A different kind of skin

[Wildrose-Wally]

Have you wanted to make a freeform skin, but where stopped by the xml and maki scripts?

This might be for you: Make a K-Jofol skin.

K-Jofol pioneerd the freeform skin, but they are amazingly easy to make.

There is a pretty good tutorial to help you on your way, a forum to give you a hand when you get stuck, and your skin can even get published.

And just in case you are wondering about the purpose of this kind of skin, we have a very good plugin developer working on a plugin that will allow your K-Jofol skin to work on Winamp.
More info here:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....hreadid=184857
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....hreadid=185169
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....hreadid=185740
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....16#post1496616

Neat, eh?

(I better stop here, before a mod thinks I'm spamming. )
He could be right, you know.

[k_rock923]

Oh yea, I said I was going to make one a while back didn't I? I still intend to, mind you. I've just been so busy lately (working on college applications, but by december, that should be all over with). They look fun and there's no coding involved.


I had a feeling it would be about K-Jofol from the title. I love it because its the ONLY freeform skinning engine that I would even consider trying to run on my old machine.

[Wildrose-Wally]

After a short absence due to the costs involved, www.k-jofol.com is back on-line.

I have found a server who is a lot less expensive than the previous one, so it looks like I can afford this site now.
The k-jofol.com domain has now been registered for 5 years, and the server has been pre-paid for one year.

The site contains a download link to the last beta of the k-jofol client, a k-jofol skin tutorial, instructions on how to submit a k-jofol skin to the site, a fine selection of some older k-jofol skins and also a forum at forums.k-jofol.com.

The site is also integrated with www.fusionamp.com, where you can find the finest of the fusion skins and a few other nice skins, especially on the Nullsoft Skinz page.

Now don't be shy, visit the site, make a skin and become one of the first authors of a new generation of k-jofol skins.

I probably should tell you a plugin is in the works by Dr.O so k-jofol skins can be used for Winamp. You can visit Dr.O's k-jofol site at www.k-jofol.co.uk.

[Dark Ninja]

what the hell is K-jofol wally...
back in a min,i`m gonna check this out

looks far too complicated

[StillWater]

I was planning on making a QCD skin for a while. They're also freeform and involve no coding, plus they tend to demand about half the resources that winamp modern skins do. Though in the end I decided that I want my player to be as resource-efficient as possible, which is why I went back to the trusty classic skins. Not that any of this is particularly relevant to the thread

[Mr Jones]

Originally posted by StillWater
plus they tend to demand about half the resources that winamp modern skins do.

Those are only the badly coded modern skins, a well crafted one should use harldy any more resources than a classic one, it's these buffons that insists on running everything with timers and stuff in the script core, sure fire way to slow things down.

Oh, and Kjofol skinning isn't nearly as hard as it looks, I cranked out a version of Hoop Life for it in a week or two, once you get your head around the system works it's a breeze

[k_rock923]

Really? I actually made my k-jofol skin and no matter what I did, I couldn't get the EQ to work. Is it impossible to have transparency between the bars or something or what? I eventually gave up after literally spending an entire weekend trying to fix it.

[StillWater]

Originally posted by Mr Jones
Those are only the badly coded modern skins, a well crafted one should use harldy any more resources than a classic one, it's these buffons that insists on running everything with timers and stuff in the script core, sure fire way to slow things down.

Well, I guess that's pretty true. However, one of the genuinely great things about modern skins, the anti-aliasing/alpha-blending, is a fair resource hogger, since so much more image info needs to be loaded into the RAM. And neither classic skins (obviously) nor QCD skins have that - which of course means that the corners are a little jaggy, but at high res, it's not much of an issue, and a worthy trade-off for people with not-so-crash-hot computers like me.

[El-ArGeNtO]

I'm a classic winamp skin lover...and so I'll go on skinning winamp...:P