Metal Mutant Winamp Skin V1.2
By Richard Gray (Warlock of Unseen Menace)
E-mail: unseenmenace@hotmail.com

Just a little doc to tell you about my Winamp skin and some useful info for others who want to make their own.


About My Skin

I have downloaded many winamp skins and found that most only change the main panel, graphic equalizer and playlist.  Some don't even go as far as that and I have hardly found any that change the mini browser graphics.  This one does all four as well as all the different mouse pointers and uses the [Equalizer] option in "Region.txt".

My skin was designed using Degas Elite on the Atari ST, as a result of which it only uses 16 colours.  One useful side effect of this is that the whole thing is less than 200Kbytes in size even though it contains the whole graphics set.  The final touches, mostly just pasting everything into the right place, were done with Paint Shop Pro and Microangelo was used to edit the mouse pointers.  The spectrum analyser on my skin only really looks right in normal mode with thick bands because every other colour is black to give a proper L.E.D. look.




Useful Info


Images

Balance.bmp	Main - Balance control
Cbuttons.bmp	Main - Back, Play, Pause, Stop, Forward and Eject buttons
Eq_ex.bmp	Equalizer - Winshade/Rollup
Eqmain		Equalizer - All other graphics
Main.bmp	Main window
Mb.bmp		Mini browser
Monoster.bmp	Main - Mono and Stereo indicators
Nums_ex.bmp	Main - Numbers for time display
Playpaus.bmp	Main - Play, Pause and Stop indicators
Pledit.bmp	Playlist editor
Posbar.bmp	Main - Song position indicator
Shufrep.bmp	Main - Shuffle, Repeat, Equalizer and Playlist buttons
Text.bmp	Main - Font for song title, playback frequency and time on playlist
Titlebar.bmp	Main - Titlebar, winshade/rollup and Clutter Bar buttons
Volume.bmp	Main - Volume control


Mouse pointers

Close.cur	Main - Close
Eqclose.cur	Equalizer - Close
Eqnormal.cur	Equalizer - Normal
Eqslid.cur	Equalizer - Sliders
Eqtitle.cur	Equalizer - Titlebar
Mainmenu.cur	Main - Menu button (top left)
Min.cur		Main - Minimize
Mmenu.cur	Main Winshade - Menu button
Normal.cur	Main - Normal
Pclose.cur	Playlist - Close
Pnormal.cur	Playlist - Normal
Posbar.cur	Main - Song position
Psize.cur	Playlist - Resize
Ptbar.cur	Playlist - Titlebar
Pvscroll.cur	Playlist - Scrollbar
Pwinbut.cur	Playlist - Winshade button
Pwsnorm.cur	Playlist Winshade - Normal
Pwssize.cur	Playlist Winshade - Resize
Songname.cur	Main - Songname
Titlebar.cur	Main - Titlebar
Volbal.cur	Main - Volume and balance
Winbut.cur	Main - Winshade button
Wsnormal.cur	Main Winshade - Normal
Wsposbar.cur	Main Winshade - Song position


Text files

Pledit.txt	Playlist - Text colours and font
			Colours are in hexadecimal (#RRGGBB, HTML style)

Region.txt	Main and Equalizer - Defines visible regions
			[Normal] is for main window
			[Equalizer] should be obvious
			NumPoints is a list of numbers of points in each polygon
			PointList is a list of co-ordinates for all polygons (limits are 0,0 to 275,116)

Viscolour.txt	Main - Colours for spectrum analyser and osciliscope
			Colours are in decimal (R,G,B,  -   0-255)
