New XIII forum skins now in business!

[Marshall Banana]

I came up with two today, but the blue and gray scheme that I created is my favorite of the two! The "banner" I included in it is really just a placeholder for the banner space, because I think that a fitting banner for this particular theme would be an image of blue outlines of Lightning's face (a little darker than what's presented), which is similar to the placeholder image. Both the background and forum categories become darker further down, because I think it's a neat effect. I don't know whether it's actually possible to recreate, though.

Oh, and my schemes were made from screenshots of VB4's version of Classic, just because.

[Momiji]

That first one is great, Monda.

[Psychotic]

Yeah I like that first one. Although the second one is very different to what we have now, which as Jessweee said is a plus. I wonder if transparency and all that fancy stuff is possible with vB4!

'cause ideally I want to crank it out before XIII is out and we're not gonna be on the vB4 before then. (I don't mind remaking it at all for the vB4)

[Loony BoB]

I actually really like the second. I'm trying to imagine which of them I'd register at if I were going around looking for an FFXIII forum to register at, and I think I'd rather register at the latter than the former.

EDIT: The banner would need work, though - it's light to extreme levels and doesn't feature the name of the forum. But that's obviously workable. I do like the scheme a lot, though.

Is it possible to get something that is very similar to FFXIII itself, as in the menu system they use on it?

[Rantz]

I like both of Monda's schemes. I feel like in the long run I'd rather use the first, but the second one feels more modern and perhaps, like BoB says, more tempting to register at (that would only apply if it was set as the default skin, of course).

Transparency is not a problem - I'm not sure which IE versions support it, if any, but in either case it's a browser question rather than one of vB version.

That sort of gradient could pose more of a problem. If the blue page background wasn't also a gradient it could be cleverly worked around, but as it is, any workaround I can think of would be very clumsy.

[Marshall Banana]

Is it possible to get something that is very similar to FFXIII itself, as in the menu system they use on it?

I'm trying to replicate the buttons in this screenshot, actually.

[Rye]

I love those, Monda!

[Loony BoB]

Ooh, neat. I watched a few youtube vids recently and think we could also use the saved game selection menu style for something,

YouTube - FINAL FANTASY XIII MENU - near the end, you'll find the saved game selection menu
YouTube - FFXIII Main Menu translation.AVI - I imagine this would be something we could work into a theme, too.

[Baloki]

I guess porting over the front site theme to update the current blue theme on the forums is out of the question...?

Edit: In fact...

[Psychotic]

I wouldn't be opposed to it, but ideally the banner would be pure XIII. (Bit o' Versus is fine too)

[Baloki]

Attached?

[Baloki]

double-post

[Baloki]

triple-post

I think I'm pretty much there with it tbh, now if only I had the time to code it up :S

[Baloki]

Anddddd done...

[Marshall Banana]

I'm trying to replicate the buttons in this screenshot, actually.

I think I got 'em!