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Subversion RSS / Logs.

As you may notice, I've readded SVN log's back to the site, I've also added a RSS feed for it, SVN RSS .

Should be updated when someone commits a change to svn. As you can see from the latest check in's things are moving along smoothly so far.

Server Maintenance

edit - all done

Server may come down for a few hours this weekend, for some upgrades, and other misc fixes/changes. So don't get your panties in a bunch if you can't visit the site or view svn.

It should not be down for more then a few hours, but like always things do not always go according to plan, this is getting ready for the launch of the alpha and other things.

So stay tuned, by the way, refreshing the page every 5 seconds will not make the alpha come any sooner to you hammering the server.

Configurable Scenes

Configurable Scenes

A configurable scene is a special scene that TeamFSD created to expand capabilities to an individual skinning for Freestyle Dash.  XUITool provides a wide array of tools and properties to modify your skin and achieve the exact look you want.  However, somethings just are not possible in XuiTool and require the internal code to be modified to achieve additional properties.

With this, we created an object called the ConfigurableScene, an extension into the code.

Currently, every skin will require a skin.xml file placed in the base directory.  The skin.xml file is the your skin settings file and contains all the data necessary to get your skin to react the way you intend.  (Creating a skin.xml is outlined in an alternate how-to document).

Disclaimer- We are not here to teach you "how" to skin; so the next section requires some knowledge and reading into technical documents.

First, the best way to understand this is going to be by example.  (I will use an AvatarScene)

I created an XuiScene in my skin at the size and with the properties my skin requires.  I then set the ClassOverride Property to ScnAvatarRenderer to let the scene know how to act.

ScnAvatarRenderer has different Configurable Properties:

INTERNALRES
PLAYWALKINANIM
PLAYERINDEX
HIDEONERROR
AVATARSHADOW
AUTOROTATE
ANIMATIONINDEX
ROTATION

Each property has a preprogrammed default value associated with it.  These values will are illustrated in the skinning how-to.  Aside the default value, there is also a list of known-accepted values that each property can accept.

For example, the PLAYERINDEX property can be set to 1-4 representing the avatar for signed in user 1, 2, 3 or 4 and any other number that will create a random avatar.

To use this in skin.xml you need to create a block of text with the following syntax:

<ScnAvatarRenderer>
<Instance id="SceneName">
<PLAYERINDEX>1</PLAYERINDEX>
</Instance>
</ScnAvatarRenderer>

SceneName will represent the name you gave your scene in XuiTool.

In the case you had 2 avatar scenes in one .xur file, it might look something like this:

<ScnAvatarRenderer>
<Instance id="Avatar">
<PLAYWALKINANIM>TRUE</PLAYWALKINANIM>
</Instance>
<Instance id="AvaterPlayer2">
<PLAYERINDEX>1</PLAYERINDEX>
<AUTOROTATE>ON</AUTOROTATE>
</Instance>
</ScnAvatarRenderer>

As you can see there are many many ways you can customize your scenes to work better for you.  TeamFSD is working to provide as many options as possible to the skinner.

Stay tuned for other technical documents...

Skinning How To

Good evening everyone!  While I don't have anything visual to share with you or some awesome new features to present, I do have something that many may find helpful.  I have put together a rough draft of the skinning possibilities into a how-to form.

Keep in mind; this is rough draft.  I will explain configurable scenes, hideable scenes, how to write a skin.xml, how to write visualists, backgroundlists, and how to write default menu settings for your skin all in later drafts of the how to.

I will also update this to a wiki format- after I learn how.  haha.  Anyway- I apologize for any typos and hope this helps someone out there!

http://pastebin.com/Tu9mVjC4