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Artist's Note

Well ... here it is. I honestly have no idea why I'm releasing this.

This is the Visual Style used in a handful of my recent WIP shots over at GSM. It's completely unchanged from its appearances there. It's completely open-source; modify it, port it, butcher it until it doesn't even resemble itself, then release it. I don't really care.

It's also somewhat unfinished. I'll be the first to admit that I went completely half-assed on the start menu and assorted odds and ends. It probably looks best with Litestep or another alternate shell -- anything you can do so only the windows are shown. Because the windows are done. Everything else? Not so much.

Anyway, that's the deal here. Have fun with it.


Licensing: the artist has specified that ports and mods are allowed.

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Comments (27)

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Pyro_ says:

Awesomeness. I'm glad you released it, and I want to go on the record in saying this inspired me to do Broken -- mainly the 3px border though.

Tue, Jul 3rd at 03:35am (1 year ago)
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tazio72 says:

*Loved*

Tue, Jul 3rd at 04:01am (1 year ago)
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aMADme says:

sweet.../me likes

Tue, Jul 3rd at 04:11am (1 year ago)
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Thomax says:

nice!

Tue, Jul 3rd at 05:05am (1 year ago)
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Thinker says:

Wow! Loved.

Tue, Jul 3rd at 05:48am (1 year ago)
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qslig says:

looks cool.
can't drag the window though, how do i fix that?

Tue, Jul 3rd at 07:02am (1 year ago)
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egolatra says:

+ love

Tue, Jul 3rd at 08:09am (1 year ago)
954

qslig: You have to teach yourself you click on the black borders. They're only 3px wide, so it does take practice ... but they are draggable.

Tue, Jul 3rd at 11:52am (1 year ago)
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qslig says:

anti; aah ok, thx :)

Tue, Jul 3rd at 12:12pm (1 year ago)
1429

captionless is cool. thanks!

Tue, Jul 3rd at 01:38pm (1 year ago)
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amp.angel says:

OMG this SUX. <3

Tue, Jul 3rd at 03:48pm (1 year ago)
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pjdark says:

i love your open source attitude. respects. and it looks really good too.

Tue, Jul 3rd at 05:00pm (1 year ago)
2655

from appearance, increase the active border of the window. no bugging any more

Thu, Jul 5th at 08:31pm (1 year ago)
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dustkt says:

JASON U ROX

Fri, Jul 6th at 10:24pm (1 year ago)
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Nunch says:

ok, well i missed this, but yarrr pretty neat.

Fri, Jul 6th at 10:54pm (1 year ago)
3004

that's hot.

Tue, Jul 10th at 06:17am (1 year ago)
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nitzua says:

^^
LOL

Tue, Jul 10th at 08:39am (1 year ago)
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Nefastos says:

I appreciate it a lot from an aesthetic viewpoint, but closing a normal window with this VS is a pain in the ass since you either have to right click the program from the taskbar or then go through the file menu in the program window...

Or am I just retarded and forgetting some simpler way of closing windows using this vs?

Wed, Jul 11th at 04:51am (1 year ago)
954

Nefastos: I, personally, use mouse gestures. It makes things quite simple. I suppose you could also get in the habit of alt-f4'ing everything closed, though that might get tedious. This seems to be one of the pratfalls of designing something strictly for its appearance, as functionality is always doomed to take a backseat.

Wed, Jul 11th at 01:07pm (1 year ago)
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Pyro_ says:

When I modified a VS to be titlebarless in my shot "Minimalized" there were buttons you just couldn't see them. And had to get used to where they were in order to click min, max, and close.

Fri, Jul 13th at 06:43am (1 year ago)
2655

amazing

Sat, Jul 14th at 07:07am (1 year ago)
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musiiq says:

Fantastic VS.

However, like Pyro_ said, I wish the buttons to close/max/mini were still there but just invisible.

Wed, Aug 15th at 04:53pm (1 year ago)
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musiiq says:

Apparently you can't edit your posts.. so I'd like to ask, what font it is you are using in the screenshot posted here?

Wed, Aug 15th at 04:57pm (1 year ago)
954

That would be Calibri.

Thu, Aug 16th at 01:27pm (1 year ago)
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omgnikko says:

nice concept.

Tue, Sep 4th at 08:33am (1 year ago)
2603

Great Visual Style. I've been using it for a few months now. I love the simplicity. Thank you.

Sun, Apr 13th at 01:19am (7 months ago)
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Domesday says:

For the blank icons, did you reshack shell32?

Tue, Aug 26th at 10:17pm (2 months ago)


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