Wow, have you seen Cammy's and Rebel's optimized palette

[Cammy]

If you have NewIcons installed you can turn dithering on and it will nicely dither any NewIcons or GlowIcons to the palette.

Have a look at these WHDLoad game icons (I had to open so many at once just to show the dithering, that's why it looks messy)



This is an older screenshot, the theme I linked to before is a bit more updated from this.

[gulliver]

Thanks for the tip

[mfilos]

Thanks for sharing dear Cammy!
VisualPrefs works ok with the themes provided, but I can't get Birdie to work with the command you gave us. I get a palette distortion every time I enable the Birdie Command in the Startup-Sequence.
Is there a specific point in SS that I need to put the command?

Is there a possibility it conflicts with any patch of ClassicWB or Scalos itself?
Another thing I observed, is that after VP and opening windows, some artifacts appear on randomly on the screen (which are gone if you move a windows over them).

Edit: Checked it out in Pure OS3.9 as well and works ok. Windows etc are looking great! Only side-effect is that I get some distorted MUI gadgets.

[Frog]

For a 16 colors workbench, it looks pretty nice !

[fitzsteve]

I finally read this thread back to front, I did try at work and got to the Bikini section and had to abandon ship

Anyway I have to say that this is awesome work from Cammy and Rebel

I'm going to have a look at building this into the CWB ADV SP pack and running it on my A600/ACA630 with IndiECS.

I've got all the files and my CF card is installing as I type on the little WinUAE window next to me!

Wish me luck!

Ps. I hope to do something nice with this backdrop:

[mfilos]

Good luck my friend

Your wallpaper look like that:

[fitzsteve]

Hi Marios!

Can you send me the file you made?

I didn't edit the Wallpaper yet, this is just with dithering enabled on the original .jpg file, must say I am still very impressed for a 16 Colour Workbench

[mfilos]

Originally Posted by fitzsteve

Hi Marios!

Can you send me the file you made?

There you go mate.
It's your wallpaper converted in ImageStudio with Rebel's Palette and Floyd Steinberg dithering.
Use Scalos palette to have the colors locked.

[fitzsteve]

Thanks Marios! I don't have the software installed to edit the image.

This will give me an excuse to log on to the Interweb on the A600 and download the file

I'm using the Scalos Palette

Edit: Updated with your image Marios =D

[amiga_user]

@Cammy:

Can you share your MUI global prefs ?

[Rebel-CD32]

When I've finished a few extra MUI images to go with the Silver theme I'll upload a pack to Aminet and the AmigaLook website, as well as the extra MUI images I've made for SabreMSN. The prefs Cammy has been using are made up of parts of my incomplete image sets, and I don't think she posts on this forum anymore anyway.

[mfilos]

That'd be great Rebel mate! Thanks for your contribution.
I didn't know about Cammy though... (I can understand though)

[Rebel-CD32]

Matching MUI images for the Silver theme are in the Zone. I haven't taken any screenshots yet though. I have made a full set of both 11 and 13 point images for arrow buttons, checkmarks, radio buttons and popup gadgets as well as some small silver gradient patterns to use in text and image buttons.

Just extract the LHA file and copy the contents into the corresponding drawers in your main MUI drawer. There is a Preset file you can call to quickly change all the images to the new Silver ones, but you would be best to apply it over each gadget rather than globally, or else it might change all your other MUI settings (spacing, fonts, patterns). To do this, go through each page of the MUI settings and hover over the top of the gadget you want to change and select Silver from the Presets menu that pops up while holding the right mouse button down. Press the Test button and see if you like it, and Save it if you do.

I hope some people still get some use out of this stuff, it's nice to see a few other fellow classic Amiga users still out there trying to get the most out of their machines.

[Retrofan]

I certainly will, Rebel! Thanks a lot. Have you made any progress with the Icons set you were doing?

[Rebel-CD32]

The iconset is taking the longest, as I keep adding to it as we find more useful applications. I've recently finished some pixelling some new IBrowse navigation images though, if you'd like those? As well as working on these icons and things, I'm working on game graphics and other custom GUI skins for some upcoming Amiga software, so I'm kind of bogged down with work at the moment.

I'd like to some how open-source the icon set, establish some standards and guidelines and explain some techniques for making your own icons in the same consistent style to add to the collection so it could grow faster than if I keep working on it alone. My style of course is based on the size and concept standard started with Glow Icons and continued with Ken's Icons, although my set is all pixelled with this exact 16 colour palette and can be used without additional icon patches like NewIcons provided your palette is locked.

[Retrofan]

Originally Posted by Rebel-CD32

The iconset is taking the longest, as I keep adding to it as we find more useful applications. I've recently finished some pixelling some new IBrowse navigation images though, if you'd like those?

The IBrowse navigation images are the ones that Cammy is using? (I saw them in another forum talking about other things). I liked them so much that in fact I asked about them (but she didn't see my question)....

