Community Skin Project

Thursday, April 22, 2004 by JD89187 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

Did you think this was a skin project? Well...it''s not. I wish it was. I love those. How do those get started, and who would start one if one was to be? Another Community Skin Project would be nice. But I''m not the person to start one, I would be able to supply many graphics. I don''t know, I''m just talking whats on my mind. Just thought it was cool.
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Apocalypse_67
Reply #1 Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:09 PM
Community projects are arranged by anyone with enough enthusiasm and dedication to put together a group of skinners and assign the tasks. The last community project Believer https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=1&SkinID=3311 was attempted by Sylva_cg76. She did a great job with the project, but unfortunately it fell thru and everything was uploaded separately by each author. I keep hoping she comes back and get another project going.

JD89187
Reply #2 Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:21 PM
You can''t forget about Glassteel/Gammaray https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=1&SkinID=3387

CerebroJD
Reply #3 Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:30 PM
That was an awesome skin to do it with!

CerebroJD
Reply #4 Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:30 PM
I think we should do another CSP!

JD89187
Reply #5 Saturday, April 24, 2004 12:24 PM
I think we should, too. Someone just has to get one started. Maybe if enough people want to, then it will happen.

JD89187
Reply #6 Sunday, April 25, 2004 10:13 PM
I guess the idea died

Apocalypse_67
Reply #7 Monday, April 26, 2004 12:06 AM
You need to understand that most of the artist that are capable of pulling such project are busy participating on the GUIO. Maybe after the Olympics are over there will be some consideration to engage in a CSP.
On a similar note, I've been planing a group project with a few authors that have mutually helped each other. I just need some free time to arrange everything. I have some vacation time coming up, so that will help a little

NightTrainthedark
Reply #8 Monday, April 26, 2004 7:07 AM
I have a skin started that could be used for a community project. I don't know how it would work but I would be willing to give it a try.

TYBSP
Reply #9 Monday, April 26, 2004 11:51 PM
How does this work? One skinner makes buttons, one makes controls etc....???? Or is it more like someone makes icons, one makes cursors etc....????

Styl-X Design
Reply #10 Tuesday, April 27, 2004 4:34 AM
TYBSP, one skinner skins an application, for WB can be used two skinners.
Personaly I don't really like it, projects like that always end up unfinished or major changes in style but that is just IMHO

eieio
Reply #11 Tuesday, April 27, 2004 7:12 AM
How does this work? One skinner makes buttons, one makes controls etc....???? Or is it more like someone makes icons, one makes cursors etc....????


There is no 'rule'. It's really up to the skinners involved. One project I worked on, each skinner skinned an app (Glassteel). Another project I worked on, a WindowBlind was passed from skinner to skinner with each doing a section or sections (Brainchild).
Both were fun projects to work on.

Keila
Reply #12 Tuesday, April 27, 2004 7:33 AM
I think the pass along type would be very interesting. I would like to see an out come of something like that.

eieio
Reply #13 Tuesday, April 27, 2004 7:35 AM
Keila, take a look at Brainchild over at GUIO. One skin, five skinners.

Sylva
Reply #14 Tuesday, April 27, 2004 12:37 PM
Apocolypse_67, thanks for the compliment *s*. I wish I could come back and do some stuff too, but, for a while, I'm stuck using the library computers. Can't do too much there...

Fuzzy Logic
Reply #15 Tuesday, April 27, 2004 12:48 PM
We miss your stuff - always original. Hope you can get back soon

treetog
Reply #16 Wednesday, April 28, 2004 1:54 PM

Crazy Girl, we miss your work of course, but more then that, we miss YOU!

Nice to see you around, even from an eventual computer. GO! GO!


treetog
Reply #17 Wednesday, April 28, 2004 2:14 PM

I participated from the first cooperated suite ever, Polymer, by The Skindicate with 2 friends, Dangeruss (my allways master) and Demer. For that suite I made the windowblinds skin and the NextStart theme first, then all the other skins came porting those 2. We have skinned 35 applications.

I also participated from the second and bigger suite. The first Community Skins project, on wich, over 40 skinners made their contrubution to make around 65 skins for different programs.

That project was leaded by Chad aka CRUMBUT (someone that i terribly miss in the community). He made the windowblinds skin and we followed him.

Other Community skin projects came after that, but unfortunatly I couldn't particapete anymore.

I would like to do more community skins, but unfortunatly today, my major job (professioanl skinning ) doesn't left me too much spair time for this.

This is really said to me, because of the GUI Olympics, I find myself very pleased skinning just for fun....it was a great pleasure doing thoose skins.

What i can give you guys is a few tips, because as was already said above, there are no rules for that.

1) Let just one, max 2 persons, to make one killer windowblinds skin. As soon as it is done and aprroved for the first members, the authors releases to the other memeber, a set of all ellements of the skin in a PSD or other layered file, so the other can know how the effects were done.

2) Decide a list of the possible apps to be skinned

3) Decide between you who will make what skin

4) Variations of the first skins can ocour, but try to stay fix in some points, like fonts, color text, etc... also like buttons can be changed, but never missing the spirit of the mother skin.

5) Try to do everything talking eachother by email, with copy to all involved, so everybody know what is happenning at the same time. The same for screenshots etc... In the first Community project we even had a private forum and ftp, because we were too many.

I really hope this project go forward and good luck to you all. GO! GO!


CerebroJD
Reply #18 Wednesday, April 28, 2004 4:00 PM
the spirit of the mother skin


Sounds really sci-fi!




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