new skin - insid (wt)

[caz]

hmm, started this about 2 hours ago ( I know theres not much to show for it lol)

My initial idea for this skin was to try and recreate what a 'mech' pilot would see inside his cockpit (thus the military green came to mind)

What I really need some help with is choosing a new colour to go with the green, Ive chosen four different colours (the white included) and put them underneath what I have so far for you to choose which you like the best, if you have any other colours give me a html number (or rgb) and i'll see what it looks like

I kinda didnt want to show it until at least most of the main was done, but I could really use a little help.

thx

~caz

http://www.naoneo.com/caz/insid.jpg

P.S - dont worry about the colour scheme, it wont turn into another devart skin lol

[Cleanup]

Love it so far. My only bish is that the grey things on the sides look kinda floatashish. Try to blend them in more.

I choose the yellow, but make it a bit more bright.

[e-raser]

??? lol, not even sure what part this is of the skin

[GoldenSphynx]

How would #507075 look? I lreally like it so far. Nice job caz. :)

[caz]

eraser, its the top of the main, the titlebar

[caz]

small update - using the colour goldensphynx suggested, looks ok imo, unless anyone else says somethin better ima go with this ^.^


thx GS ^.^

[edit]oops, forgot the link lol

http://www.naoneo.com/caz/insid2.jpg

[GoldenSphynx]

w00t, I actually helped with something. Looks hot. I don't know about the stripes of yellow though. Maybe if you made them the same color as the color I suggested, it might look as if the green bar was segmented. It may just turn out to be a cool effect.

[dimichan]

Ohhh, I like this, nice so far :up:

[J_Bloggs]

I think some rocky/snowy scenery in the background there would go very nice with the mech idea, instead of a solid color.

[immortal]

caz stop teastin! grrr :P

looks cool, carry on!

[FooMonkey]

I've got the perfect color for you.
#FD9BB7
Please post an update with it, I wanna see how it looks.:)

If the rest of the skin looks that good, it'll be great.

[caz]

update - done a little more with the main, started the cbuttons - I think that my initial idea is going to prove too difficult, after three different tries I gave up, so I let my mind wander (like I did with kyaela 2) and I came up with this, hopefully Ill create somethin very strange...lol - I hope you'll like it.

http://www.naoneo.com/caz/insid3.jpg

foomonkey, lol I tried the colour you suggested - but in the name of public safety, I decided not to show a screenshot of it - rofl

[Cleanup]

I want to sex you.

[immortal]

:O dam nice caz... thats all

[Mr_007]

Really great design!

[dimichan]

This is looking cool, I really like the look of this!

[simon snowflake]

hmm pretty :D
I'm looking forward to see the result

[caz]

Another small(ish) update, I have no idea what to do for the cbuttons, let alone how to incorporate them into this...thing..lol

Any ideas?

I dont quite believe it, but so far this skin has over 95 layers..and its only the main. :igor: - wtf is going on? lol

The whole of Kyaela was only 120(ish) layers

http://www.naoneo.com/caz/insid5.jpg

[Cleanup]

Eh. I don't like the wires. They don't fit with the skin... If you do decide to keep them, the big red one seems unnatural, unless the wire has a lot of tension, it shouldn't be that rigid and straight.

[skinme!]

I quite like the green and yellow wire. It's cool. Love the colour scheme and the punky grungey look. The detail at the top is sublime. keep going dude, or I'll egg your house.

[e-raser]

love the design of this, what was the idea u were trying 3 times that u gave up on, b/c if its a cool idea and u dont want ot expand on it i'm all ears :)

[caz]

It was basically the front 'dashboard' of a mech, but the 3d-ness that I needed, to create the right perspective, just didnt seem to go with the main title bar (and I basically just couldnt get it right) and so I scrapped the idea, I like how this is turning out better anyway.

[FooMonkey]

Aww, I'm disappointed. I really thought that color would be a nice complement to the border. Oh well.
I'm liking it so far. Is the graffiti going to stay there? Just curious.

