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FM 2023 FLUT skin - Version 8.0

A "dark" skin for the regular career mode of Football Manager 2023 - Version 8.0, released on 19/03/2023

By Updated on Mar 19, 2023   301641 views   434 comments
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Football Manager 2023 Skins - FM 2023 FLUT skin - Version 8.0
Dear all

This is FLUTSKIN version 8.0 for FM23!!


First of all I would like to give a great thank you to all FM fans who choose to play with FLUTSKIN and always keep me motivated to still editing the skin and gave me new ideas!!!

A special thank you to all of players who decided to distinguish my work with a donation!! Although just a small part of FM Players who use the skin made a donation (I edited the skin as a hobby and, as you know, completely free), I always feel honoured and happy when people recognize the work done and decide to contribute. So, I reinforce, I have to give a special thank you to that friends of FlutsKin!!!!!!

Also a thank you to all the skin makers who indirectly contribute to my work, and a special thank you to PATRES10, from fmslovakia for the 2D default kits (especially tailor-made for FlutSkin), to MICHAEL MURRAY since I started editing the match inbetween highlights panel based on his amazing work, to QVORDRUP, for the metallic “Round country flags” and his great collaboration in the “country locator maps”, to NUNO KOPIO for the “Square shiny flags” I included as alt files (for using as an alternative to the “Round country flags”) to PMPOU for his great contribution with many tickets to customize the skin, and to DAZS8 for his great work in the addons for Flutskin. I also thank you for the contributes made by NOLEAFWILEN and RICHBELL.

In FlutSkin you can find so many changes comparing to the default skin that I can’t present all of them here. I suggest you to go through the panels in order to see with your eyes all the changes!! (it includes the most required stuff such as instant result during a match, picture of the player who scores a goal in the match, last starting XI in club overview panel, citypics, outside and inside stadiums vision, real 2D kits in player overview panel, etc, etc).

Main Changes in Version 8.0
  • Tactics Overview Panel (now the subs bench includes the player pictures)
  • Inbox panel (the height of the head bar was increased and tweaked)
  • Match Inbetween highlights (now all the panels can be resized with the mouse, in height and width, for a better customization)
  • Data hub → next opposition tweaked
  • Player popup panel tweaked (pros and cons panel included in the drop down arrow)
  • New alts included (tickets alts - thank you PMPOU!; alt for black sidebar)
  • Some other tweaks here and there

Main Changes in Version 7.0
  • Club Overview Panel (now 5 tabs, new information and tweaks)
  • Player Overview Panel (new information and the panels arrangement tweaked)
  • Tactics Overview Panel (bigger pitch, subs bench on the left and information about previous matches with the opponent tweaked)
  • Home panel (more results included in the results panel)

Main Changes in Version 6.0
-Home panel
  • New tab included with more information
  • -Player Overview Panel
  • Now you can use 6 (!) different tabs full of information
  • -Scoreboard
  • Team full names included in the match scoreboard of UEFA competitions
  • -Match Team News panel
  • Now you can choose among several tickets (I included tickets regarding UEFA competitions, BWIN Portuguese League, Bundesliga and a generic ticket, but, of course, you can customize your skin with the tickets you want)
  • -Calendar tweaked
    -Reported bugs fixed

    “Main Changes” in Version 5.0
  • “New” Club overview panel
  • - now includes 3 different tabs including much more informations: club details, club history and key information (this tab full of club information). In the first tab the “followers in social networks” was included in the top middle panel.
  • “New” stadium overview panel
  • - now includes much more stadium information
  • “New” Nation overview panel and general panel
  • - Now include new information about each nation
  • Player overview panel tweaked
  • - colours of attributes boxes and analysers tweaked
  • Non player (staff) panel tweaked
  • - Current and Potential ability included

