Skins for dom 2

johan osterman · #1 August 3rd, 2004, 09:23 PM

Bes Sones has made a few alternative skins for dom 2. You can get them from the mods page.

guybrush threepwood · #2 August 4th, 2004, 12:21 PM

Anyone care to post a few screenshots of the new look?

Cheers,
Thomas

Thilock_Dominus · #3 August 4th, 2004, 07:10 PM

Seems it's more pleasant for the eyes than the original that comes with dom2

I'll give it a try...

Gandalf Parker · #4 August 4th, 2004, 07:27 PM

Looks nice.

Does it affect the screen "behind" the maps?
I keep thinking that someone should do a Version of that with a keypress chart around the rim so that it shows in the map view when you scroll to the edge.

[ August 04, 2004, 18:28: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

daesthai · #5 August 4th, 2004, 09:48 PM

Yes, the background behind the map changes...its a repeating circle pattern.

liga · #6 August 5th, 2004, 01:27 AM

At the start

during the games

It will be nice to have nations/themes specific skins and a easy to use perl script (or widget) to chenge them ...

good play
Liga

Ben Sones · #7 August 5th, 2004, 06:51 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by guybrush threepwood:
Anyone care to post a few screenshots of the new look?

Sure thing! (I'm the guy who designed the themes). It started out as a personal project. I wanted something with a Gothic feel--brighter and more colorful than the default graphics, and higher resolution (I play at 1600x1200; the themes will scale to whatever resolution you play at, however). Then a few folks asked me to do some specific variations, and now the Gothic theme comes in three different flavors...

Illuminated (sort of an illuminated manuscript look):

Stone and Steel (good for Vanheim and Ulm):

And Bloodstone (evil Dominions rejoice!):

I think Johan put an earlier prototype theme in the .zip on the Illwinter site, as well. Also, you can mix and match the guiborder2 and mapbg files; currently I'm using the Bloodstone background with the gold-rimmed Illuminated menus, and it's sort of growing on me:

Enjoy!

#8 August 5th, 2004, 08:04 AM

What I wouldn't give for a truly oriential Themed one for T'ien Ch'i. Of course I'm biased.

They all look terrific Ben. Have you considered reskinning a few other portions or are they to muddled to do exactly how you'd like?

guybrush threepwood · #9 August 5th, 2004, 08:41 AM

Thanks a lot for the screenshots - and for making the themes of course!!

They look really really cool, but now of course we will all be like spoiled children and go "more, more, more!!"

Ivan Pedroso · #10 August 5th, 2004, 08:58 AM

These skins are COOL !!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" />

I didn't even know that changing this was possible - Thumbs up Bes !!!