yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Touch GSM General] henftling:
WOW sounds great. How do you do it? How do you convert pics(which format) in .brn? You work with bmps?
[Touch GSM General] Seed123:
Sweet.. can you provide instructions so we can create some animations of our own if possible?
[Touch GSM General] amanakbar:
it worked!!! Superb! and you don't need total commander to remove the files, just select show all files in file explorer and you can delete it...

now waiting for ppl to create some awesome animation

thanks a million to the founder
[Touch GSM General] am0k:
wow cool now we can have colored cube, own icons, other transitions

what did you use to convert back to .brn ??
[Touch GSM General] Biffert:
Awesome! Any instructions on how to proceed when making custom animations?
[Touch GSM General] r0p3:
continued from first post:

(ran out of space there)

useful links:

(click on the blue words to follow the link)

original HTC blue icons and original blue cube animation .brn files

If you want to change your programs and icons

of MediaHub and Application Launcher of the cube (or your new "whatever") and have many, many more locations for weather take this:

'Touch Settings' Program - Change your cube programs AND weather location by carlosp_uk

If you search for some cool icons

take a look at this thread (thanx to cyrilp), also dig a little deeper there and you'll find icons from gfandrea, Biffert, s3a, davehutch and maybe more

NEW: Howto's for making transitions:

Howto make a Barrel with GIMP

Howto make Devil_Inside's Blurrs with Photoshop

These animations we have so far:

(please tell me, if you find more - want to keep this list up to date)

APLauncher without rotation icons by Biffert

3D Sheet slide by Anubis9

Flip3D by Biffert

"louis vuitton style" wallpaper and cube with slide out/fade in animation by frufo2000 (the first complete modification of all graphics)

easy to install cabs by petervbeck , louis vuitton style phonepad and Comm Manager by frufo2000 Louis Vuitton 8(!) Button CommManager easy to install cab by HaiLe512

Updated: louis vuitton cube version 2 with cool new icons by frufo2000 and Louis Vuitton 2 as Barrel

and two new 8-Button-LV-CommManager cabs: one, two

LV-cube with orig. HTC icons

Brick morphing by frufo2000

3 different amazing smooth blurs (english) and russian by Devil_Inside, easy to install cabs of the English ones and my 4D-Cube by petervbeck

7 different smooth optical illusions by Vlodeck, easy to install cabs by petervbeck

sheet turn animation by frufo2000

lcds transparent cube experiment by asefsef

Barrel without icons on the Application Launcher side for better looking integration of customized icons and applications

meykou's cube with great icons and colored qickdialer and a modified version with different background

Boards by meykou - a very good new idea of transition

and the icons he used (thanx for sharing)

SPC-Touch cube by noonski

Green Flow by c0d4 beautiful green :D

a collection of three animations by thuffir (Fire, Lumos, Circle - with animated previews, click on the images in the post)

warriorvibhu's cube (fully colored)

Oldtech (fully colored) by frufo2000

Red Snake (fully colored) by thuffir

external links

(usually you have to register in a forum to download):

something like a camera aperture transition

thanx to cyberpat for creating and nicolecoco03 for posting this at XDA-Devs here.

specials

Top/Down HTC Cube (for non-Touch devices)

I don't Know whether the top/down animation works. I heard that it doesn't work good on a Nova. The ani doesn't really start at the top - maybe there are some reg settings needed - I don't know

Please post your experience if it works/doesn't work on your non-Touch-device.

I hope we can find a solution for those where it is not working.

Thanks to all of you for your contribution!

updated: 11.10.07 (last post #348)
[Touch GSM General] Biffert:
I have the bitmaps I need, but I'm stuck here :S I use Photoshop CS3, but the steps you describe (Save as >> 16-bit >> etc...) are nowhere to be found?

Changing the mode to 16-bit wont save the image as bitmap (doesnt show up in save as dialog) and the bitmask is missing aswell :S
[Touch GSM General] r0p3:
what happens if you click simply on "save" (after save as)?

I use Photoshop.CS (Year 2003) and there comes a popup with the options I described.

If it doesn't work I can do it for you.

