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).
mons
17 years ago
9 hours ago
86,077
As a premium member, you could have downloaded the whole thing directly from this site you know

Good to see it's all been sorted
jamiejumpgaming
8 years ago
8 years ago
3
Hi,
I've had the megapack for around a week and it has been working smoothly. However, in one save the faces have stopped appearing in the team that i am managing. This for me wouldn't be a problem but because i am producing content for my Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUfrcS5-O1vrTHLNui5yUiA i want to try and solve it before it effects any of my youtube saves
mons
17 years ago
9 hours ago
86,077
Are you saying that some images appear in one save game but not another? That's beyond strange!

Did you add or remove any other graphical add-ons (not necessarily faces) since you last saw these faces?

Also, in total, how many images do you have in your megapack folder?
Thomas Ford
9 years ago
3 weeks ago
2
Premium
Hey Guys, I downloaded the 7.5 mega pack, did everything i had to do to add it to the game, yet somehow only a few faces from the premier league were added. I have almost the full manchester united, Barcelona and Everton Squad but all the rest except one or two are totally missing. do i need to download the 7.0-7.4? please help me out!!
mons
17 years ago
9 hours ago
86,077
Hey Guys, I downloaded the 7.5 mega pack, did everything i had to do to add it to the game, yet somehow only a few faces from the premier league were added. I have almost the full manchester united, Barcelona and Everton Squad but all the rest except one or two are totally missing. do i need to download the 7.0-7.4? please help me out!!

I suspect you only downloaded the 7.05 update pack rather than the whole 7.05 megapack. You should have over 158,000 images in your megapack folder, can you confirm whether this is the case or not?
ThomasW
9 years ago
8 years ago
8
Please help, it's my first time downloading any facepacks etc. and at the moment it's not working but I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I have downloaded, and put the folder (whole thing) in graphics, and then followed the instructions on a video on YouTube exactly which didn't work. I then read the word doc which came with the download and followed them instructions but it still doesn't work. I have started several new saves, some with no data pack, others with all, others with custom. I'm a bit thick when it comes to stuff like this so if anyone could help or at least point us in the right direction it will be appreciated. (the pic attached is where I'm at now in regards to where the pack is saved).
mons
17 years ago
9 hours ago
86,077
There are two version of the megapack - the one with large images as displayed in the player profile screen and the one with the smaller images which are seen at the top of the menu when you right-click on a player. You seem to have downloaded the second one and installed it correctly.

All you now need to do is to follow the same steps with the main megapack files and you should be fine
mwhitehorn07
10 years ago
1 year ago
4
As the badge says im a brand new premium member. Downloading the most up-to-date whole megapack, a 7.2gig file straight from the link. download has stopped at 3.9gb twice and 2.6gb once in the last 8 hours. Help please!
mons
17 years ago
9 hours ago
86,077
I'm very sorry to hear that and that is not an issue which has reared its head recently.

I'll have a word with the site administrator and get back to you. Have you tried downloading it again in the meantime?
mwhitehorn07
10 years ago
1 year ago
4
just woke up (mountain time US here) will try this morning. Will update afterwards.
mons
17 years ago
9 hours ago
86,077
I'm afraid I can't see the last two screenshots, can you upload them to an image-hosting site such as tinypic, imgur or photobucket please?

There doesn't seem much wrong in the first two screenshots, though...
gio10
15 years ago
8 months ago
29
I'm afraid I can't see the last two screenshots, can you upload them to an image-hosting site such as tinypic, imgur or photobucket please?

There doesn't seem much wrong in the first two screenshots, though...


https://www.dropbox.com/sh/a1kcky5bhd2s6vc/AADFCHR_wvBBrmSL62iFuhrIa?dl=0
mons
17 years ago
9 hours ago
86,077
Hmmm, there doesn't seem to be much wrong there as far as I can see...

Can you confirm if there is a config.xml file within the megapack folder?
gio10
15 years ago
8 months ago
29
Hmmm, there doesn't seem to be much wrong there as far as I can see...

Can you confirm if there is a config.xml file within the megapack folder?


I have installed steam on C: and the FM2015 on D: (2 partitions/same DISC)
hardworkinghonduran
8 years ago
8 years ago
4
OK, so I got the complete pack 7.0 pack to work but can't seem to get the update packs to work, could someone fully explain what I need to do.

Thanks, Craig
mons
17 years ago
9 hours ago
86,077
It's really rather simple.

1. Open the main megapack folder.
2. Extract the update packs to individual folders on the Desktop (or anywhere you like really)
3. Move the images (not the whole folder) from update pack 7.01 into the main megapack folder.
4. Accept overwrite when prompted.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 with update packs 7.02 to 7.06.

