Topic: Skin Preview: Livewire 1.0 (Read 130 times)

mevinny · « **Reply #45 on:** July 29, 2003, 02:29:00 PM »

QUOTE (jlm5151 @ Jul 29 2003, 08:30 PM)

Someone use this as a background, I can't let it go to waste. Please!!!!!!

jlm5151,

Was you going to let me skin that "Kung Fu Chaos" demo image?

Mevinny

koldfuzion · « **Reply #46 on:** July 29, 2003, 02:38:00 PM »

jlm5151 · « **Reply #47 on:** July 29, 2003, 07:01:00 PM »

So who is gonna use that background, Benny you had some great ideas. If you find time time, take a stab at it.

koldfuzion · « **Reply #48 on:** July 29, 2003, 10:50:00 PM »

Here's a screenie.. i haven't made a video.

user posted image

koldfuzion · « **Reply #49 on:** July 29, 2003, 10:55:00 PM »

thetruethugg · « **Reply #50 on:** July 29, 2003, 10:58:00 PM »

thetruethugg · « **Reply #51 on:** July 30, 2003, 04:45:00 AM »

Well, he wants to make sure it's ok with JLM first, seeing how it's based on his skin. Though, I'm sure JLM would be cool with it.

jlm5151 · « **Reply #52 on:** July 30, 2003, 11:36:00 AM »

Send it over to me, I'll take alook at it then we can just release a V2 version. I also want to release a Unreal v2 with more to it. I acxtually love the way that one looks on TV so I want to make it a more universal skin instead of just for the "Unreal" fans.

BenJeremy · « **Reply #53 on:** July 30, 2003, 02:17:00 PM »

DDS is a photoshop plugin you can download for free from nVidia's development tools section.

It's an output filter that generates DirectX-compliant texture files (DDS).

The Xbox's image loading routines don't look at the extension when loading a file, so a PNG could be named JPG, and it would still load correctly, which is why I tell people to name their DDS files BMP (Xbox may not care, but MXM filters out filenames it thinks are not image files based on the extension).

The settings I described elsewhere are the correct means to generate the file. Painting with Opacity is a snap in Photoshop (this is v7 I'm talking about), and the DDS filter allows you to preview it against an image background, for example, to see the opacity mapping is good.

koldfuzion · « **Reply #54 on:** July 30, 2003, 02:54:00 PM »

Here is the url to get the DDS plugin for photoshop.

http://developer.nvi...ion_plugin.html

If you need the dll's they are there too.. but i would expect that most people have them already.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page where it says attachments and you will see it. Just extract the file to your plugins directory.

Then follow BJ's export tips.

Kernal · « **Reply #55 on:** August 03, 2003, 03:04:00 AM »

QUOTE (Budmiester @ Aug 3 2003, 11:35 AM)

Hello, I was hoping to get permission from JLM to release the skin above using his background.
Also heres another skin in progress, it has an animated background with bubbles and ripples.
user posted image

NB. All skin xml work borrowed heavily from JLM skins, I can never get positioning right. Might try one of the skinning progs rather than notepad...

Like it man !

jlm5151 · « **Reply #56 on:** August 03, 2003, 09:21:00 AM »

QUOTE (Budmiester @ Aug 3 2003, 06:35 AM)

Hello, I was hoping to get permission from JLM to release the skin above using his background.
Also heres another skin in progress, it has an animated background with bubbles and ripples.
user posted image

NB. All skin xml work borrowed heavily from JLM skins, I can never get positioning right. Might try one of the skinning progs rather than notepad...

Yes definately release it , I'm glad someone used the background. A suggestion though is to clean up the info a bit. You may want to move the information to the right a bit, add some more info to even it out. Also it looks like you have room for newsfeeds under the IP. Great job with the background though, I hope to see it released soon.

Budmiester · « **Reply #57 on:** August 03, 2003, 07:38:00 PM »

Just updaed the bubble skin shot as well any suggestions on either are very welcome.
Maybe I should just start a new thread.

jlm5151 · « **Reply #58 on:** August 03, 2003, 07:56:00 PM »

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