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So this took months longer than I anticipated but the new version of TCS (v1.4) has finally been released and in my humble opinion it’s the best version I’ve ever released!

That being said it isn’t the most feature rich update, it mostly expands on a few concepts and improves features from v1.3, most notably the player overview panel, which is shown above. This update features various panels and inspiration from other skin makers such as Pikawa94 from the CFM skin, and the Gunzo skin. Apart from that it includes a few cool features, we’ve managed to bring back the ability to select manager pictures, although this only works with new managers. A massive thank you to michaeltmurrayuk from the Sports Interactive offical forums, and Cyrius50 from http://www.manager-online.fr for bringing this popular feature back. Let’s hope Sports Interactive and whoever was responsible for this feature being broke get their heads out of their arses and listen to the fans.

Anyway, the Background Selector has been moved to a more favourable locations, and the code has been tweaked slightly to change the appearance. There’s also an experimental Website panel which can be activated by renaming the “competition-” folder to just “competition”. It’s something I spent a few hours working on, unfortunately it’s a bit inconsistent in how it works, so I’ve deactivated it but if you want to activate, it’s easy to do.

The match experience has been modified too, we’ve tweaked the match overview screen, as well as a brand new Match IBH panel, with massive thanks to michaeltmurrayuk for the panels and guides. There’s also new win-draws-loss icons courtesy of the wonderful ProudieYT.

The club screen has also been tweaked fairly heavily. The main change was the removal of the City pics, while it may have been a popular feature, it didn’t work in everyone’s games and required the download of a large graphics pack, so I messed with it and now it is no more. The biggest change is the player overview panel which has been completely rebuilt from the ground up.

This iteration features three different player picture panels, the first being the home kit of the team next to the player, unfortunately this only works for Premier League and Bundesliga since it requires a completely different set of coding, although if someone would like to help out, give me a shout! The 2nd features the back of the kit which has been popular since I started skinning. The final version is the logo which some people just prefer. Apart from that we’ve added a few more panels, one of the key issues with v1.3 was that there was a lot of empty space on the left-hand panel, which was just wasted space, this has been changed and now features two panels which show Career Stats and which positions the player has played in. There’s also another panel added underneath the Position and Comparison screens, which have also been worked on heavily.

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Also included is a survey which is crucial to the future of TCS. As it stands I am not planning on releasing TCS for FM 2018, but the answer to these questions will help me gain knowledge on certain aspects of the skin and gaining the opinion of the fanbase may change my mind.

Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdoEznQBWb9temXSg6qwSmxo8pCzsN6hJc8ZADskPquvXSykg/viewform

Link:

TCS 2017 v1.4: http://www.mediafire.com/file/wxhk8wfcrxc9lks/TCS_2017_v1.4.7z

Some people have requested links to older versions of the skin.

TCS 2017 v1.0: http://www.mediafire.com/file/u569htzj77q528v/TCS_2017_v1.0.rar

TCS 2017 v1.1: http://www.mediafire.com/file/4m90n2hji8fnyiv/TCS_2017_v1.1.rar

TCS 2017 v1.2: http://www.mediafire.com/file/gee874w61sdhvl4/TCS_2017_v1.2a.7z

TCS 2017 v1.3: http://www.mediafire.com/file/h2166usuxxd6a0d/TCS_2017_v1.3.7z

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