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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Novak on June 07, 2004, 03:39:16 PM
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Hi all,
I create avast! skin tutorial ... you can download it from this page http://www.avast.com/i_kat_71.html (http://www.avast.com/i_kat_71.html).
Regards,
Novak
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I just downloaded it :) Thanks :) Now i just have to find my copy of ActiveSkin. Last disk format moved my PC world upside down since i have backup CDs all over my "office" lol.
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I just downloaded it :) Thanks :) Now i just have to find my copy of ActiveSkin. Last disk format moved my PC world upside down since i have backup CDs all over my "office" lol.
Did you understand everything? ... Or just didn´t you find anything missing in that tutorial?
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interesting...thanks novak
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Its hard to say for now. First time i ever opened ActiveSkin was like 3 months ago (when Sasha's skin rush was on the move ;) ). Didn't experiment much... I'll take time to study this. Just hope Paintshop Pro 8 will do the trick instead of Adobe Photoshop :)
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Nice job on the tutorial, Novak! :)
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Martin, you should make zip file with all those hundreds of skin pieces, not just 5 pieces... actually my Matri-X-kin contains exactly 80 pieces of graphics, buttons, screens, pads etc... With all due respect for your tutorial, but I really don't think it's possible to explain everything in just 3 pages. Especially, with all those errors that SkinBuilder gives you when you wanna make some effects...
People, hardest way is sometimes best way.. I didn't use any kind of tutorials. I downloaded ActiveSkin and I learned it hard way... play with it every single day, test functions, try to make some strange animations and results will just pop out... well, not just, but at least you can achieve some results with your obduracy...
Cheers !
Hi Sasha,
I know that my tutorial isn't perfect and I didn't want to create tutorial with 20 pages. I only show way how to create skin and that it isn't as hard as many people think.
Simply .... I want to put spirit into them:-)))
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Hi Martin,
...this reply is not from this thread anyway... if anyone is interested, they can read whole thread here:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=4610 (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=4610)
Cheers !
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No you got me all wrong Martin... No, I didn't say making skins is not easy, but for sure it's very hard work... I know that 'cause I made so many skins, so I know how much time it took me to make those...
Making skins is not difficult, of course if you love that job and you strongly decided that you wanna finish it... I know so many friends that contacted me asking me how to make skins for avast!
I explained it to them best I could, but after few days, they sent me e-mails that SkinBuilder is too difficult to work with and they don't even wanna try any more... well, they said that, not me. Why we can't see anyone else making skins for avast ? 'cause all of them think they just have to put their picture instead of main picture in some skin (like in old versions of WinAMP) and skin is finished. Well, they need to create all those buttons, animations, ideas etc...
I'm still waiting to see someone else's skin in skin download section. You are talking like I wouldn't like to see other skin designers and that's not true... I'm just little bit tired of waiting, that's all... so long time, no one even wants to try... I am not surrender, so I expect that from all others who wants to try in skin designing... but, unfortunately, I'm still waiting with no results... :(
Ok ... I agree, that SkinBuilder is pretty difficult ... but when someone can learn how to work with Photoshop, why couldn't learn how to work with ActiveSkin ;D
Could I ask ... is here someone who created skin in Photoshop and have PSD file now. Me or Craftec could finish skin in ActiveSkin .... but only when skin will look well!!!!! ;D ;D ;D
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Sorry guys. This is beyond my habilities and time... :'(
I only asked Sasha, in the past, to have a 'minimalist' skin: almost just the buttons without the panel with text...
There are some mp3 players that can show only parts of the whole program.
It will be very nice not have avast using too much screen while scanning 8)
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Martin wrote:
Could I ask ... is here someone who created skin in Photoshop and have PSD file now. Me or Craftec could finish skin in ActiveSkin .... but only when skin will look well!!!!!
Nice idea, indeed. If they have some good looking ideas and designs, we can turn them into actual skin. We will put some note on the skin, something like:
Original Design by SOMEBODY_MAYBE_YOU_?
Skin compiled by Martin Novak and/or S.Z.Craftec
Technical wrote:
I only asked Sasha, in the past, to have a 'minimalist' skin: almost just the buttons without the panel with text...
There are some mp3 players that can show only parts of the whole program.
It will be very nice not have avast using too much screen while scanning
That's great idea Technical and I told you that before. I didn't give up on that idea, it's just I can't make anything without cooperation with Alwil coders. I guess, they have to make some changes in order to make it possible... maybe I'm wrong, but I think it's quite impossible at this point... Alwil ? Any thoughts on this one ? I know I can make skin like that (totaly minimalistic) if I just don't use Display area, but where to show scanning info and other important data ? Martin, any idea ? I wanna make our friend Technical so happy, so guys help me... ;)
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If I just don't use Display area, but where to show scanning info and other important data ? Martin, any idea ?
Sasha, the display area could be 'activated' by some button. It will 'be' there hidden. If the user wants to know, just click that specific button... I do not have to see the same interface (display area) while scanning. The majority of the users could be minimizing the application while scanning. I want it right there, top most (another button), but with a minimum impact in the desktop 8)
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If I just don't use Display area, but where to show scanning info and other important data ? Martin, any idea ?
Sasha, the display area could be 'activated' by some button. It will 'be' there hidden. If the user wants to know, just click that specific button... I do not have to see the same interface (display area) while scanning. The majority of the users could be minimizing the application while scanning. I want it right there, top most (another button), but with a minimum impact in the desktop 8)
Just like I said... I can't move or animate Display area 100% the way I want, especially I can't animate display area... in order to recall it with some buttons or something. Dispaly are is static and it's there, or it's not there... there is nothing in between... As I said before, Alwil coders maybe have to do something with that issue... if it's so much to change in code, I don't think it's worth of their precious time... antivirus efficiency first !
Mayority of users minimizing avast! while scanning ? Well, I don't know anything about that... you need more info and real facts on how many users wants to minimize it, but in the same time you are able to minimize our current skins without any problem... just press middle button up there in between CLOSE and HELP button and avast! is in your taskbar with minimal impact on your desktop... ;D
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avast! 3 Simple Interface support this features, but avast!4 is based on ActiveSkin which doesn't support this features :(
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Thanks!
I've been working on one. I used the Flat'n'Simple skin by SZCraftec as a template (I hope that's ok). I'ts my first avast! skin, and man is it alot of work. I still have a little tweaking to do, but I'm almost finished with it.
Hi all,
I create avast! skin tutorial ... you can download it from this page http://www.avast.com/i_kat_71.html (http://www.avast.com/i_kat_71.html).
Regards,
Novak
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Finally someone is working on skins except Martin and me... although it would be much better if you just used that skin as a template just to see how everything is done, not to use graphical concept... I hope you understand what do I mean. Maybe to make different windows order, buttons locations inside skin and stuff like that... you kept even the original size of buttons. Try to make something using that theme, but with original idea if I may say... don't take this as criticism, this is just constructive advice. I mean if people already have oportunity to have skin like that (Flat'n'Simple) what are chances they wanna see same skin with different colors ?
Good work, but try to put some originality also... What I mean is, try to make some skin with totaly different base window shape, different sections order etc.
Question: Is that skin finished in SkinBuilder or just preview picture you made so far ?
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Yeah, I know what you are saying. This is the first time I have ever used the skin builder and I really don't understand how to use it that well. I will try to make a different one form yours next time. Thanks for the advice.
The skin is finished as far as I can tell. I am using it on my avast! home.
Finally someone is working on skins except Martin and me... although it would be much better if you just used that skin as a template just to see how everything is done, not to use graphical concept... I hope you understand what do I mean. Maybe to make different windows order, buttons locations inside skin and stuff like that... you kept even the original size of buttons. Try to make something using that theme, but with original idea if I may say... don't take this as criticism, this is just constructive advice. I mean if people already have oportunity to have skin like that (Flat'n'Simple) what are chances they wanna see same skin with different colors ?
