Renaming Skins...

[TheUsualSuspect9]

Im pretty new to skinning to please bare with me, basically i want to edit the default FM09 skin to make it exactly what i want it to be.

Basically i want to rename it, remove the little match engine on the tactics screen in games and change the colours of attributes.

Any help?

Thanks

[homerjnick]

You would have to use the Resource Archiver that comes with the game and extract the skins.fmf to your My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2009\skins folder (create it if need be).

Then from there you can modify this skin and change the XML so it is your skin and alter what you require.

[TheUsualSuspect9]

You would have to use the Resource Archiver that comes with the game and extract the skins.fmf to your My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2009\skins folder (create it if need be).

Then from there you can modify this skin and change the XML so it is your skin and alter what you require.

Ive extracted the skins.fmf to my documents, now how do i rename it?

[homerjnick]

Go into the fm2009 folder and you should see a fm09l.xml, open it up and you should see:

<properties version="1.0">

<!-- skin details -->

<string id="name" value="FM 2009[COMMENT: skin for FM 2008]"/> <!-- The name of the skin -->

<string id="author" value="Sports Interactive"/> <!-- The author name -->

<string id="description" value="Default Skin"/> <!-- Short description -->

<string id="version" value="1.0"/> <!-- The version number -->

<flags id="parent" value="fm2009-widgets"/>

<!--

Minimum game version this skin requires to be valid, and listed as an option in the list of skins .

This is used for two things:

- F irst of all you can force a sking to only be availble for a minimum minor release (ie patch), in other words

setting the required_version to 7.0.1 makes sure the skin won't be listed if the game is in version 7.0.0.

- Secondly, the first number ("major version") is used to decide which version the skin was designed for,

so if the version is "7.0.0" it won't be listed in the list of skins if the game version is "6.0.0." or "8.0.0",

even though 7 is less than 8.

-->

<string id="required_version" value="9.0.0" />

</properties>

Edit the lines:

<string id="name" value="FM 2009[COMMENT: skin for FM 2008]"/> <!-- The name of the skin -->

<string id="author" value="Sports Interactive"/> <!-- The author name -->

<string id="description" value="Default Skin"/> <!-- Short description -->

To whatever you want.

[radestock]

You should also rename the skin folder and man xml to something matching you new skin's name.

[TheUsualSuspect9]

ok..i have extracted the skins.fmf and the panel.fmf and changed the name of the skin, i have gone into the game but it is taking ages to load, is this normal?

[TheUsualSuspect9]

anyone help? my new skin that i have done is taking ages to load