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Polymorphic: Skins
Published by on Tuesday, June 30, 2009
A few days ago Taeo and I received an email from graphic artist and previous WoW.com blogger Shelbi Roach. Contained in the email was a beautiful screenshot of TaeoUI 1.0 re-skinned to match the T8 Paladin set (below). She (and her husband, Jon Roach) graciously offered to share the skin with us, along with a set of others that she had made. Obviously, we were blown away by the skin and accepted the offer instantly. However, up until this point, we had no capability to integrate skins into the UI. But as of today, I am pleased to announce that TaeoUI 2.0 can support custom, user-made skins.
Skinning TaeoUI is as simple as making your custom graphics, and then filling out a few lines in a template add-on that we supply. Once the template is completed, TaeoUI will auto-recognize your add-on as a custom skin set and add it the configuration menus. At that point, the user can select your skin and click update to try it out. From the user’s perspective it’s even easier. Just download a skin, drop it in the AddOns folder, and apply it from the config menu.
Because we chose to place skins in their own add-ons, they can be downloaded and added to TaeoUI at any time after installing main package. This choice also means that they can be indepentantly packaged by their creators, and distributed without having to involve us in the process at all. But don’t think you’re through with us yet =P. Taeo is looking into adding a special section of the site for hosting user contributed skins. Stay tuned for more info on that feature in the future.
In wrapping up, I’d like to thank Jon and Shelbi Roach once more for the awesome skins that prompted this new feature. That does it for this installment of Polymorphic.
~Polydwarf
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