Good work, but try to put some originality also... What I mean is, try to make some skin with totaly different base window shape, different sections order etc.
Question: Is that skin finished in SkinBuilder or just preview picture you made so far ?
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Don't get me wrong Darren. I don't want to scare you and and don't wanna see you run away. The fact that someone is trying to make new skins is just wonderful. I just tried to give you some constructive comments, not to scare you in any way.
I hope you see now, how SkinBuilder is weird program... it needs much more than just load picture and save skin.
Keep up good work, send that skin to Vlk and if he likes it (first he has to test it million times) I'm sure he's going to upload it in avast! skins download section. I wanna see you announcing here in forums that you made something completely and 100% yours. Just play with SkinBuilder's effects and I'm sure you'll find way to make something totaly original.
Cheers !
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What about this? I didn't include a Form element, but it looks like it's not required. I did this one by myself. I'm still playing around with animations. I want to try and make it display a status message when the start, stop, or pause button is pressed.
One question...when I browse for my skin, it shows avast! as the author, even though I have my name entered in Skin Builder.
(http://www.eskimo.com/~dfloyd3/images/snap.gif)
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Good, now you're getting it... it's yours and it's original, that way it will be much more appreciated.
What do you mean by Author: avast! It doesn't say avast! anywhere...
It says APPLICATION: avast! You don't wanna change that, 'cause application IS avast! ;D
Author... it should be under Author column. There is only one place where you can enter your name when you're in SkinBuilder... on the left side of the screen, you'll see PROJECT section. Click on first thing you see below. It should be SKIN. Now, under Active Skin 4.3 control, you should see PROPERTIES. Go end edit that line, put your name instead of Alwil Software and that's it... It should work, it must work.
That's all I do, and my name appears next to my skins in skin browser window...
Hope this helps...
By the way, check this thread... it's my newest skin:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=5224 (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=5224)
or this one... skin dedicated to all those who died on September 11th:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=5182 (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=5182)
Sasha
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I did all of that, but it still shows Avast! as the author in the avast! skin browser. You say put my name instead of Alwil Software, but I started with a blank project in skin builder, and "Author" was blank. I put my name in there and avast! as the "Application". Thanks for your help.
What do you mean by Author: avast! It doesn't say avast! anywhere...
It says APPLICATION: avast! You don't wanna change that, 'cause application IS avast! ;D
Author... it should be under Author column. There is only one place where you can enter your name when you're in SkinBuilder... on the left side of the screen, you'll see PROJECT section. Click on first thing you see below. It should be SKIN. Now, under Active Skin 4.3 control, you should see PROPERTIES. Go end edit that line, put your name instead of Alwil Software and that's it... It should work, it must work.
That's all I do, and my name appears next to my skins in skin browser window...
Hope this helps...
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What about this? I didn't include a Form element, but it looks like it's not required. I did this one by myself. I'm still playing around with animations. I want to try and make it display a status message when the start, stop, or pause button is pressed.
One question...when I browse for my skin, it shows avast! as the author, even though I have my name entered in Skin Builder.
(http://www.eskimo.com/~dfloyd3/images/snap.gif)
Thats is a really nice looking skin Darren. You have captured the XP OS look which I really like.
Douglas
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I did all of that, but it still shows Avast! as the author in the avast! skin browser. You say put my name instead of Alwil Software, but I started with a blank project in skin builder, and "Author" was blank. I put my name in there and avast! as the "Application". Thanks for your help.
Darren, what version of SkinBuilder are you using ? v4.2 or v4.3 ? I use version 4.3, and here is everything like it should be. If I enter my name in that field, it will show my name... like you can see on your screenshot.
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Thanks. I was wanting the XP look myself.
Thats is a really nice looking skin Darren. You have captured the XP OS look which I really like.
