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
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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Lukkas
mons
Lukkas
Side Splitting Pass
Lukkas
Gaurav Vaidya
ive downloaded the updates (5.01 - 5.07) to the faces megapack 5.0. now how should i incorporate them with existing megapack i.e. is the 5.0?
mons
Just paste them INTO the base megapack folder, starting with 5.01 and continuing till 5.07, overwriting when prompted.
neoxes
Some files in the icon pack are missing in the main pack. I've downloaded some of these files from the pictures search tool, but there is a list of missing files both form megapack & search tool.
bakizp
WinMerge is not very popular program,so your screenshot of it is confusing,plus it's in italian...
neoxes
No mate, I used JDownload and those files are missing, trust me.
I used Winmerge only to show the ids and to compare folders (faces 5.07 with iconfaces 5.07), no matter the language.
mons
neoxes
Thank you mate! So, we can delete those files from iconfaces pack, right?
In the attached file you can see some other missing faces I found yesterday with search tool, can you check them too, please?
Tell me if I can help you in any way.
mons
What's the total amount of images in your MP icon folder?
neoxes
Icons: 129.614 (129.613 png + 1 config)
Faces: 129.589 (129.588 png + 1 config) or 129.563 without the attached ones (26).
Attachment:
mons
Tooj
I've never really had any experience in imagine cutting in Photoshop before but if anybody can link me to any decent guides out there I'd be more than happy to pick up the ropes and help out due to everything this site has done to enhance FM for me in the past.
mons
If you're just starting out, I recommend the Refine Edge and Vertus tutorials from the OP to get started
Hope we can add you to our small yet valuable and hard-working bunch of cutters
crystalez
edit: im confused now..i didnt realized there was a torrent file at the bottom of the page..i clicked on "download the megapack 5.08" and then downloaded all those single files (22 of them)..do i still need to download the torrent file?
Derrick Bisnett
Yoos
I have a problem with the defaut image. Cannot put it it the game.
Can you help me please?
Mads Andersen
oko030
I recently downloaded the France U19 facepack, and for a few hours or so it was showing in-game. However, now, a few days later, all the faces I've downloaded over the last few days are showing except the French U19 players.
I don't know what I've done wrong, I've put all of them in the graphics folder, (I actually extract all the faces I download to the single megapack folder so they're all together) I've used fmxml to add a new config file with all of their IDs, but those few players still aren't showing.
Any ideas? Anybody experienced something similar?
P.S. I've put my iconfaces folder in the same folder, but that shouldn't disrupt anything should it? (see attached screens)
EoW
The faces are in the right spot: C:Users/Myuser/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2013/graphics
I have the 116k files (didn`t get time to get the rest of the updates), I have the xml file that has the size of 8.9 mb
At the interface area I unthicked Use catching to decrease and I checked Reload skin
I am using win 7 and the game is through steam if that helps...
So any tips, am I doing something wrong ? Thank you for your help.
mons
To clarify: For non-premium members, there's 2 ways to download the megapack; (a) download the torrent file and then download update packs 5.01-5.08 or (b) download the 22 individual files. The end result will be the same.
With each method you will need to extract all the download files using winrar and then place all the images in one folder and one folder only within the path indicated in the readme file.
The location seems to be correct.
How many images in all do you have in your cut-out faces megapack folder? Do you have a file named config.xml in there?
Where are you placing it?
Doesn't make a difference as long as it's within Documents > SI > FM13 > graphics. To keep things organized and in order I recommend that you create a further sub-folder (name it faces, cut-out megapack or whatever you want) and place the megapack in there.
Try toggling the use skin cache option (or whatever's its equivalent is named these days) in the in-game preferences on and off, confirming the changes each time.
There must be something wrong with your setup although everything you describe seems to be in order. Do you have any other facepacks installed perhaps?
oko030
Update: It turns out that when I access these players' profiles from their club squad pages, the faces appear perfectly. However, if I try to access them through France U19 squad page, they don't appear.
Some examples of the players are: Opa Nguette, Benjamin Mendy, etc. if you want to see if the same is happening for you in your save.
I don't know what it could be, though; I'm hardly a computer noob lol, I should've worked it out by now...
EoW
No other facepacks installed so I don`t get it. On my pc it works fine. If you need more info, let me know and I`ll provide it. I must be doing something wrong and I`m not noticing it...
mons
Got it! It's a licensing issue and can be easily solved by downloading (and applying) the FM13 real names fix file from the FM discussion forum...
Are you using Windows 7? Windows 7 creates 2 Sports Interactive folders within Documents (for some unfathomable reason) and it could be you placed the graphics folder in the wrong one.
If that's not the solution, I would appreciate seeing a screenshot of your MP folder, with the folder path clearly visible.
EoW
I already had it checked (the thing with 2 Sports interactive folders in Documents) before posting here.
Ok, here are the screenshots:
P.S. I tried moving all the pictures in a Players folder and so on. I hope these pictures help you figuring out. I didn`t manage to figure it out. Thank you for your help mate.
mons
Secondly, and more crucially, there's only 13557 files in the MP folder so you are missing over 90% of the total MP image count so no wonder you're not getting anything. Either you transfer the whole lot from your D folder, or you re-download everything all over again...
EoW
As always, it`s something simple that is going wrong. I`ll have to download it again, since the megapack from D has 13k files as well, don`t know why