The FM14 Adboard Patch


PLEASE NOTE: If you have a previous version of the ad-board pack - please delete it and re-install the new pack. Many of the files and folders have been re-named and this will avoid leaving unnecessary duplicates
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PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE LATEST VERSION OF THE PACK - THIS IS CURRENTLY 14.04.1

NEW UPDATED VERSION - 14/04/2014

NEW UPDATE PACK - 29/06/2014

Full Ad Board Pack Version 14.04.1:
Sortitoutsi: Download Now

Depositfiles: 14.04.1 Ad BoardsDownload Now

World Cup Update: Download Now

YOU WILL NEED TO DOWNLOAD THE MAIN FILE & ANY SUBSEQUENT UPDATES

Update History
World Cup UpdateUpdates World Cup Boards
Version 14.04.1 - Removed XML Parsing Error
Version 14.04 - Corrected German XML, Overhaul of Chile, Overhaul of Argentina,
English addition of Plymouth, Wycombe & Accrington, Italian addition of Torino
Version 14.03.1 - Removed XML Parsing Error, Reworked Fifa 14 English ad board
Version 14.03 -
Changed League Cup, Changed Skrill Premier
Updates to European Competitions, Overhaul of Austria, Overhaul of Germany, Chilean Update
Argentinian Update, Swiss Update, Greek Update, South Korean Update
Some New premier league club boards, Minor board graphical tweaks and changes
Version 14.02 - Fixed a problem where some French boards would not appear
Comments
alokin
17 years ago
5 months ago
34
Yes... i follow instructions in readme file. In Fm 2013 everything was ok.
I'm using dark skin... maybe that's the problem?
tv_capper
16 years ago
11 hours ago
13,273
Yes... i follow instructions in readme file. In Fm 2013 everything was ok.
I'm using dark skin... maybe that's the problem?

As far as I'm aware the skin shouldn't have any effect on the boards

If the boards worked for you in FM13 that means that one of the following is most likely the problem, as the file still works in the same way

a) One of the settings in Preferences is not correct or b) the folders are incorrectly placed or named
Make sure all folders are named using just lowercase letters
tv_capper
16 years ago
11 hours ago
13,273
What's Coming in 14.03
Changed Carling Cup to League Cup & fixed XML
Changed Blue Square Premier to Skrill Premier
Updates to European Competition Boards
Overhaul of Austrian Boards
Overhaul of German Boards
alokin
17 years ago
5 months ago
34
As far as I'm aware the skin shouldn't have any effect on the boards

If the boards worked for you in FM13 that means that one of the following is most likely the problem, as the file still works in the same way

a) One of the settings in Preferences is not correct or b) the folders are incorrectly placed or named
Make sure all folders are named using just lowercase letters


The folders:

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Preferences:

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In game screen shot:

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tv_capper
16 years ago
11 hours ago
13,273
I noticed you have 'show stadium' un-checked, some boards do appear amongst the stands in certain stadiums.
Try checking the box. Close FM, restart, reload skin and see what happens that could be the problem...
alokin
17 years ago
5 months ago
34
I noticed you have 'show stadium' un-checked, some boards do appear amongst the stands in certain stadiums.
Try checking the box. Close FM, restart, reload skin and see what happens that could be the problem...


I try that already, but will try it again

I try it, but no luck I don't know what else to do...
tv_capper
16 years ago
11 hours ago
13,273
The way the boards have appeared as black means its having trouble finding the boards.

If the settings were wrong then the default boards would show.
I've noticed in your folder layout - I can't see what's before the Sports Interactive folder
Make sure that its in your 'my documents/sports interactive' folder, rather than the program folder
mysterio
17 years ago
1 month ago
349
Have you adjusted the game settings to get them to work?
Go to preferences:

uncheck use skin cache
uncheck clicking on ad board takes you to owners website
check reload skin on confirm.



