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> Applying Skins, Skins with backgrounds
Willyboy218
post Dec 17 2005, 04:11 AM
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Ok ive checked in many places but still am unsure on how to apply these skins, i followed the tutorial in the other thread but am still coming up with the black screen when the skin is highlighted. Can someone shed some light on what i have to do to make these skins work. huh.gif
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post Dec 17 2005, 09:55 AM
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say you download a skin like you have. More then likely it'll be in a rar or zip file.... Extract what ever is in it.
Now you should have a folder named what ever the rar/zip was named. In it you'll either have a folder or all of the files in the skin. If it's a folder look inside the folder for an .xbx file of the same exact name.
So say you have a folder named "Lohay Dose", you'd look for a file named "Lohay Dose.xbx"
Ok so what if it's not like that then huh?? then what do you do?????
If you unrar/unzip all of the files and the folder just has files in it without the subfolder. You should try to remember the name of the skin you downloaded. Look for an xbx of that name. BOOM you found it!! ok but say when the rar file got unrared the folder wasnt named what the .xbx was.... RENAME THE FOLDER.


Thoe whole thing comes down to having an xbx file named the same as the containing folder inside of your skins folder. So back to the "Lohay Dose" example.
If you were to look on your xbox via ftp/boxplorer/uix whatever... you'd see that the Lohay Dose.xbx would read as.
C:/user.interface.x.dash/skins/Lohay Dose/Lohay Dose.xbx
Thats if you had your UIX xbe located on the root of C:/

If you still dont get it have your dad read this and have him ftp the skin over.
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Willyboy218
post Dec 18 2005, 03:06 AM
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Thanks for the help it is working for me now. But you didn't have to be a jackass about it.
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If you still dont get it have your dad read this and have him ftp the skin over.

I think i can handle ftping stuff to my xbox
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post Dec 20 2005, 02:48 PM
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I think I'm more of a bastard then a jackass....
but glad to hear you got it going.
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post Dec 21 2005, 05:55 AM
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lol or a rambling fool tongue.gif

you could have just said check that its not in a subfolder and that the preset xbx and the folder have the same name.
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post Dec 22 2005, 02:13 AM
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im having the same problem and nothing seems to help, i have done all the above and still, the backgrounds wont show up.



would anybody mind in posting their xips or something?
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post Dec 22 2005, 06:00 AM
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Background are a different story.

If you can see the tabs and orb and stuff, its simple.

go into default.xip default.xap

find this line:
CODE
DEF theBackground Background


right below it there will be a line commented out
CODE
DEF theBackground Background
{
    skyColor 0 0 0
    //backdrop ImageTexture { url "xboxlogo.xbx" }   <--- THIS ONE
}


change it to:

CODE
DEF theBackground Background
{
    skyColor 0 0 0
    backdrop ImageTexture { url "background.xbx" }
}
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post Feb 14 2006, 02:55 PM
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I've changed the "xboxlogo.xbx" to "background.xbx" in default.xap and the backgrounds still don't show up. am i missing something?
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post Feb 14 2006, 09:43 PM
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did you get rid of the // in front of //backdrop ImageTexture { url "xboxlogo.xbx" } ?
did you delete your uix cache out of Udata and Tdata?
did you make sure the save and transfer actually worked by ftping the xip back to your pc and checking it for the changes?
UIX is a tricky beast. My advice would be to load another app that has ftp access and delete the uix cache and then ftp the saved xip over. UIX usually wont change a xip if it's being used.
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