    “Main Changes” in Version 4.0
  • Player overview panel
  • - new set of tabs in the top middle box. Some of those tabs include new ring graphs of attribute analysis profile (physical, mental, technical, goalkeeping, defensive and offensive) which were created based on the great work of GROOT in his Electric Panther Skin. Thank you, my friend!!; The other tabs include persoal details, biography and player stats full of data.
  • Player attributes panel
  • - New tabs included in the middle boxes of the panel; stats box tweaked (with more data)
  • Individual training panel
  • - New 5 tabs included
  • New Bookmarks button included (now you can easily bookmark your favourite panels and have quickly acess to all of them)
  • Lots of tweaks in player/staff list displayed in inbox panel (with much more information)
  • Other tweaks here and there
  • A few new alts (now you have a total of 24 alts for customize your Flutskin. However, please note that some of them could not entirely correspond to the current version of the skin)

  • Finally, I would like to thank you Robin Heart who challenge me to do new things in the skin and gave me a new background picture for including in the background selector. Thank you, my friend!

    “Main Changes” in Version 3.0
    • Match inbetween highlights panel tweaked (now includes new information – pass map and match momentum – and four tabs for easily choose the information we want to see during the match)
    • Ingame editor included in match day header panel
    • Club affiliates panel tweaked
    • Club overview panel tweaked (club details tweaked)
    • Some other tweaks here and there
    • Reported bugs fixed
    • New Alts added:
    • 1. grey titlebar and sidebar
      2. player attributes not displayed (since I didn’t test all the panels, if you find a panel including player attributes yet, please let me know)
      3. club details in club overview panel as it was in the last version of the skin

    “Main Changes” in Version 2.0
    Changes
    • New Intro panel, now with 4 backgrounds rotating with each other
    • New ticket picture in the pre-match panel (thank you, NunoKopio, for the new image)
    • A few panels in news panel tweaked

    Bugs fixed
    • Competition Team stats panel and competition player stats panel
    • Shorlist panel
    • Player coach report for contract negotiations
    • Player coach report for contract promises
    • Tactics set pieces panel
    • Team report scout report panel
    • Scouting centre assignment card for recruitment focus panel
    • Coach summary report boxes (player profile panel and player attributes panel)

    “Main Changes” in Version 1.0
    • Intro panel (new background included)
    • Social news (size of the panels increased)
    • New alt for match titlebar/scoreboard, including clock, teams (only the team logos) and score
    • Reported bugs fixed
    • Note 1: I also decided to keep the panels of the Uefa Cups, Bundesliga and EFL as default. However, I included a new alt for those who prefer using the match titlebar of the FlutSkin, in all competitions.

    The pack includes many alt files for customize the skin (please read the read me file included in the pack) and several tutorials: 1) how should be the configs for the stadiums packs; 2) how can you adjust the size and the place of the kit number in player overview panel; 3) how can you do the 2D kits adapted for Flutskin. BEFORE ASKING QUESTIONS OR REQUESTS, PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THE ALT FOLDERS AND ALSO AT THE READ ME AND TUTORIAL FILES!!

    You also can download the stadiums megapack and the citypics released by DAZS8 (thank you, my friend)
    HERE, HERE and HERE

    Important note regarding TV LOGOS:
    Although the default tv logo is the one I use, of course you can easily change it; for that you just have to go to skin/graphics/icons/tv logos. In that folder there is a alt folder with many TV logos. You just have to replace the tv logo.png and the tv [email protected] for that one you want. Of course you should rename the new logos as tv logo and tv logo@2x. You also can use other logos made by you. The procedure to use them is exactly the same. However, I should remember that yo should use logos with the right height. For tv logo you should use 25px and for the @2x you should use 50px.

    As always FlutSkin is completely free to download and I hope you enjoy it. However, if you want, you can reward my work donating whatever amount you wish. Any small amount is really appreciated.
    You can do so by clicking the button down below:


    Resolution requirements:
    This skin was made to work properly in 3840x2160 (4K with windows display settings 200%) and also 1920x1080 (1080p) full screen mode, sidebar icons only. As a result, some panels won’t work properly in other resolutions..

    How to add Flut Skin in FM23

    Download and extract the .zip file (using either 7-Zip for Windows or The Unarchiver for Mac).

