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The Albertan
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Sunny Southern Alberta
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Important message regarding incomplete classic skins.
Well, you all remember the great database cleanup? It's about to happen again.
This time we will work on completing the skins in the database that are not up to the standards of Winamp 5. The first fase will be to move all the incomplete skins to a newly created category. They will not be mixed in with the completed skins anymore. We hope the authors of those skins will update them and re-submit. At that time they will be moved back to the appropriate categories. Failing that, we will now allow the public (that is you) to complete these skins and post your completed bmp's in a zip file in this thread. I will re-publish them in a special account to be created for that purpose. Something like we did with the "Nullsoft Skinz" account. There will be some restrictions. This will not be remixing the skins, just completing them. The only accepted new bmp's will be the gen, genex and video bmp's. The video bmp should be a modified browser bmp, while the gen bmp should be taken from the playlist to keep as close as possible to the original design. You will not be able to submit these skins yourself. Please keep this thread clean. Any posts in this thread that are not related to this project will be removed. "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." ~ Charles R. Swindoll |
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Forum King
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Nov 1978
Posts: 3,880
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That's a great idea about allowing people to port the new windows. It's maybe not 100% kosher regarding copyright, but I think the transperent and standardised way you propse to do it shows respect to the authors, and it'll no doubt mean that many old favourites will once again become fully functioning skins, even though their authors may long have left the skinnin scene.
Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny. All my skins: @ winamp.com @ 1K1WS @ Deviantart.com My latest Flash Project: BreathingEarth.net |
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I don't feel that it's the greatest idea to allow the public to update the skins. While I realize that it would allow skins to be updated. I feel that it is disrespectful to the original authors. Even though these authors may not frequent the skinning forums anymore, I still feel as if we should respect their work and keep the policy the way it is now. With such restrictions on where the designs for the new windows may come from, why not just make some sort of program to automatically update them based on the other files?
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The Albertan
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Sunny Southern Alberta
Posts: 6,050
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Even though you might be right, Winamp is changing. The old team is gone, the Winamp client we are so used to will change with the next major release, and the incomplete skins have a limited shelf life in the date base.
As for me, I have always turned away skins submitted that updated other skins, exactly as I am promoting now, quite an irony I would say. However, if incomplete skins get purged from the database, they are lost. I'd rather have them updated than lost. That being said, I do want to preserve the original design, and that is why the restrictions on how to update these skins. The product that will be published after the update will be the original skin, unaltered in any way, with the addition of three new bmp's that will be produced in the style of the original work. It would be nice if the authors could all be contacted to let them know their skins require an update, but even though that might be possible on a lot of them, it is not as easy as it used to be, as e-mail addresses are no longer published. Also, with the move to this new design of the website, and accompanying review system, we have also lost the ability to update skins on the original authors skin account, that is why we will have to create a separate account for these updated skins to be published under. On a final note, the original author will have the right to update his own skins, and his update will trump any update someone else might have made for it. Failing that, the original author will also have the right to request the removal of his work from the database. I know a lot of authors don't really want to be bothered with their skins anymore, but don't really like to see them summarily removed neither. This would be a reasonable compromise. Now as for a tool to automatically do this, a tool could not get everything just right. The additional bmp's would still have to be edited by hand to get the desired results. Now you can also help by directing as many original authors as you can to this thread. "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." ~ Charles R. Swindoll |
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Iron Chef
(Reviewer) Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Winamp Island
Posts: 3,036
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I may just have to update my older skins now that they're threatened with eventual removal.
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Major Dude
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: ?
Posts: 1,473
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how long do i have to update my incomplete skin?
also, if a skin creator says they will add the needed things but doesnt have the time to do it at the moment or just simply needs some more time to finish it, will "public updates" be disallowed on that skin? ....and even though i will complete my skins, i would rather see my skin be completely removed instead of someone else finishing off whats mine. .........?. |
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The Albertan
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Sunny Southern Alberta
Posts: 6,050
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Quote:
Post your skin name and CID and we'll call it "off limits" "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." ~ Charles R. Swindoll |
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Major Dude
Join Date: Sep 2002
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alright sounds fine to me.
