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Thank you for the kind words.  In response to your questions:

1. Yes, it's just a case of redownloading.  The version number will be updated, so technically you could have multiple versions in your skin folder, but I will always recommend against doing that, just in case there ends up being a conflict with some of the files.
2. Club colours is very tricky, especially with the design style I've opted for.  When you use a club's primary colour as a background to a section, then you have to use the club's secondary colour for the text.  This is because you cannot identify if the club's primary colour is going to be light or dark and change the text on top of it conditionally.  If you view the Club Info page for a team such as FC Augbsurg you will understand why I decided against doing this!
   1. From a coding point of view, though, it is possibly.  Renaming red_replacement="mustermann3" (or whatever colour I chose for a specific element) to red_replacement="primary" in various places will allow you to do so.  These will be files like panels/player/player overview panel.xml, for example.  But there are a lot of files that will need going through, and you'd then need to also change colour="text" on the all the relevant text fields to colour="secondary".
3. I doubt I will be doing any further YouTube videos on skinning in the near future.  My focus is to start playing and continue the content that has previously been on the channel.  That is not to say there will never be anything, but it is not likely to be soon.  
   1. In terms of changing colours, it is very simple - change the RGB value for the colours you want.  I have made the colour scheme very simple for this purpose.  The “mustermann” values are the main accent colours - often used for header backgrounds.  mustermann3 is the central value, the lower numbers are darker shades of that colour, the higher numbers are lighter shades of that colour (e.g. mustermann4 is lighter than mustermann3).  The “gimn” values are the complementary accent colour - often used for titles.  This follows the same rules, gimn1 is slightly darker, gimn2 is the central value, gimn3 is slightly lighter.
   2. After the theme colours are two more sections.  The first section is custom colours I've defined.  These mostly then refer back to the scheme colours.  I have tried to name them in a way that is clear what they are used for.  For example pizza_attack is the colour for the pizza chart for the attacking category.  The next section is colours already defined in game that I have changed.  This is things like attribute colours and form colours.  Deleting these rows entirely will revert back to the default colours used by FM.
4. The default colour scheme with the download is Martyr - Blue and Gold.

• It's not possible in the chosen layout
• It's far too granular.  The arrows show attribute change of 0.1.  On a scale of 1-20, that means arrows are showing when there is an improvement or regression of 0.5%.
• You can see broader progression from the player's development page

Danke

(sorry, that's about all the German I know)

Just for transparency - it won't be a part of the official download, as it wouldn't be a friendly setup to lower resolutions, but when I get a chance I'll have a look nonetheless and provide guidance for how you can implement it.

That's good to know.  I'll see if I can look into it, but might not be for a little while.  First up…actually play the game.  Then…finish off updates relating to the patch on Thursday.

Thank you for the kinds words, and I'm glad you're enjoying it as much as I do!!  There is something super liberating about not worrying about minor attribute differences!

Hopefully should be in the new year.  Light mode is approximately an extra 1,200 files at least to edit, so it will take a while.

See FAQs

Suggestions are always welcome (I just make no promises they'll be implemented).

Contract expiry dates I'll consider.  These used to be in, using the piece of code that formats it as "[wage] until [date]".  I recall there being an issue between FM22 and FM23 with this particular bit, so I'll revisit and see if I can get it working.

I'm not sure on the kits at the bottom.  I'll consider, but I'll be transparent with my current thoughts: the kits haven't been changed from the default size, and I can't necessarily see a reason to increase them.  I play at 2560x1440 (when I'm not recording) and it doesn't look out of place to me, but I do accept that by moving the tactical options into buttons, I've increased the width for each player, and definitely confers more benefits to those at lower resolutions.

What I will do is send you an alternative file.  The attached xml would need to go in panels/widgets folder.  This moves things around to give more prominence to the kits, but you will probably need to tweak this further to your preference:

Done!

Some minor update files added to original post

Thanks!!

