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Re: Upgrade to SMF 2.0, New Theme.
« Reply #60 on: July 15, 2011, 05:07:50 PM »
I think the top looks too busy now with both the lightning and the robot texture all at the top, and then just solid colors all down the page.

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Re: Upgrade to SMF 2.0, New Theme.
« Reply #61 on: July 15, 2011, 07:25:40 PM »
What if the bot pattern was used for the background instead of the lightening, and a solid color smooth gradient (to preserve the sculpted appearance) was used for the menu graphic instead of the robot pattern?  A reversed gradient could be used for the current selection graphic, thus giving the selected choice the appearance of a depressed button.
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Re: Upgrade to SMF 2.0, New Theme.
« Reply #62 on: July 15, 2011, 07:47:47 PM »
I must say that although TechPro idea is not bad at all, I do really like the bot pattern as menu BG,
BUT I didn't like the lightning background at all :P.

Maybe it would be better not to have any background, but preserve the bot pattern where it is. :)
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Re: Upgrade to SMF 2.0, New Theme.
« Reply #63 on: July 16, 2011, 06:55:43 AM »
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What if the bot pattern was used for the background instead of the lightening, and a solid color smooth gradient (to preserve the sculpted appearance) was used for the menu graphic instead of the robot pattern?  A reversed gradient could be used for the current selection graphic, thus giving the selected choice the appearance of a depressed button.

Already thought of something similar, but I suspect the original bot background isn't going to be big enough, so a new one would probably have to be made. Like I said before, I have a few ideas already, I just have to put it together.

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Maybe it would be better not to have any background, but preserve the bot pattern where it is.

Unless I missed something, we already tried this, and we decided it felt too empty like that.
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Re: Upgrade to SMF 2.0, New Theme.
« Reply #64 on: July 16, 2011, 09:11:26 AM »
Like I said before, why do we even need a new theme? I like Dusky 2 as it is, otherwise I also liked the first theme tried (with the metal background) better than the themes we're trying now.

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Re: Upgrade to SMF 2.0, New Theme.
« Reply #65 on: July 16, 2011, 12:10:45 PM »
Been working on a potential background we can try. Here's a shot of my progress thus far.

Ignore the grid, it's not permanent; I've just been using it to line everything up. Which I'm getting close on, but not there yet. Once I do get it all lined up, I'm going to tile it out a few times, then have it fade out to black.
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Re: Upgrade to SMF 2.0, New Theme.
« Reply #66 on: July 16, 2011, 12:54:36 PM »
Like I said before, why do we even need a new theme? I like Dusky 2 as it is, otherwise I also liked the first theme tried (with the metal background) better than the themes we're trying now.
Because as I recall SMF 1 skins do not work in SMF 2, and this is a SMF 1 skin and we're upgrading to SMF 2

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Re: Upgrade to SMF 2.0, New Theme.
« Reply #67 on: July 16, 2011, 02:07:20 PM »
Finished! Got it to tile seamlessly both ways. The following image was made by me taking a small strip and copying and pasting it nine times over in a tiling affect. Then I added the gradient. :)

Will be willing to make changes as needed.
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Re: Upgrade to SMF 2.0, New Theme.
« Reply #68 on: July 16, 2011, 02:22:51 PM »
It needs to be cropped to only one repetition. The browser does the tiling. And it will be viewed at full size, did you mean to reduce the size?
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Re: Upgrade to SMF 2.0, New Theme.
« Reply #69 on: July 16, 2011, 05:10:28 PM »
I believe he tiled it to give an impression of what it would look like on the website.
That's what it sounded like to me anyway.

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Re: Upgrade to SMF 2.0, New Theme.
« Reply #70 on: July 16, 2011, 05:19:28 PM »
I believe he tiled it to give an impression of what it would look like on the website.
That's what it sounded like to me anyway.

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Re: Upgrade to SMF 2.0, New Theme.
« Reply #71 on: July 16, 2011, 08:36:26 PM »
Like I said before, why do we even need a new theme? I like Dusky 2 as it is, otherwise I also liked the first theme tried (with the metal background) better than the themes we're trying now.
Because as I recall SMF 1 skins do not work in SMF 2, and this is a SMF 1 skin and we're upgrading to SMF 2
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Re: Upgrade to SMF 2.0, New Theme.
« Reply #72 on: July 16, 2011, 10:15:01 PM »
Well, phpbb indeed is cool, but SMF has the TinyPortal addition that makes it very sweet (and with SMF we have the media galleries and some extra social stuff, etc) :)
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Re: Upgrade to SMF 2.0, New Theme.
« Reply #73 on: July 17, 2011, 04:32:17 AM »
Being able to use an old theme is not enough reason to use phpbb.
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Re: Upgrade to SMF 2.0, New Theme.
« Reply #74 on: July 17, 2011, 05:12:48 AM »
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It needs to be cropped to only one repetition. The browser does the tiling. And it will be viewed at full size, did you mean to reduce the size?

Oops, I did indeed mean to reduce the size. And I can get you one repetition easy. And yes, I did post the above pic partly to show how it'd look, but also because I wasn't sure what you needed WillyP precisely. I'm guessing SMF will do the fade-to-black itself, then, or will I still need to keep that?
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