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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: szc on May 11, 2005, 12:16:20 AM
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... to be uploaded to avast! official skins download section, I came up with another one... this one is for all those which likes darker colored skins. Many have already asked me through IMs, and this is my answer... Nothing too fancy, and nothing too simple... it's a combination of rounded objects (icons) and sharp squared lines... and... yes... icons again. Can't help it, I just love them...
This one is very small as you can see, so some of you that still runs your desktops on 640x480 pixels (believe it or not, there still are some people running that ancient resolution... Hi Mina my friend, this one is for you... ;D ;) )
Of course, skin is just that black area... blue part you can see behind, is a part of my current desktop wallpaper...
(http://img95.echo.cx/img95/9015/deepblack7rd.jpg)
Cheers people !
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Thank you again. You're like a wonderful easter-egg with your surprises!!! :D but... i don't know where i can download it!
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Cute cute. :)
Almost as dark as mine. 8)
Funny because when I read this thread's title, I was going to post a picture of a sleeping cat, as in "While we are waiting for Avast people to get in touch, my kitty is sleeping".
Hahahahahaha.
Hopefully they will contact you soon.
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Newton, please post the sleeping cat's picture... when "someone" finally will reply I will post a wide awake cat! ;D
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While we were waiting for Avast people to respond... ;D
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I have stopped to wait for... :P
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Newton, if you are a Canadian from Quèbec and speak also French I have a picture for you ;D Do you want it?
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Great! ;D is your baby cat?
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for French language speakers
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Kamulko, yes I already saw that one. ;D
Hope Sasha won't be upset because we are a little bit hijacking his thread. ;)
So, any link to "test" the new dark skin? 8)
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I'm sure Sasha will understand our joke on this thread :) Maybe tomorrow morning (here is deep night) we'll find the link to download the new skin and the reply from LAZY ALWIL ;D. Goonight friend.
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While we were waiting for Avast people to respond... ;D
Remind me of Garfield 8)
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Sasha, also I was wondering if you could help me at the same time you would post on your new dark skin.
It's very simple : on your picture, I see that your skin has a shadow. Is this one of the famous XP "translucent" options? I may be wrong but I think you use Windows XP because I see that shadow on your screen.
If so, can you show me with another pic how your skin looks with the XP translucent option ON and OFF?
If your skin doesn't use the .TGA format for the images, then if you want you could show me how another Avast skin responds to the "XP translucent" option on and off?
Feel free to forget about my question if it's too complicated. ;)
I was just curious about this famous XP new option. 8)
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No Newton, there is no translucent option in this skin... actually there is no skin at all. That picture is just preview picture, and I made it with shaddow. In real life, there will be no shaddow when I release that skin. I'm still working on it, and I didn't even start to compile that skin.
It is possible to make shaddow... very easy... but you have to use TGA with alpha channel, there is no other way you can accomplish that from within SkinBuilder...
Many people post their preview pictures with shaddows, so did I... it looks little bit smoother...
Cheers !
P.S. Logging off, have to get up early in the morning again... :-\
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Another very good skin, Sasha ;D
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I came up with another one...
Cool! 8)
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Looking good, hope those icons are very sharp with details wich should rock ;) This one is very professional looking :) Thanks you
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If your skin doesn't use the .TGA format for the images, then if you want you could show me how another Avast skin responds to the "XP translucent" option on and off?
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Here is example... one of Martin's great skins... Blue Panel 4.0
(http://img119.echo.cx/img119/7430/transeff6oh.jpg)
First one is with translucent effect ON. You can "see through", so you are able to see those icons behind the skin... also, edges of the skins are anti-aliased, so skin looks much smoother...
Second one is without translucent effect enabled... edges of the skin are jaggy, and also, part where you suppose to "see through", is just normal solid color... not translucent area anymore... you see ? That's where TGAs with alpha channel are usefull... that area is actually alpha channel, and you can set transparency while you are still creating graphics in Photoshop... you can't control that from SkinBuilder...
I hope this clears it a little bit.
Cheers !
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@/szc\
When do you think your skin is ready and up for download? Personally I can't wait to try it out, for me the best skin so far (used the non-skinned now)... Thanks and keep up the good work :)
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@/szc\
When do you think your skin is ready and up for download? Personally I can't wait to try it out, for me the best skin so far (used the non-skinned now)... Thanks and keep up the good work :)
If you are one of those that are always searching for pro-styled skins, untill this "Black Vibe" comes out, you may wanna take a look in here:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=13208.msg112489#msg112489
Another Pro-looking skin called Silhouette_4in1, and it's already available for download from RejZoR's web location (he was so kind to borrow me some web space)... search that thread for download links.
I can not possibly tell when both of them will be available for download... it's a long way before they get their place at avast! official skin download page. First I have to finish this one, test it million of times, then I'm gonna send it to Vlk. Then he has to perform all those tests all over again... It's up to him when those two will be available from official site... for now, you can try Silhouette_4in1, and soon I think I'm gonna release this one as beta version (for testing purposes)... still working on it, and since I have many other responsibilities in my real life, I'm sorry, but I can't say how long it will take...
Cheers !
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@/szc\
Thanks for your message, yes I know about the other project. That's a nice skin aswell, but wow this blacky got my head spinning. Just the way I like it :)
Good luck with your project, and take care.
