[Release] Dynamic Theme Editor (by zembor0)

04-09-2011, 02:37 PM #1

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If you get a "Invalid file size" error make sure you have saved the image with the correct setting. The settings are at the bottom of this post.

You will need:

1. Dynamic theme editor
2. Photoshop
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Guide:

Run Dynamic theme editor and select Price of Persia

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Select "open" under step 2. This will show you the folder of images that you can edit. In this guide I will edit “CircularSmoke_01.gtf_1” and “SOT_Theme_BackGround.gtf_1” and “TrilogyLogo.gtf_1”. Simple open photoshop, open each image in turn and copy and paste the provided images bellow into each dds file. You need to past it on the RGB layer and the alpha layer.

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If you want to change the icons in the xmb click the open button next to step 3. You can then edit the png files. Don’t change the resolution for format of the image.

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Now click the theme details button and change them as you like.

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Click the browser button and select where you want to save your theme.
The Prince of Persia theme that we are editing has lots of other pictures that we have not edited, so we don’t want to show them. This is where we ick which effects we want to remove. Tick them as shown:

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Finally press start, you should see a black bock pop up at the bottom of that it will say “press enter”. So press enter when prompted. Now you should have your theme in you save destination.

Setting for the images:

Prince of Persia:
for all of the prince of persia pictures use these setting
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Heavy Rain:
For all of the heavy rain pictures use these settings
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Make.Belive:
For alpha_01 use these settings
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For moebius use these settings
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Wakeboard:
For all wakeboard pictures use these settings
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Angel Senki:
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Originally posted by another user

If you want some advice, use Paint.NET, which natively supports .DDS images. When you save your .DDS, chose "DXT5 (interpolated Alpha)" with "Iterative Fit (Slowest/HQ)". These settings gives you the best quality while keeping the file size exactly the same as the original DDS.

You can also make your theme use the default XMB icons. Just delete the whole "<icon>, </icons>" tags in the XML file of the base theme you're editing!

Example Themes

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More customizations for my PS3 Smile

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04-09-2011, 07:49 PM #29

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Originally posted by dPaws

****ing awesome, We should all work on a NGU dynamic theme!
I'm on Ubuntu though, so I can't run these, not until I make it so I can, its going to be a while ;c

use wine... it allows you to use windows programs on ubuntu

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04-09-2011, 08:01 PM #31

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thanks for sharing been waiting for this kind of thing to be made Happy

04-09-2011, 08:08 PM #32

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Very Nice! Very Good! Thanks Very Much !

04-09-2011, 08:17 PM #33

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Originally posted by manster

How to create a custom dynamic theme

You will need:
1. Dynamic theme editor
2. Photoshop
3. Photoshop dds plugin You must login or register to view this content.

Guide:

Run Dynamic theme editor and select Price of Persia

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Select "open" under step 2. This will show you the folder of images that you can edit. In this guide I will edit “CircularSmoke_01.gtf_1” and “SOT_Theme_BackGround.gtf_1” and “TrilogyLogo.gtf_1”. Simple open photoshop, open each image in turn and copy and paste the provided images bellow into each dds file. You need to past it on the RGB layer and the alpha layer.

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If you want to change the icons in the xmb click the open button next to step 3. You can then edit the png files. Don’t change the resolution for format of the image.

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Now click the theme details button and change them as you like.

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Click the browser button and select where you want to save your theme.
The Prince of Persia theme that we are editing has lots of other pictures that we have not edited, so we don’t want to show them. This is where we ick which effects we want to remove. Tick them as shown:

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Finally press start, you should see a black bock pop up at the bottom of that it will say “press enter”. So press enter when prompted. Now you should have your theme in you save destination.

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More customizations for my PS3 Smile

Nice find but i got an error
If i want press the start button.

It says
"Invalid File Size"

I have the 32 bit and i do it like in the tutorial with the Nvidia Tool set like in the Tut.

But it dont works... pls help

04-09-2011, 08:20 PM #34

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cool now we just need people to upload

04-09-2011, 08:29 PM #35

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Originally posted by HIvkid

Nice find but i got an error
If i want press the start button.

It says
"Invalid File Size"

I have the 32 bit and i do it like in the tutorial with the Nvidia Tool set like in the Tut.

But it dont works... pls help

If you get an invalid file size error make sure you have not changed the resolution of the picture and make sure when you save the picture the file size stays the same(You may need to change the MIP Map Generation)

04-09-2011, 09:02 PM #36

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32 bit version link is down can i get a upload?

nevermind i refreshed and it's back up thank you

04-09-2011, 09:08 PM #37

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Originally posted by 4th

32 bit version link is down can i get a upload?

nevermind i refreshed and it's back up thank you

It's megaupload, it is always temperamental with upload files.