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Seaseme
09-20-2008, 10:20 PM
As I'm sure you've noticed, our forums FINALLY HAVE A SKIN!! Big thank you to cRush for working his ass off on this, it's really nice and it makes our site look very nice. If you notice any problems, missing images, or anything like that please message a developer on IRC or on the forums.

Thanks cRush! you da man!

(I just noticed my sig doesn't work anymore! haha)

*NOTICE*
If you are having difficulties seeing the new Theme, you may have to go into your User CP and set the your theme to Evo (fluid) then set it back to Forum Default Theme. We are working on a fix for this.

Valkyra
09-20-2008, 10:22 PM
Thanks cRush, and everyone who helped out with the icons and testing! (Including myself :p )

:D

Kellina
09-20-2008, 10:24 PM
Very nice!! Well done!!!

MikeCool
09-20-2008, 10:24 PM
Nice work on the theme on the fourms admins and devs. :)

Nice job. 10/10.

cRush
09-20-2008, 10:24 PM
Still a few icons to be worked out; namely, smilies and a few various icons.

We are switching the icons over to SWG icons, so if they look familiar that is why.

It might take a little bit to get used to what icons mean what, but I'm trying to make them somewhat intuitive hehe.

Emerzon
09-20-2008, 10:25 PM
Great Job! It looks Great!!!!

Vashman
09-20-2008, 10:26 PM
way to go crush :)!

mdntslayer
09-20-2008, 10:28 PM
WOOT. Damn this theme looks sooo much better then the original.

was getting really tired of the old black/white :P

Good job.

Arsonist
09-20-2008, 10:28 PM
Very nice. :D

Dark-Rage
09-20-2008, 10:29 PM
Looks great! its alot easier on the eyes. Although some of the fonts on the buttons is a little too small and hard to read. Like the paypal, new reply, new thread.

cRush
09-20-2008, 10:31 PM
Looks great! its alot easier on the eyes. Although some of the fonts on the buttons is a little too small and hard to read. Like the paypal, new reply, new thread.

Which buttons?

Aterr Terradon
09-20-2008, 10:33 PM
I like this much better! As was said earlier, it's a lot easier on the eyes.

TheA-froChild
09-20-2008, 10:42 PM
Sorry to say this, but I don't see a difference.

and I spend everyday on these forums for the past year and a few months.

cRush
09-20-2008, 10:43 PM
Sorry to say this, but I don't see a difference.

and I spend everyday on these forums for the past year and a few months.

Read the notice in the initial post.

Runny
09-20-2008, 10:46 PM
it looks sexy

Timbab
09-20-2008, 10:47 PM
Wonderful :D Reminds me of the old board, but way more sexy.

TheA-froChild
09-20-2008, 10:48 PM
Nothing Changed....

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/berserked_kakashi/Skin.jpg

Seaseme
09-20-2008, 10:50 PM
read the first post TheA-FroChild. You have to go into your userCp and change it by hand.

cRush
09-20-2008, 10:52 PM
Nothing Changed....

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k28/berserked_kakashi/Skin.jpg

Set it to evo fluid, then back to user forum default.

TheA-froChild
09-20-2008, 10:53 PM
TY mate' now it works!

Sunahamaru
09-20-2008, 10:55 PM
I set mine back to the old style. I like this but the basic is easier to se.

cRush
09-20-2008, 10:58 PM
I set mine back to the old style. I like this but the basic is easier to se.

What makes it hard to see? Maybe we can improve on it with feedback...

Runny
09-20-2008, 11:00 PM
This skin doesnt hurt my eyes as much. thanks dude

TheA-froChild
09-20-2008, 11:00 PM
Yea, sorta hard on the eyes, this dark color is :(

denerictkm
09-20-2008, 11:01 PM
I think it is quite smexy...brb after i change my pants

cRush
09-20-2008, 11:07 PM
Yea, sorta hard on the eyes, this dark color is :(

Hah that's funny, I had the opposite affect. The white was way hard on my eyes :)

TheA-froChild
09-20-2008, 11:08 PM
It is really ****ing hard to read, I am going back to the old forum skin.

RuMp
09-20-2008, 11:09 PM
Would it be possible to make an alternate version that has the same layout as CA Evo (Fixed) as well?

Good job on the theme by the way...

Afro, if you want to change the background color to make it lighter, use Stylish (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108) for FireFox...

cRush
09-20-2008, 11:11 PM
Rump you win coolest avatar award

Nedak
09-20-2008, 11:18 PM
Yea, sorta hard on the eyes, this dark color is :(

Same.

Everything kind of blends for me.

cRush
09-20-2008, 11:23 PM
Same.

Everything kind of blends for me.

You guys must have really low brightness/contrast settings on your monitors...

