athena

I am trying to add a skin to fm08 and have followed the instructions in the 1st issue of the fm fanzine but it has left me stumped. When i went to the sound and display preferences page, the only available skins were the fm08 and fm08 right default skins. What have i done wrong? Sorry for being so stupid.

Kimmi201

Right, First of all, Have you unzipped the RAR file at all?

athena

Well, i installed winrar and did something but it didn't work

Kimmi201

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ab328:
Well, i installed winrar and did something but it didn't work[/QUOThe file you downloaded, Go to it and right click that file.

Once you have done that, Click Extract Files. Then a small box should open up, Then just pick desktop and click ok.

On your desktop, you should see a folder or two which should be called the name of the skin you downloaded.

Drag those folders into the skins folder in:

My Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2008/Skins

If a folder named skin is not there, make one but it should be there.

Then once you have done that, Just load up your game, Go to Options, Then Preferneces Then Display & Sound.

Untick Use Skin Cache and Tick Always Reload Skin.

Then Use the drag down box, Look for the name of the skin you installed.

Then click Confirm at the bottom right of your screen.

athena

Thanks a lot for your help. for facepacks etc... do i just do the same? (apart from putting it in the skins folder)

retired_jefferong

yes you do, but you put them in the "graphics" folder. if there isn't one - create it in the "football manager 2008" folder that the "skins" folder is in.