Boot SKin Tutorial
Thursday, April 1, 2004 by huntin | Discussion: Skinning
If someone knows where to get a more in depth step by step tutorial for making boot skins could you please let me know in this thread the one on the boot skin website isn't helpful for me
Minion_Bob73
Reply #2 Friday, April 2, 2004 4:33 AM
Reply #2 Friday, April 2, 2004 4:33 AM
There is also one at joeuser.com, here is the link.
http://martin.joeuser.com/index.asp?AID=1886
I remembered reading it and thought it might help.
http://martin.joeuser.com/index.asp?AID=1886
I remembered reading it and thought it might help.
Essencay
Reply #3 Friday, April 2, 2004 8:43 AM
Reply #3 Friday, April 2, 2004 8:43 AM
The amazing Koasati waves his magic wand and pulls out some thread that four months old......I'm lucky if I can remember what I did last night....sometimes though it's better that I don't remember 
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Reply #1 Thursday, April 1, 2004 11:29 AM
Stumpy posted this simple tutorial a while back........
Hi Everyone
It seems that there has been a lot of people who seem to be having problems creating bootskins correctly, below is the correct way to make them (until the Truecolour version comes out that is)
Use an existing .INI file and change all relevant sections, see below.
Graphics
1. Main Picture = Size 640x480 - 16 Colours (4 Bit)
2. Progressbar = Size 22x9 - 16 Colours (4 Bit) - Exactly the same palette as Main Pic
3. Both pictures have to be .BMP files
ProgressBar
Placement of Progressbar can be anywhere on the screen, but if you are going to have an outline for the progressbar then the following applies.
eg: Progressbar placed at 234z359, 190 Length (234 pixels across x 359 Pixels down and 190 Pixels long) then the outline should be as follows
TopLeft corner = 224x357 - TopRight Corner 426x357 - BottomLeft corner 224x368 - BottonRight corner 426x368
Please note that the PB Outline starts 10 pixels to the left of actual position.
The INI File All parts in bold are what should be changed to match your BootSkin.
[BootSkin]
Type=0
Name = "BootSkin Name"
Author = "Your Name"
Description = "BootSkin Description"
ProgressBar=ProgressBarFileName.bmp
ProgressBarX = 258
ProgressBarY = 22
ProgressBarWidth = 120
ProgressBarHeight = 9
Screen=MainFilename.bmp
I hope this helps, if you still have problems then please email me the file as a .zip and I will try to fixed any problems and email back the fixed skin along with a short description of the hiccup
Email >>> Email <<<
ChrisNYC is also working on an app to help with the ini file...... check out this thread..
https://www.wincustomize.com/browser/msgboard.asp?BID=WCS&id=265560
:)