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Title: Lain And Hellsing Skins Ideas?
Post by: oswald on August 10, 2003, 03:39:00 AM

QUOTE

P.S. - Patiently waiting for Oswald's site to come alive again

It's up, at mxm.anotheruselesswebsite.com , it's just missing a few files for now, which will be corrected on Monday

And I for one would love to have a nice Lain skin for mxm.

Title: Lain And Hellsing Skins Ideas?
Post by: thetruethugg on August 10, 2003, 10:06:00 AM

A dark moody hellsing skin would rock.  I've been wanting to do a few anime inspired MXM skins (like Kiddy Grade or something), I just havn't got around too it yet, cursed lazyness.  Anyway, can't wait to see the Hellsing skin.

Title: Lain And Hellsing Skins Ideas?
Post by: thetruethugg on August 17, 2003, 06:39:00 PM

The text looks out of place.  But, the video in the barrel is a great idea.

Title: Lain And Hellsing Skins Ideas?
Post by: slidellsimba2 on August 17, 2003, 06:53:00 PM

maybe have the game name go down the side of the gun barrel
thatd be kewl
just an idea

Title: Lain And Hellsing Skins Ideas?
Post by: thetruethugg on August 17, 2003, 07:08:00 PM

QUOTE (Budmiester @ Aug 17 2003, 09:53 PM)

Do you mean the font or the positioning?

The positioning looks weird.

Title: Lain And Hellsing Skins Ideas?
Post by: tracy2420 on August 18, 2003, 12:45:00 AM

Is the title "xbox games" static or part of the menu.  If its static, I say you just round it.  Looks good.  Can you throw up a working vid?  Ill host it for a little bit.

xbox.gotdns.com
21
p mxm
l mxm

or

thegtfiles.gotdns.com
21
p mxm
l mxm

Title: Lain And Hellsing Skins Ideas?
Post by: ub312g0d on August 18, 2003, 08:11:00 AM

Try to find a font that looks closer to the one actually used in hellsing, and the game name running down the side of the barrel would be sweet looking, although the proper perspective is impossible.

Title: Lain And Hellsing Skins Ideas?
Post by: jizzlobber on August 18, 2003, 08:21:00 AM

This has me interested... I have been thinking about how cool a nice colourful comic skin would be, this isn't colourful but it's very cool anyway.

I agree that text doesn't look too good, don't know where you could put it though

Title: Lain And Hellsing Skins Ideas?
Post by: fezzman on August 18, 2003, 12:10:00 PM

I'd be all over a Hellsing skin...and I'm just barely a fan.  For a cool background or intro video I saw an AFI video that was all Hellsing.  The song is Halloween.  I've got that booger at home.  good stuff.................

Title: Lain And Hellsing Skins Ideas?
Post by: Budmiester on August 19, 2003, 03:49:00 AM

QUOTE (ub312g0d @ Aug 18 2003, 05:11 PM)

Try to find a font that looks closer to the one actually used in hellsing

Could u tell me which one is used?
The version I watching were fansubs and they all had different fonts, apart from that the fonts in credits which were all japanese...
Ok heres some update shots... (I went with jizzlobber and went a bit more colourful...)

What it looks like with no thumbs.

This might be a good widesreen skin.

Loading screen (always cracks me up.)

Title: Lain And Hellsing Skins Ideas?
Post by: ub312g0d on August 19, 2003, 12:15:00 PM

The font is a modified form of garamond, I cant quite find the exact match, but garamond looks damn close side by side, just some small differences, but use garamond for now anyway.

Title: Lain And Hellsing Skins Ideas?
Post by: jizzlobber on August 20, 2003, 05:10:00 AM

I love it dude?

just a thought though, if those borders are bow in it might be an idea to throw all the into up the top/bottow!?
is it possible to scroll horizontally?

Title: Lain And Hellsing Skins Ideas?
Post by: tracy2420 on August 20, 2003, 07:56:00 AM

How is it comming along?

Title: Lain And Hellsing Skins Ideas?
Post by: Keyotien on August 23, 2003, 03:37:00 AM

That's a cool idea, but it leaves too much unused space. For people with smaller tv's the videos wouldn't look as great. But awesome idea.
BTW: I'm like 20% done with the hellsing skin
80% done with the lain skin. It's useable right now, but I'm changing the fonts to the Lain fonts and I need something for a screensaver. I'll get some pics up asap.

Title: Lain And Hellsing Skins Ideas?
Post by: Budmiester on August 23, 2003, 02:28:00 PM

You didnt have any problem with the burn in?
Judging by your post time you prolly have the later one I uploaded which I darkened and toned down the contrast. It helped a lot but its still there...
It could be just my TV tho, it is quite cheap ass.
I know what you mean about wasted space, I was thinking of putting some info text in the black areas, just havent gotten around to it due to this exasperating problem.

Title: Lain And Hellsing Skins Ideas?
Post by: koldfuzion on August 25, 2003, 04:11:00 PM

is it ok to post this skin as is?  i was always waiting for a final word on it but never saw one.

Title: Lain And Hellsing Skins Ideas?
Post by: koldfuzion on August 26, 2003, 05:36:00 AM

I added the following readme to the archive.

Hellskin By Budmiester

*******************************************************************
I think I have resolved the burn-in issue.
But, If you do run into trouble turn the contrast on your tv down.
*******************************************************************

I put this together after it was suggested on forums.xbox-scene.com.
For Hellsing fans and other like-minded creatures of the night.

Title: Lain And Hellsing Skins Ideas?
Post by: koldfuzion on August 26, 2003, 07:33:00 AM

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Ive cropped it to where my TV crops so I was wondering is that standard or could other ppl see less screen therefore I should have info that far out? Anyone know for sure?

I havent checked it on mine, but I probably wont have a problem.  The older curved-tube tv sets are the ones that will complain about the text being cut off.

Normally if you keep the text about a 1/4" (25-35 pixels) away from all four edges it will work out fine.

Title: Lain And Hellsing Skins Ideas?
Post by: Keyotien on August 27, 2003, 06:46:00 AM

I uploaded a quickie skin for lain. I screwed up on the last one and had to start from scratch again so for all you Lain fans I went ahead and made a quick one.
I'm making two, one's a dark and moody one dipicting Lain and the other's setup like the Navi computers in the shows.

You can get it from Axs or my own ftp. It's called Lain Layer 2 (since it's really the second one)

my ftp is - ftp://keyotien.dynu.com

It goes down every now and then (I have to disconnect to connect to my xbox)