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FM 2018 FLUT skin dark - Version 2.1

A skin for the regular career mode of Football Manager 2018. Version 2.1 released on 26 August 2018.

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Football Manager 2018 Skins - FM 2018 FLUT skin dark - Version 2.1

FM 2018 FLUT skin dark - Version 2.1


Skin for FM 2018 regular career mode and widescreen (1920x1080).

This skin is compatible with cutout, DF11, scope and PMSC facepacks.



In this version, I included:
- “round country flags” and “round continents logos” specially made in metallic style by brian-q from sourtitoutsi. Those graphics will be displayed in the title bar.
- background maps for confederations, also made by brian-q. Thank you brian by your great work and for your collaboration!!!
- pitch textures for 3D match edited by myself

NEW pack of sites for news panel: If you want to replace the current news sites pack in the news panel by other different pack, you can download HERE a pack specially made by Doddo04 for dark FlutSkin. Thank you my friend!! The pack includes a read me file in order to know how to install it.

Once again, thanks to all FM fans (your suggestions keep me trying to make the skin better) and especially to all the fantastic FM skinners whose creativity contributes a lot to produce the FLUTSkin as it is today since FM 2013. Thank you all!!

Main changes in FlutSkin V 2.1 are in
  • Nation overview panel
  • Match review panel
  • Inbox Press conferences
  • Inbox content with competitions player odds panel
  • Inbox content with home grown info panel
  • Inbox content with player training focus
  • Pre-match opponent scout report news

"New" in FlutSkin v. 2.0
  • Restyled boxes (subsection and bordered) in most of panels. Now the boxes have round corners
  • Some country locator flags and round flags were also tweaked by brian-q

  • The main tweaked panels are:
  • Contract Offer Inbox
  • Inbox team of the week panel (animation front/back kits)
  • Training overview panel
  • Target List/Development list/Unwanted list panels
  • Team managers history panel
  • Team injuries overview panel
  • Risk assessment panel
  • Panel overview league table
  • Team container records summary
  • Board room
  • Affiliated clubs panel
  • Non player profile
  • Team training coaches panel
  • Past meetings fixtures panel

Main changes in FlutSkin V 1.9
  • Club overview panel tweaked and new information included in drop down arrows (club icons, legends and favourite personnel)
  • Match in between highlights tweaked
  • Full match review tweaked
  • New selection information default views included in the team squad panels
  • “New” match preview panel (new tabs with home and away analysis included)
  • “New” coach report panel, overview player report, analyst player report
  • “New” medical report panel
  • Scouting assignments tweaked
  • Scouting centre tweaked
  • Club knowledgment tweaked
  • Other tweaks here and there…

Main changes in FlutSkin V 1.8
  • New coloured country locator
  • “New” match overview panel
  • “New” match lineups panel
  • “New” match in between highlights panel
  • “New” match full time review panel
  • “New” match mid time panel
  • “New” team staff overview
  • Match titlebar tweaked
  • Competition fixtures roundup tweaked
  • Fixtures details panel tweaked
  • Player attributes changes tweaked

Main changes in FlutSkin V 1.7.
  • "New" match titlebar with new scoreboard
  • Match inbetween highlights teams stats tweaked (some information included/changed)
  • Non player profile and non player profile popup tweaked (now with attributes background boxes)
  • Player profile popup tweaked (new information included)
  • Tutor information panel tweaked (current ability and potential ability included)
  • Icon in actions bar displaying the number of unread messages included
  • Bugs due to SI update fixed

Main changes in FlutSkin V 1.6.
  • “New” player overview popup panel (new information and new options in drop down arrows included)
  • New inbox training (new information included)
  • New match preview panel (new opposition manager information and tab with lineups included)
  • Player overview tweaked and PMSC faces option added
  • Autohidden sidebar included (however the pack includes the alternative files for those who prefer the regular sidebar)

Changes and fixes in FlutSkin V 1.5.
  • “New”
    • match full time review panel
    • human profile
    • manager home
  • Major tweaks
    • Last eleven (club overview panel)
    • Main tabbed box in player overview panel
    • Non player profile
    • Match team talk panel
    • Team hierarchy panel
  • Other tweaks
    • Match preview panel
    • Various inbox panels
    • Various graphics files

    Changes and fixes in FlutSkin V 1.4.
    • “New” Player Attributes panel
    • “New” team report summary panel
    • “New” non player profile
    • News (drop down arrow to choose different leagues/continents news included)
    • Non player popup profile (tweaked)
    • “New” inboxes panels: Pre-Season report; pre-match opponent; post-match team.
    • Player overview panel (tweaked in some panels)
    • Other small tweaks here and there
    • Instant result (fixed, although is not the same I used in previous versions since that older code causes crashes)
    • Match-team talk (bug regarding morale fixed; some new information included)
    • TV Logos (removed, since I couldn’t found the way to make it works well, yet)

