bloodangel619 Wrote:i wanted to know how everyone puts all these customizations in their themes without compressing a single rco im trying to put some other stuff in my ff dissidia 5.50 but my photo and music album icons disappear and the psn icon doesn't show up when i apply the only wave color that shows up also how do you edit osk_500 anything i edit in it i end up getting with icons and if i don't compress it it won't work and when i compress it, it misses up some fonts.

Well, if icons disappear, than it means there is too much resources being used in the theme.  The PSP only has so much memory  :/   So as you are mixing up these themes, you are trying to put too much resources into one theme.

This is the struggle for theme makers:  Trying to squeeze their vision for a theme into the allotted space in vsh.     There are ways to reduce the size of your resources.  Such as using Photoshop to reduce the colors in your images.  Also it is best to dummy out unused images in your .rco files  (such as shadows, glows, ect) unless they are really needed for the particular theme.  To dummy, I use rcoEDIT to replace the unneeded image with a 1x1 transparent .png image   ;)

As far as rco customization:  To my knowledge, the only rco file that MUST be compressed to work is the osk rco.  But do not take my word on that, as I never really take the time to customize this file myself.
Vegetano1 could answer that question.

There are two ways to compress .rco files:
1) Resurssiklunssi 0.3: This is a PSP program.  It requires 1.50 kernel (Only available for PSP 1000) or LEDA patch (requires M33 cfw)

2) RcoMage: Is a PC program which allows total manipulation of .rco files.  It also allows you to compress the .rco files.

(This post was last modified: 13/01/2010 11:39 AM by Mr. Shizzy.)