Fan-made default dark skin for the game, how we believe it should be done in Football Manager 2021. If you want to keep the game's ori...
Fan-made default dark skin for the game, how we believe it should be done in Football Manager 2021.
If you want to keep the game's originality with some not intrusive visual improvements, Dark Polish is what you are looking for. It's clean and low-res friendly.
Dark Polish FM21 Skin Features
- consistent shades of grey
- ProximaNova font from older FMs
- improved background selector
- "Instant Result" button with post-match popup
- "Huge" database depth option
- player pictures and role suitability pies on tactic screen
- past meetings panel under the tactic screen (visible on high-res)
- ribbon navigation in Preferences
- club profile overhaul (original by Pikawa)
- stadium picture option in club profiles (default one has dynamic colour)
- slightly modified player attributes section
- dynamic continue button colours
- coloured backgrounds of social media club avatars
- removed pointless club logo from news item (staff photos are a bit larger now)
- removed bold and uppercase form headings
- removed purple elements like circle icons and contrast boxes
- FM21 flags instead of old ones in language change menu
Skin Preview
Skin Installation Instructions
- zip
- rar
- 7z
The below software is recommended:
Once you’ve installed the extracting software on your operating system, create a new folder and place your downloaded skin rar in it.
- Windows users - WinRar (Choose the most recent .exe file)
- macOS users - The Unarchiver
Once you’ve installed the extracting software on your operating system, create a new folder and place your downloaded skin rar in it.
1. Extract the skin files as follows:
- Windows - Right-click on your rar. Choose WinRar from the menu, then select 'Extract Here'.
- MacOS X - Right-click (or ctrl + click) on your zip, rar or 7z. Choose 'open with' then select 'The Unarchiver'.
2. Locating Your User Data Location
Once you have downloaded and extracted your files, move them over to your ‘user data location’ so they can be read by the game.
The default location of your ‘user data location’ will be slightly
different depending on the OS you are using;
- Windows users - C:\Users\\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2021\skins*
- Mac OS X users - /Users//Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2021/skins*
*if this folder doesn't exist then just create a new folder and call it ‘skins’.
3. Displaying Skins In-Game
To select the skin in-game, load Football Manager 2021 and go into;
- Preferences > Advanced > Interface
- In this panel, you’ll find an option called ‘Skin’ with a drop-down menu next to it.
Select the drop-down menu to view your installed skins, then select and
confirm.
Skin Not Showing In-game
If the skin you want isn't showing then go to;
- Preferences > Advanced > Interface
Scroll down the interface page to Skin instructions, here you
must;
- untick 'Use caching to decrease page loading times'
- tick 'Reload skin when confirming changes in preferences'
- then select confirm
When you re-enter the preferences menu it should have refreshed the list
of skins to show your skin in the above list.
Once the skin is loaded you can turn the skin cache back on and un-tick the ‘always reload’ button.
Once the skin is loaded you can turn the skin cache back on and un-tick the ‘always reload’ button.
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- INFO
- Skins will only work on the version of the game they are designed for (so FM 21 skins will only work with FM2021 and not older versions of the game, nor newer ones) and Touch and Full Mode skins aren't compatible so if you are using the Touch version you will only be able to use Touch skins.