WIP SECTION

ranking letters

Simple style, colorful for the highest ranks and white for the rest.

WIP SECTION

Song selection screen

Almost done! I was not sure where I wanted to go at the beginning. NEBULA had to have character, to be recognizable at first glance, to be original, modern and colorful. After several tries, I finally chose a strong graphic style. Games of shadows and transparency, and small neon effect at the top that I found rather nice. I'm already working on the back button animation at the moment! /o/

Mods icons: Clean style

Just finished the mods icons! I hesitated between several styles but I finally kept this one, which agrees well with the rest of the skin!

Mods icons: Graphic style

I had not planned to make two versions of the mods. But looking at the first I felt that I needed to go further in the theme. I am rather satisfied with this version, which corresponds more to the idea of the skin. In all cases, both versions will be available !

Gameplay: Galaxy hitcercle

The heart of the gameplay. I admit to having spent a lot of time finding a hitcercle that is both easy to read, original and unique. After several gameplay tests, this is the final result.

Gameplay:Pass & Fail

I wanted something in the NEBULA theme and at the same time a bit different from what we are used to seeing. I found that clipping the signs in a circle was a good reference to the game itself ^^

Gameplay: Clean hitcircle & Jewel hitcircle

It's funny to see that there is always improvisation in the realization of a project. During the creation of the hit circles I tried several variants, and these two have retained my attention in addition to the "galaxy hitcircle". One is clean which allows to better read the gameplay, the other remains discreet while bringing a nice gold texture.
Here are the 3 hitcircles which will be available for customization!

Gameplay: Spinner

First I took a little time to understand the usefulness of some spinner files, but finally it's pretty simple. The spinner takes the theme of the skin, with a colorful center that does not interfere too much with the gameplay while providing visual feedback. I may make some changes!

Gameplay: Hits 50 & 100

For the animation I wanted something simple but unique. This is clearly not the main element of the gameplay, so it must remain discreet. The numbers are small, white, with a small characteristic animation.

Ranking letters 2

These one can be found on the pannel ranking. I really had fun doing them! I wanted something that really feels like being rewarded. Something you say to yourself "Wow, I played so well that my -S- rank is gold plated and a galaxy is reflected in it."

Gameplay : Scorebar

For the scorebar I wanted it to remain both discreet not to interfere with the gameplay, but also visible from the corner of the eye. So I reduced it while keeping the theme colors that are quite saturated, and I think it works well. I have also integrated a folder with the font and the PSD, so it will be available for customization!

Pause & fail screens

The pause and fails screens are quite simple and fit pretty well into the skin theme! I have hesitated a lot but I thought that the best was to take the idea of triangles found in the menu. For the fail screen I just lowered the overall saturation ^^

Ranking panel

I did not expect to suffer so much on the ranking panel. The theme is, the colors, but I was afraid to do too much or not enough. I think I have arrived at a good compromise

ZakGamez wrote:

I'm looking forward to this skin. It looks really good. Keep it up.

BelastendAF wrote:

The round back button looks kinda awful. It's like a 2013 skin. Please make it more seamless or more materialistic!

bommy985 wrote:

will the hitcircle base off of combo color or will they be solid color always, based on the way they seem, combo color might not work for it, what do i know tho?

SickOTF wrote:

Can we get some update? When we can expect skin to be released?

1. Quite a weird word choice for mode-osu and mode-osu-med, in my opinion. I'd rather use STANDARD or OSU, although, I guess this is just a nitpick.
2. I like the idea of making the buttons more compact so that they don't take as much space for no reason, but doing something like this can cause issues in the editor and beatmap options. As shown here. I'd suggest making them a bit larger or just normal size.
3. The skin.ini Version is set to 2.0. Keep in mind, the version variable is NOT like the Name and Author variables. In short, skin.ini versions are there for compatibility purposes, so that osu! knows when you're using an older skin, which might've been meant for an older client. I recommend setting it to 2.5 or latest (it's pretty much the same thing as of now).
4. Due to the fact that the skin.ini version is set to 2.0, there's no thumbnail support for the beatmap carrousel and the beatmap difficulty meter (the stars) looks different. Meaning it looks like this, when it probably should look like this. Also, on maps that have a small ranking letter on them, or that have a small mode icon on them, the text and stars are shifted, putting one of the stars outside the notch on the button background, like this.
5. *More nitpicking incoming.* I like the way you've formatted the skin.ini file. But why are there only lines in between the sections under [General]? And under [Colours], you've set MenuGlow twice, meaning that only the bottom variable will be used. "//Menu//" has no spaces between the slashes and the section name. There isn't a blank line between "// Slider //" and "// Menu //". Neither in between the sections under [Fonts]. Before I list too many things, here's a fixed up skin.ini, if you want. (Doesn't affect much in-game, other than the version fix, but it helps with readability.)
6. On the ranking panel, I've noticed that the hitbursts are aligned on the right side. This doesn't exactly look right in my opinion, since you don't read the text from right to left. I'd prefer it if the hitbursts were center-aligned or aligned on the left side. This is, again, probably just a nitpick though.
7. I don't see why FAIL-BACKGROUND@2x is written with all-caps. The rest of the files all have lowercase letters.

