Thread: Blue Devil Skin RELEASED

SangreDeThor, Glad is all working pretty well for you now. Sorry I didn't respond to your "PM"

As far as the iGuidance patch, it will work dirrectly with my iGuidance patch that I have on the download site, as it is a patched version. As far as the delay in loading the keyboard patch, you can actually have that program run when you start the computer, and it just sits in the system tray looking for the iG keyboard to appear to replace it.

The skin does look it's best at night for sure. Daytime is pretty tuff on just about any skin. The default "Brushed Metal Skin" for me is very hard to see anything but the lettering and such during direct sunlight, as it is mostly black. The blue devil skin is pretty dark as far as colors go, but there HAS to be a major contrast between the lettering / icons and the buttons and background image for it to be functional.

I have been putting some though and trying to come up with a better way of having the buttons n the same place as you and a couple others have mentioned. It is just difficult to come up with just ONE standard place, as many of the screen change so drasticly, depending on what is required for them. I am working on minimizing the "button shifting locations", and should be much better in a future update here soon.

Well, I don't quite understand what you mean either. Once you are using the iGuidanceUMPC.exe from the download site in the first thread, you will get the iGuidance to match the Blue Devil skin. That .exe has been patched to work with the LostReceptions iGQwerty keyboard replacement.

Originally Posted by lostlurker

Hi John,

While looking into my GPS skin issue I saw that it was calling the External_GPS.skin file which had the IG jpgs not the FreeDrive. When I was working on this inoticed the IGuidance.skin file was named IGiudance.skin. Not that it matters since RR is most likely using the External_GPS.skin for IG users anyways but just a heads up.

Sorry, just read back and saw your post.....

Yea, that was a "Left over" from the original design. In the next release, the "extra" skin will be named iGuidance_WIDE.skin. This is a secondary skin for use with iGuidance that has just the single row of buttons at the bottom of the screen. This gives you a choice of which design you want to use.

To use "bottom buttons" version instead of the version with buttons on both sides of the screen:
1) Rename or delete the external_GPS.skin
2) Then rename the iGuidanceWIDE.skin to external_GPS.skin

Originally Posted by empezza

Hey John - you haven't forgotten about getting the PSDs ready for us have you?

Ok, The PSD for the Main Menu's is now available...
on the Download site in the first post. I have tried to make them as organized and easy to follow as possible. I have also included the font that I used with the PSD as well. Unfortunately, the text on the buttons has been "Rosterized" so the drop shadows could be added. Just move the text lables around wherever you want, and if you need a new lable, just type it out with the font included. Both of the menu's are in the same PSD.

I have noticed that many people create an entire skin in a single PSD. I actually created individual PSD's for each and every screen in the Blue Devil skin. It is WAY to large to upload all 50 PSD's somewhere, so if there is a certain item, button, bar, button on one of the skins that you need, just PM me and I will get it to you as quick as possible.

I'm not sure why it dosent skin allthe iG keyboards, and have noticed that myself. Mabey you can post in LostReceptions thread and see if he is going to try to work on that or not.