Good day and welcome back to TMac FPv - your home for YOUR "Journey to Better" FPV fun,
flights, and racing stuff! Today I'm gonna show you how to go from this . . . to something
like this . . . and from this . . . to something like this in just four simple
steps and a few short minutes. I mean the T16's got a 480x272 color screen why not
use it, right?!? Let's go! To begin with, all of these screen images are located on
your T16 SD card which \I've taken out of my t16
and inserted it into a micro SD to USB adapter and plugged that into my computer.
You can do the same thing basically with a USB to mini-USB cable attached to your
T16 and the computer. I choose to do it by taking the SD card out of my
transmitter. This is a file directory of your SD card using OpenTX. We're going
to be using the folder "Images" for both your splash screen (which is the screen
you see when you turn on the T 16) and also your models images. For your
background image, if you choose to customize that you'll need the "Themes"
folder here and the subfolder "default." For each of these images the type of
image, the folder location on your SD card, the file type, the max pixel
size, and the file name that you need to name it, are depicted here. For your model
image you can name it anything you want as long as it's six characters in length.
So all you need to do is find an image you want to use for, let's say your
splash screen, and for my splash screen I'm gonna use my TMac FPV logo for that,
make sure it's a PNG file type. I can do that by right clicking on it, go to
properties and details and over here you can see that the file type is PNG and
you can see the pixel size here is 791 by 836 pixels. So I need to resize my
TMac FPV logo to use it as a splash screen. There are different ways to do
that and I like to use a site called Resizeimage.net. Just go to Resizeimage.net,
upload the image that you want, I'm going to use my TMac FPV logo image and
it uploads it - It shows you what the pixel size is. Then just type in the
pixel size that you want to use and if I type in 480
(and we want 480 by 72 max) it comes out to be 480x507. So I
want my smallest pixel size to be 272 and that makes it 257x272 which is
still okay. The 480x272 is the max size. I wanted to keep the same aspect
ratio so it doesn't distort the image. Then you just click on resize image
and you can view the image. There it is. Download the image. I'm just gonna paste
it in the same folder over here. If we go back to this chart for our splash screen,
we need to make sure to name it splash. So, that's what I'll name my resized TMac
FPV logo. I'll rename this "splash" and there it is. We want to make sure it's
still a PNG file which it is and then all we need to do is take this, copy it,
and stick it in our folder which was image folder. There it is and there's
our image. Once our new image name "splash" is on our SD card and the SD card is in
our Jumper T 16 we should now just be able to turn on our T 16 and the splash
screen should appear like this. We would use the exact same process to
create a custom model image with three exceptions - the pixel size of the model
image needs to be 192x114 and we can name our model anything we would like as
long as it's six characters max, and the file type can be PNG or jpg. To
demonstrate a custom model image I'll go back to our T 16 custom images folder
and I'm gonna select this one for myLRC Arrow3 Hybrid. We'll take a look at
the details on this. It is a PNG file as we can see here which is good. The
dimensions however our 382x383
which is not what we need. We need a max of 192x114 so
we're gonna have to use our resize image for this one. go back to our Resizeimage.net,
upload the image. There it is. 382x383. We want . . . 192x193 is what
it shows up as. That's not going to be good. We want 114 as our minimum size. So,
in this case it's gonna be 114x114. PNG. Resize image. View image. There it is.
Download the image and we're gonna grab that and stick it in our folder. Paste it
in our folder. Here it is. Once again we can rename it anything we want as long
as it's 6 characters. Let's name it Arrow3. Now for our model image we put
it under the same folder as we did for our splash screen which is our "Images"
folder and paste that into our images folder. Paste and here it is down here.
Arrow3. PNG. Click on that. There it is. Now to change our background image we
just use the exact same procedure as we just did for the splash image and also
the custom model image except we need to name it "background" and we also save it
to a different folder - this time the "Themes/default" folder. So let's go back
to our custom images folder and the splash image I'm going to be using is
here. This was actually obtained from a gentleman named Fabio and I'll put the
link to his site (which has several background images which you can use) I'll
put his link down in the video description below. Thank you Fabio
for making this available to all of us. The background image needs to be a max
size of 480x272 and the images on Fabio's site that I've been able to take
a look at are already 480x272 so we don't need to use our Resizeimage.net
on these. We do want to rename the image "background."
So I'm gonna rename this "background." We need to place it under
"Themes" and "default." Now before we put the new background custom image in
our folder we notice that we've already got this file which is the Jumper T16
background on here. So if we want to save this image and
there's no reason not to, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna rename this OLD
background. OLD_background. That way it's
just saved in the same place and what we can do now is go back to our new custom
background image and copy and paste that to the same folder. So now we have a new
background PNG file 480x272 in dimensions on our SD card. So we've got
the background on our SD card, we've got our model image Arrow3 on the SD card,
and we've got splash image TMac FPV logo on our SD card. So now all
we have to do is put our SD card in the transmitter and turn it on. There we
have both our TMac FPV logo on our splash screen and also our new
background. What we don't have here yet is our custom model image. So let's go
ahead and do that now. Go to our model set-up. On the first page, we scroll down
to model image, click and hold enter and we just want to scroll down to our new
custom model image which is Arrow3. Hit return and there she is.
So now we've got our new custom splash screen, which in my case is our TMac FPV
logo. We've got our new background image
and we've got our "Bloody Arrow" Arrow3 Hybrid custom model image and
we're good to go! Make sure to "Like" the video, share it with your friends. Subscribe
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video. Clear skies friend!