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AccuWeather

thanks to astro

small2

thanks to kooKyGuY

BBC

Weather.com

The Weather Network

thanks to astro

NOTE

if you intend to use any of these weather icons in your skin, you should probably covert the .bmps to .gifs or .pngs as these will take up less space on the ppc.

I liked kooKyGuY's small2 weather icons, but wanted transparent backgrounds. So I modified his weather icon set to make the daytime icons transparent.

The ZIP...

I also fixed a few images in astro's Weather Network to make them completely transparent (eliminate "pink" edges).

Could somebody post the transparent BBC weather icons?
Much appreciated  :)

Managed to alter the transparent colour on my skin
Works pretty well except for a slight grey outline

Off Topic:

SRS, can you link me to where you got that sweet windows logo in the first pic.

Thanks

for the bbc icons to be transparent you just have to change the transparent color in the skin to match the background.

Cratos,

I just took the picture that astro posted in the Brighthand thread, so I dont have that theme.  You could try to email or pm him.

Thanks to Snagged 3d for his great 3D Icons

Quote from: dhpssThanks to Snagged 3d for his great 3D Icons

Here are some weather icons I modified from the Washington Post.

Edit: 1-8-04 Change all images to .png

Quote from: Everton1878Could somebody post the transparent BBC weather icons?
Much appreciated  :)

Managed to alter the transparent colour on my skin
Works pretty well except for a slight grey outline

I think the background color is "153,153,204".

Thanks for the props dhpss, and to srs for including them in the default skin.  Never thought I'd see the "smoke" icon come up, but all of LA is now covered in a thick blanket of it from the fires...some friends of mine had to be evacuated out of Simi Valley...  :(

I wanted to share my modified weather.com icon for code 39 (AM / PM showers) which is more like the one on the website. I prefer it to the one we previously had, which looks just like all-day showers.

From Intellicast.com (http://www.intellicast.com/Help/SkyCodes).

From World Weather Information Service (http://www.worldweather.org/wx_icon.htm).

Nice find astro, thanks for sharing :)

Quote from: astroFrom Intellicast.com (http://www.intellicast.com/Help/SkyCodes).

Hello Astro, thanks for those great weathericons but I have one question.
When the weather code is: showers, I see the icon of windy, so I looked on the website of intellicast, and I see that showers will result in an icon with a cloud an some rain. But on my screen, it shows the icon of Windy. Is this normal?
Maybe it's normal but it's just a question :wink:

Did some work in the Weather Underground icons:

Quote from: juniDid some work in the Weather Underground icons:

Hi,

Very cool icons, i will use them immediatly :)

Love your skins too, btw.

Thanks for both.

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Hi

How do I make the background transparent for the BBC Icons - the ones posted that are *.bmp.

Is this possible with *.bmp files or do they need to be *.png files. Oo this skinning is addictive!

Martin

Quote from: Martin I Pettinger-
Hi

How do I make the background transparent for the BBC Icons - the ones posted that are *.bmp.

Is this possible with *.bmp files or do they need to be *.png files. Oo this skinning is addictive!

Martin

The easiest way is to change this line in your skin:
color,transparent,255_0_255

This is usually somewher near the top of the skin. If you change the bolded area to this I think it will work:

color,transparent,153_153_204

You can use .bmp or .png. It is up to you. The only difference is that .png is a smaller file size. Just make sure that in your skin you tell the skin what file type to use. Example:

options,weathericondir,Weather Icons\Washington Post,png

Yahoo! Weather icons...nice and simple

snaggle,

verry nice snaggle, I always use weather.com icons, but i will swich to theses, excelent job.


Lordtwisted :D

Quote from: snaggleYahoo! Weather icons...nice and simple

Snaggle: These are in gif format. Would TD+ use gif?

Quote from: dhpss

Quote from: snaggleYahoo! Weather icons...nice and simple

Snaggle: These are in gif format. Would TD+ use gif?

Gifs work, i'v tried it.

dhpss,

Yes, gif will work.  In your skin file, change your skin ref. to

options,weathericondir,Weather Icons\yahoo-weather,gif[/code]

Could we use animated gif's in the next versions?
That should be great, animated weather images etc.

Quote from: NielsracingCould we use animated gif's in the next versions?
That should be great, animated weather images etc.

I was under the impression that animated gifs were not supported by PPC2002/WM2003, rather than it being something that srs can add to TodayPlus.

Pocket IE does not support animated .gif but the OS itself does. There are plenty of other applications for Pocket PCs that will show them.

Quote from: arbitrajeu

Quote from: NielsracingCould we use animated gif's in the next versions?
That should be great, animated weather images etc.

I was under the impression that animated gifs were not supported by PPC2002/WM2003, rather than it being something that srs can add to TodayPlus.

