New Skin 'Chameleon' Kinda ;) (1 Viewer)

[bigj]

Not a real skin, but another BlueTwo variant (hats off to those people working on real skins).

'Chameleon' is a script based mod to BlueTwo.
Since I like to follow SVNs quite closely and BlueTwo is the only skin guaranteed to work then I wanted some way of autogenerating skins from current live sources.

Download
http://www.topflat.charitydays.co.uk/mp/skin/Chameleon.zip

to your skin folder.

Install ImageMagick
ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/binaries/ImageMagick-6.2.8-0-Q16-windows-static.exe

Then run one of the Make.bat files:

Sunset
http://www.topflat.charitydays.co.uk/mp/skin/Chameleon/Make_Sunset/preview.png

MetalDark (script generated version of existing skin)
http://www.topflat.charitydays.co.uk/mp/skin/Chameleon/Make_MetalDark/preview.png

Hopefully its easy to see how this works, and would be nice to see some other (better) variants

BigJ.

 

[Efros]

Interesting, does this affect any of the xml files or does it only attack the graphics files? One of my probs with switching skins is that I have tweaked the fonts.xml and a few others to my liking.

 

[bigj]

> Interesting, does this affect any of the xml files or does it only attack the graphics files?

Only affects graphics currently.
But the idea could extend to xml, would need perl or somesuch tool to find & mod specific lines.

e.g. Might change hover position/size in xml, then allow user provided hover images.
e.g. Change position of the home screen menu.
e.g. - as you say - change font size.
etc
etc

The options are endless. The key thing is that *only the script needs maintaining* then it's possible to generate endless variations for 'free'.

Currently I've hardcoded inputs for a single variant - MAKE_SUNSET.BAT,
but I intended to allow for varying inputs.

i.e. all the inputs - the SET= lines at the top - should exist in a separate file. Then MAKE_SUNSET.BAT is the single fixed script and people can create variants by just creating new input files like this:

BOBS_SKIN.BAT
REM SET INPUTS
SET BACKGROUND_COLOUR=.....
SET ....
REM GENERATE SKIN
CALL MAKE_SUNSET.BAT

 

[Efros]

Couldn't get it to work until I set the path to tthe imagemagick directory and executed make.bat from the make_ subdirectory. very impressive. Need to look at this more closely I think

Seems to clear the TV guide though.

Strike that comment my computer suddenly decided it was 2005!!!!!

I like the fact it doesn't mess with xmls, have generated sunset and the black skin and saved them to new skin directories.

 

[Efros]

Messed around with your stuf and got these

 

[NLS]

this thing has potential - even to be included in the core...

 

[Efros]

Yup I agree!

I particularly like this one

 

[Bram]

It would be great if we were able to set a background for BlueTwo (and other compatible skins) from the My Pictures section. Thrue the context menu for example.

 

[NLS]

possibilities are endless for 0.3

 

[Efros]

Some more

seriously takes about 10 minutes each.

If you're not too proud (like me) or limited artistically (like me) you can use the wonderfully artistic contributions from http://www.deviantart.com/ with the chameleon script.