Jamaicaman90 - Comments

That's what a community is for, I've done my own fair share of troubleshooting over the years!

A tip for you. You're putting those kits directly into a ‘kits’ folder, which is fine. However, with your config files I would recommend you make a sub-folder per team if you aim to download/make more kits as you can't run multiple config files from the same folder. In short, if you decide to grab some kits for PSV, make an Ajax folder and a PSV folder within your ‘kits’ folder there and dump the relevant files in each one, making ‘kits’ only contain subfolders. The alternative is running one big config file which I personally do not recommend.

Your filenames are not matched with your config file. The ‘record from="home"’ for example is looking for exactly what is in the speech marks, no more and no less. Rename the graphic files to ‘home’, ‘away’ and ‘third’ (so get rid of the number and underscore) and then reload skin with cache unticked and your problem should go away.

Nice work!

Hi all,

Did anyone manage to extract the 3D Home, Away and Third kits for Inter and Milan from before the update with the Resource Archiver, or otherwise would someone be able to create them from the 23/24 season?

I'm a bit annoyed we're all geting punished for their delays in the game we already bought by having them swiped from us, but there we go.

Hello! They're the same file but with different names. You can remove one if you hit the capacity for editor data files if needed (if you're running a lot of extra leagues that aren't playable in the base game for example) however if you are within the limit of files, both can remain active with no issues. 

That's a skin issue rather than a graphics pack issue. I don't know if there are any skins that use front of kit graphics for the tactic screen personally (the default one certianly doesn't nor do the handful I've tried this year), but if one exists that would be your solution.

It's dropped!

The expert! 

Yeah, you're right. In this case, as Czech B teams don't have their own overview page there's no nickname to lose so I just brute forced it with a .lnc edit as for some reason I wasn't having much joy with with editor data. I am sure you'll have solved it more elegantly for the next update. 

If the files feature the same nations of clubs and you can't pick and choose, then yes they will. The editor data files for this pack will have one file per nation of clubs included (and one for international sides). If Bolid has done the same, then I'd recommend only picking the nations in the megapack. If Bolid has one big file for all clubs then there is a good chance they won't sit well together. 

Sorry mons, just realised I've given you only senior team UIDs when the B teams actually have their own. Here is an amendment for you to make life easier:

"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 136174 "AC Sparta Praha B" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 136174 "Sparta Praha B" ""

"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 136178 "FC Baník Ostrava B" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 136178 "Baník Ostrava B" ""

"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 5645561 "FK Jablonec B" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 5645561 "Jablonec B" ""

"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 25001301 "Bohemians Praha 1905 B" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 25001301 "Bohemians 1905 B" ""

"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 136179 "FC Zbrojovka Brno B" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 136179 "Brno B" ""

"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 25017653 "FK Dukla Praha B" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 25017653 "Dukla Praha B" ""

"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 5647961 "Slezský FC Opava B" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 5647961 "Opava B" ""

"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 25061545 "SK Líšeň 2019 B" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 25061545 "Líšeň B" ""

"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 136232 "FK Viktoria Žižkov B" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 136232 "Viktoria Žižkov B" ""

"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 136198 "FC Sellier & Bellot Vlašim B" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 136198 "Vlašim B" ""

"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 25061486 "Slavoj Vyšehrad B" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 25061486 "Vyšehrad B" ""

"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 2000208436 "Jiskra Domažlice B" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 2000208436 "Domažlice B" ""

"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 136196 "FK Admira Praha" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 136196 "Admira Praha" ""

"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 2000208451 "FK Admira Praha B" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 2000208451 "Admira Praha B" ""

"CLUB_LONG_NAME_CHANGE" 136239 "FK Motorlet Praha" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 136239 "Motorlet" ""

Hi mons, do you have an estimate on your next update date? About to start my main save for the game, and I'm deciding whether I add my own editor data file with the Czech changes for a Dukla Praha save, or wait a little for your next update.

Please don't take this as me trying to poke you to get one done, as I know we're all just trying to fit in what we can when we have spare time.

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Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2024\views

You will need to extract the .rar using software such as WinRAR, which will give you a large set of .fmf files that need to be in the above folder.

Hi everyone!

For those of you waiting for the editor data files before starting your main saves to get the most out of this pack, myself and @wfm18 are working hard on it at the moment and we've set ourselves the goal of getting them all completed by December 1st, with an updated release then being made available as soon as possible after. The files will ensure that all kits show correctly, respect kit clashes appropriately, feature correct numbering colours as much as possible, match the matchday UI and also include/remove third kits as appropriate, without you needing to use the in-game editor.

I would just download the FM24 pack. If you know what you're doing, by all means mix in the FM23 pack, but be warned that if you don't know what you're doing with it you do run the risk of conflicts that will mean the FM24 pack will not work entirely correctly for you.

Fair enough!

