SS' Kits

We have thousands of individual FM Kit Packs, when you download these packs your copy of Football Manager will be updated with all the latest kits. Not only that but you'll have our famous SS Kits, which we think are the best Football Manager Kits around.

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SS' Kits
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Uncle Sam
16 years ago
9 months ago
397
I have tried pretty much everything as far as ticking and unticking the cache box and reloading the skin, but none of my kit changes are taking effect. As I recall there was some hidden cache files somewhere. Does anyone remember that? Or have a different solution?

Thanks
DazS8
14 years ago
1 hour ago
11,384
I have tried pretty much everything as far as ticking and unticking the cache box and reloading the skin, but none of my kit changes are taking effect. As I recall there was some hidden cache files somewhere. Does anyone remember that? Or have a different solution?

Thanks


The hidden cache files are located here....

C:\Users\YOUR NAME\AppData\Local

Delete the whole Sports Interactive folder then restart your game, it will be reset to default now as in Default Skin etc.
Do this myself sometimes just to refresh everything, whether this will help your kits appear though remains to be seen
Uncle Sam
16 years ago
9 months ago
397
Thank you for the response. One quick question, will I have to reload all of my custom views?
DazS8
14 years ago
1 hour ago
11,384
Thank you for the response. One quick question, will I have to reload all of my custom views?


Yes I am afraid so as it sets all settings back to default
Uncle Sam
16 years ago
9 months ago
397
So I've traced it back to something with the graphics folder in my documents. I don't understand for the life of me what it could be.
Uncle Sam
16 years ago
9 months ago
397
I uninstalled the game, Verify the game's file validity in steam, I've deleted the cache files. I even removed the graphics folder so that everything went back to default, but when I returned the graphics folder and reloaded the skin it STILL showed the old kit files. WTF?!?
Uncle Sam
16 years ago
9 months ago
397
I'm pretty sure I've narrowed it down to the USA graphics. I've deleted the config file and reloaded and the kits remain. I don't understand at all what the F is happening.
hammer9
16 years ago
1 month ago
94,628
have you try SSKCC?
mons
17 years ago
11 hours ago
85,497
Can you give us a screenshot of what is wrong in your game?
Uncle Sam
16 years ago
9 months ago
397
https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/lIqph65qbqVR5aTtp7kba3l6ooyV319fO6Yi4T5J.png
I really don't know what other images to post. The screenshot is the old kit. Below is the new kit:
https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/lhewnKGz3jz2CwXb8vug7vRSOKGd3FDoa2HsOCwk.png
I honestly have tried everything I can think of. I have even uninstalled the game, and reinstalled. I have cleared caches, both in game and manually. I have even removed the folder that has the kits from the graphics folder and reloaded the skin, etc, and still the kits show. This is obviously somewhat maddening.
Uncle Sam
16 years ago
9 months ago
397
I don't know if this helps you to come up with any ideas, but I did manage to get the default kits to show by removing the Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2017 folder from the Documents folder, however once I put the graphics folder back in the old kits showed back up.
Uncle Sam
16 years ago
9 months ago
397
Experiment #2,307:
1. I removed the Football Manager 2017 folder, and restarted the game.
2. When I reloaded the skin, the default kits showed up.
3. I then returned the graphics folder to the new Football Manager 2017 folder WITHOUT the USA kits folder, and reloaded the skin. All the kits except the USA show back, the USA kits are still default.
4. I returned the USA Kits folder to the graphics folder, and now, no matter what I do, the DEFAULT KITS ARE SHOWING UP! ISN'T THIS F**KING HILARIOUS!?!?!?!
mons
17 years ago
11 hours ago
85,497
https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/lIqph65qbqVR5aTtp7kba3l6ooyV319fO6Yi4T5J.png
I really don't know what other images to post. The screenshot is the old kit. Below is the new kit:
https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/lhewnKGz3jz2CwXb8vug7vRSOKGd3FDoa2HsOCwk.png
I honestly have tried everything I can think of. I have even uninstalled the game, and reinstalled. I have cleared caches, both in game and manually. I have even removed the folder that has the kits from the graphics folder and reloaded the skin, etc, and still the kits show. This is obviously somewhat maddening.

