leedsforever Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Ok I want to edit the skin a little bit but I don't want a new one, just the default. I am using the 'blank2009' skin and I have used a few files to edit it. I've used this in the 'team squad.xml' file: <flags id="Ppkd"/> <!-- picked info --> <flags id="Pnfo"/> <!-- player status/info --> <flags id="Pnam"/> <!-- person name --> <flags id="Page"/> <!-- person age --> <flags id="Ppos"/> <!-- position --> <flags id="Pmor"/> <!-- player morale --> <flags id="Pcon"/> <!-- player condition --> <flags id="Poap"/> <!-- overall appearances --> <flags id="Pogl"/> <!-- overall goals --> <flags id="Poas"/> <!-- overall assists --> <flags id="Poav"/> <!-- overall average rating --> <flags id="Pomo"/> <!-- overall man of match --> Which has worked out fine. I have also removed the lines '<record id="Pfrm" auto_hide_priority="1100"/> <!-- player form -->' from the 'tactic person list.xml' file which has also worked out fine. However, I am having problems changing the player attribute colouring which is very simple and I have done before. I have changed the player attribute colours (in fm colours.xml) to the following: <!-- profile attribute colours --> <colour name="low attribute" red="102" green="153" blue="204"/> <colour name="normal attribute" red="34" green="139" blue="34" /> <colour name="good attribute" red="255" green="153" blue="0" /> <colour name="excellent attribute" red="255" green="0" blue="0" /> <colour name="special attribute" red="252" green="255" blue="0" /> <colour name="attribute label" red="255" green="255" blue="255" /> (I don't want this white but that was how it came) <colour name="special attribute label" red="250" green="252" blue="112" /> <colour name="profile extra text" red="150" green="200" blue="255" /> This also worked out fine but changed fonts in other places. For example, see the following screen shot: As you can see, the name for the individual attributes is white, the text under the 'Other' column in the bottom right is yellow and the 'On loan from...' text is in light blue instead of dark blue. I don't want the attribute label to be white, the text under the Other coloum to be yellow or the 'On loan from...' to be light blue. I just want to change the specific attribute colours I placed the following into the 'config.xml' files in the skins folder (of the main football manager data folder - not the blank2009 skins folder): http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?p=2066232#post2066232 This just erased any changes I made so the colour attributes were as they were originally not the blue, green, orange, red that I wanted. What can I do? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medicineman Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 where did you find the original skin to extract with the resource archiver? i cant seem to find it anywhere.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leedsforever Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2009\data\skins.fmf or C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2009\data\updates\update-920\data\skins.fmf or http://cid-dd1af87215b768fb.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Skins/FM2009/baseskins09.zip Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medicineman Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 i tried both of the c:\.. adresses and all i have in the football manager2009 is a text document and a dll file, but no matter, iv followed the link and downloaded the blank ones - thanks a lot mate Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leedsforever Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 No problem. I don't suppose you can help me then...? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leedsforever Posted January 11, 2009 Author Share Posted January 11, 2009 Wow... 38 views and nobody can help? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medicineman Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 No sorry mate, I'm an amateur when it comes to editing skins etc, hope you manage to figure it out Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeltmurrayuk Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Have you made sure you also extracted the config file included with the download into the skins folder as that stops this from happening? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSGTroyer Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Your line for "attribute label" defines white ... 255,255,255. Pick a different color. Unless that's what you wanted, and I misread your post. Seems you might want to rtemove your color choices from config.xml and put them into fm_colours.xml in the .../skins/<skinname>/settings folder. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leedsforever Posted January 12, 2009 Author Share Posted January 12, 2009 Yes that was the attribute label that was already specified. Can someone give me the default colour that is used please? I worded my original post wrong. michaeltmurrayuk I am using both the standard config files and no, it hasn't stopped it from happening. By 'I placed the following into the 'config.xml' files in the skins folder (of the main football manager data folder - not the blank2009 skins folder). This just erased any changes I made so the colour attributes were as they were originally not the blue, green, orange, red that I wanted. What can I do?' I meant I have used the config.xml file from http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?p=2066232#post2066232 and that reset the colours to the default ones which I didn't want as it reset the player colour attributes too. (the specific colours blue, green, orange, red and the attribute label) I want the attribute label etc to be the default colour but I want the blue, green, orange and red attribute colouring. