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lucky · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:02 am Post subject: Neostix Skin (early sketch 1)

For those interested, I started playing around with some ideas for a new skin, a bit more techno oriented. The included screen shot shows a very first orientation of these ideas. It is mainly to see if such a skin would be possible and actually usable. This will need a lot of work (knobs,buttons,layout,etc), and might even require some enhanced (transparent) skinning features, so don't expect anything soon. But I thought just share it anyway.

Take care,

Lucky

NeostixEarlySketches01

tombuur · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 2:30 pm Post subject:

Must be the most promising skin I have seen so far. And I am not a techno guy. So perhaps I would just like something less artistic around the transport controls. Also some gridlines in the bar window. Just enough that you can see where you are.

lucky · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 3:51 pm Post subject:

Thanks and noted, see the new screen shot with faint vertical divider lines in the bar window. Also showing the (my?) new hole in the brain and some more ideas (...for those wondering, I stripped some brain functions to show the hole after the beat was created...).

Man, you can spend weeks tweaking all the shadows, glows and other 3D effects! Let alone all the transparency issues. Futhermore the hit symbols need to be adjusted for the gradient shading in the bar window...

Well, I need to leave it like this for the coming week due to other commitments. By the way, I'm also working on another skin, which is more in a retro style.

NeostixEarlySketches02

Mekanik Zain · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:04 am Post subject:

Great job Lucky ! May be the best Jamstix GUI I've see !
Some regrets about the pink color and sliders design....
For the knobs you can looking for KNOBMAN at KVR forum, a very nice and useful tool ....
You're on the right way : it's clear, readable, modern and sharp !

lucky · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject: