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).
Littlebird31
8 years ago
5 months ago
18
The megapack will work with FM14, but you'll have 6 year's worth of extra cuts. I suggest downloading the 8.0 torrent if there are any seeds left for it...


Do i need to install the 8.00.rar file only ? Or do i need to install every 8.0* with it ? I'm so confused, it was easier in the past 😢

How the complete megapack (18Gb) will work with fm14 ? How this pack work ?
It doesn't matter for me, to download the big one, if this one can give me the pictures i want. But how this one will attribute the 2014 pics on my game ??
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,060
Do i need to install the 8.00.rar file only ? Or do i need to install every 8.0* with it ? I'm so confused, it was easier in the past 😢

How the complete megapack (18Gb) will work with fm14 ? How this pack work ?
It doesn't matter for me, to download the big one, if this one can give me the pictures i want. But how this one will attribute the 2014 pics on my game ??

The 8.0 is the FM15 base megapack and will include every cut released for FM14. It should be enough for your needs.
Littlebird31
8 years ago
5 months ago
18
The 8.0 is the FM15 base megapack and will include every cut released for FM14. It should be enough for your needs.


Ok so i only need to download 8.00.rar ?
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,060
Ok so i only need to download 8.00.rar ?

Yes, like I've said twice already, that should be enough.
Littlebird31
8 years ago
5 months ago
18
Yes, like I've said twice already, that should be enough.


Ok thanks. I'll do this
rob evenson
4 years ago
3 months ago
33
Hi, I have bought premium now, to download the Cut Out Face Pack. But it's so, so big. 18GB. Any chance you can only download certain parts of the pack, e.g. Norway. Norway is really just the one I acutally need, (and other important like Guardiola, Mourinho, Messi etc.). Anyone that can help?
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,060
Hi, I have bought premium now, to download the Cut Out Face Pack. But it's so, so big. 18GB. Any chance you can only download certain parts of the pack, e.g. Norway. Norway is really just the one I acutally need, (and other important like Guardiola, Mourinho, Messi etc.). Anyone that can help?

There isn't a way to do that, much as we have tried, other than downloading the ones you want manually using the megapack search tool 😢
rob evenson
4 years ago
3 months ago
33
No life hacks to something? You have to download each player manually and write him up in the config file? Is there at least a config file that contains every player ID number so you don't have to write it down each time, just download the pictures?
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,060
No life hacks to something? You have to download each player manually and write him up in the config file? Is there at least a config file that contains every player ID number so you don't have to write it down each time, just download the pictures?

If there was something we could do, we'd have done it a fair while ago, trust me.

Once you download all the images you want, you then follow the steps in this thread to create a config file specifically for the files you want.

After a while of looking for and downloading individual cuts, you'll realise it's much easier just to get the whole megapack and have it over and done with 😉
rob evenson
4 years ago
3 months ago
33
Just, as a last question. Can you or someone else just send/put out the config file for the 18GB facepack? My PC can't handle downloading it, it's too big...
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,060
Just, as a last question. Can you or someone else just send/put out the config file for the 18GB facepack? My PC can't handle downloading it, it's too big...

Just get the one from the update pack, it's the same.
rob evenson
4 years ago
3 months ago
33
Okay, thanks for everything.
Ronaldosung
11 years ago
11 months ago
1
I need help!! Actually now i already finishdownload the megapack 13.0 from torrent but the problem is when i extract the rarfile.it wait for a long time i take more than 5hr now.how anyone suggest or are there download in folder(not have to extarct)

Ps.i used external harddrive because the main storage is full.
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,060
I need help!! Actually now i already finishdownload the megapack 13.0 from torrent but the problem is when i extract the rarfile.it wait for a long time i take more than 5hr now.how anyone suggest or are there download in folder(not have to extarct)

Ps.i used external harddrive because the main storage is full.

