Ok, I think I'm finished with my 'Sci Fi' theme/skin.

 

I never did solve the 'heading' thing to get it to display degrees, so I settled for a N/E/S/W readout instead.

 

A detailed list of the changes are as follows:

- Map Screen -

* 2d mode car icon is a BSG Raptor.

* 3d mode car icon is a BSG Raptor.

* 'callsign' and name in top left corner.

* large clock in top right corner.

* Buttons along right-hand side are:

= Sattelite Signal Strength - sattelite image with coloured bar. Blue - high accuracy 3d fix; Amber - low accuracy 2d fix; Red - no fix; text 'GPS Error' - GPS antenna problem. Click to go to GPS Status screen.

= Map Confirmation Button - top-view of BSG Raptor, click for map confirmation screen.

= 2D / 3D Mode - left & right side views of BSG Raptor, click to switch between 2d and 3d mode.

= Delete Route - front view of BSG Raptor, only appears during actve route, click to delete route / cancel navigation.

* Info in top-left corner of screen (only visible during active navigation):

- Distance to next manoever.

- name of next street.

- icon for next manoever.

- icon for second manoever.

- distanct to second manoever.

* Info box in lower-left corner of screen:

= Range - total distance to destination (only appears during active route/navigation).

= TOT - total time to reach destination (only appears during active route/navigation).

= Altitude - current altitude.

= Heading - current car heading (NESW).

= Velocity - current car speed.

* Absolute lower left corner of map:

= BSG Icon (click to go directly to Destination Favorites screen).

= Current Street Name.

* The Zoom bar is removed.

* The original 'info display' from the lower left corner is removed.

* The compass icon is removed.

* The infamous "blue boxes" have been removed.

* A 'dropout' shadow behind the 'callsign' and clock improve visibility.

* A 'dropout' shadow appears behind the next street name / next manoever icon / distance etc, only when navigating.

* A 'dropout' shadow behind the current street name replaces the blue bar down there.

Other Changes as follows:

* Settings/Demo mode is disabled.

* Settings/Visual/Displayed Info is removed as it is no longer used.

* Settings/GPS Status now includes Lat/Long coordinates.

* Navi Destination/Top menu has new title text ("Pilot...").

* Title text on all Navi menus in new font.

* Different Raptor icons are provided for day/night mode in both 2d and 3d views.

 

And now, some pictures! (Sorry about the quality - the dark 'night mode' map looks good in person but it's hard to get good pictures of.)

 

2d mode, no route selected:

 

2d mode, with route plotted:

 

3d mode, no route selected:

 

3d mode, with route plotted:

 

Closeup of info box in lower left corner (with route plotted):

 

GPS Status screen:

 

All the required files, and a readme.txt file with instructions and more information, are available here. Instructions include how to install, as well as information on how to customize some of the text (i.e. how to remove my name & put yours in.)

 

Cheers!

Looking good

i hope one of these days someone can post a step by step how to: on how to load these data.zip files.

I've included some step-by-step instructions in the download file in my post above. The download file includes all the files necessary to perform the entire operation.

Briefly though, assuming you have a data.zip file that you want to use:

1) Put the testmode directory, the mitacap directory, and your desired data.zip file onto your SD card.

2) Note- do not unzip the data.zip just put the zip onto the sd card

3) Insert SD card to your nav unit and turn it on. It should boot to Windows/Test mode

4) Close the 'copy' window and open Windows Explorer

5) Copy the data.zip file to the \My Flash Drive\APL2\iGo directory

6) Turn off the Nav unit

7) Remove the SD card

8 ) Turn on the Nav unit

9) Enjoy your new nav software skin

There are more-detailed instructions scattered throughout this Hacks/Mods area.

that looks really cool

I wonder if you guys are far enough on figuring out how the AVIC works and all that to make a skin tool for on the computer or maybe make some pre-made skins ?

I'd do this theme to mine but I'd worry about it not working right afterwards or something going wrong down the line...

that looks really cool

 

I wonder if you guys are far enough on figuring out how the AVIC works and all that to make a skin tool for on the computer or maybe make some pre-made skins ?

 

I'd do this theme to mine but I'd worry about it not working right afterwards or something going wrong down the line...

A skin tool would be great. Something that slices everything up for you!

I just uploaded Vorians DATA.zip file and it works flawlessly on my F500BT. Good stuff, I want to thank everyone who has contributed to this forum for all the mods and hacks.

found a typo in the code:

; start hidden

hide

;end hidden

found a typo in the code:

 

; start hidden

 

 

hide

 

;end hidden

Whoopsie!!! Luckily it's off of the screen!

I've included some step-by-step instructions in the download file in my post above. The download file includes all the files necessary to perform the entire operation.

 

Briefly though, assuming you have a data.zip file that you want to use:

 

1) Put the testmode directory, the mitacap directory, and your desired data.zip file onto your SD card.

