change ur touch cube to what u want

[Mustang46L]

Thanks to Musicman247 and storyr!! I spent the time to get mine customized tonight! Now all I need is more icons to choose from and I'd be set!

[Musicman247]

what I did was use google images and just searched for things like "Internet Explorer icon" to get the icons, then use GIMP to edit them onto the background. Really anything could be an icon. good hunting!

[Musicman247]

Speaking of icons, I Googled GANT (from storyr's post) and foudn the source for all things GANT: http://mattahan.deviantart.com/gallery/ He's got at least 4 volumes of icons (over 600). Look through the pages and download the ones you like. They're not all GANT, but they are all very nice looking.

[MrZ123]

Hey All, just finished my first Cube, turned out pretty nice.

Used the technique I listed earlier to make the icons.

BmptoBrn DOES WORK for making the sides of the cube and is so much easier than hex editing (it does not work for the icons).

Now it took me a loooong time to make the cube animation, had to make each one individually in photoshop and there are about 33 in total. Just wondering if:

Anyone has a way to easily create the cube without doing each side individually...

[storyr]

Originally Posted by MrZ123

Anyone has a way to easily create the cube without doing each side individually...

I'm not sure how you would do it without some sort of 3D rendering engine that would allow you to turn the thing.

Anyway, I did find a shortcut for creating the up/down animations, which comprises 15 of the images. They're simply shortened versions of the left/right animation images. So, if you first create A1-A5, B1-B5 and C1-C5 - the up/down sets (A01-A05, B01-B05, C01-C05) are just cropped versions of those. Here's the key:

A01 = C1 (cropped to 100 pixels in height)
A02 = C2 (cropped to 180 pixels in height)
A03 = C3 (cropped to 240 pixels in height)
A04 = C4 (cropped to 280 pixels in height)
A05 = C5 (cropped to 300 pixels in height)

B01 = A1 (cropped to 100 pixels in height)
B02 = A2 (cropped to 180 pixels in height)
B03 = A3 (cropped to 240 pixels in height)
B04 = A4 (cropped to 280 pixels in height)
B05 = A5 (cropped to 300 pixels in height)

C01 = B1 (cropped to 100 pixels in height)
C02 = B2 (cropped to 180 pixels in height)
C03 = B3 (cropped to 240 pixels in height)
C04 = B4 (cropped to 280 pixels in height)
C05 = B5 (cropped to 300 pixels in height)

[__redruM]

Has anyone edited the spin with the new icons? I generic animation that just had gray squares instead of icons, would be great. I could definately use a generic animation since I don't have the patience to reanimate the cube every time I change an icon (not that I know how yet).

[__redruM]

Also, I grabbed the png icons from Cyrilp here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=313083

And converted them to brn format. Attached, incase anyone hexedit challenged want them.

[kellybrf]

great work guys. im comfortable with most of this, but the brn creation is over my head. so if im understanding this right, if i wanted to change an icon id have to redo the whole cube, its not as simple as pointing the icon path to the new brn file?

[storyr]

Originally Posted by klurf8881

someone should really make and empty icon cube. Like leave the photo contact side alone but just plain gray for the media and app side. Then you can use whatever icons you want and swtich them up without changing the whole cube...

i tried to but i still cant get it 100% perfect


EDIT** like they said


seems it would benifit a lot of people to have a blank cube. Then you dont hve to redo the cube every time you change an icon or program cause its blank.

I think that's a great idea. I'll give it a shot today - I should have it posted by this evening...

[MrZ123]

Originally Posted by klurf8881

cool awsoem tahtd help a lot of people out too, prob cut down the requests too for cube anumations as the blank can be used with any icons anyone wishes...plus i cant get it to work 100% lol i must be screwing up one frame, another lil error again

My question is, the icons on the cube are distorted to make the cube look 3D as it goes around.

If there was a blank cube and you just pasted in icons, they would not be distorted and thus look weird.

Hopefully someone can think of a way to get around that...