Keeping aspect ratios (1 Viewer)

[grassynoel]

Hi all.

I want to make 16:9 versions of my Me-Po mods and have used Boilermaker's 16:9 skin as a base. My character keeps looking squashed when I test the skin out. (Mind you, I'm testing it windowed on my computer monitor, not native on my plasma.). How do I keep the aspect ratio correct? I have tried playing with the aspect ratio setting in the Media Portal Editor but regardless of which way I toggle it, the little guy gets squashed.

Glenn

 

[Taipan]

I am using your MePo's in Boilermaker's 16:9 BlueTwo skin and I found I had to make a change to the home.xml skin to preserve the aspect ratio. I think (from memory) this is what I changed:-

	<control>
		<description>template for hover image</description>
		<type>image</type>
		<id>1000</id>
		<posX>130</posX>
		<posY>225</posY>		
		<width>325</width>
		<height>325</height>
		<keepaspectratio>yes</keepaspectratio>
		<texture>-</texture>
		<visible>no</visible>
	</control>

Anyway, it looks correct, now (in full-screen mode - I don't use windowed) .....

 

[grassynoel]

Many thanks Taipan. I'll give it a try

Glenn

 

[jawbroken]

Yes, I found that the hover images in 16:9 MCE were squashed in horizontally for me, but I forgot to report it. Maybe someone should let Boilermaker know?

 

[mofux]

an even better way would be to base the 16x9 version on the "Blue2 wide" skin that's packed with the latest svn. it's a 1:1 upscale version of the original Blue2 and you shouldn't have any problems with it.

 

[grassynoel]

an even better way would be to base the 16x9 version on the "Blue2 wide" skin that's packed with the latest svn. it's a 1:1 upscale version of the original Blue2 and you shouldn't have any problems with it.

Will try. Thanks

Glenn

 

[Boilermaker]

Maybe someone should let Boilermaker know?

Bluetwo1280x720 will not be supported going forward. In the next version of mce1280x720 i'm going to temporarily remove the large hover images. They may return if/when i can do a new image for each plugin.