WinBolo Skin format for 1.14

WinBolo version 1.14 will allow players to "skin" their copy of WinBolo. Skinning can change the game sounds, graphics and background. Additionally a higher resolution skin file can be used for window that are double sized.

WinBolo skin files are named either .wsf or .zip. They are ordinary zip files containing a set of files. None of the files are required and when not provided the default skin is used from WinBolo.

The filenames of the skin files inside the zip file are:

skin.bmp - A Windows bitmap file containing the graphics to display ingame.
skin32.bmp - A higher resolution file containing the graphics to display. This is the same as skin.bmp only it has been double sized so each graphic image is 32x32 not 16x16. Also not that 32x32 graphics are not scaled down nor up for any other window sizes.
screen.bmp - A Windows bitmap file containing the background file.

A set of sound files to play (the file names are the same as the sound packs)
tank_sink_near.wav - A tank sinking nearby.
tank_shoot_self.wav - Your tank shooting.
tank_shoot_near.wav - A tank shooting nearby.
tank_shoot_far.wav - A tank shooting far away.
explosion_far.wav - An explosion far away.
explosion_near.wav - An explosion nearby.
bubbles.wav - The sound your tank makes when in water and losing shells/mines.
farm_near.wav - A builder farming trees nearby.
farm_far.wav - A builder farming trees far away.
tank_hit_far.wav - A tank hit far away.
tank_hit_near.wav - A tank hit nearby.
tank_hit_self.wav - Your tank hit.
build_far.wav - A builder building far away
build_near.wav - A builder building nearby.
man_dying_far.wav - A builder dying far away.
man_dying_near.wav - A builder dying nearby.
mine_near.wav - A mine being layed nearby.
mine_explosion_far.wav - A mine exploding far away.
mine_explosion_near.wav - A mine exploding nearby.
shoot_wall_far.wav - A building being shot far away.
shoot_wall_near.wav - A building being shot nearby.
shoot_tree_far.wav - A tree being shot far away.

and finally:
skin.ini - A information file about the skin

The ini file should be in the format of:

[Skin]
Name=Your skin name
Author=Your name
Notes=Your notes.

I look forward to reading about your skins in the addon's section!

Additionally you can get a zip file containing the default skin to base your skins off from:
http://www.winbolo.net/default-skin.zip

Excellent, here is the first skin I made packaged up using the details you provided.

http://www.cablelan.net/924/boloskins/greyWinbolo-skin.zip

I challenge anyone to make something better. If elvis wants to include this with 1.14 when he releases it, he has my permission.

Min

p.s. You don't have a screen32.bmp does this mean the screen can't be doublesize res?

Yo

Nice skin min

(ima poet and i didnt even know it)

But i dont see what i need to change i know it has to do with the screen.ini but what do i change




-DD

Nice skin Min.

There are one problem with it that prevents it working. Skins must be present in the zip file without a path. Also your zip file archive shrinks from 90k down to 13k if you remove the thumbnail file that is not used by WinBolo.

Your correct. There is no screen32.bmp. The screen.bmp file gets scaled up.

What do i change :?

DarkDwarf wrote:

Yo

Nice skin min

(ima poet and i didnt even know it)

But i dont see what i need to change i know it has to do with the screen.ini but what do i change




-DD

Skins work in version 1.14.

Ya i know,


im not dumb

but what do i change to personalize my skin

DarkDwarf wrote:

but what do i change to personalize my skin

Change as much or as little as you want to.

But the 3 files that have to be included are:

screen.bmp - edit this if you want to change the grey window of the winbolo
skin.bmp - change this if you want to change the tiles (trees, tanks grass, etc).
skin.ini - information about your skin

Unzip the files from the default skin zip that Elvis put up to see what the files look like.

All the other files are optional, so you don't have to include sounds if you don't want to, or the larger screen bmp. You can edit the bmp image files with a program like Photoshop, PaintShopPro, etc, (maybe even MS Paint - snicker).

But you won't be able to test your skin in action till Elvis releases 1.14!

ya,

But how do i edit them

DarkDwarf wrote:

ya,

But how do i edit them

I mention it in my post: "Photoshop, PaintShopPro, etc"

I use Photoshop, and used to use the free PaintShopPro, which they now charge for.

But you can find something on download.com or someone here can tell you a good free image editor to use.

WILL paint do

or


the
Print Shop
Photo Workshop

DarkDwarf wrote:

or
the
Print Shop
Photo Workshop

Maybe someone else has used these, but I have not. Any program that can edit bmp files will do. So if you have used these, try them out.

But I have used PaintShopPro and you can get a 30 day trial (and maybe you can reinstall for an extra 30 days)

Version 3.11 - old version and only 1.9mb
[url=ftp://ftp2.jasc.com/pub/psp311.exe]ftp://ftp2.jasc.com/pub/psp311.exe[/url]

Versoin 7.4 - latest one but 32mb, yikks
[url=ftp://ftp2.jasc.com/pub/psp704ev.exe]ftp://ftp2.jasc.com/pub/psp704ev.exe[/url]

Good luck.

Shizzle, thanx for the tips elvis.

Elvis wrote:

Nice skin Min.

There are one problem with it that prevents it working. Skins must be present in the zip file without a path. Also your zip file archive shrinks from 90k down to 13k if you remove the thumbnail file that is not used by WinBolo.

Your correct. There is no screen32.bmp. The screen.bmp file gets scaled up.

ok, its been modified, I overwrote the old one so the above link will work, but here it is again just in case, hopefully it will work properly now without modification.

http://www.cablelan.net/924/boloskins/greyWinbolo-skin.zip

stupid thumbnail ;)

Min

im making a skin but where do i put it when im done and min do ya mind if i copy off of your mesuring thing

Min how did u make that thing

Elvis wrote:

Additionally you can get a zip file containing the default skin to base your skins off from:
http://www.winbolo.net/default-skin.zip

dd, you take this and edit it.

i really wanted to add mins mesureing tool but he hasnt replied so here's my skin










i wanna make different color skins

WTF

The best place I have found to upload images for display would be uploadit.org

But this won't work for a zip, so I would suggest using putting the finalized skin one of the winbolo ftp sites.

So to start this off, I have created a skins directory on ftp.winbolo.us
[url=ftp://ftp.winbolo.us/skins/]ftp://ftp.winbolo.us/skins/[/url]

You can upload new skins into this directory
[url=ftp://ftp.winbolo.us/upload/]ftp://ftp.winbolo.us/upload/[/url]

Once 1.14 is released, I am sure there will be a place on wbn for linking to skins, which might be manual or automatic, tbd.

Hey Min,

i have an idea or two for the winbolo skins.

I cant upload them make or upload them

If you'll make them for me gimme your email adress

I have 1 requirment, that my name is included somewhere.



-DD



elvis your should make a skins file

That woul dbe cool if we could request a skin for those are are handi cap in pc stuff :roll:

I just added a default skin32.bmp to the [url=ftp://ftp.winbolo.us/skins/default-skin.zip]default-skin.zip [/url]since it makes more sense to create new skins in double size, then shrink it to normal (going the other way will reduce quality).

It is located:
[url=ftp://ftp.winbolo.us/skins/default-skin.zip]ftp://ftp.winbolo.us/skins/default-skin.zip[/url]