BF2 by Destine Designs

[HBAndrew]

lol who needs extras and why would they need to go there and purchase them? The extras are only the shoutbox and mp3 player which are not needed, what other extras are you talking about? Theme comes with all the stuff needed.

I asked on IM if it would be possible to mod the PHP-Nuke shoutbox module to work on IM, would be handy for themes ported that have matching ones, but did not get much help .

I certainly would buy the matching shoutbox if it worked on IM, shame no one is intrested who can do it.

Look forward to any info about this, and good luck theme looks kinda complex lol but shouldn't be a problem for you.

[Helter]

I started it if you want to check it out. It is in the demo site, named DDBF2

[HBAndrew]

Looking good, that's about as far as I got using the HL2 theme as base, but then got stuck on how to do anything else.

[Helter]

if you got that far, your already past the hardest part., the rest is just a few image tables and images

[HBAndrew]

I would like to learn, for the portal it's a simple replace images/image names and sizes, thats what I did anyway probably totally wrong, flash maybe harder id probably copy paste the header code and insert anything missing, but I am no good with blocks/tables etc to get the forums and blocks looking right thats why I got stuck. Can do block images, but not the look inside the blocks, all 3D ish.

Then theres editing all mod files to match I guess, I suppose that is easy but just time consuming.

I see it is looking great now, did you make the navigation block yourself out of the files from the upper right flash navigation? Didn't see it come with the theme, looks good I like it, guess it takes only a few days to do a theme when you know how lol

[Helter]

yah i made it from the other .fla's and a few images. I am going to include two versions of overall_header, overall_footer and index. The default will be the flash nav block like you see now, and by renaming the three files, it will use the Qmenu nav bar instead.

[HBAndrew]

Are you gonna put in the login menu under the header like the original and only show when logged out? That bar under the header area is good for all the normal links like private messages etc that tell you how many messages, miss that about other themes.

One thing, is that grey/yellow image used for the flash nav from the Mech theme? Might wanna change it it's from a commercial theme don't want DD getting annoyed lol, maybe you can put together something that will suit the theme. Tho having it like that I really like it, as long as DD doesn't mind that one image :/

[Helter]

it was included in the pub release.

I think im gonna leave the login and logout buttons in the right side header flash, otherwise it gets redundant

[Helter]

it is done. There is info about it in the gaming template section.
enjoy

[HBAndrew]

Hmm looks like you missed quite a lot

All the center blocks on the portal are still HL2 in the middle, isnt there a way to get them looking exactly like they do on the original where it all looks like 1 image? Also the blocks are not all 3D like the original, and the forums themselves are still HL2 with just the surrounding images changed, is it possible to make them like the original, the grey 3D forums on top of 1 big dark grey area?

Other than them it's looking pretty much complete I love it, apart from a couple buttons like Friend not done.

Installing and experimenting now thanks.