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
Agustinns
14 years ago
3 months ago
2

Hi Flut! Amazing work!!

 

Do you know how to turn the background opacity in the player panel a little down. I just liked a little more as it was before like in the first attached picture. The second one is as it is now.

 

Thanks!!

luffy
13 years ago
4 days ago
16
By flut 21 February 2023 - 19:01 PM UTC 

Hi. For the second one I don't know how to do it since I never edit that.

Regarding the stadium, go to club overview stadium91.xml and change the following code

 

<container >
    <layout class="arrange_horizontal_attachment" layout="-5,1,-4,1,-4,1,-5" offset="0" />

 

for

 

<container >
    <layout class="arrange_horizontal_attachment" layout="-5,1,-4,1,-5,1,-5" offset="0" /> 

 

Hello Flut,

I found the solution on the net and with luck opening the good file this morning. 

 

In the file  "fm2021flutskin_dark settings.xml", these are the 2 lines that need to be changed :

<colour name="calendar fixture" red="142" green="90" blue="192" alpha="100"/>

<colour name="calendar reserve fixture" red="240" green="240" blue="0" alpha="10"/>

 

Have a nice day and thank you again for your work and your skin which is beautiful !

 

flut
14 years ago
6 hours ago
3,855
By foliver 23 February 2023 - 04:19 AM UTC 

My friend, this skin is excellent. I would like to know if there is a way to change it to instead of appearing in the player's nationality, instead of appearing the emblem of the country's federation, the country's flag appears

 

Hi. Thanks!

Could you please show me a screenshot explaining exactly where you want to see the flag?

flut
14 years ago
6 hours ago
3,855
By Agustinns 23 February 2023 - 09:26 AM UTC 

Hi Flut! Amazing work!!

 

Do you know how to turn the background opacity in the player panel a little down. I just liked a little more as it was before like in the first attached picture. The second one is as it is now.

 

Thanks!!

 

Thanks!!

Regarding your question, you can do it in backgrounds.xml changing

 

  <!-- 40% -->
     <container class="plain_box" id="40bg" appearance="boxes/overlay/40/40" >
       <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="all" inset="0"/>
     </container>

 

for

 

  <!-- 40% -->
     <container class="plain_box" id="40bg" appearance="boxes/overlay/40/40" hidn="true" >
       <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="all" inset="0"/>
     </container>

 

and

 

 <!-- 20% -->
     <container class="plain_box" id="20bg" appearance="boxes/overlay/20/20" hidn="true" >
       <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="all" inset="0"/>
     </container>

 

for

 

 <!-- 20% -->
     <container class="plain_box" id="20bg" appearance="boxes/overlay/20/20" >
       <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="all" inset="0"/>
     </container>

 

But don't forget that the opacity will be reduced in all panels of the skin.

flut
14 years ago
6 hours ago
3,855
By luffy 23 February 2023 - 10:15 AM UTC 

Hello Flut,

I found the solution on the net and with luck opening the good file this morning. 

 

In the file  "fm2021flutskin_dark settings.xml", these are the 2 lines that need to be changed :

<colour name="calendar fixture" red="142" green="90" blue="192" alpha="100"/>

<colour name="calendar reserve fixture" red="240" green="240" blue="0" alpha="10"/>

 

Have a nice day and thank you again for your work and your skin which is beautiful !

 

Thanks. 🙂

Agustinns
14 years ago
3 months ago
2
By flut 24 February 2023 - 22:31 PM UTC 

Thanks!!

Regarding your question, you can do it in backgrounds.xml changing

 

  <!-- 40% -->
     <container class="plain_box" id="40bg" appearance="boxes/overlay/40/40" >
       <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="all" inset="0"/>
     </container>

 

for

 

  <!-- 40% -->
     <container class="plain_box" id="40bg" appearance="boxes/overlay/40/40" hidn="true" >
       <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="all" inset="0"/>
     </container>

 

and

 

 <!-- 20% -->
     <container class="plain_box" id="20bg" appearance="boxes/overlay/20/20" hidn="true" >
       <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="all" inset="0"/>
     </container>

 

for

 

 <!-- 20% -->
     <container class="plain_box" id="20bg" appearance="boxes/overlay/20/20" >
       <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="all" inset="0"/>
     </container>

 

But don't forget that the opacity will be reduced in all panels of the skin.

 

Hi Flut!!! Thanks for taking the time. I did as you instructed but it didn't work, opacity is the same. Do you have any idea what i can be doing wrong?.

 

Ghanks!!

 

 

Claus Clausen1
13 years ago
4 months ago
47
Premium

I do not know what I have done, but when i press a player, it is not on “Profil”, i have attributes, I have to choose it up in the drop down menu.

 

What have done, becauses it was not like this before?

 

Anyone?

santana
14 years ago
4 months ago
10

 Hi

 

How do I get the player physical status to show on the squad screen, as well on the player panel on matchday?

