retired_ag3048

Hi guys,

I really want to make a skin, and what I've been doing is replacing the images in the graphics folder to play around with it. How do I make it so that I could put all my new graphics in a folder in the skins directory like all the other skins?

Thanks

Rob

retired_mminor

You should ask Ter as he's the Skin Man

retired_ag3048

Yeah but I'm sure someone else around here must know how to do it as well.

Norfolk_boy

You need to create your own skin folder (I presume that's what you want).

Easiest way to do this is to go to the '...data/skins/' directory of your FM installation (in program files). Copy the 'flexion' folder.

Now paste this in 'Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2007\skins' in your documents folder.

Now rename the newly pasted flexion folder to the skin name you want.

Open the folder, rename the flexion.xml to the same name as your skin folder name.

Now using notepad open the xml file and change the details for the skin name, author etc to what you want. This will show in the game.

All you need to do now is create a 'graphics' directory. Paste in any graphics you want to change from the main folder in the FM installation. Keep the directory structure etc.

retired_ag3048

Thanks a lot mate cheers.

retired_ag3048

One more question...

When skinning the footer, I want to colour over the bits which are changed depending on which team you are viewing. How can I stop it being recoloured over by the game or edit the bits which are recoloured?

Thanks a lot.

Rob

retired_vpoorni

If you want to stop things being recoloured for different teams, locate this line in the xml file:

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">&lt;attachment class="get_global_attachment" get_property="bkcl" set_property="colr"/&gt;</pre>

and delete it (or comment it out by adding &lt;!-- at the start of the line and --&gt; at the end). You'll also need to delete this rthr="68" bit of code aswell from the line that calls the graphic, should normaly be in the &lt;widget class=... line.

Then just replace the graphic files with what you want and they should keep your colour.

(If you want to recolour other bits with team colours, just add in the top line, and the rthr="68" bit.)

retired_ag3048

Perfect thanks a lot.