Post it or write an email through the forum.
[Touch GSM General] Biffert:
Doh... should have looked a little further... All the options are right there afterh clicking Save! Thnx for the quick reply :D

Edit:

Just noticed something. When using AXE to hack the BMPs to BRNs, I delete the first range (0x1E -> 0x46). When deleting the second range you described (0x00 -> 0x11) There was a left-over 00 in front of the header. Deleted that to to make the headers match yours in the instructions and the worked :) But instead of deleting 0x00 -> 0x11, I deleted 0x00 -> 0x12 to get rid of the leading 00 on the header.
[Touch GSM General] Anubis9:
oh, now i get it, Biffert you were right, it's necessary to delete 0x00 -> 0x12

Thanks a lot for sharing the info! :)
[Touch GSM General] r0p3:
yes that's true 0x00 to 0x12 - sorry guys!

updated first post
[Touch GSM General] meschle:
This is great! btw how on earth did you work this out? I've been trying to manipulate those files for a while - i

ll try this - i have a number of photoeditors - i'll report if any apart from adobe work.
[Touch GSM General] Anubis9:
I made my first small modification :)

Please take a look if you want :)

Just Unzip and copy to \windows\ foldet replacing everything.

All credits go to r0p3 for showing us how to modify the anims :)
[Touch GSM General] r0p3:
hehe - most of the work I already did more than a year ago, when I hacked the startup animation of the German SDAII from T-Mobile.

Believe me, it took me weeks. :D

When you know the trick, just use that kind of great hexeditor like AXE, try some different headers (Wikipedia has some nice descriptions about .bmps) and with some luck you have the solution.

@Anubis9: Thanx - will try out immediately

Edit: yeah! cool sliding effect! :)
[Touch GSM General] meschle:
Yes i looked at the files with a hex editor but got nowhere, i guessed by the size of the files they were bmp's.

Pure genius!
[Touch GSM General] Devil_Inside:
Thanks r0p3, that's a nice find :) Good job!

Now, here is a small console app I wrote, that does all the "dirty" work explained on the first page.

With this app, all you have to do is save the image as a 16bit BMP. Then, you drag the image icon over the application icon and it will vertically mirror the image, automatically remove the unnecessary header-bytes and save it as a ".brn" file.

P.S. I've tested it on some images, but it still needs more testing, so, if you encounter any bugs - let me know!
[Touch GSM General] henftling:
Does it request a special Hex Editor? I have none installed on my system yet. So I could use your prefered one if there is any.
[Touch GSM General] peter petrelli:
This is a wonderful find. Congratulations to all those involved in this project. Perhaps one day soon we will have alternatives to the bland 'cube' that we have now.
[Touch GSM General] Devil_Inside:
Actually it doesn't require any additional software to function properly. You just run the program providing the bmp name as a command line parameter and that's it.
[Touch GSM General] Seed123:
Beautiful..
[Touch GSM General] themyers:
Awesome work guys!!!!! Would anyone be able to make an all black animation/cube background. I use the all black theme and would love to have an all black cube. Keep up the excellent work.
[Touch GSM General] LeoArg:
any easy cab file to install "The barrel"?

Thank you:)
[Touch GSM General] r0p3:
No, sorry.

But I would not recommend the cab installation. You may have problems with uninstalling.

Simply copy the files to the /windows folder - it's really that easy.

To uninstall delete all brn (and maybe png files for other cubes) you copied there (or search for brn files after July 2007).

See first post for more details.
[Touch GSM General] r0p3:
you mean just real black background instead of gradient dark grey
[Touch GSM General] Corky100:
Hi Frufo, This is an outstanding theme, I have 2 issues I'd like to ask...

The Adio player theme doesn't appear to work, I am only using HC Audiomanager, do I also need the home plugin? Also are you planning on using another animation besides the standard cube animations?

Thanks, looking forward to your next update!!
[Touch GSM General] r0p3:
tried to make a cube with a little bit light effects from meykou's pics.

Preview in attached animated .gif (not completed yet)
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
hi,

actually the the audimanager buttons are only the ones that you see on the media site of the cube while playing a song, see pictures. i´m working on the the complete theme for the fullscreen audiomanager,but its not finished yet. you don´t need the home plugin. maybe you need to do a soft reset.

i can make other cube animations, let me know what you want.
[Touch GSM General] meykou:
My Cube

unzip the ZIP file then copy the files in cube folder to windows folder of your ppc,then reset.

It's not complete yet.

Many thanks to r0p3 and other friend for this thread and the first post.
[Touch GSM General] themyers:
Yes all black instead of grey. Man I love this thread. I have tried almost all of the lol! I like devils spin. All of them are great!!!!!
[Touch GSM General] meykou:
new background

This is a new background for cube at post 189.
[Touch GSM General] r0p3:
yeah I love it - great work!

