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[minneapolisjon]

Official Release

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All-England Stadium Pack

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648 teams in England

1600 x 900 resolution for widescreen moniters

Highest Quality images

The link below redirects you to the

Official Release Page:

http://forum.fm-view.com/topic/13173-official-release-all-england-stadium-backgrounds/

Directions for installation: my documents/sports interactive/football manager/skins/(FOLDER OF SKIN YOU ARE USING)/graphics/backgrounds

Pack Information: This pack is the net result of about 500 hours of picture hunting, enhancing, and general passion for the lower leages of the English system. There are 648 pictures in this pack, most being shot at a 1600x900 resolution for a very high quality image. Many shots are done by professional photographers that are copyright-protected, but have allowed me to use their work in this pack, all free of charge. It is, I believe, the most comprehensive pack availible within the FM online community for English Stadiums.

While the pack is designed for widescreen monitors, it will work on standard 4x3 screens as well. I touched every shot personally to ensure the finest image. This pack will work on FM 2009, FM 2010, and FM 2011. If you are playing FM 2011, I suggest, while backgrounds are enabled this year, that you use a dark skin with a filter through the image, since FM 2011 as released contains no filter, rendering the screen next to impossible to read. This pack is designed to show on teamscreens AND matchdays. If you want just one to work, go into the config file and delete what you don't want it to do. (The config.xml files can be opened with NOTEPAD, the lines of code with "TEAM" in it are for team-page backgrounds, and the lines with "STADIUM" are for matchday backgrounds.)

I cannot express in words my gratitude to those people that have allowed me to use thier work in this pack. If anyone has more passion for the lower-leagues than me, it's the great people whose shots are in this pack. My goal was simple - a high-resolution shot for every team in England. With their help, I got what I wanted. (minus a few teams) I hope you enjoy this pack as much as I enjoyed making it.

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[minneapolisjon]

Well, folks, we have just crossed 1000 downloads. Wow. It's been out for eight days offically. I am proud of this work, and clearly there is a need and desire out there for packs like this.

Stay tuned, as kumquat_s and I over at FM-View have something planned for all you background lovers. If you loved this pack, just wait until you see what we have cooking in the kitchen...

cheers,
minneapolisJon

[Daniel]

Great work here, I never really use backgrounds but I might download these

[minneapolisjon]

Well, we are over 2300 downloads for this pack. 1,300 downloads in the last five days. It is as of right now the most popluar download on FileFront with 100% popularity. So thank you to everyone for taking a pass on the megapack.

I know that there are a few teams whose stadiums are not showing on matchdays, and I'm working on that issue right now. There will be a new config.xml file to replace the current one.

I'll be posting the corrected Config.xml file in the OP, so grab it when it's done. The pack will work perfectly then. Don't be alarmed, the only issues with it are a few stadiums not showing on matchdays, but that doesn't hurt the game, your computer, or your gaming experience. It's all good, so keep downloading, just be sure to get the most out of your pack by grabbing the new config.xml when I am done with it.


Cheers,
minneapolisJon

Daniel, on 19 November 2010 - 04:31 PM, said:

Great work here, I never really use backgrounds but I might download these

Thanks - you should give them a shot - you can always delete the pack if it doesn't work for you!

- that's me not watching you delete it.

[Carroll]

minneapolisjon, on 24 November 2010 - 05:15 PM, said:

I know that there are a few teams whose stadiums are not showing on matchdays, and I'm working on that issue right now. There will be a new config.xml file to replace the current one.

Yeah, was wondering about that, had it a couple of times.

Cheers for these though Jon

Been using these for a while and I have to say every stadium picture I have came across has been top quality (which isn't always easy for the lower English Leagues)

Great work and I look forward to more packs

[minneapolisjon]

Carroll, on 24 November 2010 - 05:21 PM, said:

Been using these for a while and I have to say every stadium picture I have came across has been top quality (which isn't always easy for the lower English Leagues)

Great work and I look forward to more packs

Glad you like them. I'm currently working on several things right now, but the big news is that this pack is currently the most popular download pack on Filefront, with a 100% rating. It's been downloaded almost 4,000 times in three weeks. The new pack will be comming out soon, Top Leagues of Europe. It will contain at least the following nations: England, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, Turkey and Wales

It will contain the top league of all nations, as well as several more tiers for England, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, etc...