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Forum King
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Nov 1978
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Quote:
Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny. All my skins: @ winamp.com @ 1K1WS @ Deviantart.com My latest Flash Project: BreathingEarth.net |
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Major Dude
Join Date: Sep 2002
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just would kinda irk me.
kinda like a getting a physical. you know its for a good reason, but still...you know? .........?. |
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has no CT
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please tell me you arn't going to get rid of the classics by Steve Moss and others that are "broke" now but still hold places int eh top downlaoded!
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I would happily update any and all of Steve Moss's skins, now that I have photoshop. Hopefully nobody's in a hurry, because I won't be doing any skinning this week.
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Gosh, wherever the heck I want to be from.
Posts: 335
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But what about you takeover of 1k1winampskins?
You thought I was dead, didn't you? |
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luigi >> i started to update Moss' "Major Tom" this but never got around to finishing it. if you want to contiue it, be my guest. I also have the PSD if you'd like it.
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#15 |
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Moss updates
![]() Did I take too many liberties with the sliders? I didn't really know what to do with them so I took them from the volume and playlist sliders, and I think they came out all right, but a little weird. What do you guys think? I hope this is okay... Add the 3 files in the zip to the original or 'remix' skin found here: http://memlo.net/gallery/majortom.htm Is it wrong that I really really want to fix the bug in the EW winshade button?
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Forum King
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Steel this amp
This one's a little more basic. Should I be posting these in the other thread? I made a new thread in case anyone wanted to comment on them in wouldn't clutter Wally's official thread
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The Albertan
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Sunny Southern Alberta
Posts: 6,050
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Should be in the original thread, maybe a mod wants to do the "merge"
![]() And no, no bugfixing allowed, all we want is the 3 additional files.
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." ~ Charles R. Swindoll |
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a) just outa curiosity, did you use any of the bmp i posted earlier?
b) I think instead of "winamp library" it should say somethign else. In teh origional, the main window is called "ground control" and the playlist "guidance", etc., so the media library should have something as...spacey I think. Perhaps...idk..."Data Archive" or something like that. |
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Forum King
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I started to use yours, but then I realized the way I wanted the buttons it would have to not be in a frame the way you had it, so I ended up doing it from scratch. And the only way to get it to say something other than winamp library would be to come up with a cryptogram for it and reorder the alphabet.
and then who knows what the AVS or other programs would say. I thought about changing the video window text, but I figured "data relay" was as good as anything, and most people with the video window don't have a minibrowser anymore, so nobody should notice.
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Frequency
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Forum King
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Don't use the last version of the Steel This Amp updates, I screwed up those extra four genex colors. Please use this one instead (unless people like purple and yellow)
![]() edit: It's up already? Umm... You might want to change it to this one, but it's up to you I guess.
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#22 |
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Nemish
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#23 |
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Pizza Hut
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Forum King
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![]() Okay, that's all for now. I dunno if I'm going to start a new skin of my own very soon, maybe-maybe not. ![]() Who is the milkman? What is the purpose of the goggles? |
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Major Dude
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*waves sheepishly* hi all...
I'm trying to rescue the hard drive that has my original skins on it, it fell down went boom some time ago, actually my whole computer went to the great microchip haven in the sky... but I'll try to get at least my more recent efforts updated and keep everyone posted since I figure some of them aren't something any sane person wants to tackle
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Forum King
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Nov 1978
Posts: 3,880
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Well I'll be!
Hey Dimichan!
Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny. All my skins: @ winamp.com @ 1K1WS @ Deviantart.com My latest Flash Project: BreathingEarth.net |
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has no CT
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luigi rocks!
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Forum King
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Thanks Dlink.
They left the old staff reviews up, apparently from when Steve Moss added the avs.bmp and stuff to his skins, so several of the reviews say something like "Thanks for updating, Steve" or "Updated by the original author" which I think might confuse the heck out of people, but what do I know... And hey Dimichan, good luck updating your skins too.
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The Albertan
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Sunny Southern Alberta
Posts: 6,050
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Update
Consumption, Nature and Retro have been cleared of incomplete skins, next will be Transportation.
