INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:

Once the download has been extracted, copy the two folders 'cl2012' and 'fm2012 dark-widgets' into your skins folder. Unless you have specified otherwise, the default location for this will be:

Win Vista/7: C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\skins
Win 2000/XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\skins
Win 98/ME: C:\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\skins
Mac OS X: /Users/<username>/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2012/skins

PLEASE DELETE THE PREVIOUS VERSION, if you have version 1.0 or 1.1 of this skin, DO NOT overwrite the old version, as this will leave old files in your skin which can cause problems.

To select the skin in your game you will need to load the game, and go into the preferences -> Display and Sound menu and untick 'Use Skin Cache' and tick 'Always Reload Skin On Confirm' then select confirm and select the skin from the drop down menu, select confirm again and your new skin should now display.

As this is a true conversion of the Steklo X1 1.1 skin for FM 2011 it also includes an "opacity selector", located on the right side of the header.
This selector allows you to change the brightness of the skin.

Just underneath the "opacity selector" you will find the "background selector".
You can use the included backgrounds or add your own preferred background; simply copy your favorite background picture to the folder: 
.......\skins\cl2012\graphics\backgrounds, rename the picture to the id of the picture you would like to replace and reload the skin.

All add-ons are added to my personal taste, if you don't like some of them simply delete them from the "graphics"
folder in the skin and reload as I indicated before (or replace them with your own favorite ones).

If you don't like the picture of "that Portuguese-mouthman" as one of the downloaders called him ;-)
Just navigate to .....\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2012\skins\cl2012\graphics\main menu and delete the file "manager.png".
After this the skin will show the default picture included in FM 2012.


This skin is ONLY available as a "calendar bar version".


UPDATE VERSION 1.1 NOW IN LEFT & RIGHT SIDED VERSIONS

- Bigger kits in match screen, for those running the game in high(er) resolutions
- Fixed inbox filter panel
- Fixed quick search panel, now you can actually see what you type ;-)
- 99% of all buttons are now skinned
- Manager overview page now displays everything properly
- Agent panels now showing properly

In addition several other minor bug fixes and graphical fixes/updates are included.

The skin is optimized to run in high(er) resolutions,  not tested in low(er) resolutions.


UPDATE VERSION 1.2

- Bigger player pictures in "player profile" and "player attributes" screens.
- "Analyser polygon" now visible in the "player attributes" screen, with club logo/badge in both player screens in background.
- Colors of "HG" changed so the two different forms of "HG" now are shown in a different color.
- Fixed bug in scoreboard view when not in "full TV view" fixed (ONLY IN "LEFT SIDED" version).
 
The bigger player pictures are now showing at 220x220 pixels.
 
If you prefer to have the pictures shown at the "default" size of 180x180, which is still much bigger than without modifying them do the following:
delete the files "player personal details panel.xml" and "player profile personal details panel.xml" which are located in the "panels" folder of the skin.
Rename the "player personal details panel.xml.180x180" and "player profile personal details panel.xml.180x180" to ......xml" (delete the part ".180x180" from the filename.

After these changes reload the skin and you will have 180x180 size player pictures instead of 220x220.




CREDITS:

MASSIVE thanks to Tom Dixon, creator of the Steklo X1 1.1 skin for his hard work and allowing me to update and convert this skin for FM12.
FMF, for the creation of the FMF Extended panels included in this skin.
Octavianus, for the "FM2012 Numbered Tactical Sliders" mod also included in this skin.
RowRow78 (Rowan Banks), for the "dark default faces" mod installed in the fm2012 dark-widgets folder included in the package.



Redistribution Terms:

You are free to distribute with my permission and:
1. It is not to be sold.
2. My name and Email address stay attached to it and I am credited as the author.
3. It is not to be advertised as being exclusive to your site.
4. It may only be edited or modifed for your own private use.





CONTACT ME:

You can contact me at: 
a31632@hotmail.com or in the forums