Douglas
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I am using v4.3
Darren, what version of SkinBuilder are you using ? v4.2 or v4.3 ? I use version 4.3, and here is everything like it should be. If I enter my name in that field, it will show my name... like you can see on your screenshot.
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Thanks. I was wanting the XP look myself.
Thats is a really nice looking skin Darren. You have captured the XP OS look which I really like.
Douglas
Are you going to publish it for Avast users? Is there anyway to make the background color a darker shade of blue? I love the look of the Acronis True Image GUI. (See screenshot) Your skin looks very similiar.
Thaks
Douglas
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Hmm Quicksilver is the name. (any relation to the Mirror Drive Door Power Mac G4 codename Quicksilver?)
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I am using trial version. That is why the author is not showing my name. Softshape is no longer offering ActiveSkin for sale. I guess I am out of the skin business. :(
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Darren, don't be silly... why should you stop making skins just because SkinBuilder won't show your name ? F**k the name... make skins, and if Alwil guys decide to publish it in avast! skins download section, they will put your name righ next to skin picture preview... isn't that good enough ?
Keep up trying mu friend... don't give up on first obsticle !!!
Cheers !
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;D
Ok, so where do I send it? Do I zip it, or just send the 92.4 KB .aswcs file?
Thanks for the encouragement!
Darren, don't be silly... why should you stop making skins just because SkinBuilder won't show your name ? F**k the name... make skins, and if Alwil guys decide to publish it in avast! skins download section, they will put your name righ next to skin picture preview... isn't that good enough ?
Keep up trying mu friend... don't give up on first obsticle !!!
Cheers !
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Yeah don't give up, thats a great skin. Hey make sure you change the background to a darker blue before you send it off! :)
Douglas
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Hmm Quicksilver is the name. (any relation to the Mirror Drive Door Power Mac G4 codename Quicksilver?)
Well?
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;D
Ok, so where do I send it? Do I zip it, or just send the 92.4 KB .aswcs file?
Thanks for the encouragement!
Send it to Vlk at his e-mail address. When they finish all tests, and if everything is ok, no glitches, animation is smooth without errors, they'll alarm you if it's gonna be uploaded right away, or you have to perform some fixes...
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Wel then, what about this one?
Thanks. I was wanting the XP look myself.
Thats is a really nice looking skin Darren. You have captured the XP OS look which I really like.
Douglas
Are you going to publish it for Avast users? Is there anyway to make the background color a darker shade of blue? I love the look of the Acronis True Image GUI. (See screenshot) Your skin looks very similiar.
Thaks
Douglas
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Darren, I like it very much :D
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Wel then, what about this one?
Thanks. I was wanting the XP look myself.
Thats is a really nice looking skin Darren. You have captured the XP OS look which I really like.
Douglas
Are you going to publish it for Avast users? Is there anyway to make the background color a darker shade of blue? I love the look of the Acronis True Image GUI. (See screenshot) Your skin looks very similiar.
Thaks
Douglas
I love it! You captured the look I had in my mind.
Douglas
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Ok...I sent them to Vlk. We'll see how it goes.
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Very nice work on that skin, Darren ... especially since you are new to skin making! :)
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Thanks. Not new to skin making...new to avast! skin making. :)
Very nice work on that skin, Darren ... especially since you are new to skin making! :)
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Thanks. Not new to skin making...new to avast! skin making. :)
Wellcome! Let's have more avast! skins...
I'm ansious waiting for yours ;)
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I really hope that the skin gets published Darren. I have been requesting a skin like this for awhile. I love the icons, and the layout! Good luck!
Douglas
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Yeah, finally we have one more guy to make skins... I couldn't make enough skins how many requests I've got from all users... Everybody is asking me to make skin like this, skin like that... too bad I don't have 8 hands like octopus... ;D
Tipton, why didn't you let me know that you want to see XP-style avast! skin before ? All you had to do, was to IM me... everybody does that, so why didn't you ?
