Move the FMF file Competitie NL 2.01_C858AF7A-6EA5-481C-8691-0150FFCD0CA1.fmf to this folder:
\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2015\editor data
Create the last folder if it doesn't exist.
Step 2: Logos (Optional)
If you also downloaded the logos, you need to place them in this folder:
\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2015\graphics\logos
Create the last 2 folders if they don't exist.
I'm pleased to present you the version 1.2 of FM FLUTSkin for FM 15.
This FlutSkin keeps, in general, the style of FMCFlutSkin for FM 2014.
I hope you enjoy it!
A special thanks to rune (from german Meistertrainerforum) and also to korki1903 for the support and for the changes in some panels.
As always I would appreciate if you could tell me when and in what circumstances (or panels) the bugs arise.
This skin was made to work properly in 1920x1080 Full Window. So, some panels don’t work properly in other resolutions (and also in 1920x1080 windowed mode).
In this update I included a folder with some files. If you play the game with hidden attributes or if you prefer the player attributes without the background boxes use that panels (overwrite the originals in the panels folder of the skin).
Beyond lots of small tweaks (and bugs fixed) this version is a little bit less brighter, some fonts are bigger (e.g., titlebar, inbox item list) and includes some “new” panels (e.g., match opposition panel, manager/human profile, instant result panel, match overview, stadium overview panel…).
Screenshots:
Installation Instructions
Step 1
Download the skin and extract the files (using either 7-Zip for Windows or The Unarchiver for Mac).
Step 2
Move the extracted folder "fm2015flutskin" into your skins folder:
Win Vista/7/8: C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2015\skins Win XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2015\skins Mac OS X: /Users/<username>/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2015/skins
Important: Create the folder "skins" if it doesn't exist.
Step 3
Start the game and go to Preferences screen and Interface tab.
You should see "FM 2015 FLUT skin 1.2” as option in the skin drop down of the Overview box.
Choose the skin.
Hit the Confirm button.
FM 2015 FLUT skin DARK VERSION v.1.2 [Released 03.12.2014]
Skin for FM 2015 (1920x1080).
I'm pleased to present you the version 1.2 of FM FLUTSkin for FM 15 – Dark Version.
I hope you enjoy it!
A special thanks to rune (from german Meistertrainerforum) and also to korki1903 for the support and for the changes in some panels.
As always I would appreciate if you could tell me when and in what circumstances (or panels) the bugs arise.
This skin was made to work properly in 1920x1080 Full Window. So, some panels don’t work properly in other resolutions (and also in 1920x1080 windowed mode).
In this update I included a folder with some files. If you play the game with hidden attributes or if you prefer the player attributes without the background boxes use that panels (overwrite the originals in the panels folder of the skin).
Beyond lots of small tweaks (and bugs fixed) in this version some fonts are bigger (e.g., titlebar, inbox item list) and includes some “new” panels (e.g., match opposition panel, manager/human profile, instant result panel, match overview, stadium overview panel…).
Screenshots
Installation Instructions
Step 1
Download the skin and extract the files (using either 7-Zip for Windows or The Unarchiver for Mac).
Step 2
Move the extracted folder “fm2015flutskindark" into your skins folder:
Win Vista/7/8: C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2015\skins
Win XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2015\skins
Mac OS X: /Users/<username>/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2015/skins
Create the folder "skins" if it doesn't exist.
Step 3
Start the game and go to Preferences screen and Interface tab.
You should see "FM 2015 FLUT skin – Dark Version 1.2” as option in the skin drop down of the Overview box.
Choose the skin.
Hit the Confirm button.
The Note Logos are the new style of Logos presented by FMonline Forum and they count over than 100 nations, all the logos of the default nations of the game. There are also all the competitions logos, international cups, and many more!
Below you can find the download links for the download of the Megapacks!
Enjoy!
Create the folders "graphics" and "kits" if they don't exist.
Then run Football Manager 2015 click on Preferences/Interface
Tick the check box called 'Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences' and untick the one 'Use caching to decrease page loading times'; then confirm and click con the Reload Skin button
It contains 46 real kits; home, away and third for most clubs in beautiful FC'12 style.
