ChaNinja Style Icons & DLL's Project

[ChaNinja]

ChaNinja, what are the chances of you doing something similar with your block os remake icons :)

Very high! I still love BlockOS! Not sure if you noticed but it had a big influence on my new icons e.g. the document type icons. It'll be a long way down the roadmap though, gotta finish these icons before I forget how I made them!

[ChaNinja]

BTW I'll be curious, could you give us the list of programs you used to make them? (that's not simple photoshop evidently :p)

I used Cinema 4D XL for the main part of the designs, then exported to Photoshop for shadows and touchups, then finally to Axialis Icon Workshop for compilation. GIF Movie gear helped a great deal with the animations (timing and optimizing). Photoshop's Automate/Batch functionality was extremely helpful with the animations. I will try my best to make a detailed tutorial soon, time is really playing hard-to-get these days!

[RaQ]

heh and when is your site going to be up?? its completely done everything worked from my point of view try it!

[ChaNinja]

Is there a Winamp Skin? That would be smooth!

I was definately gonna make one but I'm addicted to Foobar 2000 now and if I do make a Winamp skin it'll be purely for you guys as I'll have no use for it.

The main reason I dig Foobar is cos of its excellent Global Hotkey functionality. I've set it up so that I can do anything and everything I need to do with the player without having to switch out of whichever app I'm using or without touching my mouse. Its great when you're "in a zone" and don't want to shift your concentration from what you're doing. I use mostly [ALT + Keypad] and [CTRL + keypad] combinations. You just have to make sure you don't make conflicting hotkey settings with other apps like Photoshop e.g. CTRL + "-" and CTRL + "+" is a no-no.

Also it uses my VS elements for the default skin. Matches perfectly ;) .

I'm aware of the "BlueAmp" addon for Winamp that allows for global hotkeys but its not nearly as comprehensive as Foobar's!

So Winamp is very low on my priorities but I may just do one for you later :)

[ChaNinja]

heh and when is your site going to be up?? its completely done everything worked from my point of view try it!

:( Don't remind me about my site RaQ, its a case of "So close, yet SO far!" Bottom line is its not ready to go live until I sort out a major bug in the Admin section. Lemme just say that I think you'll all be very happy with the site when its finally live. You'll be able to communicate one-to-one with me, and all my work will be carefully categorized, described and available. No tedious packages, releases etc. Everything will be downloadable in their components so you can download only what you want. It'll have more than just themes btw.

Oh and a good friend of mine Sven (who's also supposed to help me with my site :angry: ) has bought the www.chaninja.com domain name for me woohoo!!! I was getting worried some little punk would grab it just to **** me off! Whew!

[Stylez Ray.]

ok, i just looked for the icons which i think should be in the set! if you would do them in "ChaNinja" style, it would be really cool. but in the end its your thing if you do them or not. its all up to you! just have a look!

[ChaNinja]

ok, i just looked for the icons which i think should be in the set! if you would do them in "ChaNinja" style, it would be really cool. but in the end its your thing if you do them or not. its all up to you! just have a look!

I can do those no problem. Most of them look like toolbar icons...can you tell me where they appear please RayVN? And I think I've already done that last one, its the "Default Icon".

Anyone else want to add to this? Please have a think and do so now, so far I have to do the Control Panel (category view ones), toolbar icons and the ones RayVN showed above. And Cameras and Scanners (can't believe none of you mentioned that!). What else?

[Stylez Ray.]

i replaced the shell32.dll with the one you can download here, but the default icon is still the same, it didnt change! i'll have a look in the shell and change it myself...

all the icons i showed are in the left site of a folder, i think its called webview, isnt it? but it think you know what i mean, just this thing on the left side with all the handy links, like copy or delete a file. and there is the shutdown icon (logoff is useless, i removed it from my startmenu). hope this helps

[AndyD]

Very high! I still love BlockOS! Not sure if you noticed but it had a big influence on my new icons e.g. the document type icons. It'll be a long way down the roadmap though, gotta finish these icons before I forget how I made them!

I can see the influence :) Looking fwd to it

[Guest Beh]

those dll replacement avi's are the sweetest ive seen :D :D :D

[Flash]

amazing icons and avi animations, top quality work :D

[RaQ]

sweet cha will i still be able to host you btw, if you want www.chaninja.com to go to http://www.alexkelm.com/~chaninja etc so if you type chaninja.com/blah it is just like a real domain you'll ever knew you were hosted by me.. :)... :( ;)

[Flash]

oh bummer, how do i change the ie icon again? the blue e hurts my eyes, i like chaninja's better :)

[RaQ]

oh btw i meant if you want www.chaninja.com to go to your folder with no URL redirect but act like a real domain my provider charges $25 one time fee so.. if you wish to my paypal is [email protected] okay? ;) btw i'm not getting any profit etc.

[Bizkit]

I would just like the ones that are in Internet Explorer, but I think that I heard you say that you would do those later. It's cool. I guess that I can wait.

I would also like the mp3, mpeg, and avi, zip. That would be the best. Thanks.

[requiem]

Awesome icons ChaNinja.

Keep up good work.

[Gary_Player]

ChaNinja is my hero!

[idioot]

WOW! great icons! keep up the good work :)

[Sammy20]

Hey Chaninja,

Those AVI animations are incredible! I love them all.

They really brought my desktop to life. Thanks mate, your a champ.

As for the icons, I like them all, except the folder open and close ones. There is too much white on them.

In your AVI animations there is a picture of a folder, and that looks a lot better than the one in your icon set. It has a nice shade of grey instead of flat white.

[CyberKewl]

I like the AVI animations but i think they're a bit too fast (i only tested the IE download animations).

[Redmak Administrators]

Great :D

[+BeLGaRaTh Subscriber¹]

WOW!!! .. a post from Redmak ... this thread is honoured :p

[Redmak Administrators]

Yep, I only post in worthy threads.

Too bad I'm unable to download anything now that I'm at home (links don't work) :(

[Viruz]

This is why I love the cnaninja visual styles. thanks so much

[whYeNQue]

i think the faster animations make my computer look like its going fast! every little addition just makes me want more stuff, i cant wait till the webstie is up... i wonder what other dll's can/will be modded :D