Indigo

[Psycho Reptile]

For those of you who like the MCE colour scheme, or are having problems displaying the graphics correctly, I have a reworked version of Monochrome in the works.

Supported Plugins:

ForTheRecord v1.3
GlobalSearch v0.1.6.1b
MediaSlayer v1.0e
Moving Pictures v0.6.0.0
MP-RSSTicker v1.0
MP-TVSeries v2.0.3245
MTV Music v0.2
mVids v0.1
My Chess v0.2.1
My XM Radio v0.2.3.0 (Untested)
MyClickMania v1.3
MyConnect4 v0.4
MyEmulators v2.0
MyFilms v4.7.9a
MyHexxagon v0.4
MyLyrics v1.00
MyMastermind v2.10
MyMinesweeper v0.2
MyMusic Trivia v0.3.1
MyOnlineVideos v0.36
MyOrganizer v2.0 (Not fully tested)
MyPrograms v1.0
MyShowTimes v2.0
MySimonSay v0.6.0.4
MyTrailers 2.0.1 (beta)
MyUKTop40 v0.1
MyUsenet v0.5
MyWorldMap v1.0 RC2
Netflix Manager v2.0
Shoutcast Directory v0.9.2
TVGemist v2.2.2b
TVRecordings v0.3
wwITV v0.7
Yahoo Music Videos v0.6

Information:

Mediaportal-svn-11-08-2008--16-42-Rev20755 (or later) REQUIRED

This release should also be RC4 ready ;-)

RELEASE DATE: 20th November 2008

Version 2.3 Changes:

Updated MyWeather screen IDs and allow overlay.
My Last.fm updated.
Version updated.
Splashscreen xml added.
New stop TV dialog added.
Menu list in music screens re-organised.
Changed default MP-TVSeries custom icons, no longer skin specific and added some missing ones.
Added support for Moving Pictures v0.6.0.0.
Added support for MTV Music v0.2.
Updated support for new releases of supported plugins.
Added support for MyTrailers 2.0.1 (beta).
Added support for Yahoo Music Videos v0.6.
Added new dummy background to display when no fanart found in some screens.
Fixed minor layout issues in mytvsearch.
Fixed bug in music genre menu list.
Updated Showtimes xml.

Thanks to all who posted updated xmls and bug reports/suggestions.
Enjoy
Psycho Reptile

[fabien44]

Hi,
how i could include title (in fact album's name) of thumbnails in the myMusic section? Indeed i don't have cover arts for all my albums and it's difficult to identify blank ones.
What xml file must i change?

Thanks
Fabien

[swe_rush]

Hi Psycho !

just wanted to thank you for a great skin!

hoping in the future Indigo skin will support "Moving Pictures" plugin its under development you can check it out here

Expand TVSeries to a sister plugin? My Films?

an thanks again for great skin !

[Psycho Reptile]

Originally Posted by fabien44

Hi,
how i could include title (in fact album's name) of thumbnails in the myMusic section? Indeed i don't have cover arts for all my albums and it's difficult to identify blank ones.
What xml file must i change?

Add, and modify the values of the following tags:

<textXOff>10</textXOff>
<textYOff>10</textYOff>

to the Thumbnail Panel control in the common.facade.music.xml.

Originally Posted by swe_rush

hoping in the future Indigo skin will support "Moving Pictures" plugin its under development you can check it out here

It (and Monochrome) will, I've already volunteered my skinning services to fforde

[Spragleknas]

A quote regarding text color in Soduko:

Originally Posted by rtv

I'll have a quick look if it can be done without code changes.

Any news on this? Black-on-blue is not very eye friendly

[zeflash]

Hey Psycho, I was getting tired of monochrome, so I checked out Indigo - Cool colors!
But (and that's a sad discovery I made a long while ago) my LCD TV doesn't actually show 16 millions colors, it's probably closer to 18 bits. Drives me a bit mad when I think about it given it's not advertised anywhere...
Anyway, the blue background of indigo looks really bad on my TV, while it looks good enough on my monitor. So, I fired up photoshop and did some dithering tests, and the result is way better looking.

My process:
- take the original picture, turn it to Lab color mode to get luminance + a/b color planes
- copy the luminance to a new image, turn it to 16 bits
- do a blur to make the gradient looks smoother
- add noise - uniform, 0,3 to 0,5%, depends on the gradient starting & ending color really. The noise needs to be barely noticeable.
- copy the whole image, paste it back to the luminance channel in the original image
- go back to RGB, save.

Of course, the background image goes from 85KB to 1.4MB - but it's pretty smooth now
Also, given you have the original images and you don't have to "reverse engineer" each pictures, you could adapt the process to add the noise only where there are gradients. The dialog / context background are also looking pretty bad on my TV. But they're toughter to fix for me because of the borders & the transparencies.

Anyway, it's just a tip, if you're willing to take that in account for the next releases of your more colorful skins, it'd be awesome
If not I'll keep on tweaking things on my end !
thanks

[ocnos]

Excuse the dumb question. Does this skin work with MP RC 1.0? If not, where can I find the required SVN version? Will it be stable enough?

Thanks

[Psycho Reptile]

If you run RC1 you should be fine, some minor skin updates may require RC2 or later
I'm running RC2 with the latest weekly SVN, I'd recommended RC2, as a lot of plugin authors are updating their releases to support RC2.

[swe_rush]

Psycho Reptile think you could add support for armandp's my trailers in indigo or monochrome ?

MyTrailers

love indigo and monochrome only skins i can consider using today, and my trailers only have aeon wide and bluetwo wide support =(

thanks once again for great skin !

[Psycho Reptile]

Working on it, but I have my hands full atm with Moving Pictures, MyTrailers, Aeon, Monochrome and Indigo

[swe_rush]

okey good ! =) Moving Pictures is more important i shall not distract you anymore