Screen shots:  

 

Panel on matchday
squad screen
flut
14 years ago
6 hours ago
3,855
By Claus Clausen1 25 February 2023 - 08:11 AM UTC 

I do not know what I have done, but when i press a player, it is not on “Profil”, i have attributes, I have to choose it up in the drop down menu.

 

What have done, becauses it was not like this before?

 

Anyone?

Check your game preferences. I believe you select “attributes” in the player screen definitions…

 

flut
14 years ago
6 hours ago
3,855
By santana 25 February 2023 - 11:23 AM UTC 

 Hi

 

How do I get the player physical status to show on the squad screen, as well on the player panel on matchday?

Screen shots:  

 

Panel on matchday
squad screen

 

The skin includes that. I believe there is some kind of conflict in your game. Clear the cache, keep this skin (and only this version) in the skins folder of the game, exit the game and reload it.

flut
14 years ago
6 hours ago
3,855
By Agustinns 25 February 2023 - 03:03 AM UTC 
 

 

Yes. Is ok your xml. Exit the game and reload it.

flut
14 years ago
6 hours ago
3,855
By foliver 23 February 2023 - 04:19 AM UTC 

My friend, this skin is excellent. I would like to know if there is a way to change it to instead of appearing in the player's nationality, instead of appearing the emblem of the country's federation, the country's flag appears

Thanks!

Could you please show me a screenshot? However, I believe it depends on your graphics folders. For example, as I prefer the logos, I have a folder of “flags” which, instead of country flags I use the country logos….I believe you should try to know what is the folder which have the logos and replace the logos with flags…..But, note that is only what I supposed….

 

Claus Clausen1
13 years ago
4 months ago
47
Premium
By flut 25 February 2023 - 16:53 PM UTC 

Check your game preferences. I believe you select “attributes” in the player screen definitions…

 

Thanks, it worked. But it was profile - Not attributes" - Makes no sense 😀 But thansk anyway 🙂

flut
14 years ago
6 hours ago
3,855
By Claus Clausen1 25 February 2023 - 17:25 PM UTC 

Thanks, it worked. But it was profile - Not attributes" - Makes no sense 😀 But thansk anyway 🙂

Yes. I said that you have chosen “attributes” when you should choose “profile” in order to have the player overview panel as default and not the player attributes panel as default.

 

HansaPilsner
3 years ago
5 days ago
46
Premium

Hi @flut 
Just installed V7 and for some reason my tactic screen now looks like this (below). No tactic visualization. Any idea for a fix to this?

And thank you for your great skin work year after year! Top man!
 

flut
14 years ago
6 hours ago
3,855
By HansaPilsner 04 March 2023 - 15:41 PM UTC 

Hi @flut 
Just installed V7 and for some reason my tactic screen now looks like this (below). No tactic visualization. Any idea for a fix to this?

And thank you for your great skin work year after year! Top man!
 

 

Hi. Certainly there is somekind of conflict. Clear the cache, exit the game, keep only this skin (and only this version) in the skins folder of the game, and reload the game.

HansaPilsner
3 years ago
5 days ago
46
Premium

That did the trick @flut !

Thanks for this and all your hard work. This skin is truly amazing and makes the game so much better!

flut
14 years ago
6 hours ago
3,855
By HansaPilsner 04 March 2023 - 17:36 PM UTC 

That did the trick @flut !

Thanks for this and all your hard work. This skin is truly amazing and makes the game so much better!

 

Thanks 🙂

oskumustatuli
12 years ago
2 weeks ago
3
Premium

Hi @flut .

 

First of all, I love your skins and they are the only ones I've been using in the last couple iterations of Football Manager.

 

Now I've been having these weird flickers / black flashes, goal nets flashing etc. in match presentation. Especially during breaks (when the match is processing) and sometimes when showing goal highlights. Usually flashing is more constant in 2d view. (I dont use that, but been testing.) Flashing is random I think: some matches you dont notice it at all and some matches are pretty bad.

I think it started about a time of late january fm update and at first I thought it was the game itself causing the flashes. There were some posts in forums etc. hinting that way. Now after main winter update the problem still persists.

 

Now I tried base skin (removed flutskin from skins-folder) and couple of other skins and still not 100% sure, but no flashing. Been testing only few matches, but still.

 

So is it possible that flutskin (or something in skin) in my setup is the cause, didn't find anything hinting that way from other users in this thread..

 

 

 

flut
14 years ago
6 hours ago
3,855
By oskumustatuli 05 March 2023 - 07:52 AM UTC 

Hi @flut .

 

First of all, I love your skins and they are the only ones I've been using in the last couple iterations of Football Manager.

 

Now I've been having these weird flickers / black flashes, goal nets flashing etc. in match presentation. Especially during breaks (when the match is processing) and sometimes when showing goal highlights. Usually flashing is more constant in 2d view. (I dont use that, but been testing.) Flashing is random I think: some matches you dont notice it at all and some matches are pretty bad.

I think it started about a time of late january fm update and at first I thought it was the game itself causing the flashes. There were some posts in forums etc. hinting that way. Now after main winter update the problem still persists.

