Hey guys,
is it possible to create some animated weather icons for our manilla 2d? maybe like rumball did for weatherpanel!
I looked into the files and i found out that the one and only animated weather is the rain!
There are about 30 *.brn files. It is possible to convert these files into bmp-files.
I found a tool in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=325424
Who knows how to edit the manilla 2d?
greetings
anybody who wants the same or can help me?
i put a request in directly to Rumball...let's see if he answers
Rumball already made a complete animated set, how many more do you need?
The set he already made takes up a good bit of memory as is, and you can only have so many icons.
As I indicated at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2720685&postcount=22, I'm willing to support this by generating BRN files of my animations...but there are a couple of things that need to happen first:
1) M2D uses BRN files to render its animations. My understanding is one BRN file per frame of the animation. Someone would have to figure out how to modify Manilla-2D so as to get it to look for BRN-image frames (and therefore display animations) for all the weather conditions (currently it only does this for rain).
2) my WeatherPanel animations are about 40Megs in size and consist of about 1000frames of animation. So that would translate into 1000 BRN files that you'd need to have in order to replacate my weatherpanel animations in M2D. As TheChampJT above suggests, these BRN files will take up a LOT of space and therefore would obviously need to go on a storage card. Therefore M2D would also have to be modified to look for its BRN files on the storage card rather than in the Windows directory.
3) Someone needs to throw together a program that can batch convert image files into BRN files...there is NO way I'm manually generating over 1000 BRN files!
If someone can figure out how to do 1, 2 and 3 with M2D then I can look into outputting my animations into BRN frames.
Edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=346910
That is an awesome program, converts brn to bmp and bmp to brn...all drag and drop...and I just confirmed it allows you to drop multiple files onto it
My other suggestion is this. Convert the animations to BRN and package them all into a zip with seperate folders for each 'weather type'. Users could then choose which animations they want on their phone...like I had mentioned in my pm...I probably only see about 3-5 different weather types in my area "most" of the time. I can't imagine it's that different for everyone else.
So I was going to try and make a single animation...just to see if I could do it.
Before I ask I am running the ROM in my sig which is using Manilla 2D built in. It does include one animated weather set for "Rain" and it does work.
Here is my question. How does Manilla/Weather tab know which files to access for various weather conditions. I didn't see it in the registry so it must be a file somewhere? I'll do some looking around.
The animation for the weather icons is named HH_rainbrush_00 through 22. The non animated weather is just HH_weather_01 through 44
laakness said:
So I was going to try and make a single animation...just to see if I could do it.
Before I ask I am running the ROM in my sig which is using Manilla 2D built in. It does include one animated weather set for "Rain" and it does work.
Here is my question. How does Manilla/Weather tab know which files to access for various weather conditions. I didn't see it in the registry so it must be a file somewhere? I'll do some looking around.
The animation for the weather icons is named HH_rainbrush_00 through 22. The non animated weather is just HH_weather_01 through 44
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Maybe it's the exe file which controls the weather icons. I've searched for in the htchomesettings.xml and ther is nothing to find.
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Maybe it's the exe file which controls the weather icons. I've searched for in the htchomesettings.xml and ther is nothing to find.
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You're probably right, I'm just curious if there is any way to find out what those names may be if I were to creat an animation for partly cloudy or something.
EDIT: I guess I didn't read Rumball's first condition above correctly :-D
So I threw Manila2d.exe into IDA disassembler (which I am NO expert at using). But, from what I can gather, the rain animation and other file names are hard coded into the exe themselves.
I see some specific references to LoadRainBrushIcon and the rainbrush brn animation as well as the static HH_WEATHER_%02d.png numbered files.
Looks like to get all the weather animated some one would have to rewrite Manila2d.exe :-/
laakness said:
EDIT: I guess I didn't read Rumball's first condition above correctly :-D
So I threw Manila2d.exe into IDA disassembler (which I am NO expert at using). But, from what I can gather, the rain animation and other file names are hard coded into the exe themselves.
I see some specific references to LoadRainBrushIcon and the rainbrush brn animation as well as the static HH_WEATHER_%02d.png numbered files.
Looks like to get all the weather animated some one would have to rewrite Manila2d.exe :-/
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Ya...I was kind of suspecting that. :/ Sorry guys!
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Ya...I was kind of suspecting that. :/ Sorry guys!