(Sorry, I assumed you wanted someone to make a cube out of your pix)

I think I will do a Barrel from frufo2000's LV style ;)
[Touch GSM General] meykou:
Edit post 191

Persons who have downloaded (cube 2) and they don't have downloaded cube at post 189,please download (cube 2b) at post 191.
[Touch GSM General] Corky100:
Aha, now I understand! Any animations will do, though I especially like the Barrel from r0p3, so thats good news! I'll look forward to your media player/Audiomanager skins :D
[Touch GSM General] bill_viper:
r0p3 thanks for keeping first post updated! :)

...and one big thanks to all the modders! :)
[Touch GSM General] Kaoh:
Can anyone create me a animation where the cube comes sliding in from the top instead of bottom and slides out to the top again?

I have not mastered this animation trick yet :(
[Touch GSM General] warriorvibhu:
hey experts :)

Guys modifying animation is really cool and i really admire all of you working on it...... but more than that may i suggest that work on the icons plzzzzz they are so colourless......i dont want you guys to copy iphone icons i am not iphone crazy but still they have some cool colourful icons...... i feel the original or $D cube or the barrel all three are good animations... we just need to add a bit of colour... what say.....................
[Touch GSM General] meykou:
New Animation

This is a new animation.:)
[Touch GSM General] warriorvibhu:
r0p3

dude check these new icons and why not make something like this may be with a bit more colour it will give our touch an entirely new and fresh feel.... sorry if i am bothering you guys....i am not such an expert .. bu r0p3 i feel you have achieved quite an expertise and meyuku is making some colorful icons why not together make one awesome thing.......

Thanks this is my favorite thread.............

PS icons are HERE
[Touch GSM General] Seed123:
You guys are coming up with some insane ideas here :D nice work
[Touch GSM General] ben0s:
Go go go for it, we love :-)
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
look´s nice i´ll see what i can do
[Touch GSM General] warriorvibhu:
Frufo2000 so sorry i forgot to mention you name i liked your vuitton style and i am more sure than you are ...that if you are taking up something you surely can do it..................

way you go man.. nice....and thanks in advance...........
[Touch GSM General] tommysrocket:
Where can I find the Icons for the Mediahub (Music, pictures and movies)? There are very nice.

I also searching for an animation like the one the cover flip on the iPhone. The page goes a little in the background an than the page moves to the left (or right) and the next page comes into the foreground. Is that possible?

Kind Regards

Tommy
[Touch GSM General] meykou:
this is some icons.
[Touch GSM General] r0p3:
I fully agree with you - colors ! - we - want - co - lors :D

(go frufo go - please fill the samsung icons with with colors)

_________________

OK - I did a barrel of frufo2000s LV2
[Touch GSM General] r0p3:
... and made screenshots how I did it with GIMP - see attached - BUT they have a little error: use a "C0B0A0"-pic as a basic - the screenshots show a A0B0C0

Edit:

uploaded new "real" zip's
[Touch GSM General] tflardi:
hi meykou can you send me new htc cube with setup because i dont know to install i use the tnt v5 pro rom. thanks
[Touch GSM General] HaiLe512:
LV skin 8-button commManager Cab installation

Here is the cab to install this beautiful skin. P view only. If frufo can do the graphic for L view, I can add to the cab as well.

The cab works nicely on my p3300 and should work with all because the new skin is based on mfrazzz 8 button commmanager.

frufo2000...thanks for the nice graphic...my girlfriend will like this...
[Touch GSM General] meykou:
I think your rom don't have cube and you must use rom with cube in it.

I think it is not possible to add cube in this rom.
[Touch GSM General] jedi_ale:
icons??

Sorry but where can I find these wonderful icons for mediahub? I install this animation but I have standard icons on mediahub and coloured icons when barreling... thanks!
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
you find the icons in the zip in this post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=1501744&postcount=180

install the files from this zip first, and then the barrel files
[Touch GSM General] warriorvibhu:
Frufo nice to see u back go frufo go we want coloured icons :)

thumbs up to you..........
[Touch GSM General] Noonski:
Here's my version for the SPC Rom i'm cooking.

If stepped away from the normal cube style as you can see.

I'm still finishing work on the Homescreen plug in and tsk file.

If you like it use it but please don't cook it.

Also in the Quickdial i need to switch and touch up some buttons.

The appluancher needs to be corrected since it took out tasks and re arranged the order to.

I stopped working on the cab installer becuase it's all cooking now.
[Touch GSM General] tekknogenius:
Thanx for the great theme! It seems to be missing the icons @ the bottom of the speed dial screen. Would you mind addind those as well? Thanx again.
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
i´ve fixed the zip. see post #180
[Touch GSM General] HaiLe512:
Luois Vuitton Wizard_LV-reTOUCHed_Dialer2.cab

Hehe...we are on the roll here...Below is the cab for installing the phone pad with this beautiful skin by Frufo2000. It is based on Wizard_reTOUCHed_Dialer2.cab only the skins were changed.

have fun....
[Touch GSM General] HaiLe512:
Spinning cube LV style

Does or can anyone make a spinning cube for LV skin by frufo2000? If so, please post it.

thanks,
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
do you mean the original animation for the version with the original icons?
[Touch GSM General] SeniorNoob:
Cab files please !

Can someone make cab files for all the animations please. Everytime I copy the files to my windows directory on my ppc I get a error message saying file A0 cannot be replaced or copied. Cab files work better for some of us.
[Touch GSM General] HaiLe512:
Thanks frufo2000, I meant the LV skin with the original spinning cube. That is the original cube but with the LV skin that you have.

Thanks,
[Touch GSM General] HaiLe512:
LC barrell cube cab

I can make a cab for this if anyone wants it. I plan to make this one if there if no LV brn files for the original spinning cube. I do not know how to do the brn files yet, still learning with the excellent bmptobrn in this forum.
[Touch GSM General] r0p3:
what about the files from post #180? It includes cube animation files.

Isn't it that what you are looking for?
[Touch GSM General] HaiLe512:
Sorry...I read it and did not know if it is a spinning cube or not...I will try it because I want the spinning cube...Thanks.
[Touch GSM General] HaiLe512:
r0p3,

vuitton2 cube.zip is a spinning cube...sorry did not know that...my bad...

frufo2000,

I misunderstood you...sorry. Can you provide the vuitton2 cube.zip with the original icons.

thanks
[Touch GSM General] r0p3:
no problem - you're welcome :D

@frufo2000: maybe you could edit your post (#180) and describe it in a little bit clearer way or to make it perfect maybe make a little .gif animation for preview.

AND another animation :cool:

found in a French forum - looks really great!!! It's like a camera aperture (if this is the correct English word - this is beyond my knowledge of the English language)

http://forum.actualitemobile.com/index.php?topic=211.msg2357#msg2357

thanx to cyberpat for creating and nicolecoco03 for posting this at XDA-Devs here.
[Touch GSM General] r0p3:
HTC Top-down-Cube

got a PM from someone with a Prophet whether it is possible to have starting animation of the cube from top to bottom instead of bottom to top.

Looks like that some (non Touch) phones need this because touchflow starts only when you slide from top downwards.

OK - here are the regarding files for those who need it.
[Touch GSM General] warriorvibhu:
Dude where is the download link for the animation.......well i like the coloured one can these be itegrated with your animations already posted here if u want i can post some new icons and then you can animate them .....
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
here it is:
[Touch GSM General] SeniorNoob:
Cab files please !

Can someone make cab files for all the cube animations?
[Touch GSM General] snaketnn:
hi, i dont know is it right place, but want ask...

is there some way to make more place in cube? so... there is only 6 lunchar zone for 6 program,,, ? is there some way to make more?

:confused: :confused: :confused:
[Touch GSM General] grypho:
It didn't work in my touch... the dialpad buttons are ok but the "number dialed" windows is "blank"?!
[Touch GSM General] HaiLe512:
Sorry...

It works on my p3300. I do not post it unless I installed it first on my phone. Sorry for the problem. Can you send a screen shot so I know where to fix the cab.

thanks.
[Touch GSM General] c0d4:
Green Flow Cube Skin done

It´s done. My first Skin for the Cube, hope you like it.

Download: http://home.arcor.de/dominikvalder/Green_Flow_for_HTC_Touch.rar
[Touch GSM General] pumanike:
Very nice man! I just wanted to ask if it's possible to remove the half second of pink that get's in the picture when you turn if you have a MDA Touch or is it only at mine?
[Touch GSM General] c0d4:
Sry, my english is not so good :P

Is there a Bug in it?

What do you mean ?

Do you have a Screenshot ?

I made this Skin on an XDA Nova. I thought i edited all files, but if you can tell me, which File is "Pink" i will repear this.

(Perhaps you only missed to copy all Files ?)
[Touch GSM General] pumanike:
No it's fine, I have a MDA Touch and I downloaded the original cube but there sometimes the pink came trough but in yours it doesn't come trough so it's great! :D Thanks man!

