Core Reloaded 1.0 (1 Viewer)

[djohansson]

Good evening!

It has been quiet from my side since this summer. The work on Core has been suspended because of me getting married and that I have waited for 0.2.3 to be released.

I recently came back from a 1 month backpacking honeymoon in Thailand and started working on Core again. First plan was to make a simple compatibility upgrade but it has become a new skin! Core philosophy but with inspiration from other great interfaces. The voting ended with 89% in favor of Core Reloaded so I did not have any choice...

Design targets for the skin is to keep it simple. I want the skin to have a professional and sleek feeling without too much animations and eye candy.

Target group for this skin is users with big widescreen tv's. For smaller lo-res screens there will probably be an issue with font sizes and so on...

Download it here: https://www.team-mediaportal.com/files/Download/Skins/16:9/CoreReloaded/

Enjoy and comment away so I can start fixing bugs!

Daniel

 

[Spragleknas]

First: Congratulations!

Looks great! Perhaps you should include pics of Core1 for comparison.

EDIT: Core"1"-thread https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/skin_project_core-t23160.html

 

[Telstar]

The new skin looks better

But I would like something in blue for a change )

 

[yatesd]

First off congrats on the Wedding!

Always loved Core and used it till updates dies down would love to see it updated for latest releases.

Keep up the great work

 

[Darre]

I think the red color showing marked items should be blue, IMO it looks way better =)

I also prefer the hidden menus of monochrome and xface. I like to hide them away because they have weird confusing names(for others using my mediaportal at parties etc.) You could risk the skin becoming very similiar to monochrome tho, but with the core icons it still stands out! Have you considered the video/music/various menus of monochrome?

 

[djohansson]

I think the red color showing marked items should be blue, IMO it looks way better =)

I also prefer the hidden menus of monochrome and xface. I like to hide them away because they have weird confusing names(for others using my mediaportal at parties etc.) You could risk the skin becoming very similiar to monochrome tho, but with the core icons it still stands out! Have you considered the video/music/various menus of monochrome?

I will consider blue. Only objection is that all other skins use blue...

The first ideas I had was to use the hidden menus like monochrome but I don't like that there are some hidden menus while most are still visible. To me it makes the skin irregular. For Core I am very careful to make ALL supported sections have the same feeling...

I have tried to make the same sliding menus on other screens but there seems to be some limitations in the skin engine! (or in my skills...)

 

[Darre]

Well those limitations will probably be gone in mp2, and if we are lucky its here before christmas =)

Hidden menus or not, ill give the new core a go anyways! Used the old one as long as it was maintained. But what about those listen/Video/various menus?

 

[djohansson]

Well those limitations will probably be gone in mp2, and if we are lucky its here before christmas =)

Hidden menus or not, ill give the new core a go anyways! Used the old one as long as it was maintained. But what about those listen/Video/various menus?

It will certainly be very interesting to see what mp2 has to offer! I agree with you that it's nice to get rid of as much of the buttons as possible. In Core Reloaded I am trying to make them as discrete as possible...

I honestly prefer the submenus of Core as they are so there is no plan to go the monochrome path. Personally I like skins that are simple and stylish so I will not focus on more features, at least not now...

Daniel

 

[Darre]

Sub-menus does the job as well =) Ill have a quick go at some skinning myself now, gonna try to get Harleys Christmas skin running. But I haven't got a clue what im doing^^ Maybe you could fix it? He posted his work this far to svn, but he couldn't finish it because of work with mp2

 

[tangmonster]

I think ALL skinners must be very clear on the first page if their skins are 16:9 or 4:3 or both.

The images are 4:3???

I am stuck with my 4:3 for at least another year. So yes i am behind...

If I can give my input on colour, Blue is to bright. Backgrounds must be dark. (for me anyway)