[FM24 & older] [SKIN] Dark Polish Skins

[Ceyvol]

Default dark skin how I believe it should be. If you want to keep originality of the game with some not intrusive visual improvements, Dark Polish is what you are looking for. It's clean and low-res friendly. Now with colour variations!

How to install:
1. Extract Dark Polish folders into:
Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 20XX/skins
2. Go into game preferences, select Dark Polish Skin.

Hope you enjoy!

FM 2024 VERSION:

Download: https://www.mediafire.com/file/ha0bcj6i5x0nkka/Dark_Polish_Skin_24.zip/file

 

 

Thank you for all your support.

Depending on how much skinmaking will change with FM25 going to Unity engine, this might be last edition of Dark Polish Skin. Or it might not! Maybe it won't be so bad. But actually every year I hope it is the last. Not because creating next skin might be harder. I simply hope creating it won't be necessary anymore.

For now I consider this project pretty much complete. With v2 released I implemented all key ideas I had since I started in FM20. There isn't much more I can do with my skinmaking skills. Of course I might tweak something from time to time, if it catches my eye. I will support this skin until FM24 is over, if anything comes up.

If you are Dark Polish Skins enjoyer and you would like to thank me for my skins via donation, I will be honoured. Any extra profit will ease me with medical expenses related to my heart condition (DCM), which forces me to work only part-time. Thank you once again.

I wish us all good looking FM25!

Donate to Dark Polish Skin

 

v2.0 changelog:
- twelve alternative versions of the skin - 5KB each!
- refined transparency support - try background packs for new experience!
- new translucent tactic screen
- scout report card with attributes tab & more
- restored condition/sharpness percentage widget
- player faces in squad overview
- unpurpled manager timeline
- lots of tiny fixes adjustments
- new optional mod: non-transparent inbox

 

Dark Polish Skin 24 provides following changes:

UI design:
- consistent shades of gray
- dynamic coloring of several interface elements
- ProximaNova font from older FMs
- enabled transparency for background packs
- classic background selector with small improvements
- club profile overhaul (early based on CFM Skin by Pikawa)
- stadium pictures function in club overview and team schedule
- appropriately bigger logos or faces in some sections
- modified main menu panel with emphasis on team logo
- ribbon navigation in Preferences

Tactic screen:
- dark tactic screen
- player pictures and role suitability pies on tactic screen
- past meetings panel under tactic screen (visible on high-res)

Match:
- pre-match "Instant Result" button with post-match popup
- home button, FM button and Instant Result button in match screen
- scoreboard with logos instead of 6-letter names
- player pictures in team talk screen and match bottom bar
- larger font for match commentary on borderless bar
- disabled touchline tablet automatic transparency when over the ball

Minor tweaks:
- fixed "match momentum" match feed item
- fixed broken news feed pictures
- coloured social media club avatars
- removed pointless club logo from news item (larger staff picture instead)
- new FM flags instead of old ones in language change menu
- lots of tiny visual fixes and improvements

Optional MODS:
- custom font / default font
- instant result buttons / no instant result buttons
- dark tactic screen / green tactic screen
- suitability pies / no suitability pies
- larger tactic screen faces / normal tactic screen faces
- tabbed analysis|past meetings / analysis only
- disabled tablet transparency / enabled tablet transparency
- scoreborad with logos only / scoreboard with logos and full team name
- dynamic coloured match results / static coloured match results (NEW!)

Note about background selector:
- You can always replace provided backgrounds with your own at: Dark Polish Skin 24\graphics\backgrounds.

