How to replace custome textures in Cgoban?

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How to replace custome textures in Cgoban?

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Hi! : )

Since Panda-glgo has a very neat feature to customize your board, you can easily achieve a nice playing environment like on this picture:

http://s10.postimg.org/xpxzh5w55/Clipboard01.png

However in Cgoban it seems ridiculously difficult to change anything except sounds. I spend almost one day investigating cgoban.jar file, and from hour to hour there was no progress whatsoever.

I would really appreciate it if you have some tips for me, about changing background and board texture. : )

I know that it is possible, because one year ago one guy showed me his cgoban version when instead of normal stones there were stones with smileys.
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Re: How to replace custome textures in Cgoban?

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The screenshot is gorgeous!

This one has been highest on my KGS wishlist for years. Maybe once the HTML interface is available, it will get a lot easier to pull something off?
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SpongeBob wrote:The screenshot is gorgeous!

This one has been highest on my KGS wishlist for years. Maybe once the HTML interface is available, it will get a lot easier to pull something off?


Unfortunately, the html interface will not correct the serious flaws on KGS that drove me to find a new server to play on.
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Are they really going to make new version in html5/css3/javaScript?
That would be awesome! However I don't believe it. I download Cgoban after 3 years and it looks exactly the same. The one thing that changed was new client for android, and they gave high price product with minimal functionality. How annoying. : )

I think I will stick with IGS for the time being, or find some java programers that will help me turn cgoban.jar into light and beautiful standalone html5 KGS client. : )
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Here's one of the last pictures of the board posted: https://plus.google.com/108736506961432 ... osts?hl=en

You can find the rest on the G+. Personally I'm hoping those are placeholders and someone with good graphic design skills is coming in to polish it at some point.
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Post by Javaness2 »

I think KGS is going to have the old "classic" board coming back (that's a grey/black & white) one.
Not sure about the addition of other textures.

Dfunkt, was your post really necessary?
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Wow, this actually a very good news!
is there any way to join development team? ^.^

What about making a contest in deviant art?
For 500$ in a couple of months you will have the most amazing UI possible. : )
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Yuji wrote:Wow, this actually a very good news!
is there any way to join development team? ^.^

What about making a contest in deviant art?
For 500$ in a couple of months you will have the most amazing UI possible. : )


I'd be shocked if you couldn't find someone in the KGS community with the correct skills and happy to do it for free or for a few months of KGS+ or whatever.
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