It's looking to be sick. Same high-quality, non-streched widescreen ratio of 1600x900 shots that you've come to expect from my other packs.

Unofficial Release Date: Dec. 6th, 2010

cheers mates!
minneapolisJon

Edited by minneapolisjon, 03 December 2010 - 01:03 AM.

[Zinedine Zaiddin]

How to use this background pack?

[Carroll]

Any Greek and Russian stadiums in your big pack Jon ?

[Marco]

minneapolisjon, on 03 December 2010 - 01:01 AM, said:

Carroll, on 24 November 2010 - 05:21 PM, said:

Been using these for a while and I have to say every stadium picture I have came across has been top quality (which isn't always easy for the lower English Leagues)

Great work and I look forward to more packs

Glad you like them. I'm currently working on several things right now, but the big news is that this pack is currently the most popular download pack on Filefront, with a 100% rating. It's been downloaded almost 4,000 times in three weeks. The new pack will be comming out soon, Top Leagues of Europe. It will contain at least the following nations: England, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, Turkey and Wales

It will contain the top league of all nations, as well as several more tiers for England, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, etc...

It's looking to be sick. Same high-quality, non-streched widescreen ratio of 1600x900 shots that you've come to expect from my other packs.

Unofficial Release Date: Dec. 6th, 2010

cheers mates!
minneapolisJon

When you say "It will contain the top league of all nations", does that include all the South American countries?

[minneapolisjon]

vanpersie91, on 07 December 2010 - 11:47 PM, said:

How to use this background pack?

There are directions for where to put this download on the Official Release page that my OP links to. All you have to do is put it in your "......graphics/backgrounds" folder. Don't have one? Then just make one. the configs in the pack will get in the game, as long as it's somewhere in the graphics section.

[minneapolisjon]

Carroll, on 10 December 2010 - 11:02 PM, said:

Any Greek and Russian stadiums in your big pack Jon ?

Both! The top league of both Greece and Russia made the cut. The pack is done, and this round was "Top Leagues of Europe" - included 616 teams, 33 Leagues from 18 nations. Check out the deatial on the Official Release page, here:

Top Leagues of Europe

This pack was held to the same visual standard as my All-England pack, but this time - the config.xml files work

If you have any questions, hit me up over FM-View. I don't get on here as much as I'd like, and you'll receive faster answers that way.

cheers,
minneapolisJon

[minneapolisjon]

Marco, on 13 December 2010 - 06:29 AM, said:

When you say "It will contain the top league of all nations", does that include all the South American countries?

This version, 1.01, Top Leagues of Europe, doen not. This pack is 100% Europe-based. Click this link to see what will be availible with this pack:

Official Release Page - Top Leagues of Europe

My partner kumquat_s and I are planning evem more packs, and the next Pack will be from all over the world - USA, Mexico, Argentina, Japan, China, Austrailia....but no confirmed leagues yet. We are still waiting to see what we can do.

I said it before, but I'll say it now, if you have questions, hit me up over on FM-View. If there are specific leagues that you would like to see done, etc., drop me a line there, as I am tight with my time and can't make the rounds to all the sites everyday.

Cheers,
minneapolisJon

[Carroll]

I thought it was released

Anytime soon Jon, can't wait to test it out

[minneapolisjon]

Carroll, on 16 December 2010 - 09:31 PM, said:

I thought it was released

Anytime soon Jon, can't wait to test it out

It should be out very soon. The pack is done. I am just waiting on the host site to get it uploaded. And then waiting for them to get in on thier server so you good folks can download it. I'll post here as soon as it's done. but check the Official Release page linked above for all the current info on the pack.

and the pack is sick, although I'm kicking my own ass for forgeting to include the Greek countries. I'll be releasing that as an add-on to the pack as soon as it's up for download.

cheers,
jon

[minneapolisjon]

It's out - The new pack, that is...

here's the link:

Official release page at FM-View

And my apologies on not including Greece - I actually forgot to include a whole league. Wow.

It will be added as a link to the official release page soon!

cheers!