Nissan CARWINGS skin : In Developement

**blk02si** · 12-19-2007, 06:52 PM

I really like the new Nissan systems. Creating this look alike would be sweet. What needs to be done, a few PNG art files to get things started? I can probably handle that.

**marazi** · 12-19-2007, 09:12 PM

im currently working on a carwings skin for centrafuse, at least trying too, so hard to skin that app

but since i still use RR in my car also, im considering making this skin for RR in flash as this is much easier than skinning CF,

anywho, heres a link to a screenshot:
http://forums.fluxmedia.net/showthread.php?t=1982

will be flash compatible, animated menues and screen transitions...
it will have your basic setup at first, like main scrren, audio player/browser/coverflow, video player/browser, and navigation... might add more screens later... no eta cause im working on another skin for RR also... it takes time

**blk02si** · 12-19-2007, 09:55 PM

Looks great marazi.

Was feeling artsy myself so I decided to draw up some carwings PSDs to play with. I also want to emulate a nice clean menu structure. This skin can be done with nice menu effects, fades and such without using flash. I'm going for flash free. I started coding with this art in a simple RR skin that launches the "radial" menu by hitting the RR button. With the transitions capability set I just have that menu fade in.

**marazi** · 12-20-2007, 05:45 AM

looking good

but back to the original thread, any updates on this Dopefish...??

**mike827** · 12-23-2007, 11:44 AM

dopefish, i really love this skin and i am willing to help anyway i can!

also, i stumbled upon this thread http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/engi...oftware-2.html

they have skinned a dashboard program to look like the carwings gauges page, and it would be really simple to embed the app into road runner. just thought it was something you should see.

**C4DAO** · 12-23-2007, 12:48 PM

Yeah I found that too Mike, and was thinking the same thing.

@ blk02si

Good start there mate, although IMO I'd keep as close as possible to the carwings look. Will watch with interest!

**blk02si** · 12-26-2007, 08:14 PM

Its going to be hard sticking to an exact replica look since the actual carwings system has many hard buttons for data input. If we want this to work on a touch screen it will need buttons (even if there hidden) for volume and track/playlist management. I am still working on this as a side project to keep my skinning skills sharp.

**C4DAO** · 12-27-2007, 06:37 AM

I'm definately looking forward to anything you produce mate. Have you done anything more on this over Christmas?

As for the buttons - maybe go for the clean look of the carwings menus, and implement a pop up button bank for controls? If you wanted to be extra fancy you could model the pop up bank on the actual controls of the Skyline

**blk02si** · 12-30-2007, 12:16 PM

So far got menu, menu_2, audio_player, audio_browser and a popup control menu done.

It looks clean without any volume and < > buttons on the interface but when ever you want to change volume or track you need to launch the control menu. Its different than what I'm used to but i made the popup menu transparent so so can see though it.

Either way I am going to work on this more and release an alpha version soon!

**C4DAO** · 01-01-2008, 06:31 AM

Excellent mate! Looking forward to seeing a Beta soon.

Happy new year to you, and good luck with your IG issue raised in another thread - hopefully you'll get the answer your looking for (if done it will look great!). Are you planning to support D6 as well?