Natural Selection Litestep Theme
BAshh
Join Date: 2003-08-26 Member: 20222Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
Join Date: 2003-08-26 Member: 20222Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
For those who dont know, Litestep is a shell, such as Windows Explorer is. (download at <a href='http://www.litestep.net' target='_blank'>http://www.litestep.net</a>)
Anyway, i've started to make an NS Theme for it, seeing as it's a great game, a great shell, and they should be combined ^__^.
First off let me appologize for the attatchment being low quality, my host is down, it appears, and i had to resize it so it wouldnt stretch the browser screen too much. once it is back up i will upload, and post a link.
Now the features at the moment, are:
-an ns_origin screeny as the background
-The alien's Energy bar as the taskbar, and each task is as if it's filling up the energy bar (even goes from bottom to top, as it should).
-hive sprites to show wich Virtual Desktop is currently in use
-Command box in lower left corner
and i have yet to mess with the system try, or the winamp buttons, and i'm up for any suggestions to really make this a good theme, as well i planned on making a Marine version (a seperate theme, not sub-theme) if this one turns out well. That said, here's the screeny
Anyway, i've started to make an NS Theme for it, seeing as it's a great game, a great shell, and they should be combined ^__^.
First off let me appologize for the attatchment being low quality, my host is down, it appears, and i had to resize it so it wouldnt stretch the browser screen too much. once it is back up i will upload, and post a link.
Now the features at the moment, are:
-an ns_origin screeny as the background
-The alien's Energy bar as the taskbar, and each task is as if it's filling up the energy bar (even goes from bottom to top, as it should).
-hive sprites to show wich Virtual Desktop is currently in use
-Command box in lower left corner
and i have yet to mess with the system try, or the winamp buttons, and i'm up for any suggestions to really make this a good theme, as well i planned on making a Marine version (a seperate theme, not sub-theme) if this one turns out well. That said, here's the screeny
Comments
gimme gimme gimme ^___^
gj, looks good.
^__^ thanks. Not sure what all's gonna be added. just wait n see. i'm gonna try and make that taskbar adrenielin bar look better somehow.. not sure how, though.
@coil: as far as i know. i do remember once that some one asked if it worked with linux :o
Indeed it does.
can be, but they arent in my theme. sorry no links for tuts, i couldnt find any myself, you just have to kinda browse the RC files, make your bmps, and hope you get it right lol. um, search google for litestep modules, and you can find help there sometimes..
And dont do the TSA theme, i planned on doing both Alien and Marine versions <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
the time, is a command line, and no there isnt a way, as far as i know yet, to make it transparent, nor use bmps as a font, and i'm not going to make a font too look like the HUD sprites (plus i dont know how to make the fonts.) but thanks for the feedback people!
added features:
-Winamp buttons
-Net_graph style stats
-640aliennode.spr system tray
<a href='http://www.bai.elixant.com/NS_Preview_full.jpg' target='_blank'>Screenshot</a>
Warning, large dimentions
*edit* all KB's on the label have been changed to MB, but this change has not been shown in the screen shot
Is it for WMP9? I'd like it <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Gimme Gimme! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> GJ
task bar needs some serious work <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
The text on it just looks compleatly wrong...
some how you need to make the text fit with the adren..
as is it is simply over layed on top (shadows, curve etc don't effect it)
Also the font seems small/thin (thus making it again contrast with the adren)
my suggestion would be an organic style font that would some how interact with the background
also, check 101fonts.com too... they have some great fonts there too with a really cool interface.
<a href='http://www.bai.elixant.com/ns_litestep_theme.zip' target='_blank'>Natural Selection LiteStep Theme</a> By Bashh, alien's version
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Seems to work fine.. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
_0_ to Bashh!
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Click <a href='http://www.imageuploader.net/images/617875NS_modified.jpg' target='_blank'>-=[here]=-</a>
(links to a 1024x768 110 kb jpg file name 617875NS_modified.jpg showing my desktop, quality is quite low due to compression)
btw BAshh, I'm missing a pause button on the winamp bar and something to show the current time would be nice (^__^)
oh and the tasks are above everything else..
i dont mind just the popup menu ^__^ so it wasnt a problem to me. but gj at least you know how to edit it for yourself
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Nice kharaa theme! I'll like to see how the TSA theme's gonne be like.
TO TURN ON TRILINEAR FILTERING IN HALF-LIFE/NS/CS/DoD ETC...
first, make sure this feature is available and enabled in your video card's Advanced Properties, then in the Half-Life console, enter
GL_TEXTUREMODE GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR
remember, its a command, not a cvar, so it needs to be done every time you load the game. put it in your autoexec.cfg. put it SOMEWHERE. TATTOO IT ACROSS YOUR FOREHEAD.
i may seem overly passionate about this, but i've seen so many great screenshots and artwork <b>marred</b>, yes, <u><b>MARRED</b></u> by this simple failing of what should be common knowledge.
**also note that there are different render modes from the default GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_NEAREST and GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR. experiment to get different effects.