We could give it a try :wink:

Just stumbled across this site with tons of weather icons...

http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/trivia/weather-icons.html

Quote from: TalynJust stumbled across this site with tons of weather icons...

http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/trivia/weather-icons.html

Wow, Great find! I like those animated gif. Hopefully TD+ will support it!  :D

I have seen people make the icons transparent (with a pink background). Could you let me know how to do it (with freeware if possible).

Thx!

Quote from: dhpssI have seen people make the icons transparent (with a pink background). Could you let me know how to do it (with freeware if possible).!

I just use M$ paint.

I have got the forecasttext file attached.  Is it the content wrongly defined?

Hi

I followed the advice earlier in this thread about changing the colour from 255_0_255 to color,transparent,153_153_204 but it made the backgrounds go pink. Should the transparent colour be something else?

Martin

It doesn't sound like the 153_153_204 is the exact RGB color of your icon background.

In order for 153_153_204 to be transparent, it needs to listed in your skin file and be the exact RGB color of the pink in your icons.  Anti-aliased images are not good to use, since the blend of the colors around the border of the images doesn't let you completely hide the pink.  It needs to be a hard stop between the icon's edge and the transparent color.

Hi,

I've edited the BBC icons to have the following:

1. Magenta background for easier transparancy.
2. Both white and black clouds depending on weather severity.
3. Modified windy modifier (lines to right of cloud).
4. Added 45,46,47.
5. Modifed number of water droplets/rays to give more variation.

It works best on a mid blue background.

Hope you like them.

PJE

(http://portal.telegraafnet.nl/weeranimatie.gen.gif) (http://weerkamer.nl/weer/weeranimatie/weeranimatie.fpl)
(http://weerkamer.nl/weer/meerdaagse/meerdaagse.fpl?dag=1) (http://weerkamer.nl/weer/meerdaagse/meerdaagse.fpl?dag=2) (http://weerkamer.nl/weer/meerdaagse/meerdaagse.fpl?dag=3) (http://weerkamer.nl/weer/meerdaagse/meerdaagse.fpl?dag=4) (http://weerkamer.nl/weer/meerdaagse/meerdaagse.fpl?dag=5)


I personally love these, but can we use them?
I mean, I can't track the source so I have been taking screenshots the last few days...

Also, do we have a list of a description what each of the 44 images is?
If more people like it I could update this icon pack once in a while :)

Quote from: WoefertjeI personally love these, but can we use them?
I mean, I can't track the source so I have been taking screenshots the last few days...

Also, do we have a list of a description what each of the 44 images is?
If more people like it I could update this icon pack once in a while :)

Very nice.

If you can collect enough different ones, it should be relatively easy to create a skin around them.

So far I got:

- clear day
- 10% clouds over day
- 20% clouds over day
- 30% clouds over day
- 40% clouds over day
- 50% clouds over day
- 60% clouds over day
- 70% clouds over day
- 80% clouds over day
- 100% clouds over day (sun not visible)
- rain
- little rain
- rain + snow
- fog
- clear night
- 10% clouds over night
- 30% clouds over night
- 40% clouds over night
- 60% clouds over night
- 80% clouds over night
- 90% clouds over night
- 100% clouds over night (moon not visible)
- Weather Station out of order ( :shock: )

They're somewhat accurate and you always know how much clouds there are :D

If I upload them now all, is there someone who can make a pack of it?
After a few days I got like 40 pictures now, should be enough I think... let me know and I happily upload them :)

I don't know how far the forecast icons compare with the forecast text but the list might help you to know if your collection is going to be complete (I attached the file wich includes this list but it comes also with the installation off TodayPlus):

