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marcus talamasca

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marcus talamasca

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First of all, let me clarify thngs: I´m a CM 01/02 guy. That old game still attracts me, and a lot of people to be honest. I´m part of a team that still provides free Updates to CM 01/02.

With that said, I have to admit that I´m loving the FM 2010. I used to work with league patches in the Update Team, and the new editor is really blowing my mind. I´m really this close to make the switch, which was unthinkable until a few months ago. Always thought the new games were too slow, too detailed and with less enjoyment. Still hate some things as the media interaction, but this edition is really nice and fun. Thanks, SI.

Now let´s go to the point: I happen to have a very comprehensive stadiums pack for CM 01/02, with about 1,800 pictures carefully picked and selected during the years. Love them. They´re all in .RGN, good quality, nice sizes (800x600).

Could find a lot of info about logos (love them, downloaded a lot), kits (idem) and skins (struggling to make some of them work), but not that much about stadiums.

Could someone point at me where can I find an Idiot´s guide to install stadiums pictures? I understand that I should link them to the club (or stadium) ID, but how? Which pictures can be used?

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance,

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Quite a few things you need to do to get them to show:

1. Patch to 10.2.0

2. Choose a skin other than the default ones that come with the game. SI cannot display images due to licensing issues so backgrounds won't show with official skins.

3. Tick "Show background pictures" in game preferences

4. Tick "Reload skin on confirm" in game preferences

5. Make sure "Use skin cache is un-ticked"

6. Images need to be .jpg and filenames should be lowercase and without spaces

7. 800x600 will work but will be stretched as FM runs at a minimum 1024x768

8. Images need a config.xml file in the following format:

<record>
<boolean id="preload" value="false"/>
<boolean id="amap" value="false"/>
<list id="maps">

</list>
</record>

That's your basic config file format. Create it in your text editor of choice and save it as config.xml (making sure you select 'all types' from the file type drop down) and put it in the same directory as your images.

Within the <list> tags each image needs a line of code to show. You might want to have stadium backgrounds in a couple of places so I'll give you both lines:

Showing stadium images on the squad screen

<record from="<file_name>" to="graphics/pictures/team/<team_id>/background"/>

file_name is the name of your picture without the file extension.

team_id is the unique ID of the team as found in the editor or by selecting 'show unique id's' from game preferences.

Showing stadium images for the stadium during a match

<record from="file_name" to="graphics/pictures/stadium/stadium_id/background"/>

file_name is the name of your picture without the file extension.

stadium_id is the unique ID of the stadium as found in the editor or by selecting 'show unique id's' from game preferences.

Example config file

<record>
<boolean id="preload" value="false"/>
<boolean id="amap" value="false"/>
<list id="maps">
	<record from="722" to="graphics/pictures/stadium/722/background"/>
</list>
</record>

That would show the image 722.jpg as a background during a match played at The Stadium of Light, Sunderland.

You can get some other info on config files generally in the sticky thread at the top of the forum: http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=81592

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I have a backgroundsfolder which contains 4300 images of stadiums. And everything is already done. With the configs, for every team.

The images and configs are not up to date as of the new season, so a team that got promoted is still in the lower division, but that is not an issue for my part.

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They are on filefront, right now. A Norweigan guy contacted me and told me he wanted my pack.

You can try these download links:

Part 1:

http://www.filefront.com/15571493/Stadiums-A-E.rar

Part 2:

http://www.filefront.com/15572035/Stadiums%20F-R.rar

Part 3:

http://www.filefront.com/15571667/Stadiums-S-V.rar

Notice: This background superpack is not mine entirely. I have downloaded the packs for the previous games. They did a wonderfull job, but I thought the quality of 90% of the pictures was too bad. And have therefor replaced 90% of all the stadium pictures.

So credit to all those stadium-backgrounds creators and myself :)

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They are on filefront, right now. A Norweigan guy contacted me and told me he wanted my pack.

You can try these download links:

Part 1:

http://www.filefront.com/15571493/Stadiums-A-E.rar

Part 2:

http://www.filefront.com/15572035/Stadiums%20F-R.rar

Part 3:

http://www.filefront.com/15571667/Stadiums-S-V.rar

Notice: This background superpack is not mine entirely. I have downloaded the packs for the previous games. They did a wonderfull job, but I thought the quality of 90% of the pictures was too bad. And have therefor replaced 90% of all the stadium pictures.

So credit to all those stadium-backgrounds creators and myself :)

Just to say thanks for these, managing Burgess Hill who started in Ishtman league division south, was amazed to find there was a pic of their ground in this pack. Very indepth.

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A few guys asked for my CM 01/02 pack, here is the link for around 2,000 pictures around the globe.

Sporttoken, maybe some of them could be useful, as I included around 500 pictures from latin american stadiums only, mostly from Brazil and Argentina.

However, can´t figure how to convert them to FM 2010.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1N4UHRX1

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I think I'm good with the images and the country-folders I have. I already have 68 countries and I believe almost all countries in South America. Allthough I am really glad you offered some images.

But if you tell me what file-format it is? Is it png? And what sizes are the images of?

Since the new interface of the new games require 1024x768 resolution this means ( I also worked with backgrounds back in the days of old CM) that the 800x600 that I believe you have in your possession, will need to be resized (easy) but the main worry for me is how the quality is?

Why I am asking you this is, because most of the images that I have replaced, has a resolution over 1024x768 and with digital pro cameras....(Nikon, Sony etc)

Cheers,

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Well, it is a pack that worked very well for the CM01/02, but they´re all in 800x600. I selected pictures from flick and other websites. Specially the latin american pictures are related to crowds at old stadiums, so it´s pretty cool. But they´re all in .rgn, and I can´t convert them to .jpg, but I´m sure that´s a way to do it.

However, if you need any help, I can look for brazilians or south american pictures for you, specially for small stadiums/teams that might be hard tolocate without some Portuguese or Spanish knowledge.

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Marcus:

Yes, "rgn." is what I meant, sorry. And to be honest I can't come up with how it's done to convert it back to jpg.

I've worked quite hard to find uruguayan stadiums and paraguayan stadiums. And have found a couple of 'em. But it's hard to find a great selection to choose from. I was surprised that I found so many stadiums, that belong to teams in Brazilian Serie C. (In Serie C I think I am missing out on 15 teams out of loads, both A and B are full. And there are two teams Porto PE and Imperatriz which have their settings typed in correct with images in the folder, though can't seem to get going anyhow.) Either there was a great shot taken from Wikipedia, but I mostly use panoramio.com, which is by far the most exquisit site to look for images of all cind. But flickr.com is well oriented aswell.

Not to forget mentioning, a whole bunch of state-championship clubs have their stadiums aswell. I reckon there ain't any "background folder as good as my Brazilian"

P.S.

The pack that Marcus is in charge of, is not compatible with FM2010 at this moment, since the older versions of the game required rgn. formated images and today it's simply jpg.

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http://www.filefront.com/15687803/Spain.rar

http://www.filefront.com/15688077/Brazil.rar

Brazil have gone through a rough update to say the least, with a lot of stadiums.

(If you'd like to view a screeny before downloading.. just PM me. Or add me on miss_that_someone@hotmail.com)

Spain basically corrects some errors in the config.

An Italyupdate will be available soon, I uploaded it but just remembered a thing.

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