Editing PlayStation 3 Theme (P3T)

<div style="float:right">[[File:Tex_classic_theme.png|300px|thumb|left|Classic theme]]</div>

<div style="float:right">[[File:Tex_default_theme.png|300px|thumb|left|Original theme]]</div>

*Installation methods

**Downloaded from PSN (SEN) store

**USB, CF, SD, MS, external storage from path: '''device:/PS3/THEME/Theme Name.p3t'''

**Game discs extras icons (see: [http://www.ps3devwiki.com/wiki/PARAM.SFO#Creating_Discs Creating Discs])

*There is an small chance of crashing XMB when applying a malformed theme (and consecutive PS3 crashes when rebooting), can be easily fixed by entering "recovery menu" and using the option "Restore Default Settings" (only restores the user configurations made in "XMB settings column")

{{Boxframe1|content='''Firmware changes related with XMB and Themes'''

**The old theme has been renamed to 'Classic'. The default theme has been changed to an updated version of the 'Original' waves theme with an animated sparkle effect

**Night time black theme has the current month color as a basis instead of white. ?

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=Theme Tools=

==P3Tcompiler==

*Download links

With the program there is a sample theme ready to compile, you can separate the program folder and the sample folder to any path in your pc, and compile the sample theme just by "drag-and-drop" the simple.xml over ps3compiler.exe (or create a "direct access icon" in the desktop to the program and drag-and-drop .xml files over it). The compiled theme .pt3 is created in the same folder of the source .xml + lot of .gim files (this .gim files are generated in the conversion from .png--->.gim as a previous step before compiling, after compilation the .gim files are not erased)

C:\PS3 Theme Compiler>p3tcompiler.exe -o "C:\PS3 Compiled Themes\Theme Name.p3t" "C:\PS3 Themes Files\Theme Name.xml"

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==P3Textractor==

C:\PS3 Theme Extractor>p3textractor.exe "C:\PS3 Compiled Themes\Theme Name.p3t" "C:\PS3 Themes Files\Theme Name\"

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==Playstation 3 Theme Builder==

==Xross Media Simulator==

=Theme Contents=

This is the settings file of the theme, needed by the compiler to build the theme, it contains information about the theme and the author, and lists all the files that composes the theme.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<theme>

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===Other XML configurations===

*'''<localizedinfo>'''

Localized info texts are only displayed when the laguage setting used in XMB matches with the language used in the "locale" of the theme

If the theme doesnt contains <localizedinfo> the default texts from <info> are used , so <localizedinfo> is not mandatory, and usually is not needed (most of the <info> contents doesnt need to be translated)

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*'''<color selection>'''

! File !! Image type !! Notes

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==Notification window (.PNG)==

Background image that appears at top-right corner of XMB for system messages (used e.g: to notify when a trophy is unlocked)

==Mouse Pointers (.PNG)==

==Navigation Sounds (.VAG)==

  -Total sound data under 256 KB spreaded between all sound files. (or 150KB as suggested here: http://www.ps3-themes.com/forum/ps3-themes/sound-tutorial-new )

Sound effects as PlayStation Compressed Sound File.

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==Background (.JPG .RAF)==

Themes can include up to 24 background images (when trying to include more than 24 backgrounds the compiler returns an: "Error: num of background images are over 24")

|+Backgrounds sizes

! File !! File type !! File max size !! Group max items !! Group max size

===Static Background (.JPG)===

The basic entry for 1 background in two aspect ratios (16:9 and 4:3). Is highly recommended to add both aspect ratios for compatibility with all TV's

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Every time the PS3 boots or every time the theme is applyed, the system time is readed (seconds) the number of backgrounds is counted starting from top of the list and one of them is selected based in the number of seconds in ps3 time. E.g. if the theme contains 24 images and is applyed at time 23:58:00 the first background is displayed, if the theme is applyed at 23:58:23 the last background is displayed, after the last background it loops to the first background of the list e.g: if the theme is applyed at 23:58:24 the first background is displayed

<!-------------------------- Backgrounds linked to PS3 time (seconds) -------------------------->

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====Backgrounds linked to PS3 time (hours of the day)====

<!-------------------------- Backgrounds linked to PS3 time (hours of the day). Time in "HH" Format -------------------------->

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Usefull for special days of special months: a birthday, christmas, etc... The background is visible the same days of all years because the year is not specifyed

<!-------------------------- Backgrounds linked to PS3 time (days of months). Time in MMDD Format -------------------------->

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Useful for special days of special years: the next olympic games, the next apocalypse, etc... it can be used for restrictions too, in the example the image is visible for a period of 1 year (from 31 december 2012, until 31 december 2013)

<!-------------------------- Backgrounds linked to PS3 time (days of years). Time in "YYYYMMDD" Format -------------------------->

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This is the entry that links to the .RAF background in the main '''Theme Scene.XML''' file. Note inside the .RAF there is another '''RAF Scene.XML''' that is very different. For more information about this RAf files see: [[Rich Appearance Format (RAF)]]

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In this example the image "safe" is used when the time doesnt match with any of them, the image "win" is used only the day 1 of january of years before 2010 and after 2020, the image "1" is used during the period from 2010 until 2020 included the days 1 of january (in this day "1" and "win" collides and "win" is deprecated because is at the bottom of the list)

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====Static and Dynamic backgrounds linked to PS3 time (seconds)====

This combines static (.jpg images), and dynamic (.raf animations) backgrounds, selected based on seconds

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