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amoebe · Post by **amoebe** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:44 pm

I downloaded the Rhino2 demo to take a look at the GUI. Are there any directions about how the skin can be changed? I find the skin.ini and .dat file quite daunting.
Do I have to give all 8-bit bitmaps the same colour palette?
There is only one skin folder. Can I create another one with a different name? Is there a way to switch between two skins?
Can I cange the colour of envelopes etc (I believe it's black now)?
That's about it I think. Don't hold your breath, anyone. I think I'll stick to some minor colour changes for now to make it a bit lighter.

Big Tick · Post by **Big Tick** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:31 pm

skin.dat contains the definition for creating all skins items. Usually you wouldn't change that unless you want to replace sliders by knobs.

skin.ini contains the location, bitmaps and colors for all items. To change envelopes colors, change the line starting with "GenericCurve: "

This will change colors for all curves, so if you want to change it for envelopes only, change the line starting with "GenericEnv: ".

More generally, a line with the "@=" syntax is an "include", so
GenericEnv: @=GenericCurve, @=genericScrollbar

will merge, for GenericEnv item, the GenericCurve and genericScrollbar items attributes.

Hope this all makes sense

'Tick

Big Tick · Post by **Big Tick** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:35 pm

Also, Rhino always uses the skin located under the skin folder. Just rename the original one to skin_old or something.

'Tick

amoebe · Post by **amoebe** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:35 pm

Thank you. I'll start asap (but not tonight).

reason.fan · Post by **reason.fan** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:43 pm

Yeah, please Amoebe, make a skin.
Your eXT skin is my favorite one !
Cheers
Eric

amoebe · Post by **amoebe** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:52 pm

Not quite like eXT but what can I say:

Anyone care to comment on this small part?

epytryga · Post by **epytryga** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 3:25 pm

The Blue text against the cream color background is very easy to read...especailly for an ol' guy like me

Big Tick · Post by **Big Tick** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 4:05 pm

Looking beautiful - but obviously you haven't put your key file in the proper location

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amoebe · Post by **amoebe** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 6:59 pm

but obviously you haven't put your key file in the proper location

This is a beautiful synth you have here, but I got too many vsti's already. Unless, of course, I need to own it before I can skin it. (In that case I'll stop skinning).

MickGael · Post by **MickGael** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:09 pm

Amoebe,
Your skins are some of the best I have ever seen - I would be VERY interested in seeing what you would come up with for Rhino...

Big Tick · Post by **Big Tick** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 9:48 pm

amoebe wrote:This is a beautiful synth you have here, but I got too many vsti's already. Unless, of course, I need to own it before I can skin it. (In that case I'll stop skinning).

Nope. You can keep skinning

Again, if you feel creative and wanna use knobs instead of sliders, I'll be pleased to help. I've written a paintshop script that makes is soooo easy to draw rotating knobs, this won't be a pain any more...

'Tick

amoebe · Post by **amoebe** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 9:49 pm

Well, nobody seems to objects to yellow and purple, so I'll continue skinning the beast.

Big Tick · Post by **Big Tick** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 9:52 pm

Right. If you wanna change fonts, I'd recommend to use Xymantix's QCD Font Maker to automatically generate the font bitmap.

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reason.fan · Post by **reason.fan** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 10:46 pm

Hye All.

Here is a skin i'm finishing...
let me know if you're interested with it.
For the moment, i've kept the fonts and the button pages at the top.
I've just reorganized several things, expecially in the fx page.

the bank screen:

Big Tick · Post by **Big Tick** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 10:53 pm

Yes ! That's very, very easy on the eyes...
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