Jafo Jafo

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September Desktop Screenshots

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Here's me still 'at it' skinning the controls/cockpit of a Republic F105...buzzing over Melbourne at mach 1.5 and scaring the pants off the locals.....there's one of 'em just to the left of the HUD....he's the blip front/center of the head-up radar.

Not just altering xml....but hunting down photos of the aircraft to add 'bits' of detail to make things a little more realistic....things like the throttle quadrant and main radar cowl....are borrowed from various photos....re-skewed/sized/rotated/etc to suit.

The 'skinning' involved is about as 'complicated' as it gets.

If I get REALLY eager I'll start from scratch and make it all  fair-dinkum exact.  [there's poetic licence as is...to suit screen proportions/resolution.]

This is about how SKINNING differs from wallpaper making.....the result can be interfaced with.....buttons move....gauges read [all those gauges actually work]....;)

 

SKINNING's FUN .....:)

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Reply #51 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Narby...you and I collect the same Walls! :)

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Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thank you, Jim. :D

Great minds think alike, Doc! ;P

Elemental: Reforged
Reply #53 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yep...me and the trout!  :grin:   ;)

Reply #54 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 53
Yep...me and the trout!   

Sorry Doc, I ate the trout!

Reply #55 from WinCustomize Forums Top

WB=Solstice WIP by Harley.  Cursor=Solstice by Harley.

Wall= Neptune by Ethax at DA.

DX Theme by RND.     Weather by RND.   Both on hold.

Reply #56 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Very nice set up RedneckDude.  :thumbsup:

Would like to have this one, but I will wait.  :sun:

Reply #57 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting narbytrout, reply 54
Quoting DrJBHL, reply 53Yep...me and the trout!   

Sorry Doc, I ate the trout!

Sounds fishy to me. :-"

Reply #58 from WinCustomize Forums Top

OK, one final shot. It's done!

Reply #59 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Nothing special here. I'm still on Xp :blush:

Reply #60 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Nothing special here. I'm still on Xp

Hey! Hey! Hey! I'm still on XP as well! Best OS out there! :grin:

Reply #61 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Just my Windows 7 desktop with Firefox skinned by using userchrome.css...

Reply #62 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Just my Windows 7 desktop with Firefox skinned by using userchrome.css...

Looks excellent VadM! :thumbsup:

Reply #63 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Beautiful desktop Vad!

Reply #64 from WinCustomize Forums Top

This is kind of an update to my last screenshot........I think I got it looking just right now:

Reply #65 from WinCustomize Forums Top

it was raining and there was the texture button <_<

Reply #66 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Sed put me in a Penthouse mood.... :) with Observation Deck. Great wall, Sed!  :thumbsup:

Penthouse - wba by vStyler - John, thanks for a truly fantastic skin!

Penthouse Xtreme by WebGizmos

Penthouse Docks by WebGizmos.

Reply #67 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Seven days until Talk-Like-A-Pirate-Day (09/19/2010), Arrrrrh.

WB = StealthOS with a dye job applied through textures

CursorFX = Excalibur

IconPackager = Dragon

Rainlendar of my own creation

ClocX of my own creation

Can't remember where I got the wallpaper, but it's easy enough to Google for those.

 

Reply #68 from WinCustomize Forums Top

 

Arrrrrr!!!!!  That be a Pyrate Lizard, matey! :grin:

 

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Reply #71 from WinCustomize Forums Top

that project looks fabulous, dani!!

 

here's my current desktop. it'll be used until sunday when the colts desktop goes back up.

 

Reply #72 from WinCustomize Forums Top

here's my current desktop.
XD Saw those guys on TV last night!

Reply #73 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The 'skinning' is with the plane in the FSX screenshot.

Late afternoon light makes the visuals even more appealing.

I hit the 'anchors' in the Thud a wee bit too late....so a second or 2 later the scene wasn't quite as pretty....not for the AI aircraft, anyway.

Dynamically it is next to impossible to fly formation with these 2 aircraft....the civilian would be just about flat-out to keep up with the Thud at stall.....hanging it all out and juggling thrust with attitude [standing on your bum] and sooner or later you'll fall out of the sky and need to clean up and recover lift.  You can't sit on your arse and go balistic as thrust /> weight.

As you see by all the icons in the Fences....there's all sorts of crap used to help with the skinning of FSX....the most important is the DXTBmp graphic 'opener/converter'.

Working out what maps where...and why is 'entertaining' as not all skins/models do it the same.

I'm currently running with no WB as I have the Beta of IE9....and need to be bug-hunting that as it affects Wincustomize, etc....;)

Reply #74 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Jafo, I always like your screenies... :thumbsup:

Reply #75 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm currently running with no WB as I have the Beta of IE9....and need to be bug-hunting that as it affects Wincustomize, etc....

And you have the ugly watermark...lol.    x_x

 

 

P.S. Be expecting a PM, I need to talk to you. ;)