Blue3 Skinfiles For TV-Series (1 Viewer)

[gamejester]

No, Damien has done a different B3wide skin in a seperate post.

 

[RICHARDG]

can someone point me to the correct dll and skin files to get the my tvseries that has the 9..I think its nine scrolling banners on the main menu.

I am running the new mp 1.0 and have tried varius dll's and don't get this menu format. that said perhaps this is the new way of doing it with fanart in which case I am clueless how it works

Let me know..perhaps I am just behind the times

 

[RICHARDG]

add images of what I was expecting

This is what I am expecting yet don't get it.
I must have the wrong things

 

[ltfearme]

First of all, are you after a Widescreen (16:9) or Fullscreen (4:3) version of the skin? From the attachment of your expectations I suspect you want a widescreen version, if thats the case check: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/my-tvseries-162/blue3-wide-skin-47921/index3.html#post359116

 

[bieber]

Distorted layout with ListPosters and ListBanners

Hi there!

I just tried the new skin files, using MP 1.0 and TVSeries SVN 3296. And, "yes", i DID clear the cache...

When i set series layout to "ListPosters" or "ListBanners" in TVSeries.SkinSettings.xml, series view looks "strange" -
the "WideBanners" layout is OK, though.

The "List" season view shows a similar layout problem - i'll attach some screenshots. The overlapping seems not to be screen resolution dependend, it looks the same on a 1280x1024 display in fullscreen mode!

TVSeries is configured to download posters and banners, i changed layout settings in TVSeries.SkinSettings.xml and didn't touch anything else. Have i missed something?

So long, Sebastian

 

[ltfearme]

I don't believe Gamejester has included support for any other layouts except for the defaults defined. This may come later, but is entirely up to him if he wishes to support it.

 

[bieber]

I don't believe Gamejester has included support for any other layouts except for the defaults defined. This may come later, but is entirely up to him if he wishes to support it.

Of course it is. I didn't intend to criticize Gamejester's work - if my posting can be misunderstood as doing so, i apologize for that!

In the meantime, i reverted the skin settings to their defaults and they work flawlessly.

Gamejester, if i may suggest something: Maybe, it could save semi nerds like me from messing up if the SkinSettings.xml wouldn't document unsupported layout options...

 

[ltfearme]

At a later date I plan to add setting so the SkinSettings also describes the supported layouts. This is going to come in handy when functionality to change layouts in the GUI is added.

 

[gamejester]

Yeah as Damien said the support for other layouts is not in the skin, so if you change it from the defaults it will look bad. Putting the supported formats in the TVSeries.SkinSettings.xml is a good feature enhancemnt; might just add it as a comment in the file for now so users know what to expect if they change things.

Whether it will support other layouts in the future or not, maybe! This is just a quick static port from the more fancy animated one I am doing, so it really depends what looks good in that one; not planning on maintaining two very different looking skins.

 

[gamejester]

Here is an updaed one with a few bits tidied up, also has the mising files!
Have included both the animated and simple versions in it, the default one is the animated one just to give you a taster. There are a few rendering issues with it yet so if it annoys you replace it with the simple version.
To do this there are 3 files:

TVSeries.xml
TVSeries-animated.xml
TVSeries-simple.xml

Just delete TVseries.xml and copy/rename either the animated or simple one to TVSeries.xml; then re-start MP.

Animited one use:
Additional info screens pop out if you press right or left on a highlighted item on a screen.
ie, in the banners view pressing left when in the left column will rotate the banners and pop out an info pannel.
in the episodes list view, pressing right or left will spin the description to reveal full episode info on the back!

Give it a try.
Like I said there are some bugs, so if you get a weirdly drawn screen pressing right then left will cause all the animations to fire and re-draw the screen correctly.