The skinning tutorial has been moved!
The character limit for forum posts and the fact that BBCode is an outdated language that doesnt have any good editors made me move the tutorial. You can find it and many other useful skinning related topics here:

https://tutorial.skinship.xyz/tutorial/introduction

reserving the topcomment because I will probably hit the character limit for the main post soon

also, the part about starting and the song selection is finall up!

how to move that score to bottom?

G8D wrote: 3y1by

how to move that score to bottom?

I'm not totally sure if that is possible. The position of the scorenumbers is defined by their height. So if you add a lot of space onto the top part of the canvas it could work. But you would also need to add the same amount to the bottom of the canvas, otherwise the ranking will be completly broken and this might lead to a size at which osu stops loading the images.

Hello, sorry to bother you but I have some questions maybe you have the answers.

When hitting a hitcircle in a slider, how do I make it so that it doesnt expand larger than the slider?

Also, how do I get rid of the matching lines from circle to circle? I find it quite distracting.

Thanks for your help.

the lines are followpoints. Just add a blank followpoint.png and remove all other followpoint files from your skin.
About the slidercircles: https://cbullet.us/zhq-.txt

Hi
This question insnt about skinning
But, how do you put this thing at the end of all your posts?

You mean the forum signature?
Just go on the web settings https://osu-ppy-sh.tvgratuite.org/home//edit, the third section "Signature".

- Marco - wrote: 5n1a1t

You mean the forum signature?
Just go on the web settings https://osu-ppy-sh.tvgratuite.org/home//edit, the third section "Signature".

you have a comma too much at the end, the link is https://osu-ppy-sh.tvgratuite.org/home//edit

Hi, I'm in the process of making my first skin and I have one question that bothers me: where do I get sounds from? Do I have to gather them from a few skins or can I find them somewhere like a site or something?

Fibrix wrote: o6q4g

Hi, I'm in the process of making my first skin and I have one question that bothers me: where do I get sounds from? Do I have to gather them from a few skins or can I find them somewhere like a site or something?

The easiest way to get nice sounds is to grab them from other skins. The only easy alternatives you have are to look for sounds on sites like freesound.org or take them from games and their menus

sorry to bother you
what is the best way to start a skin
do i start from scratch and make a completely new folder or do i copy and paste a skin
this is the first skin im going to make
thanks

A Normal Thing wrote: 3v1g6j

sorry to bother you
what is the best way to start a skin
do i start from scratch and make a completely new folder or do i copy and paste a skin
this is the first skin im going to make
thanks

Thats a question I can't really give an answer to, since its personal preference. I personally start with a blank folder and the first thing I add are blank files for all the stuff I want to remove. A lot of other people take another skin as a base, this however has the risk that 1) you will be very close to the style of the skin you use as a base and 2) that you will leave some images from the base skin in your skin, making it a mixed skin.
I would probably recommend to start from a new folder, then doing the skin.ini and then whenever you make an element take one from another skin as a base and drop it into your image editor as a reference. This will prevent you from having files from your base skin in your final product

oh no i need more help why am i like this
im using GIMP.so i make a circle on another layer and i want to select that and align it so that its in the middle.
but i cant find anything related to that and i have trouble trying to center the circle
i just want the circle to be aligned nothing else
ok thanks for help again

A Normal Thing wrote: 3v1g6j

oh no i need more help why am i like this
im using GIMP.so i make a circle on another layer and i want to select that and align it so that its in the middle.
but i cant find anything related to that and i have trouble trying to center the circle
i just want the circle to be aligned nothing else
ok thanks for help again

I have no clue about GIMP and there are very few people in the skinning community that use it. Try to PM h3oCharles via PM or Discord.

How to make the grade in photoshop everytime i cant its just hard

KaloyanGFX wrote: n2r16

How to make the grade in photoshop everytime i cant its just hard

"The grade"? What do you mean by that? ranking-[letter]? ranking-[letter]-small? Anything else?

Hi, Im pretty new to skinning scene, but are there any ways to make a gif/animated hp bar (scorebar) in game, I have some seen in some popular skins and wanna make a custom for my own. Regards. Thanks in advance!!

McCreetard wrote: 73305r

Hi, Im pretty new to skinning scene, but are there any ways to make a gif/animated hp bar (scorebar) in game, I have some seen in some popular skins and wanna make a custom for my own. Regards. Thanks in advance!!

There are only a few elements that can be animated, but all follow the same scheme. Make each frame of the animation a seperate file, called scorebar-colour-0, scorebar-colour-1, and so on

RockRoller wrote: 5y132i

McCreetard wrote: 73305r

Hi, Im pretty new to skinning scene, but are there any ways to make a gif/animated hp bar (scorebar) in game, I have some seen in some popular skins and wanna make a custom for my own. Regards. Thanks in advance!!