Can I have a screenshot of your kits folder? Do you have more than 1 USA kitpack installed? Perhaps you have both the 2016 and 2017 packs? The old kit is somewhere in your graphics folder, and the game is reading it instead of your intended kit,
Uncle Sam
16 years ago
9 months ago
397
I have looked for duplicate kits, duplicate folders, etc.. While I suppose there is a remote possibility that I've missed something, it really looks unlikely that that's the problem now that the only kits that show up are the default kits. I tried recreating the steps the finally got rid of the old kits, but the new kits are still not showing up as they should be. All of the MLS clubs are like this.
mons
17 years ago
11 hours ago
85,497
I have looked for duplicate kits, duplicate folders, etc.. While I suppose there is a remote possibility that I've missed something, it really looks unlikely that that's the problem now that the only kits that show up are the default kits. I tried recreating the steps the finally got rid of the old kits, but the new kits are still not showing up as they should be. All of the MLS clubs are like this.

What is being displayed is not the default kits. The kits in your first screenshot are in the SS style, which do not come with the game. I've downloaded this file and it looks like the home and away kits in your first screenshot are the ones in this file. I am 99% certain that these files are still contained somewhere within your graphics folder, especially since you're specifying that all of the MLS clubs have the same issue. Can you make a search for dynamo1.png?

As requested yesterday, can you give me a screenshot of your overall kits folder and also of the location where the USA kits are placed? This may help me see and assess the situation; I can't make a diagnosis out of thin air after all
Uncle Sam
16 years ago
9 months ago
397
Yes, apologies. I do know that the screenshot isn't showing the default kits. That image is of the old kits that continue to show no matter what I do. I did figure out the reason the default kits continued to show. In one of my many experiments I had deleted the old config, reloaded, and then rebuilt the config using the configurator, but I hadn't sorted out the unique id numbers. So I did that, but when I reloaded the game the old kits continued to show. The game is simply refusing to display the new kits. It's almost like the game, or maybe my computer, believes that the new images are still the old images. Anyway, I took screenshots of the kits folder, and here they are:
https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/hXQo5ju06yAv9wqajuN4XR8tGCVwgAawKVczpm7Z.png
https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/YuGqxvAtBCfmNxGq3H6nhM5gS8O6DD3ZanIHhVsb.png
https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/R95a1SlJkSnxEmqDEXXjyJNHWNS3VnaqX4XUwKcP.png
https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/fjo6oB3Jnoe4ryeEVjwigmRLvKXG5sKEcT9uJeUQ.png
https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/Nc7ZbvD8PDxzZ6yo8tWmAukQMZ8NENcDQPFMTQaq.png
Probably not much you can glean from those. I have looked in all of the other sub folders and there is no duplicate MLS folder. That couldn't be the problem though, because when I did remove the MLS folder and reloaded the default kits did show. If there was a duplicate folder somewhere, then that wouldn't have happened.
mons
17 years ago
11 hours ago
85,497
@Uncle Sam, in the penultimate folder, there are 2 folders named Custom and Real Life. Can I see what's inside them please? I strongly suspect there's MLS kits in either of them (if not both).

Could you also make a search in the folder in the first screenshot (i.e. the main kits folder) for files containing this text: 72000112, and post the results.
Uncle Sam
16 years ago
9 months ago
397
The real life folder is just a place where I dumped some kits for clubs that I didn't want to lose when I made custom kits. There is not even a config file in the folder.

The custom kits folder is where I put kits for clubs that I created by modifying "Extinct" clubs. I checked, but there is no kits for any MLS clubs and the unique id is not in the config file. Below is a search of the Graphics>Kits folder that reveals I only have one config file containing code for the Houston Dynamo:

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/vU61AyXZrtMA8Z3WDZWYCXi1f28uRBX0lY30zIjT.png
Uncle Sam
16 years ago
9 months ago
397
So, my latest experiment was to test the theory that issue had something to do with the .png files themselves. So I opened all the kits in photoshop, and then saved them into a new folder, deleted the old folder, and built a new config. Here is the result:
https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/6fst1ZzJCxCqVNFYL9sXupxS9upXsEqVEYy1wdtj.png
SUCCESS!!!!!


So Mons, if you come across some poor sack that nothing else is working for, it could be some bizarre issue the actual kit files themselves, so add that to your arsenal. I do appreciate you trying to help.

BTW, It wasn't the capital letter .PNG problem, it was just some bizarre issue. It probably had to do with my computer, and not the game.
mons
17 years ago
11 hours ago
85,497


Glad it all worked out, anyway...

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