Thanks flavor and good find^. would be cool to 'lay over' all the elements of the dash with black80 ones and make the original ones invisible - so we have a whole dash made of wireframe. I've tried but with no success - is this how you would do it:

I think it does not work with the reflectsurface material. Try material name"Black" instead. It will darken the texture and the wireframe should show up correctly.
But you are basicaly on the right track.
You can also overlay a third object and give it the name "wireframe". Thist should, depending on your wireframe color in hexbe, lighten up the mesh periodicaly.
I lost that damn pill where the wireframe thingie was working.

hey flavor - i was wondering if you wouldn't mind giving me some insight on this 3d stuff. I've been making objects in max but when i go to export them to .ase it only seems to keep a part of the object (usually a flat surface) even with low polycount. i've just found out i'm a complete 3d numbskull - so sorry for probably dumb questions - but would you mind telling me what properties the .ase can have in order to convert it to .xm. i'm using 'xmconverter' cos i get access violations with ase2xm.

this one is a complete fluke and missing heaps of parts

Yes, I'm getting PMs on this topic.
I'll get a small tut ready but we could also meet on irc. CET.

Access violation in ASE2XM happens only when you forgot the most important thing for this converter. You have to apply mapping coordinates in 3dstudio or whatever app you're using. Try some of the extended primitives, like the gengon or something. Don't click on the "generate mapping coordinates" tab, it's useless for the exporter. When you have finished your model go to the modifier tab in 3dsmax and click 'uvw mapping', now depending on your model choose a mapping type. Its good to start with spherical mapping. This will at least not crash the ASE2XM converter.
But mapping a mesh properly is a difficult task. If you ever looked at quake/unreal/whatever model textures you know what I mean.

When exporting to .ASE I leave the exporter on defaults. I think the only important settings anyway are mapping coordinates and geometry, vertex colors or animations and others aren't exported at all.
Ah, could you give me the link to that other XM exporter? Is it on the frontpage? I'd really like to compare both converters.

Thanks flavor now i'm starting to get somewhere:


heres a link for that other prog (legal):
xmconverter
might have to sign up though and the doc with the program says its the same as as2xm but with multifile support - i dunno though seems a bit mor stable to me.

gas

hey yeh, im actually workin on a blue skin at the moment. not the same as above but it wont be hard for you to grab both and make the skin you want.

soon

im back

enough talk.. heres a preview of my new skin.. wip.. still need stuff to add.. for Lite..



also I noticed theres alot of new stuff.. damn i need to catch up

GT:





2 orbs, the smaller one only rotates horizontally. Upped@AXS

very cool shit gasclown. keep it up.

all these abstract/modded skins you have been releasing lately rule.

Thanks MrSelfDestruct as you can see im interested in what can be done to the orb and cellwall at the moment (skinwise).

Thought i might take this opportunity to explain the cellwall above (im getting pm's) This is just a 2d trick done with illustrator, It was made at 150 pixels per inch. i haven't textured it(?) or put anything new in. If you want to see what it looks like in plain view download the skin and look at cellwall.xbx, Morbcellwall.xbx and orbcellwall.xbx

Also the reason you cant successfully covert my .xbxs back to bitmap with fastxbx is because the ones with transparency were made with bundler.

Also if you want a really wild effect with the cellwall check this: cellwall shenanigans
- it is a very simple mod that i may include with a skin at some stage

rrbroadband - thanks for the compliments - buuuuuuuut for my personal use i don't want 5 tabs and i really dont like the clock. You can get the skin from AllXboxSkins.com and add these items yourself. theres plenty of help available for those mods - This is a skin _not_ a dash.

Hi, new skin@AXS:






Join the Movement!

That's awesome gasclown. Throw it up on axs for me. If not can you send it to me. You should have my email laying around.

Cheers.
loggio.

WWWHHOOUUAAA very good job man ! look terrible ! I love it !

Sorry, its not up yet (I posted it over 10 hrs ago).
alphaxav your English is very funny;)
here's another pic:

gasclown, you sould try re-uploading it. It doesn't seem to be coming p on axs. If you get this message and it sill isn't up. Can i ask for you to send it to me?. If you wouldn't mind that is.

Cheers
loggio.

Great work gas !!! very minimalistic & b/w, i really like ya styley
but where can i see my wallpaper ? lol
anyway it must look very sweet "animated" !!!

br

k

EEEEICK. Makes me sick. Needs a lot of work, you shouldn't have made it spin so fast. lol looks good on the pics, but i don't like it after trying it out. Sorry gasclown lol, you make some awesome skins buddy, this one made me almost throw up lol.

Cheers
loggio.

well here it is.. my newset skin.. not Lite

I guys!
Gas,you made a great work on your cellwall..........Very cool effect!
I like your last skins!

New skin (Not finish yet,and no cellwall on mine,maybe Gasclown, you can made one for this skin...... )

Quit your drugs.
Your colorschemes roque!

loggio - if you like the skin but not the cellwall effect go here:how to make yourself sick with thc
and reverse the changes, you could just slow it down.

kanna - you should still be able to see yr background, lemme know if you cant
aston - excellent to see you man, now where's RapBoy?
flavor - have tried the black80 trick everyway i could think of but no luck - would really like to get that going (deconstruction dash)

i'm trying to get the orientation at 90 degrees from normal but spin normally sorta like the last pic but fulltime.

aston - how about this:

Thx,Gas!
I'm gonna try.

Hey aston i just tried it and it's a bit 'busy' try this one:


looks like this:


might look good with your excellent bubbles skins anyway.

ok, here's a less sickening mainmenu cellwall mod. In default.xip/default.xap:

lo aston back again on skinning ? still original !

anyway here's my 1st skin for 2gam's dash ... available as d/l as well ... incl. evox skin !












nb: i repeat it on this post... here are some translations i made for 2gam's dash : misc files. I think 2gam will include them in his next release... stay tuned

br.

k

can someone make a black colored gun theme skin

Guns are Bad - mmmkay.

This one made for a mate but letme know if any of you fullas want it



this is the Australian indigenous peoples flag and is synonymous with the land rights movement in our country. also the small orb is from BSX.

Hi, new skin. this is what i'm putting on my friends boxes at the moment. Hopefully it will encourage them to goto xboxscene when they've got a problem instead of ringing me with dumb questions when i'm trying to get layed (like 'which button do i press to go back' - same as before - the fricken back button!)

It has more mods than just whats in the skin.xip so to get it you'll have to hit me up in the chan.

mods:
musicfix, white tab fix, fuckdb drivespace, custom sysinfo, toned down 'floating' (screenwaver), old orbring, full texturisation. Cellwall waver to spinner ,most editable graphics are custom. inverted cellwall. orb inside orb with rotating text that says 'xboxscene', the little XS-scene guy pulses in and out of the middle of the the tHc orb - short crappy video (Xvid). closed in soundtrack and playlist panels, tracklines put back into hdd sub - trying to get em into dropdowns in control panel but allignnment is an issue. custom (no green ring) orb on mainmenu/hddmnu/and subs - but you can still see tHc orb on settings submenus.











Creds:tHc - dash, fuckdb - drivespace mod, kanaberra - textures. all XSscene codesters, chevy and BSX.

gas that keyboard is badass!

hey there gasclown. Just asking how does one remove the writing in the orb and the little guy in the orb?. And also, i want the background not to spin so god damn fast. How do i do that ?


Cheers
loggio.

hey log, was going to write a long explaination on how to do it - but heres a super simple way.

get yourself a blank .xbx,you'll find a few in any of my skins, The size doesn't matter if you just want to get rid of them. make two copies name one 'xtex.xbx' and the other 'xtex2.xbx' dropem in mainmenu5.xip overwriting the old ones - voila! (popping sound)

to slow down the cell wall go to hardrive.xap in default xip search for '//gas' you'll see a value above one that says 'rpm 3' change it back to '2' (you big girls blouse )

lol thanks gasclown. GIRLS BLOUSE ! that's it lol your dead!. Only jkn. Nah, thanks for that all fixed and looking goooood.

cheers
loggio

please help me get fastimg2xbx going again

link to problem

edit: problem fixed (thanks lowkill ). to anyone else having this problem need to re-register kixforms.dll.

seasons changing here and the waves have been good

see me in the chan if u want this:

Hey Gas,your on fire!!
I saw your latest skins (Not just for the Thc )
Nice work for all!
see ya

Just one for fun:



Waiting for the Thc final..........

hey, thanks aston like yr new too . Thought i'd better mention this:

usually all my skins are made of image files 100% made by me from the ground up. The one with the big wave^^ however is not. i googled for a decent resolution wave picture and on a bout page 17 i found that background. It is actually a digitalblasphemy wallpaper (that didn't come from the awesome DB site) so credits and thanks to the original author whoever that may be - the watermark has been left in place.

gas

Dead horse flogging - lite, with a sprinkling of WIP and just a touch of neoX.

made this blind (no xbox - was on a plane) and only needed one material name change to look like this on friends box!

nice, i would love a blue version of that. And I think the menu highlight would be pretty cool white instead of red. To sort of make that part of the dash less monochromatic.

same skin, different day...

now with cellwall shenanigans (thanks mobstah):

hey there gas, fuck , it's been a while since i've looked in the forums but they look awesome man, can i grab the heaps good grey looking one off ya lol , it looks awesome and i want something shocking.
cheers loggy. You know how to contact me.

hey log, no problem although you realize its just one skin right? it has background switching (white button) but you can add yr own and replace mine - just makes sure they are 258k in size (ie - no tansparency). and use the different triggers and thumbclicks to get the other views.

will catch up soon

10 backgrounds now - any more and dash freezes on submenu - anyone know how to link it to bg's in a different xip? (to keep .xip filesize low)

edit: or even better how to make a backgrounds.xip on its own that will work?

Hi,

Didn't Kannabera find a way to do this? I remember a Thread in which he said, that his steel.xbx texture works in all xips without integrating them into every single one.
Damn search, can't find it.

yeh i tryed looking for it too - but the texture, for all menu's, works from mainmenu5.xip as standard anyway - except for one of the settings submenu (video i think.

now if only you'd make the 5 tab version;)
(and maybe a visual orb option?)