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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  • 2024.06 - Released on 17 Mar 2024
Cut Out Player Faces Megapack

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've never downloaded the pack before, you should just download the larger "complete pack".

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.
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:
https://i.imgur.com/85lGeDc.png

The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:

https://i.imgur.com/jbZkFfw.png

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.
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’

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:
https://i.imgur.com/jbZkFfw.png

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.
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.
If you're using Gamepass, then you have to use the default user data folder (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)
The torrent file includes the base megapack uploaded just before that year’s FM version is released. Any and all subsequent update packs are to be downloaded separately.
For those who have never used torrents, in the vast majority of cases, it's just a question of downloading the client program (a small file, less than 1MB) and then downloading the megapack torrent file (a tiny file, around 20k) and then letting the program do the job.

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.
You need to copy and overwrite the faces and the new config file from the update pack into the faces folder and follow the same procedure for the iconfaces folder.

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.
Please report this so that they can be reuploaded.
Extracting the file will take a while, but it shouldn't take the hours and hours that the program extracting will sometimes say it will. To speed it up, it is recommended that you have as few programs running as possible so that the system can dedicate as many resources to the extraction as it possibly can.

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.
You might have a poor internet connection or your browser might have some extensions which interrupt this download. Having loads of downloads ongoing and/or streaming may also de-prioritise this download.

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.
This download has two folders: one is the faces folder which contains the cut-outs which should be displayed on this screen. There is also a file titled config.xml which tells the game which images to assign to which person. The other folder is the iconfaces folder which contains the smaller images displayed near a person's name on the menu which comes up when you right-click on them, and also includes a different config file for this folder.

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.
The most recent update pack will include the most recent config file, so you can choose to download it and use it from there.

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.
Down the years, after an update pack was released, it was noted that some images included therein where of the wrong person, with a wrong extension or duplicated. Due to the way the download system is structured, these cannot be removed from the download, so there may well be a couple of hundred images’ worth of difference, depending on the version you download.
Our megapack covers 25,000 teams and it's impossible to cater for these kind of requests since players and staff get transferred or sacked or retire etc and recreating and reuploading 25,000 different smaller packs would be an impossible task. That's why we have all the images in a megapack so that everything is captured therein.
These persons do not appear in the default database for licensing reasons. This means that they only appear in your save-game because they were added via a custom file, generally the real name fix file. However, this means that their UID (which is what is used to map a person's image to the right individual) is different, and so the game cannot assign the image to them from your existing facepack.

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).
Side Splitting Pass
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I've checked the 5.6 link with two different browsers & both worked fine for me. You're not using an old version of Internet Explorer are you? I used to myself but found I was having problems with downloads at this site (& many others). Also I'm assuming you have enough free space on your hard drive for the complete megapack?
Patty
17 years ago
1 year ago
253
Hi,

Sorry if this has been covered but I've downloaded 5.06. I go to unzip it with both Winrar and 7Zip and get the message "Unexpected End Of Archive" and I only get 110108 files.

Can anyone help?

Thanks!
mons
17 years ago
11 hours ago
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What is the total size of the file you've downloaded? Its should be 5.76GB - if it's not, then the download somehow got truncated and you'll have to re-download it...
Patty
17 years ago
1 year ago
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By mons | Permalink | On 27 May 2013 - 20:26 PM
What is the total size of the file you've downloaded? Its should be 5.76GB - if it's not, then the download somehow got truncated and you'll have to re-download it...


Hopefully that's the problem. Noticed it said it was 4.8GB. Sigh!

Re-downloading now!

You on 365 as well, mons?
mons
17 years ago
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Patres10
17 years ago
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I'm not sure, but can't windows only read 50k files in one folder? Should the whole megapacks be separated in more folders, in one of which can be max this amount of files?
Side Splitting Pass
14 years ago
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As long as your filesystem is NTFS you can have any number of files in one folder without having any problems. If your filesystem is FAT32 then it probably won't work with 125,000 files in one folder....however who still uses a FAT32 filesystem?
OliverEEEE
10 years ago
10 years ago
1
Hi all,
Im struggling with getting the faces to appear in my fm 13 version.
Ive downloaded the pack and have over 129,000 pictures and a config file.
They are saved in Documents>Sports Interactive> graphics>faces.
I have edited the interface section in football manager as well and still no luck.
Could anybody help me out id be more than willing to upload any screenshots needed?
Thanks
mons
17 years ago
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By OliverEEEE | Permalink | On 17 June 2013 - 18:34 PM
Hi all,
Im struggling with getting the faces to appear in my fm 13 version.
Ive downloaded the pack and have over 129,000 pictures and a config file.
They are saved in Documents>Sports Interactive> graphics>faces.
I have edited the interface section in football manager as well and still no luck.
Could anybody help me out id be more than willing to upload any screenshots needed?
Thanks

According to your description, you should have the images showing in your game.

If you could answer these two questions, I might be in a better position to help you.

a) Could you upload a screenshot of your MP folder? Showing clearly the folder path so I can check that it is actually in the correct place. You'd be amazed how many people think it's placed correctly when it isn't
b) When you say you edited the interface section, exactly which tickboxes are ticked and which aren't?

Hopefully you can let me know the answers so I can try to solve your issue
Mitchkush
11 years ago
3 months ago
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Hi, I can't replace an old face with a newer cut out for Neymar and only Neymar, any reason why or any ways to solve this would be much appreciated?
mons
17 years ago
11 hours ago
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When you say you can't replace it, what do you mean - what happens to prevent you from doing so?

Is the Use skin cache button unticked in-game?
Mitchkush
11 years ago
3 months ago
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By mons | Permalink | On 22 June 2013 - 08:07 AM
When you say you can't replace it, what do you mean - what happens to prevent you from doing so?

Is the Use skin cache button unticked in-game?



Yes every other face works and can be replaced with a newer image, however for some reason when i try to update neymar's face cut out it copies successfully in the megapack then in game it only shows his old image. I've tried reloading the skin and the skin cache is unticked.
Side Splitting Pass
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Have you checked your megapack folder to see which cut-out of Neymar is in it? If both cut-outs are in it then delete the old one & make sure the new one has the correct ID (ie it doesn't the word copy at the end or something similar). Neymar wasn't cut by SI so there's no way his old cut-out should show if it's no longer in your megapack folder.
Mitchkush
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By Side Splitting Pass | Permalink | On 22 June 2013 - 11:29 AM
Have you checked your megapack folder to see which cut-out of Neymar is in it? If both cut-outs are in it then delete the old one & make sure the new one has the correct ID (ie it doesn't the word copy at the end or something similar). Neymar wasn't cut by SI so there's no way his old cut-out should show if it's no longer in your megapack folder.


His old cut out isn't there
Mitchkush
11 years ago
3 months ago
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So is there any solution for this? I've tried lots of different images for Neymar and even though the old cut out is deleted it still shows even if I reload the skin.
blackmetalboon
14 years ago
1 year ago
264
It looks like you may have another facepack installed somewhere. It might be worth doing a search, using Neymars UID (19024412), in your Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2013 folders to see if there are any conflicting images/config files.
Side Splitting Pass
14 years ago
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Well what you are saying is happening is basically impossible so there probably is no solution for it. Can you post screenshots of the following please.
1. Your megapack folder showing the cut-out of Neymar.
2. A screenshot of his in game profile/cut-out
3. A screenshot of your FM2013 Preferences Interface screen showing the 'Skin' options you have ticked.
That way we can be certain there is no reason why you are getting this problem.

As a last resort you could try deleting your new cut-out of Neymar from your megapack folder (keep a copy elsewhere) & see if his cut-out disappears from the game (if you do this whilst the game is running it should just leave a blank space, no cut-out or silhouette, where the cut-out was. If that works then close the game, re-add the cut-out, restart the game (re-do the preferences stuff) & hopefully the new cut-out will then show.
MyShoesRule
10 years ago
3 days ago
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I really don't want to ask, but can someone please assist?

I'm using FM2013 and have downloaded the facepack from this site "Cut out player faces megapack" "complete pack - 5.0" using the torrent .

I've unzipped the folder into C:\Users\me\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2013\graphics

unticked use caching, and ticked reload skin..... but nothing!

Any thoughts?
mons
17 years ago
11 hours ago
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Nothing wrong with asking for help

How many images in all do you have in your megapack folder? Do you have a file named config.xml in there too?
MyShoesRule
10 years ago
3 days ago
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Good to know there is help at hand

I've got 125911 images in total. There are also two additional folders inside the main "faces" folder, one containing 1322, and a second with 8031 in.

There's a config file in the main "faces" folder, but only one of the sub-folders has one in.

Might it be worth relocating the two sub-folders and trying with just the main "faces" folder?

Cheers
MyShoesRule
10 years ago
3 days ago
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Ha! It worked!!

I took the two sub-folders out, reloaded the skin and.... done. Huzzah!!!

Thanks for your help Mons, much appreciated
LostInBKK
13 years ago
4 months ago
14
Hi Guys,
Just been gifted FM13 and I am trying to add the MFP but I have an SSD 64GB and I don't have space on my C: for the face pack. How can i use another drive?

Cheers
mons
17 years ago
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By LostInBKK | Permalink | On 26 June 2013 - 18:43 PM
Hi Guys,
Just been gifted FM13 and I am trying to add the MFP but I have an SSD 64GB and I don't have space on my C: for the face pack. How can i use another drive?

Cheers

Place it on an external hard disk and change the user date file within the in-game preferences to point to it...

Or buy a bigger hard-disk, 64GB's hardly enough for anything these days.
LostInBKK
13 years ago
4 months ago
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By mons | Permalink | On 26 June 2013 - 18:29 PM
Place it on an external hard disk and change the user date file within the in-game preferences to point to it...

Or buy a bigger hard-disk, 64GB's hardly enough for anything these days.

I have 2 x 3TB drives in the PC as well so space is not an issue just on C :-)
mons
17 years ago
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That should be plenty
LostInBKK
13 years ago
4 months ago
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By mons | Permalink | On 26 June 2013 - 18:29 PM
Place it on an external hard disk and change the user date file within the in-game preferences to point to it...

Or buy a bigger hard-disk, 64GB's hardly enough for anything these days.

Sorry for the silly question I am struggling to find the user date file within the in-game preferences

Thanks
Lost
mons
17 years ago
11 hours ago
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Search on this page for the "saving - your game's files" section.
jonny2j
17 years ago
10 years ago
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Not sure what the hell I've done here but all of a sudden the player's faces have stopped showing up on my game.
jonny2j
17 years ago
10 years ago
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Might I add that logos etc are all working still.

Sorted it.
LostInBKK
13 years ago
4 months ago
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By mons | Permalink | On 26 June 2013 - 20:38 PM
Search on this page for the "saving - your game's files" section.


Thanks all working now :-)

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