the "eYe" skin

e-raser · 10th June 2003, 17:14

this is my initial sketch for my first wa3 skin called eYe. if there are any elements i'm forgetting or something you think is missing tell me now so when i start to do this one in photoshop i dont endup redesigning it 20 time (though i fell like thats probably going to happen anyhow

)

hammerhead · 10th June 2003, 17:31

hmm looks like a quite good sketch. only problem is that it looks a bit like Vag's mecheye skin.

e-raser · 10th June 2003, 19:38

like everything i do, its been influenced be recent things i saw and thought. it happens to be that i saw a cool lookig mini-hifi in a magazin with an orange circuel as a lcd with a long fertical cd slot comming down form it. this was my first instparation to make this skin. second was hal 9000. cant say that i have sceen vags "macheye" but it could get hard to make compleatly unique skins around here with vag posting a new idea every week..lol

dlinkwit27 · 10th June 2003, 20:36

its too big for me. :-/

hammerhead · 10th June 2003, 21:27

btw welcome to the winamp 3 skinning forums e-raser

e-raser · 10th June 2003, 22:01

dont worry, much smaller in actual fact, just a sketch remember..and its easyer freehand to draw technical things largly so it will be 50% of this size once i get my hands on it in photoshop

e-raser · 10th June 2003, 22:03

i fell out of place here....

well i'll get used to this new way of life in the fast lian. i=and if i feel home sick i always have the winamp 2 skin lovin fourms to go back to

QuadHeliX · 11th June 2003, 07:13

Looks like a real good design. I am curious what you can do in PS.

-=RoNtZ=- · 11th June 2003, 11:59

Quote:

Originally posted by hammerhead
...only problem is that it looks a bit like Vag's mecheye skin.

hm, i'd say, wait with saying that, until he made it in ps

hey e-raser:
welcome to the forums from my side, too!

about the skin: i think, u don't really need the speakers.

carlosp · 11th June 2003, 12:40

"Just wellcome to the Winamp3 Skinning world."

I wait for the first digital Sketch of your skin befor i say something.

e-raser · 11th June 2003, 13:22

i agree, speakers would ruing the slick look of this baby. but i want some imput for where the eq/thinger can go? any ideas

e-raser · 11th June 2003, 14:51

heres a better idea of what the skin will look like, this comp was done in illustrator

QuadHeliX · 11th June 2003, 16:46

If the edges were rounded more i think that you would have a better feel to it.

e-raser · 11th June 2003, 17:46

ummm, maybe, just how round can i get without losing the squareness aswell. ill play around with oit abit more

hammerhead · 11th June 2003, 17:48

Quote:

Originally posted by e-raser
heres a better idea of what the skin will look like, this comp was done in illustrator

Nice

. Don't really like the edges of the lcd tho'.

e-raser · 11th June 2003, 17:53

also dont like the lcd.....i'm going to have to look at some tutorials on glass and things of that nature, anyone have a good totorial for a spherical glass?

hammerhead · 11th June 2003, 18:57

This seems to be a good tutorial: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/114392

e-raser · 11th June 2003, 20:04

like the effect but do you know anything with a hell of alot more shine

(interesting that it was made by regener8ed....just in he middle or remixing his skin for the 1001winamp skin contest

)

e-raser · 11th June 2003, 20:08

also what to start this on the right foot, for color presets, you obviusly need seprate lyers for the highlights and glass and anyhting that can have different colors from one and another. is it as symple as it there is a transperent "white-black gradient" shine on a metal backround and you change the b/w gradeent to color gradients in preset?

hammerhead · 11th June 2003, 20:29

No, you can't really change the individual gradient colours, it basically flattens another layer at a choosable color over your layer.
http://robouk.mchost.com/tuts/tutori...al=smoothmetal

e-raser · 12th June 2003, 04:34

thanks for the info....will need more explaining on how then one goes ahead to designing color presets

hammerhead · 12th June 2003, 16:12

Well, basically each preset uses RGB strings out of like 3500-ish (I forget exactly) and its basically like a winamp-3 made layer colored from your defined preset put over the layer. Not really like the photoshop hue adjustings.

e-raser · 12th June 2003, 21:04

cool, so infact i should just make the skin, then make masks for the areas i want different colors for. this it?

e-raser · 13th June 2003, 05:55

k, more info needed. i notice that there are translucent glass element put ontop of text and other images. is this simply a image i make the has transperency in it and save it as a png. or do i need weird masks and stuff to do this. also interested in graphicaly how i make sliding elements, are they just images which are place by layer (in the coding) under another image and by this they are hidden from sight untill called for?

