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[Antiriad]

Hi, im wondering whether J-Red might consider re-doing his WinSTon skin along the lines of his recent work (WinUAEx, blueMSXbox, Arnoldx, x68000x etc) - its just that whilst its current skin is cool looking in its own right it isnt particularly evocative of the Atari ST.

I did my own along those lines, but Id prefer to see what J-Red would do.

[XPort]

That's up to J-Red. He's a busy man.

[Thraxen]

You may have seen Koitsu's post in this thread:
XPort UI Thread

But I thought I would go ahead and post the information here since this is the official skinng thread. Koitsu has created 3 very nice skins for the Xport emulators. AllXBoxSkins used to have a cap on how big a skin could be, but I'm not sure if they still have that not. Either way, this quote is from Koitsu in the other thread:

[Thraxen]

I used the XBox Image Grabber program to take actual screen shots of Koitsu's skins running. You can see them here: Emulator Skins

[Koitsu]

good lookin out. any updates might be pretty slow in the making. i have another LoM skin (it's one of my favorite games), but i've been running out of allocated memory with my last skins. i want to release the earthbound skin, but i'll have to remove a car sprite to make room. well, sometime this week.

[gerner]

A question/ request about screenshot grabbing:

I really like the mameoX setup where you can dump a load of screenshots in one directory and have each game use that .

How about a scan of an individual folder for screenshots - as well as all the seperate folders for each game - so that we could use eye-candy collections from e.g screenshotarchive.com.

[Thraxen]

I've got a question about skinning... I'm attempting to make my own skin for PCSXBox but I'm not sure what all the lines in the ini file mean. For example:

[GAME_SELECT_MENU_bkg]
bkg=SELECTBKG.PNG
transparency=255
border_width=25
screenshot_x=453
screenshot_y=238
screenshot_w=120
screenshot_h=101
screenshot_transparency=255
animation_delay=0

[MAIN_MENU_effect1]
effect=1
offsetx=171
offsety=191
lengthx=7
lengthy=100
multiplierx=17
multipliery=7
multiplier_general=37
framespeed=10
numsprites=0
spritenum=-1
movespeed=2992
transparency=255
size=18
flip_horiz=0
flip_vert=0

What do the "screenshot_x" (_y, _w, _h) lines mean? I mean, I know what those variables are, but how do they affect a background image? I would guess that X and Y might define placement, but what about W and H? My first guess would be they define the size, but they don't seem to because those setting were being applied to a 640x480 image and it took up the whole screen... so it was certainly larger than 120x101.

Then in the second section, what do any of those settings apply to?

[guybird]

I would believe as you said that X & Y are the placement values and W & H represent Width & Height. At first I would be skeptical like you that such a small number wouldn't make for a fullscreen image, but after my dealings with modifying the sizes on the fly on my tv, I know that in the lower resolutions (480i/p) that it probably wouldn't have to be very big at all to be full screen. My reasoning for that is when I switch to 1080i, my screen size only takes up a tiny portion in the upper left corner. Once I finish stretching it to fill my screen, the numbers end up as something like 2,000 X 1,100 or something. At first I thought it should resemble something closer to 1,084 by 768, but I'm assuming that the screen size #'s might not neccesarily represent a true resolution. With that being said, my 2,000 X 1,100 size at 1080i is about 10x bigger than my normal 480p settings, so according to that my normal size is 200 x 110. Go figure.

[ElGatoAzul]

Hello.
I'm trying to make a skin for neogenesis (in fact i already made it). The skining engine is very powerful but i found several limitations/bugs/sugestions:

*Screenshoot position/size in "All Other menu" doesnt' works, it appears always at the default position/size.
*An option to adjust the size/position for "Popup menu" background will be very appreciated.
*Sprites doesn't appear in popup menu. (i konw it is only a popup but...... )
*An option to save settings.ini when you change the skin configuration with the emu gui will be very appreciated.
*Backgrounds (640x480) appears cropped in my tv. I resized the image and it suits perfect but i don't know how it will appear in other televisions.

Any help/comment will be very apreciated. Thanks in advance.

Excuse me if i seem rude, my english is very limitated