How do you make bootskin?????

#8 by Admin Jafo - 11/20/2003 6:27:27 PM
Take one 640x480 image....

Reduce it to 4bit 16 colours....

Copy an existing ini file....

edit it in notepad to have the nnew image name....

New author details....

Zip them....

rename 'zip' extension to 'bootskin'....

Done.

Progress bar needs one more image....same 16 colour palette, and a location in the ini for where it is and how wide it progresses.


...now send Jafo a dollar

Wow!...Deja Vu...

/me will soon be richer than Mister Gates...

Jafo

There was a tutorial posted in the news section today. Go to the home page and you will see it.

"Not to say the what Jafo said was not correct, it was"

There was a tutorial posted in the news section today. Go to the home page and you will see it.

...not any more.........

What happened to it?


Looking


Looked, what the heck, where did it go?
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It was UzEE

Or one of his fans

Hint:...'only shows up at our doorstep on weekends'

Oh gezzzzzzzzz. Well, I did not even notice. I need to pay better attention.

I was watching for ya...knew you were busy polishing up that new title

yrag. Was there a virus in the links though. I do not remember what I looked at this morning?

I do not remember what I looked at this morning?

I have mornings like that everyday

There was nothing in it I could find, but then who knows!!

thanks yrag.

After I saw the tutorial and the screenshot of UzEE's skin. I just knew that tutorial wasnt gonna last long.
I'll stick to Jafo's.... even if I have to shell $1.00 >

(posting this here so bootskin creators can use it ^^)

Don't think this has been posted yet, so please disregard if it has. ^^

The "corrupt file" problem is, I think, pretty simple to fix and prevent. When you create a bootscreen, don't put the needed files in other folders within the zip file. The needed files (the .bmp and so on) need to be in the top level of the zip/bootskin file!! This has worked for me on the six or seven skins I tried.

If you are downloading a bootscreen and get this problem, simply rename the folder to a .zip file, then extract the files as people have posted before. Creating a one-leveled folder with only the needed files in it is what you need to do.

I hope this helps!!

www.shelikesit.net

Bump...this still applies for those still 'lost'...

Copy an existing ini file....

What is an ini file? Sorry, I'm new to this whole make it yourself kind of thing...

This is an example of an .ini file

[BootSkin]
Type=0
Name = "Name Of The Skin Here"
Author = "Your Name Here"
Description = "Brief Description Of The Skin Here (Optional)"
ProgressBar=progress.bmp
ProgressBarX = 228 <--How many pixels from the top will the progress bar be.
ProgressBarY = 441 <--How many pixels from the left will the progress bar be.
ProgressBarWidth = 194 <--How many pixels the progress bar will travel
Screen=Image Name Here.bmp <--Put the name of the image you are using as background. Make sure the spelling is the same.

BootSkin] Type=0 Name = "Name Of The Skin Here" Author = "Your Name Here" Description = "Brief Description Of The Skin Here (Optional)" ProgressBar=progress.bmp ProgressBarX = 228 <--How many pixels from the top will the progress bar be. ProgressBarY = 441 <--How many pixels from the left will the progress bar be. ProgressBarWidth = 194 <--How many pixels the progress bar will travel Screen=Image Name Here.bmp <--Put the name of the image you are using as background. Make sure the spelling is the same.

Thanks for the help but there is another problem now. I did all that and now when I try to run the bootskin file, an error pops up that says: "There was an error importing the skin file. Possible causes are a corrupted skin file or a read-only directory." Why is this? I need help fixing this problem.

Are you getting that error with every skin or just the one you are trying to create?
If you are getting the error with the skin you are trying to create it might be one of the following:

- The images color palette are different from one another. (make sure each image uses the same 16 colors as the others)
- The images bits might be different. (make sure all images are saved on 4 bits)
- The images name might be spelled different on the .uni file (make sure they are spelled correctly. If the progress bar image is named progress, make sure the uni file is also named progress Same with the Screen image.
- On the .uni file make sure that the name of the skin, your name and the description (if any) are all between the quotes ""
- Leave no spaces after the equal sign [=] on the ProgressBar and Screen line on the .uni file

I hope this helps

I'll be making a complete tutorial with lots and lots of explanation during holidays. Patience is the key word here...just for a glimpse: Tutorial will included how to make a non-black backround progress bar and maybe how to create something like the Win95 animation,still working on that,but the darn system keeps crashing...

Anyone knows whether Bootskin doesn't accept negative x-axis values? Also how long can the progress bar be?

I must ask one question now. I figured out one major problem. My notepad document is alone a text document. All the other BootSkins are Configuration Settings instead of text documents. How do I change my text document file to a Configuration Settings file?

 Citizen Sephiroth II ...if you saved your config file as a 'txt'....just rename the suffix to 'ini'.

Both are text format...

After you write the code lines on your notepad click File>Save As..
On File Name replace *.txt with Name Of Bootskin.ini
Then click Save and walah! now you have a configuration file

Ah, Jafo beat me again