Also, thanks for posting on meistertrainer, too!  It saves me having to worry about relying on Google Translate!!!

Correct, that is a deliberate design choice.  Something I forgot to mention in the video.  It allows a single visualisation to display current and potential ability in the profile for youth players.

For example, this player is currently 3.5 youth stars, with potential between 2-3 senior stars.

Whilst this player is 1 senior star, with potential between 3-4 senior stars.

Thank you.  It is a very niche playing style, and I expect the majority of people who open this thread will have a very similar opinion (in that it's not for them)

Thank you for noticing.  I'll take a look this evening, but sounds like I might have just forgotten to change a single ID somewhere!

Thank you for going into so much detail.  That's interesting, as with those scaling settings you should end up with an effective screen size of around 2000x1200; so it seems weird that it's cutting some stuff off.  I'll have a play around and see what I can find out.

Oh, that's interesting.  What resolution and zoom settings do you use?  For Zoom settings if you can tell me the game zoom level and Windows scaling level that would be great, and will help me try and replicate this.

I'm sure you can manage a bit of copying and pasting!!  I have faith in you.

If the version of the icons on the pitch in Flut is to your liking, then find that file - for Flut it should be Flut/panels/tactics/tactics icon info panel overview.xml - copy that file into Mustermann/panels/tactics folder.

Then reload the skin with caching turned off.

Click on the stat name in the header of the table.

You'll want to edit Mustermann Iconic/panels/tactics/tactics icon info panel overview.xml.  Your best bet is to find the corresponding file in a skin you like and paste it into the folder.

Hi taz71.  

It is considered a courtesy to ask other skinners for permission and provide credits after you've borrowed their work to include in a skin for public release.  I heartily recommend doing so.

There will be a skin for FM24, released towards end of November.  It will be graphical only.  I will be providing updates on Twitter, over the next few weeks.

Looks great!

Did you use the resource archiver to extract the files from the base game files.  Specifically there is a file in the Football Manager 2023 data folder (in Program Files) called panels.fmf.  This has all (well most) of the files for the base game.  In the standard Mustermann skins I haven't made any changes to this file, so that file won't exist in any of my folders - hence needing to extract it yourself, edit it, and move it into the skin folders.

A guide for using Resource Archiver here: https://community.sigames.com/forums/topic/419176-fm18guide-skinning-guide-part-1-how-to-extract-default-files-understanding-file-structure/

Whilst the above specifically mentions FM18, it still rings true for more recent editions.

You'll need to use the resource archiver to extract the panels.fmf.  In here there will be a file called something similar to match/match score area.xml - you'll need to move this into the correpsonding file in the skin, open it in a text editor (such as notepad) and change the text size for team names.  

This is likely to be a line that starts:

<widget class="text" size="x"…

You'll need to reduce the number of x.  There will be two instances, one for the home team and one for the away team.  You'll then need to reload the skin (with cache cleared).  It might require a bit of trial and error as I suspect that file has multiple instances of text.

How do I use the alternative colour schemes?

Copy the colour scheme you want into the [skin name]/settings folder.  Delete the existing [skin name] settings.xml file, and rename the one you copied over to [skin name] settings.xml.  Once done, reload the skin!

tactics/tactics icon info panel overview - it can be a little fiddly, so if you've not done it before, I suggest finding that file from a skin you like and copying it over.

You change either change them the normal way via Preferences → Skin Colours, or in the settings file (look for the bit that says attributes)

You don't.  Make your own judgements.

I'm afraid the deal has been broken, as it is not possible to highlight stats in the chosen layout.  That said, by being grouped by training category, attributes are now arranged with the other attributes that effect specific areas.  If you're looking for a role that is going to be passing a lot (BPD, playmakers, etc…) the Passing group is important.  If you're for someone who sits back and reads the game, look to the Positioning group, and so on.

Concentration has been renamed “Focus”.  This is so the word fits into the space for certain languages.