There are only a few elements that can be animated, but all follow the same scheme. Make each frame of the animation a seperate file, called scorebar-colour-0, scorebar-colour-1, and so on

How can I do that? I have seen people saying After Effects but Ive never tried any..Are there any specific vids that help on this particular topic? Like skining or how to use a program to skin or so so..

McCreetard wrote: 73305r

How can I do that? I have seen people saying After Effects but I've never tried any..Are there any specific vids that help on this particular topic? Like skinning or how to use a program to skin or so so..

There aren't really any videos specifically for skinning but there are videos for learning After Effects or Photoshop or whatever you want to use for creating animations, just keep in mind that the program you're using should be able to export as a png sequence (since that's how osu! reads animations, as RockRoller said), else you might have a hard time separating the frames.

If YouTube isn't enough you can also the Discord servers below and ask for help.

Hope this helped.

I'm having a problem with the selection-mode.png file on my skin. I want the resolution for it to be 1366x768, but it always comes out as 1920x1080. I tried editing the file and changing it that way, but it never works. How can I fix that?

RaymanFP wrote: 6r6r31

I'm having a problem with the selection-mode.png file on my skin. I want the resolution for it to be 1366x768, but it always comes out as 1920x1080. I tried editing the file and changing it that way, but it never works. How can I fix that?

There are selection-mode and selection-mode@2x, you need that one without @2x(SD).

G8D wrote: 3y1by

how to move that score to bottom?

i never thinked this skin hack before but i think you should make the score numbers long vertically like all the screen and if you dont understended it, here a image: https://mega.nz/#!2nxUXQoL!-eJFwHKJyV59dkj_y7NqGjUW8lEXTBXkwkq-vPWCKos

This tutorial has a lot of useful things for those who wants to begin their own skins! I would say thank you RockRoller for helping me and others too on this tutorial

skin

Hi,
Im like a begginer and writing here to understand really what i am doing, i've read the thread and did not see my answer, but now i know i little better what I am doing.
What I am trying to ask is, why the bottom parts like selection-mode are done in 2286x2000, or 2286x1440, when I play and I see these things in 1920x1080. You can see this in SPLOOSH+X+WHITECAT skin, I've tried to do it by myself and i've done this in 1920x1080 and in random number like 2400x2000 to see if this works, and guess what, of course it didnt. Could you explain?

Camillie wrote: 6g4x3l

Hi,
Im like a begginer and writing here to understand really what i am doing, i've read the thread and did not see my answer, but now i know i little better what I am doing.
What I am trying to ask is, why the bottom parts like selection-mode are done in 2286x2000, or 2286x1440, when I play and I see these things in 1920x1080. You can see this in SPLOOSH+X+WHITECAT skin, I've tried to do it by myself and i've done this in 1920x1080 and in random number like 2400x2000 to see if this works, and guess what, of course it didnt. Could you explain?

What the resolution you play it doesnt really matter for skinning. Osu skinning is based on 1366x768 (twice that for HD files). So if you were to assemble a full song selection in e.g. photoshop you would need it to be 2732 x 1536 for HD. This would include menu-back and selection mode, cut off the leftmost 448 pixels for the [email protected] and you will be left with [email protected] needing to be atleast 2284 pixels wide. If you do not want to mess around with what needs to be how big, you can always just use the song selection template that I should have linked in the tutorial.

Hello, How do i uptade my skin inside Osu! Without closing the game

thx for the answer

hi_forever_body wrote: 3a224l

Hello, How do i uptade my skin inside Osu! Without closing the game

thx for the answer

Press Ctrl + Shift + Alt + S

Hello, do you still have the template that is mentioned here in the Top Part section, "There are multiple ways to get around these fringes, but the easiest one would be to just use this top part template that I made for this post. It also has the position of the beatmap info icon on it." When I click on the link it says the puush could not be found.

RunicImpulse wrote: 5q6ev

Hello, do you still have the template that is mentioned here in the Top Part section?

https://puu.sh/FIH5F/158690bda6.rar

I know that a few images and links in this post are broken, but I am working on replacing them

Sorry to bother you but i was wondering how i would edit the selection mode (full)
Like how would i edit it like in photoshop is there a video about it.

-Aak- wrote: 523h2w

Sorry to bother you but i was wondering how i would edit the selection mode (full)

What exactly do you mean

RockRoller wrote: 5y132i

-Aak- wrote: 523h2w

Sorry to bother you but i was wondering how i would edit the selection mode (full)

What exactly do you mean

how would i edit the selection. Like do i have to Do it in photoshop and How i would do it.

