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.
- 463,302
- 2024.07 - Released on 15 Apr 2024
Win a copy of FM24 in our Prediction League. Prizes are given out to the best predictor each month, so you have multiple chances to win.
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).
You'll need to Login to comment
Hulta
Short version:
If you have two copies and the facepack, they will conflict and not show any photos at all.
Long version:
So I have same issue as Ali posted, updated the facepack by adding the latest files. And all photos went missing in the game,
After doing the usual fixes, veriying files, clearing in game cached etc, without improvment, I suspected the config could be the issus and copied the old one back. Did not work. I deleted the facepackfolder. rebooted the computer and redownloaded the entire facepack. Same issue.
In case there was a problem with the facepack or download I deleted everything again and installed the old files before I updated. Still no faces.
So next step, deleted the entire game and all game files, including the appdata cache and all mod. Had a very clean install. Still did not work,
At this point I was rather annoyed, Went back to the folders and noticed I had put a backup of the config.xml in the root of the grafics folder. Not having two version of the same config.xml conflicting solved this issue.
I am a computer engineer that had been playing FM for 25+ years and never had this much trouble. And I caused it myself. =)
That said, this facepack is really good and I have used it for many years. Thank you!
Footygamer
@mons Some files you upload are corrupt in some way (corrupt might not be the right word, but the resizing program can't edit them) it's usually only a couple.
Unfortunately it's not giving me a great error message to try and debug from but I imagine they just need to be reopened and resaved.
The IDs are:
2000017915.png
2000030823.PNG
2000079680.webp
2000115889.png
2000115895.png
2000117220.png
2000162361.png
2000182160.PNG
2000182955.PNG
2000189927.PNG
2000194607.png
2000194612.png
2000194619.png
2000194621.png
2000194622.png
2000227713.PNG
2000248399.png
2000277602.png
2000283160.png
2000300093.png
2000300274.png
2000300602.png
2000300607.png
2000310010.png
2000310011.png
2000310014.png
2000310015.png
2000310016.png
2000310017.png
2000310018.png
2000310019.png
2000310020.png
2000310021.png
2000310022.png
2000310023.png
2000310024.png
2000310025.png
2000310026.png
2000310027.png
2000310028.png
2000310029.png
2000310030.png
2000310032.png
2000310033.png
2000310034.png
63031296.PNG
67226901.png
67274348.png
mons
I can see why the .PNG ones and the .webp one didn't save properly, but plenty of those were in update packs from the past, like this one. I'll have a look at the lot and resave them if need be for addition in 2023.04 👍
Footygamer
Sorry you can ignore all the capitalised ones, in that case it seems like there's somehow a capitalised one and uncapitalised one and the capitalised one is missing an iconface which doesn't matter.
I can remove the duped capitalised versions.
mons
Sure, if you want to, but no need to worry unduly tbf
Forest4Eva
Hi All,
After a couple computer issues i'm having to re-download the .zip files for all graphics
Problem is for some reason when i come to extract the downloaded .zip file this time i get an error message stating “no description” … Anyone have any ideas why i can't extract them this time when i have been able to extract them previously? I'm lost!
If it helps this is happening with the Steal Logo's and the full Cutout Player Faces .zip's
Thanks
mons
What program are you using to open them? Try WinRar 👍
Forest4Eva
Thanks,
I've just been using the ‘extract all’ function in Windows 11 . . . it has worked fine before but will give WinRAR a try
areinke
Hello. I have done everything like above, but changed my folders from FM 2022 to FM 2024. Unfortunately it is not showing any logos, faces, etc. Can you please help me?
Thank you vey much.
mons
Have you changed the user data folder? The screenshot of the preferences aren't the same as what I'd need to see.
areinke
What do you mean with user data folder? Can you give me an example please?
These two are exactly the same path
mons
Check the fourth FAQ at the top of the thread 👍
areinke
Yes, but that is exactly what I did as you can see in my screenshots…
Gabriele Rossi
Hi, I wanted some information on your site for the smilies, I saw something that doesn't add up, I'm sending you a photo and I would like to know how do you think it can be resolved?
thank you for everything, you are magnificent
https://ibb.co/Y2Kw85s
Ps the photo I'm posting is this link which shows a blond guy and then next to him someone with black hair, how can this be?
double clicking on the photo you can enlarge the photo ok?
areinke
Any futher help from anybody? This has never happened to me in earlier versions. Thank you all.
mons
Can I see what you've got in the graphics folder and eventually the faces folder? How many images do you have in there?
areinke
Yes of course. Over 400000 images.
mons
Good spot, seems like the uploader of that image made a mistake and assigned the image to the wrong player. If you've overwritten it already, you can save the old cut from the guy's timeline 👍
Can I have a screenshot of the properties of this folder?
Can I also have a screenshot of the contents of the graphics folder? Do you not get any graphics at all in-game, or do you get an empty space where the graphics should be?
Gabriele Rossi
Hi everyone, in the meantime, I would like to thank you again for your willingness to help me with what I'm doing. Now I'll send you the link where I uploaded all the smilies in the game.
https://ibb.co/d0G5JbG
question but what do you mean when you say "the old cut from the boy's timeline"?
Ps I confirmed everything without problems both in the large and small smilies, however I didn't notice whether there were others or not if I had to start over from 0 it would be really difficult as what
I hope I made myself understood
mons
a) Can you please upload that image to imgur or another image-sharing please, because it isn't appearing for me
b) Save this image in your faces folder, overwriting the existing cut if prompted
c) It's not entirely clear what you're asking but I won't imagine there will be more instances like this where the wrong image was added by mistake. With 6,500 cut+, I cannot guarantee that, naturally.
Gabriele Rossi
So I'll try to respond to what he told me: Let's see then for a new photo link to see it I'll send you this link:
https://www.imagevenue.com/ME17DAGM
What you wrote to me in letter B I wouldn't be able to do, I'm honest
instead for what you told me in letter c:
I wanted to say that I have always said yes, for example if the file was "2000310023.png" the same as the same update, so if there were errors in the smileys I didn't make any changes to whether the person was the same or not, it was just a coincidence that it happened to me, to see otherwise I would have to start again from 0 to see if the smileys are the same or not in the new updates if I had to do it I would have to waste a lot of time and I don't feel like it already sometimes I do it with the team logos of course if I have to doing it with the smileys of which there are millions would go crazy
ps I hope this time I was good at making myself understood, since I'm using the translator to write to you in English
happy continuation to all of you who are unique
areinke
Hello Mons. I startet a new game and somehow it seems that all graphics are there now. Thank you very much for your support. Regards. Alex
laquesta
Hi, I've tried everything now but nothing works. I have installed Cutout and placed it in the Graphics folder (in a subfolder called "faces" which contains "faces" and "iconfaces"). in settings in the game i also checked the right box but now ALL the faces in the game are gone... they were there before i updated with sortitout's data update. What can I do?
Bielsa is a Legend
The data update can’t affect your graphics in any way
there must be a config problem
there should be around 445000 Images in your faces folder-show a screenshot of your file path?
laquesta
It looks like this. And there is around 400.000 pics in the folder
mons
a) what is the full path? I can't tell if it's in the correct place from that screenshot
b) you should have 450k+ images in the faces folder
c) have you changed the preferences in-game to look like those in the installation instructions? Can you take a screenshot of it?
Bielsa is a Legend
what is that config outside a graphics folder?
mons
Good spot that 👏🏻
Could well be the cause.
laquesta
Wow, simpel as that. I just deleted it and now it works…. thanks for your help 🙂
Bielsa is a Legend
im no expert compared to you mate, but it just looked wrong