Football Manager Touch 2018 Base Skins
Football Manager Touch 2018 Base Skins
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NOTE: If you are using the Full Mode of Football Manager 2018 then please see this page as I have separated them again this year.
As with most recent Football Managers for you to make certain changes in Football Manager Touch 2018 you need to create a new skin.
So to make things easier for people I've put up some base skins that are identical to the default skins that come with the game, so you can add new files/graphics to these without messing up the original skins, and anything that isn't located in these new skin folders will be taken from the default locations within the game.
For Football Manager Touch 2018 you have six skins to choose from a Light one, Dark one and Retro one as well as Touchscreen versions of all three.
Base2018 Touch - Default Skin - This is the Base Skin for the FMT (Touch) Mode and is identical in appearance to the Football Manager Touch Skin.
Base2018 Touch - Dark Skin - This is the Dark Base Skin for the FMT (Touch) Mode and is identical in appearance to the Football Manager Touch - Dark Skin.
Base2018 Touch - Retro Skin - This is the Retro Base Skin for the FMT (Touch) Mode and is identical in appearance to the Football Manager Touch - Retro Skin.
Base2018 Touch - Touchscreen Default Skin - This is the Base Skin for the FMT (Touch) Mode and is identical in appearance to the Football Manager Touch - Touchscreen Skin.
Base2018 Touch - Touchscreen Dark Skin - This is the Dark Base Skin for the FMT (Touch) Mode and is identical in appearance to the Football Manager Touch - Touchscreen Dark Skin.
Base2018 Touch - Touchscreen Retro Skin - This is the Retro Base Skin for the FMT (Touch) Mode and is identical in appearance to the Football Manager Touch - Touchscreen Retro Skin.
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Install Instructions:
Install Instructions:
When you extract the file you have downloaded you should have one folder (with a name starting base17touch...) and a readme.txt file.
Now copy the folder into your skins folder within your User Data Location, by default this is:
For Windows:
C:\Users\[Your Windows Username]\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager Touch 2018\
For Mac:
/Users/[Your Mac Username]/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager Touch 2018/
For Linux:
/home/documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager Touch 2018/
If done right your skins folder should look something like this:
And inside for example the base18_touch folder you should have the following folders:
When you load the game up if the skin cache is off any skins in the skins folder should appear in the skins menu like the below image:
If the skin cache is on you'll need to turn it off, exit the Preferences menu and re-enter it and any new skins should appear, if not tick 'Always Reload Skin on Confirm' and change skins, click confirm and go back in and your skin should appear.
How To Stop the Blurring Effect when Processing
How To Stop the Blurring Effect when Processing
FM2016 introduced a new feature where when the main screen isn't the focus of the screen it blurs out, however if you don't like this effect it is simple enough to disable it, to do this simply browse to the following location within the Base Skin you are using:
\graphics\boxes\dialog\background
Inside will be a paper.xml file open that and locate this line:
<boolean id="blurred" value="true"/>
and change it to read:
<boolean id="blurred" value="false"/>
Then reload the skin and the background content should now be clearer.
To Edit the Fonts
To Edit the Fonts
The font settings are now controlled by the various files located inside the fonts folder. For the base skins I have included all the default font files to save you having to go look for them. To edit the fonts its just a case of changing the various variables declared in the xml files, whilst to change the actual font you copy the font you want to use to the font folder and then update the font names in the xml files to match your new font.
To Edit the Font Colours
To Edit the Font Colours
The colour settings for each skin are controlled by the settings.xml file located inside the settings folder.
For the base skins I have copied in the relevant coding for you to change the various colours used by the skin – you just need to open the settings.xml file and locate the relevant line for the colour setting you wish to change – the colour names and comments should explain what the majority of the colours control.
The colours are declared in RGB values, that range from 0-255 where Red=255 Green=255 Blue=255 is white and Red=0 Green=0 Blue=0 is black.
To locate the RGB value of a colour you want to use you can either use a image editing program to obtain the RGB Value of the colour or type rgb values into google and it will bring up several websites that list the RGB Values for various colours.
Note that whilst this file contains most of the text colour settings, some items are hardcoded, others are determined by the individual xml files and some others are set by the xml files in the fonts folder.
How to Recolour the Game Colours
How to Recolour the Game Colours
Since Football Manager 2015 the colours of the various graphics that make up the skin are now controlled by settings.xml file located inside the settings folder.
For the base skins I have copied in the relevant coding for you to change the various colours used by the skin – you just need to open the settings.xml file and locate the relevant line for the colour setting you wish to change – the colour names and comments should explain what the majority of the colours control.
For your changes to take affect
For your changes to take affect
If you have made any changes to the base skins (colours, fonts, graphics) to get your changes to show you’ll need to go into the Preferences -> Interface Menu and untick ‘Use caching to decrease page loading times’ if it is ticked and then tick ‘Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences’ then click confirm and your changes should be applied, if you have previousily ticked and unticked the required boxes a 'Reload Skin' button should appear in the bottom left corner, if this button appears you can click that if the Confirm Button is grayed out.
Redistribution Terms
Redistribution Terms
You are free to do what you want (apart from upload to Steam Workshop as I'll upload them) with these Base Skins provided:
1. It is not sold or behind a paywall.
2. You don't advertise it as being exclusive to your website.
3. My username and blog address are included: http://michaeltmurrayuk.blogspot.co.uk/
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