    Place the "fm2023flutskin_dark" folder here:
    Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2023\skins

    1. Create the folder "skins" if it doesn't exist.
    2. Start FM23 and go to Preferences screen and then into the Interface tab.
    3. You should see FM 2023 Flut Skin dark - 8.0 as an option in the skin drop down of the Overview box.
    4. Hit the Confirm button.

    Please note this skin is provided as is. It has nothing to do with Sports Interactive or SEGA and won't be supported by them.





























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    Discussion: FM 2023 FLUT skin - Version 8.0

    434 comments have been posted so far.

    • Phildw's avatar
      Yes Flut the Manager Home file worked!! Thanks for quick response mate.
    • Flut's avatar
      Hi Rchardcharlston: place the file in the human folder of the skin.
    • lakchakkey's avatar
      Thank you so much.
    • Leeds-1919's avatar
      hi @flut, where does the "manager home" file go?
    • Bosnjo's avatar
      It works! Thank you so much
    • Flut's avatar
      Phildw: I believe I fixed the bug related to home screen. Please download the file and let me know. The other bug, I have to look on it when it appears in my game. Thanks.DOWNLOAD

      Bosnjo: I think I fixed the bug you reported. Please use this file (place it in the widgets folder of the skin) and let me know if is okay now.
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      Iakchakkey: go to the settings xml and remove the following code:

      <!-- background attribute box colours Flut FM23-->
      <colour name="unknown attribute background" red="146" green="82" blue="143"/>
      <colour name="low attribute background" red="244" green="152" blue="152"/>
      <colour name="normal attribute background" red="251" green="250" blue="115"/>
      <colour name="good attribute background" red="195" green="242" blue="150"/>
      <colour name="excellent attribute background" red="63" green="229" blue="70"/>

      after that, change

      <!-- background attribute box colours Flut 20 v2
      <colour name="unknown attribute background" red="146" green="82" blue="143"/>
      <colour name="low attribute background" red="247" green="121" blue="121"/>
      <colour name="normal attribute background" red="245" green="245" blue="85"/>
      <colour name="good attribute background" value="green 200" />
      <colour name="excellent attribute background" value="green" />-->

      for

      <!-- background attribute box colours Flut 20 v2 -->
      <colour name="unknown attribute background" red="146" green="82" blue="143"/>
      <colour name="low attribute background" red="247" green="121" blue="121"/>
      <colour name="normal attribute background" red="245" green="245" blue="85"/>
      <colour name="good attribute background" value="green 200" />
      <colour name="excellent attribute background" value="green" />
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    • Bosnjo's avatar
      Hey Flut,
      Unfortunately my problem with the player hearts is still not solved..
      I deleted all other skins but it still not working.
      Could it be that other mods are the reason for it? Or maybe something is wrong with the config file?
      I have also reinstalled the whole game..
      thank you in advance!
    • lakchakkey's avatar
      Hi Flut,
      Can you help me?
      I want to change the colours of attributes boxes to Flut skin version 3.0
    • Phildw's avatar
      Flut - Are you aware that the home screen tabs don't save once you have set up all the drop down graphics and you have to re-do them every time you start FM?

      Also when clicking 'pre-match analysis' for opponent in the inbox notification it just takes you to your own squad screen for some reason?

      just a couple of minor irritations though in what is otherwise one of the best skins out there for many years. Thanks.
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    • Flut's avatar
      Hi Nolife and Dave: great you solved the problems!!

      Hi WelshyJim: thanks for your support and kind words!! :)
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    • WelshyJim's avatar
      Every time I think this skin can't get better, you show me otherwise. Thank you again Flut! :)
    • Dave66's avatar
      hey flut, Thanks for the reply. I actually got the problem sorted by clearing the cache. Just one of them weird things. Love the skin.
    • NolifeAddict's avatar
      Thank you so much flut for the quick response , it was really usefull .
    • Flut's avatar
      Hi rich: thanks for your kind words! :)

      Nolife; go to the player attributes panel3abox.xml (located in player folder of the skin) and change the size value in line 25 (now the value is 11)