Darren, head up, everything will be OK. If Vlk find some errors, he will alarm you to fix them, and after that, your skin will be up there, in avast! skins download section... Good luck pal !!!
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Tipton, why didn't you let me know that you want to see XP-style avast! skin before ? All you had to do, was to IM me... everybody does that, so why didn't you ?
Sorry, next time I will IM you. I have a good idea for a skin in my head, but how do I get it from there to you? I really like dark colors. I would love a skin with a black background, and liquid blue buttons. The pirate skin is my favorite if I had to pick a skin. Look at my screenshot of Winamp......I love this theme, and would love to see a skin that looks like this. Like I have mentioned before, my main use for an AV is right clicking and scanning files I download from the net. Full system scans are few and far between, but a skin that looks kinda like my screenshot would be cool!
Douglas
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For some reason my screen shot is not working. Let me try again.
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Yeah, that's MMD3, best looking WinAMP skin ever. I'm using it myself, but I'm affraid that guy who made it originaly has all those graphics copyrighted... so I shouldn't play with that.
When I catch some spare time in the future, I'll see what I can do about dark skin with liquid buttons, but my way...
No problem Tipton...
Regards !
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When I catch some spare time in the future, I'll see what I can do about dark skin with liquid buttons, but my way...
No problem Tipton...
Regards !
Sounds good, I will be waiting!
Douglas
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No problem, in the mean time, you may wanna check my latest skin BIONIC in avast! skins download section:
http://www.avast.com/i_kat_71.html (http://www.avast.com/i_kat_71.html)
It's also kinda dark, and it's pretty much "connected" with antiviruses style look...
Regards !
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Bionic looks good, I will try it out. On the skin I am thinking about, it would be really clean looking. Bionic has that eerie look to it. When I showed you the winamp screenshot, I didn't mean make it look like that. I was using that to show the colors I like, and how I like the liquid style buttons. I was thinking something just square, with all the necessary features. Its hard to explain.
Douglas
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No it's not hard to explain... you want something that is kinda dark with blue liquid style buttons, but not too fancy... something simple but totaly different... I have one idea, I just need to catch some time to work on it...
Cheers !
EDIT: Maybe something like this ? I know, still is not flat like it should be, but look at that this way... if I make skin background too flat, those nice liquid blue buttons would look totaly inappropriate on that background... I don't think that this skin is too fancy... I would really like to hear your opinion...
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I really like it! I will tell you this, I either like a skin to be simple and "flat", or it needs to be fancy. No in between! :) The one you are showing looks great. And you don't need to make it flat at all. This is definately one that needs to be fancy. What ever it takes to make it more liquid! I love it! I will stare at it some more and see what sinks in!
PS....I love the buttons and the colors! If it needs to look kinda 3D to acheive your look, thats fine. It already looks like it has some depth to it.
Douglas
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Heres my desktop!
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Heres my desktop!
Do you know the link for downloading your desktop theme? ;)
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Heres my desktop!
Do you know the link for downloading your desktop theme? ;)
Its a combination of XtremeXP, and then I added the "black flag" desktop. I can send you the files, or hunt them up for you. I skim through alot of different theme web sites and then download the ones I like. I may not remember where I got it.
Heres another screeny!
Douglas
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I can send you the files...
Can you do it to my email?
Thanks Douglas 8)
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I can send you the files...
Can you do it to my email?
Thanks Douglas 8)
Actually I was able to find the link for it! It has both blue and green.
http://www.themexp.org/preview.php?mid=5248&type=vs&view=downloads&page=&cat=&name=Xbox+XtremeXP+%28UPDATE+2%29.zip
Keep in mind that some consider theme XP spyware. Watch out for the themes that have the red asterisk by them. What you do is as soon as you visit the website, download a theme to your desktop. Then delete it. Now all the other themes you download will not have anything bundled with them. The very first theme you download per visit will be bundles with garbage. After that they are all clean.
