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MP!L 4.5 Skin Mock Up [Photoshop] by Keikonium on 11-28-2007 at 03:59 AM

I've spent the last few hours creating a skin for WLM that I plan to make a reality as soon as the new Plus! is released. Hopefully the skinning engine (and my skills) make this skin actually possible. Anyways, here is a little preview for you all:

[Image: mainwindow6.png]
[Image: chatwindow.png]
[Image: toast.png]

Some things are probably going to change when I actually make this skin. I plan on skinning the buttons and the buddy icons also. I am thinking about using different window buttons (the X and minimize and stuff).

But for now this is just to get some opinions on the skin. Anything that should be changed? Added / Removed?

One of my main plans for this skin is to be able to change the background of the skin. I don't know if this will be possible, but we'll see :).

Comments?

RE: MP!L 4.5 Skin Mock Up [Photoshop] by roflmao456 on 11-28-2007 at 04:03 AM

looks nice imo,
would be better if windows aero (vista) were on the borders and that background on the translucent part

RE: MP!L 4.5 Skin Mock Up [Photoshop] by NanaFreak on 11-28-2007 at 07:31 AM

yea, thats fairly good, a few things to fix up... but yea pretty good :)

RE: MP!L 4.5 Skin Mock Up [Photoshop] by Oxy on 11-28-2007 at 10:30 AM

Love the skin idea. it'd be great if you could include the font into the skin also somehow.

RE: MP!L 4.5 Skin Mock Up [Photoshop] by aNILEator on 11-28-2007 at 01:31 PM

fairly easy to make too

RE: MP!L 4.5 Skin Mock Up [Photoshop] by Felu on 11-28-2007 at 01:35 PM

quote:
Originally posted by aNILEator
fairly easy to make too
Nah, the contact list window's top nickame, avatar and psm panel would be a bit hard.

Looks good btw.
RE: MP!L 4.5 Skin Mock Up [Photoshop] by aNILEator on 11-29-2007 at 08:54 AM

Well it'd be a nice challenge, but not implausible I can imagine how the coding for it would work, having played with the dashboard on my skin

RE: RE: MP!L 4.5 Skin Mock Up [Photoshop] by Keikonium on 11-29-2007 at 10:49 AM

quote:
Originally posted by roflmao456
looks nice imo,
would be better if windows aero (vista) were on the borders and that background on the translucent part

This preview is meant to be how the skin would look when the borders are taken away (a.k.a hiding the menu bars). If that isn't what you meant by your post, please elaborate.

quote:
Originally posted by NanaFreak
yea, thats fairly good, a few things to fix up... but yea pretty good :)

Thank you ^_^. Any suggestions?

quote:
Originally posted by Oxy
Love the skin idea. it'd be great if you could include the font into the skin also somehow.

Thanks! I was wondering if we could include fonts into the skin so they work even when people don't have the specific font... thats why I used a windows font for now :).

quote:
Originally posted by Felu
quote:
Originally posted by aNILEator
fairly easy to make too
Nah, the contact list window's top nickame, avatar and psm panel would be a bit hard.

Looks good btw.

I was aiming for easy, so I stuck with the basic WLM 8.0 look ;). Hopefully the top bars aren't to hard to make, but that'll just help me learn.

quote:
Originally posted by aNILEator
Well it'd be a nice challenge, but not implausible I can imagine how the coding for it would work, having played with the dashboard on my skin

I wish I could have taken a look at how the skin coding was basically done before starting but I don't have any beta lol. I can't wait to give this skin a try in a couple days tho ^_^.


Thanks for all your comments so far everyone :)!
RE: RE: MP!L 4.5 Skin Mock Up [Photoshop] by Phillip on 11-29-2007 at 11:57 AM

quote:
Originally posted by aNILEator
Well it'd be a nice challenge, but not implausible I can imagine how the coding for it would work, having played with the dashboard on my skin
Stop teasing me :sad:

Can't wait to play with it myself ;)

Edit: Also the skin looks awesome =]
RE: MP!L 4.5 Skin Mock Up [Photoshop] by Berger on 12-05-2007 at 04:17 PM

That's really nice :)

RE: MP!L 4.5 Skin Mock Up [Photoshop] by Mike on 12-05-2007 at 05:25 PM

Very nice mock up (Y)
Good luck on making it when 4.50 gets released... :)

RE: MP!L 4.5 Skin Mock Up [Photoshop] by absorbation on 12-05-2007 at 06:13 PM

Good luck with development :).