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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mons
Can I see your megapack folder structure, including something to show how many folders and images it contains?
coffee cup
I have downloaded Cut Out Player Faces Megapack from 1-11 individually ,but once they have all downloaded they all look like a internet explorer web browser ?
Surely this is not correct but if it is what do i do next with them so confusing ?
mons
Downloaded Winrar and use it to extract the first file.
coffee cup
I have win-zip on my pc but managed a way round it to get it to work. I thought nowadays most explorers come with either winrar or win zip ? I’m using Microsoft edge if this helps please feel free to help me further.
mons
I specifically mentioned Winrar for a reason. Use it to extract the files and you shouldn't have any issues 👍
coffee cup
Just downloaded it, thinking of trying to download the cut out face packs again and start again as the 11 ones i downloaded before i deleted them.
cheers
mons
Best to download the 2023.00 torrent, then download all the update packs and install them chronologically.
shinenzo
Hello, I downloaded megapack 9.5gb and when extracting (WinRAR) it says that some faces are corrupted.
mons
What download method did you use to download the megapack?
shinenzo
Eu baixei o pacote completo via Torrent
mons
This is an English-language forum, so please post in English.
Can we have a screenshot of the file in the torrent client so that I can be sure it's been fully downloaded? Also, what error message are you getting?
shinenzo
shinenzo
As the piecewise method was giving this error, I downloaded the full 10GB, extract to Documents/Sports Interactive/Football manager/Graphics and when I go to load the game, the game closes after a while.
shinenzo
For testing, I downloaded DF11 and it worked perfectly, but I prefer cut out.
mons
This screenshot shows that you tried extracting part 2. The torrent is a single file without parts, so it seems you downloaded the split files and not the torrent file.
Try downloading the torrent file 👍
I'm not sure what piecewise means 😕 Can you give us a screenshot of the folder you've tried extracting the compressed file to?
shinenzo
I'm going to redo everything, maybe I did something wrong, if I repeat, I'll come here again. Thank you for your attention.
thach130801
Hi. This isn't working properly in my fm17 game, EVERY pics/icons appeared to be glitched/corrupted. I know all the stuff about graphics folder etc.. I didn't encounter any single error while installing. What is wrong and what should I do?
edit: I found the problem, it's the newer pack not compatible with old fms. It has been mentioned in the FAQ, but it's so misleading.
Not “some images” but ALL OF THEM doesn't work, so it should have been a MUST DO thing instead of “suggested”.
You guys should either edit the FAQ or put a big warning button for old fms in the download page. Imo im not the only one so far downloaded an incompatible pack.
Still, many tks for all these resources 🙂
AntMit
I'm no novice when it comes to stuff like this, but for some reason my M1 Max MBP is having real difficulty with installing the FM23 faces images. I've done this previously with FM21 and 22, but it seems as though there are just far too many files involved now and my system is struggling. When I decided to extract them all straight into a “Faces” folder in my FM23 folder instead, this worked but I left the game over an hour to re-apply the skin and it just sat there with the updating message. Next, I quit the game and then allowed it to reopen, again I gave up after an hour.
I've never had these issues before…is there something I'm missing and has anyone else had similar problems? There are a LOT of image files, but then there always were. I'm on a beta of MacOS Sonoma, but I can't see this being the reason, surely? It's been a very stable beta indeed.
mons
I've moved this to here, maybe some of the FAQs at the top can help.
Where exactly are you installing the files? Exact path please.
Jos1155875
Hello, i’ve got a little issue with a picture for a created player. I created Bonsu Baah and did everything to get him a real picture. But ingame I get a picture of a random guy (which I think is random generated). How can I replace the random picture with the picture in my facepack? (I already put the correct ID in the config file and made sure it’s a .png 250x250). Thanks in advance!
mons
Could I have larger versions of those images? They're much too small to be able to see anything. It's best if you take a screenshot instead of a photo of your monitor.
Make sure that the in-game UID of the player is the same as the filename and the one in the config file.
Jos1155875
ID is correct I guess. Can't find a solution. Thanks for helping me!
mons
All seems fine. I assume you don't have another set of cut-outs elsewhere right? Maybe Zealand's regen pack or something similar?
Can you check your preferences and see if they look like this?
AntMit
/Users/MY PROFILELibrary/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2023/graphics
AntMit
Never mind. I installed the latest beta of Mac OS and then tried again. Seems to have worked fine this time.
Jos1155875
Preferences are the same and checked every single folder and didn’t found any regen pack. Someone who know a solution for this? Thanks!
mehdi nait djoudi
Is it normal that despite the updates of the packs the young Lamine Yamal is still no photo in my career
Ben0404
I am using the free download option. I downloaded the 9gb base file. Do I have to download every update file after that or just the latest?
thanks a lot in advance
mons
Yes, because he is not in the default database but only added with a custom file.
You need to download all update packs, not just the latest.
Ben0404
I downloaded all update packs and the main file however for example KRC Genk only has 3 players in their main team with a picture is that normal? I thought the megapack would add nearly all available faces and the belgian league is not that small of a league