Xion Gallery Launched at WinCustomize!

Published on June 5, 2007 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

Today, in response to popular demand from the skinning community here at WinCustomize, we have launched a gallery dedicated to skinning the media player application, Xion!

Xion is a growing favorite in the customization world because of its incredibly simple skinning system. Here's a bit from the Xion homepage about how skinning works:

Xion features a new standard in skin support. Baffled by script syntax? Pulling your hair out over slicing up skin elements? Crying over spilt milk?

Xion's approach to skinning will remove all scripting and slicing requirements that other skin systems have placed on users. Xion will directly read a .PSD file and using layer names, instantly create your skin.

Xion also supports direct loading from Zip files which allow you to package several .PSD files in the one package. This has the added benefit of being compressed and therefore consumes less disk space.

If you want to see samples of some of the work that is going to soon be added to this new gallery, check out this thread on our forums:
https://forums.wincustomize.com/?aid=154135

Special thanks to vStyler for the gallery icon set used on WinCustomize and applications like Stardock Central and the WinCustomize Browser. And, while Xion accepts .PSD files straight as skins, here at WinCustomize you'll need to zip them up first before submitting them.

I'm looking forward to seeing what cool looking skins the community puts together for this!

Comments (Page 2)

vStyler

on Jun 05, 2007

A quick question, does Xion support skinning of the playlist, if not I think it'll end up a dead duck like Coolplayer.

Don't think it does, but if your skinning it to match your WB \ suite the playlist is already natively skinned so it doesn't really matter. Also Coolplayer didn't skin by dropping a .psd in a folder did it? I don't know, never checked it out.

Jafo

on Jun 05, 2007

Also Coolplayer didn't skin by dropping a .psd in a folder did it? I don't know, never checked it out

No....

Cliff Cawley

on Jun 05, 2007

And, while Xion accepts .PSD files straight as skins, here at WinCustomize you'll need to zip them up first before submitting them.

Xion actually supports .PSD, .ZIP, and its own format, .XSF.

It would be preferable if you could upload as .XSF as that way when you launch the .XSF and its not in the Xion directory, it will ask you if you want to install it.

.XSF is simply a .ZIP file, which has its extension changed to .XSF

Cliff

Xion Author
http://xion.r2.com.au/

vStyler

on Jun 05, 2007

Good to see you here Cliff

basj

on Jun 05, 2007

yey...cliff show ups..

nice to see you here cliff

Bichur

on Jun 06, 2007

buzzh58

on Jun 06, 2007

I have tried using Xion but just seems to be using too much CPU, I cannot do anything else while I have it running. It shows 95-97% as opposed to winamp 12-15% and foobar 6-10%. Oh well, I'll just stick with winamp and foobar.

Id rather my music player be useable than skinnable.

Jafo

on Jun 06, 2007

.XSF is simply a .ZIP file, which has its extension changed to .XSF

Aren't they all...

That goes for all skinnables .... each has a renamed zip format ....

I.R. Brainiac

on Jun 06, 2007

Dont know whats wrong with your pc buzz...I'm using Xion right now and I'm seeing less than 10% cpu usage.(and that includes some background processes)

sViz

on Jun 06, 2007

*crawls out from under a rock*

Wow! This is a very impressive player from a skinner's standpoint. I just went through the tuts in a breeze and I'm having a blast making my own player skins. I'm not much of a skinner by nature but I gotta say this really does put the art (and fun) back into skinning.

I have tried using Xion but just seems to be using too much CPU

My CPU froze up momentarily when I clicked 'choose skin' for the first time but it hasn't done that since. Everything's working fine for now.

Cliff Cawley

on Jun 06, 2007

What sort of speed PC are you using? Which version of Windows do you have installed?

If you could give me some more information, that would be great!

Thanks!

Cliff

http://xion.r2.com.au/

vStyler

on Jun 06, 2007

Yeah Xion runs barely any CPU for me either, I love it.

messiah1

on Jun 06, 2007

And, while Xion accepts .PSD files straight as skins, here at WinCustomize you'll need to zip them up first before submitting them.

Best thing to do is select the files you want, add to zip and make sure the end of the name is .xsf, then take the .xsf file and add to a regular zip to upload here at WC. But you probably already knew that.

ZubaZ

on Jun 06, 2007

I've tried to run the installed a USB stick version on Vista Business and both crash. It'll play half the promo loop and just die.

I am testing skins in an XP virtual PC with no issues.

Cliff, if I can provide more detail, I will. Let me know what might be useful.

Zoomba

on Jun 06, 2007

I actually added xsf to the file format list yesterday shortly after making the post

So the gallery accepts xsf and zip files.

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