I was wondering if someone could make me WMP skin?
Friday, June 25, 2004 by nimbletongue | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I'm new here so I wasn't sure where to post this. I would greatly appreciate this if someone would. Here are to pics of what I'd like it to look like. The first pic is what I'd like it to look like when its closed up. I'd like the the minimize, full screen and open/close buttons on the top teeth. Maybe each button could be on its own tooth. The second pic is my rough draft on how I'd like it to look when its opened. The eyes are both visualization screens. The nose has the volume control. In the mouth would be the play list and video screens. Any other buttons I need should replace the bottom teeth I think. I would be willing to help with this in anyway I can. Thanks, and sorry if I posted this in the wrong area.
CerebroJD
Reply #2 Friday, June 25, 2004 1:18 AM
Reply #2 Friday, June 25, 2004 1:18 AM
Whoah! Looks like you put some serious thought into this, Nimble. Pretty cool idea, and I'd love to help you out with it, but (yes, theres a but) I'm pretty busy working on a couple of other projects right now. What I can do, however, is point you in the right direction of getting started making it yourself, and then you could talk to me about problems you're having. Would that be cool? Yes, that would be cool. Heres a http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e43cbe59-678a-458a-86a7-ff1716fad02f&displaylang=en to the Windows Media Player SDK. Thats a pretty in-depth piece of reference material that will be able to help you do pretty much everything you could want in a media player. It has everything from sample codes to full out, hard-core, coding.
To get you started, you should know that all media player skins are simply renamed zip files. The extension has just been changed from .zip to .wmz. To take apart a skin and see what makes it work, just rename it back to a .zip file and extract it into a folder. There, the .wms file can be opened with any text editor and fiddled with. The images that you extracted are just normal images bitmap and the like. A good skin to take apart would be MyPod, by CerebroJD (me
), since it contains everything I've ever learned about skinning WMP in it. I've tried to put little notes in the code that will help people like yourself get started.
I hope I've been some help. Remember, you're not going to be an awesome skinner right off the bat. Start out with some simple, little skins, to get familiar with the workings, the build up to more complex stuff. Good luck!
To get you started, you should know that all media player skins are simply renamed zip files. The extension has just been changed from .zip to .wmz. To take apart a skin and see what makes it work, just rename it back to a .zip file and extract it into a folder. There, the .wms file can be opened with any text editor and fiddled with. The images that you extracted are just normal images bitmap and the like. A good skin to take apart would be MyPod, by CerebroJD (me
), since it contains everything I've ever learned about skinning WMP in it. I've tried to put little notes in the code that will help people like yourself get started.I hope I've been some help. Remember, you're not going to be an awesome skinner right off the bat. Start out with some simple, little skins, to get familiar with the workings, the build up to more complex stuff. Good luck!
nimbletongue
Reply #3 Friday, June 25, 2004 1:54 AM
Reply #3 Friday, June 25, 2004 1:54 AM
this is a silly question, but how do you rename it? I clicked rename and added .zip at the end. Nothing happend. 
CerebroJD
Reply #4 Friday, June 25, 2004 2:11 AM
Reply #4 Friday, June 25, 2004 2:11 AM
Go into Folder Options and make sure that the "Show File Extensions for Known File Types" box is checked in the long list of stuff. That will make all the extensions show up for all the files. Then you should see the .wmz extension on the file. Then you can rename it and treat it like a zip file.
nimbletongue
Reply #5 Friday, June 25, 2004 2:29 AM
Reply #5 Friday, June 25, 2004 2:29 AM
thanks again, it worked! But you probably knew that already.
SelfExiled
Reply #6 Friday, June 25, 2004 2:56 AM
Reply #6 Friday, June 25, 2004 2:56 AM
I would remove the black border from around the eq windows and add a little transparency so that the eq looks more blended and more like eyes in the sockets. This idea has lots of possibility.
Horrific idea by the way.
Horrific idea by the way.
SelfExiled
Reply #7 Friday, June 25, 2004 2:58 AM
Reply #7 Friday, June 25, 2004 2:58 AM
I just visualized worms wiggling out of holes in the skull on mouse over for some of the animation. 
nimbletongue
Reply #8 Friday, June 25, 2004 1:38 PM
Reply #8 Friday, June 25, 2004 1:38 PM
Well, I made my first skin. Its a eyeball. Its just a basic one with a play and stop button. The graphics part came pretty quick to me, but the codeing still pretty much stumps me.
CerebroJD
Reply #9 Friday, June 25, 2004 2:27 PM
Reply #9 Friday, June 25, 2004 2:27 PM
Yeah, the coding takes work, but once you have a chunk of code that works, you can copy it into your other stuff then just change the values for the colours and stuff.
nimbletongue
Reply #11 Friday, June 25, 2004 7:45 PM
Reply #11 Friday, June 25, 2004 7:45 PM
I figured out how to put a visualization window in both of the eyes of an autobot skin i just made. The problem is, they keep playing different visualization. Is there a way to get them both in sync? If so, could you tell me what I have to put in the code, and where to put it?
Styl-X Design
Reply #12 Saturday, June 26, 2004 8:04 PM
Reply #12 Saturday, June 26, 2004 8:04 PM
nim, just take the "vis" code and copy-paste it under the "vis" code. Should run sync... 
Styl-X Design
Reply #13 Saturday, June 26, 2004 8:05 PM
Reply #13 Saturday, June 26, 2004 8:05 PM
or instead of starting a new object, just create a new field in the same object... (so do not start with "vis" again, just add some new lines...)
nimbletongue
Reply #14 Sunday, June 27, 2004 9:07 AM
Reply #14 Sunday, June 27, 2004 9:07 AM
Ok, i started to make the skin above. I know how to do the volume, the play, stop, pause, ect... buttons, the two vis windows. What I don't understand is how to make the video window in the mouth or how to switch between the first pic and the second. Could someonehelp me with that? I am new to this skinning stuff, so if it was something I could copy and paste, that would be really helpfull.
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Reply #1 Friday, June 25, 2004 1:06 AM