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scoobz - Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:45 am

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All the banter with SK got me thinking how hard can this Gui designing be?

Needless to say it's harder than I thought but I thought I'd share my efforts with you....



http://i46.tinypic.com/pniqd.jpg

I know some of you will say it takes up too much real estate, others will say they prefer an ableton type 'simpler' interface but this was an exercise in textures and effects.

All feedback welcome

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Reduced the size of 'the fuzz' from insane to normal

This is what I did for Bassbomb from Dlm



http://i45.tinypic.com/vr96j8.jpg

And here's a Synth1 effort...





EDIT: 2012

I thought I'd come back to this thread and post a little update, plus it's nice to keep things chronologically laid out. Here's some schtuff I've done...

You should be able to drag them to a new window to view full size (it's only the forum that shrinks them)















^That's a mystery one, that might be upcoming































(Again, try dragging to a new window to view full size)

As always, I welcome and appreciate feedback

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Meffy - Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:49 am

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Just don't say the magic words, "So sue me."

Also: Looks nice and clean, if large. Could use some "glow" around the actuated button, and to my eyes all that saturated cyan looks wrong with the more subtle other colors. Matters of taste I suppose. Good luck with it.

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Aloysius - Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:53 am

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Nice

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scoobz - Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:56 am

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lol, thanks.

I don't expect anything will ever come of it, was just playing around. I've already learnt loads, like how to do a knob, didn't have a clue what I was gonna do when I started. Also the chrome text is new to me and the buttons, ok, everything lol

Which saturated cyan are you reffering to? The 'title'?

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Igro - Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:58 am

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So we have scotty replacement.

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Meffy - Mon Jan 25, 2010 6:01 am

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That and the (to my vision) odd knob highlight. The buttons are less intense and look more realistic.

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scoobz - Mon Jan 25, 2010 6:06 am

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Yeah, I hear you. What I wanted to do was a series of led segments around the knob, I'm still trying to work out how to divide a circle into a number of segments.

One of my hobbies is fashion photo retouching so I know most of the tools but measuring and being accurate isn't in my skillset (yet ). Will make some tweaks.

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Meffy - Mon Jan 25, 2010 6:22 am

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One other thing -- be sure your highlights are consistent; that their directions either match (better) or converge toward a point (rarely looks right).

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scoobz - Mon Jan 25, 2010 7:25 am

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Not perfect but I was thinking more along these lines....



http://i46.tinypic.com/2pyokzr.jpg

Still learning

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scoobz - Thu Jan 28, 2010 2:10 pm

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Still on my gui designing quest

Here's something I knocked up for fun for DLM's forthcoming Bassbomb....



http://i48.tinypic.com/1218uwn.jpg

The original in case you haven't seen it already....

http://www.delamancha.co.uk/images/plugins/bassbomb.png

As always constructive feedback appreciated

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WOK - Thu Jan 28, 2010 2:18 pm

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Nice. The font colour is better, but I liked the knob of the first try more. You could use the red circle around it to make a glowing sector to indicate the amount and the inner glas could glow up in orange from the incoming signal...

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manytone - Thu Jan 28, 2010 2:20 pm

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You got something going on there scoobz!
Nice work, for first attempts those gui's are fantastic!
I can imagine what you could do once fully inspired and the learning curve has past.
Can I contact you for future work

We are working on a very cool skinning system for future plugs that has a nice editor for making skins and aligning things proper etc. I bet you would have a blast with it as it makes things easier.

Anyways, cheers and again, nice stuff.
Paul

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scoobz - Thu Jan 28, 2010 2:22 pm

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Thanks Wok, I've since discovered knobman (read yesterday ) and have been searching through posts here on KvR and found many fine examples by yourself. Good ideas, if anything every came of that gui that's probably the way I'd go.

S

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scoobz - Thu Jan 28, 2010 2:24 pm

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Thanks for the kind words Paul. The learning curve is steep but enjoyable. And of course you're welcome to contact me in future

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scoobz - Thu Jan 28, 2010 2:27 pm

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Oh and can I just say Knobman is seriously addictive! Got about 7 original (well as much as they can be) designs in the bag and ready to roll

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thecontrolcentre - Thu Jan 28, 2010 2:27 pm

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That's excellent

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scoobz - Thu Jan 28, 2010 2:39 pm

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Thanks CC

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Meffy - Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:03 pm

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Nice and clean.