Matt2e2 wrote:

Amazing work for your first skin! Although, I could not help but find a few issues or nitpicks with it:

1. Quite a weird word choice for mode-osu and mode-osu-med, in my opinion. I'd rather use STANDARD or OSU, although, I guess this is just a nitpick. I will change it!
2. I like the idea of making the buttons more compact so that they don't take as much space for no reason, but doing something like this can cause issues in the editor and beatmap options. As shown here. I'd suggest making them a bit larger or just normal size. Agreed!
3. The skin.ini Version is set to 2.0. Keep in mind, the version variable is NOT like the Name and Author variables. In short, skin.ini versions are there for compatibility purposes, so that osu! knows when you're using an older skin, which might've been meant for an older client. I recommend setting it to 2.5 or latest (it's pretty much the same thing as of now). I confess to having a little hesitation. From what I saw, 2.0 means that the new skin system is used. Above, the other modes are skinned but it is not the case ...
4. Due to the fact that the skin.ini version is set to 2.0, there's no thumbnail support for the beatmap carrousel and the beatmap difficulty meter (the stars) looks different. Meaning it looks like this, when it probably should look like this. Also, on maps that have a small ranking letter on them, or that have a small mode icon on them, the text and stars are shifted, putting one of the stars outside the notch on the button background, like this.You're right. I did not know that the presence of thumbnails was related to the version of the skin. However I thought it was not that awkward to see circles superimposed on the overlay, so I left it
5. *More nitpicking incoming.* I like the way you've formatted the skin.ini file. But why are there only lines in between the sections under [General]? And under [Colours], you've set MenuGlow twice, meaning that only the bottom variable will be used. "//Menu//" has no spaces between the slashes and the section name. There isn't a blank line between "// Slider //" and "// Menu //". Neither in between the sections under [Fonts]. Before I list too many things, here's a fixed up skin.ini, if you want. (Doesn't affect much in-game, other than the version fix, but it helps with readability.) Thanks for the file! Actually this is not my Skin.ini template, but Komori's N O E L V5's one since I found his file clear enough ^^'
6. On the ranking panel, I've noticed that the hitbursts are aligned on the right side. This doesn't exactly look right in my opinion, since you don't read the text from right to left. I'd prefer it if the hitbursts were center-aligned or aligned on the left side. This is, again, probably just a nitpick though. Well seen
7. I don't see why FAIL-BACKGROUND@2x is written with all-caps. The rest of the files all have lowercase letters. Surely a mistake x)

These don't affect gameplay at all. But I think fixing them would benefit the skin quite a bit.

RockRoller wrote:

Here is my feedback aswell:

1. the bar of the song selection buttons looks really uneven. Especially on the start of selection-options and wherer the frame around the userinfo ends. I see what you mean. I wanted to simulate highlights but it could be better
2. The toppart looks quite weird. you can see the default line of the toppart. The default map info buttons also doesn't fit well, you shold rather use a custom one. You can also clearly see where the glow ends, because it has a sharp edge. Its really noticeable on song with long titles Right. I don't know if I'll succeed to fix that though!
3. custom boxes for search are nice, but they will [url=https://puu.sh/DF0nR/2f7427feaf.png]break[/url} once you actuall type something. Right
4. Matt allready said that short buttons don't work well. But the buttons itself just looks bad, no matter if long or short, yours doesn't really fit the theme. Yup, I did not really care about that element but I'll fix it
5. why is there a short part of the background of the bottompart visible I hid it with the back button but it broke the ranking panel. So I tried with the mode one without success. I'll have to try something else
6. The []url=https://puu.sh/DF0sF/d2d81665d5.png]text on the RP[/url] looks offcenter, its too high. I'll fix it
7. the allignment of the hitbursts and the numbers is weird, mainly because the space between them is uneven. I do not find it weird ^^ "
8. this little spike looks really weird, because it breaks the glow There's glow on too!On the other hand maybe i should cut the transparent background
9. the back button has this weird glowing edge, which is really noticeable when you scroll on the RP.
10. why has the menu-background an anime girl on it? Why not? Customization folder has 5 others background whose 3 neutral one. Anime background are still in the colors theme though
11. the followpoints look really uneven, as if they are too short to fully reach eachother. I'll add some .png
12. the sound for hovering over the buttons on pause/failscreen is just awful Forgot to replace them ^^
13. I would prefer a default cursor that has a bigger contrast compared to the skin. It really blends in during gameplay imo It's understandable, I said myself the same thing at first but after many tests with a friend, we had no problem on that side!
14. there is no need for an @2x menu background. No matter what size it is, it will get scaled to the screens size anyways. Just delete the SD and remove the @2x from the 1080p one. This should bring the skin size down by a bit. k
15. don't use .wav files for long sounds like applause (53seconds and 18MB), Failsound (7seconds and 2.37MB). And don't use mp3 for these sounds. Interface sounds should always be .wav, unless they are long, then they should be mp3 to save some space. About 1/3 of your skins size if for sounds, you should try to minimize that a bit. k
16. You should try programms like pinga to get your filesize down in general. 122MB is quite a bit.

