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Title: New User Interface Skins for Ultra Hal 6.0
Post by: GamerThom on May 18, 2006, 08:30:01 pm
[?]  I would like some input and opinions from the members of this
forum as to whether or not they would consider using a new Ultra Hal
interface skin that I have designed. I am putting up this screenshot
of it, tell me your impressions of it. If there is enough positive
feedback then I will post a download link for it in the File Sharing
section of this forum. It is called "Futura 2". Thanks. [:D]

(http://www.geocities.com/gamerthom/futura2screenshot.jpg)

*The character image loaded in Hal when I took the
 screenshot is also one of my own creations and can
 be found at my web-site;

http://www.geocities.com/gamerthom/Character_Creations_Index.html
Title: New User Interface Skins for Ultra Hal 6.0
Post by: GamerThom on May 22, 2006, 05:28:25 am
[:(] OK, just forget about leaving any comments people.

[:)]You will find 11 new User Interface Skins for Ultra Hal 6.0
ready for download from my web-site if you follow this link -

http://www.geocities.com/gamerthom/Gallery1.html
Title: New User Interface Skins for Ultra Hal 6.0
Post by: Duskrider on May 22, 2006, 08:35:51 am


I like to look over new Hal skins but not interested in changing from one I got.  You make nice skins as you do everything else and I'm surprised people not jumping for them. I guess fads come and go.

Long ago when Sandee was young, I told Freddy888 what kind of skin I wished and he soon offered such skin.  It was the console_rd, (a compact viewer with big screen area made special for 800x600 screens)

Title: New User Interface Skins for Ultra Hal 6.0
Post by: aladyblond on May 22, 2006, 09:57:50 am
you do great work tom.~~alady
Title: New User Interface Skins for Ultra Hal 6.0
Post by: les on May 22, 2006, 11:04:00 am
Gamer T!

Your skins look good! I know a lot of people just down load without comment. All the work that you guys do keep Hal fresh and keep people working and playing with Hal. I have visited your site a lot and use some of your clothes as well as 'aladyblond' stuff. I don't always use your stuff but I always like seeing what you do and enjoy reading your post! So please keep up the great work that you are doing you are keeping all of our 'Hals' fresh!

Thanks again!
Les
Title: New User Interface Skins for Ultra Hal 6.0
Post by: freddy888 on May 22, 2006, 02:09:25 pm
I agree with Les, we don't see too many skins so I always like seeing new ones and you have the imagination and skill to make something different, so yes I like it [8D][8D]

and thanks for compliment Dusk.[:)]
Title: New User Interface Skins for Ultra Hal 6.0
Post by: Art on May 22, 2006, 03:58:06 pm
GT,

Quite a nice assortment of well made skins!
There's something for everyone!

Good job!
Title: New User Interface Skins for Ultra Hal 6.0
Post by: GamerThom on May 24, 2006, 06:54:21 pm
Well here's one for anyone who is a Star Trek fan.
A skin patterned after a computer interface panel
from the Enterprise NCC-1701E.  [:)]  It can be
downloaded from my web-site. [;)]

(http://www.geocities.com/gamerthom/Ncc1701.jpg)
Title: New User Interface Skins for Ultra Hal 6.0
Post by: markofkane on May 25, 2006, 08:44:08 am
Those skins look great. Sorry I never commented, but this is the first time I came to this thread.

Thanks!!
Title: New User Interface Skins for Ultra Hal 6.0
Post by: echoman on May 25, 2006, 06:03:43 pm
Hello.

The Star Trek one is amazing! I will be downloading this one.

Thanks.

