New WC Gallery: WindowBlinds Textures

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We will have a new gallery addition soon for WindowBlinds Textures.  As you might know, WindowBlinds has a cool feature to allow textures to be added to skins letting you customize them even further.  With this gallery you will be able to upload textures to share with the community.

The gallery will accept both .wba and .zip files.  WindowBlinds files (.wba) are capable of installing textures and is the easier method.

If you have a texture to share you can zip the .texture file and .tga file from the textures folder, and then rename the .zip to a .wba and then upload to WC.

Also remember that textures, like just about everything else, should be your own creation.

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Great idea! 5* :thumbsup:  

Can the same be done for explorer backgrounds?

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

A new Gallery is something to celebrate! Bust out the bubbly!

Excellent idea about explorer backgrounds there, Wiz!

WindowBlinds - Free yourself of the default settings, customize your desktop.
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Wizard1956, reply 1
Great idea!  

Can the same be done for explorer backgrounds?
End of Wizard1956's quote

I seem to recall (it was a while ago that I implemented it), but all textures also show in the explorer backgrounds section.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Awesome!!!!!!   Stardock rocks!!!  :beer:

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

What size would these files be, and would you need to create them using SkinStudio? For instance--could I make a 512 X 200 .bmp into a zip, and that would be sufficient?

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Here is a tutorial.

http://islanddog.impulsedriven.net/article/367264/Creating_and_Using_Textures_in_WindowBlinds_7

 

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

This is cool.  I have a ton of textures.

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thanks for the link, I.D.

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Gallery is up!

https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds_textures

If you run into any problems with it, or have questions please use this thread so I can keep track of them.  :)

 

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Hmmm...... just checked, and it seems to have made 2 entries into the gallery! No idea why, I only uploaded it once and it went without a hitch.

I think it may need checking out by your net hamsters, or coding pigeons or whatever you call them...... :)

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Really cool idea!

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I really like the auto install. No fishing around for the right folder to drop them into. Great Job, SD!

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting BoXXi, reply 12
Hmmm...... just checked, and it seems to have made 2 entries into the gallery! No idea why, I only uploaded it once and it went without a hitch.

I think it may need checking out by your net hamsters, or coding pigeons or whatever you call them......
End of BoXXi's quote

I let them know.  Thanks.  :)