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
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:
β€’ the β€œUse caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
β€’ the β€œReload 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 β€˜Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the β€˜Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the β€˜Library’, click to enter then go to β€˜Application Support’ -> β€˜Sports Interactive’ -> β€˜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:
β€’ the β€œUse caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
β€’ the β€œReload 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).
zecker
16 years ago
2 days ago
5
Could you post a screenshot of what you're seeing in the download page? Working fine for me so it'd help me see what could be the matter


https://imgur.com/a/djent9B
PPTree
8 years ago
4 weeks ago
8
Could you post a screenshot of what you're seeing in the download page? Working fine for me so it'd help me see what could be the matter


On the main page for the cut-out faces, I click the circled button to download latest changes
https://i.ibb.co/wQwpXcr/downloadlatestchanges.png

I am brought to this page where I click the button to get 13.00 updates
https://i.ibb.co/mbnFgv4/clickdownload2.png

Takes me here but I dont see an option to only download updates. Can only download 19-part full pack or torrent
https://i.ibb.co/mH2Vxw0/3.png

Scrolling to the bottom of the page, still dont see option to only download updates
https://i.ibb.co/YWrZWqr/2b.png
Olivercho
14 years ago
2 weeks ago
9
It would help if you provide screenshots of how the site is looking like for you, because it's not clear what you mean.

That said, it looks like you've got all the files needed for the 12.0 base pack. All you need to do now is to extract them all and install them in numerical order, starting from the multiple 12.0 base files (which should all ectract automatically if you start with part 1) and continuing to the various update packs (from 12.01 until 12.18), accepting all overwrite prompts. You just need to download the 13.0 update pack now to be fully up-to-date.


I am not seeing the 13.0 Update pack only. Where do i find it? Its not anywhere on here https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/1/download
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
86,062

I've edited your post to include the images directly in them πŸ˜‰

Thanks for this - it looks different for me, perhaps as I'm a staff member. I'll bring it to Footygamer's attention and I'm sure he'll solve it asap; bear with us while we sort these initial teething issues out.
delichris
17 years ago
2 days ago
59
I have the same problem.
f31
12 years ago
6 months ago
13
I also can't download the 13.0 changes part. 13.0 is splitted in 19 parts and each one of them (1 of 19, 2 of 19, etc) has 953.67 MB with a total of 19 GB instead of 434.79 MB for the canges only.
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
86,062



I also can't download the 13.0 changes part. 13.0 is splitted in 19 parts and each one of them (1 of 19, 2 of 19, etc) has 953.67 MB with a total of 19 GB instead of 434.79 MB for the canges only.

As identified above, I'll bring it to the attention of the site owner and I'm sure he'll solve it asap; please bear with us while we sort these initial teething issues out.
f31
12 years ago
6 months ago
13
As identified above, I'll bring it to the attention of the site owner and I'm sure he'll solve it asap; please bear with us while we sort these initial teething issues out.


Thank you so much!
paradosso
17 years ago
2 weeks ago
25
matt_nffc
12 years ago
2 months ago
2
Premium
I've edited your post to include the images directly in them πŸ˜‰

Thanks for this - it looks different for me, perhaps as I'm a staff member. I'll bring it to Footygamer's attention and I'm sure he'll solve it asap; bear with us while we sort these initial teething issues out.


Glad it's not just me that can't see how the download page is meant to work.

Maybe it's different if you are a Premium Member, but at the minute when you go to download the latest changes (version 13.00) it takes you to a page that looks like the one you get when clicking the link to download the whole pack. The URLs are different but the pages are almost identical

13.00 changes = https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/download/change/361

full pack = https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/1/download/complete
AiZaK
13 years ago
5 minutes ago
77
Ohhh seriously its necesary download all the parts??? I only need the last changes 😒
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
86,062
Ohhh seriously its necesary download all the parts??? I only need the last changes 😒

As explained a few times above, this is just an unintended consequence of the new site going live and it will shortly be possible to download the 13.0 update pack in a single file, in the same way it was before. Just bear with us πŸ˜‰
Cantona85
11 years ago
1 week ago
11
Just download 13.00 πŸ™‚