-Aak- wrote: 523h2w

how would i edit the selection. Like do i have to Do it in photoshop and How i would do it.

As I mentioned earlier on in the tutorial, if you want to make your own images you will need an image editor that s transparency, the best option here would be pdn (free, to get the pugins I link in the post) and photoshop (paid).

Thanks for all the work you have been doing as of now!

Quick question, but here's some info: I use a 1920x1200 which runs the 16:10 aspect ratio, but most skins that I know only have the 16:9 aspect ratio available with the target resolution being 1920x1080.

Is there a way to reliably convert/edit the pictures/elements such that It'll work for my resolution? I already have photoshop and well the way I tried it really didn't work.

Thank you in advance!

DerFlux wrote: 58641q

Is there a way to reliably convert/edit the pictures/elements such that It'll work for my resolution? I already have photoshop and well the way I tried it really didn't work.

Thank you in advance!

There isnt any way to automatically convert them. You need to move parts of the elements, aka edit the iamges directly. Tho, editing from 16:10 to 16:9 is a lot easier then the other way around. Maybe I should make the part about converting 16:9 to 16:10 skins soon

Sorry to bother, but im new to skinning like most people here and i'm trying to work out how to remove the star particles that are attatched to my cursor when i start a map and also the random particles that shoot out, i wouldn't mind re-skinning them but i just have no clue what the name of that file is or anything, thanks.

shac wrote: 5t5r2k

Sorry to bother, but im new to skinning like most people here and i'm trying to work out how to remove the star particles that are attatched to my cursor when i start a map and also the random particles that shoot out, i wouldn't mind re-skinning them but i just have no clue what the name of that file is or anything, thanks.

star2.png is the file you are looking for

RockRoller wrote: 5y132i

shac wrote: 5t5r2k

Sorry to bother, but im new to skinning like most people here and i'm trying to work out how to remove the star particles that are attatched to my cursor when i start a map and also the random particles that shoot out, i wouldn't mind re-skinning them but i just have no clue what the name of that file is or anything, thanks.

star2.png is the file you are looking for

thank you so much been looking for this for days!

The website look good but he's incomplete (are you waiting osu!lazer for add some parts, like the gameplay sections?)

Corne2Plum3 wrote: 2mx5n

The website look good but he's incomplete (are you waiting osu!lazer for add some parts, like the gameplay sections?)

Suggestion

In the site there is no space between the side-navigation at the left and the main content of the page, and it's a little hard to read. You should add in css/main.css these lines in the .main section (~ line 30) :

padding-left: 12px;
padding-right: 12px;

It's for add a space between the side-navigation at the left and the text, it's better to read.

No I am not waiting for lazer, if I would be doing that there would be no point in writing this thing in the first place. Its just that writing these tutorials takes a lot of time and I am the only one doing it. Just be glad that there is something.

And yea, I know that the website isn't working perfectly on slim resolutions, what you suggested doesn't fix it at all tho. It will be fixed at some point, just wait for that. If you want to use the site in slim widths you can always make your own style with stylus. Also, padding isnt the way to go here, you would need margin

Hi, sorry to bother you but how do I change it so when the slider moves it doesn't show up a circle that gets big?

WukongLord595 wrote: 5v6rv

Hi, sorry to bother you but how do I change it so when the slider moves it doesn't show up a circle that gets big?

blank out slider-followcircle

Hey hello guys. Im starting to create my first skin and wanna remove this white outline border on buttons .
This appears when you hover over the button.
Also it appears for some elements like "Miss" image

(but image does'nt have this border actualy) Maybe I don’t know something (Im noob at osu skinning actually)? I took the Luisina's skin for BeasttrollMC (btmc - Noel Sora no method) as a basis for my skin (maybe is't matter? But i tried to make skin from scratch and this outline is still on they place. Thanks in advance for reply.

XaLERIK wrote: 2z4s5g

Hey hello guys. Im starting to create my first skin and wanna remove this white outline border on buttons

When You're saving your asset don't do File > Save As, but use File > Export As > PNG instead. This should get rid of your problem.

What is the suggested SD size for line-style follow points?

McEndu wrote: 1f1n1k

What is the suggested SD size for line-style follow points?

256px HD, but that is the canvas, for the length of the actual line please just refer to other skins.

RockRoller wrote: 5y132i

McEndu wrote: 1f1n1k

What is the suggested SD size for line-style follow points?

256px HD, but that is the canvas, for the length of the actual line please just refer to other skins.

I think stuff related to line-style follow points are good for the guide section?