This kitpack is made by Orthodox from Serbian FM, a Serbian fan site for the game.
Redistribution Policy
Want to share this pack on other sites? Please point the download link to this very page. You cannot host any files yourself, unless you have written permission from the authors.
Download the .zip archive and use a tool such as 7-zip for Windows or The Unarchiver for MacOSX to extract the folders.
7-Zip is installed using the .exe you download, following the instructions on-screen. To install The Unarchiver simply double click on the .zip file you download from their website then drag the program it extracts (called 'The Unarchiver') into your apps folder.
Once installed, create a new folder somewhere you can keep track of (on your desktop for instance) and place your downloaded graphics zip, rar or 7z in it.
Now we extract: Windows: Right click on your zip, rar or 7z. Choose 7-Zip 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'.
Your file should extract and most probably create a folder in the same directory.
Step 2
Copy those folders to: Windows: \Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2015\graphics\kits\ Mac OS X: /Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2015/graphics/kits/
Create folders "graphics" and "kits" if they don't exist already.
Step 3
Run Football Manager 2015 and go to: Preferences > Interface
Make sure that you tick the check box on the page called 'Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences' and un-tick then box saying 'Use caching to decrease page loading times'. 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.
MacAssistant RT is a real time scout tool / real time editor for Football Manager 2015. It supports Mac OS X 10.7+ and the latest 15.1.4 Steam version of FM2015. Exclusively available from fmscout.com
Released: 14 November 2014 - 1st public beta
Redistribution Policy:
People who want to put MacAssistant RT on other sites, you may link back to this very page but you cannot host any files yourselves. Thank you!
Compatibility
Current MacAssistant RT version 1.0 supports:
FM15 version 15.1.4, 15.1.3, 15.1.1, 15.0.1
Mac OS X 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10
Features
General:
Exciting new user interface, optimised for OS X Yosemite. Backwards compatible to 10.7+
Massively faster engine. Loading a game now takes roughly 3 seconds!
Quicksearch! Never again do you have to fiddle around with the filters when all you looking for is something you know its name.
Players:
View/Edit a player's Age, value, weight, height, caps and U21 caps, and presets to Heal, Destroy and Unban players.
View/Edit a player's playing and personality stats, fitness, condition, jadedness, CA/PA, Left/Right Foot, and Reputation
View/Edit a player's contract wage, start/expiration date, squad status, squad number, transfer status, contract type, bonuses and clauses (value/type)
Staff:
View/Edit a staff member's Age, Names and other basic info.
View/Edit a staff member's Coaching / Personality / Business etc. stats, CA/PA, and Reputations
View/Edit a player's contract wage, start/expiration date, job type, bonuses and clauses (value/type)
Clubs:
View/Edit Attendances, Year founded, facilities (youth/training), chairman status, morale
View/Edit Finances: Balance, Transfer Budgets, Highest Wage Allowed, Season Tickets/Ticket Prices, Transfer Embargos, Wage Budget, Sugar Daddy, Sponsors and Debts
View/Edit Club Colours and Kits
Please note, that you will notice things that are not functional or missing (Shortlist functionality for example). These will be gradually enabled as we near the final stable release at the end of this month. Please do NOT post bug reports about things that are not working, other that what's on the above list.
Support MacAssistant RT
You can support the development of this tool by purchasing a license which unlocks the editing features for the 2015 version. This is an one time upgrade which costs £3.99.
Screenshots
Instructions for the First Run
The first time you load the app, it will ask for your password. Please fill it in because it's important that the app will run with elevated access, otherwise it won't load your game.
Bug Reports
MacAssistant RT will also need your help! If you encounter any bugs, please report them by sending an email to support@appcake.co.uk
You can always request a feature that you want that will make this tool better! Just leave a message in the official MacAssistant RT Forum!
Any doable feature requested will make it in the next release if it's not that time consuming. But if it is, you'll probably have to wait a few releases. It's still gonna be added!
Credits
MacAssistant RT is a fully featured assistant tool created by Thanos Siopoudis.
App logo by Stam.
With MANY special thanks to everyone who donated or purchased a license over the years! You are the ones who keep this project alive!
