monkey's main player and theme use the windows shell so it is skinning that with the skin,
you need to make a theme.mskn for that and it has all the same images you need to change which you will see in my fast newbies walkthrough.
the player is in need of its own player.mskn
the floating player is in need of its own floatingplayer.mskn
the two micro players are also in need of their own one for vertical and one for horizontal.
each player also needs its own ini file.
in my newbies walkthrough i'm just telling you how to skin the theme.mskn because that is the hardest.
and i show you how i set up the folder used in creating a skin. some don't use all them folders but they must remember more then if they would have used different folders to keep the items for each skin seperate.
skinning is simple its just the adjustment of having so many things to skin that takes time to learn.
just remember the players are all the same they have limits to items and size's but they are all made the same way.
if youre new to this i suggest getting one of my skins like jade monkey or the blues monkey and then take that mmip file and change it from .mmip to .zip and unzip it. now take the .msz file and change it to .zip
place it in the creation folder you made and unzip it. now take the different mskn files and place them in their folders.
i say use those skins of mine because i know they are from the old origianal default skin and have the stuff you need in it plus some more that was added in later versions of mediamonkey.
you could use mortens or nohitter151's but they use some more stuff in them that make it harder to copy and learn from.
mine's like 1st grade compaired to theirs, but do which ever you want they are all basicly the same.
the floatplayer if you looked at my skin's on the wiki you would have seen that it is the only one you can make with transparent backgrounds.
for your question of how much does one have to be dedicated to skinning to make one.
if you remember the old winamp classic skins. those took 20 hours to make no matter how many you made, if you did them with out any application help and used different images for each item.
looking at mediamonkey skins you can spend from 4 hours to 90 hours depending on how many items you change the images on and how different you change the postion of the controls in the players.
my skin of the bluemonkey is my version of a recolor of the origianal skin, and took me 4 hours to do
my concert skin took me about 72 hours with about 8 more for fine adjustments to the skin.
oh my times are exact times sitting in this chair, well the old chair i wore out i mean.
monkey's main player and theme use the windows shell so it is skinning that with the skin,
you need to make a theme.mskn for that and it has all the same images you need to change which you will see in my fast newbies walkthrough.
the player is in need of its own player.mskn
the floating player is in need of its own floatingplayer.mskn
the two micro players are also in need of their own one for vertical and one for horizontal.
each player also needs its own ini file.
in my newbies walkthrough i'm just telling you how to skin the theme.mskn because that is the hardest.
and i show you how i set up the folder used in creating a skin. some don't use all them folders but they must remember more then if they would have used different folders to keep the items for each skin seperate.
skinning is simple its just the adjustment of having so many things to skin that takes time to learn.
just remember the players are all the same they have limits to items and size's but they are all made the same way.
if youre new to this i suggest getting one of my skins like jade monkey or the blues monkey and then take that mmip file and change it from .mmip to .zip and unzip it. now take the .msz file and change it to .zip
place it in the creation folder you made and unzip it. now take the different mskn files and place them in their folders.
i say use those skins of mine because i know they are from the old origianal default skin and have the stuff you need in it plus some more that was added in later versions of mediamonkey.
you could use mortens or nohitter151's but they use some more stuff in them that make it harder to copy and learn from.
mine's like 1st grade compaired to theirs, but do which ever you want they are all basicly the same.
the floatplayer if you looked at my skin's on the wiki you would have seen that it is the only one you can make with transparent backgrounds.
for your question of how much does one have to be dedicated to skinning to make one.
if you remember the old winamp classic skins. those took 20 hours to make no matter how many you made, if you did them with out any application help and used different images for each item.
looking at mediamonkey skins you can spend from 4 hours to 90 hours depending on how many items you change the images on and how different you change the postion of the controls in the players.
my skin of the bluemonkey is my version of a recolor of the origianal skin, and took me 4 hours to do
my concert skin took me about 72 hours with about 8 more for fine adjustments to the skin.
oh my times are exact times sitting in this chair, well the old chair i wore out i mean. :lol: