FM27 3D Stadium and Environment Megapack V4.02 - Another Few Fixes!

Hey everyone!

4.02 is a small one. It picks up what you guys reported after 4.01, plus two things I ran into while getting the Mac version ready (that's a separate story, not in this update). Same deal as last time: files over your existing install, nothing else moves. 4.01 is included, you don't need it first.

A note to new members, thanks for joining firstly, and secondly, you will need this: https://www.patreon.com/BassyGames/posts/fm27-3d-stadium-173744078 as the base file!

That said, at the moment of me writing this I've worked well over 45 hours over the last 3 days, so for tonight I need to relax in order to stay healthy. If a reply doesn't come please know that's why. Thanks for the understanding!

BOOTS AND BALL

Custom boots and balls were glowing like they'd been dipped in something radioactive under the floodlights on FM27. The boot and ball packs were built for the way FM26 lit a pitch, and FM27 lights it differently, so they fell back to a path that overexposes.

• The stadium plugin now hands every boot and every ball the correct shader at kickoff.

• Works for every ball pack and every boot you already have installed. No reinstalling.

• Applies on custom grounds and FM's own grounds alike.

THE SEATS

Seats on custom grounds were black on FM27 unless you happened to have one of my other plugins installed. The seat model was built before FM27 existed and didn't know how to take the new game's shadows.

• Seat model rebuilt for FM27. Covered seats shade, open seats take the light.

• If a stand still looks like a coal bunker at night, screenshot it.

BLOOM, PROPERLY THIS TIME

In 4.01 I fixed the bloom tuner so it actually did something on FM27. What I missed is that the old threshold value, carried over from 26, means "don't bloom anything" on 27. So some of you went from FM's own bloom straight to none.

• The threshold is reset once for everyone. Floods, sky and bright kit highlights glow again.

• Bloom tuned by hand for 25 more grounds, two existing ones retuned.

• The Numpad 1 tuner still works if you want to do your own.

CROWD CHOREOS

Choreos used to fire on any match that had a choreo file. Now they only fire when the game itself thinks the match matters.

• A choreo fires on a derby, a rivalry, a fixture FM flags as important, a semi-final or a final.

• Also on a competition from a list you can edit. Champions League and the Super Cup out of the box.

• Friendlies are skipped.

• All of it lives in a [Choreo] block in the CrowdInjectV3 config. Switch Enabled off there and you're back to the old "every match" behaviour.

• F9 and F10 test triggers ignore the gate, so you can still fire one on demand.

• I've only seen the "skipped" side of this in my own saves so far. The derby side is on trust until one of you plays one.

THE GRASS, FOR 4.0 PEOPLE

4.01 re-tuned the pitch for a clear afternoon, a floodlit night and a grey day. If you installed 4.0 first, your config kept the old values and you never saw it.

• The environment config ships with this update with the new numbers in it.

• That config REPLACES yours. If you tuned fog, floods or anything else in com.bassy.fm27.eeo.cfg, back it up first and copy your lines back after.

• 4.01 fixes ride along in here for anyone who skipped it: grass that actually listens to the engine, stand shadows that follow the sun, four-way floodlight shadows under players, the 5 second stutter at busy grounds gone.

KNOWN ISSUES

• Choreo gate: derby and final cases unproven in a real match, see above.

• Players still don't get wet.

• Snow is still FM's own.

INSTALLATION

DOWNLOAD LINK!

You need 4.0 installed first. 4.01 is not required, this contains it.

1. Close FM.

2. Extract the zip using winrar/7zip with the password in your email and copy its BepInEx folder into your Football Manager 27 folder. Let it overwrite.

3. Start the game.

Install paths:

- Steam: Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Football Manager 27

- Xbox Game Pass: XboxGames\Football Manager 27\Content

- Epic Games: Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\FootballManager27

Saved cameras and all other configs are untouched. The environment config gets replaced, see THE GRASS above.

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