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Originally posted by pani0202:
The whole point of the Hellenic Skins since FM 2005 was to "unclatter" the screen and make the game experience better and easier to the eye. I never claimed that my skins are "groundbraking" or "drastically original". If they were then Ter should start worrying about his full time job at SI as a graphic designer! (you REALLY don't have to worry Ter :p)
I create the Hellenic skins for fun, mainly for my own enjoyment, but I also share them with the community.
If they appeal to some people and they enjoy playing the game with my skins, that makes me happy. If they don't, that's still ok.
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I'm tainted in how I look at skins being a skinner myself. I always think how long it'll have taken the skinner to make, look for the clever minor details etc, inventive use of graphics and xml. It does take a lot to impress me

. That's why I'm never really a fan of the 'less is more' thing. I do actually agree with you though, Flexion is a bit busy for my tastes and the skin is far calmer looking so will be popular. I think it's very possible to make something calm and easy on the eye whilst being creative and original though - look at some of anderssons's work.
I suppose I was just expecting something of an evolution in terms of design and quality. the FM05 skin was a basic recolour but the FM 06 skin tried something different with the nice looking silver/metal titlebar.
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Originally posted by pani0202:
I share your concern about the menubar buttons, I'm not a big fan of them and I'm hoping that I will eventually find some time to change them soon. I don't have any ideas at this point so if you have any suggestions go ahead and let me know.
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Not sure really but I think some nice rounded buttons or something like that would be better than using the default ones
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Originally posted by pani0202:
The competition logos are still there, they appear in the competition screens as seen in paulinho's screenshot:
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I meant the ones that appear on the left normally - like the league logo when you look at the club. It's no biggie but it'd be nice to see them somewhere.
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Originally posted by pani0202:
Could I have altered the top bar drastically as you suggest?
Sure I could, but instead I chose to keep one side of the bar the same so that the users can utilize and take advantage of the wonderful job done by all these people who are making the logos to match the Flexion skin design.
Unfortunately these logos are not usable by any other skin so far and I think it's a waste.
Could I have designed the top bar around these skins?
I tried several designs, none worked very well.
Let me know if you have any specific ideas and I'll try to incorporate them in one of the next updates of the skin.
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It is very possible. You can get away with ahving a titlebar of 60-65px high. All that happens is that the top and bottom of the bowtie background logos get cut off (if you have the right layering order). It just looks like a regular straight logo. Any bigger it starts to show the curve though. Whilst this can cause some problems becasue the logos are 75 high, with a bit of though the logos could be sited elsewhere (or overlapping like in the'inverno' skin WIP).
Whilst it is a shame to lose them bacground logos - I don't think it's a major issue to not have them (like in 'goal'). Certainly, it's a shame to stick with the bowtie effect just so they fit.
Keep up the skinning though mate - I'm sure this'll suit thousands of people :thup: