Homebrew Animated Skins (for Wood) - Official Thread

[Snailface]

Animated Skin Thread​

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Download: Zorua(Animated)​

Download: Tetris(Animated)​

Not long ago the ywg released Wood version 1.32 which added animation support for skins. I created this thread in hopes of spreading the word about it, how to use it, and show a couple of examples. Hopefully, soon, you guys can make your make your own and post them here!

Spoiler: How to make an animated skin:

What you'll need:

1.A Wood compatible flashcard.
2.Wood version 1.32 or higher. http://filetrip.net/file.php?id=25544
3.GIMP 2.6 (image editor) http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
better yet: use my tool --> http://filetrip.net/f26565-16bit-Bmp-Batch-Converter-1-0-beta.html

Note: if your frames are not in bmp use this wonderful app to batch convert them to 24bit (then use my to get them to 16bit)
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm


Directions:

1.Add a folder called "frames" inside your skin folder

2.Put your 16-bit* BMP animation images inside it (order them with numbers and letters for file names ex. 1.bmp, 2.bmp etc. -- just skip 0's though)
*GIMP can convert BMPs to 16-bit for you (Save as Windows BMP image ->Save->Replace->Advanced Options->16-Bit X1 R5 G5 B5->Save)

3.Add this text to your skin's uisettings.ini: (example)

[animation]
duration = 1
x = 85
y = 88
show = 1

Notes:
-duration is the speed of the frames
1 is the fastest, 6 is the slowest
-x and y is the top left coordinate of the frames on the top screen
-try not to go crazy with too many frames as it could crash Wood (1MB total limit for R4iGold -- 2MBs for R4 original)

 

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I wonder if AKAIO team will implement this in the future? (Unless it's already supported)

 

[Clookster]

The tetris skin is really good. But you know that you can get rid of the R.P.G. calendar... Why do you still use it?

[calendar dayx]
x = 102
y = 49
show = 1

[calendar day]
show = 0

I think with a small date (real day, no calendar) skins would look nicer in general. Anyway, thanks for the video, I was thinking about how to present my experiments with Wood 1.32. And since there's no ways to take screenshot now, this seems to be the only solution.