[THEME] The Darkness (1920x1080)

[RageOn]

Hey all

Firstly, thanks again Tom for helping me out with my nag screen problem.........

Well I finally finished my first theme, man it took a long time to get things more or less how I wanted them. Nothing revolutionary, but I like dark themes so I made one. I've never skinned anything before and I dont use all the feature fo GameEx so forgive me if I've misssed anything. Basically I found a theme layout I liked (Confluence Port v1) and skinned it to my liking with different everything. One thing I did my best to improve on was the taskbar and the way scrolling text appeared over the taskbar as it bugged the hell out of me that it went over the top of the buttons. Almost all the icons are newly created apart from some of the default ones which I liked, but apart from that I changed alomst everything. As I'm on a 37inch LCD I disable background video snaps as they don't scale up to well and tried to futrure proof the icons for larger resolutions. They are pretty big and the completed theme comes in at 47MB in total.

Anyway... as Im new to the upload process on this site and it states I can only upload 29.3MB here are some screen shots to show you what I've done until I can figure out a way to share this puppy.

Im off to bed now as Im working in about 6 hours, I'll try to upload it tomorrow if anyone is interested. I called it The Darkness, for obvious reasons.

Ray

[nullPointer]

Wow Ray! This looks great! Nice work coming onto the the scene with gusto! I'm always impressed with the motivation and creativity of our user base.

Regarding hosting, Tom has stated on a good handful of occasions that he is more than happy to host GameEx related material on gameex.com (which can in turn be linked here). It would probably be worth dropping him a line to discuss options.

Great work once again. Once you get the skinning bug it's hard to stop!

[Tom Speirs]

Good job Ray.

You can upload the theme on http://gameex.com Just hover over download then click themes.

[Adultery]

Make sure you enter this on the theme comp Ray! Nice one!!!

[KRC]

Great work Ray

I do love it when new creations are demonstrated on the forums.

I'm also a big fan of dark themes which I have to say do look better on LCD.

[Draco1962]

Great job, Ray! For a first time theme I would have to say you knocked this one out of the park! Upload it as Tom has suggested! I am also going to move this to thread to the User Projects forum!

[RageOn]

Thanks for the that Guys, I'll upload it now, let me know what you think of the finished product.

[Adultery]

Man I'm totally in love with the media bar!

/me blown away

[RageOn]

Glad you like it. I tried to do something a little different.... Basically I wanted all the colour to come from the games themselves and not the theme. The one thing I remember about all the best arcades I went to as a kid was they were all dark, hence the theme, and I tried to throw a bit of moderm in there in the shape of dual mointers and a big LCD type screen. Im still going to tweak it but its more or less finished.

[KRC]

It's awesome mate , very classy for your first upload.

[RageOn]

Thanks KRC, but from what I've seen of your stuff on here I bow down to the better man... Just happy to create stuff for anyone who finds its useful.

[KRC]

I wouldn't class myself as a better man, we all have ideas then put them into action. I love nothing more than coming out with new ideas, gives me a feeling of pride.

[RageOn]

Absolutely, if your like me you have to stop yourself from adding more, and at some point call it finished.

Got a quick question for you if you don't mind answering.... The text on my toolbar/dialogue was white, I used to have -

MakeToolbarTextWhite=True

DialogTextWhite=True

...in the ini, but the toolbartext has gone and the dialog has been set to false for some reason. I guess it must have happened before I uploaded. I know how to fix them but my question is can I edit my uploaded theme to reflect this? I know they are missing from the uploaded version as I downloaded it to make sure.

[KRC]

You could message Tom to take down your theme so you can make the amendments and then re-upload.

[RageOn]

Cheers KRC, I'll do that. Appreciate the help

[KRC]

No problem, glad I could help

[Draco1962]

I have to say that I like the triple monitors housing the various displays of text and graphics - very classy!

[RageOn]

Cheers Draco, all the above comments are very kind.... I think I have a few more themes hidden in me somewhere, Thanks again all

[Draco1962]

Be sure to place an entry in the Theme Competition!

[Adultery]

Second that motion!

[RageOn]

I might just do that time allowing.... Enjoy your gaming guys!!

[bob5453]

Excellent theme and you did a great job. My res is 1920x1080, so extra thanks for that.

[RageOn]

Lol....Your welcome Bob

[KRC]

Just trying this theme out and im impressed with the emus logo

[RageOn]

hahaha... I couldn't resist