The Football Manager Whizzkids are back with a brand new database for the recently released, Football Manager 2015.
We are bringing you all the latest player transfers worldwide, manager/staff changes, re-named competitions, club info changes, added 'Wonderkids' plus much more.
Download and enjoy the best and most up-to-date transfer database in the Football Manager Community which currently has over 6800+ changes.
• Copy or Move the downloaded file The Football Manager Whizzkids 2015 Transfer Database...fmf at the following location:
Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 2015 / editor data
• Create the "editor data" folder if it doesn't exist.
Step 2
• Start new save-game with this database selected. Select new game and bottom right there is a box to choose All, None or Custom. Custom allows you to choose one file, All selects all in the editor data folder so choose accordingly.
DF11 is a portrait style facepack that initiated production since October 2010.
The DF11 crew do release regular updates to keep their faces up to date as much as possible.
There is a large amount of 71.000+ DF11 faces available at the moment.
Download and install all 5 available packs to get the best result in game.
1 Megapack: Download by torrent 4 Update packs: Several download options.
Please spend a minute to read this topic carefully before starting.
DF11 faces are 260 x 310 pixels big, which is (a lot) larger than default size (180 x 180).
There are special DF11 panels available to show the DF11 faces in their original big size in game.
Without using these panels the faces will be shown as usual in game.
Like every year, there will be DF11 customized skins available shortly after the release of the new Football Manager.
This is a stand-alone pack intended for use with Football Manager 2015. DF11 faces will also work with any other version of Football Manager.
Original sized DF11 face / click image for ingame screenshot
Complete overview when using our DF11 megapack & updates:
71.900 DF11 faces / 74 playable leagues / 41 countries
- Argentina (Primera Division)
- Australia (A-League)
- Austria (Bundesliga, Erste Liga)
- Belarus (Premier Liga, 1a Liga)
- Belgium (Jupiler Pro league, Proximus league)
- Bosnia Herzegovina (Premier liga)
- Brasil (Campeonato 'A', Campeonato 'B')
- Chile (Primera Division)
- Colombia (Primera A)
- Croatia (1.HNL)
- Czech Rep. (Grambinus Liga, Druha Liga)
- England (Premier League, Championship, League 1, League 2, Skrill Premier Conference)
- Finland (Veikkausliga)
- France (Ligue 1, Ligue 2, Championnat National, CFA)
- Germany (Bundesliga 1, Bundesliga 2, 3.Liga)
- Greece (Super league)
- Holland (Eredivisie, Jupiler League)
- Hungary (NBI, NBII)
- Iceland (Úrvalsdeild Karla)
- India (Superleague 2014-2015)
- Ireland (Airtrycity league)
- Israel (Ligat Winner, Ligat Leumit)
- Italy (Serie A, Serie B, Serie C1 / C2)
- Mexico (Liga MX, Ascenso MX)
- Norway (Tippeligaen)
- Poland (Ekstraklasa, I Liga)
- Portugal (Liga ZON Sagres, Segunda liga)
- Romania (Liga 1, Liga 2)
- Russia (Premier League, FNL)
- Scotland (Premier League, Championship)
- Serbia (Super Liga)
- Slovakia (Fortuna Liga, DOXXbet liga)
- South Africa (Premier League)
- South Korea (K-League)
- Spain (Liga BBVA, LIGA Adelante)
- Sweden (Allsvenskan, Superettan, Division 1)
- Switzerland (Super League, Challenge League)
- Turkey (Spor Toto Super League)
- USA (MLS, NASL)
- Ukraine (Vischa Liha, Persha Liha)
- Wales (Premier League)
Notes for this list:
- All leagues named in this list are at least covered for 80% by DF11 faces
- Leagues with a cover percentage below 80% aren't included to this list
Depending on the operation system you use, the DF11 Megapack folder must be placed into:
Win Vista/7/8: C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2015\graphics\ Win 2000/XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2015\graphics\ Win 98/ME: C:\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2015\graphics\ Mac OS X: \Users\<username>/Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2015\graphics\ Linux OS: home\<username>\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2015\graphics\
1 - This is a torrent (magnet link) download!
