I have been improving the Mean skin, made the design more consistent, the backgrounds a higher quality, and converted most of the images to grayscale, putting the colour information into the skinvalues.txt to make it easier to convert it to another colour.

Wicked
The Wicked Series, meaner than Mean (Red), but not yet Evil.

I created these skins with "The GIMP", using "evil9" textures provided with Nexuiz (data20080511.pk3), the font "FreeMono Bold", and in-game screenshots from the maps:
Basement by Garth Hendy (Wicked Black)
Farewell by Tymo aka Henning Janssen (Wicked White)
Aneurysm by Paul Evers (Wicked Red)
Strength by Paul Evers (Wicked Yellow)
Reslimed by Paul Evers, Mattrew Rye, Garth Hendy and Maik Merten (Wicked Green)
Bleach by Paul Evers (Wicked Blue)

I release the Wicked Series menu skins under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.

Please Note:You can get an improved Wicked 2 here

Screenshots




How to use
Put the wicked.pk3 pack into the "path to/nexuiz/data/" folder and...
...execute "menu_skin wickedcolour" and "menu_restart" in the console.
OR
...change the key "seta menu_skin" in the config.cfg file to "wickedcolour".

Obviously, replace colour with the colour you want to use, for example wickedwhite.

Wicked blue or black for default plz.

Nice work! Back to black for me

I already liked your red skin, so I keep this one, but again nice work


Little thing without importance : COLOR_SCROLLBAR_C isn't a skinvalues.txt supported key...

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Great. Black & Blue

Ronan wrote:Little thing without importance : COLOR_SCROLLBAR_C isn't a skinvalues.txt supported key...

I know, but this has no effect. This seems to be a bug, because the COLOR_SCROLLBAR_C is the only one that does not work, all the others like COLOR_SLIDER_C COLOR_BUTTON_C and so on do. I included it nevertheless, but I had to colour the scrollbar_c.tga files, otherwise they would have turned gray when clicked.

Fixed that in svn, but please remove the SCROLLBAR_C from your packs if you have applied the color to the scrollbar, or the scrollbar will be colored TWICE.

divVerent wrote:Fixed that in svn, but please remove the SCROLLBAR_C from your packs if you have applied the color to the scrollbar, or the scrollbar will be colored TWICE.

I know, but I am more comfortable with that (it would simply turn darker) than with gray scrollbars. If I would remove the SCROLLBAR_C value, then all the main images would be grayscale with the colour information in the skinvalues.txt, EXCEPT the scrollbar_c.tga.

Now, one only needs to replace the scrollbar_c.tga with a copy of scrollbar_n.tga, and you have a clean version.
I have done that and added a link in the first post to this clean version, with grayscale scrollbar_c.tga and SCROLLBAR_C in the skinvalues.txt, the way it is supposed to be .

Ok, I added wicked_clean.pk3 to SVN. So it will be in next version of Nexuiz.
But buttongray_d is missing in the skins!! Fix!

morfar wrote:Ok, I added wicked_clean.pk3 to SVN. So it will be in next version of Nexuiz.
But buttongray_d is missing in the skins!! Fix!

Thanks for including it .

I checked it, and the buttongray_d images are included. But there was a space in the name (buttongray_d .tga). I didn't notice that, sorry.

Uploaded a fixed version, it should work now (link is in 1. post).

wicked_"clean"? so i assume the colors will be adjustable?

[restructured from the conversation on #alientrap]

I think it's a good base but some of the elements in the gui need clarification. If we're speaking in terms of usability, I'd say it's a step backwards.

Scroll bars, sliders and checkboxes, all lack contrast and definition against the background. This can be confusing to any user, new or old.

The checkboxes, the buttons and the inside of the main window are all square, which makes it a bit boring. Sure the insides of the buttons have some interesting details but the game type buttons are obviously stretched, something the 2.4 default theme hid pretty well. I'd go as far to say if this is going to be the new standard theme, it requires a code change to give game types a different background, otherwise it just looks bad.

