[FM24][SKIN] Football Manager 2024 Base Skins

[TCSSkin]

Football Manager 2022 Base Skin

As with most recent Football Managers for you to make certain changes in Football Manager 2024 you need to create a new skin. Thankfully over the last few years some more stuff has been moved out of the skins folder so you only really need the Base skin if you are wanting to edit the skin graphics, fonts or colours. If you want to edit the match graphics or the most of the panel xml files you no longer really need the base skins.

So to make things easier for people I've put up a base skin that is identical to the default skin that comes with the game, so you can add new files/graphics to these without messing up the original skin, and anything that isn't located in these new skin folders will be taken from the default locations within the game.

For Football Manager 2024 there is just the one Base Skin based on the Default Skin which is the Dark version this year, however I have provided four different versions.

  

 

FM24 Base Skin Lite - The barebones needed for a skin, features needed folders and config files and thats it

FM24 Base Skin - The regular base skin experience

FM 24 Base Skin Transparent - The regular base skin with a transparent background to support stadium images

FM24 Base Skin Advanced - Features all skin colours, properties and classes files.

 

When you extract the file you have downloaded you should have four folders, choose your desired skin.

Now copy the folder into your skins folder within your User Data Location, by default this is:

For Windows:
C:\Users\[Your Windows Username]\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2024\
 

 

FM24 Base Skins.zip

[rushdengooner]

Thanks for these.

Excellent work as always.

Much appreciated. 

[MariusA]

Great work! 

[stevemc]

Superb work, and thank you 

[renato.]

Thanks @TCSSkin!

[Pierluigi Collina]

Thanks

[White Flag]

Thanks for this.

For the Transparent skin can you explain how we can make this darker and lighter? I've tried and failed I'm afraid - edit - now found it, darkened the background and it looks just dandy now,

Also in the past we could edit the "paper" file to remove the blurring effect but this appears to be missing this year. This was explained in this link - a few years old now but it worked for FM17-23:

If it is possible to do this for FM24 then can you explain how, please?

Edited October 23, 2023 by White Flag
Resolved,,

[snowofman]

32 minutes ago, White Flag said:

Thanks for this.

For the Transparent skin can you explain how we can make this darker and lighter? I've tried and failed I'm afraid.

Also in the past we could edit the "paper" file to remove the blurring effect but this appears to be missing this year. This was explained in this link - a few years old now but it worked for FM17-23:

If it is possible to do this for FM24 then can you explain how, please?

Try here

sitoolkit\skins\fm-widgets\graphics\boxes\dialog\background

[Alexpuk2002]

@TCSSkin did you manage to get the light base skin that you were looking at in FM23 finished so we can create and use light skins instead of the dark ones that are available?

[steff91]

Thanks for doing this - used it loads on FM23 personally

[RinusFM]

Thank you for publicizing the base skins!

ps. Its says Baseskin 22 in your post on the top

Edited October 24, 2023 by RinusFM

[ForTheLoveOfTheGame]

Hi, i've got my background transparency into a position that i'm kind of happy with, but i need pointers as to how to fix a couple others: The top bar & side bar menu are plain - How do i add default/primary team colours to these to improve the immersion and feel of a save? Also, how do i get rid of the sole purple on the continue button? and the orange text? sticks out like a sore thumb on the screen. Thanks in advance! 

Edited October 24, 2023 by ForTheLoveOfTheGame

[snowofman]

1 hour ago, ForTheLoveOfTheGame said:

Hi, i've got my background transparency into a position that i'm kind of happy with, but i need pointers as to how to fix a couple others: The top bar & side bar menu are plain - How do i add default/primary team colours to these to improve the immersion and feel of a save? Also, how do i get rid of the sole purple on the continue button? and the orange text? sticks out like a sore thumb on the screen. Thanks in advance! 

you have to add a graphics that you then colour replace with primary and or secondary

there should be threads explaining this better if you look in search

[steff91]

Thanks for doing this - used it loads on FM23 personally,quick question though how can you lower the transparency level so that its not as bright if it makes sense

