Update 1/14/09: Updated to version 4.0, which you can pick up here: http://up.ppy.sh/files/skin-taiko.zip

Apparently version 3.8 never got uploaded, so enjoy the new sounds and stars that are probably new to you.

Update 5/11/08
Finally cleaned up the sounds (Thanks Loginer!) and redid the score stars to better resemble those from the game. Also added mod icons and tweaked a few other things that were bugging me.

Download version 3 here!









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Update 3/23/08
Okay! Updates out the wazoo. Good luck spotting all the differences!







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Original first post:

I have no idea what this is but it makes me smile.

Would putting that little :3 face on the spinner to watch it go ROUND AND AROUND be out of the question? Because I'd like to see that, myself.

Ideas for the TnT skin (You may have already done it, but I can't check v_v)
1. If you can change the sound effects, make the Don sound and Kat a lesser used one.
2. Make the spinner a giant Don head.
3. Make notes explode in fireworks when hit. 300s get the orange ones, 100s get white ones, 50s get faint blue ones. "Elite beats" should be the large fireworks from when you hit large notes.
4. When you complete a spinner, make a rainbow flush down the screen.

You just keep knocking out the quality stuff dont you . This is great so far!

Kanda, I took your rainbow suggestion. It's not as animated as you probably had in mind, but it came out looking pretty nice. The beat explosions were already intended to resemble the fireworks, and since the specific appearance of the fireworks seem to vary from one TnT game to the next, I think I got close enough to the general look. I don't think there's a way to change sound effects by skin, but a song can have custom sounds (for example) so if somebody makes a Taiko song, they can do that. They can also "force" this skin to show up, I believe, which would make for a pretty nice set.

I was planning to use the :3 face for the spinner, when I came across this: http://www.openget.net/taikomenu.html Pretty convenient, eh? Best of both worlds; you get to see the face spin around, and I get the satisfaction of having the spinner make some kind of sense in my mind.

For those of you confused about what this skin is supposed to represent, I made a thread about it here a while back. There are some links and a video so you should get a good sense of what I'm going for.

I edited the first post in this thread with a new rar which should be totally complete. If it's missing parts, or broken, let me know.

Finally, here are some screenshots.

That is so freaking awesome :O
I demand a video of it in action >_>

Yeah thought I should mention that this is an awesome skin.

Added to official list/updater. Sorry this took so long.

Thanks! I was beginning to wonder.

Also, while I have your attention, what's up with the transparency of the "hitcircleoverlay" changing on sliders? It's not really evident in this skin, but in the Samba de Amigo skin especially it's pretty pronounced.

It changes? I haven't noticed that... *takes a look*

I think what you are noticing is when there are two circle sprites stacked on top of each other. This is just how the rendering of the slider works... I don't *think* it is that noticeable, but if you push for it I could look at changing this.

At the moment it renders the track underneath with a hitcircle/overlay at each end, then draws an extra circle for each end with a number or a reverse (but not the final endpoint).

It's not a big deal, but you can see the one on the left looks different from the one on the right.

Now that sounds can be skinned, any ideas on where I could find decent taiko drum sound effects? Or maracas, for that matter. I did some searching but couldn't find anything usable.

I can extract sounds from Guitar Pro, if you're just looking for generic drum/maraca sounds.

That would probably help! For the drums, I need a "thump" sound (just a standard hitting a drum with a stick sound) and a "tap" sound (like hitting the side, or hitting two sticks together), and something like a looping drumroll sound for the sliders.

If you could just give me a handful to choose from, that'd be fantastic.

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