Compound Skins! How To's?

Is there any literature on the right way to put together a compound skin. Right now I have 5 skins, (really just colour variations of 1 skin) that I am trying to put together into 1 compound skin. The "Create Compound Skin" button in Skinstudio just isn't doing it. I can add all the others but only the original default skin seems to work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I really don't want to upload each colour variation one at a time. Seems a waste to me.

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MadIce

Join Date 05/2001

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Make your main skin like a normal UIS-file.
Give all other skin definition files a name you want and use the extension SSS instead of UIS.
Make a text file with the same name as the main UIS-file, but give it the extension SSD.

This is an example of the contents of BlackAndBlue.SSD, which contains 2 skins:

[SkinStyles]
Number=2

[SkinStyle0]
Name=BlackAndBlue
Skin=BlackAndBlue.uis

[SkinStyle1]
Name=BlackAndBlue++
Skin=BlackAndBlue++.sss

If you have 5 skins then make sure Number is set to 5 abd add the [SkinStyle2], [SkinStyle3] and [SkinStyle4] sections.

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Thanks very much MadIce. Exactly the info I was looking for.

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