Looking for a Graphic Designer

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Campylobacter jejuni wrote on 2013-05-31 20:33

So I'm in this PS2 Outfit/Clan now, and one of our leaders is creating an app that will let the investments with the in-game curency be shown on the player pages and needs some help designing it. Since I know there are a lot of capable artists here, I wondered if there was a graphic designer too.

I can't direct you towards the thread since it's a members-only forum, but here a screenshot of the post.
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Baku wrote on 2013-05-31 21:33

Code indeed seems very similar to CSS, something I'm fairly proficient with, but I would need to have a hands-on try at it to see if I can do something good with it.

What is it exactly anyway (the name of the language being used)? I'm not familiar with it. (I'm guessing something that goes along Visual Basic or something like that though?, I never touched VB though, never even looked at it, since I have no intention of programming on that windoze-only crap)

Anyway, I can give it a shot, having an actual project to put to use my UI Design studies should be a good thing.
Campylobacter jejuni wrote on 2013-05-31 21:43

I just linked to your response in the relevant thread, let's see what he says. He was also preliminarily offering to send example in-game shots, I suppose so you could get acquainted to the Vanu aesthetics.

That would be very kind of you.
Campylobacter jejuni wrote on 2013-06-01 13:45

Here the response:

Hey, thanks for responding! I'm coding in C++ using the Qt framework, and the theming language is Qt Style Sheets.

The relevant documentation is here:
https://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtwidgets/stylesheet-syntax.html
https://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtwidgets/stylesheet-reference.html

Please note, that while the application is potentially cross-platform, I'm primarily targeting Windows for the initial release and so you will need access to a Windows system to test your styles (unless you just want to forget the stylesheet and photoshop some images).

Here are some reference images from in-game:
http://puu.sh/35QGI
http://puu.sh/35QHk
http://puu.sh/35QHN
http://puu.sh/35QIe

Now obviously the UI in the game has a dark theme, and I'm going for a light theme for my application, so we don't have to copy exactly what the game does. The orange style is only one possibility, perhaps there might be a better colour for us to use?

I'm also not creating an exact replica of the game UI. I've done away with the "+ CERTIFY" button, so I would like the cost of a cert level to be represented on the button itself.

Please let me know if you'd like to help out, and any further questions you might have.

He said he would sign up (here) himself if you do accept.
Baku wrote on 2013-06-01 22:16

Yeah, the Qt Style sheets look easy and really similar to CSS with some slight differences, looks great.

Slightly unfortunate that I'd have to work on Windows, I'm comfy on my Linux 3: - But I do have Windows, so it's no biggy.

Anyways, I'm in.
Campylobacter jejuni wrote on 2013-06-01 23:35

Goody, I'll post a message on the forum. Thanks again!