Black Glass Skin 1.5.1 (3 Viewers)

[Tgx]

Hello, I made two alternative splashscreens. Hope you like them.

Good work! Nice!



Tgx

 

[ysmp]

1-how can i delet the small poster in the list panle ? i like to cut it like you did for tv series list view .
2- i wont to tack down the cd case ..this i can do ,but the flipy sedow get mix with the movie ditle down ,,so how i can delet only the
flipy sedow ?
3- i try to do same for tvseries but the xml totaly defrent then all MP xml to hard for me to find things ....

Hi! Use these files in attachment. I've disabled the mirror effect on DVD covers and removed the small thumbs.

Bye

Tgx

hi Tgx ! wow i did not thing you going to mack new xml for me .... i just thot you give me info and i will do it ..
thank you very mach .... i will try the file's soon ...

 

[Tgx]

I would be glad to see the backdrops in their full glora and colour. You mentioned earlier that this would make text more difficult to read in some places and I agree. But, I think a smarter solution is to create textures that are slightly transparent instead to display these texts in. I know that lots of skinners have created "frames" for differnt views to accomplish this but I'm not sure how you would like to do it. I was thinking about a flipped gradient.png today to use on top of the screen so that the time and header would be easier to see, but I can't do this myself with my inferior PS skills. However, I managed to make the bg_right a bit tranparent and renamed the new file to bg_right2 and used this in a few places, also moved the filmstrip facade a bit lower. Here's the results:

Ok! I'll work on a full color fanart version... maybe in the next release. It is not so simple to please everybody's tastes!

Edit: Two more things,
1, The spinning circle when something is loading in the background is not consistent with different xml:s. The TVseries one is smaller and more to the left than i.e online videos. That one is bigger and in the middle.
2, In Tvseries season filmstrip view, is it possible to just show "Season X" in the lower right corner? Sometimes the series name is a bit long and you have to wait like 5 seconds before the text has scrolled to the number. ie "CSI: crime scene investigation Season 5" It can be hard sometime to tell which season it is by just looking at the poster.

1 - I haven't noticed it! Thanks for pointing it out! In the next release it should be ok.
2 - I've already changed it, thanks to your PM! Thanks

Bye

Tgx

Is it possible to add an "overview" that will just show me a few selected infos (e.g. free disk space, processor and ram usage) as shown in the attached image?

I'm working together with Micropolis (HtpcInfo plugin author) to achieve that.
In the next release of htpcinfo there will be many new things!

Bye

Tgx

Really loving this skin, just have one request - is it possible to make a 1920x1080 version? Got some higher-rez backgrounds I'd like to use eventually. If it's too much work I'll just wait for the skin editor to be finished, I guess

Sorry! I've got no tv capable to display full hd resolution. So, in the near future there won't be a full hd version of this skin. Unless some volunteers want to port the skin to this resolution!

Thanks and bye

Tgx

 

[mat123]

Hi, Tgx.

Don't know if it's a bug or you intentionally left it so.
When you're in episode view while playing tv-series, the thumb and summary are gone.

I fixed this by removing +!player.hasmedia for episode image, picturecase, episode summary.
If you could include my fixed alternative layout with your skin, that would be great

 

[Tgx]

Hi, Tgx.

Don't know if it's a bug or you intentionally left it so.
When you're in episode view while playing tv-series, the thumb and summary are gone.

I fixed this by removing +!player.hasmedia for episode image, picturecase, episode summary.
If you could include my fixed alternative layout with your skin, that would be great

It's by design!
Many other plugins of the skin behave the same way. When there is a video/music overlay, the underlying infos are hidden to avoid overlapping text.

Bye!

Tgx

 

[mat123]

I thought so, but maybe someone want's to read the plot while watching another episode.
Thanks for clarification and keep up the good work. IMO it's curently the best skin for MP.

 

[ysmp]

I would be glad to see the backdrops in their full glora and colour. You mentioned earlier that this would make text more difficult to read in some places and I agree. But, I think a smarter solution is to create textures that are slightly transparent instead to display these texts in. I know that lots of skinners have created "frames" for differnt views to accomplish this but I'm not sure how you would like to do it. I was thinking about a flipped gradient.png today to use on top of the screen so that the time and header would be easier to see, but I can't do this myself with my inferior PS skills. However, I managed to make the bg_right a bit tranparent and renamed the new file to bg_right2 and used this in a few places, also moved the filmstrip facade a bit lower. Here's the results:

Ok! I'll work on a full color fanart version... maybe in the next release. It is not so simple to please everybody's tastes!

Thanks and bye

Tgx

hi Tgx ! i will also love a full color fanart version for Mov-PIC ' and TVSeries for this great skin...

 

[Tgx]

Hi!

I've uploaded the new version of the skin, 1.4.0! Lots of changes:

• Installation Package split in two parts: Basic Skin and Extras. So to keep the least updated files in a separate download.
• Reworked paused Video/TV OSD (added time, channel and show infos. Added forward, rewind and pause gfxs).
• Added support for: TVGemist, Arcsoft player (thanks to mr viggo), MyPrograms, Youtube.fm, My Emulators plugins.
• New sound scheme. Enlarged myHome central panel.
• Completely reworked support for HTPCInfo plugin version 0.7.0.
• Fixed bugs in: TvMiniguide in FortheRecord (thanks to vuego), spinning waiting animation (thanks to mr viggo).
• Added new mat123's TVSeries simplified layout.
• Many little enhancements: listview titles, folder brackets (thanks to grabi_2001), TVSeries Season filmstrip title (thanks to mr viggo).

Hope you like it!





Tgx

 

[papas]

thx for an amazing skin tgx
prolly the best out there so far!!!


only one small thing to ask

i think for the extras pack you should include some screenshots with it( the way psycho reptile did in his monochrome/indigo packs ) in order people to see how all the alternative layouts look like.

 

[carlof]

So pleased you added MyFilms and ForTheRecord support - been itching to try this skin for a while, and I've not been disappointed. This is a very, very nice skin and easily becomes my favourite. This needs to go in the Popular Skins section without any more delay! Many thanks.