BLP is a custom format that Bliz uses for their graphics and to the best of my knowledge there's no plugin for Photoshop that supports it directly. There's a nice program called "WoWImage" that I use to convert BLP to PNG and PNG to BLP... pick up a copy of that, then you can create your dashboard in PNG format with Photoshop and convert it to BLP for use in WoW.
To make a skin for nUI, your dashboard needs to be 2056x512 in size broken up into five pieces that are all 512x512. It's a quirk of WoW and the BLP format that all images have to have dimensions that are powers of two and the maximum size of any image is 512x512.
You should be able to copy the dragon skin plugin, rename it to something else for your own skin and replace the dragon skin textures (the BLP files) with your own. Pick up a copy of "WoW UIDesigner" from this site to edit the TOC and LUA files to change the names to your own file names and you'll be good to go. When you're done, you're welcome to upload your new dashboard skin to the optional files section for nUI at
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...=9108#optional so others can enjoy it as well.
Originally Posted by Aztarte
Best d  mn UI i've ever used and seen. Wonderful work there you've done Scott.
i gots a little question tough;
((havent checked trough ALL the 140 pages so im sorry if im repeating an old question))
it's like this... i totaly love you dashboard and the diffrent available skins for it, like the dragon_nui dasshboard for example. But... Is it possible for me to make an own unique skin for myself? (dashboard skin). If it is... would you care to explain what manner of program(s) i need to use? Tried to open up the files that contains in (for example) nUI_Dragon folder (some .blp files and whutnut) wit hPhotoshop... but no luck :P .
The thing is that i'd realy like to have an own custom made skin... if it is possible to make one that is.
well, thx in advance. ANd keep up the grand work 
/Aztarte |