Raydream solar storm

[Neko]

well this is my last attempt at pushing wa2's bounderies, i alwaysed used to define the boarders beween each section, but i can no longer let that stop me (i thank lucid for the inspiration of ignoring them ), well ill shut up now and listen to what you have to say

[SuPeYDuUeY]

wow...alls I can say is HOLY SHIZLAT!!!

[Neko]

workin 9 to 5, dum de dum de dum dum duum dum....
errm, yes, well..



mew? what the hell do you think this is?, a pet store?!

[edit] me thinks i could get away with bringing the wings to the front...[/edit]

[Neko]

im changfing the cbuttons.. this skin will be for advanced winampers only, im going for looks over functionality.. it will still work though , by the way, im tired og the eq's having to be a part of the bloody framework, so im changing that right now, i'll be having individual tubes containing a glowing head, which morph the shape of the ''tube'' when moved, i can see this being a long long project, mebe ill still be doing this skin on friday :O. as for detail just you wait till you see this puppy go :P

p.s. tnx nini for the good reviews *has graded all of yours highly, well the ones i could find! *grabs a loose rabit and heads for the drawing board.. oo bunny ears ?:P?

[edit] oh yeah, heres the ss [/edit]

[Mr. Bojanglez]

good luck wth those cbuttons, nice but ur sins aregetting a little repetitie but still good

[Neko]

im not gonna have cbuttons, i dont really care if that puts people off using the skin, its my final winamp 2 skin so i wanna make a statement

*will probably bolt some cbuttons on before publishing a copy though

[Bop]

All Hail The Grand Wizard Of Skinning!!! -> Raydream

[Neko]

hehe, cute

[lankster]

* Gets down on knees *

"Raaaydream, Raaaydream, Raaaydream."

Seriously man you rock!!!!
Once again you've came up with something AMAZING!

[Neko]

LUCID ?! helloooo?? you around these forums lately?, i need your opinion on something!
see the above ss, how do you suggest i incoorperate the cbuttons?, i was thinking tiny symbols etched into a semi-transparent section of glass as a band around the top of the cbutton bar, and only little white dots on the actual bar as the buttons, which either glow when you press them or something equally obvious (what a bad choice of words), anyways, i'm interested to hear your , or any other viewers opinion on this matter

tnx in advance

[skinme!]

On the highlight part of your bar, you could have 3D little tiny round buttons that are not labbelled but move up down when pressed. Just a thought.

[Lucid DM]

Sorry. This entire thread appeared while I was asleep. I have to rush off now, but I'll be back here later today. I'll type a longer post then.

[Nini]

wow...this is definitely your best one..wow reminds me of an alien spaceship...
Only one thing...I'm not sure but IMHO your first version of the titlebar was better...i don't like theres things with the holes much (Just my opinion)
The white areas will be transparent?...

[Doggy Dog]

Hey, that's WONDERFUL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But what's up with those other two skins (Ion Flux and Finale I think)?

[Riksruin]

Raydream, is there anywhere that i can find your other skins for download? cuz i cant seem 2 get ur site to work at all,

[The Only Lynx]

[Nini]

Originally posted by The Only Lynx

LMAO
hey lynx where did you get this smiley from? LOL
* I had to quote it...it's so funny *

[Neko]

the way ive been working on the skin, in photoshop, each element has its own layer, so i can mix and match elemtns to my liking, so if later i dont like a section, i will remove it, and yes, the white area's will be transparent, as for the titlebar, thats open to abuse , still got lots to do so ill be back shortly with a ss

[edit] rikki, at current im still working on ion flux and final, but ill make a section for my skins later tonight and post the link in this thread, hope this helps [/edit]

[Neko]

as promised, the ss..


anything you want me to change guys and gals? (nini, forever and miss yob )

p.s. this is a basic layout design so far, i will be making the skin partially rusty in due time, but ill leave that to the imagination

[Neko]

just installed my third 86gb hard drive.... :\ i must be insane

HOW WILL I FIND FILES IN THIS!..


i may format the three drives and set the partitions, from 5 partitions of 17.2 gb each drive (15 17 gb partitions), to something a little more human, like 2 partitions per drive, so ill have 6 partitions of 43gb :\

[YtseJam]

You should label them.

[Neko]

i probably will sometime, but that isnt my problem, my problem is that the cdrom/dvd/cdr units are on the ata100 ide channel, and the hard drives are on scsi, and my copy of dvd ripper and audiocatalyst have a prob ripping to where i say, and usually scatter then around everywhere, i think i may need to reinstall and fix the registry :\

[YtseJam]

Have fun.

[marc falk]

woah...

f....

*cue jaw dropping to the ground*

go eat something

and get some sleep

waking up with the keys imprinted on your face and drool all ove the keyboard isn't nice.

and your cat should probably get some food too.

in conclusion, who uses the eq bars anyway?

fsnl
marc

eo: Bad Religion - Big Bang

[ampburner]

No cbuttons? Eqsliders? I mean, it looks nice and all...but isn't a skin a modification of the original graphical USER INTERFACE?

[Neko]

lol, theres gonna be eq bars, just not part of the actual framework, they will be ''floating'' elements

[YtseJam]

Just wondering, is raydream male or female?

