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[kalayaan12345]

Apparently Renewal somehow displays the default skin without using any image files, since the skin installed in the skin folder is still the pre-Renewal one, which doesn't include all the buttons Renewal uses. Is there any way to get the complete file for the default skin for Renewal, in such a way that I can actually see and edit it? And if not, is there at least somewhere a list of the file names used (such as "BTN_BUY" for the buy button) and image sizes so that new skins can be made from scratch?

I know there's already a Renewal Skin thread among the Creative Contraptions threads, but the posts there are more from people who have already figured out how to do Renewal skins, posting their work. What I'd need is more of a "Renewal Skinning 101" sort of thread.



P.S. : Is downloading skins in Megaupload really safe? If you search "megaupload spyware" in Google, you get about 9 million hits...

(Wasn't sure whether this would belong in Tech Support or Creative Contraptions. Mods, feel free to move it as necessary.)

[DrAzzy]

I would say, get someone elses skin, and see how they do it.

It's probably just stashing the files in the GRF, so you can't see them. Some detective work with a GRF editor could yield the necessary images.

Megaupload just hosts files. It's one of HUNDREDS of sites that let you upload files for free, and let others download them at low-speed for free, and high speed for a fee*. I've had no problems with them. If the file is clean when it's uploaded, it's clean when you download it.

Though of course, it's certain that some people _are_ uploading spyware or infected files to sites like that and trying to convince people to download them - I don't think megaupload enforces scanning uploaded files.


*Wondering what their business plan is? I think it's something like "Hope people upload pirated content (porno + movies) in violation of our terms of service, so as to motivate people to pay to download those files"

Edited by DrAzzy, 06 June 2011 - 07:01 AM.