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 480,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.
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- 2025.01 - Released on 04 Dec 2024
Installation Instructions
1. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using Steam on Windows?
Watch this YouTube tutorial video, which should you guide you on the steps you need to follow to install it. Although it is for an older version of FM, the steps are still the same. You need to use Winrar (or a similar program) to extract the downloaded file.
This is what the MP folder should look like for the respective version of FM you're using:
Anything beyond the blue line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.
The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.
Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).
Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked
After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.
Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
2. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using a Mac OS?
From FM20 onwards, there's been a substantial change to how Mac FM documents are stored. Previously the files would automatically go in the Documents folder here:
Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x
Now the files will instead appear in the following location:
Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x
By default this folder is hidden, so to access you need to do as follows:
Open Finder
Click ‘Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the ‘Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the ‘Library’, click to enter then go to ‘Application Support’ -> ‘Sports Interactive’ -> ‘Football Manager 202x -> graphics’ (create the last folder if necessary
Anything beyond this path line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.
The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.
Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).
Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked
After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.
Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
3. I don’t want to have the megapack in the default user data folder – can I place it elsewhere and how would I do so?
You need to change your user data location. Simple steps on how to do so can be found here.
The above step does not apply if you’re playing on Gamepass, in which case the user data location has to be the default one (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)
It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.
4. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using Gamepass?
If you're using Gamepass, then you have to use the default user data folder - point 4 above does not and can not apply to you.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you're not a premium member, it is recommended that you download the base megapack via torrent by going to our cut-out megapack download page. After which, you should then download all the update packs released to date and apply them chronologically.
If you're a premium member, just download the most recent complete pack.
If you already have a version of our Cut-Out Faces Megapack installed, then click "Download Latest Changes" and you'll be presented with a list of all the updates we've released since you've last downloaded a file. Simply download any you might have missed, starting with the oldest.
This is what the MP folder should look like:
The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.
Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).
Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked
After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.
Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x
Now the files will instead appear in the following location:
Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x
By default this folder is hidden, so to access you need to do as follows:
Open Finder
Click ‘Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the ‘Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the ‘Library’, click to enter then go to ‘Application Support’ -> ‘Sports Interactive’ -> ‘Football Manager 202x’
Anything beyond the blue line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.
The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.
Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).
Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked
After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.
Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
The above step does not apply if you’re playing on Gamepass, in which case the user data location has to be the default one (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)
It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.
Torrent files need a torrent client to be downloaded. I personally use µTorrent but other common clients are BitTorrent, Vuze and Deluge. For those using torrents for the first time, here is a general walk-through on how to download torrents and a specific guide for µTorrent.
Be aware that it will take a substantial amount of time to download the file due to its sheer size and that other people depend on you hosting the file to get it so please leave your torrent client on after you have fully downloaded it. The etiquette is generally accepted to be to upload as much as you download, although this might not always be possible. The older the torrent file, the less likely it is that there will still be users seeding it.
If done correctly, you should be asked if you want to overwrite files – accept. You should have one folder for faces and another folder for iconfaces, and no sub-folder whatsoever in them.
These steps are to be repeated for every update pack downloaded, and they are to be installed chronologically.
Secondly, for files as large as this, the calculation of the extraction time will be wildly incorrect at the start. After a while, it'll show a more realistic timeframe, which shouldn't be more than an hour or two if you have a good setup and few programs running at the same time.
Try using Google Chrome in incognito mode (or the equivalent mode for other browsers) and you should be able to resume the download from the point it was interrupted, if that happens.
The likelihood is that you've put the iconfaces in the faces folder, or used the wrong config file for each folder. As a result, the smaller images (in 25x18) are being upscaled to be displayed in the person's profile, hence the blurring. Re-install the update pack again, making sure you put the contents of each folder in the right place.
Alternatively, you can download fmXML and generate a config yourself. There's a video on YouTube on how to use it but it's really easy and the instructions are quite straight-forward.
To get them to show, you should individually download the cut-out faces that you want from here (or use the UID to find them in your existing facepack if you don't use the cut-out megapack), put them in a separate folder to your existing facepack and create a config file just for them using the method outlined in here (which works for all facepack styles, not just the cut-out megapack).
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wizz289
User/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2014/Graphics this is the folder i have put them in.
done the usual clear cache
reload skin when confirming changes in preferences is ticked
use cache to decrease page loading times is unticked
ShaunyB
Earlier I got all the player pics out of resource archiver that are Wolves faces because they are much more up to date and cleaner than the current Wolves ones.
I simply swapped them with the ones in the Player pics in C:\Users\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2014\graphics
However, since then only the pics from resource archiver appear.
Very, very, very few others appear. From searching through I have found one or two in every 50.
I am bitterly disappointed as this is very important to me.
I have done all the usual checks (cache, every in preferences etc) and all is fine. Baring in mind all I did was a simple "swap" I cannot understand why in game it doesnt seem to like this.
Can somebody please help?????
Milloy11
Box Of Frogs
When I try to extract it with Unarchiver (I'm using a Mac) it says the contents cannot be extracted with this program.
Have I not got the right file or have I not got the right program?
Now trying to download via torrent, see if that is any better.
mons
If you want to try to re-download the file, then the issues we were having previously and which did not permit the full downloading of the megapack have now been solved.
In one of the SI folder, there should be a games folder containing your save game(s). This is the path that your graphics should be placed in.
