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Jafo

Join Date 03/2001

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September Desktop Screenshots

Here's me still 'at it' skinning the controls/cockpit of a Republic F105...buzzing over Melbourne at mach 1.5 and scaring the pants off the locals.....there's one of 'em just to the left of the HUD....he's the blip front/center of the head-up radar.

Not just altering xml....but hunting down photos of the aircraft to add 'bits' of detail to make things a little more realistic....things like the throttle quadrant and main radar cowl....are borrowed from various photos....re-skewed/sized/rotated/etc to suit.

The 'skinning' involved is about as 'complicated' as it gets.

If I get REALLY eager I'll start from scratch and make it all fair-dinkum exact. [there's poetic licence as is...to suit screen proportions/resolution.]

This is about how SKINNING differs from wallpaper making.....the result can be interfaced with.....buttons move....gauges read [all those gauges actually work]....

SKINNING's FUN .....

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DrJBHL

Join Date 04/2002

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Nice one, Rick! Love that Robo-Def, Harley!!!

Mine? Ethan!

WB- Aero Station - Mg

WS- Aero Station - WebGizmos

OD2+ - Aero Station - RedneckDude

Wall - SydneySiders

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My first screenshot made on my 42 inch TV that sometime i use as a monitor

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RedneckDude

Join Date 04/2009

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Jafo, that is awesome! Are you sharing in wallpapers?

Come on, man. Share with us....

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Here's mine. A little this, a little that.

Edit: The wall and DX theme by RedneckDude.

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DrJBHL

Join Date 04/2002

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Quoting RedneckDude,

reply 4

Jafo, that is awesome! Are you sharing in wallpapers?

Come on, man. Share with us....

Jim...that's a screen shot, and were Jafo to make a wall of it, I think he'd need a permission from the folks who put out the software for the game.

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2of3

Join Date 10/2006

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Copper Deck VII

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Philly0381

Join Date 11/2004

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Copper Deck has always been one of my favorite themes since finding WinCustomize.

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RedneckDude

Join Date 04/2009

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Quoting DrJBHL,

reply 6

Quoting RedneckDude,
reply 4
Jafo, that is awesome! Are you sharing in wallpapers?

Come on, man. Share with us....

Jim...that's a screen shot, and were Jafo to make a wall of it, I think he'd need a permission from the folks who put out the software for the game.

skinning the controls/cockpit of a Republic F105...

Doc, I meant the controls/cockpit. Why not put those on a wall and upload? I would most definitely use it!!

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RedneckDude

Join Date 04/2009

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Copper Deck VII

Do you mean Copper Deck on 7? Or for 7?

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2of3

Join Date 10/2006

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Do you mean Copper Deck on 7? Or for 7?

I rebuilt Copperdeck II a couple of years ago for Vista. A complete rebuild in sks6 (the WB5 version of copperdeck was screwing up my system so I decided to rebuild it from scratch). So it was a cinch to do a couple of tweaks to make it work in W7.

I was unfortunately never able to obtain permission to upload, or I would have done so then.

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I call this shot "Parallel Worlds (Remix)".

Parallel Worlds Remix

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Jafo

Join Date 03/2001

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Doc, I meant the controls/cockpit. Why not put those on a wall and upload? I would most definitely use it!!

About 50% of that cockpit is graphics from/by Alphasim. It's been 'altered' extensively to suit a widescreen monitor, with the 'scale' revised from 1024x768 to 1680x1050....correcting resolution/proportion distortions [the round bits are still round]. The other 50% is drawn [by me] and/or is photograph 'parts' altered to suit.

Most of the xml gauges are 'original', but several are modded to function differently/correctly and others are from entirely different aircraft/sources.

If/when I start from scratch and do a photo-real and accurate version.....that'll be appropriate to distribute.

Game screencaps are often/always[?] publicly distributed/shared but as wallpapers here on Wincustomize....we don't accept them as 'ours to distribute' contributions to the wallpaper gallery...

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RedneckDude

Join Date 04/2009

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Quoting Wizard1956,

reply 5

Here's mine. A little this, a little that.

Reduced 35%

Original 1680 x 1050

Thanks for the plu....oh, nevermind.

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RedneckDude

Join Date 04/2009

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Quoting Jafo,

reply 14

Doc, I meant the controls/cockpit. Why not put those on a wall and upload? I would most definitely use it!!

About 50% of that cockpit is graphics from/by Alphasim. It's been 'altered' extensively to suit a widescreen monitor, with the 'scale' revised from 1024x768 to 1680x1050....correcting resolution/proportion distortions [the round bits are still round]. The other 50% is drawn [by me] and/or is photograph 'parts' altered to suit.

Most of the xml gauges are 'original', but several are modded to function differently/correctly and others are from entirely different aircraft/sources.

If/when I start from scratch and do a photo-real and accurate version.....that'll be appropriate to distribute.

Game screencaps are often/always[?] publicly distributed/shared but as wallpapers here on Wincustomize....we don't accept them as 'ours to distribute' contributions to the wallpaper gallery...

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mrs_starkers

Join Date 09/2006

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that's nice Doc luv it, mine is called shore leave which I made and is in my gallery

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DrJBHL

Join Date 04/2002

+3844

Beautiful!

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mrs_starkers

Join Date 09/2006

+556

Beautiful!

thanks Doc

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RedneckDude

Join Date 04/2009

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Narbytrout, what blind is that? And, where's the other monitor?

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DrJBHL

Join Date 04/2002

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Essorant's 'Revolver', Jim.

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mrs_starkers

Join Date 09/2006

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I was thinking of uploading but not sure if I would bother the ruby is not a globe, I made the wall paper using chaoscope I guess I just wanted to get ideas on how I may be able to improve it, I called it Ruby Love, maybe a name change possibly I don't know , what do you think ?

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DrJBHL

Join Date 04/2002

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Needs a background... a theme idea/concept... Maybe a fighter jet...

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JcRabbit

Join Date 03/2001

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Doc, you are aware than you can shorten the space between icons in the Nexus dock by opening the Dock Properties dialog -> Appearance -> Icon Spacing?

Also, change the style of the Weather module to 'Style 2' - I think you will thank me for it, the new default weather icons are nothing short of amazing.

Finally, to change Ethan's style, open WorkShelf Preferences and... just kidding! Gorgeous baby.

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