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
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).
Mirek13
17 years ago
1 year ago
5
I downloaded from the first topic "complete pack (7.7), all 23 parts. Is there any other update or part somewhere??
mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
91,902
How many images in total do you have in your megapack folder? You should have over 160,000 images but you don't seem to have them all if you don't have the above images...
Mirek13
17 years ago
1 year ago
5
OK. I have over 160,000 images. Well, I try to download all 7 (7.01 to 7.07) updates and copy it again to the main folder where I have MegaPack and i see what happens For now, thank you.
mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
91,902
OK. I have over 160,000 images. Well, I try to download all 7 (7.01 to 7.07) updates and copy it again to the main folder where I have MegaPack and i see what happens For now, thank you.

Before you do so, check in your megapack folder for the filenames with the UIDs of the players being mentioned. If they're there already, then it's probably only a config issue and all you'd need is to generate a new one using FMxml.
Ji Park
9 years ago
9 years ago
2
It's fine when I download the icon complete pack, but whenever I try to click on downloading the complete face pack, i get a error message saying 'this webpage is not available.' I paid for premium, please fix.
mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
91,902
It's fine when I download the icon complete pack, but whenever I try to click on downloading the complete face pack, i get a error message saying 'this webpage is not available.' I paid for premium, please fix.

It's working perfectly fine for me just now.

Can you try restarting your modem just in case? If the error still persists, can you please put up a screenshot of the error message and the page it's displayed on? So that I can forward it to the site administrator to see what the issue might be...
Mirek13
17 years ago
1 year ago
5
Unfortunately, not working. Please, how can I generate a new one using FMxml? And where can I find the player ID, please? Sorry for stupid questions, I am not an asshole, but I'm here for the first time .. thank you
mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
91,902
Unfortunately, not working. Please, how can I generate a new one using FMxml? And where can I find the player ID, please? Sorry for stupid questions, I am not an asshole, but I'm here for the first time .. thank you

No need to apologise and you're certainly not being an asshole

Right, look in your megapack folder for 13134369 and 13134371. If the images are there, then it is definitely a config issue.

In that case, just download this file, which is the latest config from 7.07, and place it in the megapack folder, overwriting the existing file.

Also make sure that your in-game preferences look like this: http://i518.photobucket.com/albums/u344/maltamons/FootballManager2015_PreferencesInterface.png~original
Mirek13
17 years ago
1 year ago
5
Thanks for the advice, I'll try it. I thought, where can I find the ID of players in the game, in the folder in PC i know where are I want to try to add the missing players picture in FC Baník Ostrava, and I need to know the players ID without photos and i find this ID only in the game, no??
MarcekYNWA
9 years ago
6 years ago
278
I

It's there :-S



Could you send me a config file? I have all the updates from 7.0 to 7.7 and any images of players are in place no just suddenly Martin Ødegaard ...
Darvey
12 years ago
3 years ago
165
Thanks for the advice, I'll try it. I thought, where can I find the ID of players in the game, in the folder in PC i know where are I want to try to add the missing players picture in FC Baník Ostrava, and I need to know the players ID without photos and i find this ID only in the game, no??


Go to "Preferences" -> "Interface" -> Select "Show screen IDs in Title Bar to assist skinning" -> "Confirm". Your preferences should like this...

https://hostr.co/file/970/NJTbALtnElgz/Preferences.png

... And the next time you load your save you should find the player IDs next to their names, like so...

https://hostr.co/file/970/jjTxbaNxAkZ5/DoriaID.png
mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
91,902
Could you send me a config file? I have all the updates from 7.0 to 7.7 and any images of players are in place no just suddenly Martin Ødegaard ...

I linked to it in this post
MarcekYNWA
9 years ago
6 years ago
278


remains unchanged. Ødegaard has no face, although in a folder I have his picture
MarcekYNWA
9 years ago
6 years ago
278
This is Ødegaard ID 1394633337 ... There is no photo with this number in the folder, or in a package ....
mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
91,902
This is Ødegaard ID 1394633337 ... There is no photo with this number in the folder, or in a package ....

That is not his UID in the database and that's probably from an editor data file which adds him to the database. There are two images for Odegaard in the megapack: one with his old 15.0 UID and one with his new 15.3 UID.
ShadeBracarense
10 years ago
5 years ago
68
Hello, i'm playing Football Manager 2014 and i'm using this megapack..

Some Faces or images don't appear in the game, and I have their photos in the megapack folder..

