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Start Buttons Topic: [Animated Start Button] Vinyl Record Sleeve Start Button
Situla
Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 9:44 pm
Replies: 1 12511
Loving it. Very nice and smooth animation. I Love how the whole thing sneaks to the left as the record slides out
Feature Requests Topic: Anchor points for start button
Situla
Posted: Fri May 22, 2015 10:30 pm
Replies: 5 16954
Thanks for responding, IMHO, I think this will only complicate matters. The size setting and modifying the Start button bitmap are more than enough. I think I disagree that size setting and modifying the bitmap are enough. They might be in some cases, but if your button does experience a lot of clip...
Feature Requests Topic: Anchor points for start button
Situla
Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 11:14 pm
Replies: 5 16954
Hello, I posted on a similar topic over on the Custom Start Button section, but decided to rewrite it into more of a feature request topic. A feature I would love to see implemented one day is the ability to change where and how start buttons are anchored or attached to the start bar, either through...
Start Buttons Topic: [Animated Start Button] Rotating Cube Button
Situla
Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 9:19 pm
Replies: 7 67550
Thanks ZoNi, glad you like it :) As Jcee said, animation between hover and pressed state frames isn't currently supported. That said, I'd be more than happy to upload some other versions of this button with different pressed state frames. Any modified versions would probably just feature different c...
Start Buttons Topic: Question regarding Start Button padding/anchoring
Situla
Posted: Tue May 05, 2015 12:05 am
Replies: 1 10005
Hi guys, I repeatedly run into the situation where buttons are partially obscured by the edges of screen, and must be reduced in size in order to eliminate this clipping. Reducing button size is not always a desirable or ideal solution, and sometimes its very difficult to anticpate how a button will...
Start Buttons Topic: Bubble Bobble and Zelda ChuChu Buttons
Situla
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2015 9:37 pm
Replies: 2 17028
Nice work. I love the second one with the bubble subtley shrinking in the hover frame. BB was my favourite game back in the gameboy days.
Start Buttons Topic: [Animated Start Button] Rotating Cube Button
Situla
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2015 11:20 pm
Replies: 7 67550
Attached is another rotation themed cube button, simpler in design than my Rubik's cube button . This cube consists of 8 smaller cubes, with each face dividing into 4 squares, evoking the Windows 8 logo. Hovering over the button will cause the 8 smaller cubes to float apart slightly, and the entire ...
Start Buttons Topic: [Animated Start Button] Rubik's Cube Button (13 frames)
Situla
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 12:30 am
Replies: 20 87699
it might not be a bad idea to have the animation time be something you can set in classic shell settings. that way all one needs to do to create an animated button is line up 13 frames. This may make it easier for people making the buttons, but I think it would also shift a lot of work and configur...
Start Buttons Topic: [Animated Start Button] Rubik's Cube Button (13 frames)
Situla
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 11:10 pm
Replies: 20 87699
Thanks Situla! I like #2 the best. The reason I requested a separate pressed state is that when you are using the keyboard to open the Start Menu (Win or Ctrl+Esc), it's the only indicator for the button. There's no hover state :) For touchscreens too, the same is true. Oh I see - if you just tap w...
Start Buttons Topic: [Animated Start Button] Rubik's Cube Button (13 frames)
Situla
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 7:01 am
Replies: 20 87699
The button now features a Pressed State frame . Wasn't quite sure what kind of Pressed State look to go for so I ended up making three versions. Choose from the attached files below and decide for yourself which, if any you like. The pressed state in the first file simply features an inverted colou...
Start Buttons Topic: [Animated Start Button] Rubik's Cube Button (13 frames)
Situla
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2015 11:01 pm
Replies: 20 87699
yeah i just found that out the hard way, regarding the lack of animation between hot and pressed. i added a hot state frame to my button and it just creates more work (i.e. an extra frame). if you could animate between hot and pressed, it's no extra work/frames, because you could reuse the existing...
Start Buttons Topic: [Animated Start Button] Spinning Windows 8 themed buttons
Situla
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2015 7:37 pm
Replies: 20 150037
As requested I've added a version featuring a pressed-state frame which can be found here
Start Buttons Topic: [Animated Start Button] Rubik's Cube Button (13 frames)
Situla
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2015 7:31 pm
Replies: 20 87699
A suggestion: could you add some differentiation for the "pressed" state? Sure thing. I'll try and add one perhaps later on this evening if I have time. I didn't make a specific pressed state frame partly because CS doesn't support animation between hot and pressed states which looks slig...
Start Buttons Topic: [Animated Start Button] Spinning Windows 8 themed buttons
Situla
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:26 pm
Replies: 20 150037
Ok, I deleted the old one and re-uploaded it with corrected colours. The colours are now 99% accurate
Start Buttons Topic: [Animated Start Button] Spinning Windows 8 themed buttons
Situla
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:40 pm
Replies: 20 150037
If anyone's interested I've further modified my button to include a colour transition effect. The button attached below will transition from white to the conventional yellow, red, blue and green colours of older windows logos in addition to spinning. Edit: At GauravK's request I've also added a pres...
Start Buttons Topic: [Animated Start Button] Spinning Windows 8 themed buttons
Situla
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 5:39 am
Replies: 20 150037
Alrighty, I've remade the button from scratch to look as close to the windows 8 logo as possible. Here's what's changed. - I've flipped the logo around so it actually matches the windows 8 logo - I've corrected the proportions of the button so that its virtually identical to the Windows 8 logo - I'v...
Start Buttons Topic: [Animated Start Button] Spinning Windows 8 themed buttons
Situla
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:04 pm
Replies: 20 150037
Thanks for the feedback. The button is made of 2D snapshots of a perfect square being rotated in a 3D environment, namely SketchUp. I did things this way because its great for maintaining a consistent and realistic perspective, but now that I compare my button more closely with the more 'correct' wi...
Start Buttons Topic: [Animated Start Button] Rubik's Cube Button (13 frames)
Situla
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 12:55 am
Replies: 20 87699
Thanks, glad you like it
Start Buttons Topic: [Animated Start Button] Spinning Windows 8 themed buttons
Situla
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 11:52 pm
Replies: 20 150037
Sure, haha. For some odd reason I prefer it flipped the other way round.
Start Buttons Topic: [Animated Start Button] Spinning Windows 8 themed buttons
Situla
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 11:22 pm
Replies: 20 150037
Spinning Windows 8 themed start button Attached is my spinning Windows 8 themed start button. Hover over the button to rotate the Window by 180 degrees of animation. I have attached white, red and blue version of the button. If you don't already know how to install, first move the downloaded file t...
Start Buttons Topic: [Animated Start Button] Rubik's Cube Button (13 frames)
Situla
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2015 10:41 pm
Replies: 20 87699
Thanks for the feedback
Start Buttons Topic: [Animated Start Button] Rubik's Cube Button (13 frames)
Situla
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2015 8:45 am
Replies: 20 87699
ANIMATED RUBIKS'S CUBE BUTTON Attached is my animated Rubik's cube start button. To create it I made an actual Rubik's Cube in SketchUp with rotatable sections. I then exported a 2D snapshot of the cube every time I rotated the top and bottom sections by 15 degree increments in clockwise and anti-c...
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