My MSN Messenger design

[fukachu]

well we like to release 100% finished skins thats all.. hell.. i'd have my current skin out already if it wasnt for me wanting to skin every part of msn messenger possible, not just the usualy bits people skin. theunknown and i like to put the extra effort and time into our skins to give them that polished look. plus we have other projects we are working on. we want to put out quality not quantity :) This skin of mine will be the most work i have ever put into a skin and i expect people to notice the difference with it :) I assure you when we make this trojan skin you can expect the same quality as wave 11 and then some :)

[Tomi]

well we like to release 100% finished skins thats all.. hell.. i'd have my current skin out already if it wasnt for me wanting to skin every part of msn messenger possible, not just the usualy bits people skin.  theunknown and i like to put the extra effort and time into our skins to give them that polished look.  plus we have other projects we are working on.  we want to put out quality not quantity :)  This skin of mine will be the most work i have ever put into a skin and i expect people to notice the difference with it :)  I assure you when we make this trojan skin you can expect the same quality as wave 11 and then some :)

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Ooh. What are you working on? [screenshots?] :D

[fukachu]

i'm not sure if i'll preview it yet.. because then that leads to people asking when it will be out.. and then i give them an estimate and then if something comes up like a bug i havent seen b4 then they all complain cause its not out, lol. If all goes well it will be completed this week however release date is unknown because i have to do 5 colour versions and let a couple of my testers do a check for bugs.

This is about as big a teaser as im willing to give now.. :) i'm at work now so i couldnt show you much more if i awnted too.. just lucky i have an old WIP screen in my email i sent to myself so i cut this bit out.

[Tomi]

Hm, that doesn't give me much of an idea, but good nuff. :p

[Damian]

Hm, that doesn't give me much of an idea, but good nuff. :p

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It looks nice with dark visual styles

There, a little more info :shifty:

(not really much info lol)

[former1]

i'm not sure if i'll preview it yet.. because then that leads to people asking when it will be out.. and then i give them an estimate and then if something comes up like a bug i havent seen b4 then they all complain cause its not out, lol.  If all goes well it will be completed this week however release date is unknown because i have to do 5 colour versions and let a couple of my testers do a check for bugs.

This is about as big a teaser as im willing to give now.. :) i'm at work now so i couldnt show you much more if i awnted too.. just lucky i have an old WIP screen in my email i sent to myself so i cut this bit out.

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OMG! :blink: That's amazing! It looks wonderful

When's it coming out?! :D ... I know I just had to do it.. I'm sorry :pinch: *goes and stands in the corner*

[fukachu]

pretty useless post.. anyway theunknown and i pretty much have a little policy that we dont preview our skins.. we just make em and release them when they are done.. since i was requested this was all i felt like sharing.

[-scorpio-]

pretty useless post.. anyway theunknown and i pretty much have a little policy that we dont preview our skins.. we just make em and release them when they are done.. since i was requested this was all i felt like sharing.

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good policy (Y) but the outcome is important if the skin is good then it will be very popular but if the skin is bad it will go down big time :)

[fukachu]

one thing i have noticed about skins.. you make something that is easy on the eyes and can fit with styles people use and you do it well, the means complete then it will do well. A problem is many of the skins that fly out have been done in just a couple of days and not enough time and effort put into them. I know there will be people that dont like my skin. but from those that i have shown they like it. No skin can please everyone but if skinners want their skins to do well they must put the effort in.

To be honest.. i expect a future skin im going to work on after trojans design to be more successful then my current one. This being because when theunknown saw my skin he got inspired to implement backgrounds into wave 11 and the effect is there are similarities. no doubt because we work together that was always going to happen but prior to that this was still quite a different skin. The other skin im going to do will see some changes to layout and should please many.

