Policy about Using Vitrex elements
All partial use of this skin, into other custom skins made for release, must be authorized by the Vitrex author/owner and credited by the maker.
Screen Resolution
This skin is optimized for high resolutions (minimum of 1920x1080) and might cause errors if you try to use it at a lower resolution.
Logos, kits, player faces, stadium and city packs
All these must be downlaod seperately, and are NOT a part of the skin.
Recommended packs to complete the skin:
Vitrex city pictures (Flut adaption)
Mini Stadium Superpack
Once again, the popular Vitrex skin returns for Football Manager 2017!
Version 2.0 now out - released 1st of January 2017!
A minimalistic inspired dark FM17 skin for managers who believe that the beauty lies in simplicity and details while content is still king. By Emil Debski.
Vitrex17 v2.0 skin in-game preview
Key/signature features of Vitex17
1. The very well-known 3D shadowed sidebar, originally introduced in Vitrex MMXV for FM15 is back, with the possibility to have it icons-only or full width, through your game preference panel.
2. Another year, another beautifully handcrafted 3D news notification icon.
3. 3 stripes behind the logo in the title-bar added again this year.
4. Beautiful new custom made scout card icons.
5. All game buttons revamped to neat looking, shadowed 3D ones.
6. Probably the most known feat. of Vitrex: The shirt behind the face, along with the player signature, introduced by Vitrex MMXV back in 2014.
7. A whole new addition to this year, keeping Vitrex as one of the most innovative FM skins there are. Brand new 3D depth pitch, showing a players preferred positions on their profile - made for Vitrex17, exclusively by Emil Debski.
8. New custom made team squad overview panel, showing much more information about your team.
9. Also introduced by Vitrex last year, the now widely used, kit backs tactic board, in stead of the default boxes. Shirts are fully interactive (role/duty selector) plus the player names are visible on the back.
10. In prolongation to the tactics panel, once again we've introduced the captains armband.
11. Another whole new, innovative addition to this years skin, made exclusively for the Vitrex: The 3D depth pitch showing the clubs last starting 11, on any given teams club overview panel.
12. The great city pics pack originally made by Flut + a lot of people from the community, has been adapted to the Vitrex, making all photos have the same size/form, to match the rest of the club overview.
13. Yet another wonderful, brand new addition to this years skin. With inspiration from the already existing world map locator introduced years ago, we've build a brand new, up to date one, showing a club/countries location on a beautiful world map, a long side the capital city of that country and number of inhabitants. Exclusively made for and by Vitrex and Emil Debski.
14. Last years icon revamp throughout the whole game is back, with even more wonderful logos filling the different screens, giving the skin a fantastic overall look.
15. New competition player and team stats, showing much more relevant info, than the default ones.
16. Once again an feature introduced to skins for the first time in Vitrex16. The BBC internet styled Competition News panel.
17. This year we have taken it one step further, with a brand new Social Feed panel, Twitter style!
18. Wannacupbrews wonderful Instant Result button feature.
Changelogs:
2.0:
- Brand new preview panel
- Brand new match pre match panel
- Brand new match In Between Highlights panel
- Brand new match feed
- Brand new Vitrex signature match scoreboard
- Brand new match post match pabel
- Brand new Human Manager panel
- Brand new manager Home panel
- Added possibility to add your own manager pic back into the game
- Brand new Stadium panel
+ Much more
1.4:
- Brand new match Vitrex LCD style match header
- Brand new pre-match lineups panel signature 3D pitch Vitrex style
- Brand new In Between Highlights match panels
- TV Logo aded to match screen
- Brand new Match Overview panel
- New Manager Home panel layout
- Complete button/checkbox rewamp to better fit the style of the skin
- New international/players on loan report panels
- Lots of rearrangement of list views: Scout reports, team talks, stat panels and more.
+ more
1.3:
- Brand new Nation Overview
- Brand new Non-player/Manager Overview
- Brand new Team Report
- Competition News BBC style from Vitrex16 included
- New Social Feed News panel
- New Player Info hover popup panel
- New Instant Result popup panel
- New Player Attributes in boxes option
+ more
1.2:
- Brand new Club Overview panel overhaul
- Introduction of a whole new World Map locator widget, made especially for Vitrex by Emil Debski
- Instant Result button added.
- DF11 faces mod included.
