Welcome to my Football Manager Blog, the main purpose of this blog is to provide updates on the status of my Football Manager Skins & Guides Website
If you have any questions or queries then I can generally be found in the Skinning Forum at the Official Sports Interactive Forums, though I'd ask you to open a new thread rather than sending me a message.
To help with navigation I have included indexes of my content for the last few versions of Football Manager in the tabs below.
Tuesday, 22 December 2020
Football Manager 2021 Match Screens Mod
Football Manager 2021 Base Skins Updated for Patch 21.2
All Football Manager 2021 Base Skins Including Touch Versions have been updated for Patch 21.2.
All Base Skins:
- client object browser xml file updated.
- couple of colour changes.
Base21 Skin;
- Included Player Attribute Panel Fixes from Dark Skin - Attribute, Scrollbar, Analyzer cut off, increased Player Face size, re-enabled Report option in the Small Selector Panel.
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Football Manager 2021 Touch Base Skins
As with most recent Football Managers for you to make certain changes in Football Manager 2021 Touch you need to create a new skin. Thankfully over the last few years some more stuff has been moved out of the skins folder so you only really need the Base skin if you are wanting to edit the skin graphics, fonts or colours. If you want to edit the match graphics or the most of the panel xml files you no longer really need the base skins.
So to make things easier for people I've put up some base skins that
are identical to the default skins that come with the game, so you can
add new files/graphics to these without messing up the original skins,
and anything that isn't located in these new skin folders will be taken
from the default locations within the game.
For Football Manager 2021 Touch you have three skins to choose
from the
Default (Purple) Skin, and two Dark Skins one based on the FM21
colouring (Purple accents) and one based on the FM20 colouring (Cyan
and Yellow accents).
Tuesday, 1 December 2020
Football Manager 2021 Dark Base Skins Updated
Both the FM21 Base Dark Skin and FM21 Base Dark (FM20) Skins have been updated.
Default FM21 Base Skin hasn't been updated, and a Light Version is still in progress.
Fixes include:
Colour Tweaks
- Fixed issue with bright yellow background colour, changed to Purple from Main Dark Skin (bg tertiary colour).
- Tweaked the media tag colours on the inbox screens, made lighter so more readable.
Player Attribute Panel Tweaks
- Removed unneeded scrollbar.
- Stopped bottom option being cut from Analyzer
- Increased player pic size.
- Added Report option to Small Selector Panel.
General
- I also had to change the folder names due to an issue with the Steam Workshop, though this shouldn't cause any issues apart from them not matching the screenshots
Tuesday, 24 November 2020
Football Manager 2021 Base Skins
Thursday, 12 November 2020
Football Manager 2021 - Pre-Release Beta Is Out
For those of you who have purchased a Digital Copy the Pre-Release Beta of Football Manager 2021 is now live on both Steam and Epic.
My Guides and Content will be slowly updated for FM2021, however at the moment we are unable to access the game files as the older versions of the Resource Tool won't open the FM21 fmf files so we are limited in what info we can access until the full release of the game so it won't be possible to update most guides and content until after the full release of the game.
In the mean time I'll be updating some back end stuff on my sites, so you may see my main site go down for a bit over the next years as Google keep on nagging me to switch over to their new sites platform so we'll see how that goes.
Saturday, 17 October 2020
Football Manager 2020 - Mint Skins Collection
Thanks to taking a break and due to the current downtime I have actually managed to just about get an actual proper skin released.
Thursday, 15 October 2020
Football Manager 2020 - Match Screen Mods
Welcome to my Match Screen Mods for Football Manager 2020, yes horribly late but hey better late than never.
Tuesday, 13 October 2020
Football Manager - Skin Installation Guide (FM20 Update)
This part of the guide will show you how to install skins correctly into Football Manager.
This version includes updates for Football Manager 2020, and information related to the Epic Game Store and Microsoft Store (GamePass PC) Versions of FM19 and FM20.
For Football Manager 2018 and older this guide applies to the Steam version.
For Football Manager 2019 it applies to both the Steam and Microsoft Store (GamePass PC) versions of the game.
For Football Manager 2020 it applies to the Steam, Microsoft Store (GamePass PC) and Epic Store versions of the game.
Regardless of whether it was a boxed copy, CD-key or direct purchase and the instructions are generally the same regardless of your OS, whether it is the Full Mode or Touch Version you are playing or the store you are using and any differences will be noted in the instructions.
It is also advisable to read any instructions on the download page for the content you are installing (or found in the readme that comes with the download) as they may contain any extra instructions that are specific to that file.
Football Manager - Graphics Installation Guide (FM20 update)
This version includes updates for Football Manager 2020, and information related to the Epic Game Store and Microsoft Store (GamePass PC) Versions of FM19 and FM20.
For Football Manager 2018 and older this guide applies to the Steam version.
For Football Manager 2019 it applies to both the Steam and Microsoft Store (GamePass PC) versions of the game.
For Football Manager 2020 it applies to the Steam, Microsoft Store (GamePass PC) and Epic Store versions of the game.
Regardless of whether it was a boxed copy, CD-key or direct purchase and the instructions are generally the same regardless of your OS, whether it is the Full Mode or Touch Version you are playing or the store you are using and any differences will be noted in the instructions.
It is also advisable to read any instructions on the download page for the content you are installing (or found in the readme that comes with the download) as they may contain any extra instructions that are specific to that file. This is especially important for multi-part mega-packs that may need to be extracted in a certain order.
Football Manager 2020 - How To Locate or Move Your User Data Location
Thankfully Football Manager 2020 has finally added the option to view or move your User Data Location back into the game, though the option is a bit hidden.
Quick Update
Sorry for the lack of Football Manager 2020 content, but yes I am still around but I just took a break for FM20 and I should be back up to speed and releasing content for Football Manager 2021 which is just over one month away.
However in the mean time I do have some FM2020 content that whilst a little late I am planning on releasing though it may act more as a preview of what I am likely to release for FM2021 (depending on how much changes skinning wise) than get much use for the current version (well apart from the people who don't update for each version).