Zombie Outbreak - completed

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 by k10w3 | Discussion: Skinning

I started a new WB skin...looking for some input. 

I plan on making 2 substyles, one that is "infected" and one that is "immune" -- the screenshot below is infected (creepy font, bitten start panel, eyeball expander, green edit controls).  My intent is that the immune version will have normal font, plain start panel, and light grey/white edit controls, for more of a utilitarian, everyday skin.

Let me know what you think -- good, bad, etc. 

Thanks.

 

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Deea19
Reply #21 Sunday, September 5, 2010 9:46 AM

WOW. I like the maggots idea  We should have maggots animation on window frames as well.  And I also like the shut down button but I don't know about the min/max/close buttons. They don't seem to fit there.

k10w3
Reply #22 Sunday, September 5, 2010 1:58 PM

We should have maggots animation on window frames as well.


I don't think Windowblinds supports animation on window frames.  It be a great idea, though.

k10w3
Reply #23 Sunday, September 5, 2010 6:24 PM

but I don't know about the min/max/close buttons. They don't seem to fit there.


I've been thinking about that, and you're absolutely right.  I'm playing around with an idea of a little skull, and the mouseover effect would be that his eyes pop open.  What do you think?  Keep going in this direction or scrap it?

 




By the way...also now that I've got this maggot idea going, I'm sitting around having to think about how maggots move, looking up videos on maggot videos on YouTube to figure out how the light reflects on maggots.  This is a weird thing to be obsessing about.

RedneckDude
Reply #24 Sunday, September 5, 2010 6:56 PM

This is a weird thing to be obsessing about.

No weirder than Zombies...lol. Hi Karen. Maggots and Zombies go hand in.......well,they go together.

tazgecko
Reply #25 Sunday, September 5, 2010 7:20 PM

The skull looks a bit cute with the eyes. Maybe blood shot or dare I say it "with maggots coming out"

A skull with a few cracks in it?

Glowing eyes?

 

WebGizmos
Reply #26 Sunday, September 5, 2010 7:49 PM

I don't think Windowblinds supports animation on window frames. It be a great idea, though.

If I'm not mistaken there was an aquarium skin some time ago that had fish swimming back and forth in the window frame. Yeah...thats right...you ain't gettin out of this one that easy!

k10w3
Reply #27 Sunday, September 5, 2010 8:38 PM

WebGizmos

If I'm not mistaken there was an aquarium skin some time ago that had fish swimming back and forth in the window frame. Yeah...thats right...you ain't gettin out of this one that easy!


   I guess I've been schooled.  Just did a search and found the skin you're talking about (it was from before my time here).  Why the heck hasn't anybody been doing this all along aside from that one skin?  Or have I missed others?

RedneckDude
Reply #28 Sunday, September 5, 2010 9:15 PM

Molten used to have frame anims. I think WB7 killed that. 

k10w3
Reply #29 Sunday, September 5, 2010 10:08 PM

I think WB7 killed that.


That explains why the fish did not swim back and forth on my window frame when I applied the aquarium skin.

WebGizmos
Reply #30 Monday, September 6, 2010 1:22 AM

That explains why the fish did not swim back and forth on my window frame when I applied the aquarium skin.

They swam on mine...at about 80 miles an hour! So make your animation really slow! Oh...and they even swam in the startbutton!

Oh and yeah...there have been others that had animations in the window borders.

Deea19
Reply #31 Monday, September 6, 2010 2:31 AM

Yeah Molten had great window frames animation. Can't believe this is not working anymore in WB7

 The skull idea it's nice but like tazgecko said they need to look a little bit more scary

WebGizmos
Reply #32 Monday, September 6, 2010 2:55 AM

Can't believe this is not working anymore in WB7

Ahhhh...yet another reason for me to still love XP...the animations still work!

k10w3
Reply #33 Wednesday, September 8, 2010 5:12 AM

Progress to date -- still a long way to go, and this is mostly the uninfected version, except for the start panel, and there are still animations to create for that.  All in all, I'm pretty satisfied so far.

 

ZubaZ
Reply #34 Wednesday, September 8, 2010 10:18 AM

WebGizmos

If I'm not mistaken there was an aquarium skin some time ago that had fish swimming back and forth in the window frame. Yeah...thats right...you ain't gettin out of this one that easy!

I "sold" more than a few copies of WB just by running that skin.  It was sad to see that function go.

Start animations are great (The vivian tam one makes me cry it's so lovely) but how often do you see the start panel compared to seeing a window frame?  Oh well.  

Deea19
Reply #35 Wednesday, September 8, 2010 10:26 AM

Progress to date -- still a long way to go, and this is mostly the uninfected version, except for the start panel, and there are still animations to create for that.  All in all, I'm pretty satisfied so far.

 



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This looks sooooooooooo GOOD

ZubaZ
Reply #36 Wednesday, September 8, 2010 10:28 AM
DrJBHL
Reply #37 Wednesday, September 8, 2010 11:50 AM

Yep.... Alexandrie (i-Umami) is just incredible. I remember that one too, Zu... and we discuss Start Buttons?

Probably the best one ever created.

Island Dog
Reply #38 Wednesday, September 8, 2010 12:09 PM

Very cool idea!

k10w3
Reply #39 Thursday, September 9, 2010 3:07 AM

I've been working on the start menu animation (the maggots).  It's truly disgusting.  I have to add some more, but if you want to see a sample I've uploaded a beta version here:  http://www.mediafire.com/?fh0t3th6t10m9

Deea19
Reply #40 Thursday, September 9, 2010 3:31 AM

I have try it k10w3 and I love the maggots animation, maybe you need to work a little bit more on the maggot who's on the dark green side. It looks different then the others 2 maggots. And i love how you added a little bit blood on the window frames

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