Hi people, want to submit your skins for nexgen? Upload them here,

http://www.allxboxskins.com/skins/index.ph...cat=0&Itemid=48

Yes this is the right place to post, your of to a good start, I haven't learnt how to skin yet, but duno if this thread is any help...

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=177328 it's neo-dilly's.

If you need to upload pics use my gallery @ www.mark-buxton.co.uk/gallery

Ok so i've it skinned up how i want:



Got a cupla questions though.

Can i map the meshes with diffrent textures (would like a slightly more solid look on the crosshair and ring (xsphere?)?

I cant seem to get new .xbgs in. either they are all white (^answer for question 1 might help) or they blackscreen the dash. Could someone help with the code for adding new .xbgs?

thanks
gas

wow gas that looks sweet nice work as for the textures ect i cant help u there sorry but im sure neo-dilly or some 1 else that does the grafix side of things will be able 2 help you out hope u submit ur skin soon nice work once again

Thanks HoRnEyDvL (did you ever get yr devkit back?).

the above link isn't working so its been upped to AXS

gas

nah didnot get it back hmmm ill download it once its upped to axs.

if you ever have problems uploading pics you can use my Gallery located here

Buckos Gallery

Just register an account and upload your pics then link them here, Ill contact Neo-Dilly on my msn gasclown to see if he can help you out, lookin better though!

It is possible but we cant get it working spook has atempted over & over & no luck with fog that skin would look kick ass even more . Its got something 2 do with the way nexgen renders . We can call fog from a blank lua & it will load but if we call it from a lua that has otehr code in it wont render its as if nexgen is over righting the fog code If any 1 could help us find a solution it be great.

well, i dont know lua at all (only what i needed to learn in order to skin this bad boy) but if its possible to overlay a background pic maybe we could dummy up the fog by using a mostly transparent png?

dunno know just a thought.

just tryin things out:)

that looks cool ImOk

people are now seeing what nexgen is capable of with the skinning side (see gas's and imok's work)


cheerz

nice, fixed my links on first post.

hi, new skin upped @ AXS

yellow - comes like first pic but has instructions and files to change to second (very easy) also option to make crosshair orbring more solid.





what colour next? i'm thinking pink.

ok heres the files to change the cellwall in my other nexgen skins (i like it better this way )

right click/save as then rename to outersphere.bmp drop in relevent xdash folder.


green

red

looks like this:


and this:

hey bucko, i've also sent red yellow and green skins to upload at XOS from the link in first post but you might want to check em cos after upload the page said 'upload successful' then it gave an error about upload too big

gas

Nice skins, thats odd the upload script is kinda rubbish anyway i'm searching for a better one.

here's a couple more at AXS.

neXgen White:



Pink Bits



this one has a (mainmenu) cellwall mod. usually looks like this:



if you like it the default way better open up mainmenu.lua and look for this:

New models comming for all soon(ish)..................

Orbring needs alot more work........

lookin f*ckn awesome PID

Now people are finally seeing that neXgen is the best dash for skinning.

Very cool, KEEP EM COMING!!!!!!

hey does the skin switching code work atm? i'm probably missing something obvious but i've tried everything i can think of to get skin swapping happening in dash but any mods or new skin lua's i create just freeze the dash on skin select screen. sorry if this is really simple and i'm asking a dumb question.

cheers
gas

Hi gasclown,

That is a bug we introduced when we started using object cacheing. It will be fixed in an upcoming version

All theese new skin designs are looking great

Thanks to all of you for your support and help.

Hi, no box this morn i so i've made an orb template for neXgen

Here's a pic:


It was made with max/illustrator ('X' grabbed from XBtool) but i can make it a .psd template for ease. It's 2 layers one for sphere and one for the X. i know it looks really plain but in a pic editing app you can add lighting/filters etc. adjust colours by layer to suit with hue/saturation and resize all elements. it will come out about 1 meg and is legal of course. lemme know if you want it. can't post it here.

SpOok - cool was driving me nuts. UX - the skin swappers choice. Also, just who is this mystery coder - i have my suspicions

My mainmenu no longer has an orb. Its a cylinder with a flat front face with the X mapped onto it. I did this because the current models made a black line around the X logo when viewed at a slight angle, and distorted the image slightly. If you made your X template the same size as the orignal X logo they will work fine in my new mainmenu.

Cool, can do. Just to clarify we're talking the size of the neXgen xlogo right? also does this mean no spinning orb for neXgen?

