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Any tips/docs for aspiring client gui skinners?
« on: August 11, 2006, 08:18:22 am »
Maybe I'm just searching wrong, but I was hoping to find some insight on skinning the client gui. I've got a couple of skins Im working on, one almost ready, but it has a few issues, mostlly random transperency mishaps. As an example, I made new toolbar buttons, mouse pointer etc, carefully (and correctly I think) ensuring all used the same pallete, and exact same shade for transparency, yet when logging in, some toolbar buttons have grey squares around them, reboot, relogin, the mouse pointer might have a grey box, or only when hovering over the guild button..  at least one thing has trasnparency issues everytime I login. Add to that , all toolbar buttons, such as exit, are identical copies of each other, yet exit.png might not show the grey box, while exit_over.png does .. or vice versa

in case you couldn't tell from the rant.. it's quite maddening actually :@#\

any tips out there?
« Last Edit: August 11, 2006, 08:20:06 am by dewed »
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Re: Any tips/docs for aspiring client gui skinners?
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2006, 12:15:08 am »
www.ps-mc.com
http://forums.ps-mc.com

Those are links to a PS modding website, people might help you there.

You might find usefull stuff in these threads, too:
http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=20136.0
http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=19537.0
http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=20639.0
http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=17591.0
http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=17659.0
http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=17479.0
http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=17425.0
http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=17944.0

You should also visit IRC once in a while, people there know stuff. We use #planeshift and #planeshift-build on Freenode.

You might also talk to Induane, he seems to know some things about changing the GUI.
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Re: Any tips/docs for aspiring client gui skinners?
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2006, 02:39:24 am »
Hi,

Hmm, pretty strange, the random appearance especially. Do the originl PS guis have same kind of problems, or does it appear only on your custom one? Could try setting PS color depth from the setup program to 32bit if not already, and check that your graphics card drivers are up to date.

Mouse pointer transparent colour is defined in imagelist.xml default is white. Just tested that it works with .png and alpha channel transparency too, so don't neccessarily have to use keycolor transparency.

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Re: Any tips/docs for aspiring client gui skinners?
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2006, 05:17:25 am »
 \\o// BINGO! once I changed the hexvalue in imagelist.xml to what I was usiing for transparency "99.99.99" I've just logged in and no glitches.! well other than some work I still need to do on my skin  :whistling:
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