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).
kurtkantoi
17 years ago
4 days ago
2
I can't get the torrent file for megapack 6.0. When I press the "Download Torrent File", nothing is load after 15 minutes. Kindly advice what could I do.
akosmo
10 years ago
9 years ago
835
Did you try to download from first page
Links works link
Daniel Adejumo
14 years ago
7 years ago
7
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but I downloaded the 6.1 megapack, extracted it and loaded it into the game, but I only have 124,484 files, players such as Lukaku are missing, help
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,000
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but I downloaded the 6.1 megapack, extracted it and loaded it into the game, but I only have 124,484 files, players such as Lukaku are missing, help

Where did you download the megapack from?
Tempo-
13 years ago
1 month ago
5
Premium
Is there any chance that somebody could please upload the config.xml file for 6.01?

I've just successfully finished downloading all 15 packs for 6.01, and I've managed to extract Parts 1-7 in the last 10 hours. However, the config/xml file has NOT been extracted, and as a result of this, I've gone about opening the remaining 8 packs via WinZip, and I can not see the config file in any of them.
Tempo-
13 years ago
1 month ago
5
Premium
Actually, I am very sorry, don't worry any more. I've just spotted my mistake. The config file does indeed exist on my system.
kurtkantoi
17 years ago
4 days ago
2
Did you try to download from first page
Links works link

Thanks. Now, its working,
Jase19
17 years ago
1 year ago
5
Premium
When you download the updates, do you just throw those folders into the graphics folder as well? or do you have to replace files in the main folder than came with 6.0?
O'Leary's Trainee
15 years ago
7 years ago
2,636
You extract them into the main MegaPack folder, overwriting when needed. That will update the config as well as replace the images with the improvements.
Spiattalo
10 years ago
10 years ago
3
Whenever I try to move the files from/to your 6.0 Megapack folders the transfer goes extremely slow on my Mac, with Finder using 100% of my CPU. Anyone else experiencing this? It only happens on that folder.
I have Mavericks installed, 4gb ram, 20gb free space on my drive
hakeel
10 years ago
9 years ago
10
firstly would like to say you guys have done a marvellous job so far and thumbs up!

i am experiencing problems in enabling player faces to load up on file. In the game I highlight a players name but a dark shadow still remains instead of the face. I have made a graphics folder and in that folder i have made a faces folder in which all the player faces are in along with a config file. I have also followed the steps in which you go to preferences and load data in game and still i am getting no player faces next to the name. Can some one please point me in the right direction and highlight what im doing wrong?
roberto_NUFC
12 years ago
9 years ago
6
Hi, I just downloaded the whole pack after becoming a premium member but it said there was a problem with download. I have approx 118000 pics so missing about 12000. Can anyone help? I used winRAR and 7zip but same issue with both.
dave byrd
17 years ago
7 years ago
31
I cannot download the 6.02 changes from either link. Please upload it to a decent site like mediafire.
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,000
Whenever I try to move the files from/to your 6.0 Megapack folders the transfer goes extremely slow on my Mac, with Finder using 100% of my CPU. Anyone else experiencing this? It only happens on that folder.
I have Mavericks installed, 4gb ram, 20gb free space on my drive

I'm afraid I'm using Windows Vista so I can't really help here. How slow are we talking, though?



firstly would like to say you guys have done a marvellous job so far and thumbs up!

i am experiencing problems in enabling player faces to load up on file. In the game I highlight a players name but a dark shadow still remains instead of the face. I have made a graphics folder and in that folder i have made a faces folder in which all the player faces are in along with a config file. I have also followed the steps in which you go to preferences and load data in game and still i am getting no player faces next to the name. Can some one please point me in the right direction and highlight what im doing wrong?

Can you post the exact folder location you placed the megapack folder in? How many images in all do you have in there? Are they all in one folder and one folder only? Are the preferences as indicated in the opening post of this thread?



Hi, I just downloaded the whole pack after becoming a premium member but it said there was a problem with download. I have approx 118000 pics so missing about 12000. Can anyone help? I used winRAR and 7zip but same issue with both.

You probably lucked out and had an interrupted download. You'll have to download the file again and, fingers crossed, your connection will be stable throughout.
Spiattalo
10 years ago
10 years ago
3
I'm afraid I'm using Windows Vista so I can't really help here. How slow are we talking, though?