1,Cloudy
3,Mostly Cloudy
4,Partly Cloudy
11,Clear
13,Light Rain
14,Showers
15,Showers Early
16,Showers Late
18,Rain
19,AM Showers
20,Scattered Showers
21,Few Showers
22,Mostly Sunny
23,Mostly Clear
24,Sunny
25,Scattered Flurries
26,AM Clouds/PM Sun
27,Isolated T-Storms
28,Scattered Thunderstorms
29,PM Showers
30,PM Showers/Wind
31,Rain/Snow Showers
32,Few Snow Showers
33,Cloudy/Wind
34,Flurries/Wind
35,Mostly Cloudy/Windy
36,Rain/Thunder
37,Partly Cloudy/Windy
38,AM Rain/Snow Showers
39,Showers / Wind Late
40,Light Rain/Wind
41,Showers/Wind
42,Clouds Early / Clearing Late
43,T-Showers
44,Mostly Sunny/Wind
45,Flurries
46,Mostly Clear / Wind
47,Rain/Wind
49,Sct Flurries/Wind
50,Sct Strong Storms
51,PM T-Storms
52,T-Storms Early
53,Thunderstorms
55,Sunny/Windy
56,AM Thunderstorms
57,T-Storms Late
62,AM Rain
63,Scattered Showers/Wind
64,Iso T-Storms/Wind
65,Rain/Snow
66,Sct T-Storms/Wind
67,AM Showers/Wind
70,Sct Snow Showers
71,Snow to Ice/Wind
73,Light Snow Late
75,Light Rain / Freezing Rain
77,Snow to Rain
78,Snow Showers Early
80,AM Light Rain
81,PM Light Rain
82,PM Rain
84,Snow Showers
85,Rain to Snow
86,PM Rain/Snow
88,Few Showers/Wind
89,PM Snow/Wind
90,Snow/Wind
91,PM Rain/Snow Showers
92,PM Rain/Snow/Wind
93,Rain/Snow Showers/Wind
94,Rain/Snow/Wind
98,Light Snow
100,PM Snow
101,Few Snow Showers/Wind
103,Light Snow/Wind
104,Wintry Mix
105,AM Wintry Mix
106,Hvy Rain/Freezing Rain
107,Snow Showers Late
108,AM Light Snow
109,Snow
114,Rain/Freezing Rain
118,T-Storms/Wind
123,Sprinkles
125,AM Snow Showers
126,AM Clouds/PM Sun/Wind
127,Rain / Snow Showers Late
128,AM Rain/Snow/Wind
130,Rain to Snow/Wind
132,Snow to Wintry Mix
133,PM Snow Showers/Wind
135,Snow and Ice to Rain
137,Heavy Rain
138,AM Rain/Ice
140,Heavy T-Storms/Wind
142,Rain/Thunder/Wind
145,AM Snow Showers/Wind
146,AM Light Snow/Wind
147,Sct Snow Showers/Wind
150,PM Light Rain/Wind
152,AM Light Wintry Mix
153,PM Light Snow/Wind
154,Heavy Rain/Wind
155,PM Snow Shower
158,Snow to Rain/Wind
163,Rain/Sleet
164,PM Light Rain/Ice
167,AM Snow
171,Snow to Ice
172,Wintry Mix/Wind
173,Strong Storms
175,PM Light Snow
178,AM Drizzle
183,Snow Showers / Wind Early
189,Strong Storms/Wind
193,PM Drizzle
194,Drizzle
201,AM Light Rain/Wind
202,PM Wintry Mix
204,AM Rain/Wind
223,Wintry Mix to Snow
231,Rain
236,Ice to Rain
259,Hvy Rain/Freezing Rain
271,Snow Showers/Windy
988,Partly Cloudy/Windy
989,Light Rain Shower
990,Light Rain with Thunder
991,Light Drizzle
992,Mist
993,Smoke
994,Haze
995,Light Snow Shower
996,Light Snow Shower/ Windy
997,Clear
998,A Few Clouds
999,Fair

Regards Ingmar

I already looked into that and they don't compare :(
There are 44 pictures and heck hell I know how many descriptions :(

Quote from: WoefertjeAlso, do we have a list of a description what each of the 44 images is?

Refer to the Weather ID Icon list, which is part of the Skin Reference documentation.  Oh, and there are 47 total image IDs as used by Weather.com.

http://dark-mojo.com/todayplus/download.php?id=443

Out of the 44(or 47) I got 27 images ready, as soon as we got some wind/blizzards over here I can pretty much complete it :)

I found out there are no images for wind on that site, are these pictures I made myself acceptable?;

(http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/1203/windy.gif)

or this one:

(http://www.theforumisdown.com/uploadfiles/1203/windy2.gif)

I don't know if this was posted before, but it is a page with many weather icons. http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/trivia/weather-icons.html This page has a lot more icons. http://weather.kivlin.net/grabicons.html Here is a page with icons and codes.

Hey ho, where are the files from the first page? Only can read text but there no icons for download or example screens.

Quote from: MrMacMaxHey ho, where are the files from the first page? Only can read text but there no icons for download or example screens.

Please, read this (http://www.jhollin1138.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1554)

Here come some nice Icons  :D

They were developed by WillyG from Norway to the program PocketWeather.
(http://www.sbsh.net). I have made transparent png's from them and with
the friendly permission from WillyG  :D  i'll give them to you too.

Greetings Broesel

Pretty Cool !!!   8)

Thanks  Broesel .....

:D
Nice, but they were already here..... (by me)
http://www.jhollin1138.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=9618#9618

But, nice to see that more people like them....

Ooops, sorry Motormuis, didn't remember that they were the same icons  :oops: , well I'm getting older ....  :(

Broesel

No hard feelings, that wasn't my intension.
I just thought it's funny.... old man.... :wink:

@All,

Yust for your information.

The weather-id-list we commonly use for our TodayPlus weatherpics/weatherpicnumbers is no longuer actual. Some/several numbers from the forecast URL's don't match the pics we used till now. While working with uk_skinner and Broesel in another thread, we noticed this. I did some investigation and found this new order: Weather-ID-list. I thank Broesel for helping me.

If you see some improvements, please let me know!


You can find it all  here (http://forums.jhollin1138.com/viewtopic.php?t=1799):
•  several icons to download for VGA and QVGA pocketpc's
•  comparison of the icons
•  weather ID list

Timmy