At the end you should have all the 159,000+ images in one folder. The main megapack folder should contain no sub-folders.
hardworkinghonduran
8 years ago
8 years ago
4
Thanks mons, I got you, what I did was extract the updates straight to the players folder
batiron
9 years ago
2 weeks ago
281
I ve just download and applied the larger "complete pack" 7.6 with over 159,000 players` face in the folder. However, there is almost no faces available in the China and Hong Kong League ....Should I download from elsewhere??

Thank you
mons
17 years ago
9 hours ago
86,077
I ve just download and applied the larger "complete pack" 7.6 with over 159,000 players` face in the folder. However, there is almost no faces available in the China and Hong Kong League ....Should I download from elsewhere??

Thank you

I definitely remember tuodi8shi releasing a number of quite large Chinese mixpacks so to say there's almost no faces available is a bit of an exaggeration I suspect. I also recall a number of Hong Kong releases in the past, as well as the usual individual cut-outs produced in the missing and improvement threads.

However, there's "only" 159,000 images in this megapack out of a total of over half a million persons in the FM database so there will inevitably be gaps, especially in countries which are not used very frequently by FM players where gaps may not be as noticeable. In some cases, cuttable sources for players within the FM database will also prove frustratingly hard to find.

If you come across some workable sources, then by all means please post them in the individual or teampack threads respectively according to the thread's rules
batiron
9 years ago
2 weeks ago
281
I ve downloaded the cut-out faces` full pack 7.06, but there is almost no faces of first division league of Chile, China and Hong Kong. Does the latest full pack with 159,000+ faces does not cover these 3 leagues?

Any where I can download these 3 leagues? Just the top division is fine..Thank you.
mons
17 years ago
9 hours ago
86,077
Hi there. To maintain this forum in an orderly format, I moved the thread you created yesterday to the technical support thread and answered it accordingly.

To add to your query today, the deal with the megapack is that you get all the images in the megapack. It's already hard enough keeping up with all the images being produced, so you can imagine the work involved in separating the megapack by country or division. Add to that the continual moving around of players and staff between club, nations and divisions, promotions and relegations, retirements, new additions etc. and that should give you an idea of the scale of the task involved in categorising the megapack in any way, shape or form.

So basically, you should just download the whole megapack and you'll be able to enjoy everything

I'll leave this here for a day or two and then move any subsequent communication to the technical support thread
batiron
9 years ago
2 weeks ago
281
Downloaded the full pack and put it under `My Documents » Sports Interactive » Football Manager 2013 » graphics` as instructed. It is placed at the same level of the faces (the mega pack 7.06) which works perfectly, but I can`t find any Icon faces in the game... Should an Icon face be shown in the red circled part of the picture??
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/t31.0-8/11406136_10200496276605817_7131965636093568363_o.jpg
Lando84
11 years ago
1 month ago
5
Hi,

I'm having a strange problem with the pic of Van Persie. I'm in 2016 and he got released from Man U, so I scouted him and in my inbox there is the scouting report with Van Persies pic. However, when I select Van Persies profile the pic disappears, and it is the usual black "picture". His pic then won't appear again, unless I either restart the game or reload the skin. Really strange one, as I also never had any issues with the cut out megapack at all.
mons
17 years ago
9 hours ago
86,077
Hi,

I'm having a strange problem with the pic of Van Persie. I'm in 2016 and he got released from Man U, so I scouted him and in my inbox there is the scouting report with Van Persies pic. However, when I select Van Persies profile the pic disappears, and it is the usual black "picture". His pic then won't appear again, unless I either restart the game or reload the skin. Really strange one, as I also never had any issues with the cut out megapack at all.

I think that is because he is currently in the Dutch national team. If you view a player from within the French or Dutch national team rather than his club (or if he is in the national squad but unattached), then his image will not be displayed. This is due to licensing reasons.

Download this file to solve the problem
mons
17 years ago
9 hours ago
86,077
As I've already told you earlier, we have a technical support thread in this forum. Please post in there instead of creating a new thread with every issue you have.

It looks like you have a wrong impression as to where the icon faces appear. As far as I am aware, this is the only place you can see them:

http://i518.photobucket.com/albums/u344/maltamons/Squad_%20Players%20Players.png~original
batiron
9 years ago
2 weeks ago
281
As I've already told you earlier, we have a technical support thread in this forum. Please post in there instead of creating a new thread with every issue you have.

Thank you bro, I ll post it to the technical support thread next time, sorry for the inconvenience!
Lando84
11 years ago
1 month ago
5
Looks like you were right mate, after I sign him his pic is visible as usual, I did apply the file you mentioned nonetheless. Thanks for helping out.
mons
17 years ago
9 hours ago
86,077
Daniel Fitton
9 years ago
8 years ago
1
Hey guys, I just spent ages downloading each part of the megapack. But there are still many players missing. Almost the whole Liverpool team are missing faces! Have I done something wrong, or is the pack just missing lots of players?

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