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#441628 📝Guide to making Metallic logos and other related hints, tips and assistance
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No unfortunately not.... I'm not an expert on photoshop, but I think "eye candy 5 impact" only work on cs6 or older version of photoshop ( https://www.alienskin.com/about/press/alien-skin-software-announces-eye-candy-5-impact/ ) and you need "eye candy 7" if you have a newer version of photoshop. If anyone knows otherwise please let me know. So if anyone with experience with photoshop can make a action with "eye candy 7" that would be great. you can get a trial version here: https://www.alienskin.com/eyecandy/

Perhaps @ducc can help?

I have actually never done Metallic logos or even used Eye Candy before, but I could try to edit the action. I downloaded the trial version of Eye Candy 7, which is probably needed since I have a relatively recent iteration of Photoshop. Within Eye Candy, there is a filter that results in an effect that looks quite a bit like the Metallic logos, but there are a number of sliders for different adjustments. If it is possible, maybe you could take a screenshot of their positions when creating the Metallic effect with the Eye Candy version you have, so it can be reproduced more easily?



If nothing else will work, it is also possible to legally download Photoshop CS2 directly from Adobe. At least if you are a little bit naughty and claim (by ticking a box) to have originally purchased the product...

Link to download page:
https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs2-product-downloads.html?promoid=19SCDRQK
#440590 ⬇️ Home Thread - Metallic Logo Megapack - FM24 Update 2024.06 Released [08/04/2024]
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If someone wants to continue his work - you have my permission to download my updates and make metallic logos out of them.

This should be a big help for anyone continuing the Metallic pack.
#440065 ⬇️ Home Thread - Metallic Logo Megapack - FM24 Update 2024.06 Released [08/04/2024]
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I have first now noticed that you run the DVX logo's any chance of combining the two projects? somehow combine the resources in to making one great logopack? I would love to have some help running and keeping the "metallic logo" project afloat (both with the forum and making logos). Kremmen leaving the project has left it without anyone with admin rights to run the show. I have no real interest in "being i charge" of the Metallic logo project but right now I'm doing what i can to keep it alive . I see my role right now as being kind of a caretaker manager of the project and going forward I would very much like to help anyone with maintaining an running the forum and helping with the making of logos as I have done in the past. As you have experience in making logos, running a forum and seems to be an expert in photoshop I see you as the perfect candidate to continue this project if you want

Hopefully the Metallic logos can continue, but I'm happy working on my own little project. Has anyone been able to contact kremmen? I read that he had an unfortunate and sad event in his life, but said that he would return to make Metallic logos. That was already some time ago though, so is it for certain he is not coming back? As far as I know kremmen was co-operating with @schweigi at least what it comes to sourcing logos. Maybe he knows something or can help with the pack?
#439366 💡 Metallic Logos Request Thread
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This the logo of the Volley club of Niki Volos

The logo appears to be on the 2018/19 football team shirts, so if it has been the volley club logo it may have been adopted for wider use.
https://www.facebook.com/fcniki/photos/a.1524919454196833.1073741830.1501220126566766/1921586481196793
#438751 Metallic logos Unofficial Update 1 and 2
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That what I'm trying to remove : all false and incorrect ID logos, 98060977 apparently it's been missed

I looked at the updates and the following logos have filenames that are not main team IDs within the final FM18 DB. Some of them are without a doubt still relevant for the pack, since their names are legitimate sub team (II, u19, u18 etc.) IDs, but some are not. Despite the inclusion of a number of correct IDs, these lists should make it easier to spot the incorrect ones. Some of the incorrect IDs appear to be probable typos (including extra empty space within the filename), the rest I don't know - maybe IDs that existed in the past but have since been removed from the DB? Where did you get the IDs?

Update 1:

130832
476884
810987
812721
816644
832852
851447
859710
879390
946796
1006709
1504364
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3204655
4003130
4212258
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5627107
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8800275
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Update 2:

788
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#438659 Metallic logos Unofficial Update 1 and 2
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Unofficial Update 2 is ready for download

Maybe I'm missing something, but what squads are some of these logos for? For example 98060977 looks like Linares logo, but the ID does not match any of the club's squads and FM18 pre-game editor DB search finds 0 records.
#437569 💡 Metallic Logos Request Thread
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I put this logo in my folders of Metallic logo packs and reload...in FM18 still incorrect...i have check config and this logo fine but FM18 logo wrong ....any ideas?

I suspect that it is a bug in the game. It affects some Spanish clubs like Sevilla / Sevilla Atletico and Gimnastic / Pobla de Mafumet, but for example Villanovense / La Cruz Villanovense logos work correctly. You should actually still see the small Pobla de Mafumet logo in search results if you search for the club's name.
#437376 DVX Logos for FM24 | 24v1 Basepack
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Thanks @Cizzu. Will be in the next pack.
#437375 Restoration of the standard logos!
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#435262 A Selection of Logos from My Archives
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France | ES Vallières | 17/18

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg300/duccio_fm/dvx/shared/50045769_uefa_fra___es_vallieres---dvx.png
#433430 DVX Logos for FM24 | 24v1 Basepack
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When the next update?

Not in a while. Hopefully a whole new pack after FM19 has been released.
#433142 DVX Logos for FM24 | 24v1 Basepack
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@Cizzu Yes the configs should be updated.

  1. Copy the new logos to the same places where equivalent logos are within the main pack structure (copy the new primary folder over the dvx-logos\clubs\primary folder).

  2. Add these lines (between <list id="maps"> and </list> ) to the config that is in the primary folder:

  3. <record from="36015276_uefa_gre" to="graphics/pictures/club/36015276/logo"/>
    <record from="36031552_uefa_gre" to="graphics/pictures/club/36031552/logo"/>
    <record from="36045725_uefa_gre" to="graphics/pictures/club/36045725/logo"/>
    <record from="36046187_uefa_gre" to="graphics/pictures/club/36046187/logo"/>
    <record from="36048898_uefa_gre" to="graphics/pictures/club/36048898/logo"/>

  4. Add these lines (between <list id="maps"> and </list> ) to the config that is in the small folder:

  5. <record from="36015276_uefa_gre" to="graphics/pictures/club/36015276/icon"/>
    <record from="36031552_uefa_gre" to="graphics/pictures/club/36031552/icon"/>
    <record from="36045725_uefa_gre" to="graphics/pictures/club/36045725/icon"/>
    <record from="36046187_uefa_gre" to="graphics/pictures/club/36046187/icon"/>
    <record from="36048898_uefa_gre" to="graphics/pictures/club/36048898/icon"/>
Alternatively you can use this program to automatically create new configs: https://sortitoutsi.net/downloads/view/848/fm-graphics-configurator-for-pc
#432868 DVX Logos for FM24 | 24v1 Basepack
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Yes you are right. I think it's correct. So forgive me
I await your beautiful logos.
Thank you!

Its sometimes difficult to know what the correct logo is. For example here is FS Tamynaikos Aliveriou's Facebook page, and they have (at least) two logo designs on display. Even in squad pictures the players sometimes have one logo and sometimes the other - or even a mixture. https://www.facebook.com/ΦΣ-Ταμυναϊκός-Αλιβερίου-716263615055136


Here are logos for the requested Greek teams: DOWNLOAD
#432867 DVX Logos for FM24 | 24v1 Basepack
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Here is the updated Osnabrück logo. No II team badge though because the team no longers exists and in my interpretation retains the older logo: DOWNLOAD
#432754 DVX Logos for FM24 | 24v1 Basepack
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Hi @Cizzu, sorry for not replying earlier. I will try to make the logos shortly.

Fix this:
- AS Asteras Vlachioti
36047734

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/47/Asterasvlachiotifc.png/200px-Asterasvlachiotifc.png founded 1950.
In your logo 1958... are you sure?

Quite frankly I'm not sure.

This is what would seem to be Greek 3rd division (17/18) side Asteras Vlachioti's Facebook page (though I don't see it advertised as the official one): https://www.facebook.com/AsterasVlahiotiFC

If one looks at the profile pictures, the year 1958 appers on logos in the oldest pics beginning in 2012. 1950 appears in 2016, and then its 1958 again beginning in 2017. I'm not sure what is going on with the years, but the latest used is 1958. I guess its correct?
#430473 Trouble with nation logos
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Hi. What could be the reason this 3 flag seeing different in the screen? Can you help me fix it? Thank you so much.

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/cfSU8XMUiyklbIpSdHqZQ5q1f4Dp6RwO7PN3NmpC.png

Have you looked at the small flag files of those nations? Usually if something doesn't line up properly, its because the "offending" files are different compared to the others. Possible fault is diverging image dimesions/size.
#430331 DVX Logos for FM24 | 24v1 Basepack
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Thanks for pointing out the Osnabrück logo @Indietronic. It will be in the next version if the pack.
#424050 DVX Logos for FM24 | 24v1 Basepack
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https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/6x5UeBdQSPqxHHuP8naaLFwfVimhaVD5XDb4wVQb.png


Update to DVX Logos 18v2 is now available for download.

It contains over 800 new, updated or improved logos. The link is in the first post.
#421829 Cutters - way forward re upsizing cuts
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Something that might also be of interest is that the @2x size system better known in connection with logopacks works for person images as well. Typically the @2x images are twice as large as the normal images.

  • If you have image 12345.png and [email protected] in the same folder, the [email protected] will be displayed in place of the 12345.png if the in-game zoom is 125% or higher.

  • Or

  • If you have image 12345.png in a folder and image 12345.png in its subfolder called @2x, the subfolder image will be displayed in place of the first 12345.png if the in-game zoom is 125% or higher.
  • #421828 Cutters - way forward re upsizing cuts
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    I have only very occasionally contributed some cuts to the pack, but here are a couple of thoughts.

