My friend Luke just said this:

when using gradients in the skin, it has a "vertical" or horizantal" feature. They are swapped.

They're not. He's probably misunderstanding what the horizontal / vertical parts refer to.

Screenshot:



Information Center = title1
Stats = title2

title1 defined as: Horizontal A -> B -> A
title2 defined as: Vertical A -> B

Isn't Horizontal <------> and vertical ^v?

ironiccally I never noticed that before and i use the fade system all the time i can confirm on my forums as well that horizontal (side to side) and vertical (Up and down) are backwards

As Ross has said they're not backwards. People just have a different understanding of them.

The colours are spanning horizontally A->B->A means that you have a horizontal of A going to horizontal bar of B back to A.

As for the vertical ones, well, that's self explanatory.

The definition of horizontal/vertical is based on the lines which make up the image. The vertical one is made up of a series of vertical lines (top to bottom) which gradually change colour and vice versa for the horizontal one.

There are no right and wrong descriptions for these, it's all down to how different people interpret the process. As far as I am aware, we're the only forum service which offers this level of control on your gradients which means we have to set the standard of how we call them, and the above is the definition we have gone for.

Now I think of it, it makes snese. At first glance it confuses me.

Thank you for clearing it up for me. ^^

I still plead the case they are backwards based on the description of horizontal and vertical provided in a dictionary and general perspective

Horizontal will always be side to side, whether its fading two colors, three colors, or even four, if the fade is going left to right or right to left, what ever way you look at it, then its horizontal. The idealism of it is as if your looking at the skyline, the sky line doesn't go up and down, but side to side, so in the images provided, technically but word meaning, where it says Stats its is horizontal because the color is fading from side to side and remains a solid color going vertical

The same goes for where it says Information Center. It the pixel color stays consistent horizontally, but the fade is going up and down. and again the fade being up and down, with two colors, three, four, or any other way you would like to break it, as long as the colors only change going up and down its vertical

The problem is that what you have label horizontal is really a vertical fade as the fade takes place going up and down and not side to side, and your vertical fade actually saids side to side instead of up and down. I've used the system a lot and i love it, i just never payed any attention to the technical aspect of it till it was pointed out XD

Sorry just had to be technical XD

I can turn this into a suggestion

When you select something from the dropdown and have two colors filled in how about a little preview box?

Posted By ashkir on 3rd Jun 10 at 6:41am

 

I can turn this into a suggestion

When you select something from the dropdown and have two colors filled in how about a little preview box?

I was already considering that when I posted my reply That way nobody is confused as to what they'll get

Might have to wait a while though - I've got so many things planned at the moment but little time to do them in.

Ross needs to win the lottery, right? XD