How to change forum's theme

Bleed

Quick question.
Any way to change the forum's black theme, it's seriously giving me a headache.
And to answer the inevitable pending question on why i don't agree with the black theme:

- Personal preference, and the green text and the headache.

Thanks guys :poly121:

Isaiah Sherman

Perhaps your monitor brightness & contrast are not set correctly? The dark green on medium-dark gray is actually very relaxing to eyes.

Bleed

That may be, but i still prefer white/classic over black.
A professional forum like this, surely must have different themes to please the majority of it's users?

Regarding the monitor :
Dell Ultrasharp pre-color corrected.

Two Listen

If they ever do add an optional theme it better be this.

Bleed

So there isn't any option to change the theme after all, pretty disappointing.
That's ok though, i can always replace my eyeballs when they wear out.
Plus, a forum this broad, must be some tutorials on how to model me a fresh pair if everything else fails.

Thanks for the help guys.

cryrid

You could look into browser extensions like Stylebot that allow you to customize the css to your liking.

Bleed

Was not aware of Stylebot, check it out, 5 mins of editing :



Of course, it's far from perfect, but personally i like it better now.
You have my sincere thanks cryrid

Joopson

My eyes!

[Edit:] Good thing I'm wearing sunglasses in my icon...

Bleed

Sunglasses and a black theme? what are you people eating...

almighty_gir

what the hell are you smoking man? it's been proven time and again that dark text on a light background will damage your eyes over time, and encourages headaches and muscle strain through an involuntary frown.

Bleed

Look, I've tried, but i just cant accommodate to a dark theme, it's too distracting and very hard to distinguishing anything.

Edit : And there are as many studies in favor of black over white as there are on white over black, and most of them are aimed at people with dyslexia or photophobia.
I'm just going with whatever works best for me.

pior

Hehe Gir - I think it's generally best to *not* dismiss a request like that, especially when it comes from someone who took the time to go in and manually edit the CSS code to show us what the desired feature could look like.
In other words ... telling someone "nah, you don't need that" sounds a lot like the stuff one can read on the Apple fanboy forums out there

(unless you were just being sarcastic here and it totally went over my head !)

OP : I agree that a choice in themes would be great, since not all screens (and users !) are the same. I actually believe there used to be an option like that somewhere but it might be unavailable now.

Possible changes to the forums have been brought up here before in very open-minded discussions ; you might want to contact username "adam" about this feature, as he is one of the main moderators here.

Thank you for bringing that up !

Bleed

I think it's a bit overkill to suggest something like that to "adam", especially since it seems I'm the only one who doesn't like the black theme. I'd rather not be the one to bring about a revolution to polycount.
Perhaps not many people care about the forum theme, ergo the lack of options.

fearian

did someone say revolution!?

OVERTHROW OUR POLYCOUNT OVERLORDS! I'm with you Bleed! You've inspired me!

FIGHT THE SYSTE


--User was banned for this post--

NegevPro

That guillotine at the end of the AC:U trailer adam posted on the forum must indicate that a forum revolution will lead to certain death. Better not mess with the overlords if you want to keep your hit points high!

Justin Meisse

fearian wrote: »

did someone say revolution!?

OVERTHROW OUR POLYCOUNT OVERLORDS! I'm with you Bleed! You've inspired me!

FIGHT THE SYSTE


--User was banned for this post--

I'm the designated angry moderator who will fight everyone

I WILL FIGHT CHOO!

Bleed

Ugh...oops?

SanderDL

The colors you've chosen for you theme kind of look like Unity's default skybox color and Unity's default material. It can not be unseen anymore.

Shiniku

The majority of applications I use (3ds max, photoshop, zbrush, cryengine) have a black and dark grey theme. When I go to a website that's all bright I nearly go blind. I love polycount's theme, fits in snugly.

Dataday

That is an unholy mix of facebook and polycount. If you are going for the eye damaging approach, might I recommend at least bundling it with a pair of Gunnar compuer glasses.

