Dear all

This is FLUTSKIN Version 8.0 for FM23!!

First of all I would like to give a great thank you to all FM fans who choose to play with FLUTSKIN and always keep me motivated to still editing the skin and gave me new ideas!!!

A special thank you to all of players who decided to distinguish my work with a donation!! Although just a small part of FM Players who use the skin made a donation (I edited the skin as a hobby and, as you know, completely free), I always feel honoured and happy when people recognize the work done and decide to contribute. So, I reinforce, I have to give a special thank you to that friends of FlutsKin!!!!!!

Also a thank you to all the skin makers who indirectly contribute to my work, and a special thank you to PATRES10, from fmslovakia for the 2D default kits (especially tailor-made for FlutSkin), to MICHAEL MURRAY since I started editing the match inbetween highlights panel based on his amazing work, to QVORDRUP, for the metallic “Round country flags” and his great collaboration in the “country locator maps”, to NUNO KOPIO for the “Square shiny flags” I included as alt files (for using as an alternative to the “Round country flags”) to PMPOU for his great contribution with many tickets to customize the skin, to DAZS8 for his great work in the addons for Flutskin. I also thank you for the contributes made by NOLEAFWILEN and RICHBELL. 

In FlutSkin you can find so many changes comparing to the default skin that I can’t present all of them here. I suggest you to go through the panels in order to see with your eyes all the changes!!

Main Changes in Version 8.0

  • Tactics Overview Panel (now the subs bench includes the player pictures)
  • Inbox panel (the height of the head bar was increased and tweaked)
  • Match Inbetween highlights (now all the panels can be resized with the mouse, in height and width, for a better customization)
  • Data hub → next opposition tweaked
  • Player popup panel tweaked (pros and cons panel included in the drop down arrow)
  • New alts included (tickets alts - thank you PMPOU!; alt for black sidebar)
  • Some other tweaks here and there

 

Main Changes in Version 7.0

  • Club Overview Panel (now 5 tabs, new information and tweaks)
  • Player Overview Panel (new information and the panels arrangement tweaked)
  • Tactics Overview Panel (bigger pitch, subs bench on the left and information about previous matches with the opponent tweaked)
  • Home panel (more results included in the results panel)

 

Main Changes in Version 6.0

-Home panel 

  • New tab included with more information

-Player Overview Panel

  • Now you can use 6 (!) different tabs full of information

-Scoreboard

  • Team full names included in the match scoreboard of UEFA competitions

-Match Team News panel

  • Now you can choose among several tickets (I included tickets regarding UEFA competitions, BWIN Portuguese League, Bundesliga and a generic ticket, but, of course, you can customize your skin with the tickets you want)

-Calendar tweaked

-Reported bugs fixed

 

“Main Changes” in Version 5.0

  • “New” Club overview panel

        - now includes 3 different tabs including much more informations: club details, club history and key information (this tab full of club information). In the             first tab the “followers in social networks” was included in the top middle panel.

  • “New” stadium overview panel

        - now includes much more stadium information 

  • “New” Nation overview panel and general panel

        - Now include new information about each nation

  • Player overview panel tweaked

        - colours of attributes boxes and analysers tweaked

  • Non player (staff) panel tweaked

       - Current and Potential ability included

 

Please note that many of the screenshots above are not corresponding to the current version of the skin. As soon as possible I will try ti update the screenshots.

 

“Main Changes” in Version 4.0

  • Player overview panel

         - new set of tabs in the top middle box. Some of those tabs include new ring graphs of attribute analysis profile (physical, mental, technical, goalkeeping,  defensive and offensive) which were created based on the great work of GROOT in his Electric Panther Skin. Thank you my friend!!; The other tabs include persoal details, biography and player stats full of data.

