[wip] winamp skin

[aaronspuler]

I had another idea for a winamp skin. This one would have a full mode and a compact mode, and like the Orion skin the full mode would have a song progress bar and song name where the compact mode would not.

Compact:

Full:

Here are some ideas about where I could lay out buttons.

Compact:

Full:

Comments?

[vip]

i think it looks awesome, would love to see it! :D

[Korneliouz]

Why dont you changue the equalizer to the left arm of the transformer, that way you can locate it better IMO. :)

[nomis_nehc]

damn, the full mode would be so complicated. =/

[cmove]

lol yes i like the compact version.

[aaronspuler]

I think I'll try to make it next week. And I want to keep the eq where it is for some consistency between the compact and full modes. And I think I know how to make it show a manual page, which I'll include both of those legend images in.

[eevoo]

That will be sweet, just one minor thing please, please don't make him purple like in that pic.

He is ment to be blue, a nice dark blue/deep purple, not that purple pink it's got going on there.

At least that is how I remember him. :)

[Apollo]

well you are ambitious

[Hekx]

Transformers!

Looks good, but that will be very hard to do I think.

The detail alone might cause some performance problems.

Maybe trying a cel-shaded style?

[Rablet]

That will be sweet, just one minor thing please, please don't make him purple like in that pic.

He is ment to be blue, a nice dark blue/deep purple, not that purple pink it's got going on there.

At least that is how I remember him. :)

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Yes, that is correct, he is blue in the movies.

I really like the idea. This could make me use WinAmp again (instead of Foobar).

*Turns on tracking of topic*

[aaronspuler]

To address some concerns of people, I tried to re-color soundwave to be more true to the blue that we remember him being on the cartoon. Also, I'm considering moving around the buttons some. The idea to have a hover effect that tells what the button function is appeals to me.

Small:

Large:

Button idea:

[fukachu]

man i would love the compact version. looks gerat goodluck!

[#47]

To complex IMO.

[Meshuggah]

somehow you should make an animation effect where the transformer turns into full mode....lol....i think this is going to be impossible to do man....but good luck

[bryzzz]

this skin would be freakin awesome, good luck

[eevoo]

To address some concerns of people, I tried to re-color soundwave to be more true to the blue that we remember him being on the cartoon.  Also, I'm considering moving around the buttons some. The idea to have a hover effect that tells what the button function is appeals to me.

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Much better color. :D And your idea for the buttons are pretty much exactly like

they are on him, except pause is record, but winamp has no record so (Y).

[asdflkjsdrhthfhrhr]

Okay, but you should re-vector the image so you can add stuff that you need and it will look good

[aaronspuler]

If I could get someone to vector it for me that would be great, but I don't know how to do that...

[Vidar]

Just an option. Was working on this earlier this year. Go Autobots!

[aaronspuler]

Updated the first post with recolored versions, and different button configuration.

Vidar, you have any more images? Or if I gave you my *.psd file, could you vectorize it for me?

Edited January 24, 2005 by aaronspuler

[aaronspuler]

This is what I was thinking about for the Equalizer window background.

[aaronspuler]

Here's a progress shot, this is a screenshot of the skin in action in Winamp. I have all the buttons mapped out, I just want to add a few hover effects and then I'll call the robot version done.

[vip]

awesome, cant wait for this! :D

[Alex_is_Axel]

isnt there any way you can rotate the <now playing> text to the same angle as the shape? I think that would be alot better but ive never seen it as an angle before. Just a thought :)

[JorgeIvan]

Nice pics