 

 

FM 2023 VERSION:

Spoiler

Download current version: https://www.mediafire.com/file/u3jx259in3m1lmw/Dark_Polish_Skin_23.zip/file

 

Dark Polish Skin 23 includes:
- consistent shades of gray
- ProximaNova font from older FMs
- improved background selector
- "Instant Result" button with post-match popup
- player pictures and role suitability pies on tactic screen
- past meetings panel under tactic screen (visible on high-res)
- ribbon navigation in Preferences
- club profile overhaul (original by Pikawa)
- stadium picture option in club profiles (default one has dynamic colour)
- dynamic colours of sidebar elements, continue buttons and circle icons
- scoreboard with logos instead of ugly 6-letter names
- slightly modified player attributes section
- coloured backgrounds of social media club avatars
- removed pointless club logo from news item (staff photos are a bit larger now)
- removed bold and uppercase from headings
- new FM flags instead of old ones in language change menu
- fixed broken news feed pictures
- home button, FM button and Instant Result button in match screen

About background selector:
- You can always replace backgrounds with your own at: Dark Polish Skin 23\graphics\backgrounds.

About role suitability pies:
- Since some people don't like them, I made replacement files for those who wish to get rid of the pies only, and keep the player photos. Go to: Dark Polish Skin 23\panels\tactics - and use two "(no pies)" files to replace their counterparts.

About scoreboard:
Optional scoreboard with full team names is included as well. Find file labeled "(with team names)" at: Dark Polish Skin 23\panels\match - and replace its counterpart with it.

About fonts:
This one is easy. If you wish to bring back the original FM23 fonts, just go to Dark Polish Skin folder and delete "fonts" folder. Everybody has their own taste!

 

 

FM 2022 VERSION:

Spoiler

Download current version (1.2): https://www.mediafire.com/file/gre74o21yuuvpej/Dark_Polish_Skin_22.zip/file

 

Dark Polish Skin 22 includes:
- consistent shades of gray
- ProximaNova font from older FMs
- improved background selector
- "Instant Result" button with post-match popup
- player pictures and role suitability pies on tactic screen
- past meetings panel under tactic screen (visible on high-res)
- ribbon navigation in Preferences
- club profile overhaul (original by Pikawa)
- stadium picture option in club profiles (default one has dynamic colour)
- dynamic colours of sidebar, continue buttons and circle icons
- scoreboard with logos instead of ugly 6-letter names
- slightly modified player attributes section
- coloured backgrounds of social media club avatars
- removed pointless club logo from news item (staff photos are a bit larger now)
- removed bold and uppercase from headings
- new FM flags instead of old ones in language change menu
- fixed broken news feed pictures

About background selector:
- FM22 skin overlay has less transparency than FM21's, so bg selector works more like sidebar selector. I chose some competition themed backgrounds which may be of better use for this gimmick (at least if you're not using "icons-only" option). You can always replace backgrounds with your own at: Dark Polish Skin 22\graphics\backgrounds.

About sidebar:
If you wish for plain dark gray sidebar, you can disable/enable its colour theme by changing between first and last background in the selector.

About role suitability pies:
- Since some people don't like them, I made replacement files for those who wish to get rid of the pies only, and keep the player photos. Go to: Dark Polish Skin 22\panels\tactics - and use two "no pies" files to replace their counterparts.

About scoreboard:
Optional scoreboard with full team names is included as well. Find labeled file at: Dark Polish Skin 22\panels\match - and replace its counterpart with it.

About fonts:
This one is easy. If you wish to bring back the original FM22 fonts, just go to Dark Polish Skin folder and delete "fonts" folder. Everybody has their own taste!

 

FM 2021 VERSION:

Spoiler

Download current version (2.1): https://www.mediafire.com/file/dairo10ouel7sf9/Dark_Polish_Skin_21.zip/file

Dark Polish Skin 21 includes:

- consistent shades of gray
- ProximaNova font from older FMs
- improved background selector
- "Instant Result" button with post-match popup
- "Huge" database depth option
- player pictures and role suitability pies on tactic screen
- past meetings panel under tactic screen (visible on high-res)
- ribbon navigation in Preferences
- club profile overhaul (original by Pikawa)
- stadium picture option in club profiles (default one has dynamic color)
- slightly modified player attributes section
- dynamic continue button colors
- coloured backgrounds of social media club avatars
- removed pointless club logo from news item (staff photos are a bit larger now)
- removed bold and uppercase from headings
- removed purple elements like circle icons and contrast boxes
- FM21 flags instead of old ones in language change menu

