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Rio-
3,355 posts
Joined March 2013
Rio-
Kinda curious...

What's the default dimension of cursors for the latest version? I saw that there's a lot using 60x60, but there's also some using 50x50, 40x40, etc.
Also some of them affect my aim (or it's just me. But in my case, lower dimension = heavier to move cursors around).
MLGnom
1,365 posts
Joined October 2008
Topic Starter
MLGnom
I don't think it really matters what dimension you will use to make cursor since you can adjust size in osu! options.
Szymek
136 posts
Joined January 2015
Szymek
:x How long does skinning usually take. Want to become one.
DeletedUser_4041880
DeletedUser_4041880
The answer varies per person. Some people worked on a skin for 2 years, some a week, and others a few days.
h1b1k11
261 posts
Joined April 2014
h1b1k11
I'm making a skin but when I put the pause-overlay and fail-background in, it won't appear but when I add in other skin backgrounds, it works. Help?!? :o >:(
Metaknee
12 posts
Joined August 2014
Metaknee
So hard work a create skin :( ...
dws123
87 posts
Joined July 2013
dws123

imaikiseta wrote:

I'm making a skin but when I put the pause-overlay and fail-background in, it won't appear but when I add in other skin backgrounds, it works. Help?!? :o >:(
Make sure the size fits and the file format is .png
OsuMe65
1,519 posts
Joined May 2011
OsuMe65

dws123 wrote:

imaikiseta wrote:

I'm making a skin but when I put the pause-overlay and fail-background in, it won't appear but when I add in other skin backgrounds, it works. Help?!? :o >:(
Make sure the size fits and that the file format is .png
Fatal3ty
915 posts
Joined November 2014
Fatal3ty
I would like skinning Taiko and I found myself that new template Skin unfortunately, not all skin elements Taiko available. It lacks the pink part, the red and blue semi-circles, white circle and the yellow spinner. Which file is it? :(
OsuMe65
1,519 posts
Joined May 2011
OsuMe65
Having a Taiko skin should answer ALL of your questions t/48424
DannieKun
12 posts
Joined February 2015
DannieKun
What are these highlighted spinner files? The only one that seems to show up on screen in-game was the spinner circle file and the approach circle. Can someone explain this? Thanks!

Rio-
3,355 posts
Joined March 2013
Rio-

DannieKun wrote:

What are these highlighted spinner files? The only one that seems to show up on screen in-game was the spinner circle file and the approach circle. Can someone explain this? Thanks!

It appears if you use version: 2 or later in the skin.ini and if you delete the spinner-background.png (Basically it's the Spinner from Skin Version 2)
DannieKun
12 posts
Joined February 2015
DannieKun

Rio- wrote:

DannieKun wrote:

What are these highlighted spinner files? The only one that seems to show up on screen in-game was the spinner circle file and the approach circle. Can someone explain this? Thanks!

It appears if you use version: 2 or later in the skin.ini and if you delete the spinner-background.png (Basically it's the Spinner from Skin Version 2)
How do I use version 2 or later in skin.ini file? What should I configure?
yamane-kurou
13 posts
Joined February 2013
yamane-kurou
I'm working on my first skin and I was wondering about one thing...

in older Osi builds there was, when you clicked on Skins, a map playing where you could see that skin in action. But I don't find that in the new build only when I have an osu- zipped skin that I unpack with osu. Is there a way to enter that part without having to load a new skin? because it's kinda annoying to play a map and try to fail enough to get the section fail thing without failing entirely because you missed too many notes deliberately.

Or is there another way to 'watch' your skin in action to check things without having to play yourself over and over again? @-@
Haskorion
533 posts
Joined September 2013
Haskorion
How about watching replays of others or Autoplay?
About the old skin selection screen, it sure was easier to preview a skin but it kinda loses impact without cursor movement. With cursor movement you see how the hitcircles and followpoints feel like when playing and give a much better impression if something obscures gameplay. Time advances, so does technology or design.
yamane-kurou
13 posts
Joined February 2013
yamane-kurou
well my main fokus is on when you screw up ^^, so Autoplay is out of question since it will always bee 100% the only way would be to make a replay where I screw up at one point and rewatch that... since my section failsound seems to be too quiet and I need to hear it in game to adjust it properly XD
Noffy
Nomination Assessment Team
1,660 posts
Joined April 2012
Noffy

yamane-kurou wrote:

well my main fokus is on when you screw up ^^, so Autoplay is out of question since it will always bee 100% the only way would be to make a replay where I screw up at one point and rewatch that... since my section failsound seems to be too quiet and I need to hear it in game to adjust it properly XD
what I do is I have a replay of myself playing a map I find easy with two breaks long enough to show section fail/pass, playing with no fail on, and I purposely fail the first section and pass the second. Then when testing a skin I can watch my replay on 2x to see how the section break/fail looks like in game. It can be even easier than the old preview screen since all you have to do to see new changes is press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S (reloads the skin) when in song select before watching the replay again.
dws123
87 posts
Joined July 2013
dws123

DannieKun wrote:

How do I use version 2 or later in skin.ini file? What should I configure?
put in 
version: x
under the [General] section, where x is the skin version
yamane-kurou
13 posts
Joined February 2013
yamane-kurou

dorothy3242 wrote:

yamane-kurou wrote:

well my main fokus is on when you screw up ^^, so Autoplay is out of question since it will always bee 100% the only way would be to make a replay where I screw up at one point and rewatch that... since my section failsound seems to be too quiet and I need to hear it in game to adjust it properly XD
what I do is I have a replay of myself playing a map I find easy with two breaks long enough to show section fail/pass, playing with no fail on, and I purposely fail the first section and pass the second. Then when testing a skin I can watch my replay on 2x to see how the section break/fail looks like in game. It can be even easier than the old preview screen since all you have to do to see new changes is press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S (reloads the skin) when in song select before watching the replay again.
Thanks ^^ feeling stupid for not thinking about that XD I'm always for the difficult and hard way it seems XD
xelivous
48 posts
Joined September 2012
xelivous
when using columnspacing for mania, is there a way to fill the blank spaces which a specific color?
because the default full transparency looks really awkward

SPOILER

(ignore the outdated misaligned HP bar ;) )
dws123
87 posts
Joined July 2013
dws123

xelivous wrote:

when using columnspacing for mania, is there a way to fill the blank spaces which a specific color?
because the default full transparency looks really awkward

SPOILER

(ignore the outdated misaligned HP bar ;) )
you mean something like this? (found in xK.ini, where x is # of keys)
Colour1: 0,0,0,50
Colour2: 40,40,40,50
Colour3: 0,0,0,50
Colour4: 40,40,40,50
Colour5: 0,0,0,50
Colour6: 40,40,40,50
Colour7: 0,0,0,50
xelivous
48 posts
Joined September 2012
xelivous

dws123 wrote:

you mean something like this? (found in xK.ini, where x is # of keys)
[...]
something like it yea. spacing doesn't shift the keys around internally, it just moves their position
Maybe "ColourSpacing: x,x,x,x"

i think i can get away with using an extremely tall "StageBottom", although that's a pretty weird hack

----

yep, that works, although if i ever tweak the spacing/widths again i'll have to make a new graphic for it
at least i made my 4k look like my 7k/8k :roll:
SPOILER
the hacky png: http://i.imgur.com/wmgJxWW.png

Lean Jesus
8 posts
Joined January 2015
Lean Jesus
Im looking for "sugoi desu" sound. :?
Any link for it? :|
DeletedUser_4041880
DeletedUser_4041880

szkajuu wrote:

Im looking for "sugoi desu" sound. :?
Any link for it? :|
Here you go
yamane-kurou
13 posts
Joined February 2013
yamane-kurou
is there a standard loudness to sounds like the countdown or is it more like. listen to it and then make the file louder until it fits?
ShinyWoolf
2 posts
Joined June 2014
ShinyWoolf
i have problem with my "watch replay" button and ranking panel
http://scr.hu/4n7n/j9gwi
Haskorion
533 posts
Joined September 2013
Haskorion

ShinyWoolf wrote:

i have problem with my "watch replay" button and ranking panel
http://scr.hu/4n7n/j9gwi
That is a typical alignment difference between old and new skin versions. Since I don't know what else you use in your skin I just tell you how to change skin settings, like version.

