Hey hey all, heres an early Christmas present for all you who are on the 25th of December and an early one for those still on the 24th. I'd like to officially announce the launch of my new skin Ev0.

Ev0 is now officially complete and almost ready to pimp up your desktops, but not yet

Ev0 will feature 2 styles: black and white and will then feature 8 sub styles for each style. Basicly its a total of 16 possible colours that you can set up with the new installer ipab has concocted (thanks heaps for that).

2007 will be a major year for the skinning community because alongside the release of Ev0, there will be the launch of a new skinning group that will feature the likes of myself, ipab, stian and many other talented people. Yes guys we are joining forces excitement. There will be huge things happening here, but more on that in 2007

And now I leave you guys with the teaser. Rest assured this skin is ready and will launch in 2007 (2007 aint a long way away now anyway )



Merry Christmas All

Sexeh, can't wait

the blue cloud behind EvO is psychedelic..

yep its amazing the things you can do in illustrator

I must say, Will worked especially hard on this one.

It looks awesome. Can't wait for the release. Good work

Wow, that does look awesome. I'll be looking forward to it. Well done

very nice skin,

Cool. Waiting for its release .

Loooooks good,
Can't wait for the release

can we get a better screen shot? that's pitifully small...

Willz's alive!!! W00T!!!

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Originally posted by Willz
there will be the launch of a new skinning group that will feature the likes of myself, ipab, stian and many other talented people. Yes guys we are joining forces excitement.

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* Matti fails to prepare.

[OFFTOPIC] But what's going on with Windows Aero Messenger? Is it still in progress or did you drop it because of Vista Live Messenger? (need confirmation ) [/OFFTOPIC]

looks different but cool.

but what about the people who dont want huge display pictures next to contacts name could this be disableD?

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Originally posted by Mattike
But what's going on with Windows Aero Messenger?

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Hehe thanks guys i know you all want this and yes the screenshot is a tad small. But I did that on purpose only to build up a bit of suspense. Besides youll all have it soon enough

And yeh WAM is kinda dead, but only cos stians skin is just too awesome. The things I would have done for WAM are in this skin anyway (feature wise that is).

Sweeeeeet!

Can't wait

Looks awesome, i cant wait for it

Amazing Can't wait for it

On another note I am currently looking for people who are willing to mirror Ev0, this is just to ease the pain of hosting the skin just by myself. So anyone who's interested just PM me, MSN me or just post here. Note that this skin will eat bandwidth up initially so yeh be prepared.

I can throw it on my server just gimme a shout oh and it looks cool, cant wait for it, ive seen a few good skins lately

the nature of the installer requires a server that is online constantly, is bandwidth an issue for you?

I must say, that is pretty nice. Too bad it doesn't fit with my desktop and my carefully chosen colours for my contact lists, which my display picture matches.

I might consider getting it because its really awesome, but I dont know.

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the nature of the installer requires a server that is online constantly, is bandwidth an issue for you?

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i can host it on commiepedia.org (until the domain expires, anyway)

Wohoo cant wait good job

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i can host it on commiepedia.org (until the domain expires, anyway)

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i can host it on commiepedia.org (until the domain expires, anyway)

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when does it expire?

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I love you guys. Now I need some input... I have three options for the installer, and I'm starting to feel really worried about all of them.

Option A: I have a "dummy" installer that the user uses to select what skin colour he wants and then the installer downloads the content from one server and the installs it.

Option B: I bundle all the skin colour choices along with the installer and end up with an installer that is about 30 MB.

Option C: The one that I really don't want to do; make a separate installer for each and every skin choice, coming to a nice list of 16 installers .

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Option A: I have a "dummy" installer that the user uses to select what skin colour he wants and then the installer downloads the content from one server and the installs it.

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Option B: I bundle all the skin colour choices along with the installer and end up with an installer that is about 30 MB.

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but remember to put a screenshot of each colour in the Dummy File

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Option B: I bundle all the skin colour choices along with the installer and end up with an installer that is about 30 MB.