McEndu wrote: 1f1n1k

RockRoller wrote: 5y132i

McEndu wrote: 1f1n1k

What is the suggested SD size for line-style follow points?

256px HD, but that is the canvas, for the length of the actual line please just refer to other skins.

I think stuff related to line-style follow points are good for the guide section?

Or rather in the tutorial directly. Just haven't written that part yet. There is just so much to write

How do you make a metre instead of a approach circle on the spinners? I have seen it before so I know you can. I am new to skinning, please help me.

remclean wrote: 41701c

How do you make a meter instead of a approach circle on the spinners? I have seen it before so I know you can. I am new to skinning, please help me.

Use the old spinner style and not the new one

RockRoller wrote: 5y132i

remclean wrote: 41701c

How do you make a meter instead of a approach circle on the spinners? I have seen it before so I know you can. I am new to skinning, please help me.

Use the old spinner style and not the new one

I don't know how to do that. I only started skinning 2 days ago.

you need to use spinner-background, that enables the old spinner style, then you can use the elements of the old spinner style which includes the metre

Just check this spreadhseet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bhnV-CQRMy3Z0npQd9XSoTdkYxz0ew5e648S00qkJZ8/edit#gid=2074725196

Thanks for skinning guidance! Do you know if ranking-replay.png is still skinnable or has been renamed to something else? Mine has reverted to the default "Watch Replay" button while my "Retry" is still properly skinned.

Edit: It works when I put the image into a different skin and use it. I have a feeling something in my skin.ini is preventing it (?) but I can't seem to find anything relating to ranking screen at all in there.

Edit2: Turns out it works when I switch my skin version from 2.4. to 1. Unsure why the only thing that's affected is the ranking-replay.png though, since the ranking-retry worked in 2.4

SLFY wrote: of3h

Thanks for skinning guidance! Do you know if ranking-replay.png is still skinnable or has been renamed to something else? Mine has reverted to the default "Watch Replay" button while my "Retry" is still properly skinned.

Edit: It works when I put the image into a different skin and use it. I have a feeling something in my skin.ini is preventing it (?) but I can't seem to find anything relating to ranking screen at all in there.

Edit2: Turns out it works when I switch my skin version from 2.4. to 1. Unsure why the only thing that's affected is the ranking-replay.png though, since the ranking-retry worked in 2.4

rankin-retry recently got reenabled across all versions, for V2 skinning you need pause-replay for the replay button

I never found out how to use a spin metre but I found something else I like and will be using. Thanks for the help anyway RockRoller.

Idk if this reported, but skin testing beatmap has been deleted or smth, so the link on the site doesn't lead anywhere.

St1ck- wrote: 4b1i5m

Idk if this reported, but skin testing beatmap has been deleted or smth, so the link on the site doesn't lead anywhere.

well aware of that and planning to make my own soon

hi,i'm still new in skinning,my question is how to get sound effect for every button like play,setting,and quit,and quit sound (sry for rip english)

DzulNotFound wrote: 7lx

hi,i'm still new in skinning,my question is how to get sound effect for every button like play,setting,and quit,and quit sound (sry for rip english)

You have to set them all. Here is a list containing all sound files:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bhnV-CQRMy3Z0npQd9XSoTdkYxz0ew5e648S00qkJZ8/edit#gid=1820685604

Hi i’m new to osu and How can i replace the slider ball with circles?? Thanksss

I need help to (btw illpandaa I think you get a circle you want to replace it with (make sure it is the right size) and name it sliderb0 and put it in a folder and move the folder to Osu!'s skins folder and change to that skin in Osu!) I can't change the slider track and I named it sliderb-nd and looked at the spreadsheet you gave me earlier and I have no clue. Pls help.

remclean wrote: 41701c

I can't change the slider track and I named it sliderb-nd and looked at the spreadsheet you gave me earlier and I have no clue.

slideb-nd and sliderb-spec are both files that don't really work.
To change the slidertrack you need the skin.ini command SliderTrackOverride:

i don't really get it maybe i need some knowledge in skinning but thankss!

2 things... 1. illpandaa I think you should try a skin someone has made like Yugen.( https://osuskins.net/skin/wEaMJGb ) 2. I do not know how to make a command in a skin. Pls help.

remclean wrote: 41701c

I do not know how to make a command in a skin. Pls help.

You just type them in the skin.ini just put SliderTrackOverride: with the rgb value you want under [Colors]

It worked, Thank you again RockRoller. but I have a new question. I have my combo color set to black and my approach circle set to white but the approach circle is still black. Is it even possible? pls help.

hi so i encountered a problem when i made my skin and i know i messed up pretty good somewhere but i dont know where. my issue is that i dont get combo numbers on my hit circles or sliders.