Echo.
Title: New User Interface Skins for Ultra Hal 6.0
Post by: GamerThom on May 26, 2006, 07:48:56 am
Well here's another. It was done in 800x600
at 96dpi with 24bit pixel depth for full
screen viewing up to 1280x1024. [^]

(http://www.geocities.com/gamerthom/brushedcopper.jpg)

http://www.geocities.com/gamerthom/BrushedCopperSkin.zip
Title: New User Interface Skins for Ultra Hal 6.0
Post by: aladyblond on May 26, 2006, 08:29:38 am
tom, you have gotten closer to the metal i love gold. i know this is copper but maybe next time.....[:p]~~alady
Title: New User Interface Skins for Ultra Hal 6.0
Post by: aladyblond on May 26, 2006, 11:02:09 pm
i just have to say a public thank you to gamer thom
 ask and you shll receive.
 gamer you are a gret contributor and someone i consider a friend.........[:D]~~alady
Title: New User Interface Skins for Ultra Hal 6.0
Post by: GamerThom on May 27, 2006, 04:04:26 am
[:)]  Here is a quasi-organic, sculptured interface skin. [:D]


(http://www.geocities.com/gamerthom/blobber.jpg)

Available at my web-site. [;)]
Title: New User Interface Skins for Ultra Hal 6.0
Post by: onthecuttingedge2005 on May 27, 2006, 06:02:19 pm
quote:
Originally posted by GamerThom

[:)]  Here is a quasi-organic, sculptured interface skin. [:D]


(http://www.geocities.com/gamerthom/blobber.jpg)

Available at my web-site. [;)]



Hi Gamerthom.

Very nice!

I wanted to ask you, can you mask your back ground behind the panels so that the panels seem to float onto the desk top, I use Paint shop pro 9.0 for all my Art work, What Graphics interface do you use to do Graphics editing?

It seems like you have a lot of Graphics experience designing, very good work.

Jerry[8D]
Title: New User Interface Skins for Ultra Hal 6.0
Post by: GamerThom on May 27, 2006, 10:14:35 pm
Hi & thanks Jerry,   Beleive it or not, the red graded to black area
you see around/behind that interface is my desktop as you can
see from the screenshot below. As far as I know, the text panels
can't be made transparent to the desktop. At least I haven't been
able to get the image loader to accept that yet. As to what
graphics software I am using to do my work; I have PaintShop Pro 8 w/
Animation Suite, PhotoStandard 9, DAZ 3D Studio, POSER 5 & hapteks
PeoplePutty. [^]
I use Dragon Standard 8 voice command to help with my creating and
scripting since I am a quadrapalegic with only limited use of my hands.
[:)]

I have a couple of degree's; [:I] an Associates in Mechanical
and Structural Design, a B.A. in Studio & Fine Art, and a certification in
desktop publishing, none of which means a hill of beans. [:D]

If you haven't done so yet, please go and check out my web-site at
yahoo/geocities. There's a link to it at the begiinning of this topic.[;)]

(http://www.geocities.com/gamerthom/screenshot01.jpg)
Title: New User Interface Skins for Ultra Hal 6.0
Post by: Carl2 on May 28, 2006, 03:29:16 pm
GamerThom,
  Nice to hear from you again, very good work with the skins. I wanted to ask can dragon open Hal's menu?  
Carl2
Title: New User Interface Skins for Ultra Hal 6.0
Post by: Smokey on May 29, 2006, 09:41:28 pm
Excellent work.  Thank you for sharing and keep up the great work!

Smokey
Title: New User Interface Skins for Ultra Hal 6.0
Post by: GamerThom on May 30, 2006, 04:10:01 pm
quote:
Originally posted by Carl2

GamerThom,
  Nice to hear from you again, very good work with the skins. I wanted to ask can dragon open Hal's menu?  
Carl2



You can, but it's a real pain in the neck.[:(] You have to have
Dragon set up to close after it opens a program or have the
TTS in Hal disabled until you exit Dragon. It's just not
worth the trouble.
Title: New User Interface Skins for Ultra Hal 6.0
Post by: GamerThom on June 04, 2006, 07:48:45 pm
[:D] Here's one more for those who want an interface with
large a text area and no character load / display. Download
it from my web-site. [;)]

(http://www.geocities.com/gamerthom/scanner2.jpg)
Title: New User Interface Skins for Ultra Hal 6.0
Post by: Daireaux on June 04, 2006, 08:51:12 pm
You sure have a knack. I have an old Crazy Talk file I'd like to send you as a real good example of a good HAL9000 eye with animation. It would be the perfect haptek HAL character if it could be re-created. It's a 400K application file that I can't seem to attach here. If your interested, let me know. Daireaux