Thread: TTP Steam Skin... Soon...

Well I was wondering if anyone has experience with making steam skins. I would very much like to try and make a TTP skin. I found the "ILoveSteam" program that lets you build the skin. Anyone ever used this program? I am on a mac here at work, and have pulled out the stock steam skins, but they are mostly res files. Does the ILoveSteam prog compile the .res files? I have done some res. file creation for object textures. I would like to use the winning contest banner as a theme for the skin, but need the winners "ok". Anyone out therE?

I'm pretty sure we got a couple of guys in here that can do it.

It would be cool if the skin could go to the highest monthly player score. Kinda like an employee of the month parking spot. It would be a big target and knock that players stats down a little.

That'd be cool. I'd use it. How do you add new steam skins?

Well when the person makes those custom files... you simple replace the files in your Steam folder. And I'm pretty sure the names of the files will be the same, so you pretty much just replace them.

Something like that.
I tried doing it once, it's harder than it sounds, and I'm all over that customizing junk.
Wish I could help but I was confused as shit when I tried. :P

skins are hard... i wish it was as easy as making a image that you could just lay on the ui

The res is kind of like CSS for web pages.

Tells the Skin positions and dimensions of the included graphics, where to appear in the finished rendered product.

Easiest way to customise your own, is to download one that's already made, who's layout you like, then alter, edit, replace the graphics to your own, then edit the res with notepad to reflect your changes.

It's kind of like building a small web page with your included graphics.

Yeah, like you said, I need to edit the res files to reflect my web colors. I am going to go with a skin I like allready and try to edit it. IloveSteam doesnt work, or I cant get it to work. It just outputs 3 files. I am still working with it. I am going to model it after the site. Blues on blues on greyish blues. I will post an update when I can.

I'm sure someone out there could do it... And I for one would love to see it, and would use it always. The black skin's okay, but kinda boring.