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).
Tatavo
11 years ago
2 weeks ago
2,748
No, I didn't use steam-workshop, and even deleted the entire folder just to be safe.
marrtac
16 years ago
11 hours ago
28,154
And you tried to clean cache from game settings? If it didn't worked maybe try doing it that way http://sortitoutsi.net/articles/read/2115/how-to-clear-the-football-manager-2013-cache
Tatavo
11 years ago
2 weeks ago
2,748
Yes, I've tried to clean cache more than once. The thing is, it worked before, and it worked fine. For some reason it stopped working though.

Am I able to uninstall and re-install the game without any issues? I'm thinking that might be my best bet.
holdingsix
13 years ago
10 years ago
7
Hey guys, need some help here. I decided to have a go at doing my own cut-outs of players from my country who are missing. I did everything perfectly and added it into the graphics > faces > megapack. I then created the .xml file using fmXML. It states that .xml file for my added .png was created. I then reloaded the skin to see if the image would pop up in the game. It did! But the problem is, my image was the only image showing up. The rest of the images (from megapack) aren't showing up.

I guess something went wrong here, or I may have missed a step along the way?
When creating the .xml file, do I click only on my created image only or everything in the pack?

Thanks in advance.
mons
17 years ago
16 hours ago
85,497
Read the instruction in this thread on how to add images to your megapack.
nmwald1
14 years ago
3 months ago
19
I just upgraded to 6.1 of the mega pack and my manager picture had vanished. I tried to put it back in the folder (it's my own cutout) and it still wouldnt show up. I made sure and double checked I was doing it properly e.g making sure it was set to reload skin etc. I even went into the config file and added in a line for the manager as the original picture was picked when setting up the game.
If anyone could offer any help it would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Nathan
mons
17 years ago
16 hours ago
85,497
In future, always keep your manager picture in a separate folder to avoid the chances of this happening.

Can you please upload the image in question and its config file?
Hari90
12 years ago
6 years ago
4
Hmm,when i apply latest changes 6.01 to the megapack faces i dont have any pictures of players in my fm.Without that update i have pictures

EDIT:My mistake i downloaded sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_icons_6.01_changes instead of sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_6.01_changes
holdingsix
13 years ago
10 years ago
7
Thanks mons. Didn't manage to find the thread earlier. Works fine now.
Niall98
10 years ago
9 years ago
19
Hey guys,
I'm new to this also. But I can't get logos or this cut-out pack to work. I tried downloading as a torrent file but it won't this keeps happening that image & it's very annoying as my kits work no problem at all. Can't get into the game until all the graphics are downloaded. Can someone please help me out?
mons
17 years ago
16 hours ago
85,497
You need to have a torrent client, such as Utorrent, installed.
Tatavo
11 years ago
2 weeks ago
2,748
Uninstalled and then re-installed the game and it works again just fine...for now.

Thanks for all the help guys!
Eugene Lee
13 years ago
13 hours ago
195
Premium
Hi, I downloaded every single file of the FM13 Facepacks and Metalic Logo. Do I just download the update or do I have to download the whole thing again? Also, the folder should be "graphics>faces>Megapacks" or just "graphics>faces" ? Thanks!
mons
17 years ago
16 hours ago
85,497
Hi, I downloaded every single file of the FM13 Facepacks and Metalic Logo. Do I just download the update or do I have to download the whole thing again? Also, the folder should be "graphics>faces>Megapacks" or just "graphics>faces" ? Thanks!

Eugene Lee, if you are sure that you download all the updates from 5.01 to 5.10, then you should just download the 6.0 and 6.01 update packs. Either of the two folders is correct, as long as they're within the graphics folder in Docs > SI > FM.
Footygamer
17 years ago
2 days ago
75,258
Does anyone know how long it takes a file at gamefront to become available?

I'm looking to add extra mirrors via gamefront, but the test file I uploaded constantly says it's not ready and to come back later....
Dan Newham
10 years ago
9 years ago
6
Can't download. Says server is overloaded effectively?
Black Jesus
10 years ago
10 months ago
17
Premium
I need some help guys.

