Topic: Transparent skinning (Read 7006 times)

Maverick07 · « **on:** March 05, 2011, 04:28:23 pm »

hey guys,
am currently working on my 3rd skin for MC. Because i switched to win7, this time it will be a transparent skin.

So here are my questions and bug report...

So, as you can see on the screenshot, there are two bugs.
The first thing is that the Title has a background in darkgray if i remove the playerbardisplay.png or make it transparent. (the analyzer is also buggy)
And the 2nd thing i noticed is that the Borders are buggy too (the horinzontal line). Gradiant overlays look much worse.

Also i want to know if it is possible to make everything transparent. The scrollbar could be transparent, but the tree / list too?
The last thing i want to know is atm,if there is a way to remove the textshadow of the toolbar?? If iam using black letters, there is no shadow - at white there is -.-

btw. The skin won't look like this, im just trying things atm.
Oh and, will there be more support for transparet skins in version 16?

sunfire7 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 05, 2011, 11:16:21 pm »

Maverick07
I am a fan of your skins!!! the other 2 are quality work, I love them!!! and the screen you just post is, Awesome!!!! I really like it!
and, do you really want to make the tree and other elements transparent? I think would look best if only certain key parts are transparent! but I trust your designer eye

bytestar · « **Reply #2 on:** March 13, 2011, 09:27:16 am »

I am also a fan of your skins

phalanthus · « **Reply #3 on:** March 13, 2011, 10:59:55 am »

nice !
how is it progressing?

Maverick07 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 15, 2011, 04:08:17 pm »

no progress yet, i just combined the transparent border with the FusionX.
not really great, but iam only testing atm.

sunfire7 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 15, 2011, 11:00:44 pm »

Cool Combo!! CAN I HAVE IT?? !!

Arbiter · « **Reply #6 on:** March 16, 2011, 07:32:52 am »

Quote from: sunfire7 on March 15, 2011, 11:00:44 pm

Cool Combo!! CAN I HAVE IT?? !!

ME too, me too!!

sunfire7 · « **Reply #7 on:** April 06, 2011, 01:16:04 am »

Can't wait for this skin!

bytestar · « **Reply #8 on:** April 12, 2011, 02:07:30 am »

yes very cool please release your Combo i love it also.

Maverick07 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 21, 2011, 02:22:17 pm »

hey, me again
after a long rest i decided to continue the transparent skin.

theres no preview yet but i really have to know if there is a way to avoid the transparent display bug ive posted at my first comment.
and, if its possible to have a transperent tree and tabbar.?? pls help ^^

Fabricio · « **Reply #10 on:** June 21, 2011, 02:33:14 pm »

Quote from: Maverick07 on June 21, 2011, 02:22:17 pm

hey, me again
after a long rest i decided to continue the transparent skin.

Ok, waiting.

danrien · « **Reply #11 on:** June 21, 2011, 10:31:46 pm »

cool skin dude.

Fabricio · « **Reply #12 on:** June 22, 2011, 06:12:39 am »

Very good.

For win xp, also?

sunfire7 · « **Reply #13 on:** June 23, 2011, 08:50:00 pm »

the transparent FusionX of your screen above is just perfect, I dont want all to be glassy, just some key parts, what do you think?

Maverick07 · « **Reply #14 on:** June 27, 2011, 03:16:39 pm »

heres a very early and short preview of the transparent skin:

i know its hard to imagine how the whole skin will look like ^^.
I try to use glass icons mixed with the lime green ive used for the border.
As you can see the player has a complicated transparent system, therefore i have to find the best settings to see the skin clean on light and dark backgrounds.
So it will took a lot of time

To the FusionX
i deleted the theme but its no problem to rebuild it. If theres a lil bit time i could render the ugly parts and upload it.

danrien · « **Reply #15 on:** June 29, 2011, 12:28:15 am »

Just wanted to say that your sneak peaks look great.... I really want to steal your windows minimize/maximize/close buttons for my JaeRo Glass (stupid name I know, I'm not a marketing genius

) skin

justsomeguy · « **Reply #16 on:** July 02, 2011, 05:56:59 pm »

Definitely looking forward to this skin.