      <record id="widget_info" class="attribute_label" alignment="centre,can_scale" colour="black" size="11" font="label" use_attribute_colour_as_bg="true" appearance="boxes/custom/attributes/paper"/>
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    • NolifeAddict's avatar
      i would like to change the size of the attributes for the main page/panel of the player where you see pretty much everything.
      I tried putting the zoom 110% put doesnt really work
      (sorry english is not my first language).
    • richbell82's avatar
      Bless you mate, muuuuch appreciated on the file download. Was just an idea if you fancied it. I fuly understand this skin takes so much of your spare time, you get so many requests. Your work is truly incredible!!
      many thanks from me
    • Flut's avatar
      Hi Dave: I really don't know what happens because this was not reported by anyone. Here is the file. Place it in the tactics folder of the skin.
      DOWNLOAD

      Hi Bosnjo: thanks!! Regarding your problem, I believe is a conflict among skins. Try to clear the cache, keep only this skin (and this skin version) in the skins folder of the game and reload the game.

      Hi rich: thanks. Here is the file for download. Regarding the suggestion when I have time I will take a look (without promissing....). Regarding Flut, you can call me Flut because is the name I use here.
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      NolifeAddict: what is the panel where you want to change the size of attributes font?
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    • NolifeAddict's avatar
      Hello, I was wondering if a can manually change the players attributs font size to have them a bit bigger and how to do so ?
    • richbell82's avatar
      hi @flut i saw this idea on another skin a long while ago, but is it possible to do i wonder.... Firstly i love this touch you have done with using the stadium background behind the results on the club page (as shown in attached image).
      Would it be possible to do on the popup calendar for future/upcoming fixtures?
      Just thought it would help liven up the popup calendar a little bit.

      https://imgur.com/si7yYNM
    • richbell82's avatar
      Is that something possible that can be done Flut? As I love playing with the grey colour and the special backgrounds. If it is, would there be any chance of posting the file(s) for me to add please?

      On something random and different. I feel daft calling you Flut. But I didn’t want to put your real name hence why I always say Flut on these posts.
    • Bosnjo's avatar
      Hey Flut,
      I firstly want to say that the skin is very cool and for me so far the best. Thank you for your great work mate.

      So let’s come to the issue which I have with all skins in the game (not only the flutskin) and maybe you can help me to solve the problem.
      When I start a match, the stamina heart of the players is like freezed. It happens simply nothing with the condition of the players until you go to team management where you can see how tired your players really are.
      In other words: The stamina hearts don’t update during the match.
      I know there is the percentage thing which shows me the stamina of my players but I am used to watch the hearts during a match.
      Hope you or someone else in the comment section can help me out with the problem.

      Lot’s of greetings from Croatia
    • Dave66's avatar
      hey Flut, i have this problem when extracting the skin. It cant extract a certain file and i have to skip to continue. The file is the one that has the team lineup previews before game. There are no pictures names. Everything else is fine its just this prob. Happened with v4 as well. Any idea what the problem could be . i have included a screenshot.

      .https://www.mediafire.com/view/z3mluqes46cyuuz/skin_error.png/file
    • Flut's avatar
      Hi Rich: thanks. I believe I understand now. The "problem" is that the client object browser.xml for special backgrounds is similar to the default of the skin (only with the code for "special" backgrounds), Therefore, is not work for grey colour. For that I should edit an other alt for "grey colour with special backgrounds". Otherwise you always will need to do that changes in the client object browser. Thanks.

      Hi vonreichsm: thanks!!
    • richbell82's avatar
      Hey flut, so when you go to use special backgrounds alongside the grey club and titlebar alts. It greyed out all but the tab bar. It meant that if you selected a club that had a white club colour i.e. Tottenham Hotspur, because the font is white, you couldn't see any of the tabs. I have attached a screenshot of the client object xml file. The one on the left is from v5 and the one on the right is replacing primary with grey 700. This then allows you to play with both special backgrounds and the all grey club and title bar alts. Any questions please just ask and i hope this was clear, my head is scrambled hahaha

      https://imgur.com/FUlkt3g
    • vonholzminden's avatar
      Thanks again for the new version flut.

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