The selected map has a white background, which make white text with a black shadow hard to read.

I think the blue theme is a better starting point but the contrast of the form elements must must must change.

IF I would change something on the blue theme, it would be a little stitch of green into the control elements.
I don't mind the contrast of the buttons to the BG, what I see is the contrast of the text itself. Imo it's not full white, though I may be wrong.

Hmmm... These don't seem to work for me.

These are my interpretations of a menu skin. Of course, you do not have to use them.

What I intended to do was to create some atmosphere, which the old ones completely lack, in my opinion. They should look dirty, and I reference to the evil textures (they are derived from evil textures), and in this way making the menu look like the maps that are played, creating a more consistent overall look.

I use Wicked Yellow for quite some time now and do not have any problem with the contrast. Wicked White has a quite good contrast if that's what you are looking for.

I wasn't trying to insult your work, I was giving your my opinions on how it can be improved. What you see and everyone else sees are not always the same thing. You want to try and hit the widest range of people you can within a respective realm of interest, in this case, usability.

I posted my comments because MrBougo had informed me that it was checked into SVN. While I think this is a change in a positive direction, going more towards the original grungy look the team was aiming for, I feel the usability has dropped from its plasticy predecessor.

I believe implementing my suggestions will help improve the problems I've described in my previous post.

No sev thats not what I ment. I was trying to say that I can't use them . I did menu_skins wickedgreen but it seems that I put them in the wrong folder. And i did do menu_restart.

its just menu_skin SKINNAME

Oh and you can see the currently installed skins with ls gfx/menu/*

KillaGrunt wrote:No sev thats not what I ment. I was trying to say that I can't use them . I did menu_skins wickedgreen but it seems that I put them in the wrong folder. And i did do menu_restart.

It's "menu_skin wickedcolour" and "menu_restart".

Did you put it in the data folder? In the right folder, there should also be the data20080511.pk3 file (if you use Nexuiz 2.4.2).

Maybe you want to try to change the key "seta menu_skin" in the config.cfg file to "wickedcolour".

Or we can all ignore the problem.

Of course I don't expect that everyone likes my works, and I am very thankful for suggetions. And I am sorry if I made the impression to consider yours insulting, because I don't.

[-z-] wrote:What you see and everyone else sees are not always the same thing. You want to try and hit the widest range of people you can within a respective realm of interest, in this case, usability.

True to some extend. But because the skin is basicly the first thing a (new) player sees from the game, it needs to look good first. And the plastic one doesn't, in my opinion.

Maybe a short explanation about the selected map background colour:

Every Wicked skin has got an "action colour". For example, Red has 0.75 0 0 (A bit darken than pure red). I used this colour for everything activated; activated buttons, radio buttons, checkboxes, colour and crosshair selection and names in the credits.

And in Black and in White, the action colour is ... white. So the selected map background colour needs to be white as well, for the style to stay consistent throughout the series.

Thinking about it, this could be a solution (or a good feature in general): A new tab in the Settings menu with a list of all available skins (maybe even with a preview). This would make it as easy as possible to change the skin in real time, and to choose the one you like best, without having to search for them and using the console.

That sev... is a great idea.

I made some additions to this theme.



download the pack here

save in your data folder, drop console and type >> menu_skin wickedz << then type >> menu_restart

I'm so using wickedz

Nice job [-z-], I'm loving this!

It's good, you added dirt in your logos.
This way they stay recognizable, but don't look too clean.

I'd like it if the website would look this way.

From what i get its not that easy/practical to get a list of files/directories from the engine (due to security measures).. thats a problem for making a extra tab to select the skin.

And i like Z's idea but maybe a thing inbetween would be nice. While Z's is almost to vibrant the currently used (in svn) wickedblack is too low contrast..

Maybe thats because its supposed to be black