michaeltmurrayuk Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Football Manager 2021 - Skinning, Modding and Graphics Knowledge Base Welcome to the latest version of the Skinning, Modding & Graphics Knowledge Base. This thread should over time contain links to the most important and useful threads in this subforum, however what I have also been doing over the last few years is tagging any interesting or informative threads with a skinning tag, so whilst I try and build up the content in this thread if you cannot see the answer to your question here or you are just starting out skinning then have a browse through the forum and open up any of the threads with a skinning tag which should give you some useful if random bits of skinning knowledge, whilst clicking on a tag should take you to any other threads that have the same tag so that should give you a starting set of threads to have a look through. Like in the past this thread will be split into several parts; How To Create Graphics Skinning Guides Links To Useful Threads Links To Useful Threads from Previous Versions If you want the FM2019 thread then see this thread Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeltmurrayuk Posted November 23, 2020 Author Share Posted November 23, 2020 How To Create Graphics Contents 1. How To Create A Config File 2. How To Create Standard Football Manager Logos 3. How To Create Player Faces 4. How to Create 3D Kits for FM2018 Some of the guides may be fairly old but the information in them still applies. After you have created your graphics please follow the Graphics & Skin Installation Guide thread to get your newly created graphics into the game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeltmurrayuk Posted November 23, 2020 Author Share Posted November 23, 2020 Skinning Guides Football Manager Skinning Guide The following guides will talk you through the basics of creating a skin, and whilst they were written for previous versions, the basic information still applies and should be enough to get you started. Also note that whilst Football Manager Touch is now a separate game the information applies to both that and the Full Mode Version (though only to the PC versions), you just need to remember if you are using the Touch Mode to make sure you are editing the Touch files and putting them where the Touch Mode is looking, also some of the file locations may have changed so you might need to go looking for some of them. Football Manager 2019 - How To Extract The Default Game Files Football Manager 2018 Skinning Guide Part 1: How to Extract Default Files & Understanding File Structure Football Manager 2018 Skinning Guide Part 2: The BasicsFootball Manager 2018 Skinning Guide Part 3: Changing the Font Settings Football Manager 2015 Skinning Guide Part 3: Changing the Text Colours Football Manager 2015 Skinning Guide Part 4: Editing the Skin Graphics Football Manager 2015 Skinning Guide Part 5: Editing the xml files Skinning Resources/Mods for Skinners The following links provide instructions on how to modify certain screens, these links are primarily for skin makers as applying the mods requires you to edit the files, though end-users can still use them you'll just have to create the finished files from the instructions yourself rather than having a ready to use file to download. I've also linked to some Guides from previous versions as the basic information in those guides should still apply, though you won't be able to just download the linked files for FM2019 as some of the coding will have changed as will some of the file locations but they should be enough to get you started. [FM18][GUIDE] How To Replace the Pitch Textures [FM17][GUIDE] How To Stop the Blurring Effect [FM16 Guide] How to Create and Add Trophy Images[FM16 Guide] How To Customize Match Player Ratings Screens [FM16 Guide] How To Recolour the Star Ratings [FM15 Guide] How to Add an Image to the Match Pitch Screen[FM15 Guide] How To Increase Transparency of Screens[FM15 Guide] Editing the League Table[FM15 Guide] How to Edit the Sidebar[FM15 Guide] How to Add Content to the Action\Menubar Skinning Mods for End-users and Skinners. The following links provide mods for end-users, these are files that just need downloading and putting in the correct location with next to no editing of files needed by the end-user. If you are creating a skin then you can still include the mods with your skin if you get the permission of the mod creator. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeltmurrayuk Posted November 23, 2020 Author Share Posted November 23, 2020 Links to Useful Threads Below are links to threads that contain useful information for Football Manager 2021, note that these threads are not guides so it is best to read the entire thread first as the information may be spread throughout the thread. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeltmurrayuk Posted November 23, 2020 Author Share Posted November 23, 2020 Links to Useful Threads from Previous Versions Below are links to threads that contain useful information from previous versions of FM, again you may need to modify some of the information in the older threads but the information in them should give you a starting place, though I haven't had chance to check them for FM21 so some of the information may no longer apply. For the moment you'll want to check out the links to the older Knowledge Base/Bible threads from the below link: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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