Now i do have a question for the people out there.. is any1 skilled at doing bitmaps in 16x16 with magic pink. The usualy tricks to make transparent bitmaps dont work with msn. you have to make each pixel a solid colour. I'm struggling to think of a good icon for this skin and make the bitmap look good. If some1 reading this is good with this i would appreciate a PM :)

[Enviar]

Alright, people... I have a new account now, under the name Enviar. In retrospect, I should have posted this under the name 'Trojan', but I already scrapped the acount so I'm doing it now. I kind of wish you could just change your username, but whatever.

P.-S. Just to clarify... I am Trojan, on a new account. Thanks.

[jakej]

Looks awesome! Which font did you use in the mockup?

[Vice]

ok I updated the Contact list (fixed buttons updated the song announce and so on)

and I added a conversation window mx2 was a good sport  :happy:

there will be one more screen shot after this before I start making the actual theme (I may redo the icons I'm not sure)

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Did not think I would ever reply to this thread again :rofl:

Anyway if anyone still likes this Milk mockup I made I plan to port it to Nova Messenger eventually once we reach RC2.

[Rickie_sta]

Alright, people... I have a new account now, under the name Enviar. In retrospect, I should have posted this under the name 'Trojan', but I already scrapped the acount so I'm doing it now. I kind of wish you could just change your username, but whatever.

P.-S. Just to clarify... I am Trojan, on a new account. Thanks.

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You can, multiple accounts are not allowed.

Kthxbye :rofl:

[Enviar]

You can, multiple accounts are not allowed.

Kthxbye  :rofl:

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Hmm... that confuses me. You can change your name? I deleted the other account, I thought. So that isn't allowed?

[Sean B. Veteran]

Okay, after reading this friggin 30 something page long thread, I've quoted MOST of the mockups. I am wondering if ANY of these have became any skins, and if not is ANYONE planning on dev any of thses?

Well, I know there was a forum somewhere where you could post your MSN Messenger mockups, but I couldn't find it... so I thought I'd just share mine with you. This design just popped into my head, and took me about 3 hours to successfully create. Most of the graphics are based on Longhorn screenshots, but some are just from XP. Messenger 7 looks really cool, but this is better. :yes:

Enjoy!

P.S. This is just a MOCKUP, an image created in Photoshop. I haven't actually coded anything.

Yet. :ninja:

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Awesome skin, whats the status of this? Making it a MSN Skin or what?

Here is my design:

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Awesome skin, whats the status of this? Making it a MSN Skin or what?

Here's another idea... I think most of it should be possible. I call it "Element" with fire, water, and grass colour themes. What do you guys think?

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Awesome skin, whats the status of this? Making it a MSN Skin or what?

White version:

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Awesome skin, whats the status of this? Making it a MSN Skin or what?

My humble attempt at a concept... seeing as I was bored and everyone else was doin it ;)

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Awesome skin, whats the status of this? Making it a MSN Skin or what?

I know i have already posted this but here is my concept

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Awesome skin, whats the status of this? Making it a MSN Skin or what?

I think this might be a challenge, but it sure is darn purdy. My third concept so far...

And very nice work, Godspeed. Nice and simplistic!

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Awesome skin, whats the status of this? Making it a MSN Skin or what?

I got in the spirit and spent a little time in Photoshop.

This is what I came up with Milk (the theme for OS X which became a port to Windows) on MSN Messenger. I mite turn this into a real theme (I have made themes for MSN builds before) lets see how it goes eh?. This is Alpha Photoshop Concept everything you see can be changed / modified to your liking.

ps here is a link to the Milk theme for Mac OS X.

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Awesome skin, whats the status of this? Making it a MSN Skin or what?

My latest work (60 % completed)

Royal Inspirat edition

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Awesome skin, whats the status of this? Making it a MSN Skin or what?

Yey, done the contact list again :)

Dosen't look as good as last time but i' gonna work on it some more :happy:

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Awesome skin, whats the status of this? Making it a MSN Skin or what?

I made a concept and here it is.

Comments welcome.