Hope it's sorted by now, but when extracting large rar files, try and have as few other processes running, as they will slow extraction sped.
Dmitri-K
6 years ago
2 months ago
461
Duplicated files:
18097072.png
13231989.png
13114745.png

Strange names (there's more I guess):
1409102alt.png
13162822a.png
15076254z.png
19172049a.png
23469153-.png

Have you tried to pack files into rar or zip, without compression?
Currently it gives you 500 mb save on 19 GB.
Maybe without compression the extraction will be faster.
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,060
Duplicated files:
18097072.png
13231989.png
13114745.png

Strange names (there's more I guess):
1409102alt.png
13162822a.png
15076254z.png
19172049a.png
23469153-.png

Have you tried to pack files into rar or zip, without compression?
Currently it gives you 500 mb save on 19 GB.
Maybe without compression the extraction will be faster.

The first set will have an equivalent in PNG, which the game doesn't read, so a png version will have been added subsequently.

As for the second set, I'll check but I believe all have been spotted and removed from the config file. Due to the way the megapack is structured, you cannot remove these surplus images from previous megapack update packs, let alone from the hard drives of people who have already downloaded. Removing them from the config will mean they aren't taken into consideration, and that's a sufficiently good solution, in my eyes. Besides, 8 'wrong' images out of 287k+ images isn't too bad a proportion 😉
sterigg92
3 years ago
3 years ago
6
hi first time using the pack and games, currently on a MacBook Air 2020. manage to Dowland the shiny logos and the kits and both are great, but the mega cut face pack will just not work tried downloading it multiple times tried putting it all in one file to join the icon faces aswell in the graphics folders, even tried downloading the of face packs and still no joy. the only person ive found with a face on the whole game is Danny drinkwater ha. any ideas, advice would be great don't really want to lose my save and start again having a couple good seasons and promotions
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,060
hi first time using the pack and games, currently on a MacBook Air 2020. manage to Dowland the shiny logos and the kits and both are great, but the mega cut face pack will just not work tried downloading it multiple times tried putting it all in one file to join the icon faces aswell in the graphics folders, even tried downloading the of face packs and still no joy. the only person ive found with a face on the whole game is Danny drinkwater ha. any ideas, advice would be great don't really want to lose my save and start again having a couple good seasons and promotions

How many images do you have in your faces folder? You should have around 287,000+ images and a file titled config.xml
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,060
yea I would guess around that all together

Looks fine, but can I see the path the graphics folder is in? It's cropped out in the first screenshot and it should be Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2021

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 2021’
sterigg92
3 years ago
3 years ago
6
what, the graphic folder should not be in there?
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,060
what, the graphic folder should not be in there?

That seems to be the correct folder, yes. Can I see the badges and faces folder?
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,060

As suspected (and hence why I asked 😉 ), you have 2 faces folders in your graphics path. One is in the right place, plus you have another one in the kits sub-folder, as shown in the last screenshot.

Delete that, and I'll wager the other one works just fine 👍
sterigg92
3 years ago
3 years ago
6
thanks that's great!
nolan tate
5 years ago
3 weeks ago
5
How long does this file take to bloody extract, 3 hours later and its only at 1 percent, surely it should be quicker than that even on an old computer !!!!!
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,060
How long does this file take to bloody extract, 3 hours later and its only at 1 percent, surely it should be quicker than that even on an old computer !!!!!

Reboot your computer, so you are sure the computer is not running an over load of programs. The more applications the system is running, the less resources it can dedicate to the extraction process.

Then just unzip the file... sometimes with such a big file the computer gets the calculation of extraction time wrong and it speeds up after a while.

P.S. Posting it once was enough, no need to do so 3 times in 2 different threads 😕
exotermico
14 years ago
4 months ago
1
Don´t know what happened, but now all the players from Holand and France national teams (under included) lost their faces, they only have the icon´s ones! :/
mons
17 years ago
1 hour ago
86,060
Don´t know what happened, but now all the players from Holand and France national teams (under included) lost their faces, they only have the icon´s ones! :/

When the most recent official update was released on Thursday night, some of the licensing fixes were removed. That's why you should redownload and reapply the licensing fix files every time an official update is released 😉
Howlitzer
12 years ago
11 months ago
2
Premium
I'm trying to download the 13.0 torrent, but I've followed the guide and numerous posts on this thread and I cannot find it anywhere. Has the torrent been removed? Could someone copy a direct link to it?

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