    Major changes in FlutSkin V 1.3.
    • Player overview popup (tweaked)
    • Team Squad Tactics Panel (row height decreased)
    • Player Overview panel (new information included in the boxes; position ability bar graphics included)
    • League stage views (capitals letters included; different colour for the club points)
    • Continent overview (tweaked and missing information included)
    • Team talk panel (half time rating included in the full time view)
    • League overview panel (tweaked and missing information included)
    • Agent Profile (tweaked)
    • Person Information panel (new)
    • Pre-match opponent scout report news (inbox) (player positions included in the pitch view)
    • Match lineups (kits on the pitch moved to not cover the player picture)
    • Tactics overview panel (kits on the pitch moved and subs bench kits increased and tweaked)
    • Tactics overview panel match (tweaked)
    • Opposition instructions (tweaked)

    Major changes in FlutSkin V 1.2.
    • Match squad team talk (new stats included)
    • Human profile (awards panel included)
    • Match mid review (new panel and information with drop down arrows; some match stats information added)
    • Match full review (new match stats included)
    • Player Overview panel (height and weight units fixed; some "new" information added in drop down arrows)
    • Stadium overview panel (pitch description information added)
    • Match inbetween highlights panel (new, with more information and 6 panels)
    • Training overview panel (bar graph for team happiness included and some layout changes)
    • Sidebar (club logo included)
    • Many tweaks in several inbox panels

    Major changes in FlutSkin V. 1.1.
    • Many inbox panels tweaked (pre season, pre,match, post match, etc, etc)
    • Match Preview Panel (new panels included)
    • Match In between highlights (tweaked and with new information included in the drop down arrow)
    • Tactics overview match/Tactics overview panel (tweaked and player faces included/new background pitch included)
    • Sidebar and back/next buttons (sidebar moved to down and includes the buttons)
    • Match titlebar (now transparent)
    • Match lineups panel (player faces with kits included)
    • Player overview panel (height and weight information included)
    • Match Introduction included (with automatic animation and option to choose the introduction of several leagues made for FM17 by JOVOVICH)
    • Opacity selector included

    Released: 26 August, 2018

    A special thank you to PATRES10 from fmslovakia for the 2D default kits (especially tailor-made for FlutSkin).

    As always FlutSkin is completely free to download and I hope you enjoy it. However, this year, 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 1920x1080 (1080p) full screen mode. As a result, some panels won’t work properly in other resolutions (and also in 1920x1080 windowed mode).


    IMPORTANT NOTES:
    In this pack I included a read me file in order to install the skin, the pitch textures addon and the default sidebar (I included two versions: a) "normal" sidebar; b) sidebar coloured according the club colour). I also included a TUTORIAL PDF with instructions regarding the structure of your Graphics folder in order to view the citypics, the kits and the competition logos in player details and in title bar.

    You can download the 2D kits for displayed in player overview panel and titlebar HERE

    You also can download the citypics (and much more…) in the Backgrounds Superpack made by DAZS8 and VULRAK (with some contribution from myself and other FM Fans), HERE

    For those one who experience crashes during the match (for example, when a yellow card is shown) the “alt match in between highlights panels folder” contains a file (match in between highlights.xml) for replace the original one. That xml is from FlutSkin 1.1 and works well in this version. You just have to follow the instructions in the read me file.

    How to add Flut Skin in FM18

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

    Place the "fm2018flutskin_dark21" folder here:
    Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2018\skins

    1. Create the folder "skins" if it doesn't exist.
    2. Start FM18 and go to Preferences screen and then into the Interface tab.
    3. You should see FM 2018 Flut Skin dark - Version 2.1 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 2018 FLUT skin dark - Version 2.1

    739 comments have been posted so far.

    • Infiltrator's avatar
      Wow mate, skin works perfect now! Pure class! Thank you so much you took the time for my questions! Just one little question (for real my last one :-D ) What kind of picture has to be in this place:



      Again thx alot!
    • Flut's avatar
      Hi blindhorizon: forget that previous xml. The correct one is this:
      [url= https://mega.nz/#!ik03TZqR!6IOdf7-um7szblq8RO6BIXgliZ3pHg-_VUuSiWyLWos]DOWNLOAD[/url]

      You're welcome Marbah :-)
    • Marbah's avatar
      Hey man,

      thank you so much for the reply. it works like a charm.

      thank you, thank you, thank you!
    • Flut's avatar
      Hi blindhorizon: put this file in the competition folder of the skin
      [url= https://mega.nz/#!LkFClBCD!z5CYdlwNkf3iEi8jVobMLZt-Z8GJ6BpRglU_-FyyJ3U]DOWNLOAD[/url]

      Hi Marbah: in order to delete the PA open player additional attributes panel.xml and delete the following code:

      <container>
      <layout class="fit_children_attachment" alignment="vertical" offset="0" />
      <layout class="arrange_horizontal_attachment" layout="-3,-1,20" alignment="top,extend" offset="0" />
      <layout class="centre_in_parent_attachment" alignment="vertical" inset="0" apply_to_children="true" />
      <!-- Potential Ability -->


      <widget class="label" auto_size="vertical" size="10" alignment="left, can_scale" font="title" colour="accent">
      <translation id="text" translation_id="251894" type="use" value="Potential Ability[COMMENT: scout report panel box heading]" />
      </widget>
      <!--<widget class="team_stars_label" lrge="true" id="PAic" auto_size="all" value="15" >-->




