[WIP] Glaze.. or something...

[juz]

Here's something different I've been working on for the last few nights, but tonight I put it together as a working contact list..

Unlike Bleach this skin won't focus on saving space, a lot of it's there for the fun of it..

The big button will most likely end up toggling the display of an edit menu type thing where you can change your display name and avatar and other useful (or useless) options.. To the left and right of the main button I'll add some kind of other buttons (add? Info? what would be useful there?)..

Oh and I need a name. :) I've nicknamed it "Glaze" at the moment...

http://forums.ceruleanstudios.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=19992&stc=1&d=1171802722

juz

[mcube]

"Sleek" might not be a bad name, judging from the shot.

[LSR]

Perhaps have 4 buttons at the top (plus the orb). Info, Add, Status, theme (color)? Could be split in the middle horizontally...

[k0ugs]

oh that is nice!!

[McBean]

Oddly enough, if that center orb goes red, the easy name for this is HAL 9000:

http://www.unconfirmedsources.com/nucleus/media/4/20050821-hal9000.jpg

Or call it HAL for short. And the kicker would be to work with Steve on a corresponding sound pack for this particular skin.

Maybe my brain is mving too fast, but the potential here seems endless.

--McBean

[k0ugs]

Oddly enough, if that center orb goes red, the easy name for this is HAL 9000:

Or call it HAL for short. And the kicker would be to work with Steve on a corresponding sound pack for this particular skin.

Maybe my brain is mving too fast, but the potential here seems endless.

--McBean

haha nice!

hopefully there will also be a minimal mode ;)

[greycellgreen]

Haha. The button can turn red when you try to close Trillian and get an "Are you sure?" prompt :)

[sadlonelygeek]

why not leave it blue and call it "PAL" ? ;)

[lucalla]

Haha. The button can turn red when you try to close Trillian and get an "Are you sure?" prompt :)
or perhaps.... (http://datacore.sciflicks.com/2001/sounds/2001_cant_do_that.wav)

Edit: Broken link

[doclotus]

Looks pretty neat Juz.

How about TAG? Double entendre here because it looks (to me), like a can of TAG and could also stand for Trillian Astra Glaze :)

[McBean]

Looks pretty neat Juz.

How about TAG? Double entendre here because it looks (to me), like a can of TAG and could also stand for Trillian Astra Glaze :)

Well, if you want to be all smarmy like that...sure. I'd go for TAG to... Just steal all the thunder and fun from HAL why don't you!

Dammit.

--McBean

[doclotus]

The beatings will continue until morale improves, or until I get my Astra invite. :cool:

[y0himba]

Bump. Sexy skin.

[AlexDaMartian]

Yeah I like the skin. Perhaps for smaller buttons in the big round button area, could be similar to how the bottom of Cordonata is set up: Profile, Settings, Add Contact, Search for Contact (come to think of it, I never used search on Trillian before)

I was thinking, since that big round button is so big, it can have the buddy icon inside. It will be nice to see my icon in a circular display. The buddy icon will be about the same size as it is in Cordonata, just without the 4 corners because of the circle, but it will be the width of the big round button. I do not know if it is possible, but it could possibly retain its glass-ness by placing an overlay texture with transparency, so the whole thing simulates a round "window" for the buddy icon.

Sorry if I complicated things, I go to an art college, haha.

[juz]

Yeah I like the skin. Perhaps for smaller buttons in the big round button area, could be similar to how the bottom of Cordonata is set up: Profile, Settings, Add Contact, Search for Contact (come to think of it, I never used search on Trillian before)

I was thinking, since that big round button is so big, it can have the buddy icon inside. It will be nice to see my icon in a circular display. The buddy icon will be about the same size as it is in Cordonata, just without the 4 corners because of the circle, but it will be the width of the big round button. I do not know if it is possible, but it could possibly retain its glass-ness by placing an overlay texture with transparency, so the whole thing simulates a round "window" for the buddy icon.

Sorry if I complicated things, I go to an art college, haha.

The circular buddy icon is totally doable, as a matter of fact here's one I did earlier (http://forums.ceruleanstudios.com/showthread.php?t=87892)... If you see down the bottom of the image in the first post in that thread, where the sphere is, that's my buddy icon in there, with a shine and all... it's just a matter of some creative overlaying but looks effective. :)

Haven't done much with this (not the horde skin) skin, but will probably come back to it in the near future.

juz

[Nutshell]

Wow this is a sexy skin

HAL was the first thing I thought when I saw it

Cyclops was second :)

Great work Juz

[ShinZaiaku]

Definitely some sleek design.

[AlexDaMartian]

The circular buddy icon is totally doable, as a matter of fact here's one I did earlier (http://forums.ceruleanstudios.com/showthread.php?t=87892)... If you see down the bottom of the image in the first post in that thread, where the sphere is, that's my buddy icon in there, with a shine and all... it's just a matter of some creative overlaying but looks effective. :)

Haven't done much with this (not the horde skin) skin, but will probably come back to it in the near future.

juz

wow, thats cool. both skins. the thing you pointed out on horde skin was exactly what i was thinking. nice job :)

[MLyons10]

This really is sharp. I look forward to being able to try this skin out when it's ready... I hope soon... :)

Really, great work.

[DiamondNRG]

Looks good Juz ... I would love to see you make a nice skin like this with the option of hiding the whole identity panel area (even though that is the main focal point of THIS skin). Your skins are always so pretty.