Increasing text size for player names on pitch in tactics

As the title says really, id like to be able to change the size of the text which displays under the football shirt on the pitch dispaly in tactics alla pic

http://yfrog.com/3owalsallp

If anyone can asist I will be very grateful as text seems too small for me to see :o

You need to edit the tactic panel.xml file from the panels folder for the skin you are using. Starting on line 103 should be this lot of code and that controls the editable bits of the tactics pitch

[if you are using FM2011 this information is now located inside the 'pitch tactics component.xml' file]:

To change the player name size you just need to edit the file I've highlighted in red above, you can also change the font, font style, font colour and sizes of the player shirts if you want.

Does this also change the size of player name in 3D and 2D?

If not where do you change it?

You can edit the same font details for the Classic 2D match view by editing the 'match pitch.xml' file located in the panels folder, near the top of the file will be coding similar to that above and it's editable in the same way.

Unfortantley it is not possible to edit the font details on the 3D views (including the 2D view that uses the 3D engine).

Thanks for the help.

It seems that your skin, Michael, Classic2010 Skin Dark edition, doesn't have the match pitch.xml file in the panels folder.

Can you provide with file.

Sorry if i'm causing you too much work

You'll need to extract it from the panels.fmf file located in the data folder of where you installed FM2010 using the Resource Tool located in the Tools Folder.

When you have extracted the file just copy it into the panels folder for the skin you want to edit.

Thanks for your help, once again!

I see that you can also make the player kit icons larger, but the numbers don't scale. Neither do the A, S, and D in the shield (which I would just as soon eliminate if I could figure out how to do so). What am I missing?

The duty text should be editable by this line:

<integer id="pitch_player_duty_text_size" value="7" />

To resize the shirt numbers you might need to resize the actual graphics, if you haven't already extract the files from this location in the graphics.fmf file: \graphics\pictures\kits\2d\numbers\default

When you have extracted the files copy them into the same position within the Graphics folder within your User Data Folder (or within the Graphics folder of the skin you are using).

You'll then need to use an image editing program to resize the numbers to fit.

Thanks. I played around with the size of the duty text, but eventually just set the color to transparent. Looks good. As for the numbers, I found a skin that replaces them and so figured out they were graphics but haven't got it working properly. It's fine though -- tactic screen looks so much better with larger player text, position dots I can actually distinguish between and no duty text (leaving player icons the default size.