Making two or more skins into one compound skin using substyles....Help
Saturday, June 12, 2004 by Essencay | Discussion: Skinning
I've made a substyle before using the same skin, don't remember how, but I got it to work
Now I am trying to make two skins into one compound skin using SkinStudio 4.30 Build 921. This is what I have tried. I open the first skin in SKS and go to Insert => New Substyle => Import another skin as a Substyle. It opens up asking for image files. I go to the skin I want to import as a substyle click on an image and get an error 
Is there anyway of doing this without creating an substyle of the existing skin and manually importing all the images one by one and then going through the skin again reworking all the colors and margins?Signed
Befuddled and Confusticated in New Hampshire
Reply #2 Sunday, June 13, 2004 8:10 PM
Reply #3 Sunday, June 13, 2004 11:26 PM
IPlural pointed me in the direction of a newsreader called Agent, and I'm so far enjoying it..... Thanx to John, and Agent, I have your answer.....................
Make backups of both skins folders, or make work copies of the original
skins under another folder.
Navigate to the folder of the skin you want to change to a subskin.
Change the *.UIS file to *.SSS.
Make sure that there are NO images that share the same name if they are
not identical.
Move all of the folder's files to the new folder. Open the *.SSS file
and update the paths to the new location.
Create a *.SSD file or edit it if it already exist. Add referances to
the various skins (use any preexisting one, from any compoune skin, as a
template)
You can also use skinstudio, but I personaly never done it
Alain
It may be a bit of a hassle to do it this way, but it works. 
Reply #4 Sunday, June 13, 2004 11:32 PM
And there's also this response from Mr. SkinStudio himself.......
In Skinstudio open the skin you want to import to,
then from the main menu
Insert->New substyle->Import another skin as substyle.
Browse for that skin or subskin and press OK
Done
Adam
Reply #5 Monday, June 14, 2004 2:42 AM
and then you get an error. I changed it from asking for an image file to all files and Selected the uis file instead and still got the same error. The only way I've been able to get substyles to work in SKS is to "save as" one skin as a substyle of itself with a new name, then individual import the files from the other skin one by one, then changing all the settings like margins and colors, etc.....this is as much work as Curtain number 1. Please login to comment and/or vote for this skin.
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Reply #1 Sunday, June 13, 2004 3:15 PM