MrBlonde
09-20-2008, 11:26 PM
Never had trouble reading with the old skin. Looks a lot better the new way, thanks to all that helped out on this.

Gulkia
09-20-2008, 11:30 PM
Me like..

Nolcro
09-20-2008, 11:31 PM
Is very sexy. :)

Nedak
09-20-2008, 11:50 PM
You guys must have really low brightness/contrast settings on your monitors...

It's default factory settings.

Shouldn't be.

Iacou
09-20-2008, 11:51 PM
Absolutely LOVE the orange! :cool:

Seaseme
09-20-2008, 11:55 PM
I'm a big fan of the Orange as well.

cRush
09-20-2008, 11:55 PM
It's default factory settings.

Shouldn't be.

Actually the default settings on the monitor are usually low so that they can boast that they "use less energy".

We will leave the old themes available, and I may work on an alternative theme like this one with brighter colors...

I wish I could get more accurate feedback though. Stuff like:

What browser, browser version, and operating system are you using.
Is your brightness/contrast turned all the way up on monitor (usually gamers do this to make graphics look better).
Is the font color too dark? If it was a little lighter, would you love the theme?Stuff like this helps me improve the theme, but when people are just like "I don't like it switching back to old one...", I can't really try to improve it.

Personally, I find the lack of super contrast between the colors pleasing to the visual senses. The white backgrounds with black text burned my retinas, but on a generally dark monitor, I can see how it would have a different effect.

Cazmu
09-20-2008, 11:55 PM
wow finally...out from the ghetto

metalhomicide
09-20-2008, 11:56 PM
I absolutely love it. Now my signature and avatar look even sexier! Lovely work. <3

Fullmetal
09-21-2008, 12:13 AM
reminds me of Halloween. ME wants candy!

Nedak
09-21-2008, 12:19 AM
Actually the default settings on the monitor are usually low so that they can boast that they "use less energy".

We will leave the old themes available, and I may work on an alternative theme like this one with brighter colors...

I wish I could get more accurate feedback though. Stuff like:

What browser, browser version, and operating system are you using.
Is your brightness/contrast turned all the way up on monitor (usually gamers do this to make graphics look better).
Is the font color too dark? If it was a little lighter, would you love the theme?Stuff like this helps me improve the theme, but when people are just like "I don't like it switching back to old one...", I can't really try to improve it.

Personally, I find the lack of super contrast between the colors pleasing to the visual senses. The white backgrounds with black text burned my retinas, but on a generally dark monitor, I can see how it would have a different effect.

If it helps I'm using Opera (newest), and I'm on XP.
I got my contrast and brightness at about 75

I also wasn't a fan of the buttons.

I know you're working your ass off. Not trying to be an ass or anything, just trying to be honest.

However, I did like how it was easier to navigate.

Sinner-SF
09-21-2008, 12:23 AM
Very nice :)

Just one thing, I like to see peoples sigs ... but there are sigs and then there are SIGS

Is there anything I can do to view the sigs smaller? :p (looking at settings to see what I can find)

Fullmetal
09-21-2008, 12:29 AM
Very nice :)

Just one thing, I like to see peoples sigs ... but there are sigs and then there are SIGS

Is there anything I can do to view the sigs smaller? :p (looking at settings to see what I can find)


agree! Some forums i'm on have a sig size limit. I too like sigs, but some of them are way to big. I guess they are making up for being small in other areas?

Nedak
09-21-2008, 12:40 AM
My sig isn't that big. O_O

Tolbat
09-21-2008, 12:42 AM
looks good

eapeih
09-21-2008, 12:51 AM
nice I like it.

Koole
09-21-2008, 12:51 AM
Cool, now SWGEmu is 2% more official looking lol

Fullmetal
09-21-2008, 12:54 AM
nedak, your sig is fine. Even tolbat's his is fine. But anything bigger is just annoying.

One thing I don't like about the new skin is you can't hide text. No more white text for me I guess. Now i can't talk crap about someone w/o them knowing it :( or make a sarcastic post then in white text say J/k so when they go to replay and talk crap back they see i'm just joking. I'm going to miss it. RIP white text!!!

Marvolo
09-21-2008, 12:56 AM
Awesome job. Looks great

Koole
09-21-2008, 12:56 AM
nedak, your sig is fine. Even tolbat's his is fine. But anything bigger is just annoying.

One thing I don't like about the new skin is you can't hide text. No more white text for me I guess. Now i can't talk crap about someone w/o them knowing it :( or make a sarcastic post then in white text say J/k so when they go to replay and talk crap back they see i'm just joking. I'm going to miss it. RIP white text!!!

I know in this thread
http://www.swgemu.com/forums/showthread.php?p=248996#post248996
I tried hiding a "Jaykay lol" but I failed miserably.. hopefully people catch the drift.

