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youki:

--- Quote ---Just so there's no misunderstaning, I see you posted in this thread Youki. Note, I am not talking about you here. I really like what you've done with Atomic, it's original, creative, and your dedication to the product and users is admirable...
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Thanks.   :)  I have to admit i thougth you were talking about me because i did a post "against" your nagscreen in another thead where you posted.   Despite that i really respect your work , that 's a great job too.

headkaze:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 26, 2006, 02:04:54 am ---Compared to other fes the skinning features are still more limited.  Easier to modify definately, but that isn't what we were talking about.  It's not there yet... I'm confident that one day you'll get it there, but it's not there yet.
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What FE are you comparing? I tried every layout/skin/theme editor I could find including those with MameWah, AtomicFE and Dragon King and made sure every feature I thought worth adding was included in the GameEx Theme Editor. To be frank, most of them were very buggy and lacking features so I didn't really find much worth copying. Most of them are knock-together apps and not full skinning applications, so I don't think they even compare to the GameEx Theme Editor.

So please be a little more specific what FE you are comparing GameEx to when you say "compared to other fes the skinning features are still more limited". What features are missing from the Theme Editor that are included in other fe's? Perhaps I could add these missing features if I knew what you were talking about.

Here is a link in case you havn't tried it.
)p(:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 26, 2006, 02:04:54 am ---
I will completely agree with you about it being the users fault though.  You can't be expected to make a buttload of skins and write the dang thing as well.  I suggest your users get busy and quit doing the whole "mamewah skinning" thing (namely take the default skin, change it ever so slightly and try to sell it off as a brand new skin.)  I've had a similar problem with dk over the past few years, that's why you only see my skins on the download page.  :)

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Problem is with more complex skinning it really becomes very difficult to make a nice gui for the average user. A good example is the c64 skin for 3darcade that uses cylarcade mode to animate a row of diskettes etc. Just look at this video how it works...
It will be really difficult to design good gui's for this kind of skins. This will be a big challenge for the next generation fe's...not me anymore ;)

peter
youki:
Yes, you 're right.  And if you want make a good editor it consume more time than making the FE itself.

I'm currently busy rewriting the Atomic one (that have still relativly simple layout in comparison of what is required for a full 3d one) , and to do something great it is lot of work.



nipsmg:
[quote author=)p( link=topic=51848.msg510750#msg510750
A good example is the c64 skin for 3darcade that uses cylarcade mode to animate a row of diskettes etc. Just look at this video how it works...
It will be really difficult to design good gui's for this kind of skins. This will be a big challenge for the next generation fe's...not me anymore ;)

peter
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 :notworthy:   :o
That skin is excellent, wow.  *votes for 3darcade* ;-)
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