[xanax]

Wow! it looks nice caz.
Keep making this skin beautiful (not sure about the goldensphynx's color though).

[Cleanup]

Uh, nice avatar, *****.

[xenosomething]

oh man! this makes me wanna start a cel-shaded skin.:D

[caz]

update - trying to figure out how to do the vol/bal now ;)

Decided the cbuttons will be sort of 'projected onto the space between the beams of light...I think..lol

http://www.naoneo.com/caz/o.o.jpg

you can sort of see what I mean...although I dunno if it'll stay like that

[Cleanup]

Looking good. I'm not sure I like the "projected" idea though...

[xenosomething]

that projection is a good idea but the previous button is off to the left of it.

[e-raser]

its looking very mechish this way i must say!, can't put my finger on what type of anime style it reminds me of but its definatly stricking a cord in me some where

[caz]

xeno, yea I know - the previous button will be on one of the 'arms' with a small light inderneath showing when the button is pressed...thats the only way I can think os doing it

[skinme!]

make the projection stronger.

[Cleanup]

I think that my problem is the CButton labels. I dun like them. The projection is cool. :) It's just that the labels look kinda... uhm... cheesy, with that kind of shape.

[caz]

sorry about the lack of updates, been doing other stuffs..Ive done a little more though...but not much :igor: lol

http://www.naoneo.com/caz/mehuh.jpg

Anyone got any ideas for the eq? and/or the cbuttons/display area? cos im sorta 50/50 on whether or not theyre going to stay..

~caz

[Mr_007]

Very great and romantic design by caz!
Good luck on your romantic skin!

[FooMonkey]

I like the cbuttons/vis.
The graph in the EQ could be another one.

[bobo]

kinda raydreamish. nice work

[bobo]

btw, you should have dark grey displays ;)

[caz]

do you mean the 'beams' of light and/or the parts in-between should be dark greyish?

[PeaceMaker]

caz, like i always say make it the way you want it, without so much outside input.

anyway, i'd make the labels bright white painted on those thin white lines (just symbols like u started before, only brighter).

[bobo]

grey background

[caz]

Going to start workin on this again, next update will probably be when ive finished the eq.

[caz]

well...that was quicker than expected - Im pretty happy with the eq now, although i might add some finer detail later..

this screenie just shows the sliders, the buttons arent on there yet, the beams of light will go up as the slider is pulled down.

http://www.naoneo.com/caz/uh.jpg

last screenie for a while ;) - at least till the pl is done, so if you have any ideas/things you'd like to see in the skin - let me know ^-^

[Cleanup]

Put the EQ bar thing sin the middle of the bars. :) Not on the sides...

Looks good, though!

Ugh, I gotta work on my skin more.

[caz]

[edit] lol i'm so stupid sometimes... :igor: - cheers jones ;)

I left this skin for quite a while because usually when I concentrate on one skin I get very bored...very easily.

Well, I started working on it again today, hoepfully finish it sometime soon - heres an update:

http://www.naoneo.com/caz/insid3.png

My remix contest skin has been on hold for the past two weeks or so, so i'm not sure if I'll be entering afterall, maybe ill get my thumb out before then and finish it...I dunno.

Well, what do you think?, if you have any ideas/suggestions about insid, please let me know - :P

[Mr Jones]

They don't delete anything.
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=136274

Adjust the "show threads" option to show more than 30 days or something.

Or, use the "search for all posts by this user option" in your profile.

Merged :)

[e-raser]

just awsome!!!

[Namelessv1]

Looks amazing. :up:

[Cleanup]

Don't mind the Cbuttons anymore. :) Keep it up... what's with the red lights on the EQ bars? Will those be part of the animation?

[caz]

thanks guys ^.^

yea cleanup, the red lights will open and close as the bars get larger/smaller revealing the red light - its the first time ive tried anything like this (I know, im slow...lol) but one of the main things I wanted to do with this skin is try new ideas...so thats what im doing :P

and im glad you came around to the cbuttons :D

p.s - theres quite a few animations in this one..but i'll keep those a secret ;)

[StillWater]

I'd make that holographic/laser pane on the cbuttons/shuffle/repeat a bit darker than the rest.