Yep i did, but nothing.... I don't know if it's skin's problem
natarin
14 years ago
3 days ago
97
Hi again, guys of Sortitoutsi. First, an aclaration, in the main pack of Chilean Primera Division, still is there some old adboards who are completely obsolete, i recommend delete the following adboards: entelpcs, empresas13, chile1, bancoestado, johnsons, goodyear, golazo, falabella, elmercurio and lan, all or there with last modified in 2009 and 2010. The xml contains only the files for the updated adboards, and the Adboards for Primera B is the correct (it contains updated adboards only).

And Second, i've started to make the adboards for the remaining teams for Chilean Primera Division, are finished Palestino, Universidad de Concepcion and Cobresal and actually is WIP Ñublense with an important logo missing, in the next days maybe in the weekend, i'll release a preview,.Also Started with Argentinean Primera Teams, for now are finished Colon de Santa Fe and River Plate, my objective is make the 20 clubs for Primera Division and update the National B.

Also and a ambicious objective maybe can make in the future (i'll stay in hiatus for an inportant time for summer vacations)

- Chile: Copa Chile (only has 4 adboards), and the Sponsors for Chilean National Team.
- Argentina: Copa Argentina and also the Sponsors for Argentinian National Team.
- Peru: Adboards for most important clubs plus update the actual adboards.
- Colombia: Same as Peru.
- Uruguay: Same as Colombia and Peru.
- and finally, update the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana adboards as both cups changed main sponsor in this year.
- Optionally can make adboards for any team i like in particular but is not my priority.

As always regards.
alokin
17 years ago
5 months ago
34
The way the boards have appeared as black means its having trouble finding the boards.

If the settings were wrong then the default boards would show.
I've noticed in your folder layout - I can't see what's before the Sports Interactive folder
Make sure that its in your 'my documents/sports interactive' folder, rather than the program folder


Before sports interactive folder, i have folder games in E... i have transfered sports interactive folder from my documents. Never have problem with older version of Fm with this, also all other graphics( kits, facepack, stadion pictures) is working ok.

E:\Games\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2014\ads (in ads folder i have fm.xml)

E:\Games\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2014\graphics\pictures\ads (in ads i have folders, africa, asia, default, europe, north america, oceania, south america, worldwide)

Where are the default boards?
tv_capper
16 years ago
11 hours ago
13,273
Before sports interactive folder, i have folder games in E... i have transfered sports interactive folder from my documents. Never have problem with older version of Fm with this, also all other graphics( kits, facepack, stadion pictures) is working ok.

E:\Games\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2014\ads (in ads folder i have fm.xml)

Where are the default boards?

Firstly the default boards I referred to are the boards SI use in the game if your not using any Ad pack (all charity & FM boards)

I think the file location could be the reason your having a problem.
My ad boards are in: C:\Users\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2014\

I would suggest relocating the folders to your My Documents folder and try that (Si have re-designed the game engine since FM13)
tv_capper
16 years ago
11 hours ago
13,273
Hi again, guys of Sortitoutsi. First, an aclaration, in the main pack of Chilean Primera Division, still is there some old adboards who are completely obsolete, i recommend delete the following adboards: entelpcs, empresas13, chile1, bancoestado, johnsons, goodyear, golazo, falabella, elmercurio and lan, all or there with last modified in 2009 and 2010. The xml contains only the files for the updated adboards, and the Adboards for Primera B is the correct (it contains updated adboards only).

And Second, i've started to make the adboards for the remaining teams for Chilean Primera Division, are finished Palestino, Universidad de Concepcion and Cobresal and actually is WIP Ñublense with an important logo missing, in the next days maybe in the weekend, i'll release a preview,.Also Started with Argentinean Primera Teams, for now are finished Colon de Santa Fe and River Plate, my objective is make the 20 clubs for Primera Division and update the National B.

Also and a ambicious objective maybe can make in the future (i'll stay in hiatus for an inportant time for summer vacations)

- Chile: Copa Chile (only has 4 adboards), and the Sponsors for Chilean National Team.
- Argentina: Copa Argentina and also the Sponsors for Argentinian National Team.
- Peru: Adboards for most important clubs plus update the actual adboards.
- Colombia: Same as Peru.
- Uruguay: Same as Colombia and Peru.
- and finally, update the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana adboards as both cups changed main sponsor in this year.
- Optionally can make adboards for any team i like in particular but is not my priority.

