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Postby skryingbreath » June 29th, 2007, 12:45 pm

So bitchin'.
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Postby SLoB » June 29th, 2007, 6:03 pm

heh Cheers guys :)
@Mudslung - no the thought of doing hundreds of little gfx pieces doesnt appeal heh, altho I can appreciate WB and themes hence why i started adding RGB to some skins so that people can tailor the skin a little to match their themes
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Postby ALAS » June 29th, 2007, 7:51 pm

the cables are really superb they perfectly fit to the rest! The buttons could look more integrated, look a little pasted to me atm, but all in all they are quite ok. What I would omit is the bended line above the vertical lines, it has too much weight there.
And cause I am fussy today one more thing concerning the 4 diagonal lines: the surrounding area of the lower ones looks down-beveled wheras the upper ones are up-beveled and don´t look so realistic (cos they were made by just mirroring the lower ones). i´d make a new construction of the uppers with a correct light/bevel correlation.

all-in-all really great progression, think it´s gonna be very COOL :)
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Postby SLoB » June 29th, 2007, 9:14 pm

Cheers ALAS, you hit the nail on the head, with those points you are correct, my bad ;)
theyr on the list to refactor so dont worry, yes pasted buttons atm, they are going to be totally reworked so i can incorporate different colours, will try and integrate them into the mould
yep again a copy and paste job on the diagonal lines, will sort it
that upper curved piece will stay in but i'll refine it

this is going to be idea 1 from the main base, a few things as you mentioned to fix and few more subtle highllights to do and its getting there
thanks again :)
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Postby ForceField » June 30th, 2007, 1:53 am

I really like the grid within the round screen.In my opinion,the screen is now perfect.

However SLoB,you can notice that the area between the above buttons and the cables is a little dark and the area below the cables is too light.This doesn't fits very well to a round skin.Try to play with the gradients a little to have something like the inner circles (arround the screen.)

Other than that,I think this skin is perfect and also your best one.

Cheers!
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Postby SLoB » June 30th, 2007, 10:08 am

Thanks ForceField :)

y noted on the dark/light areas, this latest update should pretty much fix it
starting to sort the buttons out now for playability, then work on colour cycle

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Postby ForceField » June 30th, 2007, 5:03 pm

Nothing more to say SLoB.

This is really your best one(if not the best Xion Skin). :D
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Postby ALAS » June 30th, 2007, 6:10 pm

...the dark/light area correction was a good idea. I like evreything in this skin now...it´s perfect!
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Postby Mudslung » June 30th, 2007, 10:39 pm

ForceField Wrote:Nothing more to say SLoB.

This is really your best one(if not the best Xion Skin). :D



Yeah thats for sure...
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Postby SLoB » July 1st, 2007, 10:28 pm

thanks guys :)
2nd beta version up in the prerelease forum section for you to play with :)
colour sync is better now
dont get hypnotized by the top glow lol ;)

its pretty much saturated now but perhaps a other things to add
buttons
rpt, rnd, eq, library?

lcd
rpt,rnd, kpbs indi?
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Postby ForceField » July 2nd, 2007, 3:53 am

Hello guys!

I just made some small modifiactions to Symbiot:
-Added a glass effect for the 'minus' and 'close' buttons.
-Added some drop shaddow under the skin.
-Added three oval layers at the right just to fill up the metallic empty space.
-Changed the volume buttons to Web and CD Indicators.
-Refined the borders of the big play button.

here is the old one

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and here is the new one

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This should be the final version if you have no objections.
Feel free to criticize(I'm counting on your critics). :wink:
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Postby Mudslung » July 2nd, 2007, 3:56 am

This is SWEET....can't wait to add it to my collection. Very nice design.
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Postby ForceField » July 2nd, 2007, 5:19 am

Mudslung Wrote:This is SWEET....can't wait to add it to my collection. Very nice design.


Thanks! Maybe I will submit this skin tomorrow.

I am still confused about the name 'Symbiot'.Any ideas!
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Postby SLoB » July 2nd, 2007, 6:00 am

sounds a bit stargatey?
slither
blade

or checkout the skin names post in the general discussion on SC
some of those names might help, I'm too looking for a skin name too heh
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Postby Cliff Cawley » July 2nd, 2007, 4:55 pm

ForceField Wrote:and here is the new one

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I actually find it very hard to read the Red text on Gray buttons at the bottom. That might just be my colour blindness though. Would prefer either a better contrast or some sort of outline/dropshadow/something :)

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