The basic idea is you create a set color theme, red/white/black, and then apply filters to those colors to get all the other colors for the theme.
The flexibility and adaptability comes from being able to change 1 color and having everything based off of that color change too. Theoretically, you could create a theme from 1 base color and manipulate it with filters to create all the other colors for the theme, giving you the ability to change the entire vital skin from a single color.
What kind of functionality do you guys want to see in this program? What things about vital skinning could be made easier?
The idea is you take a color and then with a single filter, you can transform it into any other color, or you layer filters using prefabs.
So yeah, you could get all those schemecolor values using filters, if you know how to manipulate the color. I might add some filter presets to do something like this, but I don’t know much color theory, so if you know how you would get those different values, let me know.
Have a look at my Ableton Vital themes. I include a script that builds them, and it does something similar by defining colors and some lighter/darker versions of them, and then it builds out the theme using a template.
Might be useful, or not, just thought you should take a look in case there is something in there that might help.
This is great, the comments at the start will be helpful when making templates! I’ve wondered how the Vital popup logo got it’s colors. Do you think you could put together a sort of short guide covering a couple of the more obscure and unclear areas of vital skinning? Of course, all credits would be given.
You might want to check with Matt before going any further. It’s possible the new graphics engine may make your skin designer obsolete or require you to rework it significantly.
Or it may not…so probably better to get clarification before putting in any more work.
Good idea, from what I gather about the post, the GUI will differ in performance, not visuals, but I could be wrong.
I’m also making the program so that the color defining and .vitalskin creating are two separate-ish processes with minimal interaction; so even if the method of creating .vitalskins was changed, I’d be able to quickly update the program to support the new ones.
Unfortunately displaying transparency is difficult with the UI library I’m working with though, so that might be a problem. If anyone knows how I could calculate a new color value given a color and transparency value, that would be an alternate method I could use.
If I am right in what I’m thinking you mean then you could grab the color HEX from the background then use a return method/function to spit out something using a manipulation of this: t = op * c + ( 1 - op ) * bgc
t = target
op = opacity
c = color of the given color
bgc = the background color (e.g. the programs ui’s color)
