[FM14] [RELEASED] Vexillium for FM14 and FMC14

Hello,

Just downloaded and looking forward to using full time.. I have some weird behaviour with my graphics....what could it be? :s

Legend! FMC has been crying out for a skin like this, quality! Thank you so much for your hard work!

You mean the gold box Gunner? Was intended to be like that but can be changed.

Cheers Frogmore

You mean the gold box Gunner? Was intended to be like that but can be changed.

Cheers Frogmore

Hello, Yep that and also the odd overlap at top of the inbox panel further up The overlap works to the right but looks like it shouldnt overlap at the top of the inbox if that makes sense!

Looks great Drakestone! I'm just missing the background selector icon

@kun: Yes, and as soon as I can configure the bgselector to work with custom backgrounds aswell it will be back

@Gunner: The first thing is intentional but something I will change (at least for the gold must respond ones), the second one, i've tried replacing with something else a few times (so it matches the right side) but the news list below it disappears, so i'm stuck with that :s

Why are there so many threads for the same thing?

I've asked for the other 2 threads to be closed Bulldog. They are not needed. The first one was started when this was just an idea rather than a skin and the FMC thread was for the beta, I've now unified the skins in one package as well as unifying the threads for support purposes.

In that screenshot, I don't like the way the grey "cuts" through the the word INBOX. That grey bar should extend (widen) until just above the date (Wednesday 31 January). Is this possible to do?

Apart from that, it looks really good.

I just noticed another thing. The little arrow next to a player's or team's name has been removed. It brings up a drop-down menu where you can select the other players in the squad or teams in the division. Without that button you have to scroll through every name to get to the one you want.

Ive only quickly looked over the skin, but it seems we can not see training/stat progression (the arrows next to the different attributes numbers) in the profile screen. Is it possible to add this, so we dont have to go to attributes screen? Or should we simply use the "Better than default panels" by ArtDekDok?

CHeers

Great job with the skin. I noticed a bug with the FMC version:

activate the classic mode skin

choose to start a new game in classic mode

the screen will now show the nation selection similar to the normal game mode instead of the nation selection of the classic mode and i can't see the check boxes for the nations.

@ deathspawn666: OK then, in which case switch to the classic FMC skin and set the game up, then once in-game switch to Vexillium FMC. I'll investigate, it should resort to using the base files if it cant find a panel in the vexillium fmc folder but it seems its not doing that, I might have to paste some more panels from the classic fmc skin to the vexillium widgets folder. Will make sure thats fixed for next release.

@ Rhazmuz: Sorry buddy, I didn't notice this. The player progression panel was edited by kun to include shirt backs but I never realised that the panel he edited didnt include the progression arrows. I will try and get this fixed for next release too but until then feel free to use ArtDekDok's panels. (I use them by default anyway)

@ Hunter: See my post above about the inbox panel issue, for some reason I can't replace it. As for the arrow, I never noticed it but will add it back in for you

@ Hunter: See my post above about the inbox panel issue, for some reason I can't replace it.

Sorry, somehow I missed that! It's a minor thing anyway.

What about this:

I just noticed another thing. The little arrow next to a player's or team's name has been removed. It brings up a drop-down menu where you can select the other players in the squad or teams in the division. Without that button you have to scroll through every name to get to the one you want.

Was that intentionally taken out?

@ deathspawn666: OK then, in which case switch to the classic FMC skin and set the game up, then once in-game switch to Vexillium FMC. I'll investigate, it should resort to using the base files if it cant find a panel in the vexillium fmc folder but it seems its not doing that, I might have to paste some more panels from the classic fmc skin to the vexillium widgets folder. Will make sure thats fixed for next release.

@ Rhazmuz: Sorry buddy, I didn't notice this. The player progression panel was edited by kun to include shirt backs but I never realised that the panel he edited didnt include the progression arrows. I will try and get this fixed for next release too but until then feel free to use ArtDekDok's panels. (I use them by default anyway)

@ Hunter: See my post above about the inbox panel issue, for some reason I can't replace it. As for the arrow, I never noticed it but will add it back in for you

Cheers bud!

