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SSChevy2001 · 28/01/2008 10:14 PM

Slayer 417 Wrote:I tried putting a picture on the blades, and everything works okay except for the fact that the: Network, Game, Video, and one side of the Music icons don't show up. Is there a certain compression method I have to use, or editing to get it to work on 3.80 m33?

The blades can't go over 255 colors with the alpha channel.  Anything over that will result in missing blades and or icons.  So you need to go into RCO Editors options and set it to prompt before making 32bit GIMs.  Now when you try to import a blade it will tell you if there's to many colors.

Making 255 color blades
What I normal do is index the alpha channel to 12 colors, which should be enough to get smooth edges.  Then I continue to change RGB channels colors until the blade finally imports.  Normally I will index with local (perceptual) with matted netscape grey.  It can be a bit of a pain to go back and forth to get the colors to the limit, but it usually works out ok.

Also if your splitting a image the right blades will be 92 pixels and the left blades will be 108 pixels.  Be careful when centering the blades with 2 images as if there off by a little bit it will show when moving back and forward through the blades.  I would normally start will low colors just to import and test if the blade looks go then I'll find the max colors and save.

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There many more things this theme needs and of course if I get a chance I want to move some of these changes to my other P360 themes.

This is just a small change for coming updates.  BIGGER CD Cases
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Professor Fate · 28/01/2008 10:19 PM

not bad but you should use some different sub icons I'm sick of seening the same icons on ever single P360 theme

http://forums.qj.net/f-psp-themes-mods-m...23389.html

SSChevy2001 · 28/01/2008 11:12 PM

Professor Fate Wrote:not bad but you should use some different sub icons I'm sick of seening the same icons on ever single P360 theme

http://forums.qj.net/f-psp-themes-mods-m...23389.html

Honestly I'm thinking about finishing the main P360 theme more than this sub theme. Icons will come when I find something I like for this theme. I'm not just going to throw any old thing at it. What you showing me a just some blood and the skull gear over PSP icons, and there's a apple icon also?

In all honestly I would love to see you try to make a sub theme for P360. $hit I would of been done with that Inacor MCE 3.80 port within 2-3 days at max ( 1 if I had nothing better to do that day ). What's taking 2 people so long to port that theme?

Slayer 417 · 29/01/2008 06:39 PM

So, did you leave it in 32bit, then used the color balance, to get it to under 256 colors. Or is that even possible? But actually I made it into an 8bit icon, but that messed up all of the icons then none of them showed up )=, which really didn't make any sense to me, I mean I would think that all of the icons would show up under 8bit, or at least part of them, and not on 32 bit? Oh by the way I don't think it had anything to do with spacing, because I used the .PSD templates that I found in another forum here.

SSChevy2001 · 29/01/2008 07:51 PM

Slayer 417 Wrote:So, did you leave it in 32bit, then used the color balance, to get it to under 256 colors. Or is that even possible? But actually I made it into an 8bit icon, but that messed up all of the icons then none of them showed up )=, which really didn't make any sense to me, I mean I would think that all of the icons would show up under 8bit, or at least part of them, and not on 32 bit? Oh by the way I don't think it had anything to do with spacing, because I used the .PSD templates that I found in another forum here.

Steps I take.

1) open the template
2) copy the new image into the psd under all the RGB layers
3) set the blade layer blending options to overlay
4) click the alpha channel picture in the channel window in photoshop, this will great a selection around the blades.
5) click the RGB blade layer and click edit » copy merged » edit » paste
6) hide all other RGB layers other than the new layer you just created
7) copy the alpha channel to a new window
8) index the copy of the alpha channel 12 colors local (Perceptual)
9) go back to the original template and delete the alpha channel
10) index the rgb channel anywhere between 30-90 colors maybe more. I normally use local (Perceptual) with matted netscape gray. Then change it back to RGB.
11) create a new alpha channel
12) copy and paste the index alpha channel back to the template
13) save as 32bit bmp
14) now import into rcoeditor, but make sure it's set to prompt before importing 32bit GIMs.
15) if you get a prompt it means you got to many colors, and need to undo the steps back to step 10 and try a lower amount of colors.
16) keep repeating 15 until rco editor finally imports without prompts.

That's the shortest I can make this right now.

nicodemus82 · 29/01/2008 10:05 PM

okay, I'm using the music_browser_plugin.rco from this theme cause i really liked the CD covers, but for some reason my album art doesn't fill the CD cover icon??

SSChevy2001 · 29/01/2008 11:33 PM

nicodemus82 Wrote:okay, I'm using the music_browser_plugin.rco from this theme cause i really liked the CD covers, but for some reason my album art doesn't fill the CD cover icon??
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You have to edit the music_browser.prx to get a bigger album art.  Right now I'm using 48 instead of the 24 that it's supposed to be.  The only bad part is not sure how to make the embedded album are bigger so far, other than using the stretch in the rco file *don't recommend that*.  That's not the only thing if you go even bigger you need to adjust the spacing which is found in the paf.prx file.

Here's the offset for album size
0x276D8    24     ***Album size
0x276D4    -3     ***X Position of Album Art

I like those cases also
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Slayer 417 · 30/01/2008 02:50 PM

It always prompts me though, I've reduced the icon layer to 30, the Alpha layer to 12, but it still always prompts me?

SSChevy2001 · 30/01/2008 03:27 PM

Slayer 417 Wrote:It always prompts me though, I've reduced the icon layer to 30, the Alpha layer to 12, but it still always prompts me?

You can upload the image your trying to use?

nicodemus82 · 30/01/2008 08:22 PM

SSChevy2001 Wrote:
nicodemus82 Wrote:okay, I'm using the music_browser_plugin.rco from this theme cause i really liked the CD covers, but for some reason my album art doesn't fill the CD cover icon??
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You have to edit the music_browser.prx to get a bigger album art.  Right now I'm using 48 instead of the 24 that it's supposed to be.  The only bad part is not sure how to make the embedded album are bigger so far, other than using the stretch in the rco file *don't recommend that*.  That's not the only thing if you go even bigger you need to adjust the spacing which is found in the paf.prx file.

Here's the offset for album size
0x276D8    24     ***Album size
0x276D4    -3     ***X Position of Album Art

I like those cases also

yeah, i thought it might be that, so i used the music_browser.prx from ur theme also, and now the album art fits the CD cover icons yay! :)

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