Some skins have been updated, the first one was Mastro Fusion Amp, updated by myself. Luigi updated 6 of Steve Moss' skins, Thanks Luigi. The Staff reviews have been edited to avoid cunfusion. If you are lookin for incomplete skins to update, look in the "Incomplete" category, they will all end up there eventually. "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." ~ Charles R. Swindoll |
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I'll have a go @ Fossil 2002 Classic if nobody else has started on it.
------------------------------------ luigi said: Quote:
----------------------------------- idk about the rest of you, but I think that stillwater would be perfect for updating Act2 Finale by Raj I/O. I suggest Xenosomething for Relic and for Water Elemental ![]() Also, wasn't there a DiVINE update that got removed? Other skins that I think should be updated first: Auriga http://www.winamp.com/skins/details.php?id=2942 Kaolla http://www.winamp.com/skins/details.php?id=87953 Merregon http://www.winamp.com/skins/details.php?id=58121 BreedAmp Organica http://www.winamp.com/skins/details.php?id=64011 Summer Breeze http://www.winamp.com/skins/details.php?id=71806 RajIOAmp Special Edition http://www.winamp.com/skins/details.php?id=25409 *Rukio Virus http://www.winamp.com/skins/details.....php?id=127454 *Aquair Chimera http://www.winamp.com/skins/details.php?id=110706 Receiver http://www.winamp.com/skins/details.php?id=241 Calvin and Hobbes http://www.winamp.com/skins/details.php?id=19560 Spinner Amp http://www.winamp.com/skins/details.php?id=2463 %Snowflake http://www.winamp.com/skins/details.php?id=128732 %Persephone http://www.winamp.com/skins/details.php?id=126349 Altitude X-Plorer http://www.winamp.com/skins/details.php?id=62592 *good luck getting Neko to do this, or to let us do this though ![]() % these skinners used to be on these boards, are theys til around?? Last edited by dlinkwit27; 19th March 2005 at 00:24. |
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The Albertan
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Sunny Southern Alberta
Posts: 6,050
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The creator of Fossil is active in the AVS forum
http://forums.winamp.com/member.php?...o&userid=55006 Quote:
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." ~ Charles R. Swindoll |
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I did for some, but some sections were differently sized, so I cheated
![]() Did the author of Fossil say he would update it, or should I PM him? |
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The Albertan
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Sunny Southern Alberta
Posts: 6,050
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I PM'd him the link to this thread 15 minutes ago, we'll see what happens.
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." ~ Charles R. Swindoll |
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hello, just got a pm on this. i'll have a look at what it takes to make my fossil skin support all winamp 5 features. as i didn't skin winamp since 1998, i'm wondering if i have to use some entirely new skinning format or if just have to add new bitmaps.
i didn't skin all fossil windows in the past, as the classic skin format has its limits (i.e. gradients in playlist) and i didn't want to spend too much time on learning the new skinning format. so maybe better count on an updated beamp, than on a new fossil.. but that's not a final word. i'm thankful for hints
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The Albertan
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Sunny Southern Alberta
Posts: 6,050
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All it takes is 3 additional bmp's and you're up to date.
Grab the files from the default skin here: http://www3.telus.net/wildrosewally/gen.bmp http://www3.telus.net/wildrosewally/genex.bmp http://www3.telus.net/wildrosewally/video.bmp "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." ~ Charles R. Swindoll |
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#36 |
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Forum King
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I found the easiest way to make the gen.bmp was to use the old minibrowser, because the borders all match except for the bottom. The hardest part is the genex.bmp, between doing the colors and making the sliders...
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Now that I think about it, I think I did use the MiniBrowser instead of the AVS.
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I'm 99% sure that one of the 'gen' .bmp's is able to take the place of some other .bmp. |
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#38 |
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You're thinking of numbers.bmp and nums_ex.bmp. Gen and genex are different and both necessary. Look at them and see.
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#39 |
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damn. So close, and yet so far
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@dlinkwit27: thanks for your offer to help on the fossil, but if you don't mind, i'd like to try.. i might come back at you, if i have problems ![]() the reason why i added the classic to the skin name a while ago, was the idea to create an entirely new fossil. i was pretty satisfied with the original back then, but i can do much better now. |
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