Football Manager 2017 Patch 17.3.1 - How To Add a Manager Picture

Football Manager 2017 (and Football Manager Touch 2017) has made some changes to how the manager picture works, with one of the new features being the ability to turn a photo into a facegen image used by the regens in the game, unfortunately it seems the adding of this feature removed the ability for you to assign a image to your manager via a config file like you do with players, SI for some reason also removed the option to add a manager picture from the preferences menu.

Whilst pre-patch 17.3.1 it was possible to use some coding from FM16 to get the picture back this workaround was disabled in that patch, however thanks to some work from Cyrius50 at www.manager-online.fr it is now possible to add a Manager Picture when adding your Manager to the game, however at the moment it isn't possible to apply the picture to existing profiles nor to change the image, and it may be disabled again if the game gets any more patches.

Football Manager 2017 - How To Add a Manager Picture

Football Manager 2017 (and Football Manager Touch 2017) has made some changes to how the manager picture works, with one of the new features being the ability to turn a photo into a facegen image used by the regens in the game, unfortunately it seems the adding of this feature removed the ability for you to assign a image to your manager via a config file like you do with players, SI for some reason also removed the option to add a manager picture from the preferences menu.

Thankfully it is actually possible to add back the manger picture option to the preferences menu which allows you to assign an image to your manager like in the past, and this is a fairly simple change that just involves copying over one of the xml files from Football Manager 2016.

Football Manager Touch 2017 - Scoreboard Logos Mod

This is a simple mod that restores the club logos to the Scoreboard on the Match Pitch view in Football Manager Touch 2017, aswell as adding a Competition logo.

IF YOU ARE USING THE FUL MODE THEN YOU WANT THIS PAGE

That is designed to work on skins based on the Default FMT17 skins, for skins that have a different match scoreboard from the default you'll need to modify the files yourself. (full instructions are provided at the below link)

Note if the Skin you are using already has a 'match title bar score.xml' file you'll need to follow the advanced instructions further down the linked page to create the mod on your own as overwriting your skins custom scoreboard may cause problems.

FMT17 SCOREBOARD LOGOS MODOWNLOAD PAGE

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Football Manager Touch 2017 Base Skins Released

Please note that these skins will only work with Football Manager Touch 2017 mode skins, full mode Base Skins can be found in the post further down the page.

As with recent Football Managers to make certain changes in Football Manager Touch  2017 you are required to add files to the skin folders, whilst this isn't a problem for fan-made skins it is a slight problem if you are using the Default Skins included with the game. So to help people out I have again made some Base Skins for FMT2017 that allow you to add and modify the default skins without breaking your game.

Full instructions on when and how to use the Base Skins can be found on the download page, please ensure you read the page in detail before downloading the Base Skins as it will save you problems in the future.  

Base Skins for Football Manager Touch 2017 Download Page

Currently there are six versions of the Base Skin - one based on the Light Skin, one based on the Dark Skin, one based on the Retro Skin and then a Touchscreen version of each of them.

If you have any further questions on the Base Skins please ask any questions in the Skinning Hideout on the Official SIGames Forums.