Vashman
09-21-2008, 01:20 AM
nedak, your sig is fine. Even tolbat's his is fine. But anything bigger is just annoying.

One thing I don't like about the new skin is you can't hide text. No more white text for me I guess. Now i can't talk crap about someone w/o them knowing it :( or make a sarcastic post then in white text say J/k so when they go to replay and talk crap back they see i'm just joking. I'm going to miss it. RIP white text!!!


hehe, well some people like tolbat :P need to have extra links in our sig..I hope mines ok also!:P

Ohmek
09-21-2008, 01:52 AM
Nice work guys looks awesome. The white started to get to me.

Dannyjax
09-21-2008, 01:57 AM
I am on an ASUS mini laptop with standard settings, this has a 7" screen. About the size of a small portable DVD player. It all looks very good. I am using Firefox. I can see though that some with less than perfect vision would think the text (NEW REPLY) on the new reply button is hard to read. But then when I was new here, I had a hard time seeing it before the change. I like the new colors much better. Awesome job cRush.

I did notice that the buttons Edit, Reply with quote and such are not telling what they are for when I roll over them. Not a problem for me because I know what they do

259fol
09-21-2008, 01:57 AM
Nice theme of the forums you worked on guys!

Good work. :)

Serpentkaa
09-21-2008, 02:14 AM
Love it!

Ekaika
09-21-2008, 02:16 AM
Woot! dark themes ftw

Jookotoo
09-21-2008, 03:09 AM
Thank you so much.
Looks a hundred times better.

Joshino
09-21-2008, 03:56 AM
Very swish ,
always wondered though why have swgemu had the orange scheme in the first place , any story behind it ?

metalhomicide
09-21-2008, 04:13 AM
...I wish I could get more accurate feedback though. Stuff like:

What browser, browser version, and operating system are you using.
Is your brightness/contrast turned all the way up on monitor (usually gamers do this to make graphics look better).
Is the font color too dark? If it was a little lighter, would you love the theme?...


Opera, 9.51, Windows XP Professional SP 3
Brightness is 75, contrast is 100
Beside the fact that I already love it, I think I'd like it a little more if it were a tad darker. I'm not a fan of super-contrast either.

One thing that I always kinda' think about when I do work with digital imagry is how everyone's monitor and visual experiences are so different and varied. I have mine set up with a very high contrast and I turned the Digital Vibrance on my NVIDIA CP to +50% so colors tend to be more saturated to me. I always forget to think about how sigs I make for others will look on their monitors and I've made them too dark sometimes since they're a little more saturated for me.

Honestly, I think this is perfectly fine. It's very difficult to appeal to the masses. The only thing that bugs me is the logo and navigation bar at the top stretch out the page a bit at 1024x768 resolution, but the forums don't stretch, so it's no big deal really.

RegularJohn
09-21-2008, 04:31 AM
Looks good. Reminds me a bit of the first green/dark themed forum :)
Good job cRush!

Sytner
09-21-2008, 05:05 AM
Looks good to me, nice work cRush.

Nightshade
09-21-2008, 05:16 AM
Looks nice and new.....lol i thought i'd hit the wrong link at first:D

Nightshade
09-21-2008, 05:24 AM
Well you just have to see what you have access too, don't you?!...nice one Crush :D

Jazza
09-21-2008, 06:47 AM
I like


:D

ZerohourUK
09-21-2008, 07:14 AM
well cushty

if it had a hole id bang it

cRush
09-21-2008, 08:03 AM
If it helps I'm using Opera (newest), and I'm on XP.
I got my contrast and brightness at about 75

I also wasn't a fan of the buttons.

I know you're working your ass off. Not trying to be an ass or anything, just trying to be honest.

However, I did like how it was easier to navigate.

You should try using your brightness and contrast at at least 90%. You will probably find your in game graphics to look better too. But, anyways, I will see if I can lighten the default text in posts and other places a shade or two and also I will try to make the text on the "New Thread", "New Reply", and "Donate" buttons a little darker so they stand out more.

Also, since I didn't make the header and orange nav buttons, It's hard for me to control them. Best I can do is have them overlap the logo on lower resolutions, though it is hard for me to fathom why anyone would use less than 1024x768 :P

Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming.

Ashur
09-21-2008, 08:27 AM
<3 crush

okegima
09-21-2008, 08:49 AM
news theme is cool. rebellion power !

Tothix
09-21-2008, 09:11 AM
Sick.

Uli
09-21-2008, 09:31 AM
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h193/SWG-Uli/screenShot0037-1.jpg <- so a copy of that, thief lol

I really gotta alter that UI mod and add some more orange onto the top of the boxes and maybe the border/frame have orange around.


but anyway the new theme is nice

Ascher
09-21-2008, 11:44 AM
Looks great!

L'aasin
09-21-2008, 11:46 AM
Nicely arranged,
clear,
concise,
easy to look at,
with a definitely Star Wars flair to it.