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I wish throttlelauncher was just as fast as Manilla as an interface...I'd then really consider buying the marsware weather program and donating for your weather icons :-/
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I wish throttlelauncher was just as fast as Manilla as an interface...I'd then really consider buying the marsware weather program and donating for your weather icons :-/
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WeatherPanel is a free application. Visit here for more information: http://pixel.citadel.org/weatherpanel/index.php?sid=e9ef0641461818584d9584d6e600173b
laakness said:
I wish throttlelauncher was just as fast as Manilla as an interface...I'd then really consider buying the marsware weather program and donating for your weather icons :-/
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if were wishing why not just wish manilla supported plugins for the weather
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I have seen various posts about changing paths and icons in the cube, but what i would like to know is . Is there a way of having it match your today screen instead of charcoal colour. Imagine having your theme Guava bubbles and your cube reflecting the same.Would be nice if someone could come up with a way
I Think you've juste to edit and chnge each color of uour *.png installed in your Windows directory or HTCHome directory
Just copy them to your Windows Desktop to view which one you have to edit
and then replace them
The only problem is that the animations themselfs (when the cube is actualy moving) are hardcoded. It shows when you have some different icons on the cube. When rotating, the old icons appear on the locations you had new ones
I think someone was trying to edit the animation as well.
The animation is actually a sort of movie thing so it uses less resources. Its hard to change it, since no one knows the format But someone is editting it so it moves different I thought.
The animation is formed of multiple ".brn" files. There is an application to transform brn to bmp but nothing to merge from bmp to brn so for the moment no color edition is posible during the animation.
thanks for all the info people. much appreciated. i guess with time this situation will change but for now will keep default. cant see no point in changing something if its gonna use defaults as soon as you rotate.
xvx45 said:
The animation is formed of multiple ".brn" files. There is an application to transform brn to bmp but nothing to merge from bmp to brn so for the moment no color edition is posible during the animation.
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so it would be at least possible to "debrand" a branded cube when I take the .brn files of an unbranded Touch?
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so it would be at least possible to "debrand" a branded cube when I take the .brn files of an unbranded Touch?
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if its possible let me know..
other question: how can ich change the hh_launcher*.png icons, the ones on tab 3 of the homeplugin? overwrite doesn´t work.
thx
frufo2000 said:
if its possible let me know..
other question: how can ich change the hh_launcher*.png icons, the ones on tab 3 of the homeplugin? overwrite doesn´t work.
thx
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Try to overwrite all the *.brn files in \windows with the attached original HTC ones and your cube should be debranded - but you have the icons from HTC and the links "behind" the icons from your provider.
It is possible that they are different.
If you want to get back simply delete all those files and your original ROM files should come back instead.
But to be save backup all your*.brn files before
I think it should also be possible to overwrite the hh_launcher*.png icons.
Simply disable the HTC Home element in your today screen settings before overwriting these files. Should work in my opinion
Where are the rest of the animation BRNs
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Try to overwrite all the *.brn files in \windows with the attached original HTC ones and your cube should be debranded - but you have the icons from HTC and the links "behind" the icons from your provider.
It is possible that they are different.
If you want to get back simply delete all those files and your original ROM files should come back instead.
But to be save backup all your*.brn files before
I think it should also be possible to overwrite the hh_launcher*.png icons.
Simply disable the HTC Home element in your today screen settings before overwriting these files. Should work in my opinion
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Hey, I downloaded your zip file, but it was missing several animation brns. I'm looking for the following in the same original HTC format.
A2.brn, A4.brn, B2.brn, B4.brn, C2.brn, C4.brn
Thanks!
Or,....
You just take these "clean" files and have no icons on the rotating cube .
I'm not in a mood of sorting them out for you just download and take a look wich ones you need
Greetz,
I have tried to search and find what to do to install a theme that has icons, and cannot figure it out. Do I need some program that everyone is using? Also on dialer skins how are those installed?
Do skins kill battery life or use alot of system resources?
Thanks
What theme? If its HTC home, you install the .cab file from the phone or sync the phone to pc and double click .exe.
If its a .tsk file, Put the file in the windows directory of the phone then go to today screen and select from there.
Skins dont use a lot of system resources UNLESS they are actively doing something( S2U2 for example if you install a moving gif as your wallpaper) as they are just being used instead of the originals.. Cheers...
yea, u need to be a wee bit more clear as to what you want, you're probably new and dont know the right terms, so maybe if you posted some pics we could understand a bit better what u are trying to achieve.
this is the style im looking for http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=51534&d=1190401691 with the big clock and some icons below. I think that I will need a plug in to show the icons. I installed a tsk theme but it only changed the color of the top and bottom bars, but did not show the large clock or icons like that one. I saved it to the memory card, not within a folder and I was able to browse find and install it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Sorry Im New
thanks,
Nicholas
that big clock is the htc home plugin, which you can download all over this forum, or at www.pocketemu.com which incidentally also has another program called htc home customizer, which would be the easiest way to customize the home icons. It may not have that exact theme you are looking for, so the best way to get that theme is to ask the person who posted that screenshot
XtreMe_G said:
that big clock is the htc home plugin, which you can download all over this forum, or at www.pocketemu.com which incidentally also has another program called htc home customizer, which would be the easiest way to customize the home icons.
