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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Fuzzy Logic
Reply #3 Friday, March 21, 2008 7:07 AM
Reply #3 Friday, March 21, 2008 7:07 AM
Not quite finished yet, but I believe the first real Impulse skin...
Jafo
Reply #7 Friday, March 21, 2008 7:41 AM
Reply #7 Friday, March 21, 2008 7:41 AM
Jafo just goes in there and greyscales everything....yay...
ZubaZ
Reply #8 Friday, March 21, 2008 9:00 AM
Reply #8 Friday, March 21, 2008 9:00 AM
I love Chet's impulse! What image is that?
Great idea bebi!
Great idea bebi!
Philly0381
Reply #9 Friday, March 21, 2008 9:31 AM
Reply #9 Friday, March 21, 2008 9:31 AM
Sorry, if it is so easy then when isn't the function available without haveing to go into program files? Not everyone wants to do that. 
Why can't it just be skinned by the WB you are using? Have selections available in one of the windows/screens of Impulse?
I'm sure there are alot more like myself that are really LAZY.
Damn, and I was forceing myself to like Green and Black!!!
Why can't it just be skinned by the WB you are using? Have selections available in one of the windows/screens of Impulse?
I'm sure there are alot more like myself that are really LAZY.
Damn, and I was forceing myself to like Green and Black!!!
DigitalCHET
Reply #11 Friday, March 21, 2008 11:24 AM
Reply #11 Friday, March 21, 2008 11:24 AM
ZubaZ: The wallpaper is X-Caliber Blue, by sreeejith at DevArt.
Philly0381: I don't think Stardock necessarily set out to make the interface skinnable as such, so it's totally conceivable that it wasn't meant to be a single-click process here and there, but being customizers, we like to pick and prod at places we're not always meant to go.
Have a go at it. It's easier than it looks. Really.
Philly0381: I don't think Stardock necessarily set out to make the interface skinnable as such, so it's totally conceivable that it wasn't meant to be a single-click process here and there, but being customizers, we like to pick and prod at places we're not always meant to go.
Have a go at it. It's easier than it looks. Really.
PurrBall
Reply #12 Friday, March 21, 2008 11:54 AM
Reply #12 Friday, March 21, 2008 11:54 AM
Before I could get a screenshot it updated and replaced my images 
ZubaZ
Reply #13 Friday, March 21, 2008 11:56 AM
Score 1 for Brad and company.
Reply #13 Friday, March 21, 2008 11:56 AM
Before I could get a screenshot it updated and replaced my images
LMAO!! Score 1 for Brad and company.
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #15 Friday, March 21, 2008 12:00 PM
Reply #15 Friday, March 21, 2008 12:00 PM
Before I could get a screenshot it updated and replaced my images
Should have made a copy
Koasati
Reply #17 Friday, March 21, 2008 1:40 PM
This basically how skinning got started.........
Reply #17 Friday, March 21, 2008 1:40 PM
Sorry, if it is so easy then when isn't the function available without haveing to go into program files? Not everyone wants to do that.
This basically how skinning got started.........
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #18 Friday, March 21, 2008 1:52 PM
Reply #18 Friday, March 21, 2008 1:52 PM
This basically how skinning got started.........
Exactly. New skinners have it soft Us 'old timers' know how to put together a skin from a few images and an .ini file... Seat of the pants stuff...
That's the problem with new programs like SkinStudio 6. People may be able to put a skin together, but they are not learning the art of skinning.
PurrBall
Reply #19 Friday, March 21, 2008 1:53 PM
That kills the fun in skinning. I had much more fun using Notepad than SKS.
Reply #19 Friday, March 21, 2008 1:53 PM
Sorry, if it is so easy then when isn't the function available without haveing to go into program files? Not everyone wants to do that. Why can't it just be skinned by the WB you are using? Have selections available in one of the windows/screens of Impulse? I'm sure there are alot more like myself that are really LAZY. Damn, and I was forceing myself to like Green and Black!!!
That kills the fun in skinning. I had much more fun using Notepad than SKS.
vStyler
Reply #20 Friday, March 21, 2008 1:58 PM
Reply #20 Friday, March 21, 2008 1:58 PM
Seemsd like it would have been easier to have WB skin it and have a one click background image replacement button.
Who said skinning was easy tho..
Who said skinning was easy tho..
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Reply #1 Friday, March 21, 2008 6:32 AM