retired_lorena1523

Hi, Not sure if this is the right forum but I was wondering if anyone knew how to change the text font in the various skins of FM06?

I took a guide from the forums at sortitoutsi.net but had trouble following it. Does anyone have an exhaustive set of steps for changing the font? Particularly I'm after changing the one on Turnstyle 06.

Many thanks

Kimmi201

what i do is just rename the font i want to use to the main font in whatever skin you are using.

So for instance, say your skin is using FM_Scoreboard, then all i do is find the font i want to use and rename it to FM_Scoreboard.

Just have a messa round with it and see what font you like best.

retired_lorena1523

do I need to be opening up the 'config.xml' files in the skins with dreamweaver to be able to do it, because when I just open them by double clicking there is only one or two lines of code there.

retired_vpoorni

The easiest method is to just rename the font you want to the name of the font used by the skin.
Though this doesn't work to well if your font is vastly different (font size may be too small/big).

An alternative method, is to leave your new font name as it is, copy it into the skins fonts folder, and open the file called SKIN_NAME.xml (for Turnstyle it'll be the file called turnstyle.xml located in \Football Manager 2006\data\skins\turnstyle ).

The bottom two-thirds of the file will be made up with this code:

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">&lt;!-- TOOLTIP PROPERTIES --&gt;&lt;flags id="hnfn" value="fonts/humanist 521 bd bt" comment="hint font"/&gt;&lt;integer id="hnst" value="0"/&gt;&lt;!-- Style --&gt;&lt;integer id="hnss" value="8"/&gt;&lt;!-- Font size --&gt;&lt;!-- TITLE PROPERTIES --&gt;&lt;flags id="tlfn" value="fonts/swiss 921 bt" comment=" title font "/&gt;&lt;integer id="tlss" value="18"/&gt;&lt;!-- Large font size --&gt;&lt;integer id="tlsn" value="13"/&gt;&lt;!-- Normal font size --&gt;&lt;integer id="tlsl" value="11"/&gt;&lt;!-- Small font size --&gt;&lt;!-- MENU PROPERTIES --&gt;&lt;flags id="mnfn" value="fonts/humanist 521 bd bt" comment=" popup menu font "/&gt;&lt;integer id="mnss" value="8"/&gt;&lt;!-- Small font size --&gt;&lt;integer id="mnsn" value="9"/&gt;&lt;!-- Normal font size --&gt;&lt;integer id="mnsl" value="10"/&gt;&lt;!-- Large font size --&gt;&lt;!-- BUTTON PROPERTIES --&gt;&lt;flags id="cnfn" value="fonts/humanist 521 bd bt" comment=" Button Font "/&gt;&lt;integer id="cnss" value="7"/&gt;&lt;!-- Small font size --&gt;&lt;integer id="cnsn" value="8"/&gt;&lt;!-- Normal font size --&gt;&lt;integer id="cnsl" value="9"/&gt;&lt;!-- Large font size --&gt;&lt;!-- TEXT PROPERTIES --&gt;&lt;flags id="txfn" value="fonts/humanist 521 bd bt" comment=" Text font "/&gt;&lt;integer id="txss" value="8" /&gt;&lt;!-- text size small --&gt;&lt;integer id="txsn" value="9" /&gt;&lt;!-- text size normal --&gt;&lt;integer id="txsl" value="10" /&gt;&lt;!-- text size large --&gt;&lt;integer id="txst" value="shadowed" /&gt;&lt;!-- HTML PROPERTIES --&gt;&lt;flags id="htmf" value="fonts/humanist 521 bd bt" comment=" HTML font "/&gt;</pre>

Each block of code corresponds to a different type of text in game (text font, title font etc...) to get the game to use your font adjust the the font name (humanist 521 bd bt and/or swiss 921 bt ) to the name of the font you want to use (keep the "fonts/ bit and the "). Depending on how different your font is you may need to adjust the font size. The comments and code on each line should make it clear what each line corresponds to.

After you have saved the xml file, you'll need to turn off the skin cache and restart FM/switch skins to get the new fonts.

retired_lorena1523

thanks, that makes things a lot clearer, will give it a go after work and report back tomorrow if I have any problems. Thanks again!

retired_jolenz

I have an additional question here.

Say the skin you have downloaded has a left and right version, but you onbly want the font applied to the right hand version. That config file isnt available in the right hand version. You can only edit the left hand versions config file to rename the font.

How can I change the font in the right hand version?

SDK

Norfolk_boy

copy the file over to the same place in the right hand version then make changes.

Though why you would want to only make changes to the right version i don't know.

Norfolk_boy

Actually scrub that, it wouldn't work. Copy and paste the code from the left hand config that does the font changes and add it to the right hand config file.