Custom Textures
Up to ten custom board textures can be loaded. These must be placed
in the directory *Scid vs PC/bin/textures* (windows) or
*$HOME/.scidvspc/textures*, and be of the form *wood_l.gif* /
*wood_d.gif* or *steel_l.png* / *steel_d.png* , for example.
Custom Pieces
/The Merida1 pieces now have high-quality larger sizes./
Place custom piece sets in the directory *$HOME/.scidvspc/pieces*,
and they will be added to the Board Options window. These can be
found at our pieces page
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/support%20files/chess%20pieces/>.
Some of these include high detail pieces suitable for large
displays. notably Ken's and Paul's, and the FritzSWS pieces at
Gorgonian's Chess Site <http://gorgonian.weebly.com/scid-vs-pc.html>
Paul's also include instructions for making high detail pieces from
svg using Inkscape You can find the older instructions to make Scid
pieces in scid_chess_pieces.tgz.
/Examine /Startup Window/ for the status of loading user textures
and pieces. /
Hopefully, this quote from Scid vs. PC's help pages answered most of
your questions.
Some remarks:
* Windows' custom pieces folder:*Scid vs PC/bin/pieces*
* Ken's includes a high detail Alpha piece set.
* The script in Paul's to make your own piece set from svg using
Inkscape <https://inkscape.org/en/>, is a perl-script. On Windows
you can use Strawberry Perl <http://strawberryperl.com/>.
* Too big custom textures are cropped. Too smalls textures are
repeated. 90x90 textures works nice on my 1920x1080 monitor. When I
use 86x86 gradient textures, they are repeated when the chessboard
is big, giving a kind of 3D effect (see screenshot).
I have made some updates to Paul's:
* The script is now Windows friendlier.
* I have added a third piece set variant, Paul_C.
Files:
* Screenshot, Paul_C
<http://bibelkanon.net/ymse/scidvspc/Paul_C.png>
* All Paul in one <http://bibelkanon.net/ymse/scidvspc/piece_set.zip>
On 10.11.2016 10.48, lime...@mailup.net wrote:
Hi SCID dev and users,
First just want to say many thanks for SCID, it is really useful and
has just saved my backside, allowing me to make a 7.82 million game
PGN database and allowing me to generate, prune and delete duplicates
in said database in sci format. The whole process of merging,
converting and managing can be a bit involved, but it works.
It’s not SCID’s fault that other, commercial chess software cannot
handle importing PGN databases of this size!
I wanted to ask about alternative pieces and themes/colours. Is it
possible to get other piece sets (e.g. Alpha) for SCID or import your
own? And will we see more options for changing board colours in the
future? It’s important to have a look that you really like, as you
spend so many hours looking at it.
Thanks, Ed
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