Thread: Small graphics needed

Originally Posted by Flan

Well I'd recommend going a bit darker with the color scheme

Yeah, I think this would be nice. IMO the current theme looks outdated with the gradients. Perhaps we could switch to something closer to Material?

Will look into it. I've never played with the styling.
I would just install alternate styles, but then they wouldn't have all the personal modifications I've done to this one.

If you might be changing the color scheme after all should I wait on the board images? I'm still working on rendering atm though.

I don't really know what people would want to see, exactly. Are there any example? Maybe other live boards?

Originally Posted by Kotono

I don't really know what people would want to see, exactly. Are there any example? Maybe other live boards?

Here's something close to what I mentioned earlier. I think it's easiest if you pick a couple of styles and make a poll to decide which to use. Or we could get people to nominate what they like and vote on those. This thread doesn't seem to be getting much attention though, so you might want to make another one and see if anyone bites. People could just be indifferent.

There's lots of vbulletins out there, but I honestly doubt if you asked you'd get a response from people. The responses here are almost exclusively limited to the boards about the various games though with that said there isn't much room on the board to go outside said topics here. With niche content comes an unresponsive community about other matters and a woefully inactive one, in number this board has a decent amount of members, but it hits well below it's weight class in terms of discussion and activity not that it's a problem for such a board just something to ponder, but that brings me to my point, it's highly doubtful that the majority of people care one way or another. Leaving it as is leaves it as a generic board and it'll continue as it has, changing the theme won't change much if anything. Only 2 people have bothered to say anything about it at all, with that said and I mean no offense theme-wise it seems as if it's the straight default. In terms of the board it serves what it serves, but there is nothing outside that to actually encourage members to be active here, as I mentioned people's posts are almost exclusively concerned with getting help or information and there are few and far between of people actually trying to help, the members themselves have expressed that nobody is really interested in helping and I largely contribute that to the forum itself, it's an information dump it's not really a community. Cosmetics are simply cosmetic, the white theme is rather straining on my eyes personally. Something close to what Nutaku uses would be safe considering most if not all of the people here use that site anyway there shouldn't be any troubles with using a dark blue theme.

No need to download a theme or anything just change up the style variables.
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/stylevars

Seeing as there's not much opposition to a change, are we going ahead with this? You could mess with the vars manually, but I think a pre-built style would save you the trouble of making it flow. The biggest thing is just to get a dark theme; I hadn't noticed before, but a skin like this is actually hella nice on the eyes compared to white.

Also using characters only go so far, the other boards wouldn't have a graphic if that's the only guideline so something needs to be decided for the rest of the boards if you really want all of them to have some sort of uniformity. Random anime renders would not only save the time of rendering, but they'd be a style match for instance for the art forum find some sort of anime painter though with as small as the board images actually are getting enough detail to show that might be an issue.