Matt - Comments

Thanks.

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No plans to change this currently, no.

Still hoping for an update today, but there's some things I want to fix before then that have popped up since the FM update.

I may need to move the Polygon back to a toggle. Changes made have made it cause some pretty poor performance issues on Player Reports, when the polygon is loaded each time.

 With:

Without:

An update will be out probably tomorrow, or later tonight.

--data-tables-background-odd: #ff000000;

This variable controls the colour of the alternate rows, I've made it transparent here.

https://github.com/matt-wadsworth/ctrl-fm/blob/a90d45c1775679673a343b19e31897089732c79f/styles/variables.css#L57

I'm away currently, so unable to look into updating until towards the end of the week.

There's been some pretty significant changes to the base skin structure also it seems, an update may end up not being possible at all.

In a match? Third tab/tile on the formation block.

Haha yeah, has been a while, definitely more than a few years! Think Bluu was FM2007/2008 times.

Did base this somewhat around Gluu, in terms of colours etc. but a lot has changed since back then.

Not something I am seeing on my side, I don't think anything I've changed should've affected this. Is it tied to your scouting range or something?
 

If you had a previous skin (or version) installed I would maybe look at verifying your files in Steam/Epic/Xbox and installing again.

Small bug fix update released.

[1.1.1] – 26-02-2026

• Fixed
  • Individual Training - Fixed a bug preventing Praise/Criticise actions from showing.

Looking into it, I may release a small fix for it if it is a bug.
I have an idea on what it will be.

EDIT: Confirmed. Will release a small update to fix tomorrow.

Which background are you referring to?

This? I haven't looked too much into it, but the background is a gradient with the teams colours, this isn't replaceable. The Touchline/Lines image on the right side is replaceable, but that get's recoloured to the teams secondary colour and will only take up the space it sits in. Not a lot of options for it really.

The font I did look at, but wasn't able to replicate your exact case, these are correct here right? There's an issue with font replacement in skins currently, where the issues you describe sometimes do happen and do quite regularly. Some have even seen it fix/break after game restarts.

I may end up rolling back the main game font to the default/original font, to try avoid these issues. 

v1.1 released.
 

• Added
  • Pros and Cons – Added to Player Reports.
  • Match View - Added Pass Maps.
  • Individual Training - New tile layout.
  • Player Reports - New tile layouts for Overview, Performance and Career tabs.
• Changed
  • Key/Preferred attribute highlights – Made these more obvious (may still tweak; want to keep them quite subtle).
  • Match View - Re-arranged tiles and updated Commentary Bar styling.
  • Switches - Updated styling.
  • Font - Removed replacement of language fonts.
  • Club Site - Added more relevant info - based on MrTini/WTS layouts.
  • Checkboxes - Updated styling.
  • Messages Unread Indicator - Increased contrast.
• Fixed
  • Player Polygon – Fixed for goalkeepers.
  • Warning Icon - Reverted to white icon to make it visible on Continue/Must Respond buttons.
  • Background Replacement - Fixed for Bundesliga and added others in case another league was missed.
  • Incoming Messages - Removed blue background.

Thanks. They'll be there, they just aren't as visible as people seem to want them to be.

Update on that here - https://sortitoutsi.net/content/76287/ctrl-26-10#comment_871130

Should be able to. Your skin folder in Skin Builder should just be the changes you want to make, don't include any of the bundle files here.

Have the skin installed as normal first, then build in Skin Builder with the changes you want and Apply to Game. Would suggest clearing backups/cache in Skin Builder also, so it uses the skin bundles and not older files.

Haven't tested this workflow at all though and there's a chance the UABEA changes I have to make would stop this from working.

Just tested this, didn't seem to happen for me..

I don't think this would be a skin issue, as I haven't changed anything for those buttons yet, but hard to really know for sure.

If you previously had another skin installed, I would verify your game files and re-install the skin. Not a definite fix at all though.

Just to update on some things…

Fixed/Changed:

• Key/Preferred attribute highlights - Made more obvious. May still tweak a little, but as I said before I really don't want these to stand out too much.
• Player Polygon - Fixed for goalkeepers.
• Pros and Cons - Added to Player Reports

Preview (Ignore the lack of icons in the Nav)

Looking into:

• Message Indicator - Looking into options for a more obvious style here.
• Warning Icon (Continue) - Likely will revert the icon to white. It's hard to know exactly where icons are used and in what state etc.
• Pass Maps (Match) - I thought these were showing tbh, will double check, I didn't spend too long on the match layout.
• Affiliates (Radio Buttons) - Will try to replicate on my side and hopefully fix if possible.

The above and possibly some more will hopefully be released with v1.1 over the next few days.

Thanks.

The message indicators I did originally have as the yellow/gold used elsewhere but felt it was a little too much. I will try some other options there to try increase the readability of the message state.

I'll try to improve this also for the key/preferred attribute rows. Though I do want to try keep it a pretty minimal, just maybe not as much as it is now.

Appreciate the comments.

I'll take a look at the fonts, I have had similar issues myself. May be a case of changing the font used for better language support.

Thanks. Will take a look at the polygon, was under the impression it was switching already (it's not) but I may have left out some data binding when I moved it around.

@1seasonwonder @_ErHaN_  macOS version added.

Appreciate that.
 

Not in a particularly simple way tbh. You could use Skin Builder to patch your own backgrounds and replace the background bundles in this, or use UABEA to replace the assets directly.

The bar to the left of the attribute row shows this. Green = Key, Blue = Preferred.
I won't be re-introducing the entire row highlighting.