J_Bloggs · 13th June 2003, 07:32

With the glass effect, the transparency can ether be in the png file or you can use the alpha="0 to 255" tag in the code. With the transparency in the png file method, it can of course have alpha transparencie, and using the alpha tag you can affect it though code. You can use both, say use the alpha in the png file to make light shining effects since that requires different levels of transparency, and then you can use the alpha tag and some MAKI to let people tone down (or up) the amount of glass there is.

With sliding elements, yes they do work like that. Also, you can make them 'disappear' so that if it is bigger than you can fit under some other layer, you can sets it's alpha to 0, making it invisable, and you can set it's ghost to 1 making it unclickable.

In both cases code wise you are just working with a layer, it's how you work with it that matters.

e-raser · 13th June 2003, 16:15

great, i think i'm now ready to start making this thing....just have to finnish my remix skin and i'll be off into the wa3 world once and forall.

amitverma_in · 16th June 2003, 20:28

gr8 design and layout
infact the layout reminds me of some kinda MiniDv camera...isn't it?
i think u should post some new screenshots of the progress.

e-raser · 16th June 2003, 21:42

well i'm all swamped workin on my winamp 2 skin for the remixing contest, which has a 400$ mp3 player for the grand prize so i'm sorta putting this on the side for now...i think you can all understand why

e-raser · 16th June 2003, 21:43

i think i'll be done with that skin in a week, so i'll have some shots of this skin ready in about 2 weeks from now... stay tuned

e-raser · 19th June 2003, 02:53

here is a small update, after thinking for awhile i realized why the hell should i make a glass orb from a tutorial, i have never comprimized my creativity befor, so here is what i came up with useing just different types of drop shadows and a bit of high light for the lcd

e-raser · 19th June 2003, 04:20

here is some further work in the lcd area

e-raser · 19th June 2003, 04:21

whoops, forgot the attachment

e-raser · 19th June 2003, 05:14

i'm done for the night, just getting the finnishing tuches on the lcd area. here is where it all stands

matt_69 · 19th June 2003, 05:43

to me the thing that lets it down is the area around the lcd. its too...plain and simple if u get what i mean. other than that i love it - if only i was that good.

m*69

e-raser · 19th June 2003, 06:19

dont worry, more is along the way, its getting crazyer and crazyer by the min., there will be loads more in layers and effects and textures to come.

Mr_007 · 19th June 2003, 06:24

Great lcd skin!

StillWater · 19th June 2003, 19:57

it almost looks like it wants to be some sort of neo-cathedral themed skin (that would be awesome)

e-raser · 19th June 2003, 20:15

being that i'm jewish i'm not sure it this is going to be making this into a cross

though the thought did cross (no pun intendeed) my mind. may make it into a plus symble though. what do you guys thing of that?

on another note, cool idea. see the division in the lcd, well each menu will have the lcd slid away to show another layer beneath. top layer (show here) is the vis area, next in song info and track time, even though i have yet to post the alterations, below that it will slid away to exposs the eq area. cool

also the thinger will slide up from below as one presses either small orb on the two opposit sides of the skin, they will be the arrows for moving the thinger.

boy i'm realy getting into this freeforming skinning stuff

, too bad WA3 sucks in the resorce managment area cuz i cant even run it with alpha blend on. and i have a gighz machine!

e-raser · 20th June 2003, 04:54

enjoy the progress, what do you guys think about a blue glow beneath the lcd area?

hammerhead · 20th June 2003, 07:38

Yes, it looks quite good, but try and make sources for the light, tiny light bulbs?
Also I'm not a big fan of the outer metal, doesn't seem.. 3d enough.
-hammerhead

10th June 2003, 17:14	#1
e-raser Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 1,048	finnaly going to make a winamp3 skin this is my initial sketch for my first wa3 skin called eYe. if there are any elements i'm forgetting or something you think is missing tell me now so when i start to do this one in photoshop i dont endup redesigning it 20 time (though i fell like thats probably going to happen anyhow ) My skins: My links: MY GOD IM MAKING A WINAMP 3 SKIN!!!!

10th June 2003, 17:31	#2
hammerhead The Shark (Forum King) Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 2,537	hmm looks like a quite good sketch. only problem is that it looks a bit like Vag's mecheye skin. .:SharkWork::Deviantart::Breed:.

10th June 2003, 19:38	#3
e-raser Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 1,048	like everything i do, its been influenced be recent things i saw and thought. it happens to be that i saw a cool lookig mini-hifi in a magazin with an orange circuel as a lcd with a long fertical cd slot comming down form it. this was my first instparation to make this skin. second was hal 9000. cant say that i have sceen vags "macheye" but it could get hard to make compleatly unique skins around here with vag posting a new idea every week..lol My skins: My links: MY GOD IM MAKING A WINAMP 3 SKIN!!!!

