Skin&GUI modifications a.k.a. new skin available for download

[Rongar Elani]

Greetings!

I've been working on a new skin for PlaneShift. Nothing radically new, just replacing the content of an already existing skin.  I also modified the GUI files to match with the skin, but now I have a problem. I want the writings to be in a certain font and color, and with most files I already succeeded. But there's a handful of files, in which I don't seem to be able to change the color, particularly the files 'configcamera.xml', 'configmouse.xml', 'configkeys.xml' and 'helpwindow.xml'. I added a line to these files, with the exact content for font, size and color, but this line only seems to affect the headers, and in configcamera.xml also the values. The funny thing, the font was correctly attached altogether (even without the additional line, I think).



Any idea on how to get it to work?


Thanks in advance,

~~Rongar

[Caarrie]

I dont know off hand without seeing it how to get it to work but i cant wait for a release of this so i can use it. I LOVE THIS SKIN or what i see of it so far.

[Jeraphon]

The tan-on-tan of the movement commands and especially the communication window is a bit hard to read.

[Rongar Elani]

@Caarrie: Thank you, that's the sort of feedback, that keeps me going


@Jeraphon: It's easier to read when ingame, since the whole picture I posted, fills out the entire screen. But I agree, it would be much easier to read, if I could turn the white text into a black one. If I just knew how...

And it's still far from being finished, especially the buttons are so far completely missing, and the font&colors aren't set in stone yet. I wouldn't even have posted a picture from it on such an early stage, it was just for to show exactly what kind of problem I have.

[Otcho]

oooh!!! I love this, I can't find any good guis around this section because they are all expired or removed

[Rongar Elani]

Another question; is it possible to get a working weblink into let's say the guildwindow? And if so, would that be allowed? It would be neat if guild members could have access to the guild forums without minimizing/closing the game, don't you think?

[Nikodemus]

is it possible to get a working weblink into...

No

[Rongar Elani]

Alright, my skin is close to being finished. Here a short preview of what you can expect when you choose to use it.

Toolbar, infowindow, chatwindow and mousepointer

The same again, but with buddylist

Guildwindow - Main

Guildwindow - Members

Guildwindow - Permissions

Skillswindow

Inventory

There is more stuff already finished, but I think the above pictures are more than enough to show what it will be like. However, I've modified a few windows heavily, like the inventory or the skills window, others are only slightly edited, like the guildwindows. The permissions panel for example does now allow even the longest rank names (of 25 characters) to be fully displayed, and the vertical running permissions are also complete.

The remaining work I've got to do is finetuning of some other windows, but I think it'll soon be done and ready to be released. However, I'm going to pack the whole thing, including the skin AND the GUI folders, since the standard GUI will NOT match with the new skin and would only look crude.

Anyway, all suggestions and critiques are welcome.

[Caarrie]

have you tested this at different screen resolutions and font scalings?

[Rongar Elani]

Tested on 1024X768 and 800X600 with normal font scaling, all good. Any higher than 1024X768 and my crappy old monitor would implode . However, it's basically created to run with a normal font scaling, so if people want to have their fonts huge, like let's say more than 120%, writings would go out of bounds a little or overlap with progression bars. But other than that, there is no problem and I think most people don't go for a much higher font scaling than the default size anyway.

[Rongar Elani]

Time for a release, a pre-release for testing purpose at least.

The following downloads contain all the files that are needed to run the new skin how I wanted it to be. However, make a backup of each file you are going to replace with mine, in case something's going wrong or you just don't like the new skin..

The skin.zip (5,8 MB) ==> to be added to .../PlaneShift/art/skins

The GUI-folder (72,7 KB) ==> unzip and move to .../PlaneShift/data

The prefs.xml (351 bytes) ==> to be added to .../PlaneShift/data

The ttf-folder (541,1 KB) ==> unzip and move to .../PlaneShift/data

Again, be sure that you've made a backup of your old files before you proceed; especially the GUI folder is extremely modified and will have negative impact on the older skins... Uhh, that sounded dangerous, but no worries, it won't break anything and in case you didn't make a backup and want the old skins back, you'd only have to run the updater.


However, to all those who want to give this skin a shot: If you encounter any problems or oddities while using this skin, let me know and I'll try to get them fixed. All general suggestions and feedback are also much appreciated of course. Thanks in advance & have fun!


PS: In case you don't like the font (the letters), you may download another font from here for example. If you do, rename this new font to "basil.ttf" and replace the current basil.ttf with it.