Any ideas on a dark transparent theme?

Fabricio · « **Reply #17 on:** July 16, 2011, 07:41:05 pm »

Hi, waiting!!!

kurushi · « **Reply #18 on:** July 17, 2011, 01:24:48 pm »

Personnally i hate transparencies specially with many windows opened but good job anyway

Fabricio · « **Reply #19 on:** July 21, 2011, 01:04:48 pm »

Nothing?!!!!

Fabricio · « **Reply #20 on:** August 02, 2011, 07:12:52 pm »

Waiting.....

sunfire7 · « **Reply #21 on:** August 03, 2011, 11:54:01 pm »

Can't wait for this to be released !

Maverick07 · « **Reply #22 on:** August 05, 2011, 10:14:42 am »

mehhh...i still cant find a possible solution to fix the display bug. Don#t know why the developers don't add some more options for skiners and fixed some bugs i already reported.
With these few options its very hard to make a good looking transparent skin, espacially a white one.

So i have to close this skin and try another one, darker and with less transparency.

Heres a screen where iam actually are / was:

the display was just a test so it don't fits to the rest of the skin

Matt · « **Reply #23 on:** August 05, 2011, 10:46:55 am »

Coming in 16.0.148:
Changed: Transparency for glass-style skins is supported in the player bar display area (updated Noire Glass as an example).

Thanks, and sorry this took so long to get done.

Fabricio · « **Reply #24 on:** August 05, 2011, 02:17:53 pm »

Quote from: Matt on August 05, 2011, 10:46:55 am

Coming in 16.0.148:
Changed: Transparency for glass-style skins is supported in the player bar display area (updated Noire Glass as an example).

Thanks, and sorry this took so long to get done.

Very good.

Maverick07 · « **Reply #25 on:** August 05, 2011, 03:09:00 pm »

wOOt thats great

thanks Matt

Fabricio · « **Reply #26 on:** August 18, 2011, 03:48:54 pm »

Waiting.....

phalanthus · « **Reply #27 on:** August 19, 2011, 12:39:54 am »

+1

Maverick07 · « **Reply #28 on:** September 12, 2011, 06:17:01 pm »

finally i came to the decision that the transparent skinning project has no future...

If someone is interested to continue the project i could send him all the .psd files.

Fabricio · « **Reply #29 on:** September 13, 2011, 06:05:13 am »

Quote from: Maverick07 on September 12, 2011, 06:17:01 pm

finally i came to the decision that the transparent skinning project has no future...

If someone is interested to continue the project i could send him all the .psd files.

phalanthus · « **Reply #30 on:** September 13, 2011, 08:43:45 am »

Quote from: Fabricio on September 13, 2011, 06:05:13 am

+1

SkGe · « **Reply #31 on:** September 13, 2011, 11:51:19 am »

Quote from: Maverick07 on September 12, 2011, 06:17:01 pm

finally i came to the decision that the transparent skinning project has no future...

If someone is interested to continue the project i could send him all the .psd files.

Hey mate, if you like i can go on from where you left with the project, but that's about you.
If you want to do that you can pm and we work around.

Fabricio · « **Reply #32 on:** September 13, 2011, 02:53:38 pm »

Quote from: sirgeo on September 13, 2011, 11:51:19 am

Hey mate, if you like i can go on from where you left with the project, but that's about you.
If you want to do that you can pm and we work around.

I liked the idea.

Maverick07 · « **Reply #33 on:** July 04, 2012, 05:43:01 pm »

Hey guys, well the thread is a lil bit old but the topic fits perfect for mine / our problem:

Because instigator released a preview of his new transparent skin, and showed what is possible/what not, i also tried again to do a glass skin.
...Maybe JRiver improved the skinning options for transparent skins...

So once again a concept skin in PS - looks alright at the first look.
- paste the layer style to the topborder and lets see how it looks.
- and what do i see? a totaly ugly background that does not look even close to the original.
If i turn down the opacity from original 20 to 5, the objects still dont look like it should be.
Also it is not possible to add a gradient to the background. I tried it several times but it always looks sick - or even worse.

Heres an example what i mean:

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