Overview

The Intermediate area of this tutorial is designed to build upon the concepts and ideas from the Beginner area. If you are comfortable with all the topics from the Beginner area, then select a section below or proceed to Animation.

Animation

The Animation section demonstrates how to create an animated PNG and how to use it with an AnimatedLayer Object in the XML.

Animated Volume(by Frames)

The Animated Volume(by Frames) section uses an Animated Layer to display the current volume using a pre-made MAKI script.

Animated Seek(by Region)

The Animated Seek(by Regions) section explains how, using another pre-made MAKI script, to represent the song position using a single image and regions.

Shade Layout

The Shade Layout section discusses the implementing of additional Layouts and how to switch between Layouts in a skin.

Visualizer

The Visualizer section covers how to add and customize the Spectrum Analyzer and the Oscilloscope of the built-in Visualizer Object.

Gamma Groups

The Gamma Groups section shows you how to create Gamma Groups and how to alter their appearance using Gammasets.

GammaWorker

The GammaWorker section shows you how to use rpeterclark's GammaWorker program to make your color theming even easier.

Thinger

The Thinger section explains how to create a customized, standalone Thinger for your skin.

Equalizer

The Equalizer section explains how to create a customized, standalone Equalizer for your skin.