      <widget class="attribute_label" alignment="centre" colour="white" style="semi_bold" use_attribute_colour_as_bg="true" size="13" appearance="boxes/custom/attributes/paper" height="23" >

      <record id="object_property" get_property="Ppab"/>
      <record id="widget_properties" alignment="centre,can_scale" />
      </widget>

      <container/>
      </container>

      Hi nikolaosaek: it only works in one of the player attributes type. In this case only in attributes with background boxes. And yes...I can imagine you are an expert in changing fonts :-)
      Regarding the other problem: in my game is okay. Are you playing in windowed mode?
      1
    • nikolaosaek's avatar
      And also this one. Look at the data under the stadium.
    • nikolaosaek's avatar
      Hi again Flut. I got an issue here. The players attributes are not highlited when i choose the one without the background boxes. Look at the pic.
    • Marbah's avatar
      Hi man, really appreciate the skin. Is there a way to hide the potential ability to be displayed in the player attribute screen?
    • Infiltrator's avatar
      awesome mate! its working! :-D
    • nikolaosaek's avatar
      I now feel an expert in editing fonts :D :D
      1
    • Blindhorizon86's avatar
      Thank you very much Flut. I changed the color to "hint" and now is white again. Could you please also tell me how to put all capital letters in the league table screen as well as change the color of the league points? (like the skin you did for fm 2017 where they were yellow). Thank again!
    • Flut's avatar
      Hi Infiltrator: open team squad.xml, located in panels/team and delete the following code

      <!-- Starting XI Styles -->
      <flags id="stxi" value="tables/standard/row/startingteam/row" />

      <!-- Subs Styles -->
      <flags id="subs" value="tables/custom/squad/substitute/row" />

      Regarding the other problem maybe there is a conflict with other skin since I tested in my game and everything is ok.
    • Infiltrator's avatar
      Sorry to be a pain in the ass mate hahaha. I'm talking about the green and orange bars behind the players names. The goalkeepers dont have this.


      Also have problems with the match in between panel, there is no info on it?
    • Flut's avatar
      Hi bekko: I really don't know what happens. It seems a conflict with other skin. I don't remember, but I think the skin even don't have that background you talked about...
    • BeKKO's avatar
      Hi flut,
      In my game all the team backgrounds and player backgrounds work proporly and change accordingly despite the inbox background. Is always a background with a lawn mowing machine. with other skins the inbox background is the same has the team background.
    • Flut's avatar
      Hi troy: thanks!!!!!

      Hi Infiltrator: sorry but I don't understand what bars are you talking about. Could you please put a screenshot?

      Hi wolk:
      sorry but the skin works well only in 1920x1080, 100%, full window, icons only

      Hi blindhorizon:
      thanks for the information. Regarding the colour of numbers in honours box, change the colour name (now “title”) in the following code of the honours info panel.xml (located in team folder of the skin)

      <widget class="text" id="wcnt" spec="text, large" alignment="centre" auto_size="vertical" size="13" colour="title" font="fonts/letterpressed">
      </widget>

      Hi bekko: I don't know if I understood your question but if so, I think I can't help you since each one of us use different graphics pack containing backgrounds, etc. In my game, the inbox background display the stadium of my team.
    • BeKKO's avatar
      Hi Flut, Is it possible for the inbox background not be the default one but for example the team background that im training?
    • Blindhorizon86's avatar
      Hi Flut, I confirm you that using the file you gave me I was able to change the normal font. The game has not crashed.

      Could you tell me how to change to color of the numbers below the trophees in the club screen? Many thanks!
    • wolk's avatar
      Is it possible to use 125% or 150% characters?
    • Infiltrator's avatar
      Hi flut, nice skin!! Question. Is there a way to delete the green and yellow bars in de selection overview so i can see my background better?
    • troy's avatar
      Really great update
      Love the new match panel
      Big thanks Flut
    • vonholzminden's avatar
      Thanks Flut,
      but i fixed it for me. I copied another overlay in the kits/back folder:

    • Flut's avatar
      Hi vonreichsm: regarding the tactics I think I didn't change it from the last version. But in match tactics, match intro and match inbetween highlights I had to use that kind of pitch because I noticed that the other one I used in previous versions don't display the correct kits when the team plays with the away ou third kit. I also prefered the previous but I had to replace by this one in order to fix that bug. In match inbetween highlights the (apparently empty) space above the pitch includes incidents information of the team during the match (goals, injuries, yellow cards etc)
    • vonholzminden's avatar
      Hi Flut,
      thanks for updating your skin. I´m wondering why i see now the shadows at the tactic screen at 3dmatch. Could you please help how to fix it?



      and here in the match in between panel too:

    • Flut's avatar
      Hi nymthehavoc: ok I will include the average distance runned by the team.
    • nymthehavoc's avatar
      hi Flut, would that be possible to add the run km of the player performance to add to the team stats page (which comes at the end of the game). This was there in the past and to assess the performance I dearly miss it. many thanks

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