Building a skin from scratch - a tour - (2 Viewers)

[kiwijunglist]

I only have one artist in my music folder, so hard to test how fanart handler is behaving have to get around to fixing that - @catavolt i added code tags to your post so i could see it nicer.[DOUBLEPOST=1372498953][/DOUBLEPOST]

2. If you are using a sampler with various artists, very often the #fanarthandler.music.backdrop1.play refers to the artist played before the actual artist, so there must be something to ensure the backdrop belongs to the actual played artist. Working on that at the moment - let you know when I have a solution

Yes I will leave you to decide what to do here. I do the 360 degree spin at the start to buy time for fanart handler to update the image before i open the case at 0:06. Not sure how long it needs.

 

[catavolt]

@catavolt i added code tags to your post so i could see it nicer.

Yup, edited post above, now it should be correct. Also pls take care of my note regarding the 400 px to the right

 

[The_Stig]

Guys, give us videos regularly!!! We noobs want to understand what you're doing!

 

[Pog]

I think we will have to go back and clean up this thread soon, I'm hijacking it to much. So sorry about that @mbuzina

I was feeling a bit guilty about that too... maybe time to rename this thread: Building a skin from scratch - an Odyssey

 

[The_Stig]

I'll give you a file for titan, and just add the images from my last post.

Thanks! Looks pretty spectatular! But to be honest: too much animation for my taste. But what I like is what you're doing when no CDArt available is. How do you generate the cd from album art? And more important: how can this be integrated into my StreamedMP mod overlays?

 

[Pog]

I have a mod/theme Music Views Redux in the works for StreamedMP that will used some of the elements discussed in this thread.

I'm normally not a huge fan of representing physical media such as boxs/cds but I love covers and fanart. Still I'm loving the sexyness of the stuff being done here and I think it suits the now playing screen quite well, of course with an option to turn it off.

 

[The_Stig]

I have a mod/theme Music Views Redux in the works for StreamedMP that will used some of the elements discussed in this thread.

Looking forward to this!

 

[The_Stig]

now playing screen

Since I am more the overlay guy...please think of common.overlays and common.overlays.basichome too ;-)

 

[kiwijunglist]

There is a major flaw with opening the cd case to pull out the CD The distance on the left side of the cd must be equal to album width
Makes it hard to implement animations into titan.
ie. if your album is 250 pixels wide, then you need a 250 pixel wide space on the left, even if you open the door to only 45 degrees...
Titan screen has 234 width album, but only 87 pixels free on the left side.

 

[Pog]

I've been thinking about all the work done in this thread and the various ideas and solutions. One area of the skin engine in MP that makes life very difficult is lack of being able to abstract all the data to variables. Now it has improved with expressions and defines but they are inconsistant and due to regression it may be a big job to make the engine fully compliant.

What would be nice is to build "Skinlets", skining elements that can be used easily by any skin and just passing an xpos, ypos, size and let the skinlet do the work and add the offsets/scaling/timing whatever.

Having a single element with 10 controls and having to change xy positions in every control just to see if it looks better 10 pixels over gets tiresome. Should be able to have an element xypos with each control being able to offset from that (<posX>element1.xpos+10</posX>).

So, my big idea is to use a macro preprocessor to do all the grunt work and pass an MP readable xml file as output.