Screenshots here

A video demonstration of my "Distraction mod v2.1" skin is here.

Low quality (streaming) = http://www.flickr.com/photos/77199896@N07/6934739288/
High quality (download) [42.84 MB] = http://www.mediafire.com/?5g332a4p152sz83

Update: 14/4/2012

Version 2 of my "Distraction mod" skin has now been uploaded with a full screen spiral cursor. (download link removed, due to a new version below)

Update: 15/4/2012

Version 1.1 has now been uploaded with changes been made to the "approachcircle.png" image. I have now added randomness to the size of the approach circles in the image, and I've also increased the thickness of the circles and added a drop shadow effect behind the circles. I have added a blank "followpoint.png" image to improve the visual appearance of the game whilst there are hundreds of approach circles on the screen at once during gameplay (extreme maps only).

Version 2.1 has now been uploaded with a complete remake of my full screen spiral cursor that I added to the "Distraction mod v2" skin.

What's the difference between "Distraction mod v1.1 & v2.1" skin?

Version 1.1 = Hundreds of approach circles of various sizes on the screen at once during gameplay (extreme maps only).
Version 2.1 = The same as "Distraction mod v1.1" skin but with the addition of a full screen spiral cursor. (see screenshots & video)

The reason why I created the "Distraction mod" skin & released it onto the osu! forum.

KiyoshiX101 wrote:

This Skin is epic practice lol! If you do some Hard/Insane SSs with this skin you wont get confused in any other LOL Gotta use it

I actually created the skin for myself to practice on difficult maps to make them easier to read. Since it takes extra brain processing time to decode the beatmaps with hundreds of approach circles on the screen at once. Thus when the beatmap is played with the skin enabled, it should make it much easier to read the beatmap with the skin turned off afterwards. This is why I consider my skin a "game mod" (like Boomerang mod on StepMania) rather than just a skin for osu!, since it can be used to dramatically improve gaming skills for those who choose to use it.

Download the "Distraction mod v1.1 & 2.1" skin, at one of the two links below.

http://www.mediafire.com/?dw0ltbc9cigmt1l
http://www.4shared.com/zip/ntf7L_lL/Distraction_mod_v11__v21.html

Shiirn wrote:

moved to skins

plus this is just an approachcircle remake, wat?

Bittersweet wrote:

nah, its just a bad skin :3

ziin wrote:

paintskin gives you the same effect with minimal resource use.

SPOILER

http://osu.ppy.sh/forum/t/2622&start=0

KiyoshiX101 wrote:

This Skin is epic practice lol! If you do some Hard/Insane SSs with this skin you wont get confused in any other LOL Gotta use it

Gameplay elements must be visible. You cannot make any element that will impair the playability of the map invisible as it will make the map unintuitive or even impossible to play.

When skinning gameplay elements, complete sets of elements must be skinned. For instance, if you skin hitcircles, you must include a hitcircle.png, hitcircleoverlay.png, approachcircle.png, and a slider border color (this can be done by adding the line "SliderBorder: 255,255,255" (using RGB values) under the [Colours] section of each .osu file). The same logic applies to hitbursts, cursors, numbers, and anything else of this nature. If you didn't intend to skin an element in the set, then using the templateskin's version is okay. Setting a SkinPreference is also acceptable (e.g. forcing the default skin).

Do not make any essential gameplay elements larger than template skin dimensions (especially for combobursts). Larger elements may effect gameplay performance, and thus should be avoided. However, any elements that do not directly effect gameplay (e.g. pause-back, play-skip, etc.) may be slightly larger if a legitimate reason is given.

MLGnom wrote:

You know these rules apply only to the beatmap skinning? That's why you need to add hitcircle.png, hitcircleoverlay.png, approachcircle.png in beatmap skin when you are going to do it. In normal skinning, you just do these parts that you want. Rest will be used from default osu! skin.

Bittersweet wrote:

nah, its just a bad skin :3