[Released] Netbook2011 Skin

Netbook2011 Skin

A skin designed to work better on Netbooks and other computers who's screens are limited to a 1024x600 resolution. Skin is based on the default FM2011 skin, with the most changes being the maximising of the screen content area.

Installation Instructions:

Extract the files from the zip, and place the netbook2011 folder and the config.xml file into your skins folder, by default this is:

My Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2011/skins

(If you don't have a skins folder just create one)

Now if you can go into the preferences menu without the game crashing select the netbook2011 skin in the dropdown menu, if it doesn't appear turn off the skin select always reload the skin and click confirm go back into the preferences menu and you should now be able to select the netbook2011 skin. (Once the skin is loaded you can turn the cache back on and turn off always reload skin).

If you cannot get into the preferences screen there are two alternative methods to change your skin:

1. Create a desktop shortcut to FM2011, right click on the shortcut -> properties, select the target box go to the end and type:

' --skin=netbook2011' without the ' and remember to include the space, when you load the game using this shortcut it will select the skin referenced there 'netbook2011' in this case.

2. Manually adjust one of the xml files, first you may need to enable view hidden files, then browse to:

XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2011\settings

Vista\Windows 7: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2011\settings

Inside that folder will be a list of xml files (they may all be inside a subfolder for some reason), now you want to scroll down until you find the 'skin.xml' file open this with notepad and you will see something like this:

<record>

<string id="valu" value="netbook2011"/>

</record>

where it says netbook2011 will be the name of your currently selected skin, to select the netbook2011 skin type netbook2011 as shown above and save the file. The game will now load with the netbook2011 skin selected.

If you are having problems getting the game to run due to your screen size being below 1024x768 you may need to add the --small_screen --windowed command to the end of your target line:

First if you don't already have a desktop shortcut to the fm.exe create one, then right click on the shortcut and select properties.

In the box that pops up select the shortcut tab and the third line down should be a target box select the line next to it, that has the location of the game in it and scroll to the end and add this to the end of the line:

" --small_screen --windowed" (don't include the " but include the first space)

So the target box should look like this:

"C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2011\fm.exe" --small_screen --windowed

If you installed the game through Steam then you need to load Steam goto the My Games Window right click on Football Manager 2011 -> Properties -> General -> Set Launch Options and type in the box that appears "--small_screen --windowed" (without the " ") click OK then close the window and run FM2011 through steam it should now open in windowed mode, you should then be able to select the netbook skin in the preferences menu.

(The actual location of the fm.exe may vary depending on where you installed the game and whether you are using steam or not).

If you can also add the --skin=netbook2011 command to the line as well if you cannot get into the preferences screen. (the skin command will tell the game to load with the netbook skin already loaded)

If you add the skin command the target line should look something like this:

"C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2011\fm.exe" --small_screen --windowed --skin=netbook2011

Again the bit within the quote marks may be different depending on where you install FM, its the bit after \fm.exe" that you need to add to the end of the target line.

When you load FM2011, maximise the window as that should resize the window so it is no longer cut off, you can also move or auto-hide the windows taskbar to give yourself some extra space.

Screenshots:

NOTE: I would advise you to avoid the following screens:

- Tactics Creater and Set-Piece Wizard - Do not use these, for some reason they cannot be resized and whilst I've removed the buttons this time around I cannot remove the options in the menu so don't click on them. If you do go into the wizards you can get out by pressing escape. You can still use the new tactics system, you'll just need to use the standard tactics screen to create your tactic and change player roles and duties.

- Again the Tactics Creater and now the Set-Piece creater aren't working as they don't seem to be resizable (Though you don't really lose anything as they are just a different method from using the tactics screen).

- The Subtabs may move or disappear when you are automatically taken to a screen, if this happens just click on a different tab and they'll reappear.

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A Dark Version will follow next weekend (Other versions may or may not follow I haven't decided yet).

Extra/Alternative screens will follow - there are a few things I have in mind but they take time to test out.

And as always if you spot a screen I've missed let me know (with a screenshot if you can).

Netbook2011 Dark Skin

A skin designed to work better on Netbooks and other computers who's screens are limited to a 1024x600 resolution. Skin is based on the default FM2011 dark skin, with the most changes being the maximising of the screen content area.

