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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  • 2024.06 - Released on 17 Mar 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).
mons
17 years ago
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So when you put the attached config file in the MP folder, do you get to see the new image? Have you ticked/unticked the correct things in the preferences btw?
JayJay777
16 years ago
4 days ago
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Nope, here is the image i see when i am in game.
mons
17 years ago
16 minutes ago
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Got it (I think)!

"Use caching..." needs to be unticked. That should do the trick
JayJay777
16 years ago
4 days ago
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Yes, finally! It worked


Thanks for all the help and patience, mate.

I appreciate it
mons
17 years ago
16 minutes ago
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Now get somebody to download for you the update packs which you're missing
JayJay777
16 years ago
4 days ago
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I think i'll just have to wait for the 6.0 torrent when the new game comes out, unfortunately.

Still don't get how i've probably updated hundreds of faces myself and they show up in game without any problems.

Will Hughes is the only image this has happened with, the others have changed straight away with no problems.
mons
17 years ago
16 minutes ago
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I think i'll just have to wait for the 6.0 torrent when the new game comes out, unfortunately.

Still don't get how i've probably updated hundreds of faces myself and they show up in game without any problems.

Will Hughes is the only image this has happened with, the others have changed straight away with no problems.

It's only less than two months away probably, so not too long to wait, I hope.

Possibly because he is in the game already from SI's official cut-outs which means that the game finds that image and uses it rather than checking the MP folder. Either way, it's a problem solved
Greentrunk
17 years ago
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Hi guys looking into my graphics folder i have a few questioins illl like to ask regarding this update and to make sure everything is fine.

Ok so in my graphics folder in documents/si/football manager 2013/graphics/pictures

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3707/9709308468_62c3b3e6f3_c.jpg

The person folder opens to one folder Megapack 5.0 containing 117,685 items (above)

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2885/9709308422_28063401fb_c.jpg

this is the seperate sortitoutsi folder which contains icon faces aswell as faces??

Icon faces is 3,162 items --- Faces folder is 2,354 items

Im a little bit confused as to why these are not in one folder.

Please help! Also When downloading the updates for the Megapack just copy over existing files?
blackmetalboon
14 years ago
1 year ago
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Hi guys looking into my graphics folder i have a few questioins illl like to ask regarding this update and to make sure everything is fine.

Ok so in my graphics folder in documents/si/football manager 2013/graphics/pictures

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3707/9709308468_62c3b3e6f3_c.jpg

The person folder opens to one folder Megapack 5.0 containing 117,685 items (above)

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2885/9709308422_28063401fb_c.jpg

this is the seperate sortitoutsi folder which contains icon faces aswell as faces??

Icon faces is 3,162 items --- Faces folder is 2,354 items

Im a little bit confused as to why these are not in one folder.

Please help! Also When downloading the updates for the Megapack just copy over existing files?


After downloading any updates just cut & paste all the contents of the folder into your Megapack folder and overwrite any of the existing files when prompted. Just remember to download and apply the updates in the correct order.

The Icon Faces will be in a different folder and work in exactly the same way as the Cut-Out Faces Megapack. As you only have 3,162 items in there, you have not downloaded the full pack as there should be the same amount of items as your main Megapack.

Not sure why there is another Faces folder in there! Did you download it from this site? Or you may have unzipped/moved it to the incorrect location by accident. I have a strong feeling that this is Update pack 5.8 as this contained 2,354 images.
Greentrunk
17 years ago
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Thanks for your quick reply blackmetalboon, after looking through i think your right in the fact that i had extactedt the files and just left them there for some reason. Copied over and replaced files that needed replacing. I don't know if this is right but there's not picture for mason bennet, is that right?
blackmetalboon
14 years ago
1 year ago
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The only face of Mason Bennet was included in Update Pack 5.01, so if you haven't downloaded that pack yet you will not have it.

Is there just a blank space where his picture is? If so;

Search your Megapack folder to see if his picture is in there (UID - 29086008).

If his picture is not there just type his UID in here and just paste it in your Megapack folder.
Greentrunk
17 years ago
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Ah yes there is a blank space there, im thinking i will download all of the updates then go over the existing files.

If I'm right in thinking I'll download all updates then not apply the configuration file as already in there is the current one. So just cut and paste the photos into the current person folder.
steff_fae_larky
13 years ago
3 years ago
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Can somebody please confirm the installation path for me please,c/docs/si/fm13/graphics
is this the correct path for installation?

thanks.
mons
17 years ago
16 minutes ago
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Can somebody please confirm the installation path for me please,c/docs/si/fm13/graphics
is this the correct path for installation?

thanks.

