Creating a skin

First of all, you must navigate to the skins folder, located wherever you installed nightmist. This is probably c:\program files\nightmist\skins.

Now, click on any file ending with .skn, and go to copy

Now right click some of the white space in that folder, and go to paste. Something like this should appear:

Next, give the file a new name by clicking it and pressing F2.

Now, open the file using notepad, or a similar text editing program.

Now, the most important line is the first one. Change it to something like:
BackGround=MyNewSkin.jpg

Now all you have to do, is draw the background for your skin using any drawing program (For example, I used Paint Shop Pro), and save it as a JPG file. Make sure you give it the same name as you put in your .skn file, otherwise it won't work.

How a SKN file works

The skin system in nightmist works from 2 files, a 788x554 pixel JPG file and a small .skn file, you can just change the background picture and submit that if you like. But it would be more interesting if some people would try to move the items around, in theory the game can look any way you want, if you spend enough time aligning it all up.

When i refer to the colors, they have to be submitted as '&h00BBGGRR' where BB is the blue, GG is the green, and RR is the red component of the color, each component goes from 00 to FF, and the scale is 0123456789ABCDEF.

When i refer to locations, they work as 'H,L,T,W', where H is the height of the object, L is the distance from the left side of the object to the left border of the game, T is the distance from the top of the object to the top of the game, and W is the width of the object. All measurements are in pixels.