Screenshots:

 

FM 2020 VERSION:

Spoiler

Download: https://www.mediafire.com/file/6lorqk67nipu536/Dark_Polish_Skin_20.zip/file

Dark Polish Skin 20 includes:

- more consistent shades of gray
- ProximaNova font from older FMs
- "Instant Result" button
- ribbon navigation in Preferences
- player pictures on tactic screen
- club profile overhaul (original by Pikawa)
- stadium picture option in club profiles (default one has dynamic color)
- slightly modified player attributes section
- less contrast boxes
- static sidebar colors
- dynamic continue button colors
- enlarged some custom graphics for better exposition
- some pointless logos removed
- removed bold and uppercase from headings
- fixed some panels not appearing in low-res maximised window
- fixed "negative" flags during database configuration.

Screenshots:

 

Be sure to check out all other custom skins, from which I learned a lot. This skin would be impossible without them and Sports Interactive.

Edited December 10, 2023 by Ceyvol

[rafaelbenitez]

Really nice, clean skin. Great work!

[exumo]

Giving this a go. 

[lugui]

Just the way I like my skins: dark, clean, simple!

definitely trying this, thanks for sharing it.

Edited February 11, 2020 by lugui
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[8BuggieNights15]

Agreed, Very simple and clean, Nice work Ceyvol

[lembergman]

M6 from sortitoutsi.net on my request, maybe need some

Спойлер

 

[Ceyvol]

Wow, good karma came back quickly Thank you!

[lembergman]

Спойлер

Спойлер

 

[Finknottle]

Ceyvol, I've got your excellent dark skin in FM 20. Is it possible for you to make a version that will work in FM 20 Touch?  Thank you.

[Ceyvol]

Sorry, without any kind of reference this is out of my league. I even tried to make most general changes like fonts and colour pallete to default FMT skin, but even at this stage it breaks completely. It would take me forever to figure everything out by myself, since I'm not very skillful with coding.

[Robert Clough]

do you think we will ever see any updates to this skin?, it be curious to know if at all, i have a city image pack downloaded would be awesome to see that added?

[Ceyvol]

Hi, I don't think so. I never had an ambition to develop this in any way (not that I have skills tbh), just fixed what felt broken or ugly to me. Also I moved to other projects by now and consider this one closed unless some big issue shows up.

Never planned adding city images as this was created on (and mostly for) low-res.

[LandonDonovan10]

no doubt this is the best skin of this year. also its great because of my laptop res  thank you very much!

[sam allaguy]

Really appreciate this skin. Looks clean and has all the right panels.

 

And most importantly it gets rid of that ghastly default font from the base skin. Sadly the quality of the base skins has really gone down over the years 

[Ceyvol]

Thank you everyone for your kind words!

For all who share my sense of aesthetics I made FM21 version: https://www.mediafire.com/file/dairo10ouel7sf9/Dark_Polish_Skin_21.zip/file

You can see a preview in first post. I will make some additional tweaks after 24 Nov, when original FM21 skin files will be available.

Enjoy your FMs 💪

[Watson156]

Just downloaded this and giving it a go, and it is fantastic. Can't wait to see what you change when the game comes out fully. Personally, I would love to have a version of this where the background is transparent so we can use backgrounds etc.

[GOODNAME]

Hello mate you can give me the code to add to the tactics icon info panel overview.xml" file   the circle in the tactics screen next to the player role?