Justin Meisse

He's changing it for himself, where's the harm?

Ark

Bring on the Polycount Theme Design Contest!

Mathew O

Justin Meisse wrote: »

He's changing it for himself, where's the harm?

This.

StephenVyas

That.

firestarter

You definitely need to look at your calibration, there's very little black on the forum.

Also, the PC admin team deliberated over this with some limited input from the entire forum a long time ago. You cheeky fuck.

Bleed

Well pardon me for joining yesterday.
Also, what the hell's a "cheeky fuck" -- are the insults rolling in already?

Vailias

I think there used to be a CSS selector dropdown when this new site first got rolling. Seems to be long gone now.

Good on ya for changing it up to meet your needs though. Obviously a lot of us like the light on dark, but doesn't mean its universal.

Don't worry about insults. Just means they like you. If you start getting cat pics for responses, that's a sign of trouble.

Joopson

Ark wrote: »

Bring on the Polycount Theme Design Contest!

That would be awesome. Probably get some amazing layouts. Along with lots of really really bad ones.

D4V1DC

Ark wrote: »

Bring on the Polycount Theme Design Contest!

Not a bad freaking idea at all, espeically since it saves any of the owners from doing it themselves.

Also the insults only start coming when you start seeing cats in the thread.
:poly142:

But your messing with a theme where most of the community members pretty much has made the forum their home for over 5 years so just be cool and we'll be cool, we are all silly bastards here i think.

Some of us are unpredictable though also that cheeky comment could be an upbringing thing not meant to be offensive, translation = smart guy ? idk.

Damn the web and the unknown meanings sometimes, got me in trouble plenty'o'time.

I didn't know about the css editor cryid, thanks!

Bleed

I am aware that most people would rather have brain surgery than have their interface rearranged or re-colored, I am one of those people, and it's probably one of the reasons i like bright themes better. But as I've stated before, it's just a personal preference not one to ridicule the current layout. Glad to see most of the members are open-minded about it, and you know, a professional like you all seem to be, could probably do better re-designing the theme. More options is always better than less, yet not mandatory.

m4dcow

While we're on the topic of themes, does it annoy anyone else that the "userfield_edit" icon images are broken on the control panel page, I hardly ever go in there, but it gnaws at the OCD side of me.

CordellC

Definitely check your monitor calibration. There is hardly any black on this site at all.

sprunghunt

I'd just like the polycount theme to closer resemble the default themes of something like Jira or fogbugz.

This way it's not obvious I"m browsing polycount at work - not that I ever do that of course...

fearian

Bleed wrote: »

Well pardon me for joining yesterday.
Also, what the hell's a "cheeky fuck" -- are the insults rolling in already?

He's joking I don't think anyone is genuinely annoyed

If they are you should fight them!

Bleed

Bah, i already know I'm fighting a loosing battle, most forums nowadays are bias when it comes to interface or color choices, they just think all users share the same tastes.

And for the last time, it's not my calibration or monitor, I'm looking at a $800 professional equipment here (excuse the brag) it is factory calibrated to perfection.

And to the people who say there is very little black in the theme.
- Mates, i think you have been staring so long at it that you are practically immune or blind to black by now.

[side note] - Professional help may be required if you can't tell between black and white, racism aside, we are artists and that ability is required in this industry.

In case you can't tell, this is me fighting the insurgency -- *takes a courteous bow.

Justin Meisse

It's a dark theme but there's almost no black, averaged it's a 25% gray theme. I used to have to calibrate all the production monitors at a newspaper office, they were calibrated to the light levels in the room taken from a light meter.

Most art game studios are pretty dark, that's probably why everyone prefers the dark theme. If you're in a brightly lit area then you'll want a brighter theme.

Bleed

Ok, I'll pretend that I'm the only one who read "Color Theory" and does not know that gray is just another black.

Can i calibrate my monitor far enough that it starts looking like that screenshot i posted? That's the only case i see where calibration would come into play.

