Batmeter

[flupke]

I understand that XPero does not waste his time with designing icons that will never look really nice because only 16 colors are supported but I made a custom batmeter bitmap.

The first is only a simplified version of the original and the second one is more modern but looks a bit flat.

I'm not a good graphic designer so if anyone has some good idees for this...

batmeter_groot_1.bmp

batmeter_groot_2.bmp

batmeter_klein_1.bmp

batmeter_klein_2.bmp

[keytotime]

If you could make a bit more rounded it would look better, great start.

[Godzilla]

I just want post a thread like "the energy-icons are not xpized".

[flupke]

@ Godzilla

There was already a thread in that direction. In one of the XPize versions XPero did include new batmeter bitmaps but most people didn't like it so it was not continued. It looked like the batmeter that is now in Vista. Something plain, white, flat. Even in Windows Vista Microsoft did not add true color support for the batmeter, bootscreen and management console but made the bootscreen and batmeter all white.

By the way: does someone know if the Management Console 3.0, which is now in Pre-release state only availeble in 3 languages, has support for true color icons?

@ keytotime

How can it be made more rounded? Edge smoothing and stuff is not possible here.

[Angel Blue01]

Why didn't they fix this in Vista?

[BoardBabe]

Vista is not finished

[EchoNoise]

I liked the flat white version... Does anybody have the resource files for it?

[flupke]

Did some more modifications on the batmeter.

batmeter_groot.bmp

batmeter_klein.bmp

Edited December 30, 2005 by flupke