 

Now I tried base skin (removed flutskin from skins-folder) and couple of other skins and still not 100% sure, but no flashing. Been testing only few matches, but still.

 

So is it possible that flutskin (or something in skin) in my setup is the cause, didn't find anything hinting that way from other users in this thread..

 

Hi and thanks 🙂

Regarding your problem, in my game that bug is not arising. Also there is no other reports regarding that weird bug.  However, maybe is related to some kind of conflict (since I use many xmls that I edited for previouses FM, maybe some of them causes that…). I really don't know what is happening but my suggestion is to do a few tests for try to find what file causes that. Try, for example, to remove the folder panels and reload the game. If the flashes still there, the problem maybe is related to some file in the folders that still are in the skin folder. If the problem is solved, than place again the panels folder in the skin and remove, for example, just the matches folder and test again. And proceed in that way to find in what folder is the “bad” file. When you find the folder where the file is, start to remove files from that folder and try again….etc. I believe that proceeding in that way you be able to isolate and find the file(s) responsible for that bug…

evoking
14 years ago
1 day ago
42

Hi @flut,

How can I change the back side kit ? because the kit color is the same with the number and player name. As I remember in FM22 there was stripe kit with solid color for the name & number. Thank you

flut
14 years ago
6 hours ago
3,855
By evoking 07 March 2023 - 11:03 AM UTC 

Hi @flut,

How can I change the back side kit ? because the kit color is the same with the number and player name. As I remember in FM22 there was stripe kit with solid color for the name & number. Thank you

 

Hi. Yes. In FM22 I used the default kits with a changed pack where I included some kits with the square. However, now I used the default kit pack exactly as it was created. If you have the ingame editor is easy to change for the square kit (look at my screenshot). However I think I noticed that you don't have the ingame editor. Thus, if you still have the FM22 flutskin, you can use that default kits and your problem will be solved (you just have to go to graphics/pictures/kits and replace the folder 2d for that one I used in the FM22.

 

evoking
14 years ago
1 day ago
42
By flut 08 March 2023 - 22:09 PM UTC 

Hi. Yes. In FM22 I used the default kits with a changed pack where I included some kits with the square. However, now I used the default kit pack exactly as it was created. If you have the ingame editor is easy to change for the square kit (look at my screenshot). However I think I noticed that you don't have the ingame editor. Thus, if you still have the FM22 flutskin, you can use that default kits and your problem will be solved (you just have to go to graphics/pictures/kits and replace the folder 2d for that one I used in the FM22

 

Too bad I already delete all the FM22 files except the 3d kits. 

Will it works if I copy the kit from “square” folder to “same as front” folder ?

 

EDIT : I downloaded the FM22 v.6 skin, so I just copy all the “2d” folder and replace the existing folder in FM32 Flut skin v.7 ? 

flut
14 years ago
6 hours ago
3,855
By evoking 09 March 2023 - 11:07 AM UTC 

Too bad I already delete all the FM22 files except the 3d kits. 

Will it works if I copy the kit from “square” folder to “same as front” folder ?

 

EDIT : I downloaded the FM22 v.6 skin, so I just copy all the “2d” folder and replace the existing folder in FM32 Flut skin v.7 ? 

 

Yes. You can do it copying all the folder.

DWCallaghan
15 years ago
1 month ago
36
Premium

cant get this skin to appear in the drop down to choose it……. solved, I am an idiot . thanks

Robert Proctor
2 years ago
4 months ago
2
Premium

Love the theme but what I am noticing is the when I goto through the tabs there is a delay and takes ages to load up the pages, and my system can handle this game not that this is the issue here most likely am I doing something wrong???

 

I have cached skin for faster response times and it doesn't make a difference.

flut
14 years ago
6 hours ago
3,855
By Robert Proctor 12 March 2023 - 04:20 AM UTC 

Love the theme but what I am noticing is the when I goto through the tabs there is a delay and takes ages to load up the pages, and my system can handle this game not that this is the issue here most likely am I doing something wrong???

 

I have cached skin for faster response times and it doesn't make a difference.

 

Hi.

Thanks. Regarding the delay, in fact there is a delay in Home panel (tab 2 and 5), and tab 5 of Club overview panel (when we go to that tabs the first time). I don't know why (so, I can't fix it). However in my game is just a small delay and nothing that disturbs me.

Robert Proctor
2 years ago
4 months ago
2
Premium
By flut 12 March 2023 - 18:40 PM UTC 

Hi.

Thanks. Regarding the delay, in fact there is a delay in Home panel (tab 2 and 5), and tab 5 of Club overview panel (when we go to that tabs the first time). I don't know why (so, I can't fix it). However in my game is just a small delay and nothing that disturbs me.

 

So the delay is only temp? or is it something like you said something you have to fix?

flut
14 years ago
6 hours ago
3,855
By Robert Proctor 12 March 2023 - 19:53 PM UTC 

So the delay is only temp? or is it something like you said something you have to fix?

The delay occurs everytime you load the game. As I said, I don't know how to fix it. 

 

Brendar00
1 year ago
1 year ago
6
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