Probably the best one is Andrew Mackowski's “Vis Toolkit.exe”. There are programs that make this process quicker, allow you to create your own gradients in seconds, and let you see what your vis will look like as you create it. There is no good reason to make the viscolor.txt manually (ie.
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It can be useful to have your current skin-in-progress as your ”default“ skin so that you can always have quick access to it. At anytime, while using winamp, you can access this “default” skin by pressing backspace. Another good feature of this plugin is that you can use it to assign any skin you like to be your “default” skin. Unfortunately, it seems that Nullsoft never thought to include this in Winamp, but now there is a third-party plugin which allows you to do this. You can get Winzip at Return to main indexīeing able to delete skins straight from within Winamp is definitely a good thing when it comes to managing your skins easily.
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On most versions of Windows, if you have a recent version of WinZip installed, you can easily access the files inside a wsz by right-clicking it (or shift-right-clicking it, on some systems) and choosing “Winzip”/“Open with…” This way, there is no need to rename to zip and back again every time you want to edit a skin or look at one of the files inside it. You only need to bother with zipping the files and renaming to wsz once you have finished.
To check how new changes appear on winamp, have the skin loaded (this folder will now be listed by its name as a normal skin – in this case, it will be a skin called “myskin”) and press F5 to refresh the skin. Put all the files (bmp, txt etc.) in there and edit them from that location. For example, if your skin is called “myskin” create a folder in your skins directory called C:\program files\winamp\skins\myskin. Using a folder is easily the best way to work on your skin. Winamp reads skins in three formats: wsz, zip and Folders.
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Download “Skinner's Atlas”, unzip it, and read the readme.txt: If you want to really understand every part of the skinning engine inside out, this is for you. The readme.txt in Skinner's Atlas contains a wealth of information, and goes through each bmp describing in detail what every part does. Remember: hitting shift+click (or, on some systems, right-click & “Open in New Window”) opens up the links in a new window, and lets you keep reading this. It is recommended that when you begin to design your skin, you use the skeletons.bmp or skeletons2.bmp (more info in the “Skinner's Atlas” readme). It was based on cyana's very good “Template Amp”, though it has several very worthwhile improvements. The most thoroughly designed and helpful template, in my opinion, is Jellby's “Skinner's Atlas”. Getting past the MAIN windowshade shared-pixel line bugĪ template is a skin which is specifically designed to be used as a ‘blank canvas’ to build your skin on.Cropping the volume.bmp and balance.bmp.Making duplicates of the cursors the easy way.volbar.cur, wswinbut.cur, wsclose.cur & wsmin.cur.The Balance Easter Egg / Animating the balance.bmp.Changing the colour of the Minibrowser text.They are first listed in point form, and the descriptions of all of them are in the next section, with links to real skins as examples.
You'll most likely know some or many of these things, but I bet you won't have known all of them. So, you think you're a pretty experienced Winamp2 skinner, eh? Think you know all there is about skinning it? Well, I bet you don't!īelow is a list of tips and tricks ranging from the often-but-not-always-known to the downright obscure. This is not a tutorial – it assumes that you already have at least some idea about skinning Winamp Classic. This was written by ¤db¤, although much of this info was learned and collated from the collective skinning wisdom of the “Skin-love” forum members. WINAMP CLASSIC SKINNING – TIPS AND TRICKS
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