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yeah that's what i have continually done for every installer that I have ever made, I even have special tools that were coded for me by a very special person (TheSteve) for just that job, but I'm talking 30 MB even with the optimization.

Moreover, there are 2 base formats, the white and the black, both do not share anything similar.

I vote a but like sonicsam said u need previews of eachs

if you can save the images with Hue/Sat/Lum bit mapping it'd probably compress better, but i don't know any image formats that support that...

Do Both, make A and B.

People who can download larger files / aren't online all the time can get B. People who just one to use one of the 16 skins or can't download large files can use A.

not a bad idea chestah, I think i might be saved, after a LOT of searching and testing, I might have come up with a feasible solution. Think Option A but with mirroring. So the files are downloaded with the help of mirrors. I just need people to mirror stuff for me and an oath that they won't move the location of the files as they will be hardcoded into the installer itself.

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not a bad idea chestah, I think i might be saved, after a LOT of searching and testing, I might have come up with a feasible solution. Think Option A but with mirroring. So the files are downloaded with the help of mirrors. I just need people to mirror stuff for me and an oath that they won't move the location of the files as they will be hardcoded into the installer itself.

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yeah but reading the file is another issue...

pm me with your id will ya, perhaps you can aid me.

I wanna host too

Well, I can host if you want.

Storage is definetly not a problem, and with 1 TB bandwidth isn't either.

mirror.nitrolinken.net

I just need to make the sub-first

We will need 10 mirrors so yeh, we prefer it if the bandwidth isnt an issue. Since this thing will probably require a re-release when 8.1 is finished.

Also on a side note, people that either ipab or myself already know will get first dibs on becoming a mirror

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We will need 10 mirrors so yeh, we prefer it if the bandwidth isnt an issue. Since this thing will probably require a re-release when 8.1 is finished.

Also on a side note, people that either ipab or myself already know will get first dibs on becoming a mirror

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Also on a side note, people that either ipab or myself already know will get first dibs on becoming a mirror

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* prashker hugs ipab

@Nitro, added.

I have seen you around here a bit, and I think that we trust you enough to know that you will not mess with the files...

Also for those that are saying that a screenshot for each colour is needed need not worry because I already have all that stuff ready to go. I will be providing the people who mirror Ev0 with images, this includes two images that display the colours available the black and white style.

So yeh that is not an issue

seen me?

haha, i'll mirror if needed/wanted

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@Nitro, added.

I have seen you around here a bit, and I think that we trust you enough to know that you will not mess with the files...

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Well, if I would only have a decent server I'd love to host it. But unfortunately my server isn't that good.

Why don't you release a MemSkin version of this? MemSkins are lots smaller because they only contain the changed resources and don't need an installer. (or just one to copy it to the right folder ) Well, just ask me on Messenger if you're interested.

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@Nitro, added.

I have seen you around here a bit, and I think that we trust you enough to know that you will not mess with the files...

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If you still need a mirror, give me a shout

I can host it too if you want ipab, i never use my hosting so theres plenty of bandwidth going spare

Wow this skin will make a change to the windows live messenger vista skins It also has a nice fresh look to it, plus all of those talented skinners will make this skin awesome!

I love you guys , Thanks for all the offers... I am finishing up the installer today so whoever is hosting it will get a preview. I will contact you guys.

I just got another server - 3 servers now xD
So I can host them on all 3

Thanks Cookie for donating <3

I'll be switching servers today, 450GB Bandwith a month.

And it will be on my domain SonicSam.net

No more slowness !

Looks awesome, can't wait to see it in use on my desktop though .

FYI guys, we are not supporting the 8.1 build as it is still in BETA stages. We are however planning on releasing an update build when 8.1 is released.

I can always host a mirror, 2488GB bandwidth going almost unused atm

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FYI guys, we are not supporting the 8.1 build as it is still in BETA stages. We are however planning on releasing an update build when 8.1 is released.

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WLM 8.0 runs in vista so thats not an issue, Ev0 works fine on vista

and yeah 8.1 isn't being supported, mainly cos its in beta (though i bet MS will probably finalize 8.1 a week after release just to smite me )
When 8.1 is final an update will be offered so never fear.