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 475,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.

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  • 2024.13 - Released on 01 Oct 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).
coldpost
16 years ago
1 week ago
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mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
90,014

In fact, that is not in the default FM user data folder.

To get FM to read files from anywhere other than Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 2021, you need to change your user data location. Simple steps on how to do so can be found here.
coldpost
16 years ago
1 week ago
40
I'd already done this as my SSD only has OS on and cant cope with the size of the folders now. Ive completed these steps for previous versions with no incident but yep still not working after doing this.
coldpost
16 years ago
1 week ago
40
As an update ive just realized for instance that Salah is showing but Milner isnt?
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
90,014
I'd already done this as my SSD only has OS on and cant cope with the size of the folders now. Ive completed these steps for previous versions with no incident but yep still not working after doing this.

Can I see a screenshot of your Steam launch folder options?

I have another idea, but perhaps it might be quicker if you sent me a PM.
coldpost
16 years ago
1 week ago
40
will do. thanks
ChrisJ20
3 years ago
11 months ago
1
Premium
Hi, I've just signed up for a premium membership and downloaded the complete cut out facepack. Attempting to extract on 7-zip but it's going to take 100+ hours by the looks of it. Old laptop.

Is it possible to get an uncompressed facepack file which I can drag straight into the FM graphics folder?

Thanks

Chris
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
90,014
Hi, I've just signed up for a premium membership and downloaded the complete cut out facepack. Attempting to extract on 7-zip but it's going to take 100+ hours by the looks of it. Old laptop.

Is it possible to get an uncompressed facepack file which I can drag straight into the FM graphics folder?

Thanks

Chris

Typically you will see a really long amount of time when you first start the extraction. That's because the connection starts weak but builds strength as it goes. Give it a few minutes and you'll probably see that 100+ hours go down to an hour or so.

That said, speed of extraction is affected by what you're doing on your PC. If you've got FM running, a browser window or two open and some other apps in the background, then the speed of extraction will slow down correspondingly. Think of it as when you're at work - you may be able to do a job quickly but you won't do it as quickly if you've got 5 other things going on at the same time 😉

If need be, restart your PC/laptop before going to bed and extract it then - should be done by the time you get up 🙂
Tarek Iskander
8 years ago
1 month ago
3
Premium
How many images do you have in the faces folder?

Can we have a screenshot of your in-game preferences too?


Thanks - I am not sure exactly how many images but it's lots - starts at 0 and goes up to 2000054942

Attached is the screenshot of the interface for the preferences - is that what you needed?

Thanks!
Tarek Iskander
8 years ago
1 month ago
3
Premium
How many images do you have in the faces folder?

Can we have a screenshot of your in-game preferences too?


And here is a screenshot of the faces folder if that helps
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
90,014
Thanks - I am not sure exactly how many images but it's lots - starts at 0 and goes up to 2000054942

Attached is the screenshot of the interface for the preferences - is that what you needed?

Thanks!

The preferences aren't as per the screenshot in the first part; the use caching button needs to be unticked.

As for your other screenshot, it says in the bottom left corner that you have circa 30k images in your faces folder. Since the full megapack contains 279k+ images, it's clear your don't have the full megapack. Download it again from scratch 👍
Jordan Kilford
5 years ago
10 months ago
2
I've downloaded the megapack on torrent and extracted into my Graphics folder and nothing is showing in game. My kits and logos work but faces aren't....
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
90,014
I've downloaded the megapack on torrent and extracted into my Graphics folder and nothing is showing in game. My kits and logos work but faces aren't....

Screenshots of your in-game preferences and of your faces folder, in the latter case showing clearly the path it's installed in and the amount of images contained within it.
Jordan Kilford
5 years ago
10 months ago
2
Screenshots of your in-game preferences and of your faces folder, in the latter case showing clearly the path it's installed in and the amount of images contained within it.


Resolved now!
callummack2
10 years ago
11 months ago
2
Premium
Im having a problem getting my faces to load in game. i have downloaded the file it takes ages to extract as well as download. this is the 3rd time I'm trying to download and extract my file. when i have loaded the game up it took around 15 minutes to get past the loading screen i though that maybe it was going to finally work. I did all the things asked to in the how to download page for it still not to work... i really don't no what I'm doing wrong?
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
90,014
Im having a problem getting my faces to load in game. i have downloaded the file it takes ages to extract as well as download. this is the 3rd time I'm trying to download and extract my file. when i have loaded the game up it took around 15 minutes to get past the loading screen i though that maybe it was going to finally work. I did all the things asked to in the how to download page for it still not to work... i really don't no what I'm doing wrong?

It would help us if you provided screenshots of your in-game preferences and of your faces folder, in the latter case showing clearly the path it's installed in and the amount of images contained within it, so that perhaps we can see what the matter is.
Aaron Osborn
4 years ago
6 months ago
2
Premium
just tried downloading this huge file through qb torrent, it got to 99.6% and then stalled, tried extracting it into the correct file through winrar and it says 2 files are corrupt??
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
90,014
just tried downloading this huge file through qb torrent, it got to 99.6% and then stalled, tried extracting it into the correct file through winrar and it says 2 files are corrupt??

The file didn't download fully, so it's to be expected that there are to be errors when extracting it. Best to wait until sufficient seeds are online so you can get the remaining tiny bit downloaded, then hopefully extract the full pack without any issues.
callummack2
10 years ago
11 months ago
2
Premium
Here are my downloaded file and how i have preferences set up in game.
Qvordrup
16 years ago
25 minutes ago
137,588
Here are my downloaded file and how i have preferences set up in game.

Under skin untick the "use caching to decrease page loading time". Press confirm and if the faces are in the right place they should be show 🙂
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
90,014
Here are my downloaded file and how i have preferences set up in game.

