First attempt at a DragonKing skin

[GSXRMovistar]

This is my first attempt at a skin for Dragon King. It

[liquid8]

that's pretty nice!

LiQuiD8

[CM]

Loaded it up .. very nice!    I like it a lot.

btw .. to hide the white border requires an overlay since the white is actually on the snaps themselves.  I've noticed you have to crop images a bit given the mix of vertical and horizontal images to make it look right.

If you aren't sure about the overlay let me know I will form one for your skin.  I am cranking all sorts of weird effect skins with overlays and scrolling backgrounds but I have yet to do a serious clean skin yet .. go figure.

[CM]

Loaded it up .. very nice!    I like it a lot.

btw .. to hide the white border requires an overlay since the white is actually on the snaps themselves.  I've noticed you have to crop images a bit given the mix of vertical and horizontal images to make it look right.

If you aren't sure about the overlay let me know I will form one for your skin.  I am cranking all sorts of weird effect skins with overlays and scrolling backgrounds but I have yet to do a serious clean skin yet .. go figure.

actually strike that .. I played with an overlay and there is no pretty way to crop out both the horizontal and vertical edges.  I played with alpha settings as well, but too many images have white as a main image color to make that look good either.  

To be honest I never even noticed that white border until now .. thanks a lot      

[Howard_Casto]

I just popped in to see waht everyone was up too.  I'm very busy at the moment, so not much time left for mame and fun stuff.    The skin looks great!  

About the border question.... quit getting snaps from mame32q&a and start getting them from crashtest.  He doesn't put borders on his snaps.  

[GSXRMovistar]

Howard, glad you like. I know your a busy guy at the moment, but could you (or anyone) else tell me how the units for your skinner relate to pixel width. Ie, if I'm working on a skin thats 1024x768 and an element is 2000 units wide, what would be the pixel width of this.

The reason I'm asking is i've still got a slight bit of stretching on my snaps and can't manage to get them to display at the correct aspect, only a very snag, but its buggin me  

[Howard_Casto]

The units are in twips, which is a more accurate representation of a pixel.  Technically they vary from monitor to monitor but as a rule of thumb take the pixel values and multiply by 12 and that is the measurement in twips.  So for pixel values divide by twelve.  

[Yarb]

Boy GSXRMovistar that is a SWEET skin, so sweet I have finally got some inspiration on a front end for my Cab. It looks like Dragon King time for me. I had one question. Is there any way to skin the info screen? It would be very cool to be able to make a screen with the cab, marquee and other stuff not shown on a skin and to display the history.dat there.

Yarb

[Aceldamor]

That's bloody fantastic!!!     .  

I haven't played with the skinner, mainly because I don't have a theme for my cab yet....just out of curiosity what are your opinions on ease of use?

Fantastic work GSXR on your skin, and Thanks for the fantastic FE Howard!!

[AlanS17]

I really like it. That's about all I have to say about that.

[GSXRMovistar]

I haven't played with the skinner, mainly because I don't have a theme for my cab yet....just out of curiosity what are your opinions on ease of use?

Its a good little app, a few little bugs/issues I found whilst using it, but it does the job and thats what counts!

[bdp]

I LOVE THIS SKIN!

Please keep us posted when you make revisions.

I can't seem to get the snaps to display yet, but it looks amazing.  I am going to work on  making myself more custom logos for the different emus and adding my own instructions.

LOVE THIS!  Thank you for sharing it with us!

BDP

[GSXRMovistar]

Just an quick note to say my website has had a bit of an update and the link to this skin has now moved to

http://www.runriot.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/arcade/downloads/GameNotOverDKskin.zip

GSXR