well, if some of you really want it, its here :

http://www.gimehost.com/LxUxS3qMJOcD472kTJd5

/me wishes he was more artistic.

Hey Duncan, I figured it out. There is a little file calledd:

hud_tabbox_ur.png

that connects the space between the tab boxes and the far left side of the display.

Gavan,

yes thanks, but i have not figured out how to deal with its silly scaling. :(

M. Duncan

Shape your version could be called borg skin hehe.

ray....i found the changing connfig.ini part confusing. and also the where to uncompress the skin folder.

Could you explain it in Macintosh words?

Thanks :)

hud_tab_ur.png is stretched down the middle.
What that means is that the left half goes to the left and the right half goes to the right and the texels at 0.5 are streched to connect them.

Here are some annotated images that explain where all the components go and their stretching params (mostly).

http://www.ratelis.com/hud_annotated.png
http://www.ratelis.com/jettison_annotated.png
http://www.ratelis.com/root_menu_annotated.png
http://www.ratelis.com/sub_tab_annotated.png

ghostieboy:
Do a Show Contents of the Vendetta Online bundle.
Unzip the contents of skin.zip into there. It should automatically create a skins folder with the images in it.
Edit the config.ini and search for [Vendetta]
and add this line right after it:
skin=skin/

You can change the skin/ part to redblood/ if you downloaded that one and unzipped it to your Vendetta bundle.

I hope that helps.

Maybe we should try to keep things organized. I started some other threads for WIP's and Finished skins.

Keep this one to questions and howto's?

Aaalllmmmooosssttt done. I just have to touch some things up and...

Oh yeah, is there any way you can use a graphic for something that's bigger than the default? Ray?

Thanks in advance for help,
Calder

You can use whatever size images you want. You just have to make sure you take into account the stretched regions. The regions in the annotated pics are in pixel coordinates, but the game actually uses scaled coordinates from 0 to 1.
So, if something says it is 16 pixels in a 64x64 image, it is equivalent to 32 pixels in a 128x128 image.

Person said: You mean INSIDE the Vendetta application? I can't move it directly into there...
Don't gotta dive into Terminal to copy things into the folder. If you do a "Get Info" on the Vendetta application, you see the "Name & Extension" field. Remove the ".app" and the Package will become a folder in the Finder. (In this case, a folder named "Vendetta".)

Copy whatever you need into that folder, then add the ".app" back to the name.

It changes back to a package. Shazam.

Stupid, but it works.

So you mean, I can take a hud_display.png file, which is 64px/sq, and use a file that is 128px/sq, and the UI will simply force it into the 64px/sq area?

Or it will actually make that area 128px/sq?

Leebs, I feel sorry for you.
control- or right-click on the Application depending on what mouse you have, and select "Show Package Contents"

Gavan: VO will rescale the image to fit the area on the screen.
So, if you just take every png and double its size, everything should still work.

ray: when I made redblood, around beta7, the game was pretty restrictive ragarding image sizes. For example button.png only looked right if it was 16x16. It wasn't scaled in checkboxes or not displayed at all. Is that still the case?

probably. There are assumptions the exe makes about image sizes.

Heh. Thanks for the condescencion, slime. You can "show" contents, but you can't copy anything into it. I assume you've tried this? My workaround solved it for Person, I hope.

Is there a way to change the color for ingame tinting? If not, can we pretty please have that?

LeberMac, I have been copying items to and from my applications since I found out MacOSX apps are really folders in disguise. I don't know why it doesn't work for you.

Leebs: If you're running Tiger, then you can drag/drop after showing contents.