+ more
1.1:
- Issues causing the skin to crash game for some users on entering player profile and/or tactics screen fixed
- Brand new trademark addition once again to and by Vitrex: New beautiful 3D player positions pitch on player profile
- Match tactics overview adopted to look like the non-match tactics overview
- New competition stat overviews for both player and team stats
- Additional small changes
+ more
1.0:
- Brand new player overview
- Complete button overhaul
- Colours and transparency changed for all screens
- Sidebar under header introduced
- Stripes behind team logo in title-bar
- Kits on tactics board in stead of boxes
- New icons throughout the whole game
- Unknown player/staff default picture
- New grass graphics for pitches shown in tactics, player profile and club overview
- New attribute polygon
- New squad picking colours and buttons
- New scout report cards
- New league table colours
+ more
How to install Vitrex17 on FM17
WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEO
- Download the .zip archive and use a tool such as 7-zip for Windows or The Unarchiver for MacOSX to extract its contents.
- Move the extracted folder "Vitrex17 2.0" to your skins folder:
\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2017\skins\ - Run Football Manager 2017 and go to Preferences > Interface.
You should see "Vitrex17 2.0” as an option in the skin drop down of the General options section.
Hit the Confirm button.
Credits:
Big props to wannachupbrew, Vic Posher, Rick Ctid Thorne, Flut, DazS8 and all the skinners in general for sparring and inspiration throughout the years.
Discussion: Vitrex17 v2.0 (updated 1/1-2017)
312 comments have been posted so far.
but congratulations for your work its amazing
Nah sorry. It takes too much time to make a proper, good looking skin - and as i never use light skins, it's nothing i plan to do.
Or you are using Metallic logos (or some other pack utilizing the left/right background logos widget). If so, then here is the solution(s):
I have changed the way the world map locator works, as it occupied the national flags widget code before, meaning national matches would show the map rather than the countries flag/logo which looked silly. Now the map uses the right/left background logo widget, which is also utilized by the metallic logo pack to show faded background logos in the titlebar/header. As Vitrex don't show these logos in the titlebar, you dont really need them.
So here are 2 ways to fix it:
Go into you general graphics folder, where you have kits, faces, logos ect. Find the metallic logo folder. In it you should find subfolders for background logos left and right.
You can either:
Delete these folders all together (don't worry your normal metallic logos will not be affected)
or
Rename the config.xml files (found it the same folders mentioned above) to for example config-deatcivated.xml. Then you still have the logos if you want to use them in the future with another skin, but the game will not pick them up anymore, as it will not be able to locate a config.xml file - thereby they won't overrule the world map configs and as a result you will see the map again.
Reload skin. Done :-)
I changed the way the world map locator is shown, as it occupied the widget of the country's flag before, resulting in the locator being shown in matches and other places, in stead of the countries flag.
It sounds like you still have the old club overview panel since it doesnt show anywhing now - did you preserve it from an earlier version? Or did you use the new 1.4 panels along with the rest of the update?
But I have some minor problem that happend only in this new 1.4 version and was working fine on oldest version,
The problem is when I open my club or any club I cant see any country map on location column, bottom right coner section. Example if I open my club, Man Utd, it only shows text England and under it UK&Ireland but under that just blank without any map shown.
But if I open national team like England, France, Belgium etc the country map is available. So it only disappear when I open club and not national team. I see on your AS Roma screenshot above that your club's country location map are working fine, thats why I confuse whats wrong with mine.. hope you can help..
Thanks
Perfect, glad it worked out in the end.
The scout reports is not a bug. It's the way i have set the colours of the potential/current ability. You can change it easily in the setting.xml file of the skin.
I have taken out the backroom advice panel, as it annoyed my eye, and didn't fit with the feeling i want for the skin. It can also be put back very easily, let me know if you want/need help with it.
I have answered this questions numerous times on here and in my facebook group. You must be doing something wrong, or else it must and will show. I never understood why people have this problem, as i never experienced myself, with any skin (if extracted to the right folder).
Here is a video, follow the instructions, and the skin will show:
HOW TO INSTALL VITREX17
When you extract the downloaded file, open it and copy the other Vitrex 1.3 file that is inside the folder and move it to the skins folder in \Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2017\skins\
It will work without any problem
(Mac user)
keep up the good work!!
thanks in advance and keep up!
It's normal. The ranking of the leagues is not official - it's nothing that can have been meassured back in time. It's just an FM rating - this means you will first see it develop 2 season+ into the game, as there simply is no history to show for it in the first season.