Community Theme Creator, importing someone else's theme, not working for me.

[Shredder_guitar]

So I've been using the community theme creator for a few months, and so far, I am liking it for creating things from the ground up, but when it comes to importing another theme to edit, I'm not having much luck. I looked at the video from 'unbroken software' (link below) and the video indicates that it is just a simple import and you can start editing..... I do not have that experience. 
I'm trying to modify the 'unified' theme for my own customizations. I have freshly downloaded the unified theme from the downloads section and placed it in the "My Theme Projects" folder, I am able to see the theme in community theme creator...but I see nothing otherwise (screenshot). Is there something I can do to get this to display to make my own customizations? 

 

[C-Beats]

You can only use that tool to modify themes made with the CTC and have to have the project files the dev used to make the theme to begin with. I don't believe you can just open the output theme files with CTC. Be best to ask on the projects patreon if you have too many more issues with it as we don't really see much support on here since the project owner moved to that platform.

[Shredder_guitar]

11 hours ago, C-Beats said:

You can only use that tool to modify themes made with the CTC and have to have the project files the dev used to make the theme to begin with. I don't believe you can just open the output theme files with CTC. Be best to ask on the projects patreon if you have too many more issues with it as we don't really see much support on here since the project owner moved to that platform.

ok, I'll do that

[Shredder_guitar]

Circling back on this, I was able to get the CSC files and work from there, only real issue i have now is with the wheel, I absolutely cannot get it to look correct. This is what It looks like when it's first imported, I've tried everything under the sun to make it look proper.

After an entire day of tinkering (literally) this was the best i could get it to look. 

 

This is what i want it to look like, ideally, (i photoshopped this) can someone tell me what settings I need to have to do this? I've even tried looking at xaml settings in another theme and i just cannot seem to get it to do what i want it to do.

Edited August 5 by Shredder_guitar