Sol III WIP
Wednesday, June 3, 2020 by 2of3 | Discussion: Sneak Previews
Here's the first draft of a concept design I started on today.
Mind you, this is an early draft which could change drastically as I go along!
The skin name is Sol III because that is one of the names for Earth in the ST universe and also because there are 3 styles.
Update:
Added stripes. Cuz I like stripes!
And the evolution continues. Gone, are the black stripes on the top and bottom. Simplified the black area slightly then added the colored stripe down the middle. I think less IS more here......details need to enhance the skin, not muddy the look.
Shown here with the taskbar. Buttons shown: Normal, Mouse, and Selected/Active State. Finally a comm-badge as a start button.
Reply #4 Wednesday, June 3, 2020 6:58 PM
Thinking about it now, the styles will be:
Command, Science, and Engineering. Not Medical
Reply #9 Wednesday, June 3, 2020 10:22 PM
Looks good, but I liked the first iteration better.....
Reply #11 Thursday, June 4, 2020 7:45 AM
Me too. Don't think the stripes look good with the small dots and fells a bit "misplaced" at the bottom. I prefer cleaner, 's all.
I'm open to that as well. Like I said, I change stuff a lot through the design process so the stripes may likely get scraped along the way.
Looks good, but I liked the first iteration better.....
Reply #13 Thursday, June 4, 2020 10:42 AM
OP updated to reflect recent changes
Reply #14 Thursday, June 4, 2020 10:54 AM
Takk, JO!
Hmmm, I may have to drop the gold tray area. I'll have to see how the icons look when I get the skin into WB.
Reply #15 Thursday, June 4, 2020 1:03 PM
Reply #16 Thursday, June 4, 2020 1:05 PM
Reply #19 Saturday, June 6, 2020 9:52 AM
Got some stuff in. Seems to be working out pretty good!
Had to make some changes to the searchbar due to text color issues in the windows. I think what I've done works just fine! Too bad about the text color on the windowed search bar, but it's just a thing with dark skins. Luckily this will be sorted in the light versions!
I had originally been doing a yellow/gold text color on the black parts, but have gone over to a light gray. The gold was looking too Christmas y for my taste and white seemed too stark, so light gray is a middle road.
Anyway, getting things wrapped up on the first style probably later today.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, June 3, 2020 2:08 PM
Skin name:
Sol III (?)