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Rather than making the image shorter, make the canvas wider. Here is the image I made for the ZubaZ RC:

Add these to lines to the .obskin/menuskin text file, they will move everything in from the edge of skin.

EdgeBuffer_Left=
EdgeBuffer_Right=

in general section right after

EdgeBuffer_Top=

EdgeBuffer_Bottom=

Then use

ItemIconBuffer_LeftOfIcon=10
ItemIconBuffer_BetweenTextAndIcon=8
ItemIconBuffer_RightTextClip=10
ItemTextOnlyBuffer_LeftOfText=10

 to tweak how everything sits.

For people like myself how use the meters, cpu, ram etc, the edgebuffer left and right is needed to move them and have them sit properly within background. When these settings are not used the meters do not look/sit right on almost all RC skins.

Hey 2of3, that does work as well.

Vamp. here are the images than can be a TGA image

MouseoverItemSkin, SelectItemSkin, ArrowPopup, ArrowPopup_Selected and the SeparatorItemSkin, if you use a normal state for items (this can be most helpful for shadowing the text ) the image for it can also be a tga.

For a normal section add

[NormalItemSkin]
hBitmap=selected2.tga (remove this line if no image)
TopHeight=5
BottomHeight=5
LeftWidth=5
RightWidth=5
TileCenter=0
TileVCenter=0
UseTransparency=1
ShadowEffect=1
ShadowIntensityIcons=0
ShadowIntensityText=150
ShadowOffsetText.x=2
ShadowOffsetText.y=2
ShadowColor= 0 0 0
ShadowOffsetIcons.x=2
ShadowOffsetIcons.y=2
ShadowBlurIcons=2
ShadowBlurText=1
TextColor=255 255 255

thanks 20f3 and Cavan1  I will try what you said and hopefully come back with some good results....will keep you posted xxxx

im such a noob at this!!! LOL

You will come back with some good results.

Turn off your WB skinners brain, RightClicks are much simpler, you may be over thinking things.

i wish i was.........lol im really pretty bad at learning new stuff....but ill give what you suggested a go...if i dont have any luck, ill be back here.......

So, can SKS 5 and 6 peacefully co-exist on the same computer?  I've been looking for an older version of SKS that supported RC, but never thought to look on Impulse...

If only we COULD use png's for the background.  Ah that would be sweet.

totally agree with that one!!!

im going to have to send to you cavan.......i cant seem to get those margins to work for me with the mouseover.....

Fire it on over   sjmcavan at hotmail dot com

wow, thanks for the quick reply cavan......i actually sent you a link to it from sendspace in a pm, i hope you get it okay

and thanks heaps for helping me....... i really really appreciate it  *huggles*

Here's a tip (yeah, this coming from me - who's lucky if he can find his behind with a flashlight and instructions half the time) about working with 'magic pink'.  Save the .bmp first, then bring it back into your editor program.  Don't know why, but it seems (at least on my machine) that it's much easier to get the "mp" parts right than trying to do it on the original image.

Probably a 'tip' every one know about, but still thought I'd share...

Hey Kitty, here are the changes I have made to the general section of the menuskin file; changes and additions bolded

EdgeBuffer_Top=60
EdgeBuffer_Bottom=12
EdgeBuffer_Left=25       added; these two move everything in from edges of image
EdgeBuffer_Right=10
ItemHeight=18
ItemIconBuffer_LeftOfIcon=8  edited settings; these three control item in from edge of mouseover image.
ItemIconBuffer_BetweenTextAndIcon=2
ItemIconBuffer_RightTextClip=10
ItemTextOnlyBuffer_LeftOfText=8

try them and see what ya think.

Posted here not PMed so others may be helped understand the settings.

oh cool, ill try that right now! Thnks Steve!!!

yes that worked steve....uploaded now, if you have any sugestions for how i can make my right click better, that would be good....so please comment on my right click skin when its relesed here, hopefully by tomorrow..

Come on KITTY,

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