[snowofman]

2 minutes ago, steff91 said:

Thanks for doing this - used it loads on FM23 personally,quick question though how can you lower the transparency level so that its not as bright if it makes sense

I believe that if you go into the Client object browser and change the value of the transparency, if you dim the brightness.

else you will have to add a overlay to your background with the opasity you wich, thats how it's done with background selectors

[steff91]

8 minutes ago, snowofman said:

I believe that if you go into the Client object browser and change the value of the transparency, if you dim the brightness.

else you will have to add a overlay to your background with the opasity you wich, thats how it's done with background selectors

Thanks i'll try find out how this is done  

[rushdengooner]

2 hours ago, ForTheLoveOfTheGame said:

Hi, i've got my background transparency into a position that i'm kind of happy with, but i need pointers as to how to fix a couple others: The top bar & side bar menu are plain - How do i add default/primary team colours to these to improve the immersion and feel of a save? Also, how do i get rid of the sole purple on the continue button? and the orange text? sticks out like a sore thumb on the screen. Thanks in advance! 

Continue.xml under panels/generic for the purple button. You can change the colour values there.

For the orange text, go to the settings and amend this code to the colour of your choosing;

colour name="title"

[frank_olaf]

When I use the FM24 Base Skin I lose some of the information in the pop-up that appears when creating a recruitment focus. The World Knowledge and Current Focuses columns are missing (see screenshot (original skin on the left, FM24 Base Skin on the right).

 

Any idea how to get this back? Thanks

Forgot to add, I have added the 4 files mentioned here to the skin, don't know if that could be the reason?

 

Edited October 24, 2023 by frank_olaf

[snowofman]

14 minutes ago, frank_olaf said:

When I use the FM24 Base Skin I lose some of the information in the pop-up that appears when creating a recruitment focus. The World Knowledge and Current Focuses columns are missing (see screenshot (original skin on the left, FM24 Base Skin on the right).

 

Any idea how to get this back? Thanks

Forgot to add, I have added the 4 files mentioned here to the skin, don't know if that could be the reason?

 

i have this aswell (noticed while checking for this answer)
i'll investigate and return when i have an answer

[snowofman]

34 minutes ago, frank_olaf said:

When I use the FM24 Base Skin I lose some of the information in the pop-up that appears when creating a recruitment focus. The World Knowledge and Current Focuses columns are missing (see screenshot (original skin on the left, FM24 Base Skin on the right).

 

Any idea how to get this back? Thanks

Forgot to add, I have added the 4 files mentioned here to the skin, don't know if that could be the reason?

 

Just tried looking at the "FM24 Base Skin (Transparent)" and is has the default info as shown in picture 1

so you must have changed something other then the files you linked to as i have those files aswell

 

[frank_olaf]

The only thing I did was add those four files and created a "properties" folder because I needed it for the "person properties" file.

When you try the FM24 Base Skin (normal version), what do you see?

[snowofman]

15 minutes ago, frank_olaf said:

The only thing I did was add those four files and created a "properties" folder because I needed it for the "person properties" file.

When you try the FM24 Base Skin (normal version), what do you see?

i'll try and normal version and return

[snowofman]

18 minutes ago, frank_olaf said:

The only thing I did was add those four files and created a "properties" folder because I needed it for the "person properties" file.

When you try the FM24 Base Skin (normal version), what do you see?

Normal version is the same - so seems to work on my end

Have you unticked "use caching for faster loading" ? else try that and clear the cache - reload the skin

[frank_olaf]

I don't have "use caching for faster loading" ticked.

In your original reply, you said you did see the issue, right?

[snowofman]

2 minutes ago, frank_olaf said:

I don't have "use caching for faster loading" ticked.

In your original reply, you said you did see the issue, right?

yeah i read your original post backwards for some reason..

So when i checked i naturaly saw things backwards

 

no matter what skin i have tried, normal or the transparent is shows as your 1st picture, so where the info has gone in the 2nd picture i have no idea 

[frank_olaf]

Have you made alterations to those four files since you posted them in the other thread back in May?