In that case, I've done the sweep. Here are the B teams that need a fix to both the Name and Short Name to match their main teams:
476 - AC Sparta Praha B
1300301 - FC Baník Ostrava B
468 - FK Jablonec B
463 - Bohemians Praha 1905 B
465 - FC Zbrojovka Brno B
5640780 - FK Dukla Praha B
130859 - Slezský FC Opava B
5652987 - SK Líšeň 2019 B
478 - FK Viktoria Žižkov B
25001307 - FC Sellier & Bellot Vlašim B
136210 - Slavoj Vyšehrad B
25004974 - Jiskra Domažlice B

Also, here are two teams that need fixes for the main team name (and B team in Admira's case):
136196 - FK Admira Praha & FK Admira Praha B
136239 - FK Motorlet Praha

Cheers @mons. It says a lot about the quality of the work that I have to dive so deep to find something wrong!

I think a handful of other Czech teams have similar naming inconsistencies in their B teams, but I haven't identified them all - I was flying through them due to a kit editor data file I'm working on. It might be worth bouncing through them all quickly for a sweep at the same time you look at those Prague ones.

Bit of feedback from me - there's a bit of inconsistency with the Prague clubs' B teams.

For example:
SK Slavia Praha (474) has SK Slavia Praha B.

However:
AC Sparta Praha (476) has Sparta Prague B.

Bohemians Praha 1905 (462) has FC Bohemians 1905 B.

FK Dukla Praha (5640780) has Dukla Prague B.

It stands out a bit more as Sparta Prague B are in the second tier.

The pack doesn't impact the interface - it purely only changes the images that show up for kits. It doesn't have any ability to alter options in the preferences.

This sounds like it might be an issue relating to your skin. However, do make sure you've tried the following:

• Hit the ‘Clear Cache’ button in preferences and then close and restart the game.
• Open preferences again. Make sure ‘Enable Reload Skin when confirming changes in preferences’ is ticked.
• Make sure ‘Use Caching to decrease page loading times’ is unticked.
• Hit confirm. The skin reload should now happen automatically for you every time you hit confirm in the preferences.

When you're not updating kits and they're as you want them, you can swap the two options above to unticked and ticked respectively to improve performance. You can then go through these steps again whenever you want to add/change kits.

To add to this - the colourfix editor files are a tedious but straightforward task. I am going to try to help put something together mainly because I want to give back to the community that's helped make my gaming experience so much richer, but I don't have the skills with the graphics! If anyone wants to be a part of helping put it together it's a task that's easily split up into sections for multiple people to work on, so please do put yourself forward to help. More people involved means quicker files being ready, but also offers the chance for us to be a bit more in-depth with it, for example checking that goalkeeper kits are accurate as well as building in all alternative configurations for all teams (for example having Manchester United wear white socks with their home kit when away to Fulham recently). It also makes sure the people who are handy with the 3D graphics can focus on and get out more and more leagues.

So yeah, anyone with the most basic understanding of the Pre-Match Editor, the ability to copy RGB values and some spare time who wants to input some effort into a pack that will be enjoyed by many, please do reply and tag in myself and @wfm18 so we can split the workload.

Try extracting them to the editor data folder (not the kits folder) and removing the .zip files. It's unlikely to be the cause but it's possible.

I think I revert to my previous suggestion - flag it on the bug reporting forum on the SI website.

I'm certainly at a loss to explain it, sorry.

This doesn't cause a problem for me - everything is in one ‘Kits’ folder, then split by nation, then split by league, then within that a folder for 2D and a folder for 3D. @Womaz can you check that you don't have 2D and 3D graphics in the exact same folder (as in, you can preview the thumbnails for 2D and 3D kits at the same time when looking in a folder?

Have you tried copying 1. SS kits and 3. FC'2 kits to your desktop and deleting them from your kit folder so ONLY 2. Standard kits is in there?

Your folder infrastructure looks correct, so if that doesn't work it might be a bug to raise with SI. However, if you've got config files for two or three different packs in there competing over the same teams it might be breaking your game.

This was a welcome addition to my inbox. It reminded me to update a number of packs, and encouraged me to contribute to a few I had never before as I looked at the discussions around them a bit more (such as a backgrounds megapack).

Great stuff!

The skin ‘OPZ Elite 2022 Blackout’ will add this in as an option for you, if you are using this background pack.

 

That sounds unusual - graphics packs shouldn't cause crashes. Is this during an existing save or when starting a new one?

My advice first of all would be to cut your kits folder and paste it into your desktop as a backup. Then, open the game with no custom kits in your game folders at all, and reload the skin. Next, add in this pack in the appropriate folders and reload the skin again. The reason for the two steps is that the only thing I can think of would be that the game doesn't like finding the new kits when it expects the SS kits, and the first reload will stop that.

if this doesn't work, can you show the folders where you have placed the kits, and where you have placed the editor data files?

Seems to be working OK for me with a test download. See if you can see Chilean clubs in the pack - if you can, it's V2.

Are you checking here? https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/style/7/standard-kits

I can see version 2022.02 on the right.

Full applause to you @wfm18 for keeping up with this to such a level, well above and beyond what could be expected of anyone. Also credit to everyone who has and continues to contribute - I've taken a large step back for the tail end and I'm impressed with how little difference that has made to it 😂