Douglas
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I really like it! I will tell you this, I either like a skin to be simple and "flat", or it needs to be fancy. No in between! :) The one you are showing looks great. And you don't need to make it flat at all. This is definately one that needs to be fancy. What ever it takes to make it more liquid! I love it! I will stare at it some more and see what sinks in!
PS....I love the buttons and the colors! If it needs to look kinda 3D to acheive your look, thats fine. It already looks like it has some depth to it.
Douglas
Ok Douglas, I'm glad you like it. I just need some time to compile everything into working skin... if you have any suggestions, let me know before I compile everything into one big unity.
Cheers !
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I really like it! I will tell you this, I either like a skin to be simple and "flat", or it needs to be fancy. No in between! :) The one you are showing looks great. And you don't need to make it flat at all. This is definately one that needs to be fancy. What ever it takes to make it more liquid! I love it! I will stare at it some more and see what sinks in!
PS....I love the buttons and the colors! If it needs to look kinda 3D to acheive your look, thats fine. It already looks like it has some depth to it.
Douglas
Ok Douglas, I'm glad you like it. I just need some time to compile everything into working skin... if you have any suggestions, let me know before I compile everything into one big unity.
Cheers !
What will the liquid buttons do when you hover the cursor over them? Or, what will they do when you click them as far as button animation? I know they will execute the desired task, but I am asking how they will "move" when you hover over them or click them. Like when you hover over some of the buttons in the pirate skin....they animate!
Douglas
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Nothing too complicated... button state called "Roll over" will make button little bit lighter and when you press button, button will become little darker... anything more than that would be too much for this concept, IMHO...
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Nothing too complicated... button state called "Roll over" will make button little bit lighter and when you press button, button will become little darker... anything more than that would be too much for this concept, IMHO...
Sounds good. And like I said, it doesn't have to be flat, fancy is great with a skin like this!
What would it look like if you took the image of the PC monitor out of the equation? Hard for me to tell without actually seeing it.
Douglas
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I tried, believe me... ugly. Totaly dry and unuseable... I already integrated that image into dispaly area (it's not separate layer anymore), so if I want to wipe it out of the skin, I need to draw whole skin background all over again from the scratch... I usually keep all those layers, but believe me, this one would look so "empty" without that image... however, image is 50% transparent, so it's not like it's in the "first row"...
I believe it will fit on your desktop just like glove. ;D
Cheers !
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Craftec - the Bionic & the blue one for Tipton look great! ;)
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I tried, believe me... ugly. Totaly dry and unuseable... I already integrated that image into dispaly area (it's not separate layer anymore), so if I want to wipe it out of the skin, I need to draw whole skin background all over again from the scratch... I usually keep all those layers, but believe me, this one would look so "empty" without that image... however, image is 50% transparent, so it's not like it's in the "first row"...
I believe it will fit on your desktop just like glove. ;D
Cheers !
Yes I agree, it will fit fine. I really can't think of anything else to make it better....can you?
Douglas
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Nope, I really don't know what else to put inside, especially 'cause we don't wanna make circus out of it at the end... ;D
I think it would be much better if we leave this skin just like it is... it will look even better when I finish it. Animations and button transitions will give final touch to the skin... I promise. I replaced blue display with same one but more liquid style in it... Animation of sliding panels will be minimal... you'll see. Skin is almost done, I just need to compile everything. All graphic pieces, button states and animations are finished, so tomorow I'll finish it.
Sasha
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Nope, I really don't know what else to put inside, especially 'cause we don't wanna make circus out of it at the end... ;D
I think it would be much better if we leave this skin just like it is... it will look even better when I finish it. Animations and button transitions will give final touch to the skin... I promise. I replaced blue display with same one but more liquid style in it... Animation of sliding panels will be minimal... you'll see. Skin is almost done, I just need to compile everything. All graphic pieces, button states and animations are finished, so tomorow I'll finish it.
