[FM24] Light Skin Issues

[Alexpuk2002]

Every year I edit my own personal skin which I don't release as it is a mixture of panels taken from other skins and edited to my own standards. The skin I use is a light skin and every year there are usually a lot of areas that need editing which is mainly changing the colour of the text from white to something more readable.

I have created this thread so I can put up any screenshots of areas where I come up against these issues and cannot figure out myself how to fix them. Below are the issues I have come across so far.

1. How to change the text in the red box from white to "text" colour.

2. How to change the text of the player from white to "text" colour.

3. What controls the graphic for the box below that is in the red box. I would like to use a different graphic.

4. Which file controls the players name on this screen. I would like to change this from white.

[GIMN]

12 minutes ago, Alexpuk2002 said:

I migh be wrong, but I think it is this line in human/recruitment focus widget:

<widget class="info_icon_hint_text" id="fcNM" height="20" size="xlarge" colour="text" widget_type="recruitment_focus_widget_tooltip" />

 

14 minutes ago, Alexpuk2002 said:

I think that is team/squad planner panel:

<!--general props for birds eyev view pitch columns-->
<list id="bipV">
  <record id="plyR" auto_hide_priority="1" colour="faded text" alignment="centre" width="25" />
  <record id="Pers" auto_hide_priority="10" colour="text">
    <boolean id="person_is_player" value="true" />
    <integer id="minimum_width" value="50" />
    <boolean id="info_popup_enabled" value="false" />
  </record>
  <record id="Remp" width="10" auto_hide_priority="0" sort_disabled="true" alignment="centre" />
  <!-- Hide/Remove -->
</list>

No idea on 3.

14 minutes ago, Alexpuk2002 said:

Again, not sure, but I found that these were often one of the widgets/player picture name...blah blah blah... files.  To the extent I just added colour="text" to basically any of them that had a person_button.  There were also ones that I could never find.  So it might not be that at all 

I will also temper this with I haven't looked at light mode on FM24 yet, so some of the above might've changed since last year.

[Alexpuk2002]

Thanks for those suggestions @GIMN. I have made the changes and the squad planner issue is now fixed. I'll wait until the recruitment focus screen is next back up to see if that issue is fixed. For the news items with the player name I'll have a look at what you suggested and see if that resolves the issue.

I'm sure there will be more things that crop up when I get to them but thanks for your help with these.

[Alexpuk2002]

Don't think this is a light skin specific issue, but I have found that when I use attribute boxes for player attributes, any value from 16 - 20 appears black, while all other values below 16 are white. I have set the font colour to white in the xml, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. This has only happened on FM24 and was never an issue in FM23 or previous versions.

[Alexpuk2002]

Which panel controls this screen? I would like to change the colour of the purple areas.

[snowofman]

6 minutes ago, Alexpuk2002 said:

Which panel controls this screen? I would like to change the colour of the purple areas.

top part - top players and talents panel

bottom - top player news panel

[Alexpuk2002]

27 minutes ago, snowofman said:

top part - top players and talents panel

bottom - top player news panel

Thanks @snowofman that has solved the issue

[snowofman]

Just now, Alexpuk2002 said:

Thanks @snowofman that has solved the issue

you're welcome

[djmc.smeets]

On 23/11/2023 at 14:59, Alexpuk2002 said:

Every year I edit my own personal skin which I don't release as it is a mixture of panels taken from other skins and edited to my own standards. The skin I use is a light skin and every year there are usually a lot of areas that need editing which is mainly changing the colour of the text from white to something more readable.

I have created this thread so I can put up any screenshots of areas where I come up against these issues and cannot figure out myself how to fix them. Below are the issues I have come across so far.

1. How to change the text in the red box from white to "text" colour.

2. How to change the text of the player from white to "text" colour.

3. What controls the graphic for the box below that is in the red box. I would like to use a different graphic.

4. Which file controls the players name on this screen. I would like to change this from white.

where can i download this skin?

 

[snowofman]

5 minutes ago, djmc.smeets said:

where can i download this skin?

 

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I don't release as it is a mixture of panels taken from other skins and edited to my own standards

from the 1st page

[Alexpuk2002]

I am struggling to edit the following screen which shows the list of players from the training week in review. I have found the xml file that controls this which seems to be widgets/club training performers list autosize widget.xml and located the following code in this file.

<!-- Other players -->
			<widget class="table" id="ptbl" mode="fill_rows, stripe_rows, hide_headings" layout="-1, 50" auto_size="vertical" colour="text"/>
		</container>

I have added the colour="text" but this doesn't seem to change the text of the players from white to black. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong and how to solve this?

[snowofman]

8 minutes ago, Alexpuk2002 said:

I am struggling to edit the following screen which shows the list of players from the training week in review. I have found the xml file that controls this which seems to be widgets/club training performers list autosize widget.xml and located the following code in this file.

