[Skin Release]hl2.net Blue

[Inflatablewoman]

Here is a "blue" skin for steam, based on the hl2.net forum colours.

Preview:

Download:
http://www.keithball.net/files/blue.zip

Notes:
Inflatablewoman's "Blue" Steam Skin (v1)
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HOW TO:
To install extract skin to your steam/skins directory
Start steam.
Go to "settings", go to the "skins" tab and select "blue"

You now have a blue skin.


CONTACT:
web: http://www.keithball.net
email : [email protected]

 

[simmo]

kewl!! :thumbs:

 

[Zynaps]

The skin system is the lamest i've seen. When they announced skin support i tought you would atleast be able to overlay images on the main GUI like winamp.

Just skinning icons and changing the gui colour sucks.

 

[TripleDES]

Same thought here. Changing colors barely qualifies as skin to me. Then again, I'd like the VGUI2 to be clean, thus I use the shipped "grey" skin.

 

[SLH]

First i want steam to work correctly, then they can add skins...

 

[morpherex]

Very nice, I might be usinig it. I also have a quick question, what's your windows style called? It looks nice aswell.

 

[Dunsel]

Ummm, I don't think that color is blue...

 

[morpherex]

Originally posted by Zynaps
The skin system is the lamest i've seen. When they announced skin support i tought you would atleast be able to overlay images on the main GUI like winamp.

Just skinning icons and changing the gui colour sucks.

You can't change the GUI on winamp 2. Winamp3 is a resource hog, it sucks. You can change the skin as much as you want basically. Quit your moaning and bitching and lets see you use your "1337" photoshop skills.

 

[Nuclear_Gerber]

I loved the clean borders gj

 

[Inflatablewoman]

Originally posted by morpherex
Very nice, I might be usinig it. I also have a quick question, what's your windows style called? It looks nice aswell.

Metallic Shades 2.11
http://www.themexp.org/view_info.php?id=15959

 

[Inflatablewoman]

Originally posted by Nuclear_Gerber
I loved the clean borders gj

thanx.

 

[Parasite]

Originally posted by morpherex
You can't change the GUI on winamp 2. Winamp3 is a resource hog, it sucks. You can change the skin as much as you want basically. Quit your moaning and bitching and lets see you use your "1337" photoshop skills.

Yes you can, its just not "freeform" like WA3. Supposedly, because WA3 was such a flop, they are going to add freeform functionality to WA2, and do away with the bloat of WA3 and WASABI.

Look through your steam .res files in notepad. It looks like it would be relatively easy to move buttons around, add buttons etc. I wont try it untill Steam works itself out and we get some more info from Valve tho.

Personally, I'd like to see them use a simplified freeform skinning like
seen here. Especially considering steam .res files look an awfull lot like those apps .ini files. If you are at all interested in skinning look at thier skin SDK. Extremely simple.

Also, isnt it relatively simple to add XP theme..er.."theme-ability" to an app?

Anyone use Windowblinds? how does Steam interact with that?

BTW Inflatablewoman...looks nice, but the icons need to be colored to match, then I will DL it for sure.

//Edit: Also Inflatable...if you are into skinning/theming, DL "Switch" from the link up there, its an exellent color picker. essential for this type of thing

 

[Inflatablewoman]

Originally posted by Parasite
BTW Inflatablewoman...looks nice, but the icons need to be colored to match, then I will DL it for sure.

//Edit: Also Inflatable...if you are into skinning/theming, DL "Switch" from the link up there, its an exellent color picker. essential for this type of thing

Thanks for the heads up about swtich, looks cool. I'll have a go at redoing the skin tonight.