![]() Go to paint and try to move the play button in another location. Learn all the page and you'll become a skillful skinner! It can sound like a joke but it's true, it will be your only help! To help you to learn the different elements, Atomix Production wrote a skin development knowledge base : This is very important, the most you'll learn about the skin engine, the better the skin is. You will use paint to get the pos and width of the buttons, then report them in the xml file, and again, and again in order to get the skin working.Īll the objects in the skin have name, coordinates, and even some special fields that you have to know. WOW there are MANY numbers here! These are the coordinates you saw in paint. The xml script will tell to VDJ all the skin's picture informations, such as the position of the different buttons, where the highighted buttons are, where the browser will be, and so on. Okay now you can find the line 768 (depending on the skin resolution) in the pic : below this limit, the skin user won't see anything look around you can see there are all the highlighted and animated stuffs, lightening visual parts, moving sliders and so on. Try to draw a selection box : the status line tells you the width and the height of the box. You can focus very precisely when zooming a part of the pic. Let's move your mouse around in the pic, and see in the status bar (right) the coordinates of the point you focus. When Paint appears, make sure you can see the status line or click on the view menu then check for the status bar. Open the skin.bmp file with PAINT, the windows tool. Two (or more) new files should appear : skin.bmp, and skin.xml. This way you won't need to rezip and move files these operations take many mouse clicks and time. I would recommand to unzip directly in the skin folder, this way the skin will appear in VDJ with it's filename only (easier to rapidely check the results of the modifications). I always will consider you chose a 1024x768 skin. Take an easy skin, with less buttons or functions in order to make sure you understand the way it works. Personally I only use Paint and Notepad cause those offer the simplicity and the rapidity I am looking for.Ĭhoose your favorite skin in the skin download section. For xml editing you can use Purple Editor Pro, or AXE Editor. Maybe you could find some cool effects in PhotoShop, PaintShop, ACDSee. ![]() ![]() You don't need any specific tool either, just Paint and Notepad, the Windows tools. This topic is divided in two parts : handling and modifying, and start a new skin.įirst of all, always remember you don't need to be a genius to begin to skin.
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