1. ss/15641733/3997

My skin doesn't have a "skin.imi" in the folder. Is there a way to modify the settings of the skin?
I attempted to a clean skin.imi, however it ruined the scaling of most assets.

I'm looking to specifically resize the "columnwidth" for osu!mania 4k.

BenTheBen wrote: 1u6p11

My skin doesn't have a "skin.imi" in the folder. Is there a way to modify the settings of the skin?
I attempted to a clean skin.imi, however it ruined the scaling of most assets.

I'm looking to specifically resize the "columnwidth" for osu!mania 4k.

You need to have a skin.ini file for that. Really shouldn't be too hard. Your thing probably got messed up because you changed the Version: in the skin.ini. A skin without a skin.ini uses Version: 2.5 I beleive, so if you make a skin.ini make sure to set that

does anyone know a skin with rem from re zero?

How do I remove the hitting animations on the notes?

GreyXRM wrote: 5r5464

How do I remove the hitting animations on the notes?

What you are refering to should be either hit lighting, which can be turned of in the options, or you are looking for instant fading hitcircles, for which you can find a guide here: https://tutorial.skinship.xyz/guides/insta_fade_hc

Just a question: Does renaming a PNG file (format, not file extension) to menu-background.jpg work?

McEndu wrote: 1f1n1k

Just a question: Does renaming a PNG file (format, not file extension) to menu-background.jpg work?

yes you can rename menu-background.png to .jpg to get the full quality. Works just fine iirc

JoshThePaladin wrote: z1m1o

hi so i encountered a problem when i made my skin and i know i messed up pretty good somewhere but i dont know where. my issue is that i dont get combo numbers on my hit circles or sliders.

1. ss/15641733/3997

Did you make the image that has the numbers on it to big? If it is to big, then osu! will stop rendering it. I did the same thing a few days ago.

any tutorial on how to skin the spinner?

Rematyar wrote: 2r3k33

any tutorial on how to skin the spinner?

Not yet. For now the best you can do is to look at the skinnable files spreadsheet and other skins to figure it out by yourself

I have an error, I just made the menu-button-background, and now the picture that more songs have don't show up... pls help.

And as I am asking one thing I will ask another, my scorebar-colour is not rendering as high as it should. I have it at the top of the picture, yet there is space between the top of the screen. Pls help.

remclean wrote: 41701c

[...] and now the picture that more songs have don't show up... pls help.

I genuinly have no clue what you mean, can you like post an image that shows the problem?

First, I meant most, not more.
Second,https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-evnz6stRVmxpKRBm9FPdiTDWaO9qDt7/view?usp=sharing

Ah, make sure to set Version: in the skin.ini to 2.5
This is Version:2.1 and below behaviour

Thanks, it worked. Now just to fix the image itself.

Now, for the second problem... have an idea?

scorebar-color can never touch the borders of the screen, since its offset by a certain amount of pixels (12,12 with -marker and 5,16 with -ki)

How do I fix the skin default? I mean like when it's 1-9 it's normal but when it goes to 10+ the font mixes it's like penetrating to each other. also, how do I remove the skin border? the square border like in cookiezi's skin?

Riae wrote: h295h

How do I fix the skin default? I mean like when it's 1-9 it's normal but when it goes to 10+ the font mixes it's like penetrating to each other. also, how do I remove the skin border? the square border like in cookiezi's skin?

Change the HitCircleOverlay value in skin.ini

McCreetard wrote: 73305r

Hi, Im pretty new to skinning scene, but are there any ways to make a gif/animated hp bar (scorebar) in game, I have some seen in some popular skins and wanna make a custom for my own. Regards. Thanks in advance!!

RockRoller wrote: 5y132i

McCreetard wrote: 73305r

Hi, Im pretty new to skinning scene, but are there any ways to make a gif/animated hp bar (scorebar) in game, I have some seen in some popular skins and wanna make a custom for my own. Regards. Thanks in advance!!

There are only a few elements that can be animated, but all follow the same scheme. Make each frame of the animation a seperate file, called scorebar-colour-0, scorebar-colour-1, and so on

can "section-" be animated?

izekok wrote: k493t

can "section-" be animated?

no

can you list me everything that can be animated?

The skinnable files list clearly lists which files are animatable

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bhnV-CQRMy3Z0npQd9XSoTdkYxz0ew5e648S00qkJZ8/edit#gid=2074725196

Does animated stuff in skins can make your frame drop a lil? cause when im using a heavy weighted skin it drops my fps and crashes.