Show off your Impulse skin!
Take that, green!
Friday, March 21, 2008 by Bebi Bulma | Discussion: Skinning
Yes....that's right. Who thought it would be sooo easy to skin.
It's as simple as replacing the images in Program Files/Stardock/Impulse/Skins/Images* (3 folders) and editing font colors in the skin.xml. So easy even *I* could do it!
TIP: When Impulse updates, it WILL overwrite all the original images that you changed. Take a tip from Snowy and rename all your modified images (I just added [s] to the end to know they're mine) and then update the changed image names in the skin.xml and save a copy somewhere, so when Impulse updates, all you need to do is replace the skin.xml. I just tested it and worked great. (Impulse updated and it was green again, gah!)
So let's see your skinned Impulse.
Mine (just some basic recoloring and changed the back.jpg):
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ZubaZ
Reply #22 Friday, March 21, 2008 2:10 PM
Reply #22 Friday, March 21, 2008 2:10 PM
Is there a way to insert a local CSS to change the background on the web pages?
{How friggin' wierd! I'm googling groups for "inject custom CSS" and find a post from codemonkey DrNick. Small world.
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{How friggin' wierd! I'm googling groups for "inject custom CSS" and find a post from codemonkey DrNick. Small world.
}
wulfn1
Reply #23 Friday, March 21, 2008 4:01 PM
Reply #23 Friday, March 21, 2008 4:01 PM
I don't suppose you could walk the blind through how to recolor all the elements, bebi, could you?
I managed to change the background.(found out that works real nice.) but can't seem to make the colors change on the buttons and panels. Finally gave up and just changed the back to one that matched the green.
I managed to change the background.(found out that works real nice.) but can't seem to make the colors change on the buttons and panels. Finally gave up and just changed the back to one that matched the green.
ZubaZ
Reply #24 Friday, March 21, 2008 4:40 PM
Reply #24 Friday, March 21, 2008 4:40 PM
Wulfin . . many of the images seem to be grouped together like InfoButtonSecondaryD.png.
If you open a few of those and then, in your paint program of choice (I use the free paint.net) shift the hue the same amount you can get some well matched colors. Same with saturation and lightness.
If you want totally different images, just take the ones in the directories and "paint" over them.
Make sure to save a backup of the original and the ones you create.
If you open a few of those and then, in your paint program of choice (I use the free paint.net) shift the hue the same amount you can get some well matched colors. Same with saturation and lightness.
If you want totally different images, just take the ones in the directories and "paint" over them.
Make sure to save a backup of the original and the ones you create.
HG_Eliminator
Reply #25 Friday, March 21, 2008 5:13 PM
You got that right my man..
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Reply #25 Friday, March 21, 2008 5:13 PM
We are skinners. We'll skin anything
You got that right my man..
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Bebi Bulma
Reply #26 Friday, March 21, 2008 5:21 PM
Reply #26 Friday, March 21, 2008 5:21 PM
Aaron is right, all I did was open all the green images and ctrl + u in Photoshop and shifted them all to -124, which gave that magenta color. That was it. (Of course, for the ContentPanel and ContentHeader I just shifted the Saturation all the way to the left to take out the color and changed the opacity to 40% so the background color would seep through, making it transparent.)
TIP: When Impulse updates, it WILL overwrite all the original images that you changed. Take a tip from Snowy and rename all your modified images (I just added [s] to the end to know they're mine) and then update the changed image names in the skin.xml and save a copy somewhere, so when Impulse updates, all you need to do is replace the skin.xml. I just tested it and worked great. (Impulse updated and it was green again, gah!)
TIP: When Impulse updates, it WILL overwrite all the original images that you changed. Take a tip from Snowy and rename all your modified images (I just added [s] to the end to know they're mine) and then update the changed image names in the skin.xml and save a copy somewhere, so when Impulse updates, all you need to do is replace the skin.xml. I just tested it and worked great. (Impulse updated and it was green again, gah!)
wulfn1
Reply #27 Friday, March 21, 2008 7:12 PM
its a bit garish , but it's my very first try.
still haven't gotten it to show different color on three of the pages, but I haven't gotten far enough to figure out how.
btw, when impulse updates it wipes out the whole thing and goes back to the original
Reply #27 Friday, March 21, 2008 7:12 PM
its a bit garish , but it's my very first try.
still haven't gotten it to show different color on three of the pages, but I haven't gotten far enough to figure out how.
btw, when impulse updates it wipes out the whole thing and goes back to the original
Bebi Bulma
Reply #28 Friday, March 21, 2008 7:14 PM
Yeah, I updated my previous post and the original post with a tip on how to easily fix that.
Reply #28 Friday, March 21, 2008 7:14 PM
btw, when impulse updates it wipes out the whole thing and goes back to the original
Yeah, I updated my previous post and the original post with a tip on how to easily fix that.
wulfn1
Reply #29 Friday, March 21, 2008 7:16 PM
Reply #29 Friday, March 21, 2008 7:16 PM
hmm... I gotta figure out how to use that image shack thing....
Bebi Bulma
Reply #30 Friday, March 21, 2008 7:29 PM
Reply #30 Friday, March 21, 2008 7:29 PM
Wulfie this should help you: how to post a screenshot.
(Basically, you need to copy the url from the last field at the bottom [direct link to image] and then paste that into the popup for the insert image button.)
(Basically, you need to copy the url from the last field at the bottom [direct link to image] and then paste that into the popup for the insert image button.)
vStyler
Reply #32 Friday, March 21, 2008 8:03 PM
Reply #32 Friday, March 21, 2008 8:03 PM
If it's anything like SDC it'll update almost everytime u open it. Not much point in skinning it is there if you have to replace everything every time it updates. I've opened it twice, it's updated..2 times.
lol.
lol.
Bebi Bulma
Reply #33 Friday, March 21, 2008 8:27 PM
Reply #33 Friday, March 21, 2008 8:27 PM
You don't have to replace everything, like I added to my original post, all you would have to replace is the skin.xml.
But you're right...it is a pain. Maybe Stardock will keep all this in mind and leave all the skin aspects alone.
But you're right...it is a pain. Maybe Stardock will keep all this in mind and leave all the skin aspects alone.
wulfn1
Reply #35 Friday, March 21, 2008 8:29 PM
Reply #35 Friday, March 21, 2008 8:29 PM
well that worked so well, I broke my connection and had to re-establish.
wulfn1
Reply #36 Friday, March 21, 2008 8:31 PM
Reply #36 Friday, March 21, 2008 8:31 PM
hmm... is the skin xml something subject to change?
if not, why not make a copy of the skin you create and just substitute it everytime you update?
if not, why not make a copy of the skin you create and just substitute it everytime you update?
wulfn1
Reply #38 Friday, March 21, 2008 8:37 PM
Reply #38 Friday, March 21, 2008 8:37 PM
store , news and community look awful with the green combined with the different colors though. don't think there's a way to fix that is there?
Bebi Bulma
Reply #39 Friday, March 21, 2008 8:43 PM
Reply #39 Friday, March 21, 2008 8:43 PM
No...that's all web-based stuff.
Hence:
hmm... is the skin xml something subject to change?if not, why not make a copy of the skin you create and just substitute it everytime you update?
Hence:
TIP: When Impulse updates, it
WILL overwrite all the original images that you changed. Take a tip
from Snowy and rename all your modified images (I just added [s] to the
end to know they're mine) and then update the changed image names in
the skin.xml and save a copy somewhere, so when Impulse updates, all you
need to do is replace the skin.xml. I just tested it and worked great.
(Impulse updated and it was green again, gah!)
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Reply #21 Friday, March 21, 2008 2:03 PM