[FM18] Recolour titlebar icons

[steveyisatard]

Found how to do some, but others such as the help button are proving hard to find the correct xml files.

Can anyone advise please?

[michaeltmurrayuk]

The stuff on the top line (arrows, quick flicks, team name, World, FM, Continue) should all be linked in the titlebar xml file found in the panels/generic folder (you might need to grab it from the skins\fm folder if not present for your skin) the stuff should either be directly declared or the file will point you towards the sub-file that controls the item.

For the stuff on the menubar that is normally controlled by the client object browser xml file found in the panels/client_object folder (again you might need to grab it from the skins\fm folder).

The help button is controlled by the various help icon button... xml files located in the panels/generic folder.

 

The easiest way to find some of the more obscure files is to find the xml file that controls the screen the item appears on and looking through that file you should hopefully find the code that calls the item you are after (once you've spent long enough skinning you should have an idea of what code you want when your see it even if you don't actually know what most of the code actually does) most of it will either be declared in the file or will include a file line that points you to the exact location, for other stuff the game should at least give you a widget type to point you in the correct location, then a search of the extracted files should hopefully pick it up - for example the help icon is declared in the client object file but just as a 'help_icon_button' class widget, in that case just use your OS search function to search the extracted files for any files called help and then hope that one of the files found has the same name as the file you are looking for and then just follow it to it's location.