  1. Go to the options and navigate to the skin section. Click on "open skin folder" and look for the file "skin.ini". If you don't have it make one by saving a notepad document as "skin.ini"
  2. Open the file skin.ini in notepad and search for the line "Version:" and change the number after it to "1". If you made the file freshly add the following:
    [General]
    Version: 1
  3. Save the document and reload your skin (Ctrl + Shift + Alt + s) or restart osu!.
ShinyWoolf
2 posts
Joined June 2014
ShinyWoolf
Thanks Haskorion!!!! :)
Mashiro28
2 posts
Joined November 2014
Mashiro28
Is it possible to share the modified skin from the other creators? because I want to share this skin I've modified from 5 skins I've found.

Preview:





Thanks in advance for your reply
DeletedUser_4041880
DeletedUser_4041880
It's not allowed on the forums, but you can put it in your sig/userpage
Rilene
2,105 posts
Joined April 2014
Rilene
Can someone provide me a current skin template with every elements in there?

Thanks in advance if anyone can.

And I don't know where to find the current skin template. :?
yamane-kurou
13 posts
Joined February 2013
yamane-kurou
Okay now I'm pretty confused. I have the version 1 spinner files. meaning approach circle, background, circle and meter and until yesterday when I changed toe approach circle to test something everything worked fine even though I have some other elements that are version 2 designs. But since I changed the approach circle file I don't see any approach circle anymore oO
I'm really confused since I'm sure I haven't changed anything in the Skin.ini....

EDIT: okay somehow after a restart of my PC it's back to normal oO
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mrgkevin
21 posts
Joined June 2013
mrgkevin
I found a skin.ini file that I really like. However when I copy and replace / paste it in to my own skin.ini file nothing changes.

Dunno what to do.
EDIT:
http://puu.sh/hef8L/f17fca0590.png
I'm kinda new to skinning. All help appreciated.
sirzutto
4 posts
Joined November 2014
sirzutto
How I do for all the clicks in game do the 'tik' sound?
DannieKun
12 posts
Joined February 2015
DannieKun

dws123 wrote:

DannieKun wrote:

How do I use version 2 or later in skin.ini file? What should I configure?
put in 
version: x
under the [General] section, where x is the skin version
Still, nothing changed :/
DannieKun
12 posts
Joined February 2015
DannieKun
By the way, I have another problem here regarding the play-warningarrow. The original color of this file is white, but when I copy it to my custom-mixed skin from its original folder, it changes to red. I also can't see anything related to the play-warningarrow in the skin.ini file. I want the arrow to be white like it was supposed to be, so I can see it better. Here are the pictures:

This is the original color:


But when I paste it into my mixed skin, it becomes red:


Thanks for the help :D
Ayesha Altugle
3,052 posts
Joined October 2011
Ayesha Altugle

DannieKun wrote:

By the way, I have another problem here regarding the play-warningarrow. The original color of this file is white, but when I copy it to my custom-mixed skin from its original folder, it changes to red. I also can't see anything related to the play-warningarrow in the skin.ini file. I want the arrow to be white like it was supposed to be, so I can see it better. Here are the pictures:

This is the original color:


But when I paste it into my mixed skin, it becomes red:


Thanks for the help :D
If you looked into your skin.ini file, you should see "Version:" with a capital V You should set the skin.ini's version to 1.

Just like this:

Version: 1
DannieKun
12 posts
Joined February 2015
DannieKun

vahn10 wrote:

DannieKun wrote:

By the way, I have another problem here regarding the play-warningarrow. The original color of this file is white, but when I copy it to my custom-mixed skin from its original folder, it changes to red. I also can't see anything related to the play-warningarrow in the skin.ini file. I want the arrow to be white like it was supposed to be, so I can see it better. Here are the pictures:

This is the original color:


But when I paste it into my mixed skin, it becomes red:


Thanks for the help :D
If you looked into your skin.ini file, you should see "Version:" with a capital V You should set the skin.ini's version to 1.

Just like this:

Version: 1
Hmm, if I do that, the thumbnails on my menu-button-background will be gone right? Is there any other way? Thanks! :D
Dazdy_old
196 posts
Joined July 2014
Dazdy_old

DannieKun wrote:

Hmm, if I do that, the thumbnails on my menu-button-background will be gone right? Is there any other way? Thanks! :D
Sorry, but there's no other way.
DannieKun
12 posts
Joined February 2015
DannieKun

Dazdy wrote:

DannieKun wrote:

Hmm, if I do that, the thumbnails on my menu-button-background will be gone right? Is there any other way? Thanks! :D
Sorry, but there's no other way.
Ok, I think I just leave it red. Thanks for the help :D
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