10th June 2003, 20:36	#4
dlinkwit27 has no CT (Forum King) Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 13,235	its too big for me. :-/ ::Deviant Me::Last.fm::WhatPulse Stats::Folding @ Home

10th June 2003, 21:27	#5
hammerhead The Shark (Forum King) Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 2,537	btw welcome to the winamp 3 skinning forums e-raser .:SharkWork::Deviantart::Breed:.

10th June 2003, 22:01	#6
e-raser Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 1,048	dont worry, much smaller in actual fact, just a sketch remember..and its easyer freehand to draw technical things largly so it will be 50% of this size once i get my hands on it in photoshop My skins: My links: MY GOD IM MAKING A WINAMP 3 SKIN!!!!

10th June 2003, 22:03	#7
e-raser Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 1,048	i fell out of place here.... well i'll get used to this new way of life in the fast lian. i=and if i feel home sick i always have the winamp 2 skin lovin fourms to go back to My skins: My links: MY GOD IM MAKING A WINAMP 3 SKIN!!!!

11th June 2003, 07:13	#8
QuadHeliX Major Dude Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Washington State Posts: 1,133	Looks like a real good design. I am curious what you can do in PS. SkinConsortium.com Join us in making these skins, Artist and coders wanted!

11th June 2003, 12:40	#10
carlosp Major Dude Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Hamburg, Germany Posts: 1,312	"Just wellcome to the Winamp3 Skinning world." I wait for the first digital Sketch of your skin befor i say something. my skins: Nokia 3650, Spiderman Freeform, M3 (Manual), Simpsons Freeform(Idea, Coding), Freeamp Metaskins: WooHoo-FER , Ar-7

11th June 2003, 13:22	#11
e-raser Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 1,048	i agree, speakers would ruing the slick look of this baby. but i want some imput for where the eq/thinger can go? any ideas My skins: My links: MY GOD IM MAKING A WINAMP 3 SKIN!!!!

11th June 2003, 14:51	#12
e-raser Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 1,048	heres a better idea of what the skin will look like, this comp was done in illustrator My skins: My links: MY GOD IM MAKING A WINAMP 3 SKIN!!!!

11th June 2003, 16:46	#13
QuadHeliX Major Dude Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Washington State Posts: 1,133	If the edges were rounded more i think that you would have a better feel to it. SkinConsortium.com Join us in making these skins, Artist and coders wanted!

11th June 2003, 17:46	#14
e-raser Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 1,048	ummm, maybe, just how round can i get without losing the squareness aswell. ill play around with oit abit more My skins: My links: MY GOD IM MAKING A WINAMP 3 SKIN!!!!

11th June 2003, 17:53	#16
e-raser Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 1,048	also dont like the lcd.....i'm going to have to look at some tutorials on glass and things of that nature, anyone have a good totorial for a spherical glass? My skins: My links: MY GOD IM MAKING A WINAMP 3 SKIN!!!!

11th June 2003, 18:57	#17
hammerhead The Shark (Forum King) Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 2,537	This seems to be a good tutorial: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/114392 .:SharkWork::Deviantart::Breed:.

11th June 2003, 20:04	#18
e-raser Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 1,048	like the effect but do you know anything with a hell of alot more shine (interesting that it was made by regener8ed....just in he middle or remixing his skin for the 1001winamp skin contest ) My skins: My links: MY GOD IM MAKING A WINAMP 3 SKIN!!!!

11th June 2003, 20:08	#19
e-raser Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 1,048	also what to start this on the right foot, for color presets, you obviusly need seprate lyers for the highlights and glass and anyhting that can have different colors from one and another. is it as symple as it there is a transperent "white-black gradient" shine on a metal backround and you change the b/w gradeent to color gradients in preset? My skins: My links: MY GOD IM MAKING A WINAMP 3 SKIN!!!!

11th June 2003, 20:29	#20
hammerhead The Shark (Forum King) Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 2,537	No, you can't really change the individual gradient colours, it basically flattens another layer at a choosable color over your layer. http://robouk.mchost.com/tuts/tutori...al=smoothmetal .:SharkWork::Deviantart::Breed:.

12th June 2003, 04:34	#21
e-raser Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 1,048	thanks for the info....will need more explaining on how then one goes ahead to designing color presets My skins: My links: MY GOD IM MAKING A WINAMP 3 SKIN!!!!

12th June 2003, 16:12	#22
hammerhead The Shark (Forum King) Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 2,537	Well, basically each preset uses RGB strings out of like 3500-ish (I forget exactly) and its basically like a winamp-3 made layer colored from your defined preset put over the layer. Not really like the photoshop hue adjustings. .:SharkWork::Deviantart::Breed:.

12th June 2003, 21:04	#23
e-raser Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 1,048	cool, so infact i should just make the skin, then make masks for the areas i want different colors for. this it? My skins: My links: MY GOD IM MAKING A WINAMP 3 SKIN!!!!

