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3.9. Skinning
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3.9. Skinning
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3.9. Skinning
SMS allows basic 'skinning' of the player. Essentially, this means you can change the
backdrop wallpaper of the browser to be an image of your choice.
Note
The current support for skinning only allows you to change the
background image of the browser. It does not allow you to re-arrange
the layout of the controls on the screen.
3.9.1. Creating a Skin
The skin file is a DivX5xx/XviD encoded I-Frame, named mc0:/SMS/SMS.skn. A small
windows program (pic2sms.exe) has been written to allow you to create these files from
normal image files. You'll first of all need an image file to start from. In this example, I've used
a holiday photo (jpeg).
What you need to create is a bitmap file, with dimensions less than 800x600. If you want
some help finding out where the screen elements are in relation to this, you can download a
template file from here: http://www.ps2-scene.org/forums/attachment.php?
attachmentid=8751&d=1131850982. [Warning - changes from SMS V1.5 to V1.6 may not be
reflected in this template.] This is a Photoshop format (.psd) file, but if you haven't got
Photoshop you can open it up in the GIMP (free graphics editor) http://www.gimp.org/
. When
you've finished playing with how it looks, save the file as a single layer bitmap (.bmp) file into
an empty folder on your computer.
Next, download the SMS skin generator (Win32 App) pic2sms.exe from
http://home.casema.nl/eugene_plotnikov/
, and extract the pic2sms.exe file from the
pic2sms.rar file using WinRAR
. Copy it into the same folder on your computer. Then try
double clicking the file. If it opens up first time with no errors, everything's ok. If you see a
message saying 'cannot find xvidcore.dll', close the program, then download xvidcore.dll
from http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?xvidcore
or any other location (try google).
Copy the file xvidcore.dll into the same directory as pic2sms.exe. When you run the
program again, you should get no errors.