  • Player attributes panel

        - New tabs included in the middle boxes of the panel; stats box tweaked (with more data)

  • Individual training panel

       - New 5 tabs included

  • New Bookmarks button included (now you can easily bookmark your favourite panels and have quickly acess to all of them)
  • Lots of tweaks in player/staff list displayed in inbox panel (with much more information)
  • Other tweaks here and there
  • A few new alts (now you have a total of 24 alts for customize your Flutskin. However, please note that some of them could not entirely correspond to the current version of the skin)
  • Finally, I would like to thank you Robin Heart who challenge me to do new things in the skin and gave me a new background picture for including in the background selector. Thank you, my friend!

         

“Main Changes” in Version 3.0

  • Match inbetween highlights panel tweaked (now includes new information – pass map and match momentum – and four tabs for easily choose the information we want to see during the match)
  • Ingame editor included in match day header panel
  • Club affiliates panel tweaked
  • Club overview panel tweaked (club details tweaked)
  • Some other tweaks here and there
  • Reported bugs fixed
  • New Alts added:
    • 1. grey titlebar and sidebar
    • 2. player attributes not displayed (since I didn’t test all the panels, if you find a panel including player attributes yet, please let me know)
    • 3. club details in club overview panel as it was in the last version of the skin

 

“Main Changes” in Version 2.0

Changes 

  • New Intro panel, now with 4 backgrounds rotating with each other
  • New ticket picture in the pre-match panel (thank you, NunoKopio, for the new image)
  • A few panels in news panel tweaked

 

Bugs fixed

  • Competition Team stats panel and competition player stats panel
  • Shorlist panel
  • Player coach report for contract negotiations
  • Player coach report for contract promises
  • Tactics set pieces panel
  • Team report scout report panel
  • Scouting centre assignment card for recruitment focus panel
  • Coach summary report boxes (player profile panel and player attributes panel)

 

“Main Changes” in Version 1.0

  • Intro panel (new background included)
  • Social news (size of the panels increased)
  • New alt for match titlebar/scoreboard, including clock, teams (only the team logos) and score
  • Reported bugs fixed
  • Note 1: I also decided to keep the panels of the Uefa Cups, Bundesliga and EFL as default. However, I included a new alt for those who prefer using the match titlebar of the FlutSkin, in all competitions.

 

The pack includes many alt files for customize the skin (please read the read me file included in the pack) and several tutorials: 1) how should be the configs for the stadiums packs; 2) how can you adjust the size and the place of the kit number in player overview panel; 3) how can you do the 2D kits adapted for Flutskin. BEFORE ASKING QUESTIONS OR REQUESTS, PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THE ALT FOLDERS AND ALSO AT THE READ ME AND TUTORIAL FILES!!

 

You can download the 2D packs prepared for Flutskin (titlebar and player overview panel) here in sourtitoutsi. FC style kits https://sortitoutsi.net/content/44727/2d-kits-1819-for-flutskin-titlebarplayer-overview-v10 SS Kits style https://sortitoutsi.net/content/57825/ss-kits-as-logo-left-for-flut-skin

 

If you prefer SS'kits as default kits, you can download this and replace the kits folder located here: Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2022\skins\fm2022flutskin_dark\graphics\pictures\kits
HERE
 

However, if you prefer edit your own kits, I also included in the pack a .pdf file explaining how you can edit the kits for Flutskin.

 

The sortitoutsi Backgrounds Megapack includes player, competition and stadium backgrounds, as well as beautiful city images:  https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/style/17/sortitoutsi-backgrounds-megapack

 

As always FlutSkin is completely free to download and I hope you enjoy it. However, if you want, you can reward my work donating whatever amount you wish. Any small amount is really appreciated.

 

You can donate by clicking here:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=E9P4RXKNQBQBS
 

THE SKIN IS TOTALLY COMPATIBLE WITH 1920x1080 SCREEN RESOLUTION AND 4k (windows display settings 200%; game 100%).
YOU SHOULD USE IT IN FULL WINDOWS, ICONS ONLY

 

Important note regarding TV LOGOS:
Although the default tv logo is the one I use, of course you can easily change it; for that you just have to go to skin/graphics/icons/tv logos. In that folder there is a alt folder with many TV logos. You just have to replace the tv logo.png and the tv [email protected] for that one you want. Of course you should rename the new logos as tv logo and tv logo@2x. You also can use other logos made by you. The procedure to use them is exactly the same. However, I should remember that yo should use logos with the right height. For tv logo you should use 25px and for the @2x you should use 50px.