Looks cool :up:

[Mr_007]

Good design!

[Krynis]

i swear those cbuttons are the sexiest thing ever :eek:

[caz]

well, its been quite a while since my last update lol - but dont make the assumption ive done much more :s

what with starting back at college and gettin on with other 'real life' stuff, its been hard making time to do some skinning :igor:

but, now im goin to start working on it again...dunno if its still got the 'pazzaz' it once had (or at least what I thought it once had lol) - hopefully it does, and i can recreate what i was tryin to do 1-2 months ago, or whenever it was lol, anyway, heres a small update for you:

http://www.naoneo.com/caz/insid.png

p.s - for all of you that wanted this back then, im really sorry I didnt finish it lol, hopefully you'll still be interested :P

[zwylle]

Great colors, great texture, nice details. :up:
Now go and finish it ;)

[YtseJam]

Greets caz, nice to see you continuing with this one.

[immortal]

I'm still intrested. So finish it nowwwwww not in 6months! :p

[skinme!]

Keep working, biatch!

[LuigiHann]

Awesome! I want it now too! But I won't rush you because that would be hypocritical.

[Cleanup]

Kuh-ool.

[Enfurno]

i like this alot, the transparent "display" is awesopme, is there any way you could make like a nice clean blue/white type of scheme also?

[Krogoth]

very nice... I'm looking forward for this skin... :)

[immortal]

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COMON CAZ! lol

[AldebaranDanu]

:eek:
OMG! This is a beautiful skin. I can't wait to have this one on my PC.

Keep up the good work!

[dlinkwit27]

holy hell how did i miss this?!? awesome skin! I'd love to see this done.

[caz]

Im REALLY trying to get around to finishing this guys....im jus lazy i guess :( lol - I dunno why, but everytime i look at insid i hate something about it and want to change it, but then i look again and realise that part is ok - but notice something else...ARGH!

I will finish it...jus dont be dissapointed if it isnt this year, :igor: rofl.

/edit

Enfurno, sorry dude, but no white/blue colour schemes for this one :/ - the whole point of this 'project' (spose you could call it that) was to create something different and grungy(ish) - so having white or blue, which are done too much imo, would defeat the purpose

of course, you can change the colour yourself, your more than welcome, but dont publish it/give it out ;) (if it ever gets finished that is) lol

[Krogoth]

yeah... caz lifes... :D

another colour themes for this skin are a great idea... :up:

[caz]

slowly but surely.

http://www.naoneo.com/caz/insid2003.gif

as usual, if you guys have any advice, requests, comments please share ;D

[immortal]

I request YOU FINISH THIS! lol :p

[Krogoth]

i don't have any advice or requests, your skin is really eye-candy :)
but i have one question: is the media library skinned? ;)

WHAAA... RELEASE IT!!!... :D

[FooMonkey]

Fancy up the playlist.
The other windows have doo-hickies and gizmos all over them. He wants some, too.

[caz]

I know what you mean foo, but i just couldnt think of anything for the longest time, then it occured to me that i still have the plstacks area to sort out, so hopefully that'll give me the chance to create some 'do-hickies'. If i can create what i have planned it should turn out ok :p..... should. :igor:

[jjpotter]

Great great style. It reminds me of Jet Set Radio Future for X-Box. I think because it's futuristic, and the skin has smooth and solid colors, but at the same time there are complex elements. Sweet

[caz]

For those of you that've been here for a while and have seen the skin sive made over the years, heres a little treat (if you liked the original that is lol) - ive been working on it for a while, but no lookie lookie yet! :p - this will mean more to some of you than others lol

http://www.naoneo.com/caz/sc2.html

Dont worry, im still working on insid. ;)

Ikaru is now scrapped btw (for those who can remember it lol) because i never got around to doing anymore of it, perhaps when i have more freetime i will get back to working on it.

