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
2 minutes ago
85,494
I have 7.0 installed already, and it was working fine, and then I decided I wanted to add 7.01 and 7.02...but when i try to copy the pics from 7.01 into the big folder, it says it can't because some of the files are busy any idea about this?

EDIT: Exact error message: "The selected items can't all be put into the same location, because at least one of them name '43141847.png' is busy."

That's strange. That's never happened to me Do you have FM or Steam loaded perchance? Try copying the files when one/both are not loaded...
eman_resu
13 years ago
4 years ago
9
That's strange. That's never happened to me Do you have FM or Steam loaded perchance? Try copying the files when one/both are not loaded...


Yea I closed bother, then I restarted, still no change..the weird thing is, some pics can be transferred, and others cant..if I pick and choose one or two at a time, it works with some but then Finder (im on a Mac) crashes when i try to move others..
mons
17 years ago
2 minutes ago
85,494
That's strange. I'm assumed you've also tried restarting your system. Could you try to download the update pack again and then try to transfer these files again? Perhaps the download was somehow corrupted on the way down.

I don't use a Mac, but I tried Googling your symptoms and found this. Not sure if it helps...
eman_resu
13 years ago
4 years ago
9
That's strange. I'm assumed you've also tried restarting your system. Could you try to download the update pack again and then try to transfer these files again? Perhaps the download was somehow corrupted on the way down.

I don't use a Mac, but I tried Googling your symptoms and found this. Not sure if it helps...


Yea restart didnt help. Mac support said it had something to do with the number of files in the megapack folder. So i copied the new config file over first...will there be a problem if i cant copy over all the photos from 7.01? Because some work and some dont.
mons
17 years ago
2 minutes ago
85,494
If it was really something to do with the number of files in the folder, then other users would have reported the issue and that has not been the case.

I don't think there'll be a problem as such if some files don't copy, but the same issue will surely rear its head when future packs are released, no?
eman_resu
13 years ago
4 years ago
9
If it was really something to do with the number of files in the folder, then other users would have reported the issue and that has not been the case.

I don't think there'll be a problem as such if some files don't copy, but the same issue will surely rear its head when future packs are released, no?


Yea, I think that's not the case...even with the huge number of files, its still less than 8 gb..ok thanks anyway
jbonfield
9 years ago
4 months ago
14
Premium
hi, im having issues with the 7.2 update. i have 7.0 running without a problem, i copied the files from 7.2 over into the folder but the new faces arent loading, even after i clear the cache and reset the skin. any advice?
mons
17 years ago
2 minutes ago
85,494
Can I have a screenshot of the MP folder structure, as well as an in-game screenshot of a player whose new face isn't loading?
The Kraken
12 years ago
9 years ago
126
some of my player faces are just plain blurry and some are not since the new pack,
is there a fix for this ???

Are you sure you haven't downloaded the icons megapack by mistake? If not, could you please upload screenshots and/or give us UIDs of players whose cutout is blurry?



here is the screenshot its most players!!!
https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/IyUXlgdgXAir6b77zFyr5R6HXshXcxFuDqocEk09.png
mons
17 years ago
2 minutes ago
85,494
Definitely looks to me like you've downloaded the icons megapack by mistake, or installed it incorrectly. Can you check inside your megapack folder and see the dimensions of the images therein? Attachment didn't work sorry...
Gavin Bain
11 years ago
4 months ago
2
Hi Im new here so please point me in the right direction if Im in the wrong place.

Since upgrading the latest cut out face pack upgrade, I have somehow managed to put all in the same folder (which Ive' named 'faces'

I have also replaced the config file with the one included in the update (7.2)

However, it now seems that only the updated files are in the config file?

Is there a config file out there that I can download to contain both the original pack and the upgrades together?

Again apologies for my naivety, all pics were working till I tried to upgrade, now can't get any.

Cheers
mons
17 years ago
2 minutes ago
85,494
Each config file within update packs contains all the images in the megapack, so it's probably something else which has gone awry.

Could you upload a screenshot of your megapack folder, showing clearly the amount of images and the size of the config file please? This way we can easily see whether there's anything wrong in there...
pughie
17 years ago
3 weeks ago
10
Premium
Hi, how long should the megapack take to download? Just because I'm using a Mac and when I clicked download it goes down into my dock at the bottom but the status bar doesn't seem to be going beyond about one-tenth of the way for some reason, even after leaving it for a hour. Same issue with the backgrounds pack. Logos and kits worked fine though. Cheers
Evil-Muffin7
16 years ago
10 hours ago
987
Time scale is impossible to say, our servers could have a few people downloading from them then another time we may have thousands that is if anything was due to our end. For yourself it can depend on the speed of your ISP and any other traffic etc.

