unhelpful community here
Thursday, August 2, 2001 by hoppy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
wow..i post a simple question awhile ago and no replies at all..yet messages newer than mine have replies out the ass; thus, burying mine out of site..not very helpful here i see..if anyone cares to reply, feel free..at any rate............
original post:
I am wanting to start making skins for winamp. The only skinning program I found for making winamp skins sucks! I have looked everywhere and cannot find a decent skinning program. Help, anyone!
original post:
I am wanting to start making skins for winamp. The only skinning program I found for making winamp skins sucks! I have looked everywhere and cannot find a decent skinning program. Help, anyone!
Jafo
Reply #2 Thursday, August 2, 2001 2:44 AM
Reply #2 Thursday, August 2, 2001 2:44 AM
Well....all the programs designed to create winamp skins will guarantee very even results.....even an expert will make a crappy skin.
The best you will get is a 'photoskin'....a photo of something really 'kewl' like Britney Spears, with some dorky buttons on it.
The only real way to do it correctly is, unfortunately, by hand.....get out your favourite graphics proggy like photoshop or PaintShop Pro.....and start drawing.
There are templates available that show the relative button/component locations....but it is often just as easy to look closely into an existing skin and experiment with it until it all makes sense.
As for 'no help', it was probably just an oversight....and some of us limit how many days of messages show up, so can be quickly missed...
We 'usually' are a bit more helpful than you have noticed...
The best you will get is a 'photoskin'....a photo of something really 'kewl' like Britney Spears, with some dorky buttons on it.
The only real way to do it correctly is, unfortunately, by hand.....get out your favourite graphics proggy like photoshop or PaintShop Pro.....and start drawing.
There are templates available that show the relative button/component locations....but it is often just as easy to look closely into an existing skin and experiment with it until it all makes sense.
As for 'no help', it was probably just an oversight....and some of us limit how many days of messages show up, so can be quickly missed...
We 'usually' are a bit more helpful than you have noticed...
fearoffours
Reply #3 Thursday, August 2, 2001 3:45 AM
Reply #3 Thursday, August 2, 2001 3:45 AM
Here's a great tutorial on skinning winamp:
http://www.winamp.com/nsdn/winamp2x/dev/skins/
Open up your favourite winamp skin (wsz files are just renamed zip files, so change the extension to zip, and uncompress the file, extract the bitmpas to a new directory, take a peek at them in your favourite graphics editor!).
If you don't have a favourite graphics editor yet, try The Gimp: (it's free!) http://www.gimp.org/win32/
Read the gimp page before you downlioad, and check the tutorial ion issue one of Teknidermy magazine too : http://www.teknidermy.org/
http://www.winamp.com/nsdn/winamp2x/dev/skins/
Open up your favourite winamp skin (wsz files are just renamed zip files, so change the extension to zip, and uncompress the file, extract the bitmpas to a new directory, take a peek at them in your favourite graphics editor!).
If you don't have a favourite graphics editor yet, try The Gimp: (it's free!) http://www.gimp.org/win32/
Read the gimp page before you downlioad, and check the tutorial ion issue one of Teknidermy magazine too : http://www.teknidermy.org/
Dork
Reply #4 Thursday, August 2, 2001 8:35 AM
Reply #4 Thursday, August 2, 2001 8:35 AM
Jafo, did you say 'dorky' buttons?
i'm gonna take my toys and go home...
i'm gonna take my toys and go home...
Jafo
Reply #5 Thursday, August 2, 2001 8:46 AM
Reply #5 Thursday, August 2, 2001 8:46 AM
Sorry Dork....forgot there are good 'dorks' out there....
craeonics
Reply #6 Thursday, August 2, 2001 10:21 AM
Reply #6 Thursday, August 2, 2001 10:21 AM
And some of us are pretty tired of answering the same old questions day in day out... Oh, I feel very helpfull today.
MarkMcQ
Reply #8 Thursday, August 2, 2001 4:41 PM
Reply #8 Thursday, August 2, 2001 4:41 PM
Public Notice: Hoppy is not a part of Hippy Industries, inc.
Thank you.
That is all.
Thank you.
That is all.
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Reply #1 Thursday, August 2, 2001 12:22 AM