You need a torrent client on board of your pc to download this DF11 Megapack.
We recommend qBittorrent and Bittorrent as possible torrent client.
There are several more torrent clients (Vuze, Deluge, Utorrent etc), and all will work fine when installed properly.
2- You need 6GB free diskspace on board of your computer.
It seems to be a lot, but it doesn't affect the gamespeed of Football manager!
None of any graphical additions will affect the gamespeed of FM.
Only the start-up time will be affected by a couple of seconds. (confirmed by SI)
3 - The 'torrent download' will start after 'clicking' the red'DOWNLOAD NOW'button on top.
Note: You have to make the 'Graphics' folder by yourself!
Further detailed instructions also available in the 'Install Manual'.
Download all updates and install them in order of numbers.
1 - Open download untill all faces are visible
2 - Select all the faces + the config file
3 - Copy and past them into DF11 Megapack folder + overwrite all
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The default face is the image that will show up when a player doesn't have a DF11 face in game.
Specially for all DF11 users we have some nicely designed default faces
for a more uniform DF11 look in game. (show spoiler)
How to install the DF11 Megapack & updates? - Please download the 'instructions manual'.
When installed correctly, you will have one (1) DF11 Megapack folder that includes
all 70.000 faces plus one (1) config file.
I don't have a 'Graphics' folder in my Football Manager game. - That's correctly!
After installing Football Manager you will have to add the 'Graphics' folder yourself. (show spoiler)
Simply make a new folder with your operating system (windows) and rename it as "Graphics".
When done you'll add this folder to the following Football Manager folder adress: documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 20**\Graphics
I don't see any DF11 faces after installing the DF11 Megapack. - Be sure you've set the ingame settings correctly. (show spoiler)
I still don't see any DF11 faces in game. - Maybe the config file is defective and not working correctly.
Make a new config file to replace the defective one.
There is a short 'config file' tutorial available in the spoiler below.
Download + install the program 'FMXML'.
Follow the steps of the image below. Starting at step 3 and further on.
There is also a detailed 'config file' video-tutorial available here.
Some particular face(s) don't show up in game while they are included to the DF11 Megapack. - It simply happends sometimes.
Most of the times we can fix this issue by replacing the defective face with a new one.
Join also DF11 Facebook for more facepack related help,
and be the first to receive information about new updates and developments!
Download the .zip archive and use a tool such as 7-zip for Windows or The Unarchiver for MacOSX to extract the folders.
Step 2
Cut and paste the extracted folder to: Win Vista/Win 7/Win 8: C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2015\skins Win 2000/XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2015\skins Win 98/ME: C:\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2015\skins\ Mac OS X: /Users/<username>/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2015/skins
Create folder "skins" if it doesn't exist already.
Step 3
Start the game and go to Preferences screen and Interface tab.
You should see "FM 2015 (Small Sidebar)" as option in the skin drop down of the Overview box.
Use the Clear Cache button, then 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.
This update uses the idea of Catalan countries or Països catalans, and creates a league with five levels (every team in the game and some new ones) and a National Team.
Be aware that cities and team names are translated.
Installation
Step 1
Move the .fmf file to your editor data folder:
Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2015 > editor data
Important: Create the "editor data" folder if it doesn't exist.
Notice: There may be two "Sports Interactive" folders in your Documents library. If this is the case then put it in the one which has your saved games inside.
Step 2
Start a new career game (won't work with classic mode).
A little pop-up window will come up that says there is X enabled editor files. Select "Custom" from the editor data drop down menu and choose the databases you wish to load in your new save.
Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2015 > editor data
Important: Create the "editor data" folder if it doesn't exist.
Notice: There may be two "Sports Interactive" folders in your Documents library. If this is the case then put it in the one which has your saved games inside.
Step 2
Start a new career game (won't work with classic mode).
A little pop-up window will come up that says there is X enabled editor files. Select "Custom" from the editor data drop down menu and choose the databases you wish to load in your new save.
False Nine example: Totti, Messi, Van Persie, Gabriel Barbosa
Tried this tactic with Roma as well. Won Serie A 3 times during my 4 years with them. Never won champions league with them, reached finals 1 time, semi-finals 1 time, quarter-finals 2 times.
