Unfinished skins.

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I thought it might be fun for some of us to share screenshots
of unfinished skins and perhaps offer eachother encouragment
to continue with them.

I'll start with this,
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
There is a updated preview of this somewhere on my disk, damnned if I can find it though (it only had scrollbars and a green substyle) It didn't get very far, and I'm not about to pick it back up any time soon

Galactic Civilizations III
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Heck, Mark - that's some snazzy skins you've got going there!
(You know my email addy, if you're ever feeling generous or just bored)
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Whoa....

That's some nice stuff there Hippy!
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Woodbridge...very nice, please finish.

Hippy, about the one with the purple flames.
I.
Want.
Finish.
It.
The rest of you.... Get To Work
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
hi guy's i have some (how do i get some of my pic's on here??)
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Here's a start panel for one that's 50% done
http://img366.imageshack.us/my.php?image=startmenunew1np.png
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Here's another one that's 50% done too!!!
http://img291.imageshack.us/my.php?image=startmenunew26bv.png

It's hard work making thease WB skins
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Here's a PSD and a screenshot:

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/24057387/

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/24044738/
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have too many unfinished skins to list. here are some that I chose at random:

http://boxxigraphics.wincustomize.com/boxxedSS.jpg

http://boxxigraphics.wincustomize.com/blackboxx_DX2.jpg

http://boxxigraphics.wincustomize.com/GCSS.jpg

http://boxxigraphics.wincustomize.com/GamespotWBSS.jpg

http://boxxigraphics.wincustomize.com/3Deep.jpg

I won't bore you with any more....... suffice to say, there are LOTS of them.

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have a ton of junk that will probably never get done.


..what a pity ...I'd definitely use those two bottom ones. Nice looking work!

[Edit]
..and BoXXi ..I'd also use at least 4 of those.

Hope you both become inspired enough to finish at least some of them
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
How long does it usually take people to finish their skins? I've been working on mine for a couple of weaks now, motivation is my main problem.
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
motivation is my main problem

Yup, the only skin I ever finished was back in 2001 was NsiGUI: http://www.deviantart.com/view/58307/
Then I've had unfinished skins laying around for ages because after making the intial concept images I get new ideas and start on them before I finish the work in SKS.
Here's the ones that's come the furthest:
darkGUI: http://www.deviantart.com/view/1580217/ http://www.deviantart.com/view/2671773/
softGUI: http://www.deviantart.com/view/1580720/
softGUI III: http://www.deviantart.com/view/4372501/
CarbonFiber: http://www.deviantart.com/view/13225574/
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
spinal -

Skinning is perpetual. I've got a set of 7 variations on essentially the same basic skin that I've been working on for nearly 2 years (that's nuts) and I still keep running into little glitches or thinking up new little variations I might like better, then realizing that just one change can mean changing 20 images and the attributes for each. Of course, while I've been working on these skins, dozens of newly skinnable features have been added to WB, so I need to go back to the earlier ones to add some of them for the skins to be reasonably complete. And I have no experience doing animations or Toolbar Buttons, so they all lack those. I have two skins that I consider really good that I can't publish - I've been trying to get permission from the company whose original artwork they are based on for 3 years now. If I ever get permission, I'll need a few weeks to get them up to current speed.

When you skin as a hobby, it takes forever.

Cheers,
Daiwa
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Wow lots of goodies around here...

Hippy,the bottom two would make excellent blinds.

Boxxi,i'd use the yellow-black one.

Thomassen,all are good but CarbonFiber and SoftGUI III are just killer blinds.

JJYing,i guess we'll be waiting yet another great WB soon.

As for me,i've done a lil something,but i dunno if i have the appetite or time to finish it off.

Check it out here: Link

Any ideas?
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hippy, your skins looks awesome. Hope you finish them too.
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Oups link is wrond i think...so here is the pic...



So what gives?
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Still needs a start panel and many many work to be done here...
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Skinning is perpetual. I've got a set of 7 variations on essentially the same basic skin that I've been working on for nearly 2 years (that's nuts) and I still keep running into little glitches or thinking up new little variations I might like better, then realizing that just one change can mean changing 20 images and the attributes for each. Of course, while I've been working on these skins, dozens of newly skinnable features have been added to WB, so I need to go back to the earlier ones to add some of them for the skins to be reasonably complete.

Yea, when it comes to design I'm a prefectionist. I keep finding small details that I'm not happy about and then would have to go back to change it. Often it involves doing little changes in many of the GUI elements to get a consistent look.

I'd really wish I could just get the skins done already because I got so many ideas in my head I want to do. But at the moment I don't even have time to concept them.
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I got one! I got one! hehehehe
http://img369.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wbidea9uc.jpg

This was my prelim ss, I've done a bit more (actually alot more) to it since this. I've got a ways to go but hopefully if all goes as planned it should be done around the end of the month.
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
oh some good looking work guys... hope to see some of them finished up soon.
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I better not take part in this then :o
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I've been working on the ColorX WB but still not finished and I have had a lot of concepts in mind but nothing enough good, You can see my colorx cursor xp at the bottom link . I hope the wb skin look as good as the cursor, it will be highly animated and with per pixel borders Link
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
thomassen - You realy should finish softGUI III, I's very much to my taste