retired_gazbo1986

Just wondered, how easy would it be to make the skins on FM slightly modable? For example, a standard skin for every colour in the default palatte, with the option to import club badges already in the game into certain areas of the skin without the user messing with xml files?
Or would this take up too much disk space? Just a thought...

retired_2symonds

Can you explain what you mean a bit better as I'm not too sure what exactly you are on about.

retired_barrylebron

id guess he is talking about some sort of skin "template" to make a new one easily and more customised

retired_2symonds

You can make your own skin templates to be honest

borat123

I read that as 'Feck off. I can't be arsed!'

Norfolk_boy

I have often thought that it wouldn't be too difficult to produce skins that a user could change the colour of without much hasstle.

If a few custom colours were defined in the main colours.xml file (like one for the header, one for the tree, one for the footer etc) you could then reference to these to recolour graphic items within other files - Just like when the colour changing parts of skins reference 'bkcl'.

The user would then just need to change the RGB values in colours.xml like they would changing text colours and they could change entire panel colours.

Perhaps SI could implement that somehow in the future.

borat123

Do me a favour please and just use RGB colours! There are already enough inconsistencies in the XML!

retired_2symonds

It would definitely be 'easy' to do, but the problem lies with the code to recolour the graphics.

It's likely that this would cause a noticeable slowdown when browsing between screens as all the graphics would have to be recoloured every time the screen changes.

It's something I would definitely like to try out though in future but it's not something we're looking in to doing for FM 2006 at this time.

Norfolk_boy

It would definitely be 'easy' to do, but the problem lies with the code to recolour the graphics.

It's likely that this would cause a noticeable slowdown when browsing between screens as all the graphics would have to be recoloured every time the screen changes.

It's something I would definitely like to try out though in future but it's not something we're looking in to doing for FM 2006 at this time. </BLOCKQUOTE>

With my wraparound skin essentially the same thing happens with the panels being recoloured on each new screen. The whole header/tree/footer sections change with the team colour. I can't say I have noticed any slowdown between screens at all and I've not had feedback from anyone saying that is does have problems in this area.

Would there be a difference in speed/resources recolouring using a set colour defined in the colours.xml file compared to using the background and foreground colour variables, which seems to work fine?

retired_ss2miraitrunks

Well, if I read that suggestion correctly then creating a set of color defines would serve to improve consistency. It's like using a #define in code, rather than having a series of values that are all the same. If it's a #define then changing one place changes them all.