Leaving it for a while is ideal but then sometimes if it stalls for a while pausing the download and resuming has been known to fix the delay if anything/
pughie
17 years ago
3 weeks ago
10
Premium
Thanks for the reply. It just seems to get so far, only about one-tenth of the way, then stall. When I click to stop and then resume it then just says 345bytes or whatever instead of continuing to download. I'm not really sure why this is happening.
dale g
14 years ago
3 weeks ago
26
Can someone help please? I have just downloaded and extracted the 7.02 folder but now it won't show some players that were on there before (ademoglu). I have reloaded skin and ticked and unticked skin cache? anything else i could do?

Cheers
mons
17 years ago
2 minutes ago
85,494
Can someone help please? I have just downloaded and extracted the 7.02 folder but now it won't show some players that were on there before (ademoglu). I have reloaded skin and ticked and unticked skin cache? anything else i could do?

Cheers

You should have one folder and one folder ONLY with all the images contained in it. You should not have separate folders for each update pack. Can you confirm if this is the case?
dale g
14 years ago
3 weeks ago
26
Yes i have downloaded and done it again and it works fine now, the config must have messed up.

Cheers anyway
zBuurd
12 years ago
7 years ago
6
So I downloaded update pack 7.0 as I just had 14' faces and have started playing again recently, and i put them in the same grahics folder as my others were in - My Documents- Sports Interactive- Graphics- MEGAPACK 6.0.

However when i reloaded the skin i lost all my faces, any help please

Thanks, Dan
mons
17 years ago
2 minutes ago
85,494
You should have one folder and one folder only with all the images in it. Can you confirm this is the case?
zarko_safc
12 years ago
2 years ago
42
i'm having trouble loading the new faces. i was running off megapack 6.1, downloaded 7.3 and moved my old folder to trash. 7.3 didn't load, so i've brought back the old folder and my old heads have returned but still no new ones. i've moved all files from the new pack into the old one but still nothing. any help would be appreciated.

i'm using mac.
mons
17 years ago
2 minutes ago
85,494
Did you download the 7.3 full pack or just the update pack? If the former, you should have 155,000+ images
mightyred
17 years ago
4 months ago
24
Premium
Just to clear something up for please guys, I don't have to create a new config file everytime I add the updates to my facepack folder do I?? If so is this easy to do. I already have the config tool, jsut dont want to mess it up. Thanks in adveance,
mons
17 years ago
2 minutes ago
85,494
Just to clear something up for please guys, I don't have to create a new config file everytime I add the updates to my facepack folder do I?? If so is this easy to do. I already have the config tool, jsut dont want to mess it up. Thanks in adveance,

You should use the config file included in the respective update pack, which includes the details for the whole megapack
Tincy
12 years ago
6 years ago
7
im going to have to download this part by part, are the parts set into leagues? for example part 1 - English faces or are they just random faces in each parts? (if that makes sense)
ashwa08
12 years ago
7 months ago
3
hey every one first time iv posted on this.
iv downloaded the cut out face pack individually.
how do i install it?

iv put all of pack 1 in a faces folder and it has all the faces in there. do i need to put all the packs 2 up to pack 16 in the faces folder, even if pack 1 has them all ?
or can i just miss out packs 2 to 16 and just put the changes packs in to the faces folder ?
mons
17 years ago
2 minutes ago
85,494
im going to have to download this part by part, are the parts set into leagues? for example part 1 - English faces or are they just random faces in each parts? (if that makes sense)

I've moved your thread in here

I'm afraid the split download files are not sorted by league or team and that I don't really know what is in each part.. You can always download the torrent file, which includes all the images up to 7.0. Once downloaded and applied, you can then download the 3 update packs released since then.




hey every one first time iv posted on this.
iv downloaded the cut out face pack individually.
how do i install it?

iv put all of pack 1 in a faces folder and it has all the faces in there. do i need to put all the packs 2 up to pack 16 in the faces folder, even if pack 1 has them all ?
or can i just miss out packs 2 to 16 and just put the changes packs in to the faces folder ?

I've moved your thread in here

First of all, I'm not sure what "downloaded the cut out face pack individually" means. Have you downloaded the torrent file, the latest update pack or one of the split download parts?

To have the full megapack, you need to have a folder containing 155,000+ images in it. If you don't, then you haven't downloaded the full pack. As with the gentleman above, I would suggest you download the torrent file, then the 3 separate packs released subsequent to it
oscp
14 years ago
1 year ago
3
hi everybody

somebody have torrent with sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_7.03 ? or i need download from uploaded and difiles?

Regards
mons
17 years ago
2 minutes ago
85,494
hi everybody

somebody have torrent with sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_7.03 ? or i need download from uploaded and difiles?

Regards

Update packs are only available via download from one of the hosting sites, and not via torrent.

Torrent files are only for the main megapack, due to the size.
oscp
14 years ago
1 year ago
3
thx but i wanna a main megapack 7.03 so did you have a torrent? it's to many limit when i download for hosting sites/

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