Hacking iMenu Skinning help

[Hoshikudaki]

I just switched over the the iMenu b3 today and grabbed the Limited Edition skin by CannonFoddr & jurassicplayer. While the skin looks nice it felt incomplete. So I started making adjustments to the clock and adding abit more to the skin.

The problem Im having is that the clock_colon.bmp shows up corrupted as shown in the images below(Large resolution from phone camera). What file type does clock_colon.bmp need to be(eg. 16bit bmp) to show up without being corrupted?

Spoiler

Using the default clock_colon.bmp but shortened to about 14 px wide

My clock_colon.bmp

In the spoilers below are the additional images I made for the skin using elements from the skin if anyone wants to add it to their iMenu skin.

Spoiler

Loading Screen

menubg (pressing select)

Edit: Thanks to spinal_cord helping fix my problem, I've made 2 clocks to use with the Limited Edition skin rather than the default clock. They are named after the font I used.




Both should appear centered under GBATEMP on the top screen.
To install extract to the root of your micro SD as I've structured the zip file to match the _iMenu folder.

 

[Deleted-236924]

Pretty sure it should be 16 bits BMP.

 

[Hoshikudaki]

Thanks for the suggestion, however it seems that setting the image type to 16 bit bmp causes iMenu to be stuck at the loading screen. I'll give it a go with the other file types.

Here are the results that I got:
32 bit makes it completely invisible(Moonshell can't read the image)
24 bit shows the corrupted image
16 bit stuck at loading screen

 

[Mantis41]

you are probably using 16bit (5:6:5), I think it is suposed to be 16/15bit (5:5:5)

 

[Hoshikudaki]

Not sure if I did it right, using Photoshop CS3 I saved it under the following BMP modes

16 bit:
X1 R5 G5 B5 (I'm assuming this is the mode you mention)
R5 G6 B5
X4 R4 G4 B4

All result in the same as saving as 16 bit in basic mode.

 

[spinal_cord]

iMenu should be able to load 8,16,24 or 32bit bmp files. the 16bit should be x1:r5:g5:b5.
I didn't have any trouble when I was putting the clock code together, but try setting the width of the image to a multiple of 8.

 

[Hoshikudaki]

Thanks that did the trick, had my width on 9

 

[spinal_cord]

Oh, the menu_bg images doesn't need to be full screen, it can be any size.

 

[oMen86]

Can you reupload the fonts please since megaupload has been destroyed.