2) Note- do not unzip the data.zip just put the zip onto the sd card

3) Insert SD card to your nav unit and turn it on. It should boot to Windows/Test mode

4) Close the 'copy' window and open Windows Explorer

5) Copy the data.zip file to the \My Flash Drive\APL2\iGo directory

6) Turn off the Nav unit

7) Remove the SD card

8 ) Turn on the Nav unit

9) Enjoy your new nav software skin

 

There are more-detailed instructions scattered throughout this Hacks/Mods area.

Thank you for clearing it up. Got it figured out.

And thanks Vorian for the data.zip. Yours is exactly how i want my unit. All i added was taking out the beeps in the AV menu.

Thanks everyone for their work so far. I was a little nervous and hesitant at first, but decided this is too cool and worth the risk

Vorian's files are up and running on my F700. Good Stuff!!

stephanie

i uploaded ur data zip file exactly the way u explained now my unit is rebooting not sure what i did wrong...any ideas? can u maybe resend me the un-modified data zip? i tried my old one and it does the same..any ideas?

tks

Did you just copy the data.zip file, or did you copy all the other files? My data.zip requires those extra font files to work right.

If your original data.zip isn't booting either, then its possible you've done something else - did you delete, move, or change any other files?

stephanie

i uploaded ur data zip file exactly the way u explained now my unit is rebooting not sure what i did wrong...any ideas? can u maybe resend me the un-modified data zip? i tried my old one and it does the same..any ideas?

tks

update: i uploaded vorian's file and it works great probably just a corrupted DL i'm gonna try again later...tks guys looking good!! only if i could fix my bluetooth issue with my bberry i'd be a happy man

yeah Steph you're right i'd forgotten the other files....oops my bad it works now both of you're guy's files...Tks a lot!

steph i like that you at least give people your data.zip but you really should edit out all the steph was here crap make a basic one for average people ehh nevermind thats probably too much work so now im running though all your code

gotta check each line and each file ill repost a CLEANED UP version when its done and running ok

steph i got a question i see a lot of things you have HIDE on but i noticed you changed the position of it like this

from original file

and this is your file

notice you put x 1008, why?

lol steph btw you really like to make your devices as personal as possible lmao

		Title.SET "Pilot: Stephanie Maks"
	Title2.set "Pilot: Stephanie Maks"

When I first started messing around I used the 'hide' thing but I quickly discovered that a lot of stuff was unhiding itself - the scripts were overriding the visibility setting. So I just started adding 1000 to whatever the x= position was. That moves it off screen so whether it's 'hidden' or not, you can't see it.

It's really nice of you to go editing my files for people - my download includes instructions for that. I never set out to make my theme/skin as something that would work perfectly as a drop-in replacement for everyone, I made it do what I wanted and people asked for copies of it so I made it available... I prefer to help people learn how to change and edit stuff themselves rather than just do all the work for them.

The personalization is also a bit of 'anti-theft'....well not anti-theft so much as , if the thing gets stolen, whoever ends up with it is gonna have to deal with my name all over it! Again though, I included instructions on how to remove/replace my name in my download file.

Cheers!

i personally like the way Stephanie is doing it, i've learned a great deal since i started reading this forum and your guys' instructions...i'm not a computer language programmer but i did learn some programming in engineering school..for anyone who's not familiar enough with the process i'd advise against any mods or attempts to do so for their own sake, it's very easy to mess up and end up with a useless electronics brick...

I've downloaded Stephanies files and have started to play around.

Why can't I edit/view/open so many of the bmps?

For example I can't open all the bmp's in DATA.zip/gfx

I've tried gimp and windows picture/fax viewer. Gimp says 'XXX.bmp is not a valid BMP file'

I am able to open some of the bmp's just not all of them.

I am extracting them to my desktop and then trying them.

I'm going to try to install the latest version of gimp.

most of them that I've found myself and with the help of others are located in ui_pioneer/800_480 and in the image.res in the APL directory, and I've edited quite a bit of the .bmp's. Not all the .bmp's can be opened, nor are they all useful. Before going to the ends of the earth to open a certain .bmp file, I'd suggest trying those 2 directories and see if what you're looking for is actually in there.

The BMP files that you cannot open/view are compressed. You need to uncompress them in order to view or edit them.

There is a tool called MioMap BMP Tool (search the forums, there's a link to it somewhere).

With it, you can open and uncompress the BMP to work with it, and then recompress it when you're done.

Cheers!

There is a tool called MioMap BMP Tool (search the forums, there's a link to it somewhere).

http://www.avic411.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 584#111584

-Eric

Hey Vorian,

Have you made any attempts at utilizing the supposed all software bypass for the parking brake? If so, is it already in your data.zip file?

Thanks,

Eric