So Much Christmas, so little time.

Skinning Chritmas, Day 4, Part 1, and Day 6 Part 1

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OK, so I eded up finishing the Windowblinds skin on the plain to California. Bringing us to a total of 34 hours on the Windowblinds skin. More then I wanted but not to bad over all. But now from the Starbucks in San Bernardino California. I have the chance to update the blog, and explain why I have been MIA for the last 2 days.

I spent yesterday doing the Icons and the wall, though I want to tweak the wall a bit more so Im not showing it here. Icons ended up takeing about 5 1/2 hours, and I only did the "Core 24" as I call them. they are the Icons you see in the XP start panel, as well as the folders. Anyway. I chose to do these sice this skin, and the Icons, are going to be packaged up in a Theme Manager, and I wanted to keep the file size relatively small. I plan on finishing up the rest of the Iconpack on my own time, and will try and get it up on wincutomize.com sometime in the first week of December.

I ran into a few glitches, which is why the skin took longer then I thought. I got it into my head to animate the XPStartpanel User pane. And ran into a problem with the size. But With help form Adam and Neil we got it working. Also. I decided that I did not like my original Tiltlebars. And had to redo them. And I also redid all the Menus, tab pages, and toolbar backgrounds, to get a good Tiling Pattern for the Snowflakes.

Soon as I am done with the suite, 100% I will post some of the Source file for people to play with.

Here is a Gif of what the animated User Pane looks like.


Click on the thumbnails below to see the full size images.

Tabs, and the Log On / Off Dialogue

 The Skin and Icons.

More to come....

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Ummmm, WOW!
ObjectDock - Access shortcuts and frequently used applications from an animated dock.
Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
This suit is looking better and better each day, thank you for all of the hard work. It really is wonderful!!!
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
you are simply the best. Can't wait for it, but if i have to i will wait till 1st of December, but still hoping it gets out earlier.
it really looks awesome, sure some might be a bit overexaggerated, but then again it's holiday and somehow perfectly matching. At least there is absolutely NO useful holliday skin out, so yours will be the first, and a real excellent one.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
WOW!! It looks awesome!! I cannot wait to get/use the suite. Thank you so much for your wonderful work!!
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
I love the recurrent blue snowflake theme. I especially like the snow globes.
Where did you get the Stardock icon? - I like it.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
Beautiful. Not sure how you avoided green for Christmas?!? Maybe next year, for a Xmas tree theme!
Great job you're doing. Can't wait.
/D.
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
WOW!! I just love your work Paul Boyer and Merry Christmas, because you give us this....

Keep up the good work... c",)
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
Chirstmas tree ohh Christmas tree,
You are not so beautiful
As Mormegil's new theme
So I don't need you...
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
this looks fantastic!! it makes me want to use it all year round - I love the look of the icons.
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
The anticipation of this skin reminds me of when I was a child waiting for Christmas morning
to open my presents...well at least I can still sleep at night;)
Your work is wonderful...Thank you so much:) I sure wish I could find a cursor that matches
well with the Orion skin. Hint, hint;)
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
I like it. I too am not that much a fan of the title bars... but I'll admit I like them the more I
look at them. I guess the ornament balls are the only thing I still do not like
as much, but its cool.

I really want to know how you worked out the animation on the XP panel with Adam and friends.
I can see that partr being a megabyte by itself. Maybe some trickery in the coding,
or maybe the frames itself repeat in such a way that it looks like it might be 20 frames but
it really is 10.

Overall I think this is great work you have here. I will defianatly be writing about this one and showing it off.
Your very close to ToonXP my friend, very close.
:)
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
oh and the use of the candy cane stripe:

A STROKE OF GENUIS!!!!! I love how the candy cane stripe works in everyway you use it.
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
when will this b out? my wife bugs me daily about it, lol. really nice work, i have not seen a finer skin anywhere...
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
I love the skin the colors, the smoothness, I can't wait. Will it post on stardock? Will it finish soon?
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
........it's the best i've ever seen...........compliment............when it's ready to download???
Best wishes,Peter!
Reply #24 from JoeUser Forums Top

WindowBlinds https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=1&SkinID=3702


Icons https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=2&SkinID=1080


Wallpaper https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=8&SkinID=13955


BootSkin https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=32&SkinID=207


Also Avalible form _Martin_ are some matching DesktopX objects.


Calendar https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=3&SkinID=3104


Snowflakes https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=3&SkinID=3105


And Happy Holidays to all!
Reply #25 from JoeUser Forums Top
thx dude,
wish ya all a superb holyday time. Spend it with your beloved ones!