Homebrew New ComicBookDS Skin

[Deleted User]

I made a skin for CBDS 3.0. Its called "Rounded Squares"

Get it here
Download

 

[HoTsHoT89]

How about a preview for it next time?

 

[Deleted User]

That's the best preview i can give my friend since i have no debugger for homebrew

 

[Dark^'^Knigh]

How does one make a custom skin for ComicBookDS? I've got an interesting idea for myself, as long as its relatively easy to do.

 

[Deleted User]

Its much more difficult than making a skin for a flash card menu because there's 20+ icons
Also you can't use alpha transparency so its hard to make the icons look good against the background
it took me about 4 hours total to finish it

 

[Dark^'^Knigh]

Crikey!! Did I say I had an idea of a skin? Not any more

 

[Deleted User]

Update: The friendly guy, Francis Bonnin, posted some screenshots on his site (they're on 1st post)
If there are people that don't use ComicBookDS, here's an incentive: hentai manga

Now that I think about it, it should have been titled Rounded Rectangles

 

[Airth]

Thanks for taking the time to make this. It looks much better than both the default skin and the Vista skin I usually use.
I see what you mean about getting the icons to look good against the background, but I think you've done a pretty good job.

 

[omgmog]

I hope Francis implements alpha transparency and font customisiton in a future release of ComicBookDS, and switches to proper colour declaration in the theme ini file. When creating my Tango! skin I had no end of trouble getting the correct colours for the non-image portions of the skin.

Shameless self-promotion here, but it's relevent.. my Tango! theme for ComicBookDS:

 

[Pluupy]

Edit: Template is complete!

Available for download here:
http://lufione.deviantart.com/art/Comic-Bo...Manga-182710093

Took me about two days to understand how the theme works and creation. Most of the time I was just stumped on my Photoshop didn't make the sprites transparent. (Turns out newer Photoshop versions have different transparency setups) Hopefully it'll be posted on the CBDS site. Enjoy everyone~