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:
• 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).
Jez Evans
10 years ago
2 years ago
16
Using any web browser to download such big file is a nasty operation.You have to do it with some download manager software like JDownloader (or search in Google "download manager" ) which can resume downloads when your connection is problematic.
Here is tutorial how to work with JDownloader


Yeah, no idea how this works at all. You need a URL. The only one you can get is by right clicking the download complete pack button and copying the link address. But then the download manager spits this out:
http://s22.postimg.org/oofrym60x/error.jpg
mons
17 years ago
2 minutes ago
86,080
Have you PMed Rob?
rhys-williams5
13 years ago
1 week ago
7
Premium
Hey, for some reason when I extract the download it tells me it's incomplete :/ Anyone know why?
mons
17 years ago
2 minutes ago
86,080
Could be, as reported by other users in this thread, that the file has not fully downloaded. What is the file size?
rhys-williams5
13 years ago
1 week ago
7
Premium
Before I un rar it it 5.25GB, No idea why I can't get the full size. This is now my third attempt.
rhys-williams5
13 years ago
1 week ago
7
Premium
I am trying it with Google chrome at the moment. Will let you know the end product when it's done.
rhys-williams5
13 years ago
1 week ago
7
Premium
108,000 images, it has to be something your end as that was my forth attempt. I hope something gets sorted soon.
Footygamer
17 years ago
1 day ago
75,512
I've just changed the service we use for downloads. This is alot more expensive for us but it should give more reliable and faster speeds for you. I cannot guarentee that it will last as i'm not sure that we can afford it at the moment, but we will see. For now it should alleviate the temporary problems you guys are having.

Please not, this service is only available for files over 1GB, smaller files are still using the old method
JayL
13 years ago
8 years ago
1
has anyone got a config file for the mega face pack download 6.0 got all the images but no cofig file so its pretty pointless. Kits and logos worked fine. Thanks in advance
mons
17 years ago
2 minutes ago
86,080
Download the latest update pack and use that config
TGA
11 years ago
3 years ago
2
Hey everyone.
I am having an issue moving my megapack folder to a different location. I mistakenly have it in my FM13 folder and want to move it to FM14. For some reason it tells me I do not have permission to move or delete this folder.

"You require permission from S-1-5-21-2225195298-2778108438-323505995-1000 to make changes to this folder"

anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
mons
17 years ago
2 minutes ago
86,080
Trying copy-pasting it instead of moving it. Could do the trick
fer1976
17 years ago
2 years ago
13
I can not download the complete pack, just let me download updates.

Free Mirrors - sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_6.04.rar NOT WORKING : (
mons
17 years ago
2 minutes ago
86,080
What happens when you try to download it then?
TGA
11 years ago
3 years ago
2
Trying copy-pasting it instead of moving it. Could do the trick

Thanks for the advice! I ended up just deleting it all haha. I will redownload it later.
fer1976
17 years ago
2 years ago
13
What happens when you try to download it then?


I click on rapidshare or megaupload links not shown. It seems I did not click, no response ...
In all updates OK ...
daniel riswandi
10 years ago
7 years ago
3
As a premium member, you can download the whole 6.03 file from here...


Dear Mons, the reason I would like to download in parts is because I have a terrible internet connection with a speed up to 1Mbps only. It will take days to download Megapack in full. I have tried to use download manager but the downloading always fails every halfway.

Therfore, is there any solution that you can recommend to me at this point?

Thank you so much
mons
17 years ago
2 minutes ago
86,080
Why not download the torrent file then? This way you can download it at your own pace and time and you should have no issues with interrupted downloads that way...
Luís Costa Alves
10 years ago
10 years ago
2
Hi! The part 15 of cut out faces is missing. This file sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_6.00.part15, Can you fixe it? Thanks

Best regards
mons
17 years ago
2 minutes ago
86,080
Hi! The part 15 of cut out faces is missing. This file sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_6.00.part15, Can you fixe it? Thanks

Best regards

Which site is this from?
MJMcK
10 years ago
10 years ago
3
Hey guys, I lost my config file for the megapack and downloaded the update file to use that config like you suggested for the person above, but only some of the faces are working now... is there any solution or can I download just the megapack config file from anywhere?

Tried using the config creator thing recommended in the readme but it says it can't find a DLL file or something... help :s
mons
17 years ago
2 minutes ago
86,080
Hey guys, I lost my config file for the megapack and downloaded the update file to use that config like you suggested for the person above, but only some of the faces are working now... is there any solution or can I download just the megapack config file from anywhere?

Tried using the config creator thing recommended in the readme but it says it can't find a DLL file or something... help :s

Can you confirm that you have just under 140,000 images plus the config file in one folder and one folder only?
MJMcK
10 years ago
10 years ago
3
65,518 files... All in one folder. Possibly lost some during file recover process after my PC crashed. Will probably have to reinstall?
mons
17 years ago
2 minutes ago
86,080
65,518 files... All in one folder. Possibly lost some during file recover process after my PC crashed. Will probably have to reinstall?

Looks like it, I'm afraid, as you have just under half the total image count. No wonder some images wouldn't display, since they're quite simply not there...
MJMcK
10 years ago
10 years ago
3
Ah right, cheers for help anyway and great work to everyone involved, its a phenomenal achievement
Troels Thøgersen
10 years ago
9 years ago
3
Dear Sortitoutsi
I have a problem. I have installed the package in the right way (according to protocol) but when I put it in the game, the faces are too big. The pictures of the player contains the whole window where there also is supposed to be information about age, nationality etc.

I have tried to delete the package in order to get in normal again, but unfortunately the window is now almost completely white and missing the informations, even though I deleted the package and even re-installed the game?
I do not neccessarily want the package, but I want it to be at least normal again?

Can anybody help me? Excuse my bad english
mons
17 years ago
2 minutes ago
86,080
Dear Sortitoutsi
I have a problem. I have installed the package in the right way (according to protocol) but when I put it in the game, the faces are too big. The pictures of the player contains the whole window where there also is supposed to be information about age, nationality etc.

I have tried to delete the package in order to get in normal again, but unfortunately the window is now almost completely white and missing the informations, even though I deleted the package and even re-installed the game?
I do not neccessarily want the package, but I want it to be at least normal again?

Can anybody help me? Excuse my bad english

I suspect you installed the file incorrectly or that you are using a different skin. Try clearing the cache from the preferences to see if it solves the issue.
Troels Thøgersen
10 years ago
9 years ago
3
I suspect you installed the file incorrectly or that you are using a different skin. Try clearing the cache from the preferences to see if it solves the issue.


I have tried to clear the cache but nothing seems to work. I think it is installed correctly as all the faces seems to be there, but the faces are somehow to big like they are zoomed in
mons
17 years ago
2 minutes ago
86,080
I have tried to clear the cache but nothing seems to work. I think it is installed correctly as all the faces seems to be there, but the faces are somehow to big like they are zoomed in

What skin are you using? If anything, FM downsizes the image size as they are displayed smaller than their 180x180 size?

If you could upload a screenshot, it might help...
Troels Thøgersen
10 years ago
9 years ago
3
What skin are you using? If anything, FM downsizes the image size as they are displayed smaller than their 180x180 size?

If you could upload a screenshot, it might help...


I was using Default Skin. I have changed the skin now and the problem has gone away. Now I just have to get used too a new skin but that should not be a problem :-)

Thank you very much for your help!

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