A Pheidippides Forum Skin Attempt, in Progress

http://nmaps.net/user/Pheidippides · Postby **Pheidippides** » 2009.01.24 (21:38)

As in, /very/ in progress. I just finished what I believe to be all the buttons that go in front of forums and topics. As you can guess, I'm aiming for a green skin. If I missed any buttons, please let me know, and be sure to let me know if I should pursue this.

Yes, I know the faded buttons aren't rounded like the regular ones, but I didn't realize until I put this bit together and I'll fix it before I post any more progress.

Well, what do you think? Is it worth a shot?

http://nmaps.net/user/Guitar_Hero_Matt · Postby **MattKestrel** » 2009.01.24 (21:42)

Definitely worth a shot, apart from the green Xo

Imo, if the gold went above the image rather than below, and thwumps were used instead of elongated drones, it'd be perfect imo.

http://nmaps.net/user/Pheidippides · Postby **Pheidippides** » 2009.01.24 (22:18)

The elongated drones are supposed to resemble a mailbox, which is why the seeker drone is the "New Posts" icon. I'll try to make those look better.

And I tried the gold on top, but it looks worse. I'll have to try something else for a Replied topic.

http://nmaps.net/user/incluye · Postby **otters** » 2009.01.25 (00:50)

Ahahahaahah. A mailbox. Genius.

http://nmaps.net/user/chase16/ · Postby **Chase** » 2009.01.25 (21:25)

It's a good idea, but unfortunately the maximum size for these icons is around 16x16, so these are going a little on the large side. But yeah, I like the idea.

Postby **Brainwasher** » 2009.01.25 (21:32)

Good idea, but how do you have a replied tag for something you haven't read? Good mailbox idea, though, pretty clever.

http://nmaps.net/user/Pheidippides · Postby **Pheidippides** » 2009.01.25 (22:20)

Well, both skins we have now have these icons at a bit more than 25x25. I'd want to make these icons smaller, but the N graphics don't like to be shrunk, so 50x50 seemed like the smallest possible size. I don't think they're intolerably large.

To answer Brainwasher's question, the replied icon stays with a thread even if new posts arrive in the thread. So if you reply in a thread, then someone else posts, and you haven't read that post, that's where those Unread-Replied icons come in.

Anyway, Forum Buttons v2:

First, I fixed the un-rounded Read icons. I also made the drones look more like mailboxes, since you guys seemed to like that idea, and I changed the reply icons to have a gold border instead of an added gold piece, which I couldn't really fit anywhere. What do you think?

http://nmaps.net/user/T3chno · Postby **T3chno** » 2009.01.25 (22:30)

I feel that they're larger than necessary, but the concept in them is good.

http://nmaps.net/user/Pheidippides · Postby **Pheidippides** » 2009.01.25 (22:48)

Just fooling around in Photoshop, I used Image -> Resize -> Image Size, and shrunk the buttons to 30x30 just to see. They didn't look terrible, but they didn't look great, either. Does anyone have any recommended methods for shrinking the N graphics? Or any other images that don't like to be shrunk, for that matter. I'll do what I can to cut the buttons down to size if someone can explain how I can do it without hurting the quality of the images.

http://nmaps.net/user/Eiturlyf · Postby **Eiturlyf** » 2009.01.26 (16:06)

Resize, sharpen.

http://nmaps.net/user/incluye · Postby **otters** » 2009.01.27 (03:40)

Eiturlyf wrote:Resize, sharpen.

nonononononoNONONONOnonono

Try zooming in on your document and checking out how they're drawn by pixel, then redraw them and shrink down the proportions. They'll look "cute" then.

http://nmaps.net/user/TribulatioN · Postby **TribulatioN** » 2009.01.27 (04:41)

The second version is nice. Very simple, and the mailboxes are just fantastic.

http://nmaps.net/user/T3chno · Postby **T3chno** » 2009.01.27 (06:06)

Eiturlyf wrote:Resize, sharpen.

Hahaha. You so funny.

Ctrl+Shift+T , hold shift and drag diagonal box.

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