Rebel I found three or four great patterns that you could use for something, in SongFace (http://aminet.net/search?query=songface)

[Rebel-CD32]

Yeah, they were the ones Cammy was using.

I like the idea of SongFace, I never tried it back in the day but I went and made my own custom images for SongPlayer back then anyway. I've been considering updating them a bit for the 16 colour palette I use now and including them along with everything else in the packs that Cammy and I want to put together.

I really like how customisable MUI programs are, I'm trying to make custom image sets for a lot of them to give each program more of an individual and suitable look.

Something I'd really like to find though, if anyone has one handy, is a Magic Workbench-compatible brushed metal pattern. Something that preferably only uses two or three shades of grey, as many classic MWB patterns did. I'd like to modify it to use with my Silver theme to complete it.

EDIT:

By the way, I have updated my Silver skins for VisualPrefs. I carelessly forgot to make the right side border of two of the gadgets dark grey rather than black and they looked off. You may notice it in some earlier screenshots, the Iconify gadget and the DOpus Magellan Padlock gadget were the two affected. Here are the finished skins: http://home.exetel.com.au/~amiga/SilverSkins.lha

[mfilos]

Thanks a lot for this update Rebel mate!!!
MUI skin looks awesome and can't wait for the iBrowse iconset along with some WB icons of yours based on your awesome palette.

/respect

[Retrofan]

Rebel is there a way to change the color of the pointer while using MagicTV? (And for those that are using the palette and aren't using it, there's a notable diference).

BTW: The buttons in Ibrowse (and others) look much better now with those colors:


SongFace is great, but would be much better if we could have a way to use your palette for backgrounds.

[Rebel-CD32]

Hey guys, glad you like the new look. I have some new IBrowse Navigation and Status images here now if you'd like to try them too.

Unfortunately there's no way to change the pointer colours when Magic TV is running, other than swapping the existing pens around in FullPalette and hoping everything still remaps right. The reason is because sprites use pens 17, 18 and 19, the mouse pointer is a sprite, and MagicTV opens a second playfield on the Workbench, taking up pens 16-31, which darkens and overlays a duplicate of your Workbench display over the top of itself to create that blur effect that helps reduce flicker. Using my palette, this will force the pointer to use black, grey (darker white) and dark blue for the pointer when MagicTV is running. If you remember the pen order, you can work out a decent looking pointer that doesn't look too odd. I can upload the one I made if you'd like, it's pretty plain looking and quite large, but doesn't look too aliased in low-res.

Anyway, here are the IBrowse images:

http://home.exetel.com.au/~amiga/IBrowseImages.lha

[Retrofan]

Thanks Rebel. Cammy gave me a pointer, but I didn't like it very much, and I don't like large ones. I was thinking that perhaps could be made a white one, but it seems it's imposible. Thanks anyway, and of course I will be using those navigations images.
Thanks!

[Retrofan]

Originally Posted by Cammy

.... I have also written a program which opens a VisualPrefs/Birdie-compatible Public Screen with the same locked palette, so if you don't want to open IBrowse or other applications on the main Workbench screen, they can be opened on the "Spare Desk" and they will use the optimised palette rather than try making up their own random palette (usually which has three blacks and two bright purples among other useless colours). This makes all the GUI images look nice since they were all designed for this palette and don't need to be remapped again.

Cammy I was wondering about that program you did

[Cammy]

I haven't uploaded SpareDesk to Aminet yet because I still need more beta testing done. It works though, if you'd like to try it. I've been working on making sure it's totally compatible with Workbench patches like MagicMenu, VisualPrefs, Birdie, MultiCX, FBlit and other stuff. I don't think enough programmers care about how their programs appear on other people's modified systems, so I'd like to make sure this program works well for everyone before I upload it.

[Retrofan]

Jeje...Thanks Cammy. I'm definitely interested in trying it. I'm sure others will like to try it too.

[Retrofan]

Sorry, it seems I've lost the Ibrowse Navigation images (and the link doesn't work). Can someone upload them to the Zone, please, replease?

[zipper]

There's a truckload of them in Aminet if you can't find the default ones.

[lesta_smsc]

Just saw Cammy's pallete - my God! Who would've thought with just 16 colours it could look so good! I've got 32bit on PC and still struggling lol!

[Retrofan]

Originally Posted by Cammy

I haven't uploaded SpareDesk to Aminet yet because I still need more beta testing done. It works though, if you'd like to try it. I've been working on making sure it's totally compatible with Workbench patches like MagicMenu, VisualPrefs, Birdie, MultiCX, FBlit and other stuff. I don't think enough programmers care about how their programs appear on other people's modified systems, so I'd like to make sure this program works well for everyone before I upload it.

Cammy there's a thing I don't understand: Why to use it with IBrowse. I have it automatically remapped: