Fire Elemental part two

[xenosomething]

hows this look?.....remember:the more ideas you guys give the faster it finishes.

i need some fire realism ideas.....bubbling lava, steam, ect.

notice how i cleverly fixed the eq BG?

[dlinkwit27]

very cool!

[StillWater]

Looks good. Really, really good. I love how it now looks like a landscape, with the bottom of the MAIN/top of the EQ now looking like a horizon. Some suggestions:

-I hope you make the border more complex and/or organic than that. Likewise, I hope you do more than just a straight line to separate the EQ from the PL (I'm guessing you will)

-The protruding cbutton thing looks great, but I don't like (as I don't think it does the rest of the skin justice) the way the bumpy sections on it (you know, the ones that do, or will, hold the cbuttons) are so square. Make them more curved/melted/sexy

-The top left of this protruding cbutton structure just fades away with a gradient at the moment. Are you going to attach it to something?

-Looks like the volume animation might potentially be very ambitious and very cool-looking. Hope so!

[caz]

lol, i cant believe I never noticed this skin before - the new design looks kickass, very good work xeno ;P

the first initial design reminded me of the plant from 'The little shop of horrors' ...ahhh the memories lol

[e-raser]

ohhh, nice rebirth to the skin, sweet!

[skinme!]

Originally posted by ¤db¤
-The top left of this protruding cbutton structure just fades away with a gradient at the moment. Are you going to attach it to something?

Damn you! I hadn't noticed that and now you mentioned, it annoys me. And I can't stop noticing it!

Seriously, yummy. You could treat the area below the Main (i.e. EQ, PL) as the underworld and have fires burning and devils and stuff. Perhaps have a layer of soil between, from the bottom of the main to the top of the EQ bars, where the graph and eq on/auto/presets buttons are. Ideas enough for you?

[xenosomething]

I hope you make the border more complex and/or organic than that. Likewise, I hope you do more than just a straight line to separate the EQ from the PL (I'm guessing you will)

yes, it will...but im going to try to prevent the whole skin from being forced to the "standard" stacking order

but I don't like (as I don't think it does the rest of the skin justice) the way the bumpy sections on it (you know, the ones that do, or will, hold the cbuttons) are so square. Make them more curved/melted/sexy

yup right now they are just quick duplicate layers.

The top left of this protruding cbutton structure just fades away with a gradient at the moment. Are you going to attach it to something?

i didnt know what to do with that yet so i added a gradient to fill it in for now.

i already got some more buttons in....the preset button is a rock type platform that has sunk into the lava and it looks cool IMO.

i dig that underworld idea too, but the rest of the skin hasnt wreaked enough havoc to make it look good. but if i do something like that, it will definately be in the pl.

[dlinkwit27]

Originally posted by xenosomething
i already got some more buttons in....the preset button is a rock type platform that has sunk into the lava and it looks cool IMO.

*cough* screenshot *cough *cough*

[xenosomething]

im only going post a screen when it all looks polished, i dont wanna go into another postascreenshotevery5min-craze.

[skinme!]

Oh, why ever not? Feed the hungry populus. Come on, I'm all out of Dr Pepper and need my spirits lightened.

[dlinkwit27]

Originally posted by xenosomething
im only going post a screen when it all looks polished, i dont wanna go into another postascreenshotevery5min-craze.

ic, sorry. I thought it was ready.

[xenosomething]

new screen!

whats new?....

-fixed annoying yellow fire color(top right area)
-sinking preset button.
-eq on/off/auto area.
-fixed cbuttons(well, i think its better)
-made the lava look better, still not lava good though.

yup... doesnt look like like i did much, but it really did take me alot of time to do it.

[xenosomething]

FORGOT SCREENSHOT!!!!

[StillWater]

1- fixed annoying yellow fire color(top right area)
2- sinking preset button.
3- eq on/off/auto area.
4- fixed cbuttons(well, i think its better)
5- made the lava look better, still not lava good though.

1. That looks better. More interesting and less in-your-face. Looks like some more work wouldn't hurt it though - especially towards the top

2. The button looks cool. But see [5]

3. Yep. There they are

4. Much better. Though the left-most one is sharper than the others now. Soften up its edges a bit.

5. If you didn't say that it was lava, I never would have known. It took me a few moments to actually find the lava as it was. I don't know what you need to do to make it more lava like, but it's got a fair bit of work on it left, IMO. For a start, I think it's too smooth and should probably look considerably more violent. Try giving it a rougher texture, more shine/glow, bubbles, steam/smoke rising off it, maybe a volcano in the background to give the viewer a cue.........

[Mr_007]

Oh very good design!