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.
- 463,302
- 2024.07 - Released on 15 Apr 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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mons
Within graphics, create a new folder and name it anything you want (preferably faces or Cut-out megapack or anything you want - the name does not make a bit of difference).
Extract the main 7.0 pack download into this new folder (the underlined folder from the above paragraph). This will take some time so be patient.
Once this is done, open the 7.01 update pack download. Move the images into the new folder (the same one as the above). Click OK/Yes when prompted if you want to overwrite images. Repeat the steps for update pack 7.02 - 7.08.
It's really quite straight-forward, I can't see which part is confusing you
mons
There are two images for Odegaard in the megapack: one with his old 15.0 UID and one with his new 15.3 UID. Whichever version of the game you're running, if you have all the megapack updates installed correctly, then you should see his cut-out in the game.
I intentionally left both in the megapack to avoid this particular issue.
What is Odegaard's UID in your game then?
Malygos Cfs
I was doing exactly the same lol.
Malygos Cfs
coldpost
His ID in my game is 1394633337.
Ive just noticed Reece Oxford doesnt have a pic either... should he?
Whats your advice to fix this? Is it posssible my whole megapack folder is fubar or just the XML? I cant even open the XML to Ctrl+F to see if Odegaards ID is listed... that is to say, I can open it but its sooooo painfully slow to respond to anything as its around 11MB???
Help appreciated
mons
Reece Oxford is not in the default database and so cannot appear in the megapack. That Odegaard UID is also not in the default database, which leads me to suspect that you may have downloaded a custom wonderkid editor data file, or something along those lines. Since the player UID of a custom-added person will differ from one save game to another, players from custom databases cannot have a cut-out in the megapack. Quite apart from the logistical aspect of having to keep on top of the many editor data files released and the many new players included in it...
In conclusion, there's probably nothing wrong with your megapack. To be sure, just check how many images in total you have in your megapack folder.
Also, a tip, the config file may be quite large, but if you open it with notepad, it shouldn't take you that long to open it
mons
coldpost
Youre right, im using LFC Marshalls Update.
Thanks for the advice... I used notepad and all the text is bunched together?
mons
I believe the text is bunched together to save space in terms of downloading speed. It doesn't really make any difference as the game still reads it...
Michal Šroubek
mons
Here you go.
wbrennan52
mons
Atrocity
I am trying to download the facepack from scratch and clicked:
"Download Complete Pack (7.8)" under Messi's head.
Then I chose to download from the ul.to mirror at the foot of the page. Now I have all five parts of that extracted and I have a folder of faces with about 13k faces (705mb)
Obviously this can't be the complete pack, have I downloaded an update by mistake?
P.S. I can get a copy from a friend, who has Megapack 6.0, if I do that, what else would I have to download to get up to date?
mons
The whole megapack contains over 161,000 images and is around 7.35GB in size, so it looks like you've not downloaded the whole thing. I don't think you've downloaded an update pack since they generally have between 2,000 and 3,500 images.
I would suggest downloading the torrent file, which contains the full 7.0 megapack and then download all subsequent update packs and apply them chronologically.
If you get megapack 6.0, you would then have to download update packs 6.01 to 6.10 AND 7.0 to 7.08 to be fully up-to-date. The above is probably a quicker way of going about things...
Mortiis
should i first extract ''sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_7.00.part01.rar''
and then those 8 changes files or?
cuz i've just done it and i have only
136.072 in 6.29GB
mons
That is the correct procedure, yes.
Looks to me like you've not extracted the files correctly your end, however. Even if you count the size of the 7.00 files only, they're around 7GB on its own, ignoring the subsequent update packs - so it's hard to reconcile that with the 6.29GB size you are mentioning.
Try extracting the 7.00 files only and tell us whether the number is a bit closer to the total tally...
Mortiis
i've just clicked on EXTRACT ALL option and that's it...
do i have to extract all 16 files or just one..for example first one ''sortitoutsi_cutout_megapack_7.00.part01.rar'' ??
mons
I know this is asking a bit too much, but could you add the amount of images included in each individual pack? If the amount extracted is the same as the amount included, then it's an issue with the files uploaded. But if the amount extracted is less, then I would think it's an issue with the extraction...
Atrocity
Thanks, I have the torrent downloaded, still have no seeds on it so it's not started:
It will probably get going eventually, though
Mortiis
and one other thing..should i extract all 16 parts one by one or just one? this is thing that i dont understand
mons
Mortiis
Mortiis
so im gonna try to extract one more time and see...think its gonna take atleastr 10-15minutes ..and we will see now
Mortiis
after updating with those 8 files...total number of pictures is...
161.565
wbrennan52
What I ended up with was a ~3gb file with around 71,000 images in the compressed file. I'll give it another shot tonight
mons
Looks about right...
Rodrigo Fuser
I wanted to update my old facepack so I downloaded the 7.0 one with the torrent link.
Do I have to take the 7.0 update pack too or just the 7.1, 7.2.. to complete the pack?
Thanks for your brilliant job.
mons
The 7.0 update pack is only intended for those who are up-to-date with the whole 6.x series.
Since you have downloaded the whole 7.0 pack, you need not download it and you can start downloading the update packs from 7.1 onwards
Rodrigo Fuser
Read your answer too late... I took the 7.0 pack and all the updates, from 7.0 to 7.8, and now I have a folder with... 171143 files, is that normal?