FM 2014 Ad Board Patch

F.A.Q.

Q. How do I install the Adboard Patch?

PC
1. Extract the contents of the rar folder to your desktop.

2. Move the ads folder to the following directory: My Documents /Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2014/graphics/pictures. This will now give you the following directory: My Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2014/graphics/pictures/ads

3. Open up the My Documents /Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2014 folder and create a new folder called 'ads' giving you the following directory My Documents /Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2014/ads

4. Move the 'Club adboards' and 'no club adboards' folder from your desktop to a new directory you make in My Documents /Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2014/ (The name doesn't matter)

5. Decide if you want to use the 'Club adboards' or 'no club adboards' once you have decided copy and paste the fm.xml file from 'club adboards' or 'no club adboards' folder to the ads folder you created earlier

Make sure both folder names are in lower case

You should now have the following folder structure.



6. Open up FM14 and access the in game preferences menu.

7. Go to the 'display' tab and untick 'use skin cache'
tick 'reload skin on confirm'
untick 'clicking on an ad board takes you to its owners website'
Go to the 'general' tab and set size of text & images to 100% (if not already)
Confirm these changes

8. Reload FM14 and enjoy

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Apple Mac

1. Extract the contents of the rar folder to your desktop.

2. Move the ads folder to the following directory: My Documents /Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2014/graphics/pictures. This will now give you the following directory: My Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2014/graphics/pictures/ads

3. Open up the My Documents /Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2014 folder and create a new folder called 'ads' giving you the following directory My Documents /Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2014/ads

4. Move the 'Club adboards' and 'no club adboards' folder from your desktop to a new directory you make in My Documents /Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2014/ (The name doesn't matter)

5. Decide if you want to use the 'Club adboards' or 'no club adboards' once you have decided copy and paste the fm.xml file from 'club adboards' or 'no club adboards' folder to the ads folder you created earlier

Make sure both 'ads' folders are in lower case

6. Open up FM14 and access the in game preferences menu.

7. Go to the display tab and untick 'use skin cache'
tick 'reload skin on confirm'
untick 'clicking on an ad board takes you to its owners website'
Go to the 'general' tab and set size of text & images to 100% (if not already)
Confirm these changes

8. Reload FM14 and enjoy

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Q. Why are there two different xml files?

A. As the folder names suggest one xml file contains club specific ad-boards and one doesn’t. This has been done as in previous patches people have complained that they see clubs specific ad-boards in cup competitions. Due the way the xml file there is no way around this using code. The only solution would be the use of two files.

For example say you are Arsenal and want Arsenal specific ad-boards in the Premiership and the Champions league ad-boards in the Champions League you would follow these steps;

1. Load up FM with the Club Specific config file in use
2. Play your league game (Arsenal ads will show)
3. Before your Champions League game Save and quit FM14
4. Replace the club specific config file with the non club config file.
5. Re boot FM14
6. Play your Champions League match (Champions League ads will show)

Leagues

Africa
Algerian Premier League & South African ABSA Premiership

Asia
Australian A-League, Chinese Super League, Hong Kong First Division, Indian I League, Indonesian Premier League, Japanese J-League, Malaysian Super League, Qatarian Stars League, Singaporean S-League, South Korean K-League & UAE Football League.

Europe
Austrian Bundesliga, Belarussian Vysshaya Liga, Belgian Jupiler League, Bulgarian Premier League, Croatian Prva HNL, Cypriot Premier League, Czech Gambrinus Liga, Danish SAS Ligaen, Dutch Eredivisie, Jupiler League, English Premiership, Championship, League 1, League 2, Blue Square Premier, Finnish Veikkausliiga, French Ligue 1, German Bundesliga, Bundesliga 2, Liga 3, Regional Liga Nord, NOFV Nord, Greek Superleague, Hungarian Soporoni Liga, Icelandic Urvalsdeild Karla, Isreali Ligat Winner, Ligat Leumit, Italian Serie A, Maltese Premier League, Northern Irish Premier League, Norwegian Tippeligaen, Polish Ekstraklasa, I liga, Portugues Liga Sagres, Liga Vitalis, Republic of Ireland League of Ireland, Romanian Liga 1, Russian Premier League, Russian 1st Division, Scottish Premier League, First Division, Second Division, Third Division, Serbian Superliga, Slovakian Coron Liag, Slovenian Prva Liga, Spanish Premira Liga, Liga Adelante, Swedish Ekstraklasa, Swiss Super League, Turkish Super Lig, Ukrainian First League & Welsh Premier League.

North America
American Major League Soccer & Mexican Primera Division

Oceania
New Zealand ASB Premiership

South America
Argentinian Primera Division, Nacional B, Brazilian Serie A, Campeonato Carioca, Campeonato Gaucho, Campeonato Mineiro, Campeonato Paulista, Chilian Primera Division, Primera B, Colombian Copa Mustang, Peruvian Primera Division & Uruguayan Primera Division.

