[Guide] Customizing Your Launcher (with pictures)

[Szaer]

1. Open Up Your PW Client Dir

2. Open up Photoshop (email me if you don't have photoshop: [email protected])

3. Drag and Drop "launcher.bmp" into Photoshop.

4. Change the image to be anything you want (on a new layer).

- The pink color (ff00ff) will be invisible.

5. "Save" and then choose BMP from the drop down, and save over the old launcher image.

6. Now go back to your PW Dir and open up Patcher.

7. Open up Skin -> Image and see a window like this.

8. Open each image and design it however you want. The most important image is "main-bg.bmp".

After you've edited all of your images and saved them, you should now have your own personal, and costomized, launcher for your private server!

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[SenSiber]

there's also a partial guide on editing the xml file that controls the buttons and webpage displayed on the right hand side at Release Modify Serverlists / Reskin Launcher in order to complete the launcher make over.

 

[inkredibil]

You great man .

 

[dewancc]

Wow... very2 thanks brother...

i like u tutor

i want see video

 

[p0guit0]

good , very good friend

 

[asreinna]

If u want to keep the button function...edit the mainuni.xml
Here is some of the edit...

1. it will redirect u to the register script
2. it will redirect u to the homepage website
3. it is use to send an e-mail to the email address
4. it will redirect u to the forum website
5. it will change the browser box into ur website page

 

[Romulan]

Nice... i already know how to modify the pictures of the launcher, it's pretty easy^^

But it would be nice if someone can release a CUP builder for making compressed file for the patching process of the launcher xD tt1:

 

[pagipagi]

If u want to keep the button function...edit the mainuni.xml
Here is some of the edit...

1. it will redirect u to the register script
2. it will redirect u to the homepage website
3. it is use to send an e-mail to the email address
4. it will redirect u to the forum website
5. it will change the browser box into ur website page

i have that error too ::
what is that vbscript error ?
:?::?:

 

[S3r3n1ty]

If u want to keep the button function...edit the mainuni.xml
Here is some of the edit...

1. it will redirect u to the register script
2. it will redirect u to the homepage website
3. it is use to send an e-mail to the email address
4. it will redirect u to the forum website
5. it will change the browser box into ur website page

Digging this back up for a moment, I have a quick question-
if I don't want any browser to pop up in the main window, but only my created image in the main-bg.bmp file (labeled number 5 in this guide) what do I place or take away in the code? I want to keep all other buttons just not the browser. Any information on this would be appreciated please

 

[Drakaer]

You can create an image to go there and replace the web address with InitURL="file///path.to.file.png" this may work. alternativly you could plave the image on your server instead of with the client then you can change the image weekly InitURL="192.168.0.10/images/pwlauncher.png"

idk what deleting will do. You may just get a white a screen so you will have to remove the box that it uses

 

[S3r3n1ty]

awesome, I will try one of those,
however does anyone else know about deleting or making that box for the browser window invisible? i'm still curious about it. I customed most of that whole picture, including what appears to be behind the window browser box. unfortunately i can't see it with the browser there xD

 

[Drakaer]

Delete the line

<SkinBrowser Name="UpdateBrowser" MapColor="255,0,0" InitURL="http://launcher.perfectworld.com/pwi/launcher.html"/>

I did that and got this

 

[S3r3n1ty]

Okay. New problem, any suggestions or advice would be wonderful:

Deleting that line on the mainuni.xml worked, seemingly, but now nomatter what I do I cannot access my patcher. The launcher goes perfectly, then no patcher appears, no anything appears. no new windows.
Under "Processes" on my taskmanager I see patcher.exe loading but it just doesn't show up anywhere else. I don't see it, or any windows popping up at all. I even replaced the old mainuni.xml file thinking this would change my results back to what they used to be (opening the launcher, loading and then opening the patcher correctly, showing my custom patcher window) but it stil isn't showing up, even after several computer restarts. I've made sure line 191 is still intact using Dreamweaver to open the XML file.
Does anyone have any suggestions regarding this issue? I've asked a few people that I work with and know but... doesn't seem to be a solution in sight.
Thanks all!


EDITTTTTTTT:
nevermind, I fixed it by getting someone else's mainuni.xml file, mine said it was 35kb and theirs was 70+kb so obviously something was missing in mine. i'm going to compare them at some point to find out what precisely was missing.
Patcher window works fine now though so

 

[sryx91]

EDITTTTTTTT:
nevermind, I fixed it by getting someone else's mainuni.xml file, mine said it was 35kb and theirs was 70+kb so obviously something was missing in mine. i'm going to compare them at some point to find out what precisely was missing.
Patcher window works fine now though so

if im not mistaken, there is nothing missing from ur file... the size is smaller coz of u already remove the browser....

correct me if im wrong... XD

 

[80085]

After you've edited all of your images and saved them, you should now have your own personal, and costomized, launcher for your private server!

A question about that. Where I am gonna save my customized launcher so it works?

 

[80085]

Bump my post. ^

 

[rezpounz]

thanks you all

 

[Ozuru]

You felt the need to necro and say that? The like button is there for a reason D: how do people not see it?!