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Awesome skin, whats the status of this? Making it a MSN Skin or what?

Here's my newest... virtually impossible. Anyone up for a challenge? :p

We'll see... :ninja:

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Awesome skin, whats the status of this? Making it a MSN Skin or what?

I have spoken to RDD about this Trojan and i will make this skin. RDD designed a chat window to go with this and everything he designed can be done. This CL can also be done as long as it has the solid colour behind it.

I will make this with colour variations just like theunknown did with wave11. I'm wanting to get in contact with you but RDD said you wouldnt be around till next weekend.

Possibly RDD has showed you a preview of the skin he designed that i have nearly completed. If not i will show you ove msn messenger Trojan. i dont want the public to see it until its final. which could be a matter of 1 or 2 weeks.

If your skin as the same chat window design as what RDD showed me to match it then i can have this skin done pretty quickly because much of it is layed out similar to the skin i have already made.

This skin can definately be done.

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Any updates on that???

Edited June 21, 2005 by Mess.be Fanatic

[levianthen]

that's pretty sweet, i'd use it

[KitCh]

Some of those concept skins are friggin' amazing :woot:

[enigma-penguin Veteran]

I did actually start those crazy water colour ones

I started afew, but then got way too busy to finish them, a nice fella called Jaymach has actually updated trojans xenon concept and the gmess skin to work with with the present msn build, the rest will probably not be finished :p

http://enigma-penguin.net/images/632.PNG <-gmess

http://enigma-penguin.info/files/Dev.PNG <- some stupid totally white thing I did

http://enigma-penguin.net/images/Fire_red.PNG <- the watercolour one

http://enigma-penguin.info/skin.png <- trojans original one

Creds to Fizical and the-unknown for doing great work on some of the concepts I've looked through this thread, you guys do great work. Every skin here is doable to a degree, but it takes skill like these guys have to do it, (Y) nicely done guys.

[fukachu]

First of all thanks enigma for the kind words, i know your over on the mac and if you had limited time to use a computer i wouldnt be on a PC either.

I have a new iMac myself and i hate using windows but i enjoy making skins so i make the time for it :)

completed except different icons used because microsoft asked enhanced not to use those ones.

you can find it at my site (and theunknowns as its the same :p)

http://www.afizicalprence.com

Back when msn 7 was in beta i had made this. however because icons werent allowed to be used i stopped it. the icons are really what made this skin but dont worry we have some nice skins comming out in the next month or so :)

Expect this skin on the comming weekend. we are really pushing to get it done, its about 90% done but its the small bits that are a pain to complete that we gotta work on now. will come in many many many colours just like wave11 did. We are calling it Wave 11 : Glass, well atleast thats the current name :)

As for future mockups.. they can be submitted to my email if you would like them made, however keep in mind only those designs that stand out above the rest will be made. and ofcourse there is another skin to be made b4 any others.

email me at [email protected]

[Sean B. Veteran]

Thanks for the update Fizical ;).

Enigma, were can you download the following (I believe you said they were updated?)?

http://enigma-penguin.net/images/Fire_red.PNG

http://enigma-penguin.info/files/Dev.PNG

http://enigma-penguin.info/skin.png

[enigma-penguin Veteran]

Only gmess and the xenon concept were update, but not by me. check your private messages for the links jaymach gave me (Y).

[rootwiler]

MSN 7.0.0816 was released just the other day.. does that G Messenger work on that?

[beanboy89]

Somthing I made in MSPaint...

Note: This is only a mockup, not a working design.

[porky]

Heh... I'll keep you guys workin' forever.

Alright. Newest concept which I'm SURE people will love, based on the newer builds of MS Longhorn. If I had my way, you would be able to make the search bar use google, or search your computer... and the little "I" button would toggle the search bar on and off. I have concepts in orange, purple and green, too. I'm only showing the grey and blue though. Here you are:

[BigGiantHead]

very nice