So based on a number of posts above it seems I'm not the only one who thinks lighter themes are a good option.

Justin Meisse

Bleed wrote: »

Ok, I'll pretend that I'm the only one who read "Color Theory" and does not know that gray is just another black.

Needlessly antagonistic. Don't be that new guy that comes in and pisses off everybody in the forum. Color Theory is one of those topics we spend our whole careers mastering.

Bleed wrote: »

So based on a number of posts above it seems I'm not the only one who thinks lighter themes are a good option.

correct, a bright theme in a dark office is headache inducing. Most game studios are dark.

Bleed

Good point on Color Theory, i retract my previous statement and you have my apologies.
Although black and gray is at such a basic level that it just came naturally to me.

Ok so bring on the brighter theme, what am i paying taxes for!
Oh, wait...

Lazerus Reborn

Bleed wrote: »

Good point on Color Theory, i retract my previous statement and you have my apologies.
Although black and gray is at such a basic level that it just came naturally to me.

Ok so bring on the brighter theme, what am i paying taxes for!
Oh, wait...

Well shit, I've been doing it wrong.

D4V1DC

I can see the last black square do i win anything?
I think he was right, but i am not immune to the blackness.

I fear purchasing a spyderelite i think i won't even see a difference and all those bad stories of SE not working "perfectly", uhg, decisions decisions, would purchasing a new Monitor defeat the purpose?

Since we are on the monitor and scheme conversation along with color theory let's make use of this thread.

Still on topic, no take backseeze. lol

MarkBTomlinson

Dark themes are a nightmare to read and no they aren't better for eyes what utter bs. Look at readability Instapaper and any other reading plugins non use green on black what is this the eighties.
Please at least offer an alternative especially for tablets which tiny enough to start with.
Btw I can barely what I am writing so forgive the typos. Dark themes are okay at night low light but otherwise terrible.
Peace

kanga

I had trouble with my eyes a while back and was the opposite of the op, in that I couldnt take bright themes so I installed this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/colorific-1/

Works great in firefox

As far as themes go I find the dark themes a bit dated and somewhat claustrophobic. My favorite forum theme is the Truefire one I am a member of: http://truefire.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?6-Forum-Welcome-Center they just renewed the forum. Their work areas are a mix of light greys and the default size of the pages ( Cntrl + 0 ) are not that microscript we all suffered in the days of trendy flash sites and the webfonts revolution

But everyone to his own I say
An I aint fitin' Choo or any of you Choos!

Odow

Let's turn everything pink with sparkles please.

Beard3D Bandit

Oh dear!

But the theme is fine for me, and I usually suffer from migraines, the poly count theme actually helps me, weird.

Lets all get along xD

Love,
Beardy

DEElekgolo

I kind of like the idea of having themes with colors that imitate tools like 3ds max,maya,zbrush,udk,unity,visual studio,etc.

Muzzoid

Dark themes are a nightmare to read and no they aren't better for eyes what utter bs. Look at readability Instapaper and any other reading plugins non use green on black what is this the eighties.

Nice job being a snarky ass.

It's a personal problem you have not a universal problem.

Shrike

if you have problemes with looking at monitors in general, i recently installed flux
and at sunset it warms up the monitor color and reduces harmful blue light, feels really
comfortable for working, although the default settings are too strong

https://justgetflux.com/

If you turn it off at night, you really notice the difference and how harsh the default monitor
light is to the eyes


Also dont forget everyone percieves colors a little differently as eyes are not equal, and monitors the same, calibrated or not

RaptorCWS

why on earth did this get resurrected? at the very beginning the op showed how he changed it to fit his preferences no need bashing everyone else for liking how polycount is or prefer not to be blinded by a bright white background.

Add3r

RaptorCWS wrote: »

why on earth did this get resurrected? at the very beginning the op showed how he changed it to fit his preferences no need bashing everyone else for liking how polycount is or prefer not to be blinded by a bright white background.

Was hoping this thread would just reenter the depths of forgotten threads lol.