WA3 Skinning

[chiquita chad]

ive recently tried to create a winamp 3 skin... i got the backgroung i wanted and placed all the play buttons. but after that i was completely lost on how to make sliders and all that sh1t. anywho, once wa2 is forgotten and v3 is all the rage, im done with skinning for winamp.

btw, why are all the wa3 tutorials written in an unknown langauge? i looked at rhynotrips site and it made as much sense as a tree.

instead of creating a poll, how bout this... just tell me if u're sticking with winamp thru wa3

[YtseJam]

Many other skinners have managed to handle with the scripting. I'm sure that with a little more patience, you will too manage to understand it. Never lose hope.

[chiquita chad]

i think what i have going is good so far... but for some reason the border around my skin doesnt show up. the border is in all the .png's but still doesnt show up

[YtseJam]

Mind posting a screen shot? And don't worry, soon the leet guys here() will see this thread and come for the rescue...

[chiquita chad]

okay, heres what i want it to look like


but: heres what it looks like when running

[Riksruin]

to get the overall shape you need, the biggest image (the one that contains the big grey band needs to be the image in the layout tag

in this example the big grey band would need to have the id player.main.bg

<layout id="normal" background="player.main.bg">

either that or if you have the border in a seperate layer tag then you will need to add sysregion="1" to this tag, (sysregion makes pictures show outside the main layout backgound)

<layer id="border" x="0" y="0" image="player.border" sysregion="1"/>

when you create the buttons, just use the current play buttons that you have and change the value of them in the xml file

try this page for links to sites,
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=60472

RhinoTrips site is purely for scripting,(the .m and .maki files) not the xml pages,

[Mr. Bojanglez]

scripting a basic skin with the normal features is pretty easy

[The Only Lynx]

keetuh.. that skin reminds me of kinwashis probe for wa3

[chiquita chad]

Originally posted by The Only Lynx
keetuh.. that skin reminds me of kinwashis probe for wa3

i guess it does sorta... mine's circular, his is free-flowing, mine is orange, his is blue , his kicks the shit out of mine, mine blows , mine's much smaller

plus, i guarantee that i will not finish this skin. probably because of frustration

[Namelessv1]

Holy shit, i have no clue how to script. I think i might have to join u in the retirement home after WA3 takes over, Keetah.

[chiquita chad]

lol dawg, there are 2 rocking chairs waiting for us

[BullGawD]

and lotsa young brats to hit with canes.

[Wildrose-Wally]

I need one of those chairs too. Not going to WA3.

[JustinBm]

I won't be able to do it either

[Doggy Dog]

Hey, keetah, that's cool.....a bit different then what you posted originaly on KWOD.

[flatmatt]

Keetah, did you ever fix that transparency problem? Did it happen after you changed the size of your background?

I just decided, maybe it's time to show my wa3 skin to more than two people, considering that I haven't worked on it in at least a month or two.

[Huehuetenango]

i'm almost positive that i'll stop skinning when wa3 is the dominant

i don't even know html, much less xml, which apparently is needed to skin, so i'm out

then again, i never was that good a skinner anyway, so small loss, eh?

[bobo]

i must say your skin looks extremely much like probe. i probably won't finish a WA3 skin until the finished version is out. tho i think i'll start trying to learn the xml now when the beta arrived

[Riksruin]

Hey why will all of you lot give up skinning when WA3 is default, (that wont happen for a long time cuz people will always still want WA2) but you can still skin WA3 in the same way as we Skin WA2, by editing the individual .png files, you only need to know XML to do the freeform element,

i think that if a skin is good enough people wont mind about it not being freeform, (i will make some un-freeform and some freeform skins,

[bobo]

the xml doesn't seem very hard to learn. the C scripting tho...