Do you have a link?

This should be everything, I hope I didn't overlooked some part.

BetaTester704 wrote:

Skin still does not display correctly.

Looks exactly like it did before.

[Arc] wrote:

Oh shit I forgot about this skin and didnt get a chance to try it, now I have to wait two weeks to get back to my pc by which time I will have forgotten again
:/
Edit: looks really premium I cant wait

DariusOMG3210 wrote:

Ohh why you put the download at google drive????i can't download!

EDIT:oh,i get it,you release on 12.06.2019,sorry gl with the skin!

I can't wait to see it,it's like the PS5 release!!!!!!!!!

Yes it has already been released! Idk why you can't download it on the google drive though!

h3oCharles wrote:

mode icons - standard says "CLASSIQUE", taiko says "MANIA", fruits says "CATCH", mania says "TAIKO" and it's two times smaller Right someone already noticed that, i'll rework the modes files anyway!
jagged elements to name a few - ranking panel, score numbers, mod icons -> basically anything that you didn't give either a glow or a blur is jagged Well I don't see where ranking panel or score numbers looks "jagged" ^^ Maybe your own feeling

noobneeder wrote:

total file size? i don't want large files makes my toaster to explode

Senrey wrote:

HI EVERYONE

It's with a particular emotion that I write my first skin post ever on the forum... Ok I'm doing a little too much. After a little over a year of play, I finally embarked on the creation of my first skin. It's a project I've been thinking about for a long time and I finally managed to motivate myself to do it! Being designer in real life, it's really a pleasure to combine my passion with the best rhythm game existing on earth /o/ Skin was made in 12 days with a total of ~42h of work.

SKIN

Author: Senrey
Skin name: NEBULA
Style: Modern / Graphic / Colorful
Gameplay: Semi-pro
Modes: Standard

Project progress (skin complete)

30-05-19

> Project launch
> Customizable menu background: 3 pattern style, 3 anime style (Osu supporter)
> Unique welcome text+sound (Osu supporter)
> Menu snow

31-05-19

> Menu button
> Ranking letters
> Menu SFX

01-06-19

> Song selection overlay

02-06-19

> Animated back button
> Mods icons: Clean style

04-06-19

> Add mods icons: Graphic style
> Gameplay - hitcircles
> Gameplay - pass & fail

05-06-19

> Gameplay - hitcircles variations
> Gameplay - hitcircles sounds
> Gameplay - Unique animated 50 & 100

06-06-19

> Gameplay - Spinner
> Back button animation rework (Even sexier now!)
> Gameplay - Circles's hit sounds management

07-06-19

> Gameplay - Scorebar
> Gameplay - inputoverlay
> Ranking pannel - ranking letters

08-06-19

> Pause & fail screen
> Gameplay - Scorebar rework (Even sexier now!)
> Gameplay - Spinner rework (Even sexier now!)
> Gameplay - Countdown

09-06-19

> Gameplay - Failsound
> Gameplay - Section pass & fail sounds
> Back button reworked (even sexier now!)
> Hitcircles soundpacks: Enhanced & classique styles

10-06-19

> Ranking screen

12-06-19

> Skin release /o/

Patch note

12-06-19

> Fixed the skin.ini version from 2.0 to 2.5
> Changed Osu icon from "Classique" to "Stantard"
> Fixed the the background of the option buttons
> Made some align arrangment on the ranking panel
> Fixed the ankward looking of the followpoint
> Refine the bottom panel in song selection screen
> Fixed the search song box's size
> Replaced the pause's buttons hover sound to something that match better with the skin
> Optimised the skin size

Main Menu

Song selection screen

Gameplay

Ranking screen

Get NEBULA

For a better looking

> Ignore beatmap skin & hitsounds
> Disable seasonnal backgrounds

DesolateVoid wrote:

I love this skin so much but sadly I have a widescreen that I play on. Is there any way for you to adjust the the skin so it will also work for wider monitors? thank you

ayizhe wrote:

Why did sometimes the 100 hit circle doesn't pop up?