Resolution requirements:
This skin was made to work properly in 3840x2160 (4K with windows display settings 200%) and also 1920x1080 (1080p) full screen mode, sidebar icons only. As a result, some panels won’t work properly in other resolutions.

 

[b]How to add Flut Skin in FM23[/b]
Download and extract the .zip file (using either 7-Zip for Windows or The Unarchiver for Mac).

Place the "fm2023flutskin_dark" folder here: 
Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2023\skins

[*] Create the folder "skins" if it doesn't exist.
[*] Start FM23 and go to Preferences screen and then into the Interface tab.
[*] You should see FM 2023 Flut Skin dark - 8.0 as an option in the skin drop down of the Overview box. 
[*] Hit the Confirm button.


Please note this skin is provided as is. It has nothing to do with Sports Interactive or SEGA and won't be supported by them.

Comments
Bielsa is a Legend
10 years ago
1 hour ago
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By flut 20 November 2022 - 19:20 PM UTC 

Lines:  2144, 2159 and 2180, increase the vallue of the inset in the following code

 

<layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="all" inset="10" />  

Thanks mate, you’re a legend

 

tyleerr933
2 years ago
7 months ago
1

Good job as always mate. I have one question though, i just cannot change the background picture of my inbox like it stuck to one pic only and changing background does nothing. What is with that, do you have any suggestion for me?

 

NVHeat
11 years ago
3 months ago
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By tyleerr933 20 November 2022 - 20:02 PM UTC 

Good job as always mate. I have one question though, i just cannot change the background picture of my inbox like it stuck to one pic only and changing background does nothing. What is with that, do you have any suggestion for me?

 

go to documents-si-fm23-skins-flut-graphics-backgrounds-change “inbox” picture. but be careful of image “size”.. change your image to “inbox” and remove the old pic.

Nigel Petrie
10 years ago
2 months ago
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Flut thanks a million for your reposnse.

 

I see that I can achieve what I would like to by editing xml files.

 

This is above my level of expertise! Where are the xml files you are talking about and is there a guide to help the correct formatting of xml? I understand I can just use notepad to edit.

 

Thanks and sorry for my lack of knowledge!

Mortiis
11 years ago
4 days ago
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By flut 19 November 2022 - 17:10 PM UTC 

 

 

 Mortiis: For remove the current ability in that panel, go to yacs information.xml and remove <integer value="PCAB" /> Regarding the kit number, please read the pdf I included explaining how you can edit it.

 

but like i have said already, i dont know where exactly to find this .pdf….i was searching everywhere

SteveWise106
5 years ago
6 months ago
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Hey Flut

Having a slight issue with Kits overlaying player background - any suggestions?

JWD
11 years ago
1 day ago
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Hey,

what can I do if I want to have the original scoreboard for eg Champions League?

 

NVHeat
11 years ago
3 months ago
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By JWD 21 November 2022 - 19:10 PM UTC 

Hey,

what can I do if I want to have the original scoreboard for eg Champions League?

 

That new update has that on it. Defaults for comps.

flut
14 years ago
21 hours ago
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By Nigel Petrie 20 November 2022 - 22:01 PM UTC 

Flut thanks a million for your reposnse.

 

I see that I can achieve what I would like to by editing xml files.

 

This is above my level of expertise! Where are the xml files you are talking about and is there a guide to help the correct formatting of xml? I understand I can just use notepad to edit.

 

Thanks and sorry for my lack of knowledge!

The files are in the skin folder in a folder named fonts.

