Help Us Migrate to VB4

[Sir_Brizz]

Hey guys.

We are really interested in migrating to vB 4. The only problem is, none of our styles will translate over so the site would look pretty drab for a long time. We keep sticking on vB 3 for this reason, but vB 4 makes lots of nice enhancements and we would really like to be able to use them.

So with that said, we could really use help from the community to make some nice skins for vB 4 so we can make our migration. I've set up a temporary location for the vb4 forum at:

http://www.beyondunreal.com/_vb4/forum.php

None of the current data is migrated over. I will be dumping everything that goes on there over the next short while so feel free to make posts and try things out. Same rules apply as here, though. Don't be posting a bunch of decroded crap there.

If you can help, please do let us know!!

 

[toniglandyl]

don't know how to make styles, but.... I'd love to help !

PS : I use the UT3 skin. dark blue background FTW !

 

[Selerox]

Oh dear god no

I've yet to see a vB4 board that doesn't look like a giant steaming pile of arse

vB3 is juts better in terms of usability and looks in my opinion.

 

[Sir_Brizz]

vB3 is horrible. The HTML they used to build the designs is really awful.

As far as making a vB4 site look good, depends on who designs it, I guess

The big thing is, development on vB 3 is over. It is getting security updates for a short time, but then it won't get anything. We have to move to vB4 eventually, and sooner than later is good for me.

 

[phil]

vB3 is horrible. The HTML they used to build the designs is really awful.

As far as making a vB4 site look good, depends on who designs it, I guess

The big thing is, development on vB 3 is over. It is getting security updates for a short time, but then it won't get anything. We have to move to vB4 eventually, and sooner than later is good for me.

First you kill the classic unreal/ UT99 scene and now you kill my very soul by not just going back to vb/2. I'm on to all of you. All I have to say is my doom 2 map better win 1st place in this years doom 2 mapping competitions Im going to type alot of words about it on this suggestion forum until someone listens to me.


In all seriousness have you considered XenForo instead of vBulletin 4?

 

[Skillz]

Is it possible to develop templates without having a licensed version of the software?

 

[Bort]

Switch to IP Board

 

[haarg]

Switch to IP Board

No.

 

[Jacks:Revenge]

but vB 4 makes lots of nice enhancements and we would really like to be able to use them.

enhancements for the webmaster or enhancements for the end user?
or both?

honestly, I don't know anything about forum templates.
what kind of features do we gain with vb4 that we don't have with vb3?

 

[haarg]

enhancements for the webmaster or enhancements for the end user?
or both?

honestly, I don't know anything about forum templates.
what kind of features do we gain with vb4 that we don't have with vb3?

Support.

 

[haarg]

There's other stuff too but that's enough reason.

 

[Darkdrium]

How do you go about to make styles? Like, what do you need? Images? Color schemes?
I don't really know what anyone would do to help you with that from your first post... Unless they already know how to make styles themselves.

 

[Zur]

Do you have some artwork you want to use or do you want to adapt the existing styles to VB4? Also, would redoing the html/css be sufficient? Templating without having access to a live script is a bit difficult.

 

[Sir_Brizz]

Redoing the HTML would give us a good start, just don't co completely crazy

Mostly I would like to repurpose the existing styles, they emphasize the visual theme we are going for. After that is done, we can migrate to vB4 and possibly get someone on the team that can help even more acutely with the design of the site (_Lynx does great he just doesn't have a ton of time

I'm not sure on a solution for building a actual vB theme without vB. I will look into that some.

 

[Skillz]

Let us know what you find out then, I'll see about cloning the theme here to work on a Vb4 forum. Shouldn't be too difficult.

 

[_Lynx]

I'm not sure on a solution for building a actual vB theme without vB. I will look into that some.

From my experience that's not really possible. You can try editing exported themes, but without a copy of vB you just can't do much, especially if you need to change layout a bit, etc - these changes are saved in database and you can't change the code you don't see.

 

[haarg]

vb4 makes it much easier to customize entirely with css

 

[haarg]

it will still be impossible for us to apply that css to an actual template though because the theme interface is still terrible

 

[_Lynx]

btw, looks like my drive where I stored the site templates. Works after rebbot, but dies when I attempt to copy stuff. Gotta figure out how to pull data, cause it's my UT3 drive...

 

[Jackal]

It doesn't matter, I posted in it so it's already way cool