13th June 2003, 05:55	#24
e-raser Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 1,048	k, more info needed. i notice that there are translucent glass element put ontop of text and other images. is this simply a image i make the has transperency in it and save it as a png. or do i need weird masks and stuff to do this. also interested in graphicaly how i make sliding elements, are they just images which are place by layer (in the coding) under another image and by this they are hidden from sight untill called for? My skins: My links: MY GOD IM MAKING A WINAMP 3 SKIN!!!!

13th June 2003, 07:32	#25
J_Bloggs Major Dude Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,778	With the glass effect, the transparency can ether be in the png file or you can use the alpha="0 to 255" tag in the code. With the transparency in the png file method, it can of course have alpha transparencie, and using the alpha tag you can affect it though code. You can use both, say use the alpha in the png file to make light shining effects since that requires different levels of transparency, and then you can use the alpha tag and some MAKI to let people tone down (or up) the amount of glass there is. With sliding elements, yes they do work like that. Also, you can make them 'disappear' so that if it is bigger than you can fit under some other layer, you can sets it's alpha to 0, making it invisable, and you can set it's ghost to 1 making it unclickable. In both cases code wise you are just working with a layer, it's how you work with it that matters. ¯¯¯¯Joe Bloggs____ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯

13th June 2003, 16:15	#26
e-raser Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 1,048	great, i think i'm now ready to start making this thing....just have to finnish my remix skin and i'll be off into the wa3 world once and forall. My skins: My links: MY GOD IM MAKING A WINAMP 3 SKIN!!!!

16th June 2003, 20:28	#27
amitverma_in Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: India Posts: 98	gr8 design and layout infact the layout reminds me of some kinda MiniDv camera...isn't it? i think u should post some new screenshots of the progress.

16th June 2003, 21:42	#28
e-raser Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 1,048	well i'm all swamped workin on my winamp 2 skin for the remixing contest, which has a 400$ mp3 player for the grand prize so i'm sorta putting this on the side for now...i think you can all understand why My skins: My links: MY GOD IM MAKING A WINAMP 3 SKIN!!!!

16th June 2003, 21:43	#29
e-raser Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 1,048	i think i'll be done with that skin in a week, so i'll have some shots of this skin ready in about 2 weeks from now... stay tuned My skins: My links: MY GOD IM MAKING A WINAMP 3 SKIN!!!!

19th June 2003, 02:53	#30
e-raser Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 1,048	here is a small update, after thinking for awhile i realized why the hell should i make a glass orb from a tutorial, i have never comprimized my creativity befor, so here is what i came up with useing just different types of drop shadows and a bit of high light for the lcd My skins: My links: MY GOD IM MAKING A WINAMP 3 SKIN!!!! Last edited by e-raser; 19th June 2003 at 03:15.

19th June 2003, 04:20	#31
e-raser Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 1,048	here is some further work in the lcd area My skins: My links: MY GOD IM MAKING A WINAMP 3 SKIN!!!!

19th June 2003, 05:43	#34
matt_69 Sunshine (Major Dude) Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Brisvegas, Australia Posts: 1,248	to me the thing that lets it down is the area around the lcd. its too...plain and simple if u get what i mean. other than that i love it - if only i was that good. m*69

19th June 2003, 06:19	#35
e-raser Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 1,048	dont worry, more is along the way, its getting crazyer and crazyer by the min., there will be loads more in layers and effects and textures to come. My skins: My links: MY GOD IM MAKING A WINAMP 3 SKIN!!!!

19th June 2003, 06:24	#36
Mr_007 Banned Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,838	Great lcd skin!

19th June 2003, 19:57	#37
StillWater Forum King Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Nov 1978 Posts: 3,883	it almost looks like it wants to be some sort of neo-cathedral themed skin (that would be awesome) Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny. All my skins: @ winamp.com @ 1K1WS @ Deviantart.com My latest Flash Project: BreathingEarth.net

19th June 2003, 20:15	#38
e-raser Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 1,048	being that i'm jewish i'm not sure it this is going to be making this into a cross though the thought did cross (no pun intendeed) my mind. may make it into a plus symble though. what do you guys thing of that? on another note, cool idea. see the division in the lcd, well each menu will have the lcd slid away to show another layer beneath. top layer (show here) is the vis area, next in song info and track time, even though i have yet to post the alterations, below that it will slid away to exposs the eq area. cool also the thinger will slide up from below as one presses either small orb on the two opposit sides of the skin, they will be the arrows for moving the thinger. boy i'm realy getting into this freeforming skinning stuff , too bad WA3 sucks in the resorce managment area cuz i cant even run it with alpha blend on. and i have a gighz machine! My skins: My links: MY GOD IM MAKING A WINAMP 3 SKIN!!!!

20th June 2003, 04:54	#39
e-raser Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 1,048	enjoy the progress, what do you guys think about a blue glow beneath the lcd area? My skins: My links: MY GOD IM MAKING A WINAMP 3 SKIN!!!!