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Ditto. Welcome to the addiction...I'm lucky to keep the same clock and icons for more than a week...
Hi all,
Before anyone starts flaming, I have tried to do a search and gone through nearly all the pages that come up, but yet to find an answer.
Question is, I would like to have the weather icons replaced with the ones shown in Spbweather, is there a way to achieve this without the need to change to 'UserWeather' and have mortscripts active? Surely that has to be...
I've had a look at the SpbWeather directory and I've noticed in each of the skins folders, there is a zip file for 32x32 and 16x16 and in each there is a single .bmp file with two rows of icons. Will I need to edit these so it will be in similar format as the weather.png within S2U2 directory for it to pick it up?
Thanks
yes spbweather icons are together on a file
so you have to put the file on your PC and make selection and copy paste to differents png
look at spb site to help about the number of different png
I was using s2u2 with spb weather and iconswere not displayed , I understand why now , probably because of the file format
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Hi all,
Before anyone starts flaming, I have tried to do a search and gone through nearly all the pages that come up, but yet to find an answer.
Question is, I would like to have the weather icons replaced with the ones shown in Spbweather, is there a way to achieve this without the need to change to 'UserWeather' and have mortscripts active? Surely that has to be...
I've had a look at the SpbWeather directory and I've noticed in each of the skins folders, there is a zip file for 32x32 and 16x16 and in each there is a single .bmp file with two rows of icons. Will I need to edit these so it will be in similar format as the weather.png within S2U2 directory for it to pick it up?
Thanks
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not flaming but why start a new thread ? why not post in the S2U2 thread ???
Replying in a thread like that seems to always get masked especially considering the vast number of pages in that single thread. But nevertheless I do apologise, I guess my question would have been more appropriate in that thread.
And to brunoisa10
I don't see how that would work, I initially though that would solve my problem, however if Spbweather is chosen as the preferred weather application, S2U2 seems to ignore any files contained in \gfx\weather
Can you just clarify...
You want the weather icons on the S2U2 screen to be the same as the ones you currently see in spbWeather on your Today screen?
What icons are you using in spbWeather at the moment?
davehutch said:
You want the weather icons on the S2U2 screen to be the same as the ones you currently see in spbWeather on your Today screen?
What icons are you using in spbWeather at the moment?
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Yes that is correct, sorry I wasn't accurate. I'm currently using stardock icons at the moment.
This is a Set of 47 Weather Icons in Realize-Style that fit to my newest Icon Set. Sorry that I open a new thread because i have no more Space on the first Post of my old thread to upload or show pictures..
This is made especially (but not only) for ifonz, because Sid-Shrunk found a way with mortscript to show the actual Weather with a Icon and temperature and by pressing on the weather icon a forecast on the next four icons appears (!) See more here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=439875
1. First ZIP: 96x96 original tranparent PNGs, and 52x52 PNG (optimized for a dark or black ifonz background)
2. NEW: Another Zip with 48 Pixel Icons for Ifonz, because ifonz itself doesn`t render/resize Icons very good
Anyone can use this for any application, even for s2u2 weather. If you want to use this or my other icon sets for ROMS or Apps you don`t need to ask, just give me credits.
The Icons have four different backgrounds (Day, day-snow,night, night snow). I used also the manila/rumball or whatever graphics, so if anyone here or Rumball is the designer of the original weather graphics, please tell it to me. Thank you
I just can say whau,
perfect smooth look. I'm thinkig about changing my iconset to realize look. Hope we'll get a lot of weatherchanges in next days
oh wow they look awesome...... be even more awesome for VGA marsware ... hint hint...... but yeah i really think it's awesome
thank you, glad you like it, united bavarian tech power with Sid-Shrunk
Icons can be used for other weather apps because they are big enough and i made also transparent pngs, but i don´t know how to create a weatherpanel skin.
EDIT: I updated 48x48 Icons for Ifonz, because ifonz itself doesn`t resize Icons very good.
Very nice icons blue, thanks
Great looking icons, I'll definitely be using these
I somehow missed this release, great job blue..
