Development => PlaneShift Mods => Topic started by: Venalan on December 01, 2013, 03:10:04 am
Title: Total overhaul to basic skin - FlameON and Skulls
Post by: Venalan on December 01, 2013, 03:10:04 am
Hey guys.
Some of you might not know that a lot of the small UI changes in V0.6 were made by me. The shortcutbar and activemagic were Eeredin. But things like the progress bars and chat window changes were me.
Because of this i got hooked on modding the UI. I've bee working on a custom skin for the last week or so and I wanted to know if there was any interest from players in using it.
I have made this new skin completely to my personal tastes so I don't expect everyone to like it. I'm asking here mainly because if there is enough interest I'll spend more time working on it than I would if I was just going to give it to a few people I know well.
But if enough want to try/use it I will finish it off and make it available.
(http://i39.tinypic.com/16gnbyh.jpg)
Title: Re: New skin
Post by: gnomebuddy on December 01, 2013, 03:21:29 am
its nice, the colors well , there a bit red for me, but I would definitely give it a try, good job Ven
Title: Re: New skin
Post by: cdmoreland on December 01, 2013, 05:11:05 am
Looks great and may be easier on my old eyes. :thumbup:
Title: Re: New skin
Post by: Roled on December 01, 2013, 05:16:02 am
FLASH!!
Title: Re: New skin
Post by: Illysia on December 01, 2013, 05:29:17 am
Aaa-ahhhh Savior of the Universe...
Sorry. Couldn't resist. :)
Nicely done Ven.
Title: Re: New skin
Post by: Bonifarzia on December 01, 2013, 12:34:44 pm
First impression: That design looks nice and clean. First thought: Where can i get this thing? First conclusion: This needs a better title than "new skin" ;)
Keep doing what is fun for you to experiment with, Venalan. You know that this skin will make a useful addition to the game, and it is your decision how much time and effort you put into this before you share a zip.
Title: Re: New skin
Post by: Xanthan on December 01, 2013, 04:28:55 pm
It's great to see this. PS needs more skins. I've always found elves difficult to use, and far preferred the Default skin from years ago. More options would be great!
Title: Re: New skin
Post by: Venalan on December 02, 2013, 02:36:25 am
@ Illy,
Nice xD
@ Bonifarzia
Thanks, I think I will post it here once done. Two more screen shots to enjoy and a new topic name.
Plus, I've also found a number of 'problems' in the default skin I will be improving as well once I'm done customising my one.
Title: Re: Total overhall to basic skin - FlameON
Post by: Roled on December 02, 2013, 03:00:30 am
HOT ROD!
Title: Re: Total overhall to basic skin - FlameON
Post by: tman on December 02, 2013, 06:10:26 am
I bet by playing with hue/brightness/contrast you could make a cool looking skin for each Way.
Title: Re: Total overhall to basic skin - FlameON
Post by: Venalan on December 02, 2013, 09:09:36 am
For the in window art, sure. But the way I've done font changes would take a little while. I've not been able to find a 'global font change' option in any xml so its all manual.
The first edit of this skin is actually done now and ill be giving it to a few friends to test. Then posting here once I've finished it all off.
Title: Re: Total overhall to basic skin - FlameON
Post by: LigH on December 02, 2013, 10:52:31 am
^ title: overha*u*l ?
The skin for Brown Way may then be called TheThing. :P There should be matching Eye Candy available. :whistling:
Title: Re: Total overhall to basic skin - FlameON
Post by: novacadian on December 02, 2013, 01:53:12 pm
Looking forward to trying this out.
Title: Re: Total overhaul to basic skin - FlameON
Post by: Venalan on December 03, 2013, 08:03:24 am
Ok, I got a bit distracted today for two reasons. One, tman's suggestion for different ways. Two, Chatting with Rigwyn who has a tendency for some of the darker RPs. And putting the two together I decided to make another set of art for Dark Way.
I will work on completing this once I actually finish playing with the FlameON skin.
(http://i40.tinypic.com/2yuhn5d.jpg)
Title: Re: Total overhaul to basic skin - FlameON
Post by: Rigwyn on December 03, 2013, 10:15:16 am
I like XD How about a black flame skin?
Title: Re: Total overhaul to basic skin - FlameON
Post by: LigH on December 03, 2013, 06:54:46 pm
Did you ever play Pinball Fantasies - Stones 'n' Bones? ;D The first name that came to my mind.
Title: Re: Total overhaul to basic skin - FlameON
Post by: Roled on December 03, 2013, 07:49:52 pm
Black Flame? I've never heard of Black Flame, you must be mistaken.... :whistling:
Title: Re: Total overhaul to basic skin - FlameON
Post by: Rigwyn on December 03, 2013, 11:18:54 pm
I think Roled is "one of them"... :detective:
Title: Re: Total overhaul to basic skin - FlameON
Post by: Venalan on December 09, 2013, 10:04:23 am
I've got three skins in the works, two I've previewed here. My newest is a lighter colour and as such there are lots of problems appearing with the text. These mainly seem to be due to some shadowing of the text I have so far been unable to remove from editing the xml files, which makes the text rather harder to read than it should be. On the darker backgrounds you don't see the shadow as it merges into the dark background so all is fine.
I hope to have these three skins, as ready as I can get them, for release in the next week or two. No doubt there will be comments made about them which will cause me to adjust them after this point.
I'm really pleased with them so far, so be kind when you get a hold of them.
Title: Re: Total overhaul to basic skin - FlameON and Skulls
Post by: bilbous on December 09, 2013, 07:01:38 pm
If you look in Planeshift/data/gui/styles.xml you will see some of the fonts are defined like: <font name="/planeshift/data/ttf/scurlock.ttf" r="250" g="250" b="250" size="14" scalefont="no" shadow="yes" /> others say shadow="no".
I'm guessing you saw that and it hasn't helped?
Title: Re: Total overhaul to basic skin - FlameON and Skulls
Post by: Venalan on December 09, 2013, 08:37:57 pm
I have seen that file but even with everything I've done I'm still baffled with how some of the UI stuff works, I'll play more with it at home tonight maybe I'll find the right option.
Title: Re: Total overhaul to basic skin - FlameON and Skulls
Post by: Venalan on January 25, 2014, 09:12:24 am
So... Great News Everybody!
The art and tweaking for my two skins is close to finished. I'm about to ship it out to some people I know to test it and give feed back on the themes. Once I hear back I'll be posting them here for you lot to use.
Title: Re: Total overhaul to basic skin - FlameON and Skulls
Post by: Karzela~ on January 25, 2014, 09:30:10 am
This IS great news!
Title: Re: Total overhaul to basic skin - FlameON and Skulls
Post by: bilbous on January 25, 2014, 04:56:57 pm
Can I suggest that you make the /study window re-sizable if you haven't already? For that matter most of the windows can benefit from that possibility.
Title: Re: Total overhaul to basic skin - FlameON and Skulls
Post by: Venalan on January 26, 2014, 02:31:01 am
I could add resizeable="yes" to most windows but ones such as the quest window get messed up by just adding that option. You have to anchor each button, piece of text, and subwindow to regions of the main window and even then they may not scale very well. I don't have the motivation to spend that much time.
But I will add the study window option for you as that's easy :)
Title: Re: Total overhaul to basic skin - FlameON and Skulls
Post by: bilbous on January 26, 2014, 03:46:46 am