ynsaen opened this issue on Jun 18, 2004 ยท 50 posts
ynsaen posted Sat, 19 June 2004 at 9:44 AM
me, I'd never say it was easy -- but I also skinned winamp 3 and windows media players for clients, and didn't charge anywhere near enough... To skin Poser, you will need Photoshop or something that can open and save psd files (I don't recall the version) and a text editor (one with XML handling capabilities is pretty handy). Make a copy of your Poser Runtimeui folder someplace safe. Make another copy of that folder someplace where you can play with it forever. Inside that ui folder are the psd files and the XML files that make up the interface. The psd files are VERY specific in size and versioning, and in position of the elements within them -- you have to duplicate them exactly, or else you have to rewrite the XML code to ull from the proper location. The XML controls positioning of the elements within the interface and where the elements are pulled from and during what event. You will note there are a LOT of XML files, and if you are familiar with general XML rules, you wil note they tend to cross reference each other a lot. Basically, change the stuff in theis folder, and yu change the core of Poser's look. It is NOT easy. If it were, it would have been done. It is simple to do, however. It's just text files and psd files, after all...
thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)