[FM23, FM22, FM21, FM20] [SKIN] Dark Polish Skin

Ceyvol · February 10, 2020

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.

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

Hope you enjoy.

FM 2023 VERSION:

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:

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

Edited October 25, 2022 by Ceyvol

rafaelbenitez · February 10, 2020

Really nice, clean skin. Great work!

exumo · February 10, 2020

Giving this a go.

lugui · February 11, 2020

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 · February 12, 2020

Agreed, Very simple and clean, Nice work Ceyvol

lembergman · February 13, 2020

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

Спойлер

Ceyvol · February 13, 2020

Wow, good karma came back quickly Thank you!

lembergman · February 14, 2020

Спойлер

Finknottle · March 5, 2020

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 · March 6, 2020

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 · May 2, 2020

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 · May 3, 2020

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 · June 9, 2020

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

sam allaguy · October 26, 2020

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 · November 13, 2020

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 · November 14, 2020

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 · November 14, 2020

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 · November 14, 2020

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 · November 14, 2020

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 · November 15, 2020

Added past meetings to tactics

Sir Jake · November 17, 2020

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 · November 17, 2020

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

any idea how to change?

OlivierL · November 17, 2020

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 · November 17, 2020

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 · November 17, 2020

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 · November 17, 2020

@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 · November 18, 2020

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 · November 18, 2020

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 · November 18, 2020

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 · November 18, 2020

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 · November 19, 2020

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>> · November 21, 2020

@Ceyvol Great Skin man!

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

<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 · November 22, 2020

@<<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>> · November 22, 2020

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>> · November 22, 2020

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>> · November 22, 2020

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

<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 · November 23, 2020

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 · November 23, 2020

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 · November 23, 2020

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

Ceyvol · November 24, 2020

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

kandersson · November 24, 2020

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

GOODNAME · November 24, 2020

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 · November 24, 2020

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 · November 24, 2020

You are the best

OlivierL · November 24, 2020

great job, thanks !

<<Macaco-RJ88>> · November 24, 2020

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

Ceyvol · November 24, 2020

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>> · November 24, 2020

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 · November 24, 2020

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 · November 24, 2020

Big thank you for your hard work!!!

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

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