Minstrel's 'Minty One' Skin (EHM 1)
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 2:00 am
Greetings, I am happy to announce the 1.0 version of my 'Minty One' EHM 1 skin.
Put simply this is an ‘EHM 1’ skin developed mainly to lighten the game screens but it has a lot of other areas that have been reworked for better visibility as well.
Download: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsXFKQMOdPqgiAgHe8k_QFU8oP-L
Mirror: http://tinyurl.com/j428jm9
Two important notes:
* Run this skin with Backgrounds set to OFF from the Preferences.
* Due to a bug that will hopefully get addressed soon you need to switch back to 'Traditional' and THEN back to 'minty_one' from the preferences each time you start a gaming session.
Neither will result in crashes or anything you just won't get the desired visual effects the skin provides.
Okay, so what was changed? Quite a bit! Below are some screenshots point out the differences:
In general terms the skin lightens the interface/background overlays. It's more blue than dark black. Here's an example of the default player character image, Traditional on the left, Minty on the right:
I reworked the buttons so that you can see them on dark colored titlebars such as for the Kings:
I also did similarly with the 'quick flick' buttons for visability in dark barks like the Ducks:
Not as noticible on the dark backgrounds is a striping effect I put on titlebars:
I reworked the icons of the menu bar to make them larger and reworked the 'mail' button so you have an old school mailbox icon. You get mail the flag goes up.
In addition to re-coloring the stat numbers I cropped the boxes and rounded the edges to make stats easier to read. The colors are closer to the EHM '07 colorations that were stoplight based red to green:
I reworked the 'Status' icons (for IR, Unhappy, Wanted, Veteran, Injured etc) so they are smaller and beveled. I adjusted the colors as well to see the lettering better. The black background on the right is the Traditional Skin:
Also pictured here are my new scrollbars:
I replaced the 'default small logos' colorations from diagonal to straight up and down. They'll now show like this instead:
Also changed:
The 'waiting/processing bar' has gone 3d.
Also beveled and made to a blue metallic is the waiting indicator bar (that used to be orange).
The players on the 'tactics' half rink displays are blue instead of black.
The 'Continue' bar is shaded green instead of bright red.
Many of the buttons are lightened.
And probably a few things I forgot to mention too...
Put simply this is an ‘EHM 1’ skin developed mainly to lighten the game screens but it has a lot of other areas that have been reworked for better visibility as well.
Download: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsXFKQMOdPqgiAgHe8k_QFU8oP-L
Mirror: http://tinyurl.com/j428jm9
Two important notes:
* Run this skin with Backgrounds set to OFF from the Preferences.
* Due to a bug that will hopefully get addressed soon you need to switch back to 'Traditional' and THEN back to 'minty_one' from the preferences each time you start a gaming session.
Neither will result in crashes or anything you just won't get the desired visual effects the skin provides.
Okay, so what was changed? Quite a bit! Below are some screenshots point out the differences:
In general terms the skin lightens the interface/background overlays. It's more blue than dark black. Here's an example of the default player character image, Traditional on the left, Minty on the right:
I reworked the buttons so that you can see them on dark colored titlebars such as for the Kings:
I also did similarly with the 'quick flick' buttons for visability in dark barks like the Ducks:
Not as noticible on the dark backgrounds is a striping effect I put on titlebars:
I reworked the icons of the menu bar to make them larger and reworked the 'mail' button so you have an old school mailbox icon. You get mail the flag goes up.
In addition to re-coloring the stat numbers I cropped the boxes and rounded the edges to make stats easier to read. The colors are closer to the EHM '07 colorations that were stoplight based red to green:
I reworked the 'Status' icons (for IR, Unhappy, Wanted, Veteran, Injured etc) so they are smaller and beveled. I adjusted the colors as well to see the lettering better. The black background on the right is the Traditional Skin:
Also pictured here are my new scrollbars:
I replaced the 'default small logos' colorations from diagonal to straight up and down. They'll now show like this instead:
Also changed:
The 'waiting/processing bar' has gone 3d.
Also beveled and made to a blue metallic is the waiting indicator bar (that used to be orange).
The players on the 'tactics' half rink displays are blue instead of black.
The 'Continue' bar is shaded green instead of bright red.
Many of the buttons are lightened.
And probably a few things I forgot to mention too...
They make the screens 'stack' on top of each other like you may have seen prior to the 2.x patch where it was resolved, but then appeared for custom backgrounds.