Steam skins

Im sorry that i didnt add any pics but it would be hard since i would have to ask Munro or some admin about hosting the pics and otherwise i would have to add them as attachments and that wouldnt be so good since i dont have any site to host them on, but i might try to fix one.
 
Originally posted by |\/|oDdiC(_)$
this is confuusing, im trying to make my own skin, but find it really hard, but i already have the pic for the front ready that i made myself on photoshop. Anyone know of any good tutorials? (no ofense, but the tutorial here is really hard to follow without some pics).
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try http://steamskinners.jbdubbs.com , you got tutorials and help forum.

btw, its down atm :/
 
Originally posted by Login_Here
Im sorry that i didnt add any pics but it would be hard since i would have to ask Munro or some admin about hosting the pics and otherwise i would have to add them as attachments and that wouldnt be so good since i dont have any site to host them on, but i might try to fix one.
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well i understand, but heres some free hosting :) but make sure to keep the files nrmal size :D



http://theforumisdown.com/upload/upload.php
 
but my skins also never turn out to be great, guess im putting down to little work...

Thats one of the reasons to why i havent even tried to host pics...
 
Depends on how you do;
If you are editing the SteamRootDialog change the xpos and ypos.
If you are pressing Ctrl+Shift+Alt+B to get the Steam Editor just move them around.
 
oooh, steam has an editor? lol sorry for my ignorance, im new to this :) thanks mr super admin man :D
 
now, as to the colors, do you just have to guess what colors what? i know how to use the colors (i get the #'s from photoshop) , but im not sure what it colors for what part of the steam program (like i got no clue what colors the text, background for text, etc.) A little more help please :)
 
If you look at the 'TrackerScheme.res' file you will see that there is some text that begins with //... and that means that the program using the file shall not read that line of text and behind the //... there is a description, for example:

// base colors
"BaseText" "195 195 195 255" // used in text windows, lists

I marked the info with yellow.
 
oooh, thanks, so right now i just have to mess around with those :) wish me luck, im gonna try to make a skin now :) thanks again.
 
one more thing, when i use the steam editor, it wont let me save,, it sais something about a read only file. Any ideas??
 
Hmm, look at all the files and see if they are read-only, if they are change it, and after you have fixed what you want change it back just to be sure that it doesnt mess up Steam.
 
You cannot save this. It's only a read-file for all them. The menu is more like a reference than anything. All you do is look at that menu and when you're done, copy what you see in that menu into the file manually. Then it will work.
 
yeah, now where do i copy the editors numbers down to? i know what fine, jsut WHERE in the file......also, no matter what, it goes back to being read only, so i cant save it... help!
 
Ok, lets say you want a button that opens the games menu (even though there is one im just making an example), first you should copy the /Steam/steam/cached/SteamRootDialog.res to /Steam/skins/yourskinname/steam/cached
and then open the SteamRootDialog.res in notepad and then it should look like this:

"Steam/Cached/SteamRootDialog.res"
{
"SteamRootDialog"
{
"ControlName" "Frame"
"fieldName" "SteamRootDialog"
"xpos" "452"
"ypos" "348"
"wide" "376"
"tall" "300"
"autoResize" "0"
"pinCorner" "0"
"visible" "1"
"enabled" "1"
"tabPosition" "0"
"settitlebarvisible" "1"
}
"Button1"
{
"ControlName" "Button"
"fieldName" "Button1"
"xpos" "24"
"ypos" "48"
"wide" "80"
"tall" "24"
"autoResize" "0"
"pinCorner" "0"
"visible" "1"
"enabled" "1"
"tabPosition" "2"
"labelText" "#SteamRootGames"
"textAlignment" "west"
"dulltext" "0"
"brighttext" "0"
"Command" "Open:Games"
"Default" "0"
}

The yellow text is what you should have added, the xpos and ypos is the same spot as the original is, i just used it as an example.
I hope it works...
 
Originally posted by FriScho
Thank you very much OCybrManO. Nice work! One little complain, can you check the Monitor Screen? Seems the dark orange is used twice for background and graph...
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Sorry, I didn't have anything to download to test the graph... it should work now.
 
nice skin, but i have seen anyone yet alter the way steam looks (as in the form and buttons) im trying but finding it difficult :)
 
Buttons can't be invisible (or any other part of Steam... so you can't paint the button onto the background and put an invisible button on top of it)... and the windows can't be any shape other than a rectangle... so there isn't much else I can do other than the kind of things I have already been doing.
 
how would i go about throwing out buttons and banners like close, monitor, andthe tags that come along with those? (like for games, find a game and play!)
 
Just completely remove them from the SteamRootDialog.res file under "YourSkinFolder\Steam\cached"
 
Nice try... but a little late, and the title bar is screwed up.

I posted a picture of my version of that skin on page 5, the first download of it on page 6, and the updated version (fixed color scheme problems with monitor window) on page 7.
 
Yeah i saw your skinand tried it out, but for some odd reason it didn't work for me... like the buttons didn't work and th pictures didn't show up in the background

BTW, this was after I had already finished my skin :/

And i know the titlebar on mine is screwed up on mine, but i really did mine on an impulse and was too lazy to patch it up...

But from what I saw of your skin, it seems a bit more refined than mine :LOL:
 
....

scince i cant edit the last post ill make new reply...... ok i now got photo studio but the .res files???
 
This is four years old, the majority of these guys don't even come here anymore.
 
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