[Cleanup]

Next skin I make will be a sixgun, I think.

[Xerxes]

What does 6 gun refer too?

[caz]

Sixgun was a series of skins that cleanup and I decided to start, citrus was one of them.

[Krynis]

mmmm i loved the six gun skins

[tydogg]

Just read this whole thread and was getting more and more excited, please finish this! Those cbuttons are damn sweet. Only thing I dont like are those red/yellow exhaust pipe things on the main.

[caz]

Theyre supposed to be resistors ;D - lol

Anyone know if Skinners Atlas has been updated for wa5? with the added components? (or whatever is new) I havent done any 'real' skinning (splicing the images up and stuff) since the new player was released.

So thats another delay while i try to figure out how to do it lol

Anyways, heres some news for you, Ive started to get my head around the real life stuffs that have been plaguing (sp) me for the past month or so, so hopefully this will be finished soon...(hopefully. :igor: )

P.S - anyone have any ideas why I cant view any of my past skins? do I have to re-upload them? or....redo them -.-

[flatmatt]

I don't see a problem with your skins.

http://www.winamp.com/skins/browse.php?search=yes&filter=S&query=caz

Unless you're talking about the links in your sig, of course.

[caz]

Hmm strange :/ I couldnt view them from my account screen :| thx flatmatt ^^

[Jellby]

Caz wrote:

Anyone know if Skinners Atlas has been updated for wa5? with the added components? (or whatever is new) I havent done any 'real' skinning (splicing the images up and stuff) since the new player was released.


It hasn't been updated... as far as I know ;)

Sinced I moved to Linux, I'm not really into skinning... It's too much a hassle to boot up windows just to try the skin (xmms is not 100% bug-compatible with winamp). But Mbuga was made under Linux, anyway :)

Of course, if anyone wants to update Skinner's Atlas, he/she's got my permission, let's call it GPL :cool:

P.S. I follow this forum everyday, nevertheless :)

[BlueBalls]

You still working on this Caz?

[caz]

I am indeed, just slowly. -.-

[FooMonkey]

... And are you ever going to make a website that's more than just a splash page?:p

[skinme!]

He made emotion. Ok, I coded it but it was his idea and his campaigning.

[caz]

lol Foo, I do keep trying, but I know nothing about the coding side, so...its kinda hard to complete one, -.-

[Cleanup]

Use Dreamweaver. WYSIWYG.

[caz]

Ive tried using dreamweaver before :/

and I do keep trying it again lol, but i can never grasp it - It appears to me that writing your own html is easier :| - even with my crappy skills :igor:

I guess it would be worth my time if I got dreamweaver and just played around with it..bleh


p.s - Hopefully I'll be posting an updated screenshot sometime soon..

[Krogoth]

C'mon Caz! :)
I'm already looking forward to your skin.

hehe... the best needs the most time, what? *g*
or in german: "Gut Ding, will Weile haben." :D :D :D

[caz]

lol, update ^^ - its been a while i know, oh well. :P

http://www.naoneo.com/caz/insid30.jpg

[StillWater]

Looking good :)

I think you should change the size of the eq-vis. The 'laser-style' eq-vis looks great, but the way the wavy line goes off onto the right side ruins it somewhat.

In my opinion, the skin's in danger of becoming too busy: small components mixed with a large amount of non-component detail is a bad mix, IMO. It's the biggest downfall of the average Breed-style skinner, imo, to try and fit in as much crap as possible, and the skin ends up getting lost in amongst the graphics, so to speak.

Those red knob things on either side of the text/nums area would make cool animated buttons elsewhere (you would swivel them from side to side when you click them)

//////by the way, you mentioned you didn't know what had changed since winamp 5. Take note of the new "stretchable playlist" feature in the winamp options. It's a good feature for some skins, and presumably many people use it, but the bad news is that it makes your tiled areas look like shit much of the time, unless you skin them with that feature in mind.

