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So bitchin'.

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

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

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

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!

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

Nothing more to say SLoB.

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

...the dark/light area correction was a good idea. I like evreything in this skin now...it´s perfect!

ForceField Wrote:Nothing more to say SLoB.

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

Yeah thats for sure...

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?

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



and here is the new one



This should be the final version if you have no objections.
Feel free to criticize(I'm counting on your critics).

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

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!

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

ForceField Wrote:and here is the new one

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

Cliff