Styl-X Design Styl-X Design

Is the windows enhancement community ready for heavy graphic skins?

▼

Is the windows enhancement community ready for heavy graphic skins?

from WinCustomize Forums
Very often I find myself wondering what the big diffrence is between things like windowblinds and windows media player.

Its not hard to see that a lot of WMP skins use a lot heavier graphics then WB skins.
(note, with heavy graphic I mean 3d style).

I think its the custom shape of WMP that makes it more suitable for heavy graphic skins but wouldn't it be awesome to have a little of that 3d feeling being put in a wb skin?
I know there is some 3d in WB skins, but it never really get past an 'innershadow' filter

Whats the deal with this?

/me fingers are starting to tintel as he has this 3d wb skin idea in his head for nearly a week now... Time to dust of skinstudio
40,304 views 129 replies
Reply #126 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I always end up a quivering mess after a few hours of toil and only some pathetic looking blob to show for it


My pathetic looking blob is more pathetic than your pathetic looking blob.
Reply #127 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Tiggz: You can render it against a matte/shadow surface in 3dMax. This makes the surface it's cast against into the projected shadow. My wallpaper change widget was rendered entirely in 3dmax exported to multiple png files and includes shadows both on the animated parts and on the static parts. Here it is against a normal wallpaper.




[Message Edited]
ObjectDock - Access shortcuts and frequently used applications from an animated dock.
Reply #128 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Boy, I really need to save up and get 3D Studio Max (and AutoCad and Photoshop and Flash and Director and...)
Reply #129 from WinCustomize Forums Top
pjpowell: yeah that looks really amazing I have to admit. As you mentioned in your earlier post, I think learning to use a 3D program effectively takes alot more time than I have so far invested in it. And I also agree it is probably one of the best ways to create effective animation (of a certain type). Whilst the image you post could be done relatively simply, albeit not quite so realistically perhaps, in photoshop, to make a believable animation a 3D proggie must have the advantage.
Oh well, maybe one day...

JeffBDVS: My pathetic looking blob is more pathetic than your pathetic looking blob


I resemble that remark!