Thanks  

[Ceyvol]

Here you go @GOODNAME:

    <container>
        <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="all" inset="0" />

        <!--pos/role/duty indicator-->
        <widget class="position_role_duty_suitability_pie" id="prdF" width="24" height="24">
            <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="left" inset="0"/>
            <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="bottom" inset="26"/>
        </widget>
    </container>

Put it at the end before last "</panel>". Do it both in "tactics icon info panel overview.xml" and "tactics icon info panel overview match.xml".

[GOODNAME]

34 minutes ago, Ceyvol said:

Here you go @GOODNAME:

    <container>
        <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="all" inset="0" />

        <!--pos/role/duty indicator-->
        <widget class="position_role_duty_suitability_pie" id="prdF" width="24" height="24">
            <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="left" inset="0"/>
            <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="bottom" inset="26"/>
        </widget>
    </container>

Put it at the end before last "</panel>". Do it both in "tactics icon info panel overview.xml" and "tactics icon info panel overview match.xml".

Works perfectly thank you very much 

[alian62]

 

Added past meetings to tactics 

 

 

[Sir Jake]

loving the skin

could anyone guide me please on how to move the shirts so its centralised with the name bars?

it's a little thing but it sets off my OCD lol

 

Also how to change the green circles to this style from the vincechup skin? I cant see anything different between to the 2 panel edit files

thanks lads

[Sir Jake]

one more thing sorry lads, im assuming this is meant to show the kits?

any idea how to change?

[OlivierL]

On 15/11/2020 at 05:50, alian62 said:

 

Added past meetings to tactics 

 

 

Can't find the past meeting option in mine ?

 

Great skin ! 

[Ceyvol]

1 hour ago, OlivierL said:

Can't find the past meeting option in mine ?

Alian62 did it for his personal use, I didn't add anything

 

@Sir Jake Wow, somehow missed this completely! I will sort it next release if possible, thank you 👍

Edited November 17, 2020 by Ceyvol

[OlivierL]

17 minutes ago, Ceyvol said:

Alian62 did it for his personal use, I didn't add anything

 

@Sir Jake Wow, somehow missed this completely! I will sort it next release if possible, thank you 👍

ok thanks. would be great if u can add it  

Good job. What will change for the final version ?

Can't believe that this skin isn't getting more attention..  Instant result - dark - player faces at the tactic screen - nice profile page WITH club value (it was not visible at the normal skin or wannachup skin) AND u can see who scored the goals after using instant result.

Thanks @stefaanpeeraer for mentioning this to me !

Edited November 17, 2020 by OlivierL

[Perre8]

@Ceyvol yes great skin, i love it, also the font is nostalgic:). I used it on fm20 also. 

The past meeting ad-on would be a great surplus!

 

Keep up the great work dude!

[alian62]

4 hours ago, stefaanpeeraer said:

@Ceyvol yes great skin, i love it, also the font is nostalgic:). I used it on fm20 also. 

The past meeting ad-on would be a great surplus!

 

Keep up the great work dude!

Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2021\skins\Dark Polish Skin 21\panels\tactics

Add this to your tactics folder  tactics overview side panel.xml

[alian62]

 

For future reference for other skins or updated skins just add this line to the Tactics overview panel or when the full game is released you can use the resource archiver to extract the panel file from the full game then go into tactics and find the Tactics overview panel and change this line then put it back into the game using the resource archiver . LINE 191  . This wont work on modified tacts panel that increases the size of the pitch though so you would have to reduce the size of the pitch before hand . 

I use this because after FM15 they removed the option to view other teams for and against stats . This is partway to what it was as you can go into other teams tactics by clicking on another team and going to their tactics page . It will only do their next game though 

 

 

Edited November 18, 2020 by alian62

[OlivierL]

13 hours ago, stefaanpeeraer said:

@Ceyvol yes great skin, i love it, also the font is nostalgic:). I used it on fm20 also. 

The past meeting ad-on would be a great surplus!

 

Keep up the great work dude!

