Metal Mutant Winamp Skin V1.2By Richard Gray (Warlock of Unseen Menace)E-mail: info-is@in-fileJust a little doc to tell you about my Winamp skin and some useful
Metal Mutant Winamp Skin V1.2
By Richard Gray (Warlock of Unseen Menace)
E-mail: info-is@in-file
Just a little doc to tell you about my Winamp skin and some useful info for others who want to make their own.
About My Skin
I have downloaded many winamp skins and found that most only change the main panel, graphic equalizer and playlist. Some don't even go as far as that and I have hardly found any that change the mini browser graphics. This one does all four as well as all the different mouse pointers and uses the [Equalizer] option in "Region.txt".
My skin was designed using Degas Elite on the Atari ST, as a result of which it only uses 16 colours. One useful side effect of this is that the whole thing is less than 200Kbytes in size even though it contains the whole graphics set. The final touches, mostly just pasting everything into the right place, were done with Paint Shop Pro and Microangelo was used to edit the mouse pointers. The spectrum analyser on my skin only really looks right in normal mode with thick bands because every other colour is black to give a proper L.E.D. look.
Useful Info
Images
Balance.bmp Main - Balance control
Cbuttons.bmp Main - Back, Play, Pause, Stop, Forward and Eject buttons
Eq_ex.bmp Equalizer - Winshade/Rollup
Eqmain Equalizer - All other graphics
Main.bmp Main window
Mb.bmp Mini browser
Monoster.bmp Main - Mono and Stereo indicators
Nums_ex.bmp Main - Numbers for time display
Playpaus.bmp Main - Play, Pause and Stop indicators
Pledit.bmp Playlist editor
Posbar.bmp Main - Song position indicator
Shufrep.bmp Main - Shuffle, Repeat, Equalizer and Playlist buttons
Text.bmp Main - Font for song title, playback frequency and time on playlist
Titlebar.bmp Main - Titlebar, winshade/rollup and Clutter Bar buttons
Volume.bmp Main - Volume control
Mouse pointers
Close.cur Main - Close
Eqclose.cur Equalizer - Close
Eqnormal.cur Equalizer - Normal
Eqslid.cur Equalizer - Sliders
Eqtitle.cur Equalizer - Titlebar
Mainmenu.cur Main - Menu button (top left)
Min.cur Main - Minimize
Mmenu.cur Main Winshade - Menu button
Normal.cur Main - Normal
Pclose.cur Playlist - Close
Pnormal.cur Playlist - Normal
Posbar.cur Main - Song position
Psize.cur Playlist - Resize
Ptbar.cur Playlist - Titlebar
Pvscroll.cur Playlist - Scrollbar
Pwinbut.cur Playlist - Winshade button
Pwsnorm.cur Playlist Winshade - Normal
Pwssize.cur Playlist Winshade - Resize
Songname.cur Main - Songname
Titlebar.cur Main - Titlebar
Volbal.cur Main - Volume and balance
Winbut.cur Main - Winshade button
Wsnormal.cur Main Winshade - Normal
Wsposbar.cur Main Winshade - Song position
Text files
Pledit.txt Playlist - Text colours and font
Colours are in hexadecimal (#RRGGBB, HTML style)
Region.txt Main and Equalizer - Defines visible regions
[Normal] is for main window
[Equalizer] should be obvious
NumPoints is a list of numbers of points in each polygon
PointList is a list of co-ordinates for all polygons (limits are 0,0 to 275,116)
Viscolour.txt Main - Colours for spectrum analyser and osciliscope
Colours are in decimal (R,G,B, - 0-255)
make shift rerun (winamp skin)
skin design, layout and artwork property of joe psota: info-is@in-file..
other skins include makeshift, opalescent, the creation series and a series of smashing pumpkins
skins found at :
www.redrival.com/plague
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