Would it not be better to have a white text colour? The grey bar at the top makes the black especially difficult to read. I can hardly see "Preview" and "Tactics" top right.

EDIT: Same problem on the next screen which is Opposition Instructions.

EDIT 2: Same with Player names on Widgets in-match.

EDIT 3: The Instructions button in-match is also dark grey with black text.

I think you must have downloaded the v1.0 hunter. This was fixed to white in v1.01. (It was a change I made to make the actionbar black instead of white so writing on it was easier to read but it backfired by making all text on match screens black. I never noticed it had caused it until after I released).

Redownload the skin making sure you delete the old version before extracting

As for the dropdown menu in the team titlebar, it wasn't so much intentionally taken out, it was more of a case of not being included in the skin I used as a base (Nuu). I have already added it back in for v1.02 which I will release later on (once I've fixed the inbox panel issue and the attribute change arrows).

Will do, thank you. I did download v1.0.

Great job with the skin. I noticed a bug with the FMC version:

activate the classic mode skin

choose to start a new game in classic mode

the screen will now show the nation selection similar to the normal game mode instead of the nation selection of the classic mode and i can't see the check boxes for the nations.

The style of Nation selection doesnt really matter, it still works the same way and causes no issues at all, I've just started a game fine with it, the only issue is the missing checkboxes, it appears there are no graphics for them but they are still clickable. Should be as simple as finding what graphics the FMC skin uses and then copying them into the graphics folder.

Great work

One little thing,any chance you can somehow change the player attribute screen in FMC so there isn't a need to scroll up/down in technical and mental attribute boxes?

Doesn't work with greek. Can you fix it plz, because is the best skin so far. Thank you.

I am not blowing smoke when I say this is the best skin I have used in FM14 thanks its very good

Drakestone. Great skin, but I keep getting the ver 1 when I download from the link provided. According to the read me in the zip file anyway.

I can't see the players price with this skin (window mode)

@john7gr: Does it not? I'll look into that one for you

@scotty206: You can replace the player overview panel.xml in the panels folder with one from another skin that does not scroll and it should look the same style.

Drakestone. Great skin, but I keep getting the ver 1 when I download from the link provided. According to the read me in the zip file anyway.

Thats just me being sloppy with remembering to change the version numbers in the settings and read-me. The download in the OP is definately v1.01 right now.

I am not blowing smoke when I say this is the best skin I have used in FM14 thanks its very good

Cheers buddy, glad you're enjoying the full release. Hopefully it will improve as I fix any bugs people find.

I can't see the players price with this skin (window mode)

This is due to the panel being used with this skin. Try replacing player overview panel.xml in the panels folder with one from another skin you find more suitable

Hi great looking skin but I do not have an option to get into a match like a confirm button it just gets stuck on match preview screen.

i Had to delete the skin :-(

Any idea what causes this as I would like to continue using it

oh im using the fmc version btw

Yes I guessed you was using the FMC version.

At current (due to the way FMC works) there is no continue buttons on the match screens, in order to go through each screen press the spacebar on your keyboard This of course will be sorted in a later version. I did mention it in the FMC skin thread before I got it closed, forgot to mention that here.

oh ok mate if it just pressing space bar thats fine by me

its a great skin btw

I also forgot to mention, if the overlay is too strong on the background for people, you can do the following to lessen it.

Open up your vexillium/graphics folder and then goto /boxes and find the folder called overlay. Inside there will be 4 folders; 20, 40, 60 and 80. These are transparency percentages. Choose the percentage you want and copy all images inside the corresponding folder. Then, go back to your vexillium/graphics folder and find the folder called bgoverlay. Paste the images you copied into this folder overwriting any images it asks you to. Then, in FM preferences, goto Interface and delete your skin cache then reload the skin. Everything should be darker/brighter.