Idd i would love it that the past meeting ad on is included in this skin . and that the purple titles are changed to a regular color because i don't like purple  

[drajen]

19 hours ago, alian62 said:

Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2021\skins\Dark Polish Skin 21\panels\tactics

Add this to your tactics folder  tactics overview side panel.xml

Should I change the name of the file?

 it appears as 613402366_tacticsoverviewsidepanel

[alian62]

4 hours ago, drajen said:

Should I change the name of the file?

 it appears as 613402366_tacticsoverviewsidepanel

Oh ok thats weird ..... yes change it to ..... tactics overview side panel ..... All lower case ...put in tactics folder

[<<Macaco-RJ88>>]

@Ceyvol Great Skin man!

How could I change the title colour from the below container?

<!--snapshot selector 1-->
                <container class="client_object_viewer_selector_panel" id="cos1" priority="2" default_height="-2">
                    <widget class="team_container_information_background_panel" id="Cbac">
                        <translation id="title" translation_id="333728" type="use" value="Club Background[COMMENT: title for panel showing a club's background]" />
                    </widget>
                    <widget class="club_league_history_graph" id="clhg" default_item="true">
                        <translation id="title" translation_id="319446" type="use" value="League History[COMMENT: title for the league position history on the club overview panel]" />

                    </widget>
                    <widget class="team_container_overview_teams_panel" id="tcot">
                        <translation id="title" translation_id="229362" type="use" value="Teams" />
                    </widget>
                    <widget class="team_transfer_snapshot_panel" id="Tran" valid_for_fmc="false">
                        <translation id="title" translation_id="296337" type="use" value="Pending Transfers" />
                    </widget>
                    
                </container>

 

Thank you!

[Sh@rk]

@<<Macaco-RJ88>> It is controlled by the colour named "fg tertiary". Edit it in the settings.xml but it will change everywhere this colour is used so change with caution. If you only want this particular title to be changed, you'll have to wait fo an update from the author.

[<<Macaco-RJ88>>]

3 hours ago, Sh@rk said:

@<<Macaco-RJ88>> It is controlled by the colour named "fg tertiary". Edit it in the settings.xml but it will change everywhere this colour is used so change with caution. If you only want this particular title to be changed, you'll have to wait fo an update from the author.

Thank you very much!!!

[<<Macaco-RJ88>>]

4 hours ago, Sh@rk said:

@<<Macaco-RJ88>> It is controlled by the colour named "fg tertiary". Edit it in the settings.xml but it will change everywhere this colour is used so change with caution. If you only want this particular title to be changed, you'll have to wait fo an update from the author.

Even if its a global change, it really helps my panels

Would you know to to change the title font of these containers? Like Size & Font.

Thank you!

[<<Macaco-RJ88>>]

Hi! I am using the Dark Polish skin to work on my panels from past versions of the game.

I tried to change the tertiary value by adding a line but it does not work. @Sh@rk

<!-- Foreground colours - used for text, icon etc -->
    <colour name="fg accent"                                                                         value="rgb(120,120,120)"/>
    <colour name="fg tertiary"                                                                     value="rgb(175,180,43)"/>

I would like to edit the boxes titles, color and font.  Subsection box i found a way( just color) in the paper file but the other container, as mentioned on the above posts, gets me lost.

Thanks in advance!

 

[GOODNAME]

Hello mate

With the new realese of the game there is a problem in the tactics screen, i cannot see the name of the players

[SimpleFM]

Firstly, thanks very much for this. Killing that stupid default skin has been amazing, what were they thinking?

A couple of issues I have seen;

• Names missing from tactics screen
• sizing issue on this screen, it wipes out the under 21s caps and stats

 

[OlivierL]

I'll wait for an update of this skin to start my one and only save  

[Ceyvol]

Thanks for the feedback, all noted. I will start working on this tomorrow.

[kandersson]

Also waiting for a decent dark skin. Can't believe SI decided to ditch default dark skin for FM 21.

[GOODNAME]

36 minutes ago, Ceyvol said:

Thanks for the feedback, all noted. I will start working on this tomorrow.

