Skins for dom 2
 

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

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

Cheers,
Thomas

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Seems it's more pleasant for the eyes than the original that comes with dom2 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

I'll give it a try...

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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 ]

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

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At the start
http://arrakis.unimo.it/~ligabue/dom2/screen1.jpg
during the games

http://arrakis.unimo.it/~ligabue/dom2/screen2.jpg


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

Re: Skins for dom 2
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">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):

http://www.odditorium.net/Illuminated.jpg


Stone and Steel (good for Vanheim and Ulm):

http://www.odditorium.net/Stone.jpg


And Bloodstone (evil Dominions rejoice!):

http://www.odditorium.net/Bloodstone.jpg


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:

http://www.odditorium.net/Mix.jpg

Enjoy!

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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?

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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!!" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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These skins are COOL !!! &lt;img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" /&gt;

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