So apparently my config file has a XML Parsing Error in it?

When I open it up in Firefox it says:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: file:///C:/Users/Erik%20Kennon/Documents/Sports%20Interactive/Football%20Manager%202014/graphics/Faces/MEGAPACK%204.0/config.xml
Line Number 116568, Column 3: <record from="megapack 4.0 logo" to="graphics/pictures/person/0/portrait"/>
----------------^

I'm not quite sure what I've done for this to happen. Was working perfectly fine the other day.

I have Megapack 4.0, with a few updated images I've added on my own.

Perhaps someone could re-upload the 4.0 config file if they have it?
O'Leary's Trainee
15 years ago
7 years ago
2,636
Just remove the line you're getting the error from.

It's just trying to add the Megapack logo (which is a jpeg) to the person 0, who does not exist. Removing that one paragraph, and saving, and you should be fine.
Black Jesus
10 years ago
10 months ago
17
Premium
Ok I did but now it still says this:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: file:///C:/Users/Erik%20Kennon/Documents/Sports%20Interactive/Football%20Manager%202014/graphics/Faces/MEGAPACK%204.0/config.xml
Line Number 116568, Column 1:</list>

The problem is, the faces are not showing up in game. It's all default faces.

I honestly have no idea what could be wrong.
Black Jesus
10 years ago
10 months ago
17
Premium
Nevermind guys, I'm just gonna download the 6.0 megapack and the config should fix itself.
nina-sky
13 years ago
6 years ago
9
i have until 5.5. can i download 6.1 directly of do i have to download 5,6 5,7 etc etc?
mons
17 years ago
16 hours ago
85,497
i have until 5.5. can i download 6.1 directly of do i have to download 5,6 5,7 etc etc?

You should download 5.6-5.10 and 6.0 and 6.01 to be fully up-to-date.
MetalHeroChris
13 years ago
2 days ago
4
May I ask if it is possible to have the latest file changes 6.0 and 6.01 uploaded to somewhere like Hotfile like the older versions 5.0 to 5.10 were?
Rapidshare's speed tethering is absolutely ridiculous. If not may I ask why not?
xaba
16 years ago
7 years ago
29
Congrats for your great work with this Megapack... Its simply awesome...

I want to do one request... Can someone upload the "Update Pack - 6.0" in another server? Rapidload doesnt work for me...

Thank you in advance
jjgunners789
10 years ago
2 years ago
3
can you guys make a individual facepacks for leagues
Lars
17 years ago
2 months ago
91
Can pack 6.0 be downloaded from another place than Rapidshare.
Thank you in advance.
mons
17 years ago
16 hours ago
85,497
For all those having issues with downloading the files through Rapidshare, can you try using the alternate uploaded.net links we have been providing since Friday?




can you guys make a individual facepacks for leagues

No, it's too time-consuming to sort them out, and what happens when players get transferred? It's not really feasible, sorry.
MetalHeroChris
13 years ago
2 days ago
4
For all those having issues with downloading the files through Rapidshare, can you try using the alternate uploaded.net links we have been providing since Friday?


Hi Mons, part 6.0 is on Rapidshare only, but 6.1 is on both Rapidshare and Uploaded.net.
Have I missed a link for part 6.0 on Uploaded.net through this thread or something?
Ben Getty
10 years ago
2 years ago
37
Hi just dowloaded mega pack update 6.1 and unzipped it into same graphics folder the other faces are in. also ensured config.xml document was there too but after doing the update in game via preferences and refreshing the skin as instructed all the faces are now gone in the game. Please help..

Also maybe nothing to do with it but I have also installed the 'Real name fix' patch at same time. It worked no problem but could this have done something? Thanks
CasparDSC
12 years ago
2 years ago
113
I noticed no problems at all with the 6.1 update. Also pre-installed the real names patch, so this should be no problem.

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