Thank you

If there is a possible way to add player face to the goal scorer and the player who got the assist.. i think all the forum waiting for that

 

[Ceyvol]

Version 1.1 is out now!
Download link is the same: https://www.mediafire.com/file/dairo10ouel7sf9/Dark_Polish_Skin_21.zip/file

- fixed release day update bugs (tactics screen, player overview scaling)
- added suitability pies to tactic screen
- added past meetings panel to tactic screen (visible on high-res)
- added ribbon navigation in preferences
- removed remaining violet contrast boxes
- removed pointless news item club logo (staff photos are a bit larger now)
- fixtures are darker now (this is fixed by SI globally)
- FM21 flags instead of old ones in language change menu
- some minor tweaks

This is not the final release, I just did what I was able to for today.
Any other issue which was reported here or at FM Scout I'm still going to investigate, but I need more time.

Thanks for all your feedback:

@GOODNAME- tactic screen names are now fixed. I added suitability pies as well.
@alian62  @OlivierL - past meeting are included now.
@SimpleFM - sizing issue should be resolved.
@<<Macaco-RJ88>> - I will try to get rid of purple accents in next release, I need more time to investigate the files.
@Sir Jake - those moved shirts are apparently by design, my OCD tingles as well, but I need more time to pinpoint guilty party. SI might tweak it as well by their own (History's Best Eleven is even more broken).
@kandersson - I can see dark and light skins hidden in game files, but they are disabled on purpose. They might be not ready yet. Nothing special though.

Cheers

 

[GOODNAME]

You are the best

[OlivierL]

great job, thanks !

[<<Macaco-RJ88>>]

What is the code line to remove the players faces from the tactic screen?

[Ceyvol]

2 minutes ago, <<Macaco-RJ88>> said:

What is the code line to remove the players faces from the tactic screen?

In "tactics icon info panel overview" and "tactics icon info panel overview match" remove whole container with "Facegen data request" comment in it.

[<<Macaco-RJ88>>]

4 minutes ago, Ceyvol said:

In "tactics icon info panel overview" and "tactics icon info panel overview match" remove whole container with "Facegen data request" comment in it.

Thank you so much man!

I am trying to adjust my panels with your skin and its really good!!!

Would you know how to  slightly increase the size of the kits in the field and the field itself?

[SimpleFM]

51 minutes ago, Ceyvol said:

Version 1.1 is out now!
Download link is the same: https://www.mediafire.com/file/dairo10ouel7sf9/Dark_Polish_Skin_21.zip/file

- fixed release day update bugs (tactics screen, player overview scaling)
- added suitability pies to tactic screen
- added past meetings panel to tactic screen (visible on high-res)
- added ribbon navigation in preferences
- removed remaining violet contrast boxes
- removed pointless news item club logo (staff photos are a bit larger now)
- fixtures are darker now (this is fixed by SI globally)
- FM21 flags instead of old ones in language change menu
- some minor tweaks

This is not the final release, I just did what I was able to for today.
Any other issue which was reported here or at FM Scout I'm still going to investigate, but I need more time.

Thanks for all your feedback:

@GOODNAME- tactic screen names are now fixed. I added suitability pies as well.
@alian62  @OlivierL - past meeting are included now.
@SimpleFM - sizing issue should be resolved.
@<<Macaco-RJ88>> - I will try to get rid of purple accents in next release, I need more time to investigate the files.
@Sir Jake - those moved shirts are apparently by design, my OCD tingles as well, but I need more time to pinpoint guilty party. SI might tweak it as well by their own (History's Best Eleven is even more broken).
@kandersson - I can see dark and light skins hidden in game files, but they are disabled on purpose. They might be not ready yet. Nothing special though.

Cheers

 

Thank you! I am sure we all appreciate the hard work

[Littbarski]

Big thank you for your hard work!!!

Is there any chance for a light version of your skin????