Same as in the previous years, this is mainly my own skin and I’m happy with how it works right now. There will be no adjustments and edits just because of feature requests. Save your time and energy before you will want to edit something.
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.
How to install FM21 Rensie Dark v2 skin
If you’re in the game just quit the game to eliminate crashes or issues with the game.Download the .zip archive and unzip it.
Move the extracted folder “FM21 Rensie Dark Skin v2” to your skins folder: Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2021/skins
Run Football Manager 2021, go to Preferences and select “FM21 Rensie Dark Skin v2” on the Overview screen.
The most common issues
Same as in any other area, there are always things what people always do, ask and moan about. One of them is when their widgets within selectors are constantly changing.Try to use/have only one skin in the skins folder in the documents. The more skins you will have here, there is a bigger chance they will conflict with each other and some parts will reset or they won’t work properly.
Untick the option “Automatically override custom panels?” in Preferences/Interface.
You can edit player overview panel and player overview big selector panel and delete all widgets you don’t want to have here or set some of yours as default by the code.
Using other skins or just having the Dark and Purple in the same folder is the most common issue.
Mini stadiums in the Club Overview – please remember that you have to download the custom mini-stadium pack (the same graphic addon as faces, logos etc.) to make them work and appear in the club overview. They are not included in the skin, that would mean the skin would be very big.
Remember I’m making this skin with the 1920×1080 resolution.
That means that it won’t work exactly as in the pictures with lower but also with bigger resolution. There will always be something that will be aligned differently due to sizes of widgets and containers.
Be sure to exit the game, move the old skin(s) from the Sports Interactive/Football Manager/skins folder out before you will extract the new one. Clear cache – ideally not only in the game but also in your App data folder.
Not everything is a mistake or issue of the custom skins. Sometimes it’s enough to revert to default skin to check if it works or not.
If you would like to remove the sidebar logo, just:
Open the skin folder/panels/generic and sidebar menu table.xml
Scroll down and delete the <!– Primary Logo –> widget (lines 136-148)
Save the file, clear cache and reload skin. Or just restart the game.
PayPal DONATION
paypal.me/fmrensieSkin Credits
michaeltmurrayuk for the option to use his base skins, also with the background support option. IF you want to know how to change the opacity, just visit his website or the SI Forum.Gaz / FMwkdsoul for his idea of the selector in the player overview screen as I saw it in screens from his skins on Twitter and decided to make it by myself.
FMEnhanced as I took the Instant Result option from his v2.0 version.
Wozzie for the help with the player bottom bar and the “i” icon.
PequenoGenio/Marco Morais for his tips and hints during creating skin for himself and help with some graphics.
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Discussion: Rensie Dark FM21 Skin v2
75 comments have been posted so far.
Download this and paste it to the skin folder/panels/generic and overwrite the existing file.
Go back to the skin folder/graphics/ and delete 'tables' folder.
It will look like this
Untick the option “Automatically override custom panels?” in Preferences/Interface.
You can edit player overview panel and player overview big selector panel and delete all widgets you don’t want to have here or set some of yours as default by the code.
Using other skins or just having the Dark and Purple in the same folder is the most common issue.
And be sure to clear cache – ideally not only in the game but also in your App data folder.
In player overview pannel, I like to customize it, changing some pannels in game, but everytime I open the game, they change to default ones.
For example, in Biography (default) pannel I like to place the attribute analysis, but when I relaunch the game, it appears the Biography again.
There's any way to set my preferred pannels as default?
I've been checking the source code, but I don't understand the values. For example, in "Header with portrait & important info" section I can see the three default values are "teli", "Pgrg" and "Pfor".
Thanks in advance!
Thank for the skin, but i have a little bit of a problem.
Is it possible to keep the manager home screen like it is in the screenshot above. I have changed it to what i like but when i return to the screen it keeps getting back to what i was in the beginning.
https://gyazo.com/64529851fa324475b8eae3469d64b3ae - this is what it keeps getting back to and not like what it is when i changed the tabs like it is in your screenshot of it.
Thanks in advance.
You have to extract the default graphic stuff and edit these background files in some graphic editor to make it more or less visible.
This is not a mistake or error of the skin. There is the option called "Automatically override custom panels?" in the Preferences/Interface. If you keep it selected, it will override the panels in the home screen but also in the player profile every time. Just untick the option, select your widgets, save the game, clear cache etc. You can also unselect this option straight in the home screen when you are selecting the widget. It's up top of every widget. https://prnt.sc/wfsdkl
The best thing will be if you will extract the default skins and take the code from the FM Touch skin where the boxes are by default. Or just find it in a different skin.
No, I won't add the suitability icon on tactics screen, it was removed from some reason and I'm not using it by my own so I won't add it. You can take it from a different skin.
For example, I want it to be white, even more white. @keysi
Just a couple things.. wondered if you might add club badges instead of the name in the match panel?
also, when in a match, i like to see latest scores panel. but at the moment it has the same games multiple times?
other than that it's all good now after i realised i needed to zoom out to get the skin to work
@lukereevey - maybe it's caused by a MacBook, I don't know as I don't have a MacBook. The season's stats are 'season stats profile' file in panels/player.
'2. try it with the Sidebar icon only and it will show.'
I have and the attribute analysis circle at the bottom still won't show up on the player profile- is this perhaps because I am using a MacBook instead of a PC?
'3. you would have to edit the season stats profile file and insert your own stats with the right IDs'
With regards to changing statistics shown in season stats in the player profile, are you able to let me know which file this is in the skin folder so I can edit it? And also how to find the ID of particular stats? Cheers!