XLink Kai 7.4 Skinning Thread.

Kai Spammer Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1204

Since gamer has helped me find where the skins r stored, if u want, they r stored in C:/Documents and Settings/(user)/Application Data/XLink Kai.

From there u should be able to find the two folders in which the skins r held.

This thread is for 7.4 skins discussion and releases.

Kai Admirer Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 487

i'm having a problem testing out the skin, as in seeing my changes that i have made

someone help?

Kai Regular Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 114

Yea same, I rename it to legendary.zip and still the one legend made shows up.

Kai Spammer Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1204

try this....

have kai running, then overwrite a skin with a replacement one (urs), then go on kai and Ctrl + F5 to hard refresh the page (clearing ur cache)

Right now i have a skin almost done and currently working on a webui to accompany it. Very Happy

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 2014

I am still working on some formal skin documentation but I hate to be the bottleneck in anyone's plans to make a skin so here's a quick how-to get started (assuming you are running windows):

First, start off by creating an 'htdocs' sub-folder in your c:\program files\xlink kai folder

Extract an existing skin .zip archive from your applications folder into the htdocs folder you just created. (ex: "C:\Documents and Settings\Your_Username\Application Data\XLink Kai\legendary.zip").

Start Kai with the --dev option from CMD as per:

cd "c:\program files\xlink kai"
kaiengine.exe --dev

Now connect to the web ui from your browser. To switch a skin, enter /skin skin_name. In the case of our example, the skin name is legendary.

So, now you can edit the skin.css file in c:\program files\xlink kai\htdocs\skins\legendary\skin.css. When you are done editing, just click refresh on your browser to see the changes.

Lastly, when you are done, zip skins folder you are working on and name it skin_name.zip where skin_name is whatever you've decided to call the skin. This .zip archive can then be added to the the Kai application directory (as mentioned above) and started using /skin skin_name.

-p

Kai Spammer Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1204

thx p for the advice and update, but one problem, i edited my webui a bit, and everytime it gets done loading, or almost, damn kai auto-updates and overwrites it, NOW could u plz tell me how to make an input box so that when that happens i have the option to overwrite or ignore?

o btw, that skin thing doesnt work for me, it just like refreshes my current css file Confused

Kai Regular Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 114

Yea ive found if you have a skin selected that isnt the one you edited, It gets overwritten. You can get a skin working by selecting a skin in the UI, Say Legendary for example. Now go to your Kai app data folder, Extract Legendary. Edit the CSS and images however you want, Now rezip the skin and rename it the same name as the one you were just using. In this example, Legendary.
Now clear your browser cache and restart kai, Your skin with changes will now appear.

Here's an example of a skin I made.
http://i27.tinypic.com/kbvr55.jpg

Kai Spammer Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1204

Psssh, my skins get overwriten all the time...

Here is my first attempt at a modified webUI, its not much but its a start...

I actually took this image just b4 the damn UI decided to update itself and therefore overwriting my custom UI Sad

EDIT: Here is my skin attempt...currently in progress...

Nintendo Specialist Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 1884

prestige wrote:

Extract an existing skin .zip archive from your applications folder into the htdocs folder you just created. (ex: "C:\Documents and Settings\Your_Username\Application Data\XLink Kai\legendary.zip").

I dont have a directory called Application Data. Ran a search too and nothing came up. The only thing that is in my xlink folder is the engine launch, ui launch and the splash img file.

Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:04 pm

heres a skin ive been working my ass off on that should be out soon

Kai Regular Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 83

that's nice one legend

Kai Admirer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 316

omg pls give me the skin

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 4031

Very nice legend.

Im working on a COD4 Skin Razz

Kai Regular Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 83

duke_uk wrote:

Very nice legend.

Im working on a COD4 Skin Razz

yes duke!

Kai Spammer Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1204

legend, on the topgreen, and submenu background images, make the right and left side blends better, u can still see the mismatch in the end colors Wink

other than that, looks very nice Very Happy

I will be releasing my X-Skin Blue sometime soon here... Wink

Kai Admirer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 316

i wish i could make my own skin Smile

btw i found a good splash thing

How to change the splash photo
TUTORIAL =

For example use this photo http://c.imagehost.org/0977/avatar38449_4.gif
then BACKUP THE ORIGINAL splash file
then rename the the photo "splash"
then restart xlink kai

Nintendo Specialist Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 1884

Lowbrassman04 wrote:

prestige wrote:

Extract an existing skin .zip archive from your applications folder into the htdocs folder you just created. (ex: "C:\Documents and Settings\Your_Username\Application Data\XLink Kai\legendary.zip").

I dont have a directory called Application Data. Ran a search too and nothing came up. The only thing that is in my xlink folder is the engine launch, ui launch and the splash img file.

nvm i found it after everyone online told me it was a hidden folder lmao.

Kai Admirer Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 487

Lowbrassman04 wrote:

prestige wrote:

Extract an existing skin .zip archive from your applications folder into the htdocs folder you just created. (ex: "C:\Documents and Settings\Your_Username\Application Data\XLink Kai\legendary.zip").

I dont have a directory called Application Data. Ran a search too and nothing came up. The only thing that is in my xlink folder is the engine launch, ui launch and the splash img file.

nvm i found it after everyone online told me it was a hidden folder lmao.

lmfao good call lowbrass

Kai Admirer Joined: 18 Mar 2007 Posts: 471

The halo 3 skin is a little messed up, the background doesn't show up anybody else got this?

Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:07 am

It has a couple of glitches which i need to fix so there should be an update for it soon.

@ Gordon. Run the h3 skin in --dev mode and it works fine