How i can just download only 13.00 , i cant after restiling of the site , you can help me please , if possibile for me only download all cut out of 17 gb
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
86,062
I am not seeing the 13.0 Update pack only. Where do i find it? Its not anywhere on here https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/1/download


How i can just download only 13.00 , i cant after restiling of the site , you can help me please , if possibile for me only download all cut out of 17 gb

We're working on making this visible and easy-to-download. Just bear with us while we work on this πŸ‘
PPTree
8 years ago
4 weeks ago
8
I've edited your post to include the images directly in them πŸ˜‰


Thanks! Can you explain what I'd done wrong to make them not show?
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
86,062
Thanks! Can you explain what I'd done wrong to make them not show?

You linked your images to the URL they were hosted on, rather than to the image directly.

Basically, instead of website.com/image.png, you linked to website.com/page.html
omegaxfly
12 years ago
1 month ago
4
Well my question is this, the "Facepack" update 13.00, which weighs is 17 gb, is a compilation of all the previous updates? Cheers!
kingrobbo
14 years ago
1 minute ago
11,308
yes that is ALL the updates in the Megapack

you only need to download this file once, then add the updates as and when they are posted
Footygamer
17 years ago
22 minutes ago
75,496
BoBzls
8 years ago
2 months ago
22
Premium
Downloaded the Face Large Megapack and am missing key players. Lots of players across the EFL are missing and lots of players across europes biggest leagues like Lautaro Martinez don't have a face. Not sure why. Not sure why this is the case.
Bellamy86
12 years ago
1 month ago
10
This has been fixed πŸ™‚


There is another problem.
At this page https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/megapack/361 when click on Download now the site send at this page https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/1/download and not to a download page.

Edit: now is ok, thank you! πŸ˜‰
Side Splitting Pass
14 years ago
2 years ago
29,534
Premium
Are you sure you downloaded the full 13.0 megapack and not the 13.0 update pack? How many images are in the folder you downloaded?
BoBzls
8 years ago
2 months ago
22
Premium
Are you sure you downloaded the full 13.0 megapack and not the 13.0 update pack? How many images are in the folder you downloaded?


It was definitely the megapack. Had 279,551 files and was 17.32GB. Just deleted and downloaded it again with a different unzip file software and still missing loads of players again. Not a clue why.
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
86,062
It was definitely the megapack. Had 279,551 files and was 17.32GB. Just deleted and downloaded it again with a different unzip file software and still missing loads of players again. Not a clue why.

Did you use Winrar to extract the pack? When you extracted the pack, did you also change the preferences like this?
BoBzls
8 years ago
2 months ago
22
Premium
Did you use Winrar to extract the pack? When you extracted the pack, did you also change the preferences like this?


Ah you're a legend. Fully forget to reload the skin. Seem to all be there now. Thanks all sorted.
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
86,062
Ah you're a legend. Fully forget to reload the skin. Seem to all be there now. Thanks all sorted.

Gave me a scare for a second there, though, I have to admit. Locking this now as it's not exactly the right place πŸ˜‰
Kaestorfer
12 years ago
1 year ago
212
Good morning,

when i click on any donwload on the update page it will redirect me back to the overview page. For me the linking in every update is wrong.

Can you please check this?

Thank you
mons
17 years ago
2 hours ago
86,062
Good morning,

when i click on any donwload on the update page it will redirect me back to the overview page. For me the linking in every update is wrong.

Can you please check this?

Thank you

Work is ongoing by Footygamer to resolve a number of issues on the site. Can you give it a few hours and try again? And let us know if it still ain't working πŸ‘
Kaestorfer
12 years ago
1 year ago
212
Now it works! Thanks guys!
scopestacker
3 years ago
2 years ago
2
Could someone please post the md5 checksum of the complete 17.3.. GiB sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_13.00.rar file? Just want to make sure that nothing got corrupted
during copying. Thanks!

The one I've got is:
b22dcabe3da49ad98ca1f6c82760061a

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