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12-10-09, 06:14 PM   #1
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Creating new Art . Skins for nUI

I have looked the forum over and found some posts on making new skins. Question I have is..Do you need a good image editing software like Photoshop or Corel Draw to accomplish this or will any image editor suffice? I am not into the fancy artwork that most like to see or use. Plain and simple black works for me. After trying various skins I am stuck on Spiels nUI Gloss Black skin. The skin allows to see the icons much more clearly and its easier on my eyes.

I like to make some modifications to that skin if allowed but without the software, not sure if that is possible...

If you have any suggestions, let me know.

Thanks in advance!
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12-10-09, 06:18 PM   #2
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Any graphics editor that supports transpaency and PNG file format so you can convert them to BLP for WoW will work.

I recommend GIMP.
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12-11-09, 02:27 AM   #3
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Mission accomplished with a glitch

Was able to make modifications to skin I was using, but I have two problems.
1- The top console part that is movable I placed on the new skin layout as shown. (See Pic1)
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Then I close the Top Console and both skin and bar disappear. (See Pic2)
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Ii guess what i need to do is remove the top skin part but have no clue how to do that.

2- The other issue I have encountered is when I log into game the all the bottom bars are gone including the map and I am left with a blank skin. I reload nui and they all pop back. (This only happened with the modified skin)

The file I modified is the spiel glossy black skin, in essence I extended the tabs and recolored to black. (Oh, God! I feel a lawsuit is a comin)

If I have to modify any file other than the actual skin images please let me know. PLEASE, if this is to much of a big deal I will just revert to the original spiel file and live with it...Its not the end of the world...oops 2012 is just around the corner.
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12-11-09, 04:13 AM   #4
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Hmm, not sure why it is not sticking with your changes. I can't see anything you did missing what I did, more the other way round.

I used one of the art packs I liked and then used /nui movers to move the buttons around. Lastly I edited the layout file to make my main action bar bigger.

If it is resetting all the changes you did with like /nui movers once you log back in the problem may actually be related to the problem people have reported about settings not being saved.
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12-11-09, 09:26 AM   #5
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First... the reason why the micro-menu and all disappear when you hide the upper console is that they are tied to that console. Even if you move them to where they are positioned over the dashboard, they are still children of the overhead console. So... when you hide it, you hide them.

You can get around this by making a 512x512 transparent texture and using that texture for all five blocks of the upper console. That way you don't have to hide it... so you have no upper console that is visible but the micro-menu and all is not hidden.

As for the problem when you log in, it sounds to me like there's a load error occurring. You might want to install BugSack or Swatter and see if either of them logs any error messages. If they do, you can post the results here and we can try to sort out what the problem is.
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12-11-09, 09:48 AM   #6
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D'oh forgot all about that part Scott rofl. Of course the skin I use has no upper panel rofl.
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12-11-09, 10:02 AM   #7
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~grinz~

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12-11-09, 08:31 PM   #8
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Thank you all for the help... all fixed and so far no glitches or loading problems.
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01-02-10, 12:34 PM   #9
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After the patch

After the last patch I have been getting glitches... Basically a blank panel with no ui elements what so ever... It happens frequently when I log out and back in with another toon but simple reload fixes it. Do I have to update something in the art work? If so can someone tell me what I need to do. BTW I would share this skin if anyone was interested but have no clue on how to upload it. Anyway, Thanks! in advance for the help.
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01-02-10, 12:41 PM   #10
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Thats a bug I have been getting on one or two of my toons but pretty much due to starting the toon with absolutely no data so nUI has problems initiating some things. He rigged up a quick fix for me to test and it did improve things with only 1 toon now getting it happen for one reason or another.

Of course I can't find the post with the link to the file rofl.
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