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OK, this is an update... again...
Skin is completely finished and tested... everything works fine, and I'm happy how everything looks at the end.
Main panel design is slightly changed, just because that plain black area on the right side of the skin is too empty... especially when sliding panels are not activated. That's why I put nice silhouette of our beloved planet Earth. It looks much better this way, and also I like the look when sliding panels are activated...
Here are some screenshoots:
(http://img217.echo.cx/img217/4782/blackvibe015qw.jpg)
Also... this is when settings panels is open...
(http://img208.echo.cx/img208/9921/blackvibe024yx.jpg)
Cheers !
P.S. I'll need my friend RejZoR again... if you are watching this thread, please let me know is there any chance I can send you this skin, so you can upload it somewhere on your web space, untill we hear from Alwil guys regarding Silhouette_4in1 and this latest one...
Thanks in advance !
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Main panel design is slightly changed, just because that plain black area on the right side of the skin is too empty... especially when sliding panels are not activated. That's why I put nice silhouette of our beloved planet Earth. It looks much better this way, and also I like the look when sliding panels are activated...
Sasha, a suggestion: besides the black colour, maybe the users want other ones, blue, red...
Is it possible to use the same skin elements and just change the color? Won't we have two (or more) similar skins but different ones for different tastes?
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Well, I'm affraid it's not "just change the color"... There are many little parts (each skin is made of tens and sometimes even hundreds little graphic pieces)... that would mean that I have to change all of them, plus some values inside skin builder for different font colors and some other things... little to much work to do...
I think there are some very colorful skins in download section already, so this time I wanted to make something for all those dark-theme lovers...
Also, I don't think Alwil would allow uploading of 3 versions of exactly the same skin... :-\
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@/szc\
Yummy, that's what I call wonderful... And other colors? Nothing fits the blue icons better then black I think...
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That is a very cool skin szc!
I really like the black colour.
Thank you for all your hard work.
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Very good! ;D
Can we test it?
Thanks
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Yes, one more Perfect Skin Sasha :D
Hope this one will be available soon!
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I have one (never completed, nor used) small website hosted by an italian provider called "sitomastro". If Sasha says to me what I must do to host his skins for make its downloadable for all, I will host the files. Unfortunately I'm not an expert about this argument. I'm tired to wait for the permission of Alwil guys. Sasha, if you are listening to me, send me a message. Thanks. ;)
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Very good! ;D
Can we test it?
Thanks
As soon as RejZoR get's back to me... I sent him IM this afternoon and I'm sure as soon he reads it, he will respond back... Then, you all will be able to download it and test it...
@ Kamulko - Thanks for your generous offer, I also sent you IM, so please read it... Thanks again Kamulko !
Cheers !
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Here is example... one of Martin's great skins... Blue Panel 4.0
(http://img119.echo.cx/img119/7430/transeff6oh.jpg)
First one is with translucent effect ON. You can "see through", so you are able to see those icons behind the skin... also, edges of the skins are anti-aliased, so skin looks much smoother...
Second one is without translucent effect enabled... edges of the skin are jaggy, and also, part where you suppose to "see through", is just normal solid color... not translucent area anymore... you see ? That's where TGAs with alpha channel are usefull... that area is actually alpha channel, and you can set transparency while you are still creating graphics in Photoshop... you can't control that from SkinBuilder...
I hope this clears it a little bit.
Cheers !
Yes, certainly, thanks for this example.
It actually confirms what I was thinking. So in my view, the XP translucent option is simply a way to use transparency between applications windows.
;)
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Sasha
You could always upload it onto my server. You have all the info (Same place as the website)
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Sasha
You could always upload it onto my server. You have all the info (Same place as the website)
Thanks Bob, but I already sent both skins to Vlk, and I've got an answer from hih... read about it here:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=13428.msg113503#msg113503
Thanks anyway, all your help guys is much appreciated ! ;)
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sZc,
can you make this skin with the same dimensions of the "Silhouette_4in1 by SZCraftec"?
I would like to have it... ;)
Regards
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I'm sorry, but it would be practically waste of time redoing something that is already done :-\ . However, even if I decide to redo whole skin from the scratch, I really don't believe that Alwil guys would upload it to the download section... again - it's practiacally exactly the same skin. Many people requested some kind of minimal dark skin, so I gave them this one. I believe it's dark enough, and I also believe it's smallest skin of all those skins in download section.
Cheers !
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On my screen is really very small, but OK, I understand... :(
Thanks
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Believe me my friend, I completely understand you. If you are using some of those ultra-high resolutions, skin is really small, especially those letters. But, that's the problem with this skinning engine... it's not possible to make resizeable skin with these tools we use, at least I'm not aware of any possibility.
Anyway, I'm sure there are some other nice skins in download section, little bit bigger than this particular one... and I believe you'll find something that you like and that fits nice your screen resolution. Believe me, it's a lot of work, and I personally think it would be much more productive to spend it on creating brand new skin.
Cheers !
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I really understand your point... ;)
I only like the "Silhouette_4in1" and "Black Vibe", so I will use the "Silhouette_4in1" on my 1400x1050.
This the best resolution for my Laptop...
Regards