Match Background

[ethan76]

Hello, there is a way to change the background in the match section (see attached file)? thx

[adamhopkins11]

Not my intention to piggy back onto somebody else's topic but I'm also interested in this. As well as the potential to change the Team sheet background and press conference background. Curious how easy it is to do this. 

I have tried extracting the skin folder from the Resource Archiver. But can't find any mention of these images used for the default backgrounds. Any help much appreciated

[ethan76]

On 27/04/2021 at 15:19, adamhopkins11 said:

Not my intention to piggy back onto somebody else's topic but I'm also interested in this. As well as the potential to change the Team sheet background and press conference background. Curious how easy it is to do this. 

I have tried extracting the skin folder from the Resource Archiver. But can't find any mention of these images used for the default backgrounds. Any help much appreciated

same here, tried to extract skins,sigraphics,sitoolkit to find where these images are but no lucky

[Tyburn]

I believe all the backgrounds are in the environments folder, which I believe needs to be extracted (been a while - the press conference ad board is definitely in environments). It’s a .dds file. A texture file.

Put the environments folder directly into documents/si/fm21 (along with graphics, tactics, skins etc) with the specific folders within the environments folder that have files you’ve edited. Basically follow the file structure and path as you find it, but put the environments folder directly into the fm21 folder in documents.

As to changing the actual appearance of the room image itself, I can’t really comment as I haven’t tried it, but it/they could well be in this environments folder too.

[a31632]

On 30/04/2021 at 15:19, Tyburn said:

I believe all the backgrounds are in the environments folder, which I believe needs to be extracted (been a while - the press conference ad board is definitely in environments). It’s a .dds file. A texture file.

Put the environments folder directly into documents/si/fm21 (along with graphics, tactics, skins etc) with the specific folders within the environments folder that have files you’ve edited. Basically follow the file structure and path as you find it, but put the environments folder directly into the fm21 folder in documents.

As to changing the actual appearance of the room image itself, I can’t really comment as I haven’t tried it, but it/they could well be in this environments folder too.

The most straightforward way is to add a small piece of coding to the panel (match team news panel), in my skin it is like this:

    <widget class="picture" file="backgrounds/2" id="bgnd">
    <boolean id="scale_picture" value="true" />
    <boolean id="keep_aspect_ratio" value="false" />
    </widget>

In my graphics/backgrounds folder the picture called "2" will be shown in the background instead of the standard dressing room pic, If you have a skin that supports background packs it will show a picture of that pack that is applicable (usually a picture of the stadium), if you have a skin with a "static" background it will show the picture indicated, see the differences below: