EZ-Flash USA Forum

Brief introduction:
Many friends got in trouble with the new skin file structure after they upgraded to k2.0, and can not build their skin at once.
There was an friend named sunshinemm has made a EZ Skin Editor, but that editor is not very friendly and easily to use for beginners, it also require a very big .Net Framework to be support, what is more, the author is missing currently, so no one update her tool for support new EZ 2.0 kernel.
For helping some friends who like making skins and do well in design works but get in troublesome with technique and new EZ kernel, to build there nice looking skins for EZ Flash V, our favourite card. My french friend and I decided to develop a new and easy using Skin Editor, that is EZ Skin Forger.

Feature:
1. Easy using and visual User Interface.
2. Enabled and disabled Items freely, adjust the position of icons with drag and drop, collision check feature.
3. Auto Mark non-image items, help users do debugging.
4. Switch between Design Mode and Preview Mode any time, test skin and the dynamic effects of button press.
5. Auto Convert Image format feature, convert some pictures that can be displayed on computer screen correctly but can not suit the EZ5 kernel to valid format automatically.
6. Build single EZSkin.ini or full skin pack directly.
7. Take snapshot of upperscreen and lowerscreen, share your works to your friends on forum easily.
8. Multilanguage support (Currently Chinese Simplified, English, Japanese, French available)

Specially thanks to Mbmax for his advices and testing work and his other help, also thanks to Moonlight--the author of packing module in this tool. This tool will not be finished without them.

EZ Skin Forger---An skin design tool for EZ Flash V/Plus/i Kernel 2.0 series.

Sorry about my poor English translation---Cheryl Natsu

RN96 :
- added plug-ins feature. See the plug-ins folder for more information.
- provided MS2SkinPreviewforEZV.plg to let you preview fully the current skin loaded in ESF.
- fixed a glitch on TGF files once compiled. Now transparency is used instead of background merge.
- imageconverter been udpated to version 006.
Note : be sure to unzip the full package. Do not update only the EZSkinForger.exe file.

RN93 :
- fixed check box item bug that appeared in RN92.
If picture path was provided and the box unchecked (not visible), pictures were displayed once compiled !
Sorry about that.

RN92 :
- makeskin.exe is no longer used. Fully integrated in ESF code now.
- fixed the 1 pixel bug on touchscreen icons.
- fixed file select bar transparency. Now properly displayed. Refresh window after changed the value in tweak window.
- added Software information in skin's properties
- added drag option to the top screen scroll bar. Drag the bar to have a better view of the SB_BG.png picture.
- fixed scroll_bar.png size to match properly the cheat window scroll bar. 14x136 into 14x144.
- added white (transparency 64) to picture scroll_bar.png and SB_BG.png in default template.
- added makeskin.exe 128 line fix from Carpfish in the tutorial folder. Some Splash animation shouldn't be broken anymore now.

RN90 :
- modified top screen preview so it can display all template pictures. Closer to reality now.
- added new entry in items called "File List Items" : here you can modify system text colors and the file list selected text background.
- added tweak menu to modify advanced settings (Blur, darken, custom selected text background, file list selected item background transparency)
- added the ability to use custom template. ESF will use the skinname_template_files folder if it found it next to your skinname.ess.
- tweak values are now stored in .ess project and .dat skin. No need anymore to edit the setting.ini file of ESF. [/quote]

RN86 :
- both screens snapshot enabled.
- fixed a bug in Japanese language.
- fixed template bug : open .dat and save in .ess project. At compilation, bug happened. No template in DAT file ! Now fixed.
- added properties in file menu.

RN82 :
- FL_Double_ItemBG_Select.png color was not handled properly in RN81. fixed now.
- added both screen in snapshot menu. Not yet operational.

RN81 :
New templates added in this version in case of further feature added in next kernels.
Also a new mode appeared, the freemode. Let you move location of icons with left click and test icon with right click. Enjoy !

Official change log :


R70 :
Cheryl has added a homepage to ez skin forger R70 and a wizard for rookie skinners based on my icon pack for dummies.
See snapshots bellow :




R65 :
Cheryl has added the ability to change the file browser bar color transparency.
Just edit setting.ini with notepad before you start ESF, and change field value FileListSelectItemBGTransparency from 0 to 255 (255 plain color). Default value is 170.
Note that now image converter is set by default (no more GDI+). Vista and seven are fully supported along with windows XP.

R62 :
We can now open .dat file and save it as .ess project.

Notice that R62 now pack all sources files, even template one. In that case new skin made with R62 will not suffer of loose quality once unpacked and transparency is kept.

A special thanks to a great guy called Carpfish. Without his help, the new unpack feature will not be a reality.