Like "7 hrs for 150MB" slow. It appears to happen only when I delete/overwrite the files from the main folder (Megapack 6.0).
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,000
That's pretty damn slow, granted

It's not the case when I copy or move my Megapack folder on Windows Vista. It takes me a good hour or more, mind you, but given the amount of files and total size, that's to be expected. I might be talking out of my arse here, but perhaps the relatively small amount of space left on your HD might affect the speed of your data transfer.
Metz
12 years ago
8 years ago
15
I'm like 600-700 faces short. I downloaded the 6.0 pack and then added the 6.01 and 6.02 on top of it.


Any idea on why I'm a couple hundred faces short?
Spiattalo
10 years ago
10 years ago
3
That's pretty damn slow, granted

It's not the case when I copy or move my Megapack folder on Windows Vista. It takes me a good hour or more, mind you, but given the amount of files and total size, that's to be expected. I might be talking out of my arse here, but perhaps the relatively small amount of space left on your HD might affect the speed of your data transfer.


I haven't explained myself well, sorry, I had no problem in moving the folder itself, just in moving the files from that folder, like when I need to replace/delete the single images. I have 20GB left so I don't think it's a matter of HD space (and besides, it only happens with that folder). Now, the only thing I could think of is I haven't indexed those files because I felt it was a waste of time.
Thanks for replying anyway, I know having Windows won't let you help. Let's just hope some Mac user reads this. ^^
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,000
I'm like 600-700 faces short. I downloaded the 6.0 pack and then added the 6.01 and 6.02 on top of it.


Any idea on why I'm a couple hundred faces short?

Seems like one of the icons packs you downloaded did either not fully extract or did not fully download?

How many images were in each respective download? You might have to re-download one or more of the packs...
The Mijus
11 years ago
7 years ago
25
Hi,
I'm a italian user and I have a lot of problems with update pack!!
In Italy "upladed.net" isn't accessible because police consider upladed.net a site where you can download film and music without pay copyrights!
I've seen that you've uploaded update pack in another site: rapidshare. I have a problem with rapidshare I can't download from rapidshare because site say to me that I have downloaded a lot of material ! But isn't true!!
I have this problem but users on my site have the same problems

Can you upload your fantastic file in another site like mediafire??
Thanks...
Filippo.
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,000
Hi,
I'm a italian user and I have a lot of problems with update pack!!
In Italy "upladed.net" isn't accessible because police consider upladed.net a site where you can download film and music without pay copyrights!
I've seen that you've uploaded update pack in another site: rapidshare. I have a problem with rapidshare I can't download from rapidshare because site say to me that I have downloaded a lot of material ! But isn't true!!
I have this problem but users on my site have the same problems

Can you upload your fantastic file in another site like mediafire??
Thanks...
Filippo.

Filippo, we are working behind the scenes to upload to another site and we hope to have it available as soon as possible. Mediafire unfortunately isn't an option as the upload speeds are very slow
The Mijus
11 years ago
7 years ago
25
Ok thanks
Sorry but i didin't see this topic
Thanks for your work
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,000
The packs are now also hosted on bayfile.com. Hopefully this'll enable you all to download the files without any problems.
hakeel
10 years ago
9 years ago
10
Can you post the exact folder location you placed the megapack folder in? How many images in all do you have in there? Are they all in one folder and one folder only? Are the preferences as indicated in the opening post of this thread?

thank you for responding

the folder is in this location: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2014\graphics\faces

i have 3,554 PNG images along with a config file in the folder

i have put all the pics in a folder and named it faces and put that folder in the graphics folder. Do I extract them from the folder named faces and just put all the pics in graphics folder along with the config file?
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,000
You should have 137,799 images in all. Looks to me like you downloaded the latest update pack only, whereas you should download the whole megapack instead...
hakeel
10 years ago
9 years ago
10
so if i download the whole megapack it should then work?
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,000
Absolutely. You currently have around 3% of the total megapack image count, no wonder you didn't see any images
hakeel
10 years ago
9 years ago
10
lol thank you very much for your help
Metz
12 years ago
8 years ago
15
Seems like one of the icons packs you downloaded did either not fully extract or did not fully download?

How many images were in each respective download? You might have to re-download one or more of the packs...



Oops. I meant to post this in the cut out faces. I don't use the icons.
hakeel
10 years ago
9 years ago
10
ive downloaded the whole 16 parts but when I extract them it says part 4 is corrupted and only 39,965 faces are extracted. Any help on this as in why part 4 is corrupted

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