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scoobz - Thu Jan 28, 2010 6:00 pm

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Thankyou, red really pops with a saturation tweak.....



http://i46.tinypic.com/5ebi8p.jpg

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D N A - Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:24 pm

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I'll be honest Way too much sharpening ...

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glasgene - Fri Jan 29, 2010 1:15 am

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In what is a short time you are pulling out some great stuff fella !! looking good

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spaceman - Fri Jan 29, 2010 1:29 am

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Any bigger and you can land a jumbo jet on it.
A fine example of waste of space.

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Aloysius - Fri Jan 29, 2010 1:31 am

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This one looks very good scoobz. Well done!

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scoobz - Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:29 am

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DNA, fair comment, probably a touch too much

Glasgene, thanks bud

spaceman, I already said that in my OP but thanks for the negative comment, where would we be without people like you

As is your post

Aloysius, thanks, I know you're a tough critic so I appreciate that

Ok so what should I have a go at next? (Don't wanna do oatmeal )

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covalent - Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:33 am

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I like the burgundy one better. Quite classy, and easy on the eyes.

(and a better contrast between the body, and those red LED indicators.

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thecontrolcentre - Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:34 am

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dlM Impakter , Voyager or Poly-Ana?

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scoobz - Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:42 am

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Hopefully something is going to happen with Dlm, although not with bassbomb unfortunately, so I'll wait and see on that one.

Voyager.... Did a search, Arguru? It's a list of parameters lol (I'll put that in the maybe one day list)

And polyana?!! I get a headache looking at it, I can see why you suggested it

Thankyou for the suggestions, keep em coming

Oh and covalent, I prefer the burgundy one too

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freddemillio - Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:01 am

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Nice work. Clean, easy to understand. Artistic without an excess of flash and sparkle that gets in the way of actually using the interface.

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scoobz - Sat Jan 30, 2010 8:03 am

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Thanks freddemillio.

Another one for you all, Hlis helped me out with a work flow, turns out I was making things more difficult for myself than they need be so things have gotten a bit easier.

Had look around and a lot of people seem to be interested in a skin for synth1, so I had a crack at it. Stayed a bit more traditional on this one, here it is @ 120%...



http://i46.tinypic.com/153y788.jpg

Alternative logo...

http://i47.tinypic.com/nfr5vk.jpg

Another busy gui (the original) but I tried to gain a bit of usability.

Thoughts welcome as always

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de la Mancha - Sat Jan 30, 2010 10:10 am

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Very nice work, that looks like you've included some of the stuff I was talking about I'd make the lines on the knobs dark though for better contrast with the light knob colour, but otherwise it's really up my street

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scoobz - Sat Jan 30, 2010 10:16 am

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Thanks Steve, well I couldn't let all that fine advice go to waste

Funnily enough the knobs were the thing I had the biggest trouble with, went through about 5 different designs!

This one was an excercise in 'yeah that looks good, now back it off 20%!'

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multree - Sat Jan 30, 2010 10:22 am

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This is really good.... however the fonts and the circles around the knobs do look a bit pixelish..... or is that my imagination?

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scoobz - Sat Jan 30, 2010 10:25 am

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Yeah, as DNA said it's oversharpening, rookie error

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scoobz - Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:24 pm

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Lil bump for something new....




http://i56.tinypic.com/2d8i0so.jpg

As always, thoughts and comments appreciated

(Lights off version... http://i54.tinypic.com/2wgheop.jpg )

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scoobz - Mon Jan 24, 2011 4:56 pm

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hey people!

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osiris - Mon Jan 24, 2011 7:18 pm

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Love it scoobz.
I'm doing a vst based on the Jupiter 6 and I need a GUI, but not one that looks like a Jupiter 6. Interested?

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scoobz - Tue Jan 25, 2011 2:38 am

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Thanks Osiris, I'll definitely have a look, it'd be rude not to after using RhoCho for so long

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osiris - Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:18 am

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I'm glad someone's using RoChor.

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lockon stratos - Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:31 am

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Dude, i need a copy of synth1 with your gui.

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chokehold - Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:34 am

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Any news on this?
Found nothing at your website.

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scoobz - Sat Mar 24, 2012 4:50 pm

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I thought I'd come back to this thread and post a little update, show you guys what I've been up to GUI wise, please check the first post and lemme know what you think

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satYatunes - Sat Mar 24, 2012 8:47 pm

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Love all your stuff. Just went through the thread. I love the IIEQ pro skins. I agree with the comments on Bassbomb, little too sharpening. Good luck with your skinning quest.

By the way, your Tyrell N6 v2 skin on another thread is cool too.

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camsr - Sun Mar 25, 2012 1:40 am

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The gunmetal gray IIEQ skin is awesome! I wish my whole daw looked like that.

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scoobz - Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:50 am

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Thanks, yeah that bassbomb one was from two years ago What's nice for me is seeing the progression and refinement. Hopefully I'll be posting in another year and there'll be as much of an improvement again

I decided to keep going with Tyrell after our little discussion, there's another guy, Phrek, doing a gui based on the original render too and I don't want tread on his toes so keeping that one for myself I think

You'll have to update your thread, be nice to see how you're getting on.

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scoobz - Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:51 am

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Thanks man, if I had a website that would be quote worthy

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satYatunes - Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:51 am

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I have not worked on it since last update. Lost my motivation but I will finish it anyway, just for myself. I would like to see where it's going with new tricks that I am planning to try. I totally agree, progression and refinement is important.
Last couple days I worked and finished my entry for the cafe contest. Have a listen and let me know your feedback. I hope my tracks are not as bad as my skin

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thecontrolcentre - Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:58 am

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Great stuff scoobz ... is the bassbomb GUI available?



Liking the DDMF gui's too.

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scoobz - Sun Mar 25, 2012 8:49 am

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Thanks, sadly it's not, I spoke with DLM at the time and he said he was happy with the stock interface for that one but we may do something in future. That was the last I heard and that was years ago.

Funnily that was the one I was most happy with at the time, now all I see is things that need polishing up

I've got a few projects on the go and will have to find a way to generate more, it's something I enjoy doing, so hopefully the ratio of ideas:actual guis will go up

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RyoIshido - Sun Mar 25, 2012 10:43 pm

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nice interfaces, man

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scoobz - Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:16 am

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Thanks, I'm getting there, slowly

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scoobz - Mon Mar 26, 2012 4:16 pm

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Just knocked this one up too

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satYatunes - Mon Mar 26, 2012 6:14 pm

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wow, you are on a roll... me like that blue tyrell skin.

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scoobz - Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:48 am

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Thanks

I see you still haven't updated your version, it's looking good, nearly there and all that

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SampleScience - Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:12 pm

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Your interface looks great! I wish I would be as good! I plan on doing GUI for some SE projects I have, I will be happy if my GUI looks half as good as yours!

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scoobz - Sat Mar 31, 2012 8:49 am

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Thanks SS, much appreciated

Here's my Blade idea btw....

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scoobz - Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:06 am

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I finally got a website!!!!

www.LcgGui.com

Still needs some tweaks but have a look and lemme know what you think

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highkoo - Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:17 am

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The site looks good!

I know its two years old, but +1.

Yeah, no news at all from him in nearly a year.

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scoobz - Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:26 am

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lol I know, I liked that one and it'd be alot better now with my improved ability n all.

It's a shame I liked DLM.

Onwards and upwards though

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scoobz - Mon Apr 09, 2012 6:31 pm

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Hey guys,

Something new from me....



It's just an idea I was knocking around whilst practicing some new techniques. I've literally done everything differently on this one and also gone for a bit more of a realistic look than usual.

Feedback appreciated as always

(drag to a new window or right click 'view image' for full size)

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scoobz - Tue Apr 10, 2012 4:46 am

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That's the second time tinypic has messed up one of my images, guess I'll stick with imagebam....

Anyone know of any other image hosting sites because it's still not right, darker than the original.

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tehlord - Tue Apr 10, 2012 4:48 am

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Frickin' awesome

And I can see the first image fine!

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osiris - Tue Apr 10, 2012 5:01 am

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Good stuff scoobz. I don't like the font on Camel Crusher. Looks a little too Synthmaker. Some texture on the knobs would be good too.

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scoobz - Tue Apr 10, 2012 5:24 am

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Thanks, it's was a good experiment

And it's not that the image isn't displayed, it's all chewed up with resampling and aliasing. I have to work quite hard to get the sharpness so every pixel counts

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scoobz - Tue Apr 10, 2012 5:27 am

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Thanks again, strangely the thing I struggled with most on this one was the fonts in general, they're normally not a problem. I ended up going on a 2 hour font hunt which turned up nothing All the ones I like cost loadsa money!

I also normally make a knob in knobman (with some kind of noise) and import that into photoshop but I just drew one by hand this time and ommited that stage

Thanks for the comments

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scoobz - Tue Apr 10, 2012 6:27 am

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Updated the fonts (they were bugging me )



I haven't done the noise on the knobs yet though

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osiris - Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:10 am

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I like those. Much cleaner. Maybe a little bolder. Are you using Knobman? I know on some of my SE stuff, I had to copy/paste like 3 layers of lettering to get it vivid enough to show up well. And if you don't copy/paste them in the exact spot.....it looks like what I see after 7 beers.

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scoobz - Tue Apr 10, 2012 1:30 pm

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I had grey text set to about 70% opacity, that'll do it every time!

Brought the text back a bit but I dropped it ...........



Still seems to work tho

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highkoo - Tue Apr 10, 2012 1:35 pm

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imgur all day!

http://imgur.com/

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scoobz - Tue Apr 10, 2012 1:38 pm

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Thanks, yeah that's better, drag n drop, displays in the middle of the screen with a dark background, perfect, thanks

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satYatunes - Tue Apr 10, 2012 3:06 pm

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I like it looks pretty good. Knobs look little bland though just my personal observation, I love the textures on the panels and the borders.

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scoobz - Tue Apr 10, 2012 3:40 pm

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Dammit! I'm gonna have to fix these frickin knobs aren't I?!!!



Drag to new window etc

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osiris - Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:16 am

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Da peoples want TreeDee textures......

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scoobz - Sat Apr 14, 2012 10:22 am

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Hey all,

I went a bit further down the realistic route, let me know what you think

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Aloysius - Sat Apr 14, 2012 10:31 am

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It looks genuinely 'heavy'. Like a real piece of hardware. In the interest of further realism, I wonder if you could make the rotary-dials protrude more? It would hardly be possible to manipulate the rotary-dials the way they look at present, as their depth would be a bit too shallow for human fingers to grab at and turn.

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osiris - Sat Apr 14, 2012 11:41 am

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That's very good scoobz

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scoobz - Sun Apr 15, 2012 5:26 am

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Thanks guys

It was a simple error Aloysius, the last thing I did was place the divider rings around the knobs, unfortunately I placed em ontop of the shadows

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scoobz - Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:36 am

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Past couple of days I've been trying to teach myself 3d, which is no mean feat lol, the learning curve is steep



First attempt at a knob

Should I make it larger? lmao

EDIT:

Alernate knob...

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highkoo - Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:21 pm

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oh fukk they iz glistenin!

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1-2-Many - Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:39 pm

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Is your Synth1 skin on page1 functional, or just a mock up?

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osiris - Tue Apr 17, 2012 2:38 am

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Your page looking good. What is 'upcoming synth'?

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scoobz - Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:31 am

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Hey,

Synth1 never made it I contacted the guy when he made his major update but he wasn't interested, there's a lot I would change about that gui now

Upcoming synth is a secret lol hopefully it pans out, we'll see

And Highkoo, "I no, rite? Hmmmm shiny :donuts: "





The specks aren't my doing, it's a problem with the render engine

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scoobz - Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:01 pm

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Still making progress



I was gonna start a thread called 'Look at my knob' but thought better of it

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scoobz - Sat Apr 21, 2012 7:59 pm

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Still trying to up my game



As per usual right click 'show/view image' or drag to new window

Feedback please peoples.

