[FM15 Mod] Match Titlebar Team Names

This is another simple match screen mod for Football Manager 2015 that this time re-enables the Team Names on the Match Titlebar.

There are two versions of the mod:

Team Names and Logos:

Team Names and Logos, plus a Competition Logo:

They are designed to work on skins based on the Default FM15 skin, for skins that have a different match titlebar from the default you'll need to modify the files yourself.

Please note that if you are playing on a smaller resolution certain options on the action bar might be cut off at certain points, however these items just appear in the drop down menu like the first screenshot (which was taken at 1024x768) meaning they are still available to select. (This will be the reason why they were removed by SI)

To apply to your game you just need to download the file for which version you want from below, extract the zip file and put the 'match title bar.xml' file in the panels folder for the skin you are using, if you are using the Default Skin then download the Base Skin, add the file to that skin and switch to the Base Skin in game. (If you have the skin cache on you may need to turn it off and reload your skin for the changes to show up).

Note if the Skin you are using already has a 'match title bar.xml' file you'll need to follow the advanced instructions in the second post to create the mod on your own as overwriting your skins custom match titlebar may cause problems.

Change Log:

v2 Uploaded 13th December 2014 12:26

- Minor update to bring the files up-to-date with patch 15.2, there has been no changes to the coding needed to display the names, files have just been updated to better support re-colouring of the match titlebar if added to a custom skin that recolours the titlebar.

FM2015 MATCH TITLEBAR TEAM NAMES MOD DOWNLOAD PAGE

(Both files are at the above link)

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You are free to do what you want with this mod provided:

1. It or any skins based on it are not to be sold.

2. You don't advertise it as being exclusive to your website.

3. At least one of the download links is free to access and download.

4. My username is left as the creator and a link to my site is included: http://michaeltmurrayuk.blogspot.co.uk/ (unless included within a skin then a credit is fine).

How To Create the Mods

If you just want to download and use the mod download the above link, the below instructions are only for people who want to know what coding needs changing to create the mod, or are using an unsupported custom skin.

The file that needs to be modified is 'match title bar.xml' located in the panels folder of the skin you are using, if the file isn't present then you can extract the file from the panels folder of the fm skin located within the skins.fmf file.

To Add the Competition Logo, locate this bit of code:

And above that paste in the following code:

To Add the Home Team Name (and Background Colouring) locate this bit of code:

And REPLACE it with the following code:

To add the Away Team Name (and Background Colouring) locate this bit of code:

And REPLACE it with the following code:

And that is it, you can also modify the values of various bits of the new code to adjust the logo sizes, style of the background and font sizes. Whilst if you wish to try and free up some extra space locate the various lines that look like this:

And adjust the width value, these just create some spacing between the various items, with the value being how many pixels wide the space should be.

Very good work again m8

Hey, I've applied this to the skin I'm using and it works, but the scoreboard is now blocking off aggregate scores and extra time (screenshot below)

Any way to fix it?

Niice work Michael. Have you had a chance to look at justifying the league table to correct the ridiculous distance between team names and numbers ? As I've previously mentioned the league stage.xml from FM14 doesn't work in FM15 !

Hey, I've applied this to the skin I'm using and it works, but the scoreboard is now blocking off aggregate scores and extra time (screenshot below)

Any way to fix it?

Rather than downloading the file, you'll need to edit the version of the match title bar file from that skin using the instructions from the second post as they are likely to have made changes to the code so the default code isn't working.

Niice work Michael. Have you had a chance to look at justifying the league table to correct the ridiculous distance between team names and numbers ? As I've previously mentioned the league stage.xml from FM14 doesn't work in FM15 !

It's on my list...

It's on my list...

Cheers !

Niice work Michael. Have you had a chance to look at justifying the league table to correct the ridiculous distance between team names and numbers ? As I've previously mentioned the league stage.xml from FM14 doesn't work in FM15 !

Is it not the Inf column causing the gap? there is a coloumn for information, ie C for champs, that only appears in the the final stages etc?

Rather than downloading the file, you'll need to edit the version of the match title bar file from that skin using the instructions from the second post as they are likely to have made changes to the code so the default code isn't working.

I've done that, that's the only way I could get the colours and logos to show in the first place. Is there a code to raise the height of the clock and scores?

I've done that, that's the only way I could get the colours and logos to show in the first place. Is there a code to raise the height of the clock and scores?

Clock and Score are controlled by the code like this (code is roughly the same for each, so change the same things for each should work depending on what the skinner has already changed):

<!--clock-->

<container width="120">

<layout class="arrange_vertical_attachment" alignment="top" offset="13" gap="-5" />

<layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="horizontal" layout_children="true" />

<widget class="text" id="Mclk" size="16" auto_size="vertical" alignment="centre" style="semi_bold" />

<widget class="text" id="Mijt" size="8" auto_size="vertical" height="12" alignment="centre" colour="match scoreboard added time" style="semi_bold" />

</container>

Playing around with the offset and gap values will move the clock/score, you can also alter the font sizes aswell Mclk line is for the clock, Mijt is injury time. That code just puts them one on top of the other.

Clock and Score are controlled by the code like this (code is roughly the same for each, so change the same things for each should work depending on what the skinner has already changed):

<!--clock-->

<container width="120">

<layout class="arrange_vertical_attachment" alignment="top" offset="13" gap="-5" />

<layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="horizontal" layout_children="true" />

<widget class="text" id="Mclk" size="16" auto_size="vertical" alignment="centre" style="semi_bold" />

<widget class="text" id="Mijt" size="8" auto_size="vertical" height="12" alignment="centre" colour="match scoreboard added time" style="semi_bold" />

</container>

Playing around with the offset and gap values will move the clock/score, you can also alter the font sizes aswell Mclk line is for the clock, Mijt is injury time. That code just puts them one on top of the other.

Thanks for that, I'll play around with it and see what I can do.

Files have been updated for patch 15.2, there has been no change to how the coding is done, change is pretty much limited to adding support for different colour match titlebars.

How do I just remove the bg color from this mod? and keep the other stuff?

How do I just remove the bg color from this mod? and keep the other stuff?

Follow the instructions in post #2 about how to manually add the team names but do it in reverse (so locate the code I say to add but replace that code with the orignal code).

If you purely want just the background removed and not the text then delete this bit of code one for both the home and away teams, though bare in mind it is not possible to stop the team names from being recoloured so you may need certain teamnames are unreadable:

<!--home team background colour-->

<widget class="picture" id="T1bp" auto_size="vertical" file="boxes/custom/interface/tab bar/paper" cached="true" rthr="68">

<layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="horizontal" inset="0" />

<layout class="centre_in_parent_attachment" alignment="vertical" inset="0" />

</widget>

To move the competition logo again from post #2 locate the competition logo code in the xml file and move it so it appears after the clock coding or after the coding for where you want it to appear.