FM26 Stadium Megapack - BETA 1.3 - 16gb
Hey good folks! Today 1.3 drops for the Game Changers and above, but again want to give out detailed patch notes about what is changing. I really valued all the feedback over the last few days and have made significant steps into the lighting and visual presentation aspects, whilst maintaining performance to a very high level.
Performance and graphics:
Optimized shader loading on crowds and seats
Non custom stadiums maintain their original load time
Crowd animations play based on match event
Crowd Inject has a possibility to turn off the people only, leaving you with seats.
Seat colors are now loaded individually (without slowdown in performance) allowing for cool custom seat plans.
Pitch shaders have started to be added to stadiums, dramatically increasing pitch quality (idk if you read this Jean, but you being super critical every freaking time has paid off).
Note, this is experimental and I am still learning how to do custom patterns :D
I bless the rains down in Africa
Except I now know why! The plugin does the whole routine over again, so the weather was always inverted. I am so so sorry about that and now with this update the weather should accurately reflect in game!
Lighting:
Baked lighting instead of realtime lighting
As you can have seen on Twitter/X I have now started adding and making custom lightmaps for every stadium. At the time of writing this I have had a bit of time crunch and the following leagues/teams have custom lighting as of now:
Premier League
Serie A
Bundesliga
With experimental red illuminating roof for Bayern Munchen.
Internacional, Gremio, Cruzeiro, Mineiro and Recife
Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid
PSG, Marseille and Olympique Lyon
Benfica, Porto and Sporting
This was due to time restraints and I hope to add the rest of La Liga and Ligue 1 over the coming days, as well as the Turkish top 4, Celtic and Rangers.
2D:
2D now also features improved pitch textures.
You will still see stadium roof, and am looking at ways to improve that.
Stadium Improvement:
Germany is now mapped properly.
Fixed Sheffield Wednesday banners at the Augsburg stadium
Removed the Mercedes Benz from the Stuttgart Stadium
Fixed the pitch bug at Strasbourg
Fixed the goal nets being an omnishambles at Lens
Added various texture fixes and optimizations
Experimental:
Added installation for a Linux build, super thanks to Luke Lane who has sent a comprehensive guide!! Still in the baby phases and experimental, so please give feedback here!
Installation:
The link below is where you can download the files. Is is 16gb now and the password that you received earlier or in your mailbox if you are a new patron will work. Thank you all once again!
Installation path for Steam is:
Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Football Manager 26
Installation path for Xbox Game Pass is:
XboxGames\Football Manager 26\Content
Installation path for Epic Games is:
Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\FootballManager26
Steam Deck (Desktop Mode):
Download the Linux pack
Download r2modman and extract it
In that folder you go to r2modman app image
Follow the path -> home-deck-config-r2modmanplus-local-fm26-profiles-default-
Add my files to that path.
You can make a shortcut on your homescreen of the r2modman app image and click execute
Search game: -fm26 and then select profile
Showing on this screen is bepinexpack-footballmanager26 click on it and install
In the top left click on start modded, not vanilla.
Game will load
Again huge thanks to Luke for the guide!
Furthermore, when you install the files, make sure you place all subfolders into those directories above. That is two folders and 4 loose files. If you do not do that it will not load.
If you are having extraction issues, try using winrar to extract the files.
The first boot after an update to FM or running for the first time will take a long time.
IT HAS NOT FROZEN, IT IS LOADING. DO NOT INTERRUPT IT!
Should you get an anti tamper message do this:
Remove the files from the directory when FM is closed.
Boot the game, play a match, close FM.
Reinstall the files whilst FM is closed.
Then you will be able to play.
