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(has even more logos and some updated leagues)

Download them, use them, don’t post them on your site without my permission

You can stop reading this text now, just download them

Click to download: FMV 12 Logos (Demo Pack) (360)

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National Stadia

background megapack
version 1.02

an FM-View exclusive release

218 nations

503 stadiums

all at a 1600 x 900 wide sceen resolution

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You may be wondering why I did this, if anyone would actually want to download it?
Well, I decided to do it just to see if I could, do something a little different eh?
Fairly certain nobody else has done this before, or even considered it, or even wanted it

The pack contains two .rar files, one for a few small skin graphics to add to the effect, the other containing the actual 3d textures to change everything else

First thing you should do BEFORE DOWNLOADING, is to make a backup of the files that are replaced (mainly the pitches)
These are located in

C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2011\data\sigfx\meshes\pitch\textures_v3

Steam

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Football Manager 2011\data\sigfx\meshes\pitch\textures_v3

You may also wish to backup the ball or goalpost folders in sigfx\meshes, and the pitch lines in the sigfx\textures folder

Skin Addons Download

This pack contains:

• Default beach background
• Main menu background
• Main menu logo
• Small match ball graphics

Readme file included

Pitch Graphics Download

This pack contains:

• Sand beach textures
• 3d beach ball, and winter ball
• Crowd wearing Hawaiian shirts
• Beach themed shops
• Black goal nets (stand out better in the sand)

Place in

C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2011\data

Steam

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Football Manager 2011\data

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Contains logos from 52 leagues and 22 countries

Making FM config files by hand can sometimes be a bit confusing, so this guide is here to help

The easiest way to edit the config files is with Notepad, Notepad++ or any similar basic text editor

The start and end of the config file is always the same for all graphics, so it is best to copy and paste another config file and just delete the middle

For the file to work with Football Manager then it MUST be named config.xml, otherwise the game will not read the file and the graphics will not work, naming the graphic files however is a lot easier, you can name them almost anything, but special characters and accented letters like áéíóú will not work, the easiest naming method is just to use the unique id (or UID) to save time

The Start

If creating the config from scratch, then start with this, it is the same for all graphics so do not change it, after the <list id=”maps”> section you need to put the config for logos/facepacks/kits/backgrounds in, and then end with the end section

<record>

<!– resource manager options –>

<!– dont preload anything in this folder –>

<boolean id=”preload” value=”false”/>

<!– turn off auto mapping –>

<boolean id=”amap” value=”false”/>

<!– logo mappings –>

<!– the following XML maps pictures inside this folder into other positions

in the resource system, which allows this folder to be dropped into any

place in the graphics folder and still have the game pick up the graphics

files from the correct places

–>

<list id=”maps”>

Logos

There are five different types of logos you can use on FM, these are; normal, huge, small and background left/right

Below is an example line of code for each

<record from=”NAME” to=”graphics/pictures/club/UID/logo”/>

<record from=”NAME” to=”graphics/pictures/club/UID/huge”/>

<record from=”NAME” to=”graphics/pictures/club/UID/icon”/>

<record from=”NAME” to=”graphics/pictures/club/UID/background/left”/>

<record from=”NAME” to=”graphics/pictures/club/UID/background/right”/>

For these to work you simple have to change the name and UID to that of your logo

If the logos are for a competition rather than a club then the XML should instead be like this

<record from=”NAME” to=”graphics/pictures/comp/UID/logo”/>

<record from=”NAME” to=”graphics/pictures/comp/UID/huge”/>

<record from=”NAME” to=”graphics/pictures/comp/UID/icon”/>

<record from=”NAME” to=”graphics/pictures/comp/UID/background/left”/>

<record from=”NAME” to=”graphics/pictures/comp/UID/background/right”/>

Facepacks

Facepacks are far simpler and just have one config setting, example line below

<record from=”NAME” to=”graphics/pictures/person/UID/portrait”/>

Kits

There are two different types of kits, 2d and 3d, so both have different XML, they also have a section on the end for home/away/third. A good way to name kits would be UID_Home/Away/Third or _H/A/T

2d

<record from=”NAME” to=”graphics/pictures/team/UID/kits/home”/>

<record from=”NAME” to=”graphics/pictures/team/UID/kits/away”/>

<record from=”NAME” to=”graphics/pictures/team/UID/kits/third”/>

3d

<record from=”NAME” to=”graphics/pictures/team/UID/kit_textures/home”/>

<record from=”NAME” to=”graphics/pictures/team/UID/kit_textures/away”/>

<record from=”NAME” to=”graphics/pictures/team/UID/kit_textures/third”/>

Backgrounds

There are a few different types of XML for backgrounds, these are; team backgrounds, stadium/matchday backgrounds, competition backgrounds and player backgrounds

Example XML below

<record from=”NAME” to=”graphics/pictures/team/UID/background”/>

<record from=”NAME” to=”graphics/pictures/stadium/UID/background”/>

<record from=”NAME” to=”graphics/pictures/comp/UID/background”/>

<record from=”NAME” to=”graphics/pictures/person/UID/background”/>

The End

</list>

</record>

WOW!

That’s all I can say about this!

MinneapolisJon’s & kumquat have been working damn hard on this pack for a while and now we can tell you about it!

With over 600 teams, 30 leagues and 18 nations in here, this is probably the ultimate background pack for Europe!

List of leagues…

- Austria: Top League
- Belgium: Top League
- Denmark: Top League
- England: English Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two, Conference National, Conference North, Conference South
- France: Ligue 1, Ligue 2
- Germany: Bundesliga I, Bundesliga II, Bundesliga III
- Holland: Eredivisie, Eerste Divisie
- Italy: Series A, Series B
- Norway: Tippeligaen
- Portugal: Top League
- Russia: Premier League
- Scotland: Scottish Premier League, SFL First Division, SFL Second Division, SFL Third Division
- Spain: La Liga (BBVD), Liga Adelante
- Sweden: Allsvenskan
- Switzerland: Axpo Super League
- Turkey: Super Lig
- Ukraine: Premier Division
- Wales: Welsh Premier League

Pics, Download info and Install guide are located over on the forums, in this thread.

Hope you all enjoy these backgrounds!

To start off you need to be able to open .dds files, Photoshop cannot do this unless you first download this plugin

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/photoshop_dds_plugins.html

The plugin was made for CS2, but should work in other version (works fine for me in CS5) You just have to make sure it goes into the right folder, it doesn’t work on 64 bit so if you are on 64 bit then just run the 32 bit version of Photoshop instead and it will work

Now onto the actual ball making, which really isn’t hard at all, first off find a picture of the ball like this

Now open up ball_shader.dds (or orange_ball_shader for hi-vis) scale it to around the right size, and then adjust the width by 50% so it looks a little weird like this

Now duplicate the layer, select all and rotate 180 degrees so you have two balls next to each other and one upside-down like so

And that’s pretty much it, it’s not perfect I will admit, if you want to do a better job then I would recommend doing the same as above and then after using the pen tool to trace around all the elements of the ball and adding in extra pieces on the top and sides of the ball, I didn’t bother as they’re tiny and won’t make any noticeable difference anyway

And obviously if the back of the ball is different to the front then have a picture of the back on the right side instead of how I have done it in this example

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Will start work on various small graphics to go with this skin next week (morale icons, things like that)

Made by me, with some help from Murray’s knowledge

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