Hey Raven,

A darker version should be pretty easy to set up. I wouldn’t mind seeing some examples just to see what kind of ‘dark’ you’re referring to, as we already offer the ‘midnight’ overlay for example – which is pretty dark! But you can change the colours throughout using the $baseColor’s, you should definitely give it a go!

Try:

$baseColor2 and $baseColor3 manage the colours wherever you see them on panels (such as the head of the forum and headers). You can have the colours as a gradient by having $baseColor2 black and $baseColor3 medium grey for example, or you can have flat colours by assigning the same value to both.

$baseColor6 covers any coloured text you see.

$baseColor7 covers forum panels (normally light grey).

$baseColor1 is a lighter version of 7, covers forum panel hover and a few other display sections.

Would definitely recommend giving it a go, and would also say it might be best to start using a darker overlay i.e without ‘light’ in the overlay name, but definitely link to some examples!

Let me check into those codes. Thank you.

would it be okay to post a link to a Xenforo site or just PM the link to look at the variations of dark colors?

By all means post away

Here to help if you have questions along the way.

Ike said
By all means post away

Here to help if you have questions along the way.

Okay very awesome! here is a link for the dark color variations. I don’t care for the blue lol.

http://8wayrun.com/forums/

And I am making a Image example for the Reboot theme, then I will submit the comparison of the theme I am currently using. be back in 30 minutes.

Ah I see you mean really dark..  That might take a bit more work but is definitely achievable. Were you looking to make the entire theme dark with all the text white / light grey? Including posts?

Ike said
Ah I see you mean really dark..  That might take a bit more work but is definitely achievable. Were you looking to make the entire theme dark with all the text white / light grey? Including posts?

Yes sir, I would like it done exactly like the forum link I gave you except for any blue. we like xbox green. Im ready to get away from the light colors lol. I plan on editing my Main WP theme to match.

Here is my current setup: (*And The Background scrolls* )

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Here is the Image edit I did just for example: ( * Was Fun..Sheesh * )

Well If your WP theme is going to use a dark page background then this won’t matter, but if not I would suggest you’d want to give the ID of #spMainContainer a black background with a 5px padding.

I’d also consider working from a light overlay like ‘light-blue’, simply because it uses black opaque borders. These could be changed to white opaque which should work nicely compared to the example you posted earlier. It would be a bit more work but probably worth it in the long run.

Definitely worth a try and we will be here to help if you need it, but if you get stuck or fed up we could definitely do it for you under the custom theme service, just send us a PM or email..

Ike said
Well If your WP theme is going to use a dark page background then this won’t matter, but if not I would suggest you’d want to give the ID of #spMainContainer a black background with a 5px padding.

I’d also consider working from a light overlay like ‘light-blue’, simply because it uses black opaque borders. These could be changed to white opaque which should work nicely compared to the example you posted earlier. It would be a bit more work but probably worth it in the long run.

Definitely worth a try and we will be here to help if you need it, but if you get stuck or fed up we could definitely do it for you under the custom theme service, just send us a PM or email..

Yeah that’s Just it I don’t have the time to modify the Overlay or start any darkening provisions for the simple fact it would take me several weeks or months not knowing where to specifically go in the php & Css files of Reboot. ( time would be the essance for me on the account of my real job *) , If the cost is out of my range in this very moment I will save up to get it done professionally by you guys.

.Everything can be gradient, unless images can be supplied easier for panels, headers ..etc.. If you can email me the start up costs and rate that would be awesome!  

Thanks again for your replies and help!

Ike will be in touch – probably by email.

Yellow Swordfish said
Ike will be in touch – probably by email.

Yes Got the email. I definitely agree on the quote and rates. I’m excited and looking forward to the custom Reboot Overlay Ike will be doing for me once the funds become available. I would be on the coarse of subscribing again to maintain the Awesome support here. So I did some tweaking on the minimal Reboot Overlay: This is What I came Up with. ( & yeah Us Developers & gamer’s like things dark! ) just easy on the eyes at night lol.

As stated I set the main background attachment to be fixed & scroll. the panels highlight just a tad bit lighter. In all I am super happy with the tips and advice given for the outcome of this theme. I have to also tweak my WP theme for text to be lighter on areas. ( been using my browser to inspect elements )

Thanks guys & I will be in touch for the other Overlay as Our community likes to change the look & feel from time to time.

Cheers!

Well so far you have it looking great!

Just a tip – You can clean up the arrow on the breadcrumbs by changing the value of $breadCrumbsArrowColor in the overlay. Just don’t make it transparent as it has to be a solid to cut out the shape of the arrow (CSS is much faster than an image!) – But you can make it a hex value if you want to specifically use the same background colour as your WP page to make it appear transparent.

No problem! You know where to find us, and again – Glad you are enjoying the new theme!

Edit: You can also specify the other icon pack in the overlay at the top. Try changing it from ‘lightpack’ to ‘darkpack’ – Unless you were planning custom icons of course!

Ike said
Well so far you have it looking great!

Just a tip – You can clean up the arrow on the breadcrumbs by changing the value of $breadCrumbsArrowColor in the overlay. Just don’t make it transparent as it has to be a solid to cut out the shape of the arrow (CSS is much faster than an image!) – But you can make it a hex value if you want to specifically use the same background colour as your WP page to make it appear transparent.

No problem! You know where to find us, and again – Glad you are enjoying the new theme!

Edit: You can also specify the other icon pack in the overlay at the top. Try changing it from ‘lightpack’ to ‘darkpack’ – Unless you were planning custom icons of course!

Thank you & it was very fun to edit, & Excellent thanks for the tip. yes i am working on a new icon-set to contrast the default ones as we speak lol. Also is there a way to use Css for the User names? like the Admins would be red and members would be green?

Also is there a way to use Css for the User names? like the Admins would be red and members would be green?

If you mean in the actual topics – i.e., in the posts where the users name is below the avatar then there are several classes defined. You can differentiate on the broad category of ‘user’, ‘admin’. Or, if you are using special ranking, that is available. But probably the most comprehensive method is using the user groups. 

So – for example – if you had a user group named  ‘special-users’ then you could have their names show up in red by using:

#spMainContainer .spUsergroup-special-users .spPostUserName,
#spMainContainer .spUsergroup-special-users .spPostUserName a {
    color: red !important;
}

Note the construct there…. all user group classes start spuserGroup followed by the group name as a slug (hyphens replacing spaces and all lower case). You will the !important modifer as well in this instance.

As Admins do not have user groups then if you wanted to show them in green, for example, you would use:

#spMainContainer .spType-Admin .spPostUserName,
#spMainContainer .spType-Admin .spPostUserName a {
    color: green !important;
}

Of course you can use the hex colour notation instead of plain HTML colour names.

@yellow-swordfish 

Thank you for your reply & the info! Its highly appreciated! I will do some testing and see how things go.

Cheers!