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Postby Kypi » September 2nd, 2007, 1:11 pm

I have no idea what im doing wrong.. but neither the track title, nor the time shows up on any of the skins I attempt to make.

here is the file
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OGGYSGZD

=( im so dumb.. i still cant find out the reason why this is happening, and its been hours =/..




oh, and is there a way to show the real time? (like whats on your comp clock)
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Postby Kypi » September 3rd, 2007, 5:15 am

can anyone help =/? its pissing me off >_>, omg why isnt it working!? *starts hitting keyboard*

i have looked at alot of other people's skins and they say the same thing as mine, yet their;s works!? =(
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Postby SLoB » September 3rd, 2007, 7:09 am

both work here, you might also want to change the font and size etc...

as it is, its huge and all components need smoothing out imo, too many jaggies and there shouldn't be
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Postby Kypi » September 3rd, 2007, 7:11 am

weird O_o. i use paint.NET and i opened some1 elses and then re-saved it using the plugin..and the track title of that one doesnt show up. but the original one does. O_O.

aybe i will have to download photoshop or somthing >_>.
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Postby SLoB » September 3rd, 2007, 7:15 am

i did open it initially to see wot was going on, then saved via ps, hence it working, your original version does not show them so yea looks like that plugin is naff

OH: also when i saved it, it was 79k, original is 3.4 mb, so that psd save plugin is pretty crap imo
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Postby Cliff Cawley » November 30th, 2008, 7:55 pm

Ok, I've created a fix for this!

I downloaded the PSD plugin Source code and had a look at what was happening.

Basically the Plugin was saving each layer, the same size as the document. So if the document was 200x200, each layer, no matter what size the layer, would be saved with 200x200 worth of pixel data. Most of it transparent.

So what I've done is I modified the way that the plugin saves out the layer data so that it only saves out the data that isn't transparent. This is exactly what Photoshop does and is one of the reasons that the photoshop files are a lot smaller.

As a test I saved a 200x200 PSD with 2 layers using the normal plugin found here -> http://frankblumenberg.de/doku/doku.php ... :psdplugin

It came up as 319KB. I then used my version of this plugin and saved the same file again. This time it saved as 57KB.

So not only are Paint.Net saved PSD files now smaller, but now all text and other layers work in Xion too!

One thing to notice, is that the Paint.Net plugin doesn't actually support RLE compression by the looks of the source, so some PSDs will still be larger than when you save them in Photoshop, but that shouldn't matter too much since you zip them for the final skin anyway.

To download my version of the Paint.Net Plugin, grab it from here and install it the same as the other version. -> http://xion.r2.com.au/paint.net/PhotoShop.zip

I've also updated Tutorial 1 to now link to this plugin.

Cliff :)
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