[snowofman]

2 minutes ago, frank_olaf said:

Have you made alterations to those four files since you posted them in the other thread back in May?

Only the person properties has been updated to the FM24 one and the changes that has to do with the condition (the 4 files) has been moved to the new person properties

so maybe that your problem, but you should then notice that you no longer has the % condition either?

[frank_olaf]

That's strange. I am seeing the condition % but I don't see the column header for it

[snowofman]

16 minutes ago, frank_olaf said:

That's strange. I am seeing the condition % but I don't see the column header for it

Honestly no idea whats going on at your end.

[frank_olaf]

For some reason, the Scouting Team Recommendation column on the Recruitment Focus page is also missing when I use the Base Skin

(screenshot from the default skin)

There's definitely something strange going on with my Base Skin. I'll re-download it and try again.

[TCSSkin]

1 hour ago, frank_olaf said:

For some reason, the Scouting Team Recommendation column on the Recruitment Focus page is also missing when I use the Base Skin

(screenshot from the default skin)

There's definitely something strange going on with my Base Skin. I'll re-download it and try again.

If you remove the edited properties file, does stuff like this work properly?

[robbiepope]

8 hours ago, steff91 said:

Thanks for doing this - used it loads on FM23 personally,quick question though how can you lower the transparency level so that its not as bright if it makes sense

Hi - I had the same issue with background images. You will find the client object browser here:

driveletter:\Users\yourname\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2024\skins\FM24 Base Skin (Transparent)\panels\client_object

You then need to increase the transparency number from '0' to your own preference. I went with '0.85'

<widget class="inner_contrast_box" appearance="boxes/custom/interface/content/secondary/paper" transparency="0.85">

The only annoying thing is that some of the sections (e.g. transfers, club info) are not transparent for me. Not sure if anyone knows how to change these?! Have attached an examples of it working and not. 

 

 

[ForTheLoveOfTheGame]

13 hours ago, robbiepope said:

Hi - I had the same issue with background images. You will find the client object browser here:

driveletter:\Users\yourname\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2024\skins\FM24 Base Skin (Transparent)\panels\client_object

You then need to increase the transparency number from '0' to your own preference. I went with '0.85'

<widget class="inner_contrast_box" appearance="boxes/custom/interface/content/secondary/paper" transparency="0.85">

The only annoying thing is that some of the sections (e.g. transfers, club info) are not transparent for me. Not sure if anyone knows how to change these?! Have attached an examples of it working and not. 

 

 

Panels>generic>sidebar menu table.xml

<container class="main_box" appearance="boxes/custom/interface/sidebar/paper" rrep="bg" transparency="0.9" /> 

Obviously just choose the value you want.

[frank_olaf]

18 hours ago, TCSSkin said:

If you remove the edited properties file, does stuff like this work properly?

I removed the file and now all the things that were missing are back. I guess there was some issue with that file.

Does anyone have an updated properties file they are willing to share with me so I can get condition % to show? Thanks.

[steff91]

17 hours ago, robbiepope said:

Hi - I had the same issue with background images. You will find the client object browser here:

driveletter:\Users\yourname\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2024\skins\FM24 Base Skin (Transparent)\panels\client_object

You then need to increase the transparency number from '0' to your own preference. I went with '0.85'

<widget class="inner_contrast_box" appearance="boxes/custom/interface/content/secondary/paper" transparency="0.85">

The only annoying thing is that some of the sections (e.g. transfers, club info) are not transparent for me. Not sure if anyone knows how to change these?! Have attached an examples of it working and not. 

 

 

Thank you  

[snowofman]

28 minutes ago, frank_olaf said:

I removed the file and now all the things that were missing are back. I guess there was some issue with that file.

