Nilla's Theme Wizardry

[Nilla Nilla]

Thanks everyone! It should be finished in the next few days!

 

[gastd]

Thanks for your work.

 

[Nilla Nilla]

THE PS2 THEME IS LIVE.

HOWEVER,

This is NOT the final version. There are some things that might bleed into Style Suite and there might be some things that I missed. I need you guys to test it, look and see if you can find any default colors, tell me what bleeds into your custom profiles, test it on your phones. Once I get some feedback, I am going to disable it and fix it for the final version. I do miss a bit when I code as I do not have good vision and can't see tiny things like that and I am not very observant lmao But please tell me what you think! And if there is anything that you want added/changed suggest! I want to make this perfect (or as perfect as it can get) for you nerds. Also, there are some things that I can't change due to the site and how it's coded, like I can't stop the logo colors from changing back to default. So it's only on the index page. I will keep this theme up for a week to give enough time for feedback.

Also, please be gentle when giving feedback. This is my first time coding a XenForo theme.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

IT'S BEAUTIFUL!

 

[ArchienineArchienine's icon]

THE PS2 THEME IS LIVE.

HOWEVER,

This is NOT the final version. There are some things that might bleed into Style Suite and there might be some things that I missed. I need you guys to test it, look and see if you can find any default colors, tell me what bleeds into your custom profiles, test it on your phones. Once I get some feedback, I am going to disable it and fix it for the final version. I do miss a bit when I code as I do not have good vision and can't see tiny things like that and I am not very observant lmao But please tell me what you think! And if there is anything that you want added/changed suggest! I want to make this perfect (or as perfect as it can get) for you nerds. Also, there are some things that I can't change due to the site and how it's coded, like I can't stop the logo colors from changing back to default. So it's only on the index page. I will keep this theme up for a week to give enough time for feedback.

Also, please be gentle when giving feedback. This is my first time coding a XenForo theme.

How we can enable it?

 

[Nilla Nilla]

How we can enable it?

Just go to the bottom of the site and you will see this

Change it to the PS2 like I have.

 

[ArchienineArchienine's icon]

Nevermind

 

[Nilla Nilla]

Oh, one more thing. These are some ideas on what to look for:

• Buttons that don't match.
• Anything in the Post Reply menu
• PS2 things fighting your Style Suite profiles
• Text that isn't visible
• Gray borders

Those are just a couple things I need to know.

Again, this theme will NOT be touched by me until a week to give you enough time to test, unless there is something seriously broken.

 

[JellyjamLu]

The PS2 theme looks really good, the only thing I would have changed is reducing the blue inside the boxes so it's just the bordering left that is this color, then everything else is black with the same PS2 cubes floating in the background. But that's just me, I find the theme a bit too bright personally so I reverted back.

 

[Nilla Nilla]

The PS2 theme looks really good, the only thing I would have changed is reducing the blue inside the boxes so it's just the bordering left that is this color, then everything else is black with the same PS2 cubes floating in the background. But that's just me, I find the theme a bit too bright personally so I reverted back.

I'm not sure what you mean by floating cubes. That is a static background image. The only animations are the pulsating glows on the boxes, such as the main wrapper (The big transparent thing that keeps everything inside of it). And what blue in which boxes? Can you provide a screenshot?

 

[JellyjamLu]

Hello, I never specified anything animated, just the fact they are floating cubes/squares.

 

[JustLooking456]

It's like an early Christmas, I love the PS2 theme!!! Thank you @Nilla !!!

 

[Mopeybloke]

Wow. The theme looks cool!
I won't be using it on my laptop because it makes the forums way heavier. Maybe when it's plugged.

 

[ArchienineArchienine's icon]

Sorry, i had to disable it .
It caused extreme slowdown.

 

[Nilla Nilla]

I'm not sure why it's lagging because what I coded is gentle, there are only a couple of keyframe animations which are the pulsating glow effect. Is it lagging? And I need to know if it's happening on a PC or a mobile phone.

 

[ArchienineArchienine's icon]

I'm not sure why it's lagging because what I coded is gentle, there are only a couple of keyframe animations which are the pulsating glow effect. Is it lagging? And I need to know if it's happening on a PC or a mobile phone.

Mobile, imagine that the lag is comparable to the Yellow Devil fight in Mega Man The Wily Wars in which the game run at 50% speed during the fight.

 

[Viyon]

Readability has improved tenfold for me which lately has been bugging me a lot and made me avoid participating in the forum to avoid eye fatigue, also the background is lovely and the theme is very pretty as a whole! You did an amazing job, thank you!

 

[Nilla Nilla]

Mobile, imagine that the lag is comparable to the Yellow Devil fight in Mega Man The Wily Wars in which the game run at 50% speed during the fight.

Okay, I'll try to figure out why it's doing that. I don't want people to miss out because of that.

Readability has improved tenfold for me which lately has been bugging me a lot and made me avoid participating in the forum to avoid eye fatigue, also the background is lovely and the theme is very pretty as a whole! You did an amazing job, thank you!

I'm so happy to hear that! I'm glad it helps you.

 

[Spike's iconSpike]

Very nice using it!

 

[Nilla Nilla]

Very nice using it!

Thank you so much! It's a huge compliment to me that you enjoy it!

 

[Spike's iconSpike]

I remember the old PlayStation blog having some nice bg at some point (not saying you have to use it).
https://web.archive.org/web/20140630102134/http://blog.us.playstation.com/

 

[Appiplyer]

I'm not sure why it's lagging because what I coded is gentle, there are only a couple of keyframe animations which are the pulsating glow effect. Is it lagging? And I need to know if it's happening on a PC or a mobile phone.

It is laggy but idk it might be a device issue since if i use it in my laptop it didn't lag

 

[Nilla Nilla]

I remember the old PlayStation blog having some nice bg at some point (not saying you have to use it).
https://web.archive.org/web/20140630102134/http://blog.us.playstation.com/

Oh that gives more PS2 vibes. lol I kinda just winged the background, I've never really played on a PS2 so I didn't know much.

It is laggy but idk it might be a device issue since if i use it in my laptop it didn't lag

RIP. Okay, I will have to look into this. It's weird because I test it on my phone and my PC, both work fine. I would have done this earlier if I had known it was going to fight everything. I'm not sure if the animations are making it heavy. I'll see if I can work something out on that.

 

[KamakoKamako's icon]

@Nilla the new theme really is stunning, especially on PC.

Just wow.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Maybe you could try making a second version without animations? I don't mean you SHOULD, but it may help with the performance issues.

Incredible work either way — I have seen PAID themes not looking nearly half as good as this one does.