board graphics?
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board graphics?
The graphics on the forum now are kinda, um.. craptastic.
I'm looking to replace some of the graphics, anyone want to make some for us to use?
Especially this logo:
This stuff also, not very impressive, heheh:
It would be cool to have something original to the site. If anyone's up to it.
I'm looking to replace some of the graphics, anyone want to make some for us to use?
Especially this logo:
This stuff also, not very impressive, heheh:
It would be cool to have something original to the site. If anyone's up to it.
Well, you could replace the phpbb logo by a 'nesdev' logo, perhaps another instead of that one placed at main nedev page?
About the others, well... i can't see any problem.
About the others, well... i can't see any problem.
Zepper
RockNES author
RockNES author
(retracted; don't bother bstyle)
Last edited by tepples on Sat Nov 13, 2004 4:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I'm working on a set of forum graphics. I've never worked on a phpBB graphic set before; please don't directory-protect http://nesdev.com/bbs/templates/subSilver/images/ until I'm done.
EDIT: You mean in this style?
EDIT: You mean in this style?
A lot of NES games and Game Boy Color games use dark-medium-light of the same color in their tile images, where all 3 distinct colors in a palette are either black, white, or the same hue.Drag wrote:That looks good in my opinion, but it looks like a gameboy screen (ie, the only colors used are selected from a gradient of black - color)
Currently we've got
- (black, gray, white) for read posts, same as official phpBB icons
- (black, orange, white) for unread posts, same as official phpBB icons
- SMB1 '?' block colors for action buttons
- (red, white) for polls
EDIT: I can see this in the case of the icons for AIM, ICQ, etc. I've updated the icon sheet with colorized IM service icons.
Ok, the uncolored icons were really the only thing that looked kinda 'off' about it. Now it looks better.
[edit: I need to read posts more carefully... I missed the point about the sprites]
Ok, in this case, I can match the sprite palettes up like this:
yellow, green, red: Since the AIM, ICQ, and Y! icons appear to be solid colors, this palette would be shared among the sprites for each. The black shadow thing could be from under the sprite.
white, grey, black: The paper, and the envelope. On the edit button, the paper sprite could have the pencil part cut out so the pencil is drawn on the bg.
Cyan, white, ?: The MSN logo has that shading on it.
?, ?, ?: Undefined
Seems about right. The thing that was so weird about the mono-colors were that usually when something is disabled (like a button with an icon or something), it has the color removed, and it's just a greyscale representation.
[edit: I need to read posts more carefully... I missed the point about the sprites]
Ok, in this case, I can match the sprite palettes up like this:
yellow, green, red: Since the AIM, ICQ, and Y! icons appear to be solid colors, this palette would be shared among the sprites for each. The black shadow thing could be from under the sprite.
white, grey, black: The paper, and the envelope. On the edit button, the paper sprite could have the pencil part cut out so the pencil is drawn on the bg.
Cyan, white, ?: The MSN logo has that shading on it.
?, ?, ?: Undefined
Seems about right. The thing that was so weird about the mono-colors were that usually when something is disabled (like a button with an icon or something), it has the color removed, and it's just a greyscale representation.
To install the new images, delete the images in the template folder, add the images from this zipfile, and update the template.
It appears you'll need to change the src, width, and height attributes of the <img> tags to match those of the image files (which are mostly in multiples of 16x16 pixels), or just leave them out entirely. Try editing the template before shoehorning the graphics into the template.
Notice that the sticky (pushpin) and announce (pushpin+exclamation) images are of a different size (14x16 instead of 12x16 for the rest of folder_*.png). If phpBB requires all folder_* images to be of the same size, I'll need to add some blank space around the rest.
And it seems your PNG->GIF conversion screwed up the transparency in the images. Try leaving them as PNG and editing the template instead of converting them to GIF.
Notice that the sticky (pushpin) and announce (pushpin+exclamation) images are of a different size (14x16 instead of 12x16 for the rest of folder_*.png). If phpBB requires all folder_* images to be of the same size, I'll need to add some blank space around the rest.
And it seems your PNG->GIF conversion screwed up the transparency in the images. Try leaving them as PNG and editing the template instead of converting them to GIF.