TMW GUI - skinning thread

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Finally, after a whole night of skinning I'm proud to present this theme. Please test it :)

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Beautiful! I like it.
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That skin is awesome! I could even imagine to have it as the official skin.
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when do we have it as a choice in menu set up ?

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Thanks for all the compliments :)

I've discovered the first bug, when my HP hits about a third then the color becomes almost indistinguishable from the background. Rather replace my vscroll_grey.png with Irukard's, it's much nicer too.

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I have also added a drop shadow under the main window border, I would like to do this with alpha transparency but then, unfortunately, gui opacity wont work correctly using software rendering (thanks Freeyorp). If there is a workaround to this, please let me know.
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Scroll bars are now more inline with the theme set.
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here is release 0.2, please download and test.
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Looks nice, but your tab buttons suck, the text on the top is hard to read if it gets on the border and irus bars are better.

everthing else - great work!
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Matt wrote:Looks nice, but your tab buttons suck, the text on the top is hard to read if it gets on the border and irus bars are better.

everthing else - great work!
[Tab buttons] It probably does, but it looks fine to me. The buttons were the hardest to do, and I made the tab's in the same style. I might want to redo the buttons in a different style, if you think of a better style, let me know (mossy stone's anyone?)

[Text on top is hard to read] - It's readable to me, but not how I would like it. I have spoken to the developers to improve skinning support for Title Bars, meanwhile Freeyorp submitted a patch to globally increase the window padding to a value specified in gui.xml which fixes the problem somewhat.
Aside from that, the jagged edges on the border is almost critical to get the bg_quad to suitably blend into the outlining wooden border, and I would most likely keep the theme in line with the official splash theme, though I am working on an experimental border utilising transparency effects, we'll see how that pans out.

[irus bars] Yes they are :wink: Thats why I've reused almost most of what he has done, 1) vscroll_grey.png 2) slider.png 3) checkbox.png

[everthing else - great work!] thanks! :)

edit: I've worked on a mossy stone button, is it better than the wooden set? Should I highlight the moss a little more?
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I really like this look and just had to add my kudos into this thread. Great Work!
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Please leave the chat window and all popups transparent.
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This theme will be the default for the next release.
Rotonen wrote:Please leave the chat window and all popups transparent.
Per window transparency isn't possible at the moment. It would be easy to add, but would make setup more complicated.
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I like the new gray buttons - but the window background sucks now - too green.
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I did a button inspired by Wesnoth. Its not perfect yet, but I would like to know what the community thinks. Should I continue this? Perhaps another color?
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