<!-- Other players -->
			<widget class="table" id="ptbl" mode="fill_rows, stripe_rows, hide_headings" layout="-1, 50" auto_size="vertical" colour="text"/>
		</container>

I have added the colour="text" but this doesn't seem to change the text of the players from white to black. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong and how to solve this?

just a few guesses.

try with a normal colour="black"

or red_replacement="black"

Edit: i have no idea if a integer might work in that situation

<integer id="colour" value="black"/>

just another guess

[Alexpuk2002]

13 minutes ago, snowofman said:

just a few guesses.

try with a normal colour="black"

or red_replacement="black"

 

None of those seem to work unfortunately 

[Olas Nick]

1 hour ago, Alexpuk2002 said:

None of those seem to work unfortunately 

why "table"?  the color of table elements has never been set like this.  you need to use <list id="column_widget_properties"> and set the color inside the list

[Alexpuk2002]

13 minutes ago, Olas Nick said:

why "table"?  the color of table elements has never been set like this.  you need to use <list id="column_widget_properties"> and set the color inside the list

I'm not sure why it was set like this. I just got the xml file from the default FM panels after extracting them using the Resource Archiver

Managed to sort it though with the suggestion you made 

Edited December 3, 2023 by Alexpuk2002
Fixed Issue

[snowofman]

8 hours ago, Alexpuk2002 said:

I'm not sure why it was set like this. I just got the xml file from the default FM panels after extracting them using the Resource Archiver

Managed to sort it though with the suggestion you made 

Do you mind showing how the code looks now, just for future ref to myself. thanks

[Alexpuk2002]

8 hours ago, snowofman said:

Do you mind showing how the code looks now, just for future ref to myself. thanks

Yes, no problem. The code now looks like this.

<!-- Other players -->
			<widget class="table" id="ptbl" mode="fill_rows, stripe_rows, hide_headings" layout="-1, 50" auto_size="vertical">
			<list id="column_widget_properties">
					<record indx="0" colour="black" secondary_icon_colour="black" />
				</list> 
			</widget>

 

[snowofman]

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Every year I edit my own personal skin which I don't release

Just a little reminder as it might be overlooked.

[Alexpuk2002]

Does anyone know which panel controls this screen? I'd like to change the text from white to black that is in the red box.

[Alexpuk2002]

I have edited most of the manager timeline screen to how I want it to look. I can't seem to find which file controls the bottom section that shows the team names that you have previously managed. I would like to change the text colour of the clubs from white to black, which is shown below.

[GIMN]

13 minutes ago, Alexpuk2002 said:

I have edited most of the manager timeline screen to how I want it to look. I can't seem to find which file controls the bottom section that shows the team names that you have previously managed. I would like to change the text colour of the clubs from white to black, which is shown below.

I know this doesn't help, but I remember when I tried last year I couldn't find the answer, and settled on changing the background darkness instead 

[Alexpuk2002]

5 minutes ago, GIMN said:

I know this doesn't help, but I remember when I tried last year I couldn't find the answer, and settled on changing the background darkness instead 

It probably can't be edited if you didn't manage to find a fix for it

[Alexpuk2002]

I have been struggling to edit this screen (seems like a lot of the issues with white text are in the inbox news items) to change the colour of the players on this screen. I have narrowed it down to the inbox content with top youth academies panel.xml and think the code that controls it is below.

<translation id="text" translation_id="538865" type="use" value="Star Graduate[COMMENT: AREA: dev centre; SUB-AREA: youth intake; NOTE: highlights the star player in the intake group]" />
				</record>
			</list>
			
			<list id="column_widget_properties">
				<record index="0" alignment="centre" />
				<record index="1" alignment="left,centre_y" />
				<record index="2" alignment="left,centre_y" multiline="true" />
				<record index="3" alignment="left,centre_y" />
				<record index="4" alignment="centre_x,centre_y" />
			</list>

			<list id="column_table_properties">
				<record index="0" id="Rank" />
				<record index="1" id="club" sort_disabled="true" />
				<record index="2" id="divi" sort_disabled="true" />
				<record index="3" id="StGr" sort_disabled="true" />
				<record index="4" sort_disabled="true" id="Chan" />
			</list>
		</widget>

	</container>

I have tried adding colour="black" to the various <record index> sections but it doesn't seem to change the colour of the text.

[GIMN]

42 minutes ago, Alexpuk2002 said:

I have been struggling to edit this screen (seems like a lot of the issues with white text are in the inbox news items) to change the colour of the players on this screen. I have narrowed it down to the inbox content with top youth academies panel.xml and think the code that controls it is below.

<translation id="text" translation_id="538865" type="use" value="Star Graduate[COMMENT: AREA: dev centre; SUB-AREA: youth intake; NOTE: highlights the star player in the intake group]" />
				</record>
			</list>
			
			<list id="column_widget_properties">
				<record index="0" alignment="centre" />
				<record index="1" alignment="left,centre_y" />
				<record index="2" alignment="left,centre_y" multiline="true" />
				<record index="3" alignment="left,centre_y" />
				<record index="4" alignment="centre_x,centre_y" />
			</list>

			<list id="column_table_properties">
				<record index="0" id="Rank" />
				<record index="1" id="club" sort_disabled="true" />
				<record index="2" id="divi" sort_disabled="true" />
				<record index="3" id="StGr" sort_disabled="true" />
				<record index="4" sort_disabled="true" id="Chan" />
			</list>
		</widget>

	</container>

I have tried adding colour="black" to the various <record index> sections but it doesn't seem to change the colour of the text.

That looks to me like it would be one of the never ending selection of player/person picture and something widgets.

[Alexpuk2002]

8 minutes ago, GIMN said:

That looks to me like it would be one of the never ending selection of player/person picture and something widgets.

They don't make it easy to find and edit these panels

[TCSSkin]

4 minutes ago, Alexpuk2002 said:

They don't make it easy to find and edit these panels

They don't. I've bought up the difficulty of making light skins and the popularity of them in a meeting with SI reps, so fingers crossed for 25.

[Alexpuk2002]

31 minutes ago, TCSSkin said:

They don't. I've bought up the difficulty of making light skins and the popularity of them in a meeting with SI reps, so fingers crossed for 25.

Hopefully they will include a light skin for FM25. I have got it working pretty well but there are a few areas that still have white text on lighter backgrounds. Can cope with these but I'll keep posting the ones I struggle to fix to see if anyone knows how to fix there. I'm sure some of the panels will probably be hardcoded and can't be edited.

[Olas Nick]

On 26/11/2023 at 12:24, Alexpuk2002 said:

Don't think this is a light skin specific issue, but I have found that when I use attribute boxes for player attributes, any value from 16 - 20 appears black, while all other values below 16 are white. I have set the font colour to white in the xml, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. This has only happened on FM24 and was never an issue in FM23 or previous versions.

I overcame this idiotic bug by replacing the font type.  just changed font="label" to custom font="custom_white_text"

 

[Olas Nick]

15 hours ago, TCSSkin said:

They don't. I've bought up the difficulty of making light skins and the popularity of them in a meeting with SI reps, so fingers crossed for 25.

i think it won't happen.  to return the light skin, you need to rewrite the entire default skin from scratch.  a large number of people worked on the default skin for many years.  many of them did not know the basic classes very well and came up with something of their own parallel to the already existing one.  this led to the presence of many elements that do not respond to skinning. in many places absolute color values are used, a classic example is color="white" instead of color="text".  the most recent  bug example is black attributes > 15 if skin used attributes in a color boxes

[TCSSkin]

2 hours ago, Olas Nick said:

i think it won't happen.  to return the light skin, you need to rewrite the entire default skin from scratch.  a large number of people worked on the default skin for many years.  many of them did not know the basic classes very well and came up with something of their own parallel to the already existing one.  this led to the presence of many elements that do not respond to skinning. in many places absolute color values are used, a classic example is color="white" instead of color="text".  the most recent  bug example is black attributes > 15 if skin used attributes in a color boxes

For sure, however they have access to many tools we do not, as well as classes such as person_button that we don't, so it'd be less work for them than us. That being said, I agree, its unlikely but we can hope

[Alexpuk2002]

I usually skip past the recruitment meeting screens when playing the game but thought I would attempt to edit the white text that appears on these screens. Does anyone know which file controls this screen and the white text in the highlighted red boxes?

 

[Alexpuk2002]

I have managed to edit the cup draw (FA Cup at least) screen to how I want. I am struggling to find where to edit the Live Updates box and text that appears at the top of the screen. I have taken a screenshot below of what I mean as I would like to change the colour of the box from purple and ideally the text too. I think it is the competition/competition cup draw draw panel.xml but I can't seem to change the text or the box colour.

[kroshot]

how do i take the boxes away from the attributes from the player profiles.thanks

[S.J]

I've never wanted a skin so bad and it's not available for download   its beautiful 

@Alexpuk2002

 

 

[snowofman]

1 hour ago, S.J said:

I've never wanted a skin so bad and it's not available for download   its beautiful 

@Alexpuk2002

 

 

have you checked this ?

 

[S.J]

10 hours ago, snowofman said:

have you checked this ?

 

Funny enough I was looking at this skin as I'd seen your post. Its nice but not the same level as @Alexpuk2002skin for me.