Adding Logos

I've made a team on the FM Editor and new logo for that team,

Anyway I was wondering how do I add this logo to the team so that it appears in the game?

cheers

While you are on FM on your new team page, make sure to enable showing unique IDs in preferences so you can find out what is the ID of your team. Once you know that it's easy to make a logo and add it with xml.

Okay cheers, but how do i make it into an XML

and where do I put the file??

OK, let's take it step by step.

Get the pictures ready

You need to prepare the logo in 4 pictures, all must be in .png format and have a transparent background.
- small (18x18)
- large and normal (180x180)
- background left (300x100)
- background right (300x100)

The numbers in parenthesis are in pixels. The logos appearing on the background left/right picture should have an opacity of 10% I think.

Create the folders

background_left\FILE_NAME.png
background_right\FILE_NAME.png
large\FILE_NAME.png
normal\FILE_NAME.png
small\FILE_NAME.png

Where FILE_NAME is the name you choose for the pictures. Give it the same filename in all different folders.

Get the XML ready

Create a new txt file and paste the following inside of it:

<record>
<!-- resource manager options -->

<!-- dont preload anything in this folder -->
<boolean id="preload" value="false"/>

<!-- turn off auto mapping -->
<boolean id="amap" value="false"/>

<!-- logo mappings -->
<!-- the following XML maps pictures inside this folder into other positions
in the resource system, which allows this folder to be dropped into any
place in the graphics folder and still have the game pick up the graphics
files from the correct places
-->

<list id="maps">

</list>
</record>

Add the following line between <list> and </list> depending on what folder you are on.
So for Normal Logo:
<record from="FILE_NAME" to="graphics/pictures/club/UNIQUE_ID/logo"/>

Huge Logo:
<record from="FILE_NAME" to="graphics/pictures/club/UNIQUE_ID/logo/huge"/>

Small Logo:
<record from="FILE_NAME" to="graphics/pictures/club/UNIQUE_ID/icon"/>

Background Right Logo:
<record from="FILE_NAME" to="graphics/pictures/club/UNIQUE_ID/logo/background/right"/>

Background Left Logo:
<record from="FILE_NAME" to="graphics/pictures/club/UNIQUE_ID/logo/background/left"/>

FILE_NAME – is the name of your graphic, note the lack of a file extension in the name
UNIQUE_ID – is the unique ID of the team, obtainable from the editor or in game

Save and place it right

File -> Save As and name the file config.xml – you need to ensure notepad saves the file as config.xml and not config.xml.txt.

You have now created a config file, you now need to place this config file in the same folder as your logo. Remember you need one config file per different size, so this means one config per picture folder.

Putting it all together

If you did everything right you should have the following files and structure ready:
background_left\FILE_NAME.png
background_left\config.xml
background_right\FILE_NAME.png
background_right\config.xml
large\FILE_NAME.png
large\config.xml
normal\FILE_NAME.png
normal\config.xml
small\FILE_NAME.png
small\config.xml

You can create a folder, name it after your team and move all those folders inside it. Then just move/copy this folder to:
> My Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2011 > graphics >
If graphics folder doesn't exist already, go ahead and create it yourself.

One final note:
Run Football Manager 2011 and go to: Preferences > Display and Sound
Make sure that you tick the check box on the page called 'Always Reload Skin on Confirm' and un-tick then box saying 'Use Skin Cache'. Hit Confirm.
There should be a box that pops up saying 'loading image data for the new skin'. Once this is done your graphics should be working within the game.

Hi, is there an updated or easier version or way of me doing this? I have got my logos (only three of them though, not the four or five suggested here) and I have Googled how to add them in to my game and seen this!

Which seems WAY too complicated for me to even think about trying to do it. It may as well be written in a foreign language!

Can i also ask for a Club Logo

I would like it to be a round logo like that of -: Borussia Dortmund
Where it says "Borussia" i would like ik to say AFC Mokum and where it says "Dortmund" i would like "Amsterdam"
In the middle where it says "BVB 09" i would like the flag of amsterdam filling up that space
With the three Saint Andrew's Crosses vertically placed
Maybe somewhere 1977

Thanks in advance