Can somebody help me..

For example, I have the Images of César (19215493) from Benfica and Tanaka (45025740) from Sporting but somehow they do not appear in the game..

And yes, I have the Whole Megapack with 218.527 images.

Please help me
Angel Eyes
17 years ago
8 years ago
45
Please help coz I'm at the end of my tether. Tried adding the attached images to config file within Megapack. Renamed them to show correct IDs (they're newly added via the editor and they show the same IDs). started game, done all the usual in preferences but they don't show up. What's more, all other images are gone. I've checked and rechecked. What I have edited in config looks spot on. What the hell am I doing wrong??????

PLEASE help!!!!

Thanks
mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
91,902
When adding your own images to the game, it's better that you put them in a separate folder. Try doing that and generate a config with fmXML both for the megapack folder and the new folder.

If that fails, upload a screenshot of both the new and old folders and upload each respective config.
Angel Eyes
17 years ago
8 years ago
45
hi, i raised this on the incorrect thread. I have downloaded the Megapack 7.00 latest for FM 2014. What I've done is added several players to game using the editor (Leroy Sane, Martin Odegaard, Allan Rodrigues De Souza.
I have acquired images via the internet of these players and tinkered with them using Adobe Photoshop as best as I can although can't seem to resize them to 180 x 180 as per other Megapack images. saved them as 'png' format.
edited config file to reflect them with correct IDs to conform with those generated by editor.
done all the usual under preferences within game, But they don't show up! not only that but all images have been removed. RE-copied config back up and tried again and all images reappear but obviously not these three new ones. on the face of it, appears to be a config issue. But I seem to remember doing this before without any issues. What am I doing wrong? don't see why i need to create a separate config for these. wouldn't have a clue anyhow. I've attached them if anyone can take a look , I'd really appreciate it coz it's driving me nuts.

cheers
mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
91,902
Showing us the images themselves doesn't really help us get any closer to solving the issue, I'm afraid.

Put these three images in a new folder, anywhere within the graphics folder but not within the megapack folder, named something like my images, for example. Download fmXML and generate a new config just for these three images. Should do the trick
Angel Eyes
17 years ago
8 years ago
45
following on from earlier message i posted re Megapack and images not showing - solved - deleted several duplicate images from pack (there are quite a few), added my new images with amended IDs to tie in with editor (all created), amended config to show same and hey presto - IN THE GAME! Seems the only way to get my images to show - deleted images already in the pack (duplicate, down right ugly,etc)and replace with my new ones.
Angel Eyes
17 years ago
8 years ago
45
fmxl will not work - missing dll!!
Angel Eyes
17 years ago
8 years ago
45
Hello, i'm playing Football Manager 2014 and i'm using this megapack..

Some Faces or images don't appear in the game, and I have their photos in the megapack folder..

Can somebody help me..

For example, I have the Images of César (19215493) from Benfica and Tanaka (45025740) from Sporting but somehow they do not appear in the game..

And yes, I have the Whole Megapack with 218.527 images.



Please help me



see my post
mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
91,902
fmxl will not work - missing dll!!

I've amended the download link to include the missing dll's



It's a completely different issue and I'm speaking with him via PM to try and solve the issue...
deadw00d
15 years ago
2 years ago
49
1394631578
1394631579

Same face/player.
adcoholicjoe
9 years ago
9 years ago
1
The torrent link for 7.0 isn't working anymore. It seems to be a broken link.
mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
91,902
Working fine here and I'm seeding as I type
-ulmo-
14 years ago
8 months ago
8
Premium
Have been having troubles downloading the full megapack. Download stops around 3,3 GB, no errors or notes on why it failed.
Tried in Chrome and Firefox, tried with wired and wireless connection.

I've seen this problem mentioned before, but didn't find a fix so far.
mons
18 years ago
2 hours ago
91,902
Can you try again tomorrow? It may be something with your connection which may be fixed by then.

If that is not the case, then you may have to wait a while as the site owner and admin is currently on holiday...
Amer9
9 years ago
9 years ago
14
Hi, so i did everythink but i dont have the faces i have put in My Documents » Sports Interactive » Football Manager 2015 » graphics". and then i did go to "Preferences" and have tick the check box on the page called "Always Reload Skin on Confirm" and have un-tick then box saying "Use Skin Cache".

Im using the cut out facepack here a screenshot of the folders http://prntscr.com/82ifmb, http://prntscr.com/82if1p.

But the faces still doesnt show up

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