Make sure you use opposition instructions. You can get a good assistant manager and apply his advice.
Hand all the resposiblity for training and opposition instruction to your assistant.
Used this tactic with Liverpool and dominated in first season by winning EPL title, League Cup, Champion League. Hope you can try the tactic to see how it fares...
Gk - Sweeper
RB/LB - Full back Float
Both CB - Defend
Right CM - Roam Playmaker Support
Left CM - Deep Lying Playmaker Support
RW/LW - Inside Forward Support
Left Striker - False Nine
Right Striker - Centre Forward Attk
News 5/12/2014:
The new MacAssistant RT is now ready! Get it from the auto-updater or here! This will update your MacAssistant to the RT14 version which has the same features as the 2015 version (minus the FM2015 support, of course).
MacAssistant RT is a real time scout tool / real time editor for Football Manager 2014. It supports Mac OS X 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10 and the latest 14.3.1 Steam version of FM2014. Exclusively available from fmscout.com
Picking up where MacAssistant RT for FM13 left off, the work continues on MacAssistant RT for FM14.
And for the first time, MacAssistant RT supports editing of club finances and player stats, CA/PA, Reputation and condition! This is an exclusive donator feature, so if you've donated in the past you should have received your license by now! If you haven't and want to edit your finances, a simple donation of any* amount will give you full unrestricted access to this year's MacAssistant RT Supporter features, and you'll receive your license within 24 hours! Scout functionality is still, and will remain free, for as long as I develop MacAssistant RT.
Last Update: 10 April 2014 - v0.7.6 Released: 6 November 2013 - v0.6.1
Redistribution Policy:
People who want to put MacAssistant RT on other sites, you may link back to this very page but you cannot host any files yourselves. Thank you!
Compatibility
Current MacAssistant RT version 1.0.159 supports:
14.3.1
Mac OS X 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10
Features
General:
Exciting new user interface, optimised for OS X Yosemite. Backwards compatible to 10.7+
Massively faster engine. Loading a game now takes roughly 3 seconds!
Quicksearch! Never again do you have to fiddle around with the filters when all you looking for is something you know its name.
Players:
View/Edit a player's Age, value, weight, height, caps and U21 caps, and presets to Heal, Destroy and Unban players.
View/Edit a player's playing and personality stats, fitness, condition, jadedness, CA/PA, Left/Right Foot, and Reputation
View/Edit a player's contract wage, start/expiration date, squad status, squad number, transfer status, contract type, bonuses and clauses (value/type)
Staff:
View/Edit a staff member's Age, Names and other basic info.
View/Edit a staff member's Coaching / Personality / Business etc. stats, CA/PA, and Reputations
View/Edit a player's contract wage, start/expiration date, job type, bonuses and clauses (value/type)
Clubs:
View/Edit Attendances, Year founded, facilities (youth/training), chairman status, morale
View/Edit Finances: Balance, Transfer Budgets, Highest Wage Allowed, Season Tickets/Ticket Prices, Transfer Embargos, Wage Budget, Sugar Daddy, Sponsors and Debts
View/Edit Club Colours and Kits
Please note, that you will notice things that are not functional or missing (Shortlist functionality for example). These will be gradually enabled as we near the final stable release at the end of this month. Please do NOT post bug reports about things that are not working, other that what's on the above list.
Screenshots
Support MacAssistant RT
Instructions for the First Run
The first time you load the app, it will ask for your password. Please fill it in because it's important that the app will run with root access, otherwise it will quit.
Bug Reports
MacAssistant RT will also need your help! If you encounter any bugs, please report them by sending an email to support@appcake.co.uk
You can always request a feature that you want that will make this tool better! Just leave a message in the official MacAssistant RT Forum!
Any doable feature requested will make it in the next release if it's not that time consuming. But if it is, you'll probably have to wait a few releases. It's still gonna be added!
Credits
MacAssistant RT is a fully featured assistant tool created by thanoulas.
New app logo by Stam.
With MANY special thanks to everyone who donated! You are the ones who keep this project alive!
