Birdie textures 16 colours for perfect palette

[Cammy]

Hey everyone, I just wanted to let you know that Rebel has finished adjusting his palette. It's almost the same as it was before but better, trust me!

You can download it for FullPalette here - http://home.exetel.com.au/amiga/FullPalette.prefs
And for Scalos' Palette preferences here - http://home.exetel.com.au/amiga/ScalosPalette.pre

[Cammy]

The icons in 3.9 were designed for a mugh higher colour depth. If you don't like the way they remap you would need to replace them with icons that already use this 16 colour palette. I don't think you'll be able to make a more suitable 16 colour palette to remap those 3.9 icons to while still keeping the MUI/MagicWB grey shades. You're welcome to try though.

I can't remember if OS3.9 has an icon dither mode, but you could try it if it does. NewIcons has a dither option which works really well.

[Cammy]

Rebel is far from finishing the iconset, sorry. We need an Amiga project forum to work on all of these things but we don't know anyone who can set up an appropriate forum for us.

[Cammy]

Does anyone who uses this palette want to try out the VisualPrefs/Birdie theme I use? It's loosely based on the look of the new Silver theme for AmigaOS 4.1.2 but was pixelled from scratch by Rebel.

If you'd like to try it, download it here: http://home.exetel.com.au/amiga/SilverSkin.lha

Make a new drawer in your Prefs/Presets/ drawer called "Skins" and extract this archive there. Load up the GUI preferences (VisualPrefs) and from the Project menu select Open... then choose either SilverBlue.pre or SilverGreen.pre from the new Skins drawer, and select "Apply" when the requester pops up. Check that all the gadgets have changed to the new silver ones (you won't see the Birdie pattern yet) and hit Save.

Next you need to make sure you have this line in your Startup-Sequence, assuming you've already installed VisualPrefs and Birdie, which you can get here:

http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/birdie2000
http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/VisualPrefs

Now, here is the line you need to have in your Startup-Sequence:

Run <>NIL: C:Birdie SYS:Prefs/Presets/Skins/SilverGreen/Active SYS:Prefs/Presets/Skins/SilverGreen/InActive ACTIVEPATTERN REDRAWBITMAPS PUBSCREENS NOICONBORDER FLOODMASKMWB

If you want the title bars to look right, you will either need to use a 13 point font for your Screen Font, or manually adjust the Screen and Window Titlebar Height in the System settings in VisualPrefs' GUI preferences so you can see the top and bottom of the gadgets.

Please let me know if you try out these skins, it would be nice to see how it works for some other people. Oh, there are Blue and Green to choose from at the moment.

[Cammy]

Yeah, that's right. There's also one for the Mac drive that has the blue smiley face logo on it, I'll have to take some more screenshots. My favourites are the Spare Desk, CD32 and Rocket Tool icon (which I'm writing a GUI for).

[Cammy]

I took a screenshot of Amiga.org through IBrowse running on my A600 showing Rebel's new images:



And another screenshot of AmigaWorld:

http://home.exetel.com.au/~amiga/AmigaWorldIBrowse.gif