Word of warning, I find text very hard to read when using 20% transparency so I'd recommend anything 40 or above.

oh ok mate if it just pressing space bar thats fine by me

its a great skin btw

Its a workaround but it's the way I normally play anyway (i use the mouse as little as possible). Like I said I will get round to fixing that shortly hopefully.

Working dropdown menus (on all screens now)

v1.02 is progressing well and I've also fixed the checkboxes on the nation select screen for FMC. Things I still have to do before release are...

1. See if I can fix the continue/menubar issue during games in FMC (this is still functional by skipping screen with the spacebar to continue instead.)

2. See if I can get Greek language support to work

3. See if I can fix that image on the News Screen and change the icons to white not grey so they stand out more

4. Edit the Player Overview Panel a bit more so the attributes arrows come up as well as making the tables smaller to fit smaller resolutions.

5. Tidy up the progress panel a bit so yesterday boxes are a bit darker (writing is a bit too hard to read there still)

6. Add more panels from original FMC skin for compatibility reasons.

I'm not going to be about much to do it this weekend but shall get back to work on it on Sunday night. Hopefully I'll put an update out around Tuesday.

This is due to the panel being used with this skin. Try replacing player overview panel.xml in the panels folder with one from another skin you find more suitable

didnt work, the result :

P.S: if you could fix this would be great, best skin i've ever used!

Try going into Preferences>Interface and clearing the skin cache, then, load a skin OTHER than Vexillium, once done, load Vexillium again, that should work If not, let me know and I might have another fix for it

gonna try that.

also can you add days to next match on this panel?

didn't work, whats the other method? :s

The other method involves replacing the player overview panel (while keeping your current one as backup) and reloading the skin making sure that the cache is cleared and caching is turned off. Once reloaded you then need to replace it with your backup and clear the cache and reload again.

Have a look in ArtDekDok's thread for Better Than Default panel. There's more information on the subject there

And yes, I took that out accidentally, I will put the days to next match thing back in

Better? It'll have to do for now as I'll need to make new images for it.

Newest screenshots:

Finally fixed the transparency issue on the inbox panel (The bit that says inbox on it with the filter buttons) and got the dropdowns all nicely aligned on all screens.

Still investigating why it doesn't display in Greek and any other bugs I haven't mentioned (or found yet)

Great work!

I'm using version 1.01 and it's the best skin i've seen for FM2014.

Hey Drakestone, sorry for OT, but what's the name of the club logos you are using?

Cheers Ilich, glad you're enjoying it.

@j4y_z: They are Origin '14 logos from FMGraph. I made the default ones myself.

The problem with greek, is because of fonts... If you upload a version with the standar fonts?

Ah ok then, I can do that yes, or, if you find a font you prefer that works, just copy it to your vexillium/fonts folder then delete the font HelveticaNeueOTS and rename your font to HelveticaNeueOTS and it'll work

Drakestone i would like to tank u for creating by far the best skin for fm14 and all the work that must of went into it

It works if i change the font, but it doesn't display the name of greek players inside the profile. Any solution?

Yes, open up your vexillium/panels folder and open titlebar.xml in notepad

Find this bit of code:

<!-- title area -->

<widget class="text" id="sect" alignment="left" size="22" font="fonts/title" style="light_bold, glowing" multiline="false" auto_size="all">

and change it to this:

<!-- title area -->

<widget class="text" id="sect" alignment="left" size="22" font="fonts/HelveticaNeueOTS" style="light_bold, glowing" multiline="false" auto_size="all">

You may also need to open match titlebar.xml and team titlebar.xml and do the same.

I will include this as default in the next version. Just atrributes arrows, processing panel changes and a few graphics changes still to do now.

EDIT: Or even better, to save having to change code just delete the title font from the font folder, then make a copy of your font (HelveticaNeueOTS) and rename the copy to title.

Thank you, now it works perfect!