Topic: Upgrade to SMF 2.0, New Theme.

[Matthew]

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.

[TechPro]

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.

[Pumo]

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 .

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

[Scyphi]

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.

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.

[Matthew]

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.

[Scyphi]

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.

[SaladBadger]

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

[Scyphi]

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.

[-<WillyP>-]

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?

[Kaiaatzl]

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.

[Alieo]

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.

ditto

[Matthew]

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

And this is why phpbb is good.

[Pumo]

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)

[-<WillyP>-]

Being able to use an old theme is not enough reason to use phpbb.

[Scyphi]

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?