As you can see if you open the kit name.fontxml is the following code

 

<record>
<string id="file_name" value="GT-America-Standard-Bold.ttf"/>
   <integer id="extra_spacing" value="0.6" />
<real id="boldness" value="0.7"/>
<string id="capitalisation" value="upper case" />

</record>
 

After place the font file ypu want in the fonts folder you just have to change thsi code. For example: if the font you placed in the fonts folder was helvetica-bold.ttf (this is the name of the font file), you just should change the code for

 

<record>
<string id="file_name" value="helvetica-bold.ttf"/>
   <integer id="extra_spacing" value="0.6" />
<real id="boldness" value="0.7"/>
<string id="capitalisation" value="upper case" />

</record>
 

Note that you should change with the exact name of the font file. 

 

For the "autograph" the procedure is similar but you must create a new xml file (with the extension .fontxml). For that you can copy one of the mine (for example namex.fontxml) rename it and change the code (and don't include the code line for capitalization if you don't want use capital letters).

flut
14 years ago
21 hours ago
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By Mortiis 21 November 2022 - 12:28 PM UTC 

but like i have said already, i dont know where exactly to find this .pdf….i was searching everywhere

 

The pdf is inside the alts folder. The name of the pdf is “Changing the size and place of kit number and kit name”

flut
14 years ago
21 hours ago
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By SteveWise106 21 November 2022 - 16:34 PM UTC 

Hey Flut

Having a slight issue with Kits overlaying player background - any suggestions?

The kits are in the right place. You are using players background pictures and then, is normal taht the kits are displayed over that picture….If you prefer, chose an option in the drop down arrow that don't duisplay the player background picture (you have 6 options to choose).

 

maxerup
12 years ago
2 months ago
2
By flut 20 November 2022 - 13:49 PM UTC 

Thanks. Regarding your question, I don't know if I understood well. Did you tried to change the percentage in the background selector?

 

Many thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for.

DazS8
14 years ago
9 hours ago
11,384

Hi @flut 

Sure I have seen this somewhere in this forum but cant for the life of me find it…sorry

The restart stop and acknowledge buttons are not responsive is there a fix at all.

Once again sorry if this has been covered my friend

 

flut
14 years ago
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By DazS8 23 November 2022 - 19:50 PM UTC 

Hi @flut 

Sure I have seen this somewhere in this forum but cant for the life of me find it…sorry

The restart stop and acknowledge buttons are not responsive is there a fix at all.

Once again sorry if this has been covered my friend

 

Hi DazS

Try to remove the  “scouting centre assignment card for recruitment focus.xml” (is located in the widgets folder of the skin).

Please let me know if is okay with that change.

DazS8
14 years ago
9 hours ago
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By flut 23 November 2022 - 19:59 PM UTC 

Hi DazS

Try to remove the  “scouting centre assignment card for recruitment focus.xml” (is located in the widgets folder of the skin).

Please let me know if is okay with that change.

 

Yes that removes the buttons altogether

 

s25771205
1 year ago
6 months ago
2

first,thanks for your skin ,l love this skin so much!

now i have a problem about the kits.

i replaced the kit ,but the goalkeeper` kit is changed into red

so, i want remove the kit(only remove the red one), how to  remove it? which xml should i rewrite

thank you

 

 

 

6scholl6
12 years ago
1 hour ago
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Hi flut. Congratiulation to the game of portugal🙂

I think i found a bug in your skin. Have a look, i can´t click on this buttons:

SteveWise106
5 years ago
6 months ago
9
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By flut 22 November 2022 - 19:17 PM UTC 

The kits are in the right place. You are using players background pictures and then, is normal taht the kits are displayed over that picture….If you prefer, chose an option in the drop down arrow that don't duisplay the player background picture (you have 6 options to choose).

 

Thanks Flut, sorry for being a noob but where is this drop down ?

flut
14 years ago
21 hours ago
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By s25771205 24 November 2022 - 07:32 AM UTC 

first,thanks for your skin ,l love this skin so much!

now i have a problem about the kits.

i replaced the kit ,but the goalkeeper` kit is changed into red

so, i want remove the kit(only remove the red one), how to  remove it? which xml should i rewrite

thank you

 

Hi and thanks.

