Creating Kits

Kits are the most important and recognizable part of aesthetics. They're what gives a team their look, it's what sets them apart from the other 11 mooks on the field. This guide will help you create a kit that looks good on paper, but most importantly, works in the game as well.

Background
A kit (sometimes referred to as a strip, like in the PES pre-game menu) is the soccer/football/divegrass term for the pieces that make up a team's uniform. Generally, a kit refers to a player's shirt, shorts, and socks. For the purposes of PES, a kit is made up of a player's shirt, shorts, socks, long sleeves/undershirt, and cleats/boots. For PES goalkeepers, gloves are also considered to be part of their kit. Kits usually feature a team's colors, team logo, and player name & number prominently, while also leaving room for sponsor logos, as well as tournament badges and league logos. Teams will generally use multiple kits over the course of a season, the most common setup being one kit for home and one for away. Depending on the team, they may also pack a number of alternate kits, for special games, or tournaments, or simply just to have other kits to choose from.

The Basics of Creating a Kit
Creating a kit for your team in PES is actually quite easy, if all you wish to do is design it. The picture at right shows you the type of image that PES uses as the visual base of a single kit. Each piece and boundary of the kit is outlined in the image at right and can serve as a guide to let you know where certain elements will be cut off. Some divisions do not need to be observed if you do not wish it include them in your kit. For example, the sleeves do not need to be a different color than the main portion of your kit, they are just noted there in case that's the stylistic choice you'd want to make. Similarly, the side stripes (stripes that run from a player's underarm down to the hem) are also optional, and can be ignored if you don't want that design element. The image at below is a clean version of the image at right. Each major portion of the kit, main body, sleeves, collar, shorts, and socks, are differentiated by color to retain that sense of where parts begin and end. This the ideal image to base your team's kit on, and can be used in your favorite image editor as a base to draw over.

The Advanced Parts
Simply designing the kit is enough for the inexperienced manager, but actually getting it into the game is a different story.