Unofficial Launcher Skin Directory [Abandoned]

[pwisaguacate]

[ABANDONED] Launcher Skin Thread

See post #2 below for information on making skins.
See post #3 below for information on submitting a skin.

April 26, 2013: Ren'Py 6.15 was released five weeks ago, but the skinning feature remained nearly unmentioned throughout the forum and rarely used. This thread is created for the purpose of getting more people to know about themes and maybe talk about them.

2014: POSTPONED INDEFINITELY


Skins

To use a skin, just extract the .zip and place the "theme" folder within renpy-sdk\launcher\game and then run the launcher!


"Default Skin" Eileen [download]

Behold the sacred original released by PyTom himself, featuring Ren'Py's mascot Eileen. Yes, it's the same one from the download page! Some of you might recognize the original image from the 2012 thread celebrating PyTom's birthday!

From this point on I will refer to this as the "default skin". I have not changed its contents besides the .zip's filename, so the theme.rpy will be missing the other init block, which I needed in Mirai Suenaga's to be able to change the font.

Now YOU too can feel like an elite!

Mirai Suenaga [download]

I'm not that lazy (okay maybe I am) but I noticed that the buttons were conveniently already blue and orange, so this gave me the perfect idea. I looked through DeviantART, and this image was the only one I saw that closely matched Eileen's. I thought it was nice and cool.

Mirai Suenaga is the site mascot character for Culture Japan (dannychoo.com). The fanart is drawn by Ladre at DeviantART. The font "ITC Ronda" is a commercial font, so instead I used Ronda, which is freeware.

Danny choo choo!

"Parody" Backgrounds?

This is an experimental idea. Basically, use a white background, minor additions allowed, with a winking character on the right side. In general, it should show upper-thighs up unless the character is short or chibified. Don't forget to fade as needed (transparent white layer works).

[pwisaguacate]

[ABANDONED]

Creating a Skin

For the time being, this documentation page provides the basic how-to. The default skin uses the code placed here.

Snippets

Coming soon.

[pwisaguacate]

[ABANDONED]

Submitting a Skin

Attach your skin, or background only if there's currently no build skin for it (simply uses default skin), here. I will list and link it onto the main post. Since this thing is kinda new, we need to have some decent backgrounds rolling in, so don't worry to much about customization yet.

[Bombermans]

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ORIGINAL POST:

These skins doesn't work anymore with the new Renpy Editor

It gives the following error:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
File "game/front_page.rpy", line 248, in script
File "renpy/common/000statements.rpy", line 447, in python
IOError: Couldn't find file 'pattern.png'.

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EDIT: I fixed it!

I took a peek at http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/skins.html , and I compared the theme.rpy that I downloaded from the Eileen's skin from here. I saw that the lines:

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    # An image used as a separator pattern.
    PATTERN = "images/pattern.png"
    
    # A displayable used for the background of windows 
    # containing commands, preferences, and navigation info.
    WINDOW = "#ffffff80" # Frame("images/window.png", 0, 0, tile=True)

Didn't had images/ line. I changed it, and know it does work! I also noticed that the code lines

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    # A displayable used for the background of everything.
    BACKGROUND = "theme/theme_background.jpg"    

Are different in the documentation (mainly, all the images are now stored at /images and not at /theme anymore. So it was just a route problem. ^^ I only changed that. Anyway, you should update the download links when you can so that the skins may work on Renpy 17 too.

[anh0814]

Hi, thank you for the lovely theme.

I just want to leave a little update on how to use the Eileen theme on Ren'Py 7.3.5, it took me a while to figure it out and I though someone else might enjoy it as well.

The download link above is dead, but when I go into the RenPy directory, to the folder called launcher. I noticed that RenPy actually has this theme and background image already in their package!

All you have to do is to put that folder, called theme, into the game folder!

It should work just fine as is, though I tweaked a bit to my preference. Here is the code:

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init python:

    # The color of non-interactive text.
    TEXT = "#545454"

    # Colors for buttons in various states.
    IDLE = "#42637b"
    HOVER = "#d86b45"
    DISABLED = "#808080"

    # Colors for reversed text buttons (selected list entries).
    REVERSE_IDLE = "#78a5c5"
    REVERSE_HOVER = "#d86b45"
    REVERSE_TEXT = "#ffffff"

    # Colors for the scrollbar thumb.
    SCROLLBAR_IDLE = "#dfdfdf"
    SCROLLBAR_HOVER = "#d86b45"

    # An image used as a separator pattern.
    PATTERN = "images/pattern.png"

    # A displayable used for the background of everything.
    BACKGROUND = "theme/theme_background.jpg"

    # A displayable used for the background of windows
    # containing commands, preferences, and navigation info.
    WINDOW = "#ffffff80" # Frame("images/window.png", 0, 0, tile=True)

    # A displayable used for the background of the projects list.
    PROJECTS_WINDOW = Null()

    # A displayable used the background of information boxes.
    INFO_WINDOW = "#ffffff80" # Frame("images/window.png", 0, 0, tile=True)

    # Colors for the titles of information boxes.
    ERROR_COLOR = "#d15353"
    INFO_COLOR = "#545454"
    INTERACTION_COLOR = "#d19753"
    QUESTION_COLOR = "#d19753"

    # The color of input text.
    INPUT_COLOR = "#d86b45"