As always regards.

Sounds like your busy

Keep up the good work, your updates are appreciated!
I will make the changes you've suggested in the next update
kfnielsen
17 years ago
19 hours ago
2,629
Premium
I just wanted to say u doing a hell of a job here Capper
many thx from a danish fanatic
alokin
17 years ago
5 months ago
34
Firstly the default boards I referred to are the boards SI use in the game if your not using any Ad pack (all charity & FM boards)

I think the file location could be the reason your having a problem.
My ad boards are in: C:\Users\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2014\

I would suggest relocating the folders to your My Documents folder and try that (Si have re-designed the game engine since FM13)


I go back to default location... load the game without pics, kits, facepack but still can't see the default boards. Try add the ads pack, i see only black boards...
I will download the game on my desktop pc, to see does the fresh install will help.
alokin
17 years ago
5 months ago
34
I find out that something is missing in my game files...i play the game since the beta version, run all the updates but i guss something went wrong and some files are missing...
I install the game on my desktop pc, compare the game that i play on my laptop and find out that this version ( played since beta version with all updates) was missing this folder "props":
D:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\common\Football Manager 2014\data\sigfx\props
This folder "props" contain folder "ads_board". This are the default boards in the game...
Now i'm gonna re-install the game on my laptop and try again (i'm sure that this time everything will work).
DC1979
12 years ago
3 years ago
4
Hi guys!

First of all, let me give you my congratulation for this amazing Footbaal Manager Add-On! This is really well done and is a must-have every year that a new FM is released.
Secondly, I made for myself some new adboards for the portuguese competitions and I've uploaded them, so that you can replace the ones that are in the adboard pack. In the Cups folders (league and portuguese cup) are two adboard of the competition, and if you could put them centered in the middle of the pitch, like the champions league, it would be amazing!

http://www.4shared.com/rar/02l_gUhK/portugal.html

Thanks for the superb job and keep it up!
natarin
14 years ago
3 days ago
97
Sounds like your busy

Keep up the good work, your updates are appreciated!
I will make the changes you've suggested in the next update


Thanks, i finished 3 teams more, Ñublense and Santiago Wanderers for Chile (now 14/18), and Argentinos Juniors for Argentina (now 3/20), coming up next comes Antofagasta and Estudiantes de la Plata but not started yet because next days have tests in University.
dadaikata
12 years ago
4 months ago
1
Awesome work! I noticed that Chievo Verona has the generic boards, not the team ones, also with the correct xml of course...
Is something you have to fix or am I doing something wrong?
alokin
17 years ago
5 months ago
34
This black board in game.. could be a hardware problem (conflict with integrated video card) or windows 8.1? I try using very high detail and hardware rendering, also very low detail and software rendering. In both case i see black board in game
I m running of option here, try every possible combination...
Doc_Debil
17 years ago
1 year ago
83
Thank you for your great work creating this wonderful package.
Unfortunatelly some of the german adboards were very old so I started to create new ones for the season 2013/2014.
And that's what I have done.

More than 700 original and individual adboards in HD for season 2013 / 2014 for:
  • German Bundesliga
  • German 2. Bundesliga
  • German Regionalliga Nord
  • German Regionalliga Nordost
  • German Regionalliga West
  • German Regionalliga Suedwest
  • German Regionalliga Bayern
  • UEFA Champions League
  • UEFA Europa League
  • UEFA Super Cup
  • FIFA Club World Cup
  • FIFA World Cup
  • Default Adboards
Additional packages:
  • Austria Bundesliga
  • Austria Erste Liga
  • Austria OEFB-Samsung-Cup
  • Swiss Super League
  • Swiss Challenge League
  • Swiss Schweizer Cup
  • France Ligue 1
  • France Ligue 2
  • France Trophée des Champions
  • France Coupe de la Ligue
  • France Coupe de France
This addon is fully compatible to the great FM 2014 Ad Board Patch or you can use it stand alone.