Regarding your question: if you use the 2D kits prepared for flutskin the front kit will be showed in all the players (even in the goalkeeper). You can remove that kits (front kits) in the following code in player overview panel.xml (however, don't forget that since you remove the code the front kit will not be displayed anymore in that place) lines 852 - 884

 

 <widget id="cKip" class="kit_icon" file="generic/kit icon36" scale_picture="true" image_alignment="centre" kit_zoom_level="2" priority="1">
                       <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="top" inset="0"/>
<layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="left" inset="-60" />
 <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="vertical" inset="20" />
     <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="all" inset="15" />  
               <record id="object_property">
   <list id="get_properties">
    <record>
     <integer id="get_property" value="Pers" />
     <integer id="set_property" value="objt" />
    </record>
   </list>
  </record>
                      </widget>

  <!-- This is the shirt -->
      <widget class="picture" id="lftB" scale_picture="true" keep_aspect_ratio="true" image_alignment="centre">
      <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="top" inset="0"/>
    <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="left" inset="-60" />
   <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="vertical" inset="20" />
    <attachment class="test_setting_attachment" get_setting="show_portraits" default_value="true" set_property="hidn">
           <list id="value">
             <boolean value="false" />
           </list>
         </attachment>

         <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="all" inset="15" />
      
   <record id="object_property">
  <integer id="get_property" value="mbpc"/>
  <integer id="set_property" value="file"/>
 </record> 
 </widget> 

flut
14 years ago
21 hours ago
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By 6scholl6 25 November 2022 - 05:13 AM UTC 

Hi flut. Congratiulation to the game of portugal🙂

I think i found a bug in your skin. Have a look, i can´t click on this buttons:

 

Hi and thanks 🙂 🙂

Regarding that bug, as I said in my answer to DasZ8, remove the  “scouting centre assignment card for recruitment focus.xml” (is located in the widgets folder of the skin). Don't forget to relaod the game.

 

cheers

flut
14 years ago
21 hours ago
3,855
By SteveWise106 25 November 2022 - 08:21 AM UTC 

Thanks Flut, sorry for being a noob but where is this drop down ?

 

Hi

If you play with icons only in the sidebar (and 1920x1080) you will notice a little arrow on the top right of the kits (the arrow have the colour of prymary colour of your club). If you click on that arrow a menu will be displayed.

If that arrow is not in the correct place, forget it, and move the mouse to the top right of the back kit (near the back kit…) and you will notice that the mouse change to a hand. Click, and the menu will be displayed.

s25771205
1 year ago
6 months ago
2
By flut 25 November 2022 - 16:33 PM UTC 

Hi and thanks.

Regarding your question: if you use the 2D kits prepared for flutskin the front kit will be showed in all the players (even in the goalkeeper). You can remove that kits (front kits) in the following code in player overview panel.xml (however, don't forget that since you remove the code the front kit will not be displayed anymore in that place) lines 852 - 884

 

 <widget id="cKip" class="kit_icon" file="generic/kit icon36" scale_picture="true" image_alignment="centre" kit_zoom_level="2" priority="1">
                       <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="top" inset="0"/>
<layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="left" inset="-60" />
 <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="vertical" inset="20" />
     <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="all" inset="15" />  
               <record id="object_property">
   <list id="get_properties">
    <record>
     <integer id="get_property" value="Pers" />
     <integer id="set_property" value="objt" />
    </record>
   </list>
  </record>
                      </widget>

  <!-- This is the shirt -->
      <widget class="picture" id="lftB" scale_picture="true" keep_aspect_ratio="true" image_alignment="centre">
      <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="top" inset="0"/>
    <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="left" inset="-60" />
   <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="vertical" inset="20" />
    <attachment class="test_setting_attachment" get_setting="show_portraits" default_value="true" set_property="hidn">
           <list id="value">
             <boolean value="false" />
           </list>
         </attachment>

         <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="all" inset="15" />
      
   <record id="object_property">
  <integer id="get_property" value="mbpc"/>
  <integer id="set_property" value="file"/>
 </record> 
 </widget> 

 

thanks a lot . it did work !

hilmicik
13 years ago
10 months ago
10
Premium

hello, Flut I've noticed when looking at the league and player statistics detailed there are loads of stats that are missing that show up in the default skin. is it supposed to be like this?

