AC2 Themes/Skins (Attn: Uno)

[Buster's Uncle]

Not just for Uno; your input is needed: http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=4304.msg78232#msg78232 -that post is just for reference; do go to the next post topping the last page for the themes under consideration to let live.

There's been a slaughter, and we're down to the 20 that (more or less) work, and Mayals.  I make pretty clear six already headed for the chopping block.  I want to get it down to 10, so the list I have to upload icons to feels something like finite.  More user feedback would be incredibly useful.

You can change themes from your profile>Look and Layout (left sidebar)>Top line ending in (change) - click that.

[Buster's Uncle]

Please reply there, not here; I wanna keep it all in one place so by brain don't 'splode.

[Buster's Uncle]

I've made a lot of progress on themes and thought I ought to give everyone a heads-up.

All of these grow upon being clicked.


Curve:



Green Core:




Enterprise:



Dark Blue Eyes:



Gone Fishin':



Astronmy:



The Chilling:



SMAX



SMAC:



Autumn:



Ostara:



Impulse:

[Buster's Uncle]

This is Gone Fishin, pretty close to out-of-the-box, near the beginning of this project:



It's a misleading image, 'cause I cheated and moved BE up over an inch in GIMP to get a category in the thumbnail to look good for the display on the choose a theme page.

(One dead giveaway that a theme is not going to save you a lot of scrolling down is when I have to clip some of the logo off the top in the thumbnail.)

It's a pig, out of the box.  A real top-space hog  -Enterprise is bad that way, too.- and I didn't have the foggiest where to find the special main menu in the .css a month ago, and no idea how to unstack  of the news and greeting crap to take up less top.

Well, I've worked out a lot of how-to in the meanwhile, and today's revisiting was gratifying.  (The stuff I needed was tacked on at the very bottom of the code, Draz.)

Another big limit I was up against was needing to leave in enough of the sunset and lake.  Rusty Edge loves this theme - and we all love Rusty.  The illustration makes it look like the slot revealing the shore and sunset just fell in the same place - and let me assure you that there was a lot more to it than that.

And now, I can proudly present, Gone Fishin on a day they were really bitin':

[Rusty Edge]

It's glorious.

I enjoy the way that I can seem to make the sun rise and set with it.

[Buster's Uncle]

You like the sunlit unselected menu items?  How about the cabin icons?

[Rusty Edge]

You like the sunlit unselected menu items?  How about the cabin icons?

Oh! They weren't there until I went away and returned/ refreshed. Those are cool too.

[Buster's Uncle]

It'll save you a little scrolling down every. single. time. you. go. to. a. page. now .

-And I just a few minutes ago realized that I could make the wood pattern semi-transparent so you could see more of the background scene.  Wanna try that?

[Rusty Edge]

sure.

[Buster's Uncle]

I'll try before I go to bed - let me know tomorrow...

[Buster's Uncle]

Okay; hit refresh.

I'm going to bed.

[Buster's Uncle]

I DID do that thing last night - but top is in front of sky, so nothing but some lightening of the color shows, and the forum title bars must be in a different file.  I'll investigate more, presently.

[Rusty Edge]

Yeah I saw, it only affects the top.

Don't lose sleep over it. It's fine as is. Still, I imagine you'll continue to tinker under the hood until you figure out how it functions.

[Buster's Uncle]

-Wood-plank textures in main_block.png, which I -maybe- can't semi-transparent without ruining something else.  Also, the title bars probably have background colors that would mask the lake.  I haven't had a look yet -a new issue came up with the Firaxis theme that I'm trying to fix- but I might be able to overcome those.  It's a tear I'm on.

How much do you care about being able to make out more lake -also more sunset and shore as you scroll down- in the index?

[Rusty Edge]

I got enough lake right now. The horizon is the important part.