Champions League 2024 skin (full version released!!!)

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The Champions League 2024 skin is optimized for HD resolutions (Resolution of 1920x1080 windowed and full screen), other resolutions are not officially supported.  There are several mods (tabbed tactics container mod, scoreboard mods, hidden attributes mod, high resolution mod (up to 2560x1440) all included with the full release of the skin.

This is a fully animated skin, the FULL RELEASE version was released on Thursday, November 9,2023 (BETA version was released on Thursday, October 26, 2023). Latest update was done on February 24, 2024.

Designed for Football Manager 2024 (PC/MAC).

The Champions League 2024 skin is NOT available on any forum or any other Football Manager (fan) website, only  exclusively on “footballmanagergraphics.com”. The skin is made available only to a select group of  people by donation.

The current version of the skin is fully compatible with Football Manager 2024 v24.2.1 and will be updated when needed.

I do not update the skin a lot as I already have spent countless hours on perfecting the skin prior to the initial release. (when "skinners" release new updates every week or month that usually means the skin wasn't really "ready for release").

I will provide updates on "bugs" when needed of course.

 

 

 

 

Donations can be done through PayPal (https://paypal.me/a31632), when you type this address in your browser you will see a screen so you can make a donation.

DOWNLOAD LINK

Please indicate to which email address you would like to get the download link and encryption password sent to. Alternatively, you can connect with a PM directly.

If PayPal is not an option you can donate by sending me a “Steam Gift card”. My Steam ID is: vgtimmer.

 

PLEASE: Respect the many hours I spent on creating and perfecting this skin. Support my work by donating.

 

Recommended (not included) for use with this skin are:

Facepack of your choice, Logo and kits packs, Cities megapack (showing city pictures in club screens), Stadium/player background packs. The logo pack in the screenshots are my own “ESS v5” logo’s, they are available for download at: ESS v5 Logo's REVIVED !!! (sortitoutsi.net)

Edited February 24 by a31632
VERSION UPDATED TO VERSION 1.1

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Updated penalty taker panel (in match):

Before:

 

After:

 

Other updated screens since BETA release:

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We had some technical issues on the website so I reposted some of the changes made in the past 2 weeks.

The full skin release is planned for Friday November 10 and making good progress to the release date. I have updated well over 150 panels since the BETA release two weeks ago. So lots of changes have been made, some are clearly noticeable, some only when you "dig a bit deeper". 

My skins are always considered to be a "complete overhaul" of the game, not just a few panels being edited. After spending on average 7-8 hours/day for the past 3 weeks, I can say the product is nearing completion now. I never like "skin makers' who release a skin and come with weekly or monthly updates, that in general means that the skin was not completed upon release, besides of course some "bug fixes".

I usually, for that reason, only release 1 to 2 updates after the initial release, knowing that I spent already countless hours on perfecting the skin prior to the first release.

See below screenshots of the WIP, the latest addition I completed today is the "return of squad depth" in the "squad planner" section of the skin (used to be in FM23 and now in FM24 it only shows a "best XI" screen instead with no additional info). As usual I edited the panels with bigger boxes, where possible bigger player faces, and a nicer view overall.

 

 

 

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Full version of the skin is now released, as of November 9, 2023.  If you have donated you should now have received a PM here, or an email, with the new download link and encryption password.

Please make sure to DELETE the BETA skin and extract the new (full) skin in your "skins" folder. Lots of panels were added and edited (well over 150 panels since the BETA version came out) and also graphics and settings were changed).

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Attached the pdf that I made for the skin, was NOT included in the skin download, my apologies.

Champions League 2024 skin.pdf

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Made a change to the colour settings (file is "CL2024 settings.xml" in the folder "settings")

Don't like the bright orange colour, I changed it to a dark grey colour which makes it better readable and easier on the eyes. Add the below code to the panel and reload the skin.

    <colour name="bg accent" value="rgb(75,75,75)" />

 

Before the change:

 

After the change:

 

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Resolved a bug in the "player transfer information" screen. When player was "transfer listed" there were no options to adjust in this screen, see pictures "before" and "after". Replace the xml file in the "panels/player" folder and reload the skin for the changes to take effect.