If your Documents folder is situated in C, then yes. Otherwise, follow the normal Documents path
steff_fae_larky
13 years ago
3 years ago
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If your Documents folder is situated in C, then yes. Otherwise, follow the normal Documents path


done this and downloaded the mega pack to the location descibed but nothing,do i make a "faces" after the graphics one?
sorry im not very tech with this and appreciate any help i can get here from u guys!!!

thanks.
Side Splitting Pass
14 years ago
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You should have a faces folder inside the graphics one then add all the cut-out faces & the config.xml file into that
steff_fae_larky
13 years ago
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You should have a faces folder inside the graphics one then add all the cut-out faces & the config.xml file into that

so i should copy the MP folder to there then yes?
ps thanks for your paitence.
mons
17 years ago
16 minutes ago
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so i should copy the MP folder to there then yes?
ps thanks for your paitence.

You also need to tick/untick the respective tickboxes in the preferences, as clearly indicated in the opening post of this thread and in the readme.

[imghttp://i518.photobucket.com/albums/u344/maltamons/FootballManager2013_Interface.png[/img]

Please also make sure you have the full megapack, i.e. over 131,500 images and a config.xml file.
steff_fae_larky
13 years ago
3 years ago
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so when u start downloading the relevant updates,what folder do u copy into the MP folder as there is a Sortitoutsi folder and some other one?? getting confusing now lol...
so far i have the main megapack up and running with the major players etc etc so thats a start...
cheers again..
Side Splitting Pass
14 years ago
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If you have the main megapack 5.0 set up with the cut-outs & config file in it then all you need to do (starting with update 5.1 & finishing with 5.9) is move the cut-outs & config file from each update folder into the megapack 5.0 folder. Don't copy the update folders into the megapack just their contents.

When you have added all 9 updates (in numerical order) you should have slightly more than 131,500 images & one config file in your 5.0 megapack folder.

Sorted.
steff_fae_larky
13 years ago
3 years ago
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If you have the main megapack 5.0 set up with the cut-outs & config file in it then all you need to do (starting with update 5.1 & finishing with 5.9) is move the cut-outs & config file from each update folder into the megapack 5.0 folder. Don't copy the update folders into the megapack just their contents.

When you have added all 9 updates (in numerical order) you should have slightly more than 131,500 images & one config file in your 5.0 megapack folder.

Sorted.


Ok thanks for your help hopefully should have this up and running soon sorry to be giving u bother all the time.
steff_fae_larky
13 years ago
3 years ago
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one thing i have noticed after installing all of these,is that at present in my rangers fc save Jon Daly still seems to be wearing from what you can see a Dundee united shirt anyone know why this would be? sorry if this in the wrong thread by the way...cheers
Side Splitting Pass
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Two questions. Is his new cut-out in your megapack folder? If so have you done ALL the actions steps mentioned above (particularly those mentioned in Mons comment on September 11th).
steff_fae_larky
13 years ago
3 years ago
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Two questions. Is his new cut-out in your megapack folder? If so have you done ALL the actions steps mentioned above (particularly those mentioned in Mons comment on September 11th).
where can i find his new cut-out m8? yeh ive done everything as clearly stated..sorry im not very tech'd up with this
Side Splitting Pass
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Sorry ignore my last post. The Rangers pack was cut & posted on August 31st, that was two days after the last megapack update. All the new Rangers cut-outs will be in the next update that will probably be released around the end of September.
steff_fae_larky
13 years ago
3 years ago
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Sorry ignore my last post. The Rangers pack was cut & posted on August 31st, that was two days after the last megapack update. All the new Rangers cut-outs will be in the next update that will probably be released around the end of September.
where can i find that post do you know,jst so i can compare images that i already have atm.thanks again m8
Side Splitting Pass
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It's on this page. You want the Rangers part 1 pack. The part 2 pack is players who will be added in FM2014.
bakizp
17 years ago
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where can i find that post do you know,jst so i can compare images that i already have atm.thanks again m8

Rangers part I
Rangers part II
Edit: SSP beat me to it
Side Splitting Pass
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Cheers bakizp.
andr3
12 years ago
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I found this on the megafacepack...
http://s18.postimg.org/zbdhv38ad/84077.png

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