How many images in all do you have in your cut-otu faces megapack folder?
If you were slightly more observant, you would have noticed that the Wolves images which you copied over were named as the person's name rather than their UID. You also copied the config attached to it. Therefore, the game is only reading the Wolves images that you transferred into the megapack folder, alongside the other SI-included images and ignoring "our" cut-outs.
To correct this, delete the files you transferred over plus the config file. Re-download the 6.02 update pack and use the config file therein. If you want to use SI's Wolves images, re-extract them using the resource archiver and rename the filenames as UIDs (this can be done using fmXML if you don't want to do it manually. Some images may still need to be done manually, but at least it won't take that long). Once you do that, replace the existing cut-outs in our megapack with the ones you want to add. DON'T REPLACE the config file...
Box Of Frogs
Trouble is I cannot find any instructions as to how to do it on a Mac!
Can anyone give me an idiot guide please?
Oh and once I have installed that I presume I can follow a similar procedure to get updates 6.1 and 6.2?
Happy New Year!!
Thanks
mons
You should extract the rar file using winrar, which I understand has a Mac version. Once that is accomplished, I believe that the user data folder path for FM14 on a Mac is the same as that on a PC, i.e. Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2014 - just create a graphics folder in there and place the megapack therein.
I don't use a Mac so I'm not 100% sure that this works tbh...
Richard Shaw
even though it is better, I still cannot download the complete Pack. It says it is the file is 6.23Gb and from various locations, and various browsers it always stops exactly at 4.88Gb.
regards
Richard
Box Of Frogs
Can't get it to work for me :-(
Lord Albrecht
imndgoh
My game :
Version 14.2.1
Steam app game
I have tried all methods but still cannot get megapack 6.0 to load faces
This is what i did.
1) Torrented the file, RAR 6.05GB
2) unzipped full contents into this folder >>>> C:\Users\owner\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2014\graphics\....(134.585 files inside)
3) Start FM, clicked pref > interface> clear cache > tick reload skin...> untick use caching...> confirm
4) Used FMxml to redo the config file but no help
5) repeated steps 1 to 4 for 3x just in case i missed something out...but to no avail
For logos also same issue, cannot show....did the steps above except unzipped into this folder >>> C:\Users\owner\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2014\graphics\pictures\logos
However....i managed to get skins working...
eg: DarkBase Skin 2014 by michaeltmmurray worked, the only difference was that this time the folder was to be saved in Steamapps instead of documents
D:\SteamGames\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2014\save\skins
Any help appreciated.
=======================SOLUTION===============
Put them into the PUBLIC directory.
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2014
marconizi
Sorry for my English. Thank you very much.
O'Leary's Trainee
mons
Can both of you try imndgoh's solution to see if it helps?
If it doesn't could you please post a screenshot of your Documents > SI > FM2014 folder or wherever it is you're trying to place these files?
Greentrunk
Will try again this afternoon and report back with results!
I'm placing these files into documents\SI\FM 2014\graphics
mons
Box Of Frogs
Worked for me!!
Many thanks
EricsRightFoot
EricsRightFoot
kristofken23
Ruich
Rendra Bhatara
Metz
You sure you haven't only just installed the 6.3?
Get the 6.0 torrent and add the 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 on it to make sure.
Deicide
example: for the england squad some players like rooney, baines and smallings appear while others like walcott do not.
fyi i downloaded the 6.0 Pack via torrent and 3 updates (6.1, 6.2 and 6.3) via rapidshare, and unzipped to: user\mydocuments\sportsinteractive\fm14\graphics\faces
the file size is 6.61 GB, 144,496 faces
-edit
i moved them to C:\Users\Public\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2014
and still nothing.
pls help
mons
Yes, that's correct.
Have you changed the preferences a per the screenshot in the opening post? How large is the config.xml file in your megapack folder?
Deicide
yes i have. i even deleted and re-installed (unzipped) the megapack torrent and updates in order thinking i had done something wrong but i still have the same problem. i am supposed to click yes to all when it asks me if i want to overwrite files, right?
the xml file is 9.70 MB (10,177,479 bytes).
dont know what is the problem, this is the first time i have had any issues with a megapack file.
mons
Are you sure that you've downloaded the whole megapack and not the update pack? You should have just over 139,000 images in one folder, together with a config.xml file.
Have you changed the preferences as per the screenshot in the opening post?
mons
From what you're saying, there doesn't seem to be much wrong with your set-up, but there will inevitably be a little something awry which is the cause for your troubles.
In order to check, can I have a screenshot of your megapack folder, showing CLEARLY (a) the folder path and (b) the amount of images in there?
mons
The icons megapack contains 18x20 versions of the main cut-out faces megapack. The faces megapack makes your player faces look like this:
I don't know if you've perhaps confused them, but if you want to download the faces megapack, I suggest you download the 6.0 torrent from the bottom of this page and then download the subsequent 6.1 - 6.3 update packs in order to be fully up-to-date.
Can I have a screenshot of your megapack folder, displaying CLEARLY (a) the folder path and (b) the amount of images in there?
Are your preferences as displayed in the screenshot in the opening post?
Deicide
http://gyazo.com/5556fc73bd64362efff48d381a318bbb
http://gyazo.com/5c99421d1162dee3f0e3d6eaf0b8d87d
like that?