Monochrome (for those who like dark skins), updated... (4 Viewers)

[richy759]

It might be for someone who knows what they are doing...

you don't even mention what file you are editing "fanart_overlay_window.png" exists in TVSeries.FanArt.xml too, and delete the pointer? Is that deleting a line of text? i.e. "<texture>fanart_overlay_window.png</texture>".

Thanks though, I appreciate the file.
Rich

 

[JavaMC]

Yeah that’s basically it, and its TVSeries.xml (I said at the top). I'm assuming that the application loads the XML files at start up then fetches out for them from the media folder. I noticed the app builds its own pre-fetched cache to speed this process up, a stroke of genius by whoever implemented it. So that needs to be deleted if you modify any artwork as it will have already cached the old version.

Going to have a play with the Episode screen now. wasted screen area drives me bonkers for some reason!!!

 

[FacundoBacar]

Hi JavaMC,

Can i have series banners only in one vertial stripe in the right side?, so I can see the fan art in teh background?

Thanks for all your posts, they are very helpfull,

Regards,
Thomas

 

[JavaMC]

Yeah sure its easy

All you need to do it edit steps 3 and 4. First you need to edit the x and y values to shift the panel that the banners are glued too to the left (step 3) then shrinking the panel until it will only hold the width of a single banner but leave the height so you get a list on the right hand side.

Actually do step 4 to get the right size, then move it with step 3. Remember you might need to delete the cache after every shift/resize.

A word of warning though, if you have alot of series, the novelty of the fanart gets very thin when you have to sit there for 3 hours cycling through banners, not to mention MP does not seem to like lots of rapid fanart changes in my experience.

 

[JavaMC]

Here is my attempt at editing the original Episode layout to use up some of that wasted fanart space.

More episode space
More episode description space
A layer over the fanart to take some of the sharpness away
In the process of shifting/editing episode info and making backgrounds transparent.

 

[FacundoBacar]

I have got an error, and media portal have colapsed, could you maybe make the tvseries file?

thanks a lot,
Thomas

 

[JavaMC]

You mean like this?

if so use the following:

<posX>900
<posY>70
<width>500
<Height>700

 

[smithdc]

When I load up media portal with monochrome 2.5 it says that this skin is incompatible with the current version. Any ideas? .

 

[Sh4nn0w]

When I load up media portal with monochrome 2.5 it says that this skin is incompatible with the current version. Any ideas? .

Its probably because you are running 1.0 rather than SVN. You'd be better sticking with MP 1.0 unless you know what your doing. Just change the following line in references.xml from:

<version>1.0.0.3</version

to:

<version>1.0.0.0</version

references.xml is in: C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\Monochrome

This should stop the warning. Works on my HTPC as that has 1.0 and I have SVN on my Desktop. (SVN is for testing only really).

Or just ignore it, it should be fine.

 

[Markam]

for some reason my watched flags are not on the far right side of the screen, but I can't find the piece of code that gives their position. Now with long file names it's messed up.
I really like the new thingies btw!

[edit]
found it, it's here

<control>
<description>Textlist (series and/or seasons if set and Episodes)</description>
<type>listcontrol</type>
<id>50</id>
<posX>785</posX>
<posY>389</posY>
<onleft>2</onleft>
<onright>2</onright>
<spinPosX>1288</spinPosX>
<spinPosY>675</spinPosY>
<width>578</width>
<height>340</height>
<textXOff>-95</textXOff>
<textXOff2>405</textXOff2>
<textYOff2>8</textYOff2>
<textXOff3>450</textXOff3>
<textYOff3>11</textYOff3>
<font>font12</font>
<font2>font10</font2>
<font3>font10</font3>
<textureFocus>tvseries_info_list_sub_focus.png</textureFocus>
<textureNoFocus>tvseries_info_list_sub_nofocus.png</textureNoFocus>
<textcolor>#notpresent.color</textcolor>
<textcolor2>#notpresent.color</textcolor2>
<textcolor3>#notpresent.color</textcolor3>
<downloadColor>#default.color</downloadColor>
<remoteColor>#watched.color</remoteColor>
<IconYOff>12</IconYOff>
<IconXOff>515</IconXOff>
<itemWidth>100</itemWidth>
<itemHeight>20</itemHeight>
</control>[\quote]
now to change the date