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leedsforever Posted January 12, 2009 Author Share Posted January 12, 2009 Sorry to double post but... SSGTroyer, the attribute colours were in the fm colours.xml not the config.xml, sorry for mixing that up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leedsforever Posted January 12, 2009 Author Share Posted January 12, 2009 Triple post... Sorry I know. But... Try reading over the first post again as I've tried to clarify what I have done, and what I want to achieve. Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeltmurrayuk Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Ok whatever you placed into the main data folder delete it. I take it you downloaded the blank base skins from the sticked thread - and have the blank09 and config.xml files in your skins folder. (If you made any changes to the config.xml file delete it and redownload the skin and copy the org config.xml file into the skins folder). To get the colours to what you want you need to edit the 'fm colours.xml' file from the settings folder. There are two ways we can fix this - if you know what bits of the fm colours file you edited we can change them back, if you don't know (or that doesn't work) you can delete the fm colours.xml file and redownload the blank09 skin and copy over the unedited file and start again with the colours. To get the white and yellow text back to normal copy this into the fm colours.xml file inplace of those four lines already in the file: <colour name="special attribute" red="0" green="71" blue="168" /> <colour name="attribute label" red="40" green="40" blue="40" /> <colour name="special attribute label" red="40" green="40" blue="40" /> <colour name="profile extra text" red="40" green="40" blue="200" /> To reset the loan colour you'll need to scroll down to this line: <!-- player colours --> <colour name="loan in" red="40" green="40" blue="160"/> <!-- on loan from other club --> And change the RGB values to match what I've pasted in above. That should hopefully reset the colours (white, yellow and loan) without touching your attribute colours (green, orange, red) If none of that works backup the 'team squad.xml' and 'tactic person list.xml' files, delete the skin redownload it and start again. Copy back the 'team squad.xml' and 'tactic person list.xml' files and then edit the fm colours.xml file, the only bits you need to edit to change the attribute colours are the first four lines (low, normal, good and excellent lines), edit the four lines as below to get your colours back without changing the other colours. <!-- profile attribute colours --> <colour name="low attribute" red="102" green="153" blue="204"/> <colour name="normal attribute" red="34" green="139" blue="34" /> <colour name="good attribute" red="255" green="153" blue="0" /> <colour name="excellent attribute" red="255" green="0" blue="0" /> Hopefully that should fix it for you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leedsforever Posted January 12, 2009 Author Share Posted January 12, 2009 I'm just checking it now, thanks a lot for your help. I don't know why the colours were messed up like that in the first place as I'm sure I just used the default ones in the blank2009 folder but perhaps not. The "loan in" colour was already set to 40/40/160 so I'm not sure if it will be corrected. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leedsforever Posted January 12, 2009 Author Share Posted January 12, 2009 It's all working fine now, thanks a lot. Whats the point in being a mod if we can't test you once in a while? I'm just keeping you on your toes! Thanks again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sampa Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 Can we do the same with existing downloaded skins? Cause I use the iTunes one but want to change the attribute colours... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
krashd Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 I would assume so, yes, even downloaded skins will still rely on the same format. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leedsforever Posted January 17, 2009 Author Share Posted January 17, 2009 Yes you can Sampa. Let me know what attribute changes you want and I'll post up the new .xml file for you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sampa Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 Oh well what I was wanting was similar colours to the traffic light colours that you get when playing a player in different positions. I wanted to do the light green for excellent, dark for good, orange for normal and red for poor. But tone down the two greens sort of thing cause light is hard to read and i wanted the greens to be distinguishable. If you could do that then I'd appreciate it a lot! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leedsforever Posted January 17, 2009 Author Share Posted January 17, 2009 <!-- profile attribute colours --> <colour name="low attribute" red="255" green="0" blue="0"/> <colour name="normal attribute" red="255" green="153" blue="0" /> <colour name="good attribute" red="0" green="200" blue="0" /> <colour name="excellent attribute" red="0" green="255" blue="0" /> Paste that in the 'settings.xml' file in the settings folder (overwriting the current profile attribute colours that are there). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leedsforever Posted January 17, 2009 Author Share Posted January 17, 2009 Oh sorry, I didn't read the last bit about toning the greens down. Just lower the number of "green" in the attribute colours. For example, make "excellent" have a green of "200" and "good" have a green of "145" and see how that works. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sampa Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 Brilliant, thanks very much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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