No, not skinning the programmers. Programmers skinning the UI.

If anyone remembers some of the screenshots from about a year ago, before we embarked on the complete C2 UI overhaul, we had cool background images on all the different station tabs. I decided to find them again, even though *someone* deleted them, and put one up in one of the tabs just to see how it would look with the new UI.



This is at 50% opacity and set as the background of the table. I do think it makes things look a little bit less-boring.

Also, I made it so your credits in the top bar say "7.62b" instead of "7,624,234,235".

Oh, here are some images of the UI from a years ago:

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/4108/tradeix9.jpg
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/566/bullitenth5.jpg

You guys have come a long way with the UI. I'm proud of you :p

Can you add in different uis and we can choose which one we want to use.

Or, give us the option to use C1 ui in C2(if possible)?

You will be able to edit the XML files, and possibly image files too, so there will probably be people who will make C1 look-a-likes.

And hopefully they will share their work :p

I'm still hoping someone will make a skin to look like the ye olde UI.

qft

I hope the inventory bar won't remain like that o.O....I'd hate to not see the difference between a Solar Panel and a Solar Panel IV unless i clicked on them.

the only thing i have is this :S

I have everything from that time, and I did make a UI similar to that time...

But it's possibly the buggiest UI ever

<3


Also the first screen shot on image shack is nice. The planets look good.

As a mini-guide of C2 skinning, instead of editing the files in place, you actually create a new folder in the Contents dir. Say you wanted to edit the placement of something in the Inventory:

1. Create Contents/<newSkinName>/ next to Contents/Default
2. Copy the appropriate file from Contents/Default/<dir1>/<dir2> to Contents/<newSkinName>/<dir1>/<dir2>
3. Make the changes you want to make to the file
4. Change the UserConfig.xml packages attribute to read 'packages="<newSkinName> Default"' instead of 'packages="Default"'

This will tell C2 to first look in <newSkinName> for the files it needs, then revert to Default for anything it doesn't find. You can chain many of these packages to apply multiple mods. (Eventually we'll have a UI mod manager as well).

Lastly, the packages attribute can also read in zip files, so you could place a zip file named <newSkinName>.zip in Contents/ and add it to the packages in the same way, and it would read it.

pip

PS. if anyone wants to wiki this that'd be great. Just pm me if you think details are missing.

*shrug*

http://wiki.starsonata.com/index.php/Client_Skinning

from the screeny i think the names scroll under the picture sort of like the in HTML.

just a guess though.

The names do scroll and its not the inventory, its the command bar (allows you to see what you have hotkeyed and invoke those hotkeys with your mouse).