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.

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2of3
Reply #1 Wednesday, June 3, 2020 2:08 PM

Skin name:

Sol III  (?)

LightStar
Reply #2 Wednesday, June 3, 2020 2:15 PM

Good name Tim.

neone6
Reply #3 Wednesday, June 3, 2020 2:33 PM


Skin name:

Sol III  (?)
Go 4 it Tim!   

2of3
Reply #4 Wednesday, June 3, 2020 6:58 PM

Thinking about it now, the styles will be:

Command, Science, and Engineering. Not Medical

teddybearcholla
Reply #5 Wednesday, June 3, 2020 7:01 PM


Added stripes. Cuz I like stripes!
      

alphabyte
Reply #6 Wednesday, June 3, 2020 7:02 PM

Looking good!

don5318
Reply #7 Wednesday, June 3, 2020 7:03 PM

Excellent design/concept Tim!   

Chasbo
Reply #8 Wednesday, June 3, 2020 7:18 PM

Stripes are nice. Great design.  

RedneckDude
Reply #9 Wednesday, June 3, 2020 10:22 PM

Looks good, but I liked the first iteration better.....    

Jan Oscar
Reply #10 Thursday, June 4, 2020 7:39 AM

RedneckDude

Looks good, but I liked the first iteration better.....    
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.

2of3
Reply #11 Thursday, June 4, 2020 7:45 AM

JanOscar

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.

RedneckDude

Looks good, but I liked the first iteration better.....
The "v-necks" are gone for good....sorry, Jim

2of3
Reply #12 Thursday, June 4, 2020 10:24 AM

OP updated to reflect recent changes

Jan Oscar
Reply #13 Thursday, June 4, 2020 10:42 AM


OP updated to reflect recent changes
Very nice start button & overall design imho. The red command is my fav and I bet this one recolours very well too, so preferred colour shouldn't  be an issue. Really looking forward to this release, Tim!

 

2of3
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.

RedneckDude
Reply #15 Thursday, June 4, 2020 1:03 PM

JanOscar


Quoting RedneckDude,

Looks good, but I liked the first iteration better.....    

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.

Jan, I speak of a style you haven't seen, probably. I saw it on Skype.

RedneckDude
Reply #16 Thursday, June 4, 2020 1:05 PM


The "v-necks" are gone for good....sorry, Jim

 

RedneckDude
Reply #17 Thursday, June 4, 2020 1:07 PM

Stripes are good then....

2of3
Reply #18 Thursday, June 4, 2020 3:55 PM

There will be a light version of each as well:

2of3
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.

don5318
Reply #20 Saturday, June 6, 2020 11:40 AM

totally AWESOME Tim, great job!     

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