So Windows Live Wave 3 public beta has now been released worldwide. While some personally love the new interface and some despise it, a new problem has arisen that could possibly end all future development of skins that are made possible by Messenger Plus! Live. Skinners around the world are outraged because they've spent the last few months perfecting their skins and gearing up for the release of Wave 3.
If you're not a developer, then you're probably wondering why there is a huge hype about this? Here's a short explanation by master skinner willz as to why skinning may come to an end in the near future:
Basically instead of using Messengers own resources like always, the new Aero frame that Messenger uses relies on Windows Vista's own theme which means skinners can no longer edit this part of Messenger under Windows Vista unless Aero is disabled at all times. So what does that mean exactly? It means that you will not be able to have a truly complete Messenger skin under vista whilst Aero is enabled. There are a few other things that 9 brings that also kill a few skinning techniques that people use at the moment. One of the new things the 9 brings to the table is the fact that resources are now 90% MSNRLE, which means there will be a lot of resources that will not be able to be replaced without being able to replicate the layers that MSNRLE images use. One of these is the emoticons, normally skinners edit one png image, but with the new beta they are now an MSNRLE image which means they are impossible to replace because there is no emoticon code anywhere and in order to replace a MSNRLE with a png you must have access to its code. The only solution is to somehow replicate the layered MSNRLE (which isn't possible at the moment).
Not only is this affecting skinners, Ahmad (developer of A-Patch) is also currently unable to release an update due to the new resources in the Wave 3 version. We'll update you as soon as we can with more information regarding the new resources in Messenger.
>> Read willz's full post at Design Evolved
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