In addition to what Qvordrup's rightly pointed out, you don't have the full complement of 279k+ images in your faces folder plus I have no idea about the naming conventions of your files; they definitely shouldn't be named like that: filenames should just be numbers.
Qvordrup
16 years ago
25 minutes ago
137,588
Here are my downloaded file and how i have preferences set up in game.

But something seems to be wrong with the files. They seems to be in the right place, but there should be two folders "faces" and "iconfaces" each with a config inside. Have you renamed the files or changed the folder names? they seems to have strange names... Perhaps you should redownload the pack again and unpack the files to the right place without changing anything.
L A
4 years ago
1 year ago
16
Hi. I downloaded the cutout latest changes pack and now all the faces are gone.

my questions:

1. how do i add the new faces without accidentally deleting the old ones
2. why did the faces go away?
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
90,014
Hi. I downloaded the cutout latest changes pack and now all the faces are gone.

my questions:

1. how do i add the new faces without accidentally deleting the old ones
2. why did the faces go away?

1. By installing it correctly.
2. Because you didn't install the update pack correctly

:face_with_tongue:

Sorry, couldn't resist. Joking apart, when installing an update pack, it should not be placed in a separate sub-folder. All faces should go into the faces folder and all iconfaces should go into the iconfaces folder, accepting the overwrite prompt when it comes up. At the end of the process, you should have 279k+ images and a file titled config.xml in one faces folder and one faces folder only, and same for the iconfaces.
L A
4 years ago
1 year ago
16
Well I downloaded the new changes into my downloads (Mac). Do I now copy the 5K faces and paste them into the FM>graphics>faces and iconic faces folder or is there a way to copy and paste the faces and iconic faces folders themselves?


1. By installing it correctly.
2. Because you didn't install the update pack correctly

:face_with_tongue:

Sorry, couldn't resist. Joking apart, when installing an update pack, it should not be placed in a separate sub-folder. All faces should go into the faces folder and all iconfaces should go into the iconfaces folder, accepting the overwrite prompt when it comes up. At the end of the process, you should have 279k+ images and a file titled config.xml in one faces folder and one faces folder only, and same for the iconfaces.
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
90,014
Well I downloaded the new changes into my downloads (Mac). Do I now copy the 5K faces and paste them into the FM>graphics>faces and iconic faces folder or is there a way to copy and paste the faces and iconic faces folders themselves?

a) Remember to delete the update pack sub-folder you installed previously which caused the issue
b) With Windows, if you copy the faces and iconfaces folders from the download into the folder containing the megapack faces and iconfaces sub-folders, the contents transfer automatically. Not sure if that's the case for Mac

If you're still not clear, screenshots of your megapack folder and of the contents of the file you've downloaded would help.
L A
4 years ago
1 year ago
16
a) Remember to delete the update pack sub-folder you installed previously which caused the issue
b) With Windows, if you copy the faces and iconfaces folders from the download into the folder containing the megapack faces and iconfaces sub-folders, the contents transfer automatically. Not sure if that's the case for Mac

If you're still not clear, screenshots of your megapack folder and of the contents of the file you've downloaded would help.



Well
a) I had never previously downloaded a 'latest changes'
b) makes all the difference cause its the difference between keeping or losing the 15gb worth of cutouts or losing them
L A
4 years ago
1 year ago
16
a) Remember to delete the update pack sub-folder you installed previously which caused the issue
b) With Windows, if you copy the faces and iconfaces folders from the download into the folder containing the megapack faces and iconfaces sub-folders, the contents transfer automatically. Not sure if that's the case for Mac

If you're still not clear, screenshots of your megapack folder and of the contents of the file you've downloaded would help.


going into the downloaded 'faces' and 'icon faces' folders and going 'mark all' and trying to move them to the graphics folder is a shitshow, my computer (newly acquired) can't do it
mons
18 years ago
1 hour ago
90,014
Well
a) I had never previously downloaded a 'latest changes'
b) makes all the difference cause its the difference between keeping or losing the 15gb worth of cutouts or losing them

In the second screenshot, why do you have a faces folder within the graphics folder? Like I've said, you should have one faces folder and one faces folder only, so remove that and leave only the faces folder within the graphics > sortitoutsi-1. Why have you renamed that one? It's a really, really simple process, I have no idea why you are choosing to complicate it so much 😕


going into the downloaded 'faces' and 'icon faces' folders and going 'mark all' and trying to move them to the graphics folder is a shitshow, my computer (newly acquired) can't do it

Extract the update pack folder to somewhere else on your PC which isn't your graphics folder. A temporary file on your desktop, for instance. Once it's all extracted, copy/paste the ensuing faces and iconfaces folders into the existing graphics > sortitoutsi-1. If done right, you should get an overwrite prompt, which you should accept.
L A
4 years ago
1 year ago
16
In the second screenshot, why do you have a faces folder within the graphics folder? Like I've said, you should have one faces folder and one faces folder only, so remove that and leave only the faces folder within the graphics > sortitoutsi-1. Why have you renamed that one? It's a really, really simple process, I have no idea why you are choosing to complicate it so much 😕

the faces folder within graphics are regen faces I created. And idk why I
it changed the name, def didn't do it on purpose

Extract the update pack folder to somewhere else on your PC which isn't your graphics folder. A temporary file on your desktop, for instance. Once it's all extracted, copy/paste the ensuing faces and iconfaces folders into the existing graphics > sortitoutsi-1. If done right, you should get an overwrite prompt, which you should accept.


the update pack is already somewhere else! its in my downloads! okay so you want me to paste the downloaded faces and icon faces folders into sortitoutsi. that's where my worry was, thinking it will replace the old faces rather than adding to it! because then something pops up saying should we replace this?

thanks for the advice anyway

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