6scholl6
12 years ago
1 hour ago
726
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By hilmicik 26 November 2022 - 22:40 PM UTC 

hello, Flut I've noticed when looking at the league and player statistics detailed there are loads of stats that are missing that show up in the default skin. is it supposed to be like this?

Could you show a screen?

 

hilmicik
13 years ago
10 months ago
10
Premium

so this is the screen with Flut 

 

 

and then this is the default skin with extra stats. there are more further down but I've highlighted 2.

 

flut
14 years ago
21 hours ago
3,855
By hilmicik 27 November 2022 - 12:39 PM UTC 

so this is the screen with Flut 

 

 

and then this is the default skin with extra stats. there are more further down but I've highlighted 2.

 

Thanks!!

Now is fixed and it will be included in the next version of the skin.

 

Hovis Dexter
9 years ago
2 hours ago
40
Premium

Hi Flut

 

A suggestion and request. At present we can see the club rating in the Job Security window but not in the Job Centre. I think that adding the club rating to the Job Centre would be an improvement. If you agree could you do this please?

flut
14 years ago
21 hours ago
3,855
By Hovis Dexter 27 November 2022 - 17:02 PM UTC 

Hi Flut

 

A suggestion and request. At present we can see the club rating in the Job Security window but not in the Job Centre. I think that adding the club rating to the Job Centre would be an improvement. If you agree could you do this please?

 

Hi Dexter

Thanks for the suggestion. I already tried but without success (I couldn't make the stars work in the job centre panel…). 😢

Nigel Petrie
10 years ago
2 months ago
7
Premium
By flut 22 November 2022 - 19:10 PM UTC 

The files are in the skin folder in a folder named fonts.

As you can see if you open the kit name.fontxml is the following code

 

<record>
<string id="file_name" value="GT-America-Standard-Bold.ttf"/>
   <integer id="extra_spacing" value="0.6" />
<real id="boldness" value="0.7"/>
<string id="capitalisation" value="upper case" />

</record>
 

After place the font file ypu want in the fonts folder you just have to change thsi code. For example: if the font you placed in the fonts folder was helvetica-bold.ttf (this is the name of the font file), you just should change the code for

 

<record>
<string id="file_name" value="helvetica-bold.ttf"/>
   <integer id="extra_spacing" value="0.6" />
<real id="boldness" value="0.7"/>
<string id="capitalisation" value="upper case" />

</record>
 

Note that you should change with the exact name of the font file. 

 

For the "autograph" the procedure is similar but you must create a new xml file (with the extension .fontxml). For that you can copy one of the mine (for example namex.fontxml) rename it and change the code (and don't include the code line for capitalization if you don't want use capital letters).

 

Thanks for your valuable knowledge and time flut.

 

I have had my first success in editing an xml file!

 

So I have managed to change the kit name, but the number seems the same? Is there a seperate xml for the number?

 

Also for the autograph, I followed your instructions to the letter. I created a new .fontxml file which I called playername

 

It seems to have no effect on changing the font though? Do I have to call it something different? How does the game know what font is for the payers name in the profile area?

 

Thanks again in advance mate.

Hovis Dexter
9 years ago
2 hours ago
40
Premium
By flut 27 November 2022 - 18:57 PM UTC 

Hi Dexter

Thanks for the suggestion. I already tried but without success (I couldn't make the stars work in the job centre panel…). 😢

 

Hi Flut 

Thanks for trying

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