Preview German Leagues 1-4.

http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/7f04/8w17bvaxt81tfd2fg.jpg


Preview Austria
http://fm.onlinewelten.com/images/news/Vorschau_austria_klein.png


Preview Switzerland
http://fm.onlinewelten.com/uploads/news/images/Vorschau_swiss.png


Preview France
http://fm.onlinewelten.com/uploads/news/images/Vorschau_france.png


Preview Competitions

http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/7035/7qmq49m6uolslswfg.jpg


Preview World Cup

http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/30c0/un1zge8dxn1t8zefg.jpg





(latest version: 20.11.2013)






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Installation of FM 2014 Ad Board Patch is not necessary but recommended.

Installation:
1. Copy "ads" & "graphics" from this download to your My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager main directory
5. Start game, clear cache and create new cache
6. Enjoy
Bielsa is a Legend
10 years ago
1 hour ago
1,762
Premium
Have you adjusted the game settings to get them to work?
Go to preferences:

uncheck use skin cache
uncheck clicking on ad board takes you to owners website
check reload skin on confirm.

I have exactly the same problem, the structure looks identical, but not showing up, I am playing Leeds using Club ads, the sky bet board shows in league games and the Capital board shows in cu, but rest are generic
Doc_Debil
17 years ago
1 year ago
83
Then there is something wrong with the cache. I've checked the xml. Both, the xml and the graphics are okay. The script is working fine.
Sometimes you have to delete your cache and reload skin twice.
alokin
17 years ago
5 months ago
34
Everything is working now Re-install the game and steam for the second time, remove all the cache file in users account in C. Restart the game without extra graphics, leave settings in preferences default and i see now the default board sigames.
Then I add the extra graphics and ads board, made my settings in preferences (use very low graphics) and now i see the new ads boards

I put again my files in E:\Games\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2014\graphics\pictures\ads and everything is working OK. No need using the default folder C:\My documents

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alokin
17 years ago
5 months ago
34
If someone is using zoom out 95% for size and text, u should change it to standard 100 % and you will see the ads board
The ads board pack and the default board are only show in game (not like black boards) if u are using standard 100 % for size and text in preferences.
tv_capper
16 years ago
11 hours ago
13,273
If someone is using zoom out 95% for size and text, u should change it to standard 100 % and you will see the ads board
The ads board pack and the default board are only show in game (not like black boards) if u are using standard 100 % for size and text in preferences.

Glad you managed to get it working and thanks for the info!

14.03 shall be out in the near future

Sortitoutsi have kindly offered to host the main patch going forward, so that your not downloading from external hosting sites.
This also means that the pack will be easier for people to find going forward!

I shall look it the Verona problem and also look into the Portugal update, both if required will be in 14.03
Nkunku
12 years ago
2 months ago
4,624
is this also for 2D display?
Bielsa is a Legend
10 years ago
1 hour ago
1,762
Premium
Glad you managed to get it working and thanks for the info!

14.03 shall be out in the near future

Sortitoutsi have kindly offered to host the main patch going forward, so that your not downloading from external hosting sites.
This also means that the pack will be easier for people to find going forward!

I shall look it the Verona problem and also look into the Portugal update, both if required will be in 14.03

Apologies, but I have done everything and my structure looks correct, one question when you move the XML file to the ads folder, what do you do with the XML folders both of them??
tv_capper
16 years ago
11 hours ago
13,273
one question when you move the XML file to the ads folder, what do you do with the XML folders both of them??

You just keep it somewhere safe, so that if you ever wish to use the other XML you don't have to download it.
You could always delete it however... once you've moved the XML you want
tv_capper
16 years ago
11 hours ago
13,273
is this also for 2D display?

Should you wish to watch in 2D then yes, you will still get ad-boards
dave byrd
17 years ago
7 years ago
31
I'm still on the first version but the German Super Cup seems to have the Italian Cup adboards...

Sorry if you've already fixed this.

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