Afterburner Skin Format

Hello, I am really interested in learning about skinning, but I have a couple of very noob questions, I hope you don't mind:

1.) The control flags in the headers I see are "00010001h", what does the h stand for?
For example: "SLIDER_CORE_CLK = 114,331,00010001h,"

Do i have to add the "h" for every control flag I use instead of 0x0001001 etc?

2.) What is the control flag for vertical sliders?

Thank you for your time.

 

Thank you very much and thanks for the fast response!

 

I don't understand where do i use this command(MSIAfterburner.exe -ds default,te6Xfjz3) and how to decompile Please help me.

 

Easiest is creating a shortcut icon from the main afterburner exe and add the command on the end or use cmd.exe from windows.

 

Hey i get it thankuuu..........................

 

Hi, sorry I got another noob question:
I'm trying to figure out some items in the monitor placeholder and I don't know what the 2 colors in the middle are for from the default skin:

kk so just to verify that's:

586 = <location x>
115 = <location y>
blank = <flag override>
blank = <z-order>
site_monitoring = <site>
416 = <width of graph area>
528 = <height of graph area>
000000h = <black-background color of the monitor graph area>
FFFFFFh = <white-normal text>
002000h = <low saturation green - grid color>
00FF00h = <high saturation green - graph wave color>
00FFFFh = ??? yellow?
006000h = ??? dark green?
0000c0h = <RED - MAX value>
50c050h = <GREEN - MIN VALUE>


I can't seem to find on the graph what the two ??? values 00FFFFh and 006000h are used for.

Also, is it possible to have a graphic as a background instead of a color for the monitor graph area? I tried to remove the black value and left it blank but it still had a black background.
Thanks in advance.

 

I have some problems in making skin.
Please help me.
I want to make a slider but when i make a transparent background after saving tit into bitmap it become white.It was shown in below image.


Another one was to place the buttons some what down.How to change them where will be the configuration file.
And lam getting the skin-base with white stroke even though i made it clear transparent.
Both issues are shown below.

Can it is possible to use PNG or JPEG rather than BMP images.
Please help me

 

You have to make an alpha image if you want transparency for the items inside skinbase. Basically just select the object, and mask everything you want to be visible white and save it as an alpha image.

The edges of the SkinBase cannot support alpha blending like the items inside (no alpha masks) so you have to either manually pixelate them with solid colors or crop to nearest 100% opaque value.

Only 24-bit BMP is accepted.

 

I dont know how to mask please help me........
Explain me in a clear way

 

Easiest way is to show this is to decompile the default skins and look at the files LinkIndicator.bmp and LinkIndicatorAlpha.bmp

See the difference? See which areas are white and which areas are black in the Alpha? Now compare that to what you see in that area in the skin base and what happens when you run the skin.

That's it.

The edges of the skin base will not have an anti-alias (smooth) edge because it doesn't use the technique that the one above is using (it is using a key color which designates the transparent area, in this case magenta). It doesn't support transluscency (opaqueness less than 100% solid color) unlike the items inside the SkinBase. If you want to have complex shapes, you have to settle for rougher looking edges.

Here's a little trick however, so you can minimize that by manually making pixel-gradients (tedious but its the effective way) from your edge color to 50% gray, since that is the safest bet universal color for various backgrounds compared to solid black or solid white.

Hope that explanation was clearer for you.

Thanks!

 

You explained me very clear thank u my friend.........
Hey i got another way for get rid of white pixels .
Please help me how to move buttons(Apply,Reset,setting,save,1,2,3,4,5).:

 

aww c'mon mate, I thought you were just having a little trouble, I didn't know you didn't actually read the comprehensive manual. All you need is there.

 

I want to change UserDefineIndicator.bmp but iam not getting any transperency.
Please help me

 

Well we can't exactly tell you what you are doing wrong unless you show us a screenshot of what you are working on. Show the skinbase, the normal indicator + the indicatorAlpha.

 

i want make UserDefineIndicator.bmp required for skinbase but i can't show u the entire skin base now.Below links has indicator and alpha indicators.
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/7372/userdefineindicator.png
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/7372/userdefineindicator.png
when iam using both of them iam getting below effect....,,

 

use black instead of white for this indicator.

 

I used it already but its not compiling.
Its not showing that the compilation is successfull when used black background.