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Say that someone wanted to make their own kits, is there any sort of directory structure? How does the game know where to look for Russian Kits? I've tried graphics/kits/Russie, and I've tried sticking them in the graphics/kits directory, and it still can't find them?

The_Ultimate_Red_Devil

Installing Graphics, everything except Skins
Got to My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2008 and create the following folders:

1) Create a folder and call it “graphics”
2) Inside the folder called graphics, create four folders entitled “logos”, “kits”, “facepacks” and “backgrounds”.
3) After you’ve downloaded a graphic pack, extract it into the relevant folder (e.g: if its facepacks you’ve downloaded extract it to the facepacks folder)
4) Go into FM, load up your save game, go to preferences and click the ‘display and sound’ tab.
5) First off, the box “use skin cache” should be ticked, untick it now.
6) Secondly, the box “always reload skin on confirm” should be unticked, tick it.
7) Confirm your changes to the settings and wait for it to load, this could take a few minutes if you’re adding a lot of graphics.
8) Your new graphics should now be appearing, go back into the preferences screen and the display and sound tab, and undo what you just did, by ticking the ‘use skin cache’ box and unticking the ‘always reload skin on confirm’ box.

Installing FM2008 Skins
Installing FM2008 Skins is even easier than other graphics, Sports Interactive have very kindly created a ‘skins’ folder in ‘My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2008’ ready for you, so just extract a skin you’ve downloaded into that folder and then go to the ‘display and sound’ tab in preferences and use the drop down box to select which skin you wish to use.

Your graphics should now be working in Football Manager 2008. If you’ve got any problems or are still struggling please feel free to ask.