Skin makin questions

Everyth1ng_zen · 14th October 2001, 15:43

I just started makin a skin and I have a heap of questions, those being
1: How do I make buttons transparent?
2: How do I bung all the bitmaps together to make em a skin?
and 3: How do I create a preview of what it's gonna look like,
Hope someome can help me with all this, cheers
Mat

SuPeYDuUeY · 14th October 2001, 15:49

1 you can't exactly make them transparent - have the area that you want to be the same as the background of where it's going to be...it's a fake transparency type thing
2 put them all in one folder...to make the .wsz skin file, use winzip to zip that folder then rename it and change the .zip to .wsz
3 either use a prgram to take a snap of winamp while it's playing, or peice the bitmaps together like a puzzle if you don't have all of the window that you want to show a preview of skinned

hope that helps

Everyth1ng_zen · 18th October 2001, 17:39

Thanks dupey, that does help, might get it finished now
Mat

Namelessv1 · 18th October 2001, 23:49

3. Press Print Screen Key to take the screenshot of winamp while playing and paste the image in a bmp editor and do a little cropping.

14th October 2001, 15:43	#1
Everyth1ng_zen Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 4	Skin makin questions I just started makin a skin and I have a heap of questions, those being 1: How do I make buttons transparent? 2: How do I bung all the bitmaps together to make em a skin? and 3: How do I create a preview of what it's gonna look like, Hope someome can help me with all this, cheers Mat

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14th October 2001, 15:49	#2
SuPeYDuUeY Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Country Club Ghetto Posts: 127	1 you can't exactly make them transparent - have the area that you want to be the same as the background of where it's going to be...it's a fake transparency type thing 2 put them all in one folder...to make the .wsz skin file, use winzip to zip that folder then rename it and change the .zip to .wsz 3 either use a prgram to take a snap of winamp while it's playing, or peice the bitmaps together like a puzzle if you don't have all of the window that you want to show a preview of skinned hope that helps

18th October 2001, 17:39	#3
Everyth1ng_zen Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 4	Thanks dupey, that does help, might get it finished now Mat

18th October 2001, 23:49	#4
Namelessv1 Forum King Join Date: Nov 2000 Posts: 4,757	3. Press Print Screen Key to take the screenshot of winamp while playing and paste the image in a bmp editor and do a little cropping.