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what Animations can you do in skinning - Rubberfingers - 2010-01-08
Hi there all.
Me interested in understand what the limits are on skin design.
I have a few ideas but not sure how I can do them in a skin yet.
Question one: Can you put any type of flash format, like from Adobe in the skins or is that no possible, what I have seen so far is that its XML coder driven with pictures basically, I'm a noob at all this still, still trying to learn how all the skin stuff works.
Question two: If I want to create water ripples or smoke animation, or make something move on the home menu like that all the time, how would I go about doing it, with the limits of skinny?
Any help I would appreciate lot thank you
- ronie - 2010-01-08
Rubberfingers Wrote:Hi there all.
Me interested in understand what the limits are on skin design.
I have a few ideas but not sure how I can do them in a skin yet.
if you haven't already done so, check the relevant wiki pages:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Animating_Your_Skin
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Tweeners
Rubberfingers Wrote:Question one: Can you put any type of flash format, like from Adobe in the skins or is that no possible, what I have seen so far is that its XML coder driven with pictures basically, I'm a noob at all this still, still trying to learn how all the skin stuff works.
nope, there's no flash support in the skinning engine.
Rubberfingers Wrote:Question two: If I want to create water ripples or smoke animation, or make something move on the home menu like that all the time, how would I go about doing it, with the limits of skinny?
although there's (limited) support for animated gifs, most skinners prefer to us a multiimage control with separate images for each frame of the animation.
- Rubberfingers - 2010-01-08
cool thank you for that really helps me understand the way the animation works on the skins now thank you a lot =)