Help me design a stepmania online theme

[Jousway]

cross post from http://stepmaniaonline.net/forum/vie...php?f=9&t=5186

like the title said we are making a stepmania online theme, but we need your help!
because atm the theme looks like this

and as you can see its pretty bland, this is where you guys come in!
submit a design and who knows maybe your design will become the theme!

so please create idea and submit them to me in this forum


also if you have any ideas of stuff that have to be added to the theme please tell me and I'll add them :thumb:

[Celirra]

Re: Help me design a stepmania online theme

I'm not much of a theme designer because my fingers and brain don't know what aesthetics are, but I think the most important things for a SMOnline theme would be fixes with functionality and cleanliness overall.

For reference, I'm referring to the theme for SCWH2 online play, I don't know well enough about the default theme to comment.

I don't know the extent to what a theme can do to help this, but things such as:
- more similarities to the functions of the single player variant (last I tried SMOnline I couldn't even get rates, mini or similar mods, or C-mod working properly)
- ability to actually see features such as song duration, difficulty, notes, etc. in the song select
- don't make it so it's potentially difficult to see the text and such. I don't think there's been a "polished" version of a SMOnline theme that I've ever used.
- I think in-game layout is hard to screw up so maybe just add in features similar to how it is in non-line


Anyways that's just my two cents, I'm sure you'll do great anyways.