[dlinkwit27]

I agree with db about the EQ. That bothers me as well. It only matters now though, as I never use the EQ, but in the sceme of things its kinda important i think.

Everything else looks good to me though.

[caz]

thanks for the input stillwater ^^ - ill have to look into that pl thing you mentioned.

one of the things i wanted to do with this skin was make it very unusual - definately not for people new to winamp, it was never meant to be a project that focused on aesthetics at all :s which may seem strange :| (it does when i think about it) but i just wanted to do it because ive never really attempted anything like this before :/

I do appreciate your criticism however - and I will try my best to make it slightly easier to use and not too cluttered :/ although im so far into it im not sure how im going to do it -.-

also, random fact - this skin (so far) has 350 layers, and is split into four different psp files ^^ lol.

////i will sort the eq out, i did try something to fix it - but it didnt work :P lol

[tydogg]

Of course, you could always just cut out the offending eq vis line, and include a eqmain with it, if people really need it

[StillWater]

but if he cut out the line, there would be no point in having that holographic/laser/whatever display, which looks quite cool - and I think it looks cooler when it actually does something.

The problem is that he wanted to make it symetrical - but I don't think the asymmetry that would result in adjusting it to the right would be much of a problem in this particular skin.

[caz]

better? ^^

http://www.naoneo.com/caz/insid2.jpg

[dlinkwit27]

I think i liked it better the old way...

j/k! much better :p

[flatmatt]

Never noticed it before, but those are some sexy EQ sliders. :) Hope you finish this this time. ;)

[Evanescence]

this is lookin' real good..can't wait till it's finished!

[tydogg]

Just noticed this, it looks kind of weird having the song title at the top of the screen area and the numbers at the bottom.

[caz]

good point tydogg, ive never noticed that O.o

*fixes*

[Krogoth]

where can i download your skin, caz?

[caz]

Hey guys ^^ long time no s.. chat. Not sure whether I should've started a new thread for this :S *shrug*

Well, I finally did it. it's finished - after two years (or howvere long it has been -.-) of seeing it unfinished on my hdd i decided to spend a night doing it.

Now it's just the very basics mind, none of the optional windows are skinned - it's very hard to go back to s style you once had a good knowledge of creating after such a long time. I will however be getting some help from an old friend in regards to this - so hopefully some time soon it will be 100% complete.

Not sure if I should submit it to winamp.com just yet or whether I should wait a while until its all done.. T.T

here you go (http://www.lostnovice.com/caz/insid.wsz)

I hope that some of you are still interested in it ^^ lol.

Well, hope you like it.

[flatmatt]

Originally posted by caz
Not sure if I should submit it to winamp.com just yet or whether I should wait a while until its all done.. T.T
Well, if you submit it now, it'll get rejected, so...

Anyway, looks great! :)

[caz]

Which windows are mandatory and need to be skinned for it to viable for submission?

Thanks, i'm glad you like it ^^

[Mr Jones]

main,eq,pl,video,gen windows

/there also appears to be a small bug in the playpaus.bmp , there is definately some pixel jumping in that area when in use, or is that intentional.?

[caz]

Originally posted by Mr Jones
/there also appears to be a small bug in the playpaus.bmp , there is definately some pixel jumping in that area when in use, or is that intentional.?

No, it isn't ^^ - i'll look into that.

As for the Video/Gen windows - i'll do those as soon as I get a chance and upload it to wa.com

Also, because my old hosting is now dead :< none of my original screenshots remain - and I know some people dont like clicking the .wsz links if they dunno what it looks like, so:

http://caz.lostnovice.com/insid.jpg (http://www.lostnovice.com/caz/insid.wsz)

[jjpotter]

Sweeeeeeet. I was hoping you'd finish this one.

[dlinkwit27]

i'm not a fan of the blue background of the playlist when you queue a song.

other than that, looking good

[garetjax]

I don't see anything...but, if its coming from caz...w00t.