Horizonz: Future Concept Art

Last time i released concepts in here, there was a mixed reaction, but it was leaning more in the direction of not cool than cool... kinda think a few of u are a bit too conformist... the weirdo's and strange people loved it... hmmm... i take back that comment...

Nyways, after the feedback for the last set of concepts, I've been busy working my butt off, but i've luckily run into some free time for a short while and i pile my mind into some concept art for now...

nyways, from ur suggestions... a lot of u prefer the glass look of horizonz of old and so, with that in mind, i will change my last concepts to look more slick and professional (how boring does that sound)... no one liked the new home focus label idea... so i guess ill take it out and save myself extra coding... it'll look good, so i hope u guys don't attack this idea as much as the last, because i don't want to go back to the drawing board again after these concepts come out!?!?!?

I have to agree mate. The new concepts felt more Vauxhall Vectra than Audi R8

Horizonz has been the best of late because its so smooth and sleek, best to stay in that area!

xb2iris,
you're welcome to send some screens or a beta skin my way, you know I will always give you a 100% fair assessment, and I'll be nice about it.

xb2iris Wrote:it'll look good, so i hope u guys don't attack this idea as much as the last, because i don't want to go back to the drawing board again after these concepts come out!?!?!?

The downside of taking over a skin that was started by someone else and that already had a following as large as Aeon is that it's not fully your project as much as it almost belongs to the community. Most users are going to want something that stays in line with the original idea of a skin...not the deviations you were proposing.

To be honest...this is why I lost a lot of interest in Horizonz. I know it's your project now, but the whole reason I started using it was because of the "boring" simplicity of it. I don't require more flash-bang graphics, weird angles, or shiny brushed-metal textures. Simple and sexy was just fine for me.

But, it is your mod, and I'm not trying to dissuade you from doing your thing. Just offering my two cents on the matter...

I think they best thing to do is that if you want to go in a direction away from Horizonz IV then it needs to be called something else, a new skin.

If its called Horizonz 5 it needs to be an evolution of IV not a revolution

Hey XB2Iris...

Can you take a look at the File mode / showcase with the latest SVN's?
After a while it shows an overlay which is empty.

I think it's a bug which stayed unnoticed because most use the Library view... In Library-mode this information is there....
I don't have enough experience to repair this myself.

I did change the delay to 8 seconds which is more appropriate because it already takes 2 seconds to display the fanart....

I also put in a bit of transparency... (80% opaque) on showcasefilter2.png and showcasefilter4.png. Maybe a little bit higher is better (less transparency)
This will show you more of the fanart. With some backdrops it's quite annoying that a certain part is completely invisible.
The episodehighlight.png became some transparency as well in my own mod.

It'll be fixed before next release if XB2Iris and I ever get around to trading files.. I fixed it up when you first mentioned it, but there's still a bit more that needs to be fixed.. I've been using library all this time and just recently realized how screwed file mode is..

There's also something strange with the TV-episodes...

lets see them screens lol

xb2iris Wrote:so i guess ill take it out and save myself extra coding... it'll look good, so i hope u guys don't attack this idea as much as the last, because i don't want to go back to the drawing board again after these concepts come out!?!?!?

Professional is they type of style that can be used for a long time without people getting sick of it, or finding hard to use...

Most people would prefer a professional looking skin because they can use it for a long time - at the moment, I'm still using Aeon most of the time, because the design doesn't date

If you want to have a skin that will be regarded as a 'classic', then you want one where the design will stand the test of time