Hello all, Im back with my databases. Last year on FM14 my database was downloaded a total of 170,000 times which I like to thank you all. This year I'm hoping to be bigger and better. As always I will be working around the world with transfers managers coaches etc...
4043 changes to the database, 186 Non league transfers and Managers in England and Scotland
You will not find a database around that covers every playable and non playable league in the FM community.
And once again I will be working on non league in England Scotland and a host of other countries.
If I have missed anything in my updates please feel free to leave a comment and I will have it sorted for my next release.
Wonderkids added:
Martin Odegaard - Stromsgodset
Brooklyn Beckham - Arsenal
Jose Mourinho jr - Fulham
Julijan Popovic - Leverkusen
Kjetil Haug - Man City
Ryan Caird - Celtic
Mark Hill - Celtic
Georgios Spanoudakis - Stuttgart
Josh Doughty - Man United
Inaki Pena - Barcelona
Justin Kluivert - Ajax
Joe Van der Sar - Ajax
Ianis Hagi - FC Viitorul NEW
More wonderkids will be added each update.
23 players stats have been changed England
Alexis Sanchez - Arsenal
Jack Wilshere - Arsenal NEW
Willian - Chelsea
Andrew Robertson - Hull
Abel Hernandez - Hull
Daley Blind - Man United
Ayoze - Newcastle
Charlie Austin - QPR
Graziano Pelle - Southampton
Saido Berahino - West Brom
France
Michy Batshuayi - Marseille
Germany
Manuel Neuer - Bayern Munich
Thomas Muller - Bayern Munich
Italy
Andrea Ranocchia - Inter Milan
Sebastian Giovinco - Juventus
Kostas Manolas - AS Roma
Radja Nainggolan - AS Roma
Stefano Okaka - Sampdoria
Scotland
Scott Brown - Celtic
Gary Mackay-Stevens - Dundee United
Spain
Iker Muniain - Athletic
Ivan Rakitic - Barcelona
Antonia Rukavina - Villarreal
More players stats will be changed during the season
Salford City updated with the class of 92
Also team names have been changed. Again more will be changed.
I HAVE NOW ADDED LEVEL 9 LEAGUES AND CUPS IN ENGLAND
PROMOTIONS AND RELEGATIONS IN
NORWAY/ESTONIA/FINLAND/SWEDEN
I always have my own Facebook page with all the changes in the notes section.
I also will be updating what I have changed on here in the next few week.
Hope you enjoy my database.
How To Install
Step 1
• Copy or Move the downloaded .fmf file to the following location:
Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 2015 / editor data
Create the "editor data" folder if it doesn't exist.
Step 2
• Start new save-game with this database selected.
WIP: Ligue 2, Russia, Scotland, Sweden and Belgium
In project: Turkey, Poland, Brazil, Argentina and 2nd div (ITA, GER and ESP)
DEFAULT / TACTIC
THANKS
Groot, Spyker29, Clem0842, Sh@rk and FME's Staff.
In-game screenshots
Installation
After you've extracted the files, copy the folder to:
Kits
Windows: /Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2015/graphics/kits/ Mac OS X: /Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2015/graphics/kits/
Tactical Kits
Windows: /Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2015/graphics/ Mac OS X: /Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2015/graphics/
Create the folders "graphics" and "kits" if they don't exist.
Then run Football Manager 2015 click on Preferences/Interface
Tick the check box called 'Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences' and untick the one 'Use caching to decrease page loading times'; then confirm and click on the Reload Skin button.
Christmas come early this year! Just days after the hotfix 15.1.4 for FM15 was released, making the game much more enjoyable, Emil Debski over at SortItOutSI has finished up his work on this amazing new addition to complete the FM experience.
The pack includes over 1600 new fresh looking hairstyles from all over the world, to make you never wanna play the game again without it! Try them out yourself, and see what I am talking about, it will make you wanna keep even the most rubbish of newgens, just because they look so good !
Everything tested on light and dark skins, working like a charm.
Save game compatible, and goes perfectly along other installed graphics (hairpacks, logos, kits and so on).
ENJOY!!!