Sasha
Cool, Can't wait to see the final product!
Thanks
Douglas
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OK, skin is finished and this is screenshot of fully working skin...
I present to you guys, "Black Liquid" skin.
EDIT: I just sent skin to Vlk. Today is Sunday, so I guess we have to wait till next week...
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What can I say... ::)
I'm impressed again... Sasha, you're better and better 8)
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Downloaded the skin, and it looks and works great. The only thing I notice is that there is a notch out of the top of it....see red arrow in screeny. Is that suppose to be there?
Thanks
Douglas
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Suggestions:
1. The skin come back to the status information after you un-check all scanning options.
Now, you cannot go back to the status without choosing it on the menu.
2. The left side windows could 'disapear' when not used (like any other skin)
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Downloaded the skin, and it looks and works great. The only thing I notice is that there is a notch out of the top of it....see red arrow in screeny. Is that suppose to be there?
Thanks
Douglas
No, it's not supposed to be there. No one else has reported problem like that... Vlk checked all possible situations and I've got approval for uploading... It's working just like I showed to you on that screenshot.
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Suggestions:
1. The skin come back to the status information after you un-check all scanning options.
Now, you cannot go back to the status without choosing it on the menu.
2. The left side windows could 'disapear' when not used (like any other skin)
1. It was always like that... no matter what skin you are using. That has nothing to do with skin. That is how Alwil coded avast! Maybe they wanted it to be like that.
2. Yes, I know, but I wanted to make one skin this way... just to be totaly different from all others. I could make them to disapear, like on all other skins, but I though this will be also nice.
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Suggestions:
2. The left side windows could 'disapear' when not used (like any other skin)
Yeah I agree, it would be nice if they would disappear. It would be really neat to be able to see the entire skin without the side windows in the way!
Douglas
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Just wanted to add that I just discovered the bug Darren was referring to, the "Avast" that appears as the author even though he typed his name.
Of course, I know you probably found this out yourselves way before me, but I wanted to explain it here for future skin designers in case they wonder how to solve it.
Seems like the author string absolutely needs to be 14 characters (including spaces) or more, otherwise the Avast software replaces it with "Avast".
That's why SZ didn't experiment this bug, as his name is long enough not to generate the problem. ;D
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I also want to thank Martin novak for his tutorial, as without it it would have been impossible for me to achieve my aim of designing a skin for Avast. ;)
As I am a total novice with the ActiveSkin software, I can tell you I believe he wrote enough stuff in there to make anyone create his/her own skin. Of course, as SZ also adds, it needs many hours before you can figure out certain aspects of the skin creation. 8)
But it's possible. So thanks again to all, Martin for his tutorial, SZ for his advice let into many threads I'm reading on these forums. ;)
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Sorry for my question but where I can get not compiled skin to load it into ActiveSkin? Just to try it and to learn how it works as described in the tutorial. On the skin page all skins are compiled and can't be loaded into builder...
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Hi to all members of this forum.. well i am just new here and i could see authors of the skins i download..I would also try to test my patience in creating my first avast skin but i don't have any activeSkin software on my pc. Atleast i have my photoshop cs3ex here. Would it be enough? and I also could not open the link to the tutorial. Could anybody help me?? thanks.. :-\
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Hi to all members of this forum.. well i am just new here and i could see authors of the skins i download..I would also try to test my patience in creating my first avast skin but i don't have any activeSkin software on my pc. Atleast i have my photoshop cs3ex here. Would it be enough? and I also could not open the link to the tutorial. Could anybody help me?? thanks.. :-\
whitesky, it won't worth... next avast version, 5, won't be skinable. Also, ActiveSkin was dropped down and can't be downloaded anymore. What I can say is welcome to avast forums and try to enjoy the other avast features ;)
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I fear you would be wasting your time even if you were able to get the skinning software. From avast version 5.0 there will be no skins, the third party software installed on your system ActiveSkin version 4.2.7.3 will no longer be available.