Does anyone have an updated properties file they are willing to share with me so I can get condition % to show? Thanks.

here you go

person properties.xml

[frank_olaf]

2 hours ago, snowofman said:

here you go

person properties.xml 1.26 MB · 3 downloads

Thanks for the file. I've put the file in the Properties folder and added the other three files but I can't see overall physical condition/match sharpness as an option when customising my views. Is there anything else I need to do to make it available? Thanks

[snowofman]

1 minute ago, frank_olaf said:

Thanks for the file. I've put the file in the Properties folder and added the other three files but I can't see overall physical condition/match sharpness as an option when customising my views. Is there anything else I need to do to make it available? Thanks

as you replaced the personm properties file, you also got rid of the data that make the % you either have to compare the 2 fiels and move the missing data over or read this and make the changes from here
 

 

[robbiepope]

11 hours ago, ForTheLoveOfTheGame said:

Panels>generic>sidebar menu table.xml

<container class="main_box" appearance="boxes/custom/interface/sidebar/paper" rrep="bg" transparency="0.9" /> 

Obviously just choose the value you want.

Thank you!

[united99]

Spoiler

 

Hi I have the base skin but it’s so hard to see the writing with the backgrounds is there any way I can change the colour of the writing or make the writing darker please I have looked in the config file and just can’t work it out thanks 

[snowofman]

17 minutes ago, united99 said:

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Hi I have the base skin but it’s so hard to see the writing with the backgrounds is there any way I can change the colour of the writing or make the writing darker please I have looked in the config file and just can’t work it out thanks 

If you read throug this, you'll find alot of info about making pages transparent or less transparent

 

 

[united99]

Cheers buddy sorted it thanks for that

[snowofman]

2 minutes ago, united99 said:

Cheers buddy sorted it thanks for that

you're welcome

[alian62]

where is the panels for the advanced skin ? Its empty

[snowofman]

5 hours ago, alian62 said:

where is the panels for the advanced skin ? Its empty

for the advanced skin ? not sure what you mean

[TCSSkin]

10 hours ago, alian62 said:

where is the panels for the advanced skin ? Its empty

It doesn't include panels for file size sake, you can extract them like normal with the 2023 resource archiver

https://community.sigames.com/topic/455877-fm19guide-how-to-extract-the-default-game-files/

[stevemc]

Evening all,

Anyone know what file/paper controls this small box in the middle of the screen? I want to adjust the transparency of it...

Edited October 31, 2023 by stevemc

[TCSSkin]

16 minutes ago, stevemc said:

Evening all,

Anyone know what file/paper controls this small box in the middle of the screen? I want to adjust the transparency of it...

An

competition/competition snapshot

[stevemc]

22 minutes ago, TCSSkin said:

competition/competition snapshot

Thanks for that, I've located this - I can't see any code for transparency, I presume I need to add it in?
 

Quote

<panel>

    <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="all" apply_to_children="true" inset="0" />

    <container class="subsection_box_transparent" id="titl">

        <attachment_group class="vertical_arrange" vertical_alignment="bottom,extend" horizontal_inset="0" />

        <!--cup stage display-->
        <widget class="table" id="cpsn" mode="fill_rows, stripe_rows" layout="60,-1" auto_size_rows="true" row_height="19" navigation_container="true">

            <list id="column_widget_properties">
                <record index="0" alignment="left,centre_y" />
                <record index="1" alignment="left,centre_y" spec="text" navigation_focus_target="true"/>
            </list>

            <list id="column_table_properties">
                <record id="year" index="0" left="4" sort_disabled="true" />
                <record id="team" index="1" />
            </list>

        </widget>

        <!--button-->
        <container>
            <attachment_group class="vertical_arrange_autosize" vertical_offset="0" horizontal_alignment="right" />

            <widget class="link_appearance_button" id="gtcl">
                <translation id="text" translation_id="297302" type="use" value="View Competition[COMMENT: competition snapshot, text link to display competition details]" />
            </widget>

        </container>

    </container>

</panel>

 

[TCSSkin]

Changing subsection_box_transparent to say main_box will make it transparent, you can add a different appearance to it with a transparent graphic for example