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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: toe. on October 06, 2006, 08:36:12 pm

Title: mala layout editor
Post by: toe. on October 06, 2006, 08:36:12 pm

is there a link to a topic on the forum...
or does anyone have  a solid guide on how to create skins using the layout editor?
my german is not so good and its not exactly intuitive to use

Title: Re: mala layout editor
Post by: loadman on October 08, 2006, 12:47:47 am

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its not exactly intuitive to use

???? Are you sure you are using the MaLa editor?  ??? I find it very intuitive :P

So I don't think there is any docs on it .

Have you a specific question/Problem?

Title: Re: mala layout editor
Post by: toe. on October 08, 2006, 09:43:50 am

yeah im sure.
im still putzing with it.

my main question is how one creates a multi layered image, such as a background- gamelist- layer with transparent parts-foreground images.

can i even do that or would i have to set the whole thing in phtoshop and sort  of pray it looks the way i want when i load it in to the editor?

Title: Re: mala layout editor
Post by: gamecreature on October 08, 2006, 11:28:53 am

I don't believe Mala can read PSD files. To put new art elements into the forground, you have to create a new custom object for each piece that you want and then load the art for each of those pieces. Remember that only GIF and PNG files can have transparancy.