Examples
Updates
30.11.2014: Add-on pack for replacement/optimizing default hair
In order to complete the hairpack, I recommend you to download this add-on as well, which replaces the default SI hair with a much cleaner looking version. In my opinion many of the default hairstyles are poorly cut-out, looking messy when using specially dark skins with white pixelation left around them. On top of this, the default FM styles will be wearing the same shirt like the ones from the main pack, making all players wear the same style, giving them shoulders as well avoiding to make them look like heads on sticks figures.
5.12.2014: Alternative white kit with dark blue collar pack
This alternative version of the Debski's WOH v1.0 hairpack was made after receiving a few request to make the shirts look similar to the OLT ones. If you use that pack, mine will now blend together to make all regens look equal shirt-wise.
5.12.2014: White kit with dark blue collar default hair replacement add-on pack
This add-on pack for the alternative white shirt/blue collar version of the Debski's WOH v1.0 hairpack cleans the default SI hairs in game, which are poorly cut-out and have white pixelation around them on dark skins. Futher more they give them the same blue and white shirt like the rest of the main pack.
Installation Instructions
Step 1
Extrack the folder "DEBSKIS WORLD OF HAIRSTYLES 1.0" into the following directory on your harddrive:
[YOUR FM GAME FOLDER]\data\facegen\hair
Step 2
The above mentioned folder (hair) should now contain minimum 6 folders. The "afro", "asian", "euro", "hispanic" and "mixed_race" standard folders by SI, alongside with your new "DEBSKIS WORLD OF HAIRSTYLES 1.0" and eventually other custom graphics you might have installed.
Default places to look for the "[YOUR FM GAME FOLDER]\data\facegen\hair" folder:
Open up your game, go into preference > interface and click the "Clear Cache" button. When done, close the game. Run again, and everything should be up and running.
Firstly, I'd like to point out that it should not be too difficult to create a tactic for a top team. My intention was not to do so, just panned out this way whilst doing some software testing.
In my eyes there are far too many people obsessed with possession stats in Football Manager and my only primary concern for this tactic was to have my players play in a certain area of the pitch for the majority of the game. If they then have possession in those areas then it stands to reason that you should see better results.
I would like to point out that I am a software tester by trade so I came at this tactic from possibly a completely different angle than most would. I had ideas of how I wanted to play the game but I treated this as a computer programme and carried out tests accordingly. Not very romantic, but that was the approach.
I didn't want to create an all singing, all dancing tactic, there is no fun in that if you then can't take a good base line and improve it yourself, and that is what I have tried to achieve here.
A good baseline for people to improve on and try with different teams and settings to make this your own. I suspect you will need good quality players for this to work to it's optimum as it is all about pressing high, win the ball, and take advantage of the possession in the correct areas of the pitch.
All in all, this is just a logical approach to a piece of software.
Let's get started !
My whole entire ethos behind this tactic was that I want to occupy the areas of the pitch where most default player positions are available. Take a look at the image below and you will see that 20 out of the default 25 positions are obviously in two thirds of the pitch. This is obviously just basic common sense.
Now, by default, I wanted any defensive line that I decided on to be having average positions during a game around the half way line. If I disregard the 3 attacking positions for now then this means there are just 15 positions on the pitch which become the most dominant.
The box in the image above is where I wanted to be having possession, and I am not concerned about volumes of it. I could quite easily add 10% possession by having my back line deeper and passing it around but possession there is not going to hurt anyway, and it is just a statistic for statistics sake.
With the above image in mind all I concentrated on was looking at the average playing positions of players in games. This is what determined my final player positions. I wanted my average player positions to all be in the areas highlighted in the image above. or as close to it as possible.
Here is an example of average player positions for the areas I wanted to be occupying.
Average Player Positions
Once I had played around with various player positions to obtain the above I then went about specifying my formation. This is the formation I settled on.
Once the formation was decided I then applied individual roles to the players to suit and played around and tested different team instructions.
Here are the team instructions
Video Explaining all of the above
The season is still on going with my Youtube walkthrough but here are screen shots of the results to date.
I have not set any training routines, nothing at all other than what you see in the video. I have literally tried to leave it as bare as possibly so you can apply your own settings and customise to suit your team/ethos/style.