Yes were talking about the "X" logo in the orb. No it means mapping an image looks better. The orbring still spins. Also I can replace the orb with anything you can imagine (or get rid of it altogther to see the holders behind it). We can spin the X logo if you really want, but it would look ass on the old orb cause of the black band around it (a circle in a black square) With my way we can spin it like a coin with logo on front and back which I think will look better (no black lines). But if you want a sphere with an image mapped onto it, that is easy too (just not a round image like the current one).

ok if you have compiled versions ready to be used can you email them to desieserve@gmail.com please and I will add them to the downloads section on the web site, i'm uploading gasclowns right now

quick new model test:





(they look great!)

WOW, that is freakin awsome Glassclown
makes me want to put nexgen back in my xbox
very nice work my friend, keep it up
going to axs to see if the skins are there
thanks again
chow

thanks. but there's no real point upping them yet. if you really want the skin files pm me or catch me in the chan.

Thats what I need, great, that was quick gasclown

Notice the strangeness in the inner part of the Ring around the orb. It kinda has like a cross effect over the whole thing, will look into fixing that, although the new rendering may fix it anyway. Please if you notice any glitches in the mapping please let me know. (Try one without the Logo Orb in the centre) I'm fairly sure the inner arms of the crosshair are screwed near the centre. As gas said, no point in upping any stuff as neXgen is changing radically, just to see models work okay with any skin on em, I didn't get time to check various maps.

This is a test, designed to prevoke an emotional response.

Its all good. the only thing i've noticed is that the orb claws(?) dissappear behind the left side of the orb and are more pronounced on the right. does one of the axis (is it the z?) need to be swung around a fraction?

Nope, It's the angle your viewing the orbring at so the appear to move behind the x Sphere. Can you try one with no xsphere for me, I wanna see the inner claw fully (Its has a gitch in max). Also I can move the xsphere back a little, that will help.

Just put a -- in front of the xsphere code in the .lua, just as a test.

How do you find the ease of skinning ?

Anything to make life easier ? I am spilitting all the menutabs up too so there will be another 7 maps involved, 8 or 9 when I get the tubes in. Too much ? or the more the merrier (Obviously I won't make em all as small as they can be, lol)

Skinners now is the time to speak up, cause I aint redoing the models once I'm done.

Let the dog see the rabbit !

I cant see the glitch on the claw - looks great (but it does block out a bit of the xsphere on up down menu movement).

skinnings been improved like 1000 percent, cos, now there are textures _and_ they work new code will help a lot tho. yep, i say break em up, more is more heh, providing the code could pull em all from one file if need be.

...tubes - great

I see it (the small squares near the centre, and that black ring). But it looks like it's supposed to be there. Thats what I was hoping for hehe. Maybe I included the wrong sphere, I'll look into it. I'm glad the mapping works, I wasn't sure it would work as well as it is for all images. It's just good to get extra eyes looking at them, you get sick of looking at it after a while. Thanks Gasclown.

The new code will make this look 10 times better again (at least). This is just so I can make sure the models are good the way I'm doing em, and to get comments on them. Also to keep neXgen in the news I hope this gets people downloading it for a try now, so they get totally blown away when we get the new code.

What do you think of size and placement too ?

Imma going to hold off the tubes for a while sick of that menu already, music menu next

hey, ^i thought they were sposed to be there- so there ya go, definately keep em - it adds dimension . anyway i think moving the xsphere a tad back will be good. As for size and placement i think they all look great. although with no xsphere the tabs look heavy - but if theres no scalable code its nothing the right bitmaps couldn't subdue.

but this is just my opinion ... and im getting sick of hearing it , i wanna hear some others.

Holy mother of god um cant talk now will be back in a few years bye

you are a master gasclown
PID, keep up the good work
and everyone else working on nexgen
this dash is finaly going somewhere
thanks

These are looking sweet, I will be uploading screenies to main site soon .

acid's new models making neXgen look more like the m$ dash thatn the ms dash


definently prooves you don't need ms dash code to make the coolest looking dash ever

fuck !!! this b/w skin looks awesome !
i have to learn how to use .lua files

keep it up


br

k

i knew that guide, btw thx snick
just need more time (like all of us lol ) to study it

br

k

Hehehe its cool that u guys are making skins

But as far as i know lua has been removed from the latest build
Not sure what language we will be using but i think there will be a beta out soon. Dont hold me on that

Any 1 have any ideas on what language we should use for our skins?
eg xml , ect & also show us how u would like it set out

Bloody .lua removed when i first read it didnt understand it now i rewrote it so that skin changing works but fuck lol its being changed.. but i like c++ its an easy language that will let people minds run free in the creation of the dash and the skinning abilities thanks to PID for his sexy models will be awesome..

Regards
HoZy

we can always keep lua like slowly re add it but maybe theres other ways ppl would like 2 skin nexgen.

i say make a double skin engine on 2 seperat releases,
like make 1 which has xml skin engine and one that has lua.