Now I need to search for the launcher green icons again :p ( From the HTC home plugin )
[Touch GSM General] c0d4:
Thank you, have fun :) I will keep on working on a new skin. Perhaps someone explains me how to make self installing cab files for those Skins.
[Touch GSM General] grypho:
Here you have the screenshot... strange, isn't it?
[Touch GSM General] grypho:
can someone provide the LV button for "Beam" (7) ? I downloaded the comm mgr package (post #157) but it does not have it...

Thanks in advance.
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
i think the dialer background is missing, the file ist called Dialer_BkgdP.png

try to copy the attached file in the windows directory of your touch, maybe this fits your problem
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
do you mean this one?

can you give me the *.png files and a scrennshot of the postion in the commanger?

i can make it for you. but i don´t have it on my device
[Touch GSM General] grypho:
Yes, that one... here you have the png's and the screenshot.

Thanks a lot!
[Touch GSM General] pumanike:
Could you also make 3 new icons for the favorite person side? If you press the buttons on the bottom of that side they don't look nice. The rest is really great. Thanks again!
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
here you have the lv beam button:
[Touch GSM General] Corky100:
edited - wrong comment! sorry!
[Touch GSM General] grypho:
Great! it works!! thanks a lot man!!, you made my day :)
[Touch GSM General] HaiLe512:
Thanks...:D
[Touch GSM General] Kaoh:
You are my hero: I am using the cube on my S200 and activate it sliding top down, excellent.

Can someone make it into a CAB? cause I cant copy the files on :( it says they are in use
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
here it is, hope it works

Notice: Use at your own risk
[Touch GSM General] thuffir:
Just my firstone

All are in the title

Thuffir
[Touch GSM General] r0p3:
I think you have to register in this french forum to get to the download link.

Maybe someone who knows French can tell more about that...

and maybe ask there if we can post it here @XDA-Dev. ;)

thanx Kaoh :D - and also thanx to frufo2000 for the cab.

I don't Know whether the top/down animation works. I heard that it doesn't work good on a Nova. The ani doesn't really start at the top - maybe there are some reg settings needed - I don't know :(

Please post your experience if it works/doesn't work on your non-Touch-device.

I hope we can find a solution for those where it is not working.
[Touch GSM General] robosiris:
I love the louie v theme and thank you ... but I noticed a bug or two. I attached two pictures and you'll notice that the "End/Talk" key in the dialpad - the background is black instead of the louie v theme, as well as the "Internet Sharing" key in the communication's manager. Other than that, this theme is the best I've seen.
[Touch GSM General] robosiris:
I love this cube louie v theme and the icons. this works in my herald. :)
[Touch GSM General] Kaoh:
Thanks frufo2000 for the cab indeed, now I was able to install it.

Sad to inform though that the anim is not top down :( I do not see why this should not work though... so shocked :'(
[Touch GSM General] warriorvibhu:
@Frufo2000

Frufo man so sorry for posting this thing here but i thought i may be able to catch your attention..anyhow this too is abt customization ..... i saw ur today screen you have a 5/6 tab plugin installed...i searched the forums but was too confused can you please tell me which one have you installed and is it bug free.. i will be really thankful..........

Thanks a lot
[Touch GSM General] thuffir:
Fire

It will be more explicit!
[Touch GSM General] chelsea:
Could you do this with the green icons and maybe, with another background?
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
thx, i´ll fixed that. can you send me the internet sharing png files? i´ve only the 8 button commmanger.

maybe you can send me all of the 10 buttons png files. i´ve seen that the background looks a little bit confused on your device
[Touch GSM General] chelsea:
deleted, sorry.
[Touch GSM General] chelsea:
Here are the green icons.

Could anyone do this

for me with green icons?
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
here you find a goog and easy to understand tutorial for this kind of animation

http://iup.in/img/guest/BluringAnim.jpg

maybe you can try it. it looks better if you use screenshots of your device.
[Touch GSM General] chelsea:
I try but i'm not english and all i have done till now is install a .cab...
[Touch GSM General] chelsea:
Weiss hier jemand, wie der Blureffekt im deutschen Photoshop heisst? Ich such mir grad den Wolf ab :D ich finds nicht...
[Touch GSM General] robosiris:
.

Thank you for mentioning how my command manager looks a tad confusing with the louie v theme, lol. attached is the 10 button command manager. If I'm missing anything, let me know.
[Touch GSM General] thuffir:
The Complete Collection

Fire...., Lumos...., Circle.....

Thuffir