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How to make a new theme

Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 6:27 am
by admin
GreedyGammon board images are in your program files folder under "pics". The name of the folder corresponds to your screen resolution. If you have a screen resolution that is not listed, you can rename one of the folders or add a new folder with your screen width resolution and copy image files into it from one of the other folders that is closest to your screen size. You can also replace any image in the folders with your own images as long as you keep the names the same.

Players are welcome to upload and share their own themes here.


Update: November 2017- There is a "blender" folder in the main install download. Use that to create your own boards easily. Instructions in the readme.txt file
Basically you can just copy and paste textures that you like and the 3d software (Blender) will render it for you.

Re: How to make a new theme

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 12:46 pm
by admin
You can use the free 3d rendering program "Blender to make GreedyGammon themes by using a project already created for you. All you have to do is paste your own color and texture into the file (texture.jpg) and hit "run" a new board will be generated for you in Blender. Get Blender at

https://www.blender.org/download/

The project file for creating GreedyGammon boards is attached to this post.

Re: How to make a new theme

Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 1:53 am
by JacksonP
Hi greedyG, is Blender free to use? And is it beginner friendly? I'm very interested in giving this a go, but I'm a total newbie.

Re: How to make a new theme

Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 2:03 am
by admin
JacksonP wrote:Hi greedyG, is Blender free to use? And is it beginner friendly? I'm very interested in giving this a go, but I'm a total newbie.
Yes Blender is free. It is not beginner friendly if you intend to make a board from scratch. But if you just want to create a new GreedyGammon board from the existing project, all you have to do is copy and paste any texture image into the texture file and click "render" in Blender and it will create a clone of the board with your selected texture and colors. There should be a readme.txt file in the Blender folder of the download with more instructions.

I am working with the guy who created the Blender project to include the checkers dice and cube in the project.