If editing the colors of these ensure that the UserPalette option for it in the theme.ini is set to 0.Īfter converting to indexed, go to the colormap dialog and ensure the transparent color (#FF00FF) is color #0 in the colormap. Note: Some images in the DSi theme have their palettes overridden based on the user’s profile color.
When switching to indexed, ensure that Generate optimum palette is checked and Maximum number of colors is set to 16. To edit these in GIMP select Image -> Mode -> RGB to allow changing colors, then when done changing colors select Image -> Mode -> Indexed. These must be 4 BPP (16 color) BMP files files. Purple icons are used when Power LED color is set to Purple in settingsįlashes with batterycharge while charging These can be PNG files or 16-bit ( A1 R5 G5 B5 or X1 R5 G5 B5) BMP files.įlashes with battery1 when the battery is very low Background textures ( background folder) # Note that TWiLight Menu++ is picky about the exact format of the images and it varies by which folder they’re in, so make sure to export as the section says. You can now open whichever image you want to edit in GIMP and continue to the section below based on which folder it’s in. This opens the colormap dialog, which will be helpful when editing paletted images. Once installed, open GIMP and select Windows -> Dockable Dialogs -> Colormap.
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Part 2: Editing images #ĭownload and install GIMP, you can use a different editor if you want but this guide uses GIMP. These can be used as a base for your skin and are already in the correct format so if you have issues later on you can compare with these. The first thing you should do is download the example skins.
GIMP is recommended and will be used for this guide as it’s capable of everything needed. Ideally it should also be able to manually rearrange image palettes. To make a TWiLight Menu++ skin you will need an image editor capable of exporting.