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Posted by Windows 98 on Thu Oct 13th at 2:57am 2005

Anyone know exactly the process of making a Steam skin? What would I have to make/edit. I didnt think this fell under art because its not technically art, its more of a modding question.



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Posted by French Toast on Thu Oct 13th at 3:07am 2005

Google? Steam forums?

I honestly don't know, but I'm sure that there is a tutorial out there somewhere for it.




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Posted by wizard james on Thu Oct 13th at 3:20am 2005

i want my snarkpit theme back *crys*




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Posted by G4MER on Thu Oct 13th at 4:02am 2005

I have made quite a few steam skins.. but now they changed it, so it may be different.




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Posted by Dark|Killer on Thu Oct 13th at 12:30pm 2005

I normally like the default skins nowadays <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">



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Posted by Forceflow on Sat Oct 15th at 6:44pm 2005

With the new steam release, making skins is pretty easy. All the interface elements are stored as .tga files. Any decent image editor should be able to handle those files.



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Posted by SpoolE on Sat Oct 15th at 6:49pm 2005

Yep. But remeber when editing a skin remeber to set it to RGB or anything that gets rid of it being indexed, otherwise you have very little option of color.




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Posted by wil5on on Sun Oct 16th at 2:47am 2005

Actually if you open the file, RGBify it, then save it as indexed, it saves on filesize, and doesnt impact image quality unless you have more than 256 colours (which you shouldnt have on an application interface generally).


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