If you aren't playing a game, you can press the Skin button or F5 to change the skin. Once there, you can select a skin and see the preview image. If you find someone that you like, press the Ok button to replace the actual skin with that one. Press the Cancel button to return to the game without changes.
If you want to download more skins... Go to the ReCUB 2000 web page. There, you will find all skins not included in the distribution version of ReCUB, plus more sounds, music, information, links, and other free games from the same author.
You can also make your own skin!. The best way to create your first skin is to modify an already existent one. You can make a copy of a skin sub-folder and then make your changes, with any image editor. NOTE: do not delete or modify the original copy of the 'Default skin' !! This skin is used when a selected skin is missing or corrupted. To make a skin from the scratch, print the list of files needed and read the examples and notes of the following items...
Use this reference to locate the different images of the 'files included' table.
Here is the full list of files that must be included in a skin sub-folder, with a short description of each one (see the previous reference):
| Name | Format | Size | Description |
Background |
BMP or JPG |
456 x 352 |
Background image. |
Button1Up |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 64 |
Button 1, in normal state. |
Button1Down |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 64 |
Button 1, pressed. |
Button2Up |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 64 |
Button 2, in normal state. |
Button2Down |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 64 |
Button 2, pressed. |
Button3Up |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 64 |
Button 3, in normal state. |
Button3Down |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 64 |
Button 3, pressed. |
Button4Up |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 64 |
Button 4, in normal state. |
Button4Down |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 64 |
Button 4, pressed. |
Button5Up |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 64 |
Button 5, in normal sate. |
Button5Down |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 64 |
Button 5, pressed. |
Button6Up |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 64 |
Button 6, in normal state. |
Button6Down |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 64 |
Button 6, pressed. |
Button7Up |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 64 |
Button 7, in normal state. |
Button7Down |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 64 |
Button 7, pressed. |
Button8Up |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 64 |
Button 8, in normal state. |
Button8Down |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 64 |
Button 8, pressed. |
Button9Up |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 64 |
Button 9, in normal state. |
Button9Down |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 64 |
Button 9, pressed. |
Control1Up |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 32 |
Play button, in normal state. |
Control1Down |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 32 |
Play button, pressed. |
Control2Up |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 32 |
Quit button, in normal state. |
Control2Down |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 32 |
Quit button, pressed. |
Control3Up |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 32 |
Config button, in normal state. |
Control3Down |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 32 |
Config button, pressed. |
Control4Up |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 32 |
Skin button, in normal state. |
Control4Down |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 32 |
Skin button, pressed. |
Control5Up |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 32 |
Sounds button, in normal state. |
Control5Down |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 32 |
Sounds button, pressed. |
Control6Up |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 32 |
Music button, in normal state. |
Control6Down |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 32 |
Music button, pressed. |
Control7Up |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 32 |
Top 10 button, in normal state. |
Control7Down |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 32 |
Top 10 button, pressed. |
Control8Up |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 32 |
Help button, in normal state. |
Control8Down |
BMP or JPG |
64 x 32 |
Help button, pressed. |
Icon1Up |
BMP or JPG |
32 x 32 |
'About' icon, in normal state. |
Icon1Down |
BMP or JPG |
32 x 32 |
'About' icon, pressed. |
Icon2Up |
BMP or JPG |
32 x 32 |
'Minimize' icon, in normal state. |
Icon2Down |
BMP or JPG |
32 x 32 |
'Minimize' icon, pressed. |
Icon3Up |
BMP or JPG |
32 x 32 |
'Exit' icon, in normal state. |
Icon3Down |
BMP or JPG |
32 x 32 |
'Exit' icon, pressed. |
WrongButton |
ICO |
32 x 32 |
Indicator used for mistakes (cross). |
RightButton |
ICO |
32 x 32 |
Indicator used for mistakes (check mark). |
TimeOver |
ICO |
32 x 32 |
Indicator of 'time over'. |
Labels |
TXT |
--- |
Text file with the style of the information labels. |
Some notes about the images:
- The images that have the format "BMP or JPG" should be all of the same format, that is, all BMP or all JPG.
- All 45 files must exist. If some file is missing, the skin will be impossible to select.
- The background image also contains the disabled buttons.
- The images with different size to the mentioned in the table, will be stretched.
Contents of the file "Labels.TXT":
In this file is indicated the color and style of the information labels (see the image's reference). The first three characters are relevant, the rest of the file is ignored.
- The first character indicates the color of the information labels, as shown in the next table:
Character Color A or a Black B or b Blue C or c Green D or d Cyan E or e Red F or f Purple G or g Yellow H or h White I or i Grey J or j Light blue K or k Light green L or l Light cyan M or m Light red N or n Light purple O or o Light yellow P or p Light white
- The second character indicates if the information labels are bold or not. A "B" or "b" character indicates a bold font, any other character will produce a not-bold font.
- The third character indicates if the information labels are italic or not. An "I" or "i" character indicates an italic font, any other character will produce a not-italic font.
See the "labels.TXT" file of the distributed skins for examples.