 

Before:

 

After:

 

player transfer information.xml

 

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Removed non-relevant info (intended for GK only) from recruitment screen for players and added player faces to "other recommended player" screens

 

 

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With update FM 24.2 the option to add a "manager picture" has been removed from the game.

In order to get your own picture to show as the manager picture you will have to add your own picture to the "player picture folder" you have. Review the UID# of your own (manager) picture and add it to the config.xml file. Reload the skin and make sure caching is NOT enabled and your picture will show again. Since FM 24.2 a manager is considered a "regen" picture. so you will need to add "-r" to the code. So if you UID# is for example: "2002117708" the code in the config.xml in the player pictures folder will need to show:

        <record from="r-2002117708" to="graphics/pictures/person/r-2002117708/portrait"/>

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Added detailed player stats in player overview panel (credit to "_Ben_" and GIMN for their work on this), it is accessible through the pull down menu as shown in the screenshot. Also changed colour settings for the "PIZZA" graphs, used with permission of "GIMN" (Mustermann skin)

[Derek]

Another year and another fantastic skin by you mate 

[samuel schutz]

4 hours ago, a31632 said:

Added detailed player stats in player overview panel (credit to "_Ben_" and GIMN for their work on this), it is accessible through the pull down menu as shown in the screenshot. Also changed colour settings for the "PIZZA" graphs, used with permission of "GIMN" (Mustermann skin)

I loved these graphics, I wanted to give you a clear suggestion if possible, you know the individual training panels when you mark more than one player? Is it possible to make a button so you can praise or criticize the player there? But of course, if possible, my friend, I really love your skin

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20 hours ago, samuel schutz said:

I loved these graphics, I wanted to give you a clear suggestion if possible, you know the individual training panels when you mark more than one player? Is it possible to make a button so you can praise or criticize the player there? But of course, if possible, my friend, I really love your skin

Thanks for the feedback, to be honest I never even looked at that particular screen, never selected more than one player..........

I added it in, larger player faces as well, will be included in a (small) update that I will release sometime next week

 

[samuel schutz]

3 hours ago, a31632 said:

Thanks for the feedback, to be honest I never even looked at that particular screen, never selected more than one player..........

I added it in, larger player faces as well, will be included in a (small) update that I will release sometime next week

 

wow, this redesigned screen looks really good, I liked how it turned out, I use it a lot to praise the squad at once

[samuel schutz]

On 03/12/2023 at 18:10, a31632 said:

Thanks for the feedback, to be honest I never even looked at that particular screen, never selected more than one player..........

I added it in, larger player faces as well, will be included in a (small) update that I will release sometime next week

 

My friend, I'm sorry to be annoying, but I actually didn't want to give you a new suggestion, but just a question. Do you think about inserting those icons of the feet on which they play into these player icons in tactics?

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3 hours ago, samuel schutz said:

My friend, I'm sorry to be annoying, but I actually didn't want to give you a new suggestion, but just a question. Do you think about inserting those icons of the feet on which they play into these player icons in tactics?

I'm not sure what you mean here with showing the icons of the feet (footedness), the icons need space in order to show and be readable, so looks to me that the containers are just not big enough to add them.

Either way in my player pop-up panels it shows right away, so when you hover over the little icon next to the player name the pop-up shows and it shows the footedness of the player you are watching. Maybe I completely misunderstand you, but looks not that relevant to add it in. It also looks nice and clean now, some people add all kinds of icons and stuff in it that just makes it look "messy", but that is my personal opinion of course.  

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Made a minor change to the tactics screen. When clicking "substitutes" the available substitutes would pop-up (overlapping the team instructions) but the background was dark (to prevent "team instructions" from still being visible when substitutes were showing. I decided to clean this up and it's now a seamless image with pitch background, fading out to black, in the background. See screenshot for example:

[samuel schutz]

19 hours ago, a31632 said:

Made a minor change to the tactics screen. When clicking "substitutes" the available substitutes would pop-up (overlapping the team instructions) but the background was dark (to prevent "team instructions" from still being visible when substitutes were showing. I decided to clean this up and it's now a seamless image with pitch background, fading out to black, in the background. See screenshot for example:

I liked how this new background turned out, a small but very pleasant change

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Today I will be releasing a very minor update (full) version of the skin. Some bug fixes (as posted before) and some minor improvements. As there were graphics, fonts and other files involved I decided to repack the skin in a new version rather than creating a "complicated update process".

I will send out the new version with new encryption password out today to everyone. I added a file "cl2024.skc" in the download. This is the cached file of the full skin. If you have (or had) any graphical issues, might have been caching issues, this might help. Make sure you tick "caching" in your preferences before exiting the game. Copy the "cl2024.skc" file in your "appdata/local/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2024/caches" folder (Windows) and start the game up. It should show all correctly after this.

(I reloaded the skin numerous times while adding/changing stuff around and at some point the "scout recommendation" ("A","B" etc.) wasn't showing anymore, when I replaced the caching file with one from a newly installed laptop, it was back again, so it did the trick for me).

 

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I updated the Champions League 2023 skin with many of the updates I made on the 2024 version of the skin. When I played around with a game in the updated skin I encountered the image below in my inbox. The 2023 version will still not work properly in FM24 as some coding was actually changed so it's only to have a more updated version for FM23.

When you encounter the same inbox screen as below, please replace the file in the "news_item_panels" folder with the attached file (see "before" and "after" screenshots). The coding for this file in FM24 is similar to FM23 so the same solution is needed.

Screenshots are from FM23 but the result when fixing should be the same:

 

Before:

 

After:

 

fmt scout report news panel.xml

 

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Also made a change to the coding in the attached file to clean up the scouting screens and re-organized the info shown in the pull downs, see screenshots:

 

Copy this file in your panels\person folder:

person search player views.xml

[Raymundo2387]

Hi, in the transfers screen my wage budget shows the correct monetary sign but for the transfer budget it just shows numbers with no format? Any ideas on how to fix please?

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13 hours ago, Raymundo2387 said:

Hi, in the transfers screen my wage budget shows the correct monetary sign but for the transfer budget it just shows numbers with no format? Any ideas on how to fix please?

 

This is a bug, well spotted!!! The coding for the remaining transfer budget changed in the 2024 version of the game (so the code works in the 2023 skin and game).

I changed it for the scouting section and the transfer screen and also cleaned up the top bar buttons so it looks nicer, see screenshots. 

 

 

scouting top bar widget.xmlscouting top bar.xmlperson search info.xml

 

"person search info.xml" needs to be copied into "panels/person" folder

"scouting top bar.xml" needs to be copied into "panels/team" folder

"scouting top bar widget.xml" needs to be copied into "panels/widgets" folder

 

 

[Raymundo2387]

On 08/02/2024 at 06:55, a31632 said:

 

This is a bug, well spotted!!! The coding for the remaining transfer budget changed in the 2024 version of the game (so the code works in the 2023 skin and game).

I changed it for the scouting section and the transfer screen and also cleaned up the top bar buttons so it looks nicer, see screenshots. 

 

 

scouting top bar widget.xml 6.54 kB · 2 downloads scouting top bar.xml 10.2 kB · 2 downloads person search info.xml 9.16 kB · 2 downloads

 

"person search info.xml" needs to be copied into "panels/person" folder

"scouting top bar.xml" needs to be copied into "panels/team" folder

"scouting top bar widget.xml" needs to be copied into "panels/widgets" folder

 

 

Great, thanks!

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I just finished working on an update for the skin which is now ready for download.

The updated version includes more animations in screens (manager/player/staff pop-up and lots of tabbed containers now). I added a "results" tab in the club overview just beside the "results and fixtures" tab, where you get more detailed information on the recent results of the last 5 matches played. Added functionality in the tab bar:  a "bookmark" option so you can select and save favourite screens for quicker and easier access to them in addition an "ID" button that will show a pop-up in the header with the club/player/manager/non player "ID" numbers (no need to change it in preferences anymore), click once to show it, click again to hide it, The updated skin also includes some other graphical improvements and minor bug fixes.

The earlier posted improvements and bug fixes are all included in the updated version!

The update is available as a full download and "update only" (for update only: it includes "graphics", "settings" and "panels" so needs to be extracted in the main folder of the skin (not in the panels folder directly).

 

See screenshots to get an idea of some of the changes made: