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BoM Light Style

Discussion in 'Sorcerous Sundries' started by Taluntain, May 3, 2011.

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  1. Marceror

    Marceror Chaos Shall Be Sown In Their Footsteps Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Remove all ads!
    What the heck. I'm too set in my ways. I'm going to run with light for a few days and see if it grows on me.
     
    Marceror, May 12, 2011
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  2. Aldeth the Foppish Idiot

    Aldeth the Foppish Idiot Armed with My Mallet O' Thinking Veteran

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    I switched a few days ago - it does grow on you after a while.
     
    Aldeth the Foppish Idiot, May 12, 2011
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  3. Blades of Vanatar

    Blades of Vanatar Vanatar will rise again Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    I think I will leave it alone then and stick to the Dark. I loathe messing with the video settings.
     
    Blades of Vanatar, May 12, 2011
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    Hmmm, if all my monitors are off, then they're all off the same way. Using my laptop, desktop, job #1 computer and job #2 computer have given me the same result. Three of the machines have Radeon controllers, one has an Nvidia card.
    I've gotten the same results each time for both dark and light schemes.
    There's my non-scientific survey :p
     
    Stefanina, May 12, 2011
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  5. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Could be that your own colour perception is slightly different than most people's... the colour used is in the vicinity of very, very light green so it wouldn't take much to see it as such. If you can make a screenshot it'd be interesting to see what the colours look like.
     
    Taluntain, May 12, 2011
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  6. Blades of Vanatar

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    Ok. Messed around with the settings on my work PC(not messing with my own PC, don't want trouble there) and the color did change a bit. Not AS ugly. More beige/mustard than puke-green. Still like the dark better though.
     
    Blades of Vanatar, May 12, 2011
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  7. Blackthorne TA

    Blackthorne TA Master in his Own Mind Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    A screenshot wouldn't do any good because it would still display differently on your own hardware.

    Anyone interested about information on calibrating their TVs or monitors should take a look at greyscale and color calibration for dummies. It's easiest and most accurate if you buy a cheap colorimeter, but you can do a decent job of it by eye with the right test patterns.
     
    Blackthorne TA, May 12, 2011
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  8. Taluntain

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    BTA, at least it'd give me an idea if their settings were off because higher contrast, hue and such is visible simply due to comparison of my own view vs. the screenshot. That is, the screenshot colours shouldn't look the same on my monitor as the skin does.
     
    Taluntain, May 12, 2011
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    Now that is a possibility, as I know my eyes are defective... :lol:
    Here's the screen cap:
    [​IMG]
     
    Stefanina, May 12, 2011
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  10. Blackthorne TA

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    Is that true? I suppose it could be partially true; I was thinking that a screenshot takes the values of the pixels as their true color before they are adjusted by the display driver (i.e. they would be the same colors you set in the skin). That is certainly true if the adjustments were made in the monitor and not the display driver...
     
    Blackthorne TA, May 12, 2011
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  11. Harbourboy

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    Some of the fobt colours that work on the dark background don't work on the light (i.e. the pale ones).
     
    Harbourboy, May 12, 2011
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  12. Taluntain

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    Hm... that looks exactly as it should - no green though.

    Makes sense... I just know that a lot of the game screenshots people sent in over the years had colours where it was obvious that for instance the contrast was set way too high. But as you said, it's likely that this was only in instances where the colours were manipulated on the driver level.

    Yes, I changed pretty much all of them that I could. Some I can't easily change because they're not skin-dependent but hardcoded in the profiles instead (like all the titles below usernames). Did you find any others besides those?
     
    Taluntain, May 13, 2011
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  13. Cap'n CJ

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    So i'm trying out the light style for the first time.

    ...I'm going to switch back. I don't like change!
     
    Cap'n CJ, May 14, 2011
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  14. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Anyone like the default one?
     
    Taluntain, May 14, 2011
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  15. Barmy Army

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    Yeah, don't mind it at all.

    ---------- Added 2 hours, 43 minutes and 55 seconds later... ----------

    In fact, it's the one I'm going to use I think. It looks nice and clean. Just don't go putting big red logo's at the top of it now :lol:.
     
    Barmy Army, May 15, 2011
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    The fixed width themes are great. Unfortunately stuff like oversized pictures currently breaks it.
     
    Erod, May 15, 2011
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  17. Marceror

    Marceror Chaos Shall Be Sown In Their Footsteps Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Yeah, the default colors (or colours for our European friends) are quite nice in my opinion. And since these are the colors I've grown accustomed to over some 8 years using this website, there's a certain amount of nostalgia that they create for me. I experimented with the light colors for a few days, but ultimately, it doesn't feel like BoM without the blue.

    **EDIT**

    Okay, I didn't realize that there was a new skin called default, so I guess disregard what I said previously. I'll leave it in the post, because I I don't mind sharing my opinion about the BoM traditional look.

    Default, which I'm looking at currently is nice. I prefer it to light. Looks a little more "modern." I'll probably try it out for a few days.
     
    Marceror, May 15, 2011
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  18. Marceror

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    I've tried all 3 skins now, and am now back to the orignal blue, for good I expect. It looks the best to me, by far. Even the Sorcerers Place Forums link on the top left of every page looks rather out of place with the other skins. The colors just don't blend into the site as naturally. This isn't the only link/icon/etc that I noticed this about.

    I've never had a problem reading whitish text on a light blue background. It's perfectuly usable for me, and it looks the best, so it's the winner in my book.
     
    Marceror, May 23, 2011
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  19. Aldeth the Foppish Idiot

    Aldeth the Foppish Idiot Armed with My Mallet O' Thinking Veteran

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    I too have tried all three, and I think I'm going with light. It's grown on me. The default with the white background isn't so easy on the eyes. Like Marceror, I didn't realize there even was a "default" style until Tal mentioned it... although I do like the new icons for displaying posts...
     
    Aldeth the Foppish Idiot, May 25, 2011
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