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highkoo - Sun Apr 22, 2012 11:08 am

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Damn, coming right along!
I dig it.
There are so many more issues to deal with in 3D GUI designs. I guess it comes down to texture and shadow, which are just not in a 2D design.

As 3D designs get more complex, the purity and cleanliness of the textures/hues/saturations start to look more fake as the whole design is taken in. When a design is meant to look 'real', or at least 'dimensional', eventually you have to add some dirt to some part of it to show some subtle contrast, which I spose signifies to our subconscious that these are made out of different materials, so have aged/weathered at different rates in the 'real world' that they are supposed to live in.
And that could go as far as a knob design that is meant to look like a soft rubber knob that has a little cut in it, or paint rubbing off the meters, etc.

Anyway, imo, the worst example of a fix for this is when you see a GUI with nice 3D knobs, and a half assed 'brushed metal' texture on the backplate. I hate that shit. Subtlety is the key. A texture at 5% will have an effect on the whole design.
I think your design would benefit from just a very subtle noise/texture added to just the backplate. The knob sections look good clean, but they start to get lost in the clean background. I mean, it does look like a homogeneous unit which is good, and the other extreme is that they are completely isolated in a sea of unmatched texture which is no good, but I think there is a middle ground to get to.

Theres my art school prattle.

Hey can the blue on the knobs get brighter as the value increases?
Shiiiiiieeet!

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Crackbaby - Sun Apr 22, 2012 11:36 am

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looks fantastic!

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JoeCat - Sun Apr 22, 2012 11:51 am

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Love your Tyrell skins.
+1 Everything highkoo said.

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scoobz - Sun Apr 22, 2012 2:17 pm

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Thanks guys,

Highkoo, yup you got me, I was all excited and forgot to add the noise

Hopefully you can tell by the previous two (the one at the top of this page and the new camel crusher gui) that I like a bit of grit here and there. It's been a steep old hill to climb, learning 3d from scratch, it was so frustrating knowing what I wanted to do but not being able to do it but I feel like I'm getting somewhere now.

Anyways here it is again with a pinch of salt....



And also something else I've been playing around with, again it's only a rough concept and there's a lot of dead space but it's more about getting the form right at this stage, oh, and I'm claiming the name



I think I should change my signature to 'drag to a new window or right click view image' lol

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osiris - Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:48 am

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Psylon - love it!

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scoobz - Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:35 am

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Thanks dude

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scoobz - Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:58 pm

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Trying some new techniques and returning to an old theme



This is actually something I'd like to see happen, I think a properly modelled distortion would go down a treat

Right click view image n all that

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1-2-Many - Thu Apr 26, 2012 6:26 pm

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If you skin it they will come

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Crackbaby - Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:03 pm

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LOL! I bet that was what the guy in Silence of the Lambs heard in his head!

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highkoo - Fri Apr 27, 2012 2:14 pm

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Put the lotion in the basket bitch!

The new one is lookin good!
The grime on the corners of the yellow is looking real nice.

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scoobz - Fri Apr 27, 2012 4:58 pm

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LMAO, thankyou

I think the faded lettering advice worked well

I've put some more damage on the other elements too and tweaked the colour so it doesn't look identical to the last one (I can change it back )

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bailees7irish - Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:00 pm

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that looks freakin' AWESOME!

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rifftrax - Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:09 pm

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I got excited when I saw the first page and googled DCH-1 compressor... damn. Doesn't exist lol. Looked too good to be true I guess.

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nineofkings - Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:22 pm

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I did the same thing with Psylon. Looked really nice.

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flynessly - Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:45 pm

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Good luck to you when they come.

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scoobz - Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:27 pm

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Nice, nice, thanks for the comments

Any ideas what to try next?

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Crackbaby - Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:34 pm

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Stripbus (the strip plug)! I always found it to be too big since you may want several of them opened up at the same time. There's dropdowns in the UI also. I rather have something i can leftclick once instead!

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