Installation Instructions:

Extract the files from the zip, and place the netbook2011_dark folder and the config.xml file into your skins folder, by default this is:

My Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2011/skins

(If you don't have a skins folder just create one)

Now if you can go into the preferences menu without the game crashing select the Netbook2011 Dark skin in the dropdown menu, if it doesn't appear turn off the skin select always reload the skin and click confirm go back into the preferences menu and you should now be able to select the Netbook2011 Dark skin. (Once the skin is loaded you can turn the cache back on and turn off always reload skin).

If you cannot get into the preferences screen there are two alternative methods to change your skin:

1. Create a desktop shortcut to FM2011, right click on the shortcut -> properties, select the target box go to the end and type:

' --skin=netbook2011_dark' without the ' and remember to include the space, when you load the game using this shortcut it will select the skin referenced there 'netbook2011_dark' in this case.

2. Manually adjust one of the xml files, first you may need to enable view hidden files, then browse to:

XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2011\settings

Vista\Windows 7: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2011\settings

Inside that folder will be a list of xml files (they may all be inside a subfolder for some reason), now you want to scroll down until you find the 'skin.xml' file open this with notepad and you will see something like this:

<record>

<string id="valu" value="netbook2011_dark"/>

</record>

where it says netbook2011_dark will be the name of your currently selected skin, to select the Netbook2011 Dark skin type netbook2011 _darkas shown above and save the file. The game will now load with the Netbook2011 Dark skin selected.

If you are having problems getting the game to run due to your screen size being below 1024x768 you may need to add the --small_screen --windowed command to the end of your target line:

First if you don't already have a desktop shortcut to the fm.exe create one, then right click on the shortcut and select properties.

In the box that pops up select the shortcut tab and the third line down should be a target box select the line next to it, that has the location of the game in it and scroll to the end and add this to the end of the line:

" --small_screen --windowed" (don't include the " but include the first space)

So the target box should look like this:

"C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2011\fm.exe" --small_screen --windowed

If you installed the game through Steam then you need to load Steam goto the My Games Window right click on Football Manager 2011 -> Properties -> General -> Set Launch Options and type in the box that appears "--small_screen --windowed" (without the " ") click OK then close the window and run FM2011 through steam it should now open in windowed mode, you should then be able to select the netbook skin in the preferences menu.

(The actual location of the fm.exe may vary depending on where you installed the game and whether you are using steam or not).

If you can also add the --skin=netbook2011_dark command to the line as well if you cannot get into the preferences screen. (the skin command will tell the game to load with the netbook skin already loaded)

If you add the skin command the target line should look something like this:

"C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2011\fm.exe" --small_screen --windowed --skin=netbook2011_dark

Again the bit within the quote marks may be different depending on where you install FM, its the bit after \fm.exe" that you need to add to the end of the target line.

When you load FM2011, maximise the window as that should resize the window so it is no longer cut off, you can also move or auto-hide the windows taskbar to give yourself some extra space.

NOTE: I would advise you to avoid the following screens:

- Tactics Creater and Set-Piece Wizard - Do not use these, for some reason they cannot be resized and whilst I've removed the buttons this time around I cannot remove the options in the menu so don't click on them. If you do go into the wizards you can get out by pressing escape. You can still use the new tactics system, you'll just need to use the standard tactics screen to create your tactic and change player roles and duties.

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Thank you thank you thank so you much

thanks for this

Nice work. I'll wait for the dark version

You da you da best

Thanks very much indeed for this

Got the Level 8 English League file from RTC and now starting a game with Halesowen on my netbook

This is great! Although I dont have a netbook and can use a large resolution, I still love this skin for its shrunken nature.

By the way, on your website, it says to extract to the default location however you have said 2010 rather than 11, just to point it out

on my game i dont have as many tabs at the top bar as you, i dont know if thats normal or not but i just thought i'd mention it to see if you know anything about it. Thanks again for this though top top work.

I've waited for this whole weekend. Many, many thanks!

Is there a way to increase the spacing between lines for example in the team list screen/league table and so on. Maybe with 1 or 2 pixels ? Beside that, great work michael!

This is great! Although I dont have a netbook and can use a large resolution, I still love this skin for its shrunken nature.

By the way, on your website, it says to extract to the default location however you have said 2010 rather than 11, just to point it out

Thanks, I've updated it.

on my game i dont have as many tabs at the top bar as you, i dont know if thats normal or not but i just thought i'd mention it to see if you know anything about it. Thanks again for this though top top work.

Have you got a screenshot?