My guess is Female.

[Lucid DM]

/me finishes catching up.
Prepare for a pretty long post:

Everyone has already said WOW! so I'll skip that bit.

Once again you've come up with a great, very original skin. I love the smooth curves.
It's a very very detailed skins, there's loads of things going on across the skin. The main window is starting to become crowded. When I was looking at it, it took me a moment to distinguish what the controls were, but I'll get back to that in a moment.

The grid cylinder things on the titlebar look slightly out of place. As if they're part of a different machine, holding onto SS. They seem a little square. Maybe you could round off one corner and sharpen the other.

Nice colour choices, but the mass of grey starts to hurt after a while. Seeing as it's called "Solar Storm", a little splash of low (I mean, very low) saturation orange could look good. Maybe on the wings, to give a feeling of flames.

The PL / EQ buttons are quite saturated compared to the rest of the skin. But that might be something you meant to do?

For the CButtons: That curved thing with "Solar" written on it, it's got a square cross-section, right? You could have cubes cut into it of the same material as the sphere on the EQ. And a symbol floating in the middle of each.

What are the vol/bal bars gonna do? Are you gonna have dials again, or something even more impressive ?

Some general things:
The black lines around everything make it look almost cartoony, rather than realistic. Unless it's ridiculously hard to do, I think that it'd look smoother with all of them gone. If not gone, then not completely black.
Are the wings supposed to be round or like an aeroplane wing? If they're supposed to be round, then the shading should get darker faster, to show that they aren't flat. Like so:


I'll probably think of loads more later .

[edit]I'm guessing he's male, seeing as he's got a g/f (I think): Kim.[/edit]

[Neko]

ampburner, i want it to look as little like winamp as humanly possible, so im making the bottons in weird places so that they arent just a damn line of buttons, check the cbuttons and let me know what ya think (btw, these buttons will work)

im partial to the <<< button myself



[edit] thanks for the feedback lucid , once again youve shown your vast knowledge and shed some light onto my dwindling imagination (no, serously, i havent been to sleep yet), as for the cbuttons, i will probably do different variations and ask you all later, but forn now im trying to get the general shape down, due to the way i create my skins lucid, i can alter almost anything with ease and no have to redraw anything to fit, the balls for eq and pl are oversaturated i know, i havent made them transparent yet, and in doing so, most of that saturation is lost (see section in between master vol and eq sliders), as for the gradients, ill change all those when ive finnished the designs, the clutteredness of the actual skin doesnt look that bad when youve got it transparent (im too scared to release a test version yet, lol), the colour schemes are open to abuse too, i stick with black gray and blue to get the basis down, i can easilly change the colouring later, and whoever it was that asked, i am male , im working with my friend kim on different projects, all published under the ''teo katsuragi'' alias because she's too lazy to set her own crap up, and it makes it a little easier to find our work, i do the tech skins, she does the strange things (eg my avatar), well, ill let her post later so you can see what i mean by lazy assed student, lol

[Lucid DM]

How about this?


[edit]Just saw your CButtons. They look sweeet.[/edit]

[Neko]

see, this is why we should do a colab

btw, the whole skin will have this level of detail when finnished



[edit] mm, reflections.. [/edit]

[bobo]

wow it looks awesome. btw how are ion flux and final

[Neko]

they are comming along.. *looks at kim*, erm, she's still looking for them (see hard drive problem above), ion flux is 70% done and finale is 40% done

[Neko]

cccccccccccbuttons

lucid, think this matches?

[YtseJam]

Can you make them a bit darker?

[chiquita chad]

imho, i think the <<< button should be a little higher than it is, i know its suppused to look like its above the rest, but i think it would better if it were a little higher on the wing

[Neko]

nothing i can do about that, any higher and the button wont function

[Forevever]

geez!! what can I say? I'm almost speechless. Once again another fabulous skin. The transparencies are going to make this skin.

I like the cbuttons you're using, and I agree with (looks up) Lucid on the splash of orange? yellow? red? some kind of a bright hue in the lighting would make a lot of difference.

As original as this skin is compared to most, I also have to agree with Bo, it looks a lot like the other 2. Which isn't a bad thing, just an observation. The tint of orange? red? yellow? in the lighting would really make it stand out from the other 2. Not too much mind you, just a slight shade in appropriate 3d areas.

LOL and why do you need all that hard disk space anyway? I have a 40gig hard drive and its twice as much as I use (at least).

I was wondering.. are you doing your skins with a computer pen? man I wish I had one of those.

[Neko]

as i said ealier, i have taken the hue thing into account and will be adding it later, but for now i just want the basis of the skin layed out , i ogirionally set out to make a skin which further pushes the bounderies set by winamp2's skinning engine, and i have tried to the best of my abilities to blurr the bounderies set by the eq and main.bmp, which are always usually defined by a break, dark line or coloured band across the skin, though those skins can still look pretty decent, they also limit the design possibilities, what my aim was, was to create something thatlooks cool as well as functional, and hopefully, im doing it right

btw, methinks the skin love community deserve much credit for filling the db's with decent skins

[Neko]

just a test... like?