  • SI's standard for FM18 is 250x250. There has been some back and forth in the size however. In FM16 (and before I would guess) it was 180x180, in FM17 it was 360x360, and now it is the 250x250 for FM18. What the standard will be in FM19 is not known, but it probably won't be smaller than 250x250.

  • Using the default FM18 skin, it really does not matter what size the person images are – the skin will resize them to fit the space wether it means making the image smaller or larger (I have not paid enough attention to confirm this as true for every single screen, but it would appear to be so). Still, it is not known if SI will always provide skins that behave this way, so a uniformity of size in the pack is required to a certain extent. Otherwise people's heads migh appear to be of wildly different sizes, or pics might even begin to overlap other elements on the screens (or just be cut of and not displayed in their entirety).

  • As can be seen from Vinceultras42's screenshots, some fan-made skins do not resize the images on all screens – a quality which might emerge in SI's skins as well.

  • Is there value in having all the images of the same uniform size as files sitting on a hard drive? Maybe? In any case it, it would require some work to resize larger images to 180x180, but there would be no quality loss compared to the other 180x180 pics (if uniformity of size was desired at some later point).


  • With the above on mind I would suggest the following flexible system. You decide if it has any merits.

    1. Have 2 standard sizes: 180x180 and 250x250.
    2. Leave the existing images be – no resizing.
    3. Everyone should strive to make all the new cuts in the larger size, but if good source images simply are not available, 180x180 will do as well.
    #421738 Tutorials and guidelines for cutters
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    Mostly because we already have over 199,000 cuts in 180x180 format and the default skin doesn't even display them as large as that.

    Resizing them all automatically is doable, but would take an awful lot of work. The resulting cuts would be a bit unfocused and blurry, too.

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the default skin always resize the person image to what ever the size of the space reserved for it is? It means that the pics can be displayed in sizes much larger than the 180px if a high level of in-game zoom is in use. I typically use either 175% or 200% zoom. At 200% the player pics on the Attributes screen are displayed at size 280px, and I can confirm that the stretching indeed does make them a tad unfocused.

    Here you can see the player pic size at 200% zoom:
    https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/cw6AMvcAJ6S0e4ijI4R5esrL4o3C9WzCOUIapa4Z.jpg

    You are running a finetuned operation with the Cut Out pack, but it is my opinion that considering a larger image size would be beneficial. No need to resize the existing images, but perhaps new cuts could be made in a larger size? It appears that the images included in the game are 250x250px just as Vinceultras42 says, but I would go even bigger than that - maybe 300x300px. Naturally such a jump in size would make finding suitable source images for the cuts somewhat more challenging.
    #418024 DVX Logos for FM24 | 24v1 Basepack
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    The Sportfreunde Siegen logo should already be in the pack. The Berekum Chelsea and Qäbälä badges are not - I will add them, though they may have to be recreated from scratch to maintain quality.
    #417359 DVX Logos for FM24 | 24v1 Basepack
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    Thanks @Ivs, it will be in the next update.
    #417358 TCM18 Logopack by TCMLogos.com
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    Couldn't find the answer to this question but does anyone know how to change the national flag to the national emblem?
    The image i've attached shows the England National flag under Nation Profile but is there a way to change that to the National emblem (three lions)?

    It should work if you duplicate the folder that contains the FA logos, and then edit the config in that folder so that the word "logo" near the end of the approriate lines reads "flag" instead.

    By Example
    <record from="10" to="graphics/pictures/nation/10/logo"/>

    <record from="10" to="graphics/pictures/nation/10/flag"/>
    #416561 DVX Logos for FM24 | 24v1 Basepack
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    #413687 DVX Logos for FM24 | 24v1 Basepack
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    I will highlight errors and fixes, if any.

    Its great if you can point out any errors. The pack should function correctly, but its basically for certain that there are some wrong or outdated logos.
    #413388 DVX Logos for FM24 | 24v1 Basepack
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    Alternative download link please. MEGA is until 1.43GB downloaded. free acount download limited
    ex) mediafire.com upload please

    As far as I understand Mega has a 5GB limit after which one must wait before downloading can be resumed. Perhaps you can download the pack later?
    #413284 DVX Logos for FM24 | 24v1 Basepack
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    Downloaded them and fair to say I'll be using these again this year. Awesome to see a couple of my redrawn logo's made the grade for the pack as well. Super thrilled to be part of it.

    I thought you might check if logos of your making are in the pack after you said you were downloading it. You clearly have talent, so if there are more logos coming and they find their way into the pack, I will add your name on the acknowledgements list.
    #413281 DVX Logos for FM24 | 24v1 Basepack
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    Used these extensively in FM17. Will defo be downloading and taking a look at these this year again.

    I hope you will find them apt for the purpose this time as well.

    Much of the work to make the new pack has gone to replacing obsolete logos, so what is going for 18v1 is that it should be reasonably well up to date.
    #413274 DVX Logos for FM24 | 24v1 Basepack
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    DVX Logos logopack for Football Manager 2018 is now available. More information in the first post.