A big thank you to you once again.

Amazing thank you so much!

Thank you !

thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't get it working.

Followed every instruction and the Netbook2011 skin just doesn't appear anywhere on the game.

Tried every alternative. Very, very strange.

Great skin, but a pitty the clublogo's are made smaller in this version. The flag that is added is not neaded imo. I'm not sure I'll use the skin for these reasons.

The perfecto-skin, but made for netbook (without downscaling clublogos), would be the one I would use if it existed.

Now I ajust my netbook-screen using Astray and play in regular resolution, scrolling a bit to see the edges of the screen.

This is crazy - i'm deffo doing everything right.

thornbag99semler, maybe you like to list down what you did, it's easier for people to see what you do wrong or didn't do.

I can't make it work either . I'm on a mac but I don't think that has anything to do with it since I've managed to successfully use other fm11 skins. When I select the skin it screws the game completely, it all goes to black and there's the following message "processing"...

thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! XD

Great work! Thanks.

You're my hero! xD Thanks!

Wonderful Cheers

I cant get it loaded on to my mac please hlep

I have 2 questions

1. Where can i find the button 'create tactic'?

2.where can i find the button to ask the board to negotiate with a player in 'make an offer'?

& really 10q for your hard work !

I have 2 questions

1. Where can i find the button 'create tactic'?

2.where can i find the button to ask the board to negotiate with a player in 'make an offer'?

& really 10q for your hard work !

If you bother to read the 1st post, you would have known that the create tactic button cannot be used in this skin and is removed.

Great skin, but a pitty the clublogo's are made smaller in this version. The flag that is added is not neaded imo. I'm not sure I'll use the skin for these reasons.

The perfecto-skin, but made for netbook (without downscaling clublogos), would be the one I would use if it existed.

Now I ajust my netbook-screen using Astray and play in regular resolution, scrolling a bit to see the edges of the screen.

There is not another room to keep the club logos at the standard size and I haven't added any extra flags, you are free to modify the skin to make it look like perfecto if you want.

I have 2 questions

1. Where can i find the button 'create tactic'?

2.where can i find the button to ask the board to negotiate with a player in 'make an offer'?

& really 10q for your hard work !

As stated the Tactics Creater and Set-Piece Creater are disabled as they cannot be resized and don't fit on the Netbook Screen, if your screen is bigger enough you can still access them through the menu in the tactics screen.

The Board make an offer button only appers at certain times if you have an example of where it should be displaying can you post a screenshot of it from this skin and the default skin thanks.

I cant get it loaded on to my mac please hlep

I can't get it working.

Followed every instruction and the Netbook2011 skin just doesn't appear anywhere on the game.

Tried every alternative. Very, very strange.

Make sure you are folllowing the instructions in the opening post, if your not sure then there are some screenshots in the List of Skins Thread.

I can't make it work either . I'm on a mac but I don't think that has anything to do with it since I've managed to successfully use other fm11 skins. When I select the skin it screws the game completely, it all goes to black and there's the following message "processing"...

This sounds like you have created an extra sub-folder, I don't have a mac but I cannot thing of anything that should cause it to not work on macs, can anyone else with a mac get it working?

Thanks i got it working on my mac but i have a big problem with the bottom of the screen being cut off! i cant see the buttons for confirming or rejecting offers. is it possible to move them up slightly??

Make sure you have maximised the window and hidden the taskbar (or whatever the Mac equilvent is).

as stated the tactics creater and set-piece creater are disabled as they cannot be resized and don't fit on the netbook screen, if your screen is bigger enough you can still access them through the menu in the tactics screen.

The board make an offer button only appers at certain times if you have an example of where it should be displaying can you post a screenshot of it from this skin and the default skin thanks.

thank you for the comment

after trying on players i noticed the board issue is working

again thanks mate!

EDIT:

IVE NOTICED THAT IF I ENTER TO THE GAME INFO THIS BAR IS UNVISIBLE

JUST AFTER I CLICK ON DIFFRENT TAG AND THE RETURNING TO THE GAME INFO IT WORKS

HOPE IM NOT BOTHERING YOU

Thanks i got it working on my mac but i have a big problem with the bottom of the screen being cut off! i cant see the buttons for confirming or rejecting offers. is it possible to move them up slightly??

Can you describe what you did step by step?

But if I was able to get other skins to work, it must be something about this skin in particular and not something I'm doing...

I signed up only to try this skin and yesterday I ran it for 3 hours on my netbook while sitting in the park. It was very comfortable to use and I am very pleased with it. Great work Michael and thanks a lot!

thank you for the comment

after trying on players i noticed the board issue is working

again thanks mate!

EDIT:

IVE NOTICED THAT IF I ENTER TO THE GAME INFO THIS BAR IS UNVISIBLE

JUST AFTER I CLICK ON DIFFRENT TAG AND THE RETURNING TO THE GAME INFO IT WORKS

HOPE IM NOT BOTHERING YOU

It's a known problem you'll need to click the tab again or select a different tab and go back, it's because the game doesn't like the tabs being in different positions on different screens, there are a couple of things I can try to fix it but they are time consuming (and in Fm2010 the fixes caused bigger problems elsewhere) so the moment you'll just need to do the workaround.

Can you describe what you did step by step?

But if I was able to get other skins to work, it must be something about this skin in particular and not something I'm doing...

you have to add it to the sports interactive folder in your documents folder

Make sure you have maximised the window and hidden the taskbar (or whatever the Mac equilvent is).

i have done everything possible but still cant see the buttons in the bottom right hand corner or anything at the bottom!in fm2010 netbook skin i could see half of them i was happy enough with that because at least i could tell what they were. is the any thing you can do? lik raise them up a bit??

Have you got a screenshot?

@michaeltmurrayuk

i got this problem in respond to transfer speculation screen, where the bottom left scroll option difficult to scroll up or down..

btw @michaeltmurrayuk thanx for the best skin ever

@michaeltmurrayuk

i got this problem in respond to transfer speculation screen, where the bottom left scroll option difficult to scroll up or down..

btw @michaeltmurrayuk thanx for the best skin ever

Thanks if you download this file and copy it into the screens folder for the netbook skin it should fix that screen.

Hi Michael,

I was wondering how you reduce the size of the title bar and the space between the attributes and the title bar, is it a case of just editing some values in an XML file or is it more advanced?

Heres some screenshots to highlight what I mean incase im not explaining what I want clearly

http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=112514&d=1289432880

so its more like youre skin,

http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=112515&d=1289432880

Hi Michael, can this be fixed? As you can see, I cannot see the DR and MR names. I've already extended the screen to the max.

Hi Michael,

I was wondering how you reduce the size of the title bar and the space between the attributes and the title bar, is it a case of just editing some values in an XML file or is it more advanced?

Heres some screenshots to highlight what I mean incase im not explaining what I want clearly

http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=112514&d=1289432880

so its more like youre skin,

http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=112515&d=1289432880

For the titlebar have a look at the changes I made to the header.xml file - I should have commented most of my changes, if you compare it to the default file you should be able to see what coding needs changing.

For the player profile it is basically editing the various player profile xml files and changing the panels from titled boxes to plain boxes and commenting out the table headers.

vasilli07 - I'll have a look at the Dream Team news item this weekend, I take it the same also happens with the Team of the Week news item?

Have you got a screenshot?

hey i tried to get u a screen shot but as you can see i had no joy! my brother is gonna help me using drop box or sumit cuz i cant get them uploaded

.vasilli07 - I'll have a look at the Dream Team news item this weekend, I take it the same also happens with the Team of the Week news item?

Yes, it's the same.

Have you got a screenshot?

heres a few screen shots! look at the bottom right and corner, i cant see the buttons what they are. and i know i have the tittle bar cuz its a mac but i cant get the game working any other way please help if you can because i love this game

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14941607/fm2011/Screen%20shot%202010-11-12%20at%2021.29.17.png

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14941607/fm2011/Screen%20shot%202010-11-12%20at%2021.29.03.png

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14941607/fm2011/Screen%20shot%202010-11-12%20at%2021.28.56.png

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14941607/fm2011/Screen%20shot%202010-11-12%20at%2021.28.32.png

cheers for this michael, great skin!

just one thing, i'd prefer the text size of the player names in the squad lists when on the tactics screen to be slightly larger; any idea how i can change this?

Thanks!

Hi,

I'm facing a strange problem.

I install the game and the most recent patch. After this, i create a paste named skins and put there both the paste and the file that you provided to all of us.

I've entered the game and selected the netbook11 skin, and after confirmation, the game crashed.

I restarted it and i supose that it loaded the netbook skin, but it looks this way, without any button

Do you know what's going on??

THANKS