.
RewaK
Yeah I have this problem too. I do not have Lamal and all acedemy players from u18s from premier league