S2U2 and SPB weather
Blue,
Just really took a close look at your realize icons, and I LOVE THEM!!
I would like to use your weather icons for S2U2. I get my weather from SPB weather, and it has all its icons in one png file. I have attached the original, do you have your realize icons in a single strip like this?
Thanks
Your friend Wolf
Wolfkmann said:
Blue,
Just really took a close look at your realize icons, and I LOVE THEM!!
I would like to use your weather icons for S2U2. I get my weather from SPB weather, and it has all its icons in one png file. I have attached the original, do you have your realize icons in a single strip like this?
Thanks
Your friend Wolf
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Interested too... ;-)
okay, will take a look tonight in s2u2 and how it handels this weather stripe. but i'm sure doing this won't be a funny job for me hehe
wolf can you post my the original weather stripe, i deleted it for some reason from my device
Blue,
I attached the original strip in my post on page 1 of this thread. If that doesn't work, let me know, I can PM it to you.
thanky you i´ve seen that, but i get only this new preview and its jpg, please zip it and post it here or send my a PM, i must see the original size and if its bmp and so on.
weather strip
here is the file right out of my gfx/weather directory it is a .png file that I zipped up.
I haven't heard from you in a while, guessing you are very busy on other projects. I attempted to make my own weather stripe. here it is.
My psd file is included in the zip file, incase anyone wants to improve upon it.
oh, thanks Wolf, to say the truth: i simply forgot your request, Sorry. Thanks again for your work!
Was bored at work, and started to mess around with some slider icons. Here is my first attempt...it's so easy to make them though. Not sure where I got the icons from, so can't say who to give the credit. I used HDWall to make the files though. It outputs the manila files, so all you have to do is unzip the file, and copy over into your windows directory over the original files.
Edit: Not really sure how to make a cab of this though. Anyone know how to?
Here's your slider icons cab...
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Here's your slider icons cab...
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Thanks man. how did you make the cab though? with hdwalls, i can make a cab to change the background pic, but the icons export as manila files.
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Hey, I dig your slider icons, I wish more people put up cabs for small pieces of a UI like this. Unfortunately, when I installed the cab, the page I'm on still shows the original icon, and the rest are blown up too large and only partly visible on the bar. Any ideas on what is causing this? I'm using Valkyrie v5.1tr WM6.5.3 with a couple clock and curtain cabs on top of it. I'd rather not uninstall everything I have on there to test, so do you have any insight on the problem? My thought was that it may have something to do with the ROM version.
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Hey, I dig your slider icons, I wish more people put up cabs for small pieces of a UI like this. Unfortunately, when I installed the cab, the page I'm on still shows the original icon, and the rest are blown up too large and only partly visible on the bar. Any ideas on what is causing this? I'm using Valkyrie v5.1tr WM6.5.3 with a couple clock and curtain cabs on top of it. I'd rather not uninstall everything I have on there to test, so do you have any insight on the problem? My thought was that it may have something to do with the ROM version.
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I didn't make the cab, so I'm not sure what's going on with it. I guess I would try to uninstall the cab, and then just dload the .zip file I made and copy it over to your windows directory. I'd make a backup of those manila files first though, just to make sure.
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I didn't make the cab, so I'm not sure what's going on with it. I guess I would try to uninstall the cab, and then just dload the .zip file I made and copy it over to your windows directory. I'd make a backup of those manila files first though, just to make sure.
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you can try to open the cab... you can see that it's all your files that are inside there... didn't change or modify any files... you can make cab installer via hdwall... just explore, it's there somewhere, just add the converted manila files in the cab creator
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you can try to open the cab... you can see that it's all your files that are inside there... didn't change or modify any files... you can make cab installer via hdwall... just explore, it's there somewhere, just add the converted manila files in the cab creator
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Hmm, I'll def have to do some searching around then. I'm pretty interested in making my own cabs. It seems there aren't that many cabs for slider icons or taskbar icons. There are some out there, and there are some really cool ones, but I'd like to start making some more available. It's the easiest way to customize your phone.
Nice slider icons !
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Nice slider icons !
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Thanks man. It's my first go at them, but when finals are over, I'm going to try to make a bunch more with some themes etc... Doesn't seem like there are that many on here.
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Nice slider icons !
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Hey, I checked out the link in your sig, and your sliders are freaking cool man. How did you make them? What program?
A combination of MS Phicture Manager (part of MS Office) / Paint.NET (awesome FREE Photoshop type-app). CAB's made with QuickCAB
I have the process down to about 25 minutes per set now.