Cup Competitions

Continental
Africa
Champions League, Confederations Cup & Super Cup
Asia
AFC Cup & Champions League
Europe
UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League & UEFA Super Cup
North America
Canadian Champions Cup, CONCACAF Champions League & Superliga
South America
Copa Libertadores, Copa Sudamerica & Recopa Sudamericana

Domestic Cup's
England
FA Cup, Carling cup, Community Shield & Johnstones Paint Trophy
France
Coupe de France & Coupe de Ligue
Germany
Pokal & Supercup
Greece
Football Cup OPAP
Italy
Coppa Italia
Poland
Puchar & Superpuchar
Portugal
Taca de Portugal & Carlsberg Cup
Russia
Russian Cup
Scotland
Scottish Cup & League Cup
Spain
Copa del Ray
The Netherlands/Holland
Dutch Cup
Turkey
Turkish Cup

As in previous years other users are welcome to produce boards to be added to the pack, either to update current boards or fill missing gaps

The following users deserve a special mention for the amount of work/boards produced:
RabCP - Original Creator of the Pack
benno
Grabek71 - Polish Leagues/Clubs
natarin - Chilean League/Clubs
itayn - Israel
rafney87 - Malaysia
KieranSTFC
zecha - French League/Clubs


How to code ad-boards


Open up the ads.xml file located My Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2014/ads

First of all you have to load the graphics into FM14 which is done by the following piece of code the near the bottom of the xml file

<!-- Hibernian adboards -->
<record id="2191" path="pictures/ads/europe/clubs/scotland/spl/hibernian/puma"/>
<record id="2192" path="pictures/ads/europe/clubs/scotland/spl/hibernian/skysports"/>
<record id="2193" path="pictures/ads/europe/clubs/scotland/spl/hibernian/espn"/>

What this code means

<!-- Hibernian adboards --> - Just identifies to whoever is reading the xml file what this piece of code is for competitions/clubs..

<record id="2191" - Assigns a unique id number to specific ad-board (you makes this number up but make sure it is not already in use elsewhere in the config)

path="pictures/ads/europe/clubs/scotland/spl/hibernian/puma"/> - Location of the ad-board which has just been given a unique id number

The next bit of code determines where the previously assigned ad-boards will be displayed
<!-- Hibernian, rabcp -->
<list id="17">
<integer value="2191"/>
<integer value="2192"/>
<integer value="2193"/>
<integer value="2191"/>
<integer value="2192"/>
<integer value="2193"/>
.
.
.
<integer value="2191"/>
<integer value="2192"/>
<integer value="2193"/>
</list>

What this code means

<!-- Hibernian, rabcp --> - Just identifies to whoever is reading the xml file what this piece of code is for competitions/clubs along with the author of the adboards.

<list id="17"> - Unique id of the competition/clubs the ad-boards are for

<integer value="2191"/> - Positions adboard number 2191 in to be displayed for games in the assigned competition/club. This code needs repeated 44 more times as there are 45 adboard spaces on the maximum pitch size

I hope to be able to release smaller update packs after changes to avoid people having to re download the entire pack

I can only thanks the above people involved
a cracker job u guyz
makes my game much more fun to play
cheers

Thank you for the update to the '13-'14 season and of course to everyone involved

Many thanks for this.

Thanks great work

Thanks Guy's much appreciated

thanks very much guy's

Bloody awesome!!!

thx.

Great Job.

welldone!!

Many thanks to all involved!

Hello !

Problem with Paris Saint Germain .. adboards default !! and not Paris's adboards : fly emirates, nike....

Thank you very much of your help !

little confused here guys sorry, do i need fm13 adboard pictures to make this work ? if so do you have a link as I never had it before
thanks

No US ARSENAL just download these and put the files in the path shown in op page

i got it working mate thanks, quick question though is it possible to replace some of the default ones still showing with the new ones, i use the no club one and still have a few of the fm handheld boards showing and id like to replace them with some others ?
thanks

You'll find you have better coverage if you switch to the club specific ad boards as that is the area where we have focused most of our attention so far.

The no club boards will show some default boards if there are not enough boards allocated to that league to give full coverage. This will be fixed in time but is not something that has a quick fix. I myself use the club boards, as even when playing in the English Premier League the clubs there still show their own specific ad-boards during match days (the club file will generally have some league specific boards too).

Well spotted, you have noticed one that fell through the gap - I shall fix this shortly!

EDIT: Update now out - Update Patch from 14.01 to 14.02 available here: http://dfiles.eu/files/74mqtlin0

awesome thanks Ill try that then

Default boards are showing for the English Capital One Cup. All others work fine?

I had this problem...In the xml file they are carling carling2 and carling cup .In the aboard folder the ads are just 1 2 and 3 .So just renamed them to carling
carling2 and carling cup then they worked.Attachment enclosed with my carling cup done.

Thanks for spotting, I shall include this in the 14.03 update - (you can solve this until its release by using the fix from jeffro37)

Beautiful work

It's possible .. AS Monaco in update 14.03 ??

http://www.asm-fc.com/fr/

Monaco : Falcao, James rodriguez ....

What am i doing wrong guys? Can't make them work....

Many thanks for this great addition - if it is to be updated it would be great to include the Skrill North and South - thanks again guys.

Can't make them work.... i see only black, no ads in game

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.

Let me make this point CLEAR

The readme file states PLEASE DO NOT RE-DISTRIBUTE THIS PACK
which means NO RE-HOSTING

The reason that I know this is happening is two-fold
a) The pack contained intentional spelling errors left to spot any re-use
b) The download link has a download counter tracking download requests

I have found 'patches' elsewhere containing the same errors and even after removal here, the 14.01 pack is still being downloaded

DO NOT RE-HOST THE FILE LINK TO THE PAGE HERE, THIS MAKES SURE THEY HAVE THE LATEST VERSION & MAKES SURE THOSE INVOLVED GET CREDIT FOR THEIR WORK