Good job on the new look!

Obten Ebrator
09-21-2008, 11:47 AM
I dunno... looks a little rebelish to me...

Quentin Taos
09-21-2008, 11:52 AM
I really love the orange, looks good. :)

I dunno... looks a little rebelish to me...

lol, you can always change it back. :-p

imist
09-21-2008, 02:28 PM
Awesome job! Its been great to see all the progress ! keep up the kick ass work! :D

Sunahamaru
09-21-2008, 03:20 PM
What makes it hard to see? Maybe we can improve on it with feedback...

I just have trouble with reds its not the actual forum thats bad.

darran
09-21-2008, 03:50 PM
Well done!

Etheco
09-21-2008, 04:13 PM
This theme is very nice, Nice work :D

SethonC.
09-21-2008, 05:15 PM
Woohoo. Skin ftw.

metalhomicide
09-21-2008, 05:22 PM
...though it is hard for me to fathom why anyone would use less than 1024x768 :P

Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming.

Oh, I use 1024x768. It's only a slight 100-pixel lead to the right, I wouldn't worry about it. :)

macszumus
09-21-2008, 05:59 PM
Impressive.......most impressive.

PreCU_or_JarJar_Gets_it
09-21-2008, 06:01 PM
This is hawt... Thank you.

_DM_
09-21-2008, 07:13 PM
I was waiting for that ^_^
Nicely done!

Newsound
09-21-2008, 07:40 PM
Very nice work!. i do think though that the chat text could be brighter.

Dialgo
09-21-2008, 07:55 PM
very nice job guys!

Klanagh
09-21-2008, 08:16 PM
New Forums look very impressive. Good job on them!

ObieOnce
09-21-2008, 08:17 PM
Great job! Really like the new look!

apowerr
09-21-2008, 08:50 PM
Looks great, the site is consistent now =D

Valoram
09-21-2008, 09:03 PM
wow! It looks great guys!
Awesome job!!!

SWGManiac
09-21-2008, 10:08 PM
What I love most is how a lot of the icons have pre-cu esque looks to them (you know, the command buttons). Great job, seriously! :D

Lantic
09-22-2008, 12:05 AM
WoW! good job crush!

malthol
09-22-2008, 01:36 AM
Very nice looking. But now the blue in my sig doesn't match the forum, heh.

melikStarsider
09-22-2008, 01:47 AM
Lovin it!

chemojay
09-22-2008, 02:48 AM
I think makes the site look much nicer. Thanks for the skin!

Hideaki
09-22-2008, 05:54 AM
Very good job on the theme. I really like it.

xavia
09-22-2008, 06:10 AM
Very nice, well done!

lonejedi8
09-22-2008, 06:32 AM
./applauds nice job and finished look to forums.

Fenikss74
09-22-2008, 07:55 AM
Nice, i like it :D

toilet_duck
09-22-2008, 11:31 AM
This theme is great! Ties in very nicely with the main page.

denerictkm
09-22-2008, 06:42 PM
this new theme is quite smexy

cable-odinson
09-23-2008, 06:25 AM
love the look!!!

KroniK
09-23-2008, 12:51 PM
Emm sexy! Good job. Me likey.

Vrej
09-25-2008, 07:59 PM
I didn't like the new theme at first, but then I went back to the old one and foudn it hurt my eyes due to brightness.

Thanks cRush, the new theme is much easier for extended viewing!

dedaskalion
10-03-2008, 04:27 PM
Word.

Seriously though it looks really good.

toro45
10-05-2008, 03:12 AM
A lil late but hey,

Nice job cRush looks great

Kaigeos
10-07-2008, 02:09 PM
The new forum theme is awesome. Great job guys.

Timbab
10-08-2008, 11:42 AM
The Closed icon needs to be redone, that's like one of the only ones not done yet.

PhantomLeader
10-08-2008, 12:10 PM
Also, with the upgrade to vB 3.7, there are a few other things that don't look quite right, such as the private message interface, among others.
We'll try to get these fixed as soon as possible. :)

Tothix
10-08-2008, 03:52 PM
The colour is a bit messed, I have to use the old skin to make my wacky posts.:(

washproof
10-09-2008, 07:18 PM
i have a better quality copy of the banner if you want it?

RuMp
10-24-2008, 03:02 PM
Shouldn't

"Profession Testing and Balance
Forums dedicated to the testing and re-balance of professions."

be considered a subsection of SWGEmu General (category)? or is it supposed to be a category in and of itself? It looks a bit strange having a black background right next to the General category. It seems indented as though it should have an icon to the left of it and is similar to the subsections.

Morik
11-11-2008, 10:29 AM
Nice job, cRUSH. Thanx:)

Runny
11-11-2008, 10:51 AM
Necro-posting much?