Moving Picture Public Beta: 0.5.4 (1 Viewer)

[Helios61]

Hello marvenius

Thank you for your work!

Let me know what you think of it.

Take a look to my Screenshots! I think, something is wrong, is it?

Best Regards

Helios

 

[Darre]

Hello marvenius

Thank you for your work!

Let me know what you think of it.

Take a look to my Screenshots! I think, something is wrong, is it?

Best Regards

Helios

Read this:

Download the plugin here, and extract the "Default Skin\Media\" to "[Your skin dir]\Media\". That should do it

 

[2BitSculptor]

Hello marvenius

Thank you for your work!

Let me know what you think of it.

Take a look to my Screenshots! I think, something is wrong, is it?

Best Regards

Helios

What I'm seeing is that you are trying to display a widescreen version of the fanart on a 4X3 display... doing so will get an image that is squshed side-to-side. The only way to change that is to find/make 4X3 style backgrounds or alter the skin to display the fanart with "keepaspectratio" set to yes. But the drawback, if the skin is not designed for it, is that the art will not fill the space allowed. (I'm trying to make a skin that shows the fan art in widescreen in the upper part of the skin,... but I'm a long way from distributing it)

Chuck

 

[marvenius]

Hello marvenius

Thank you for your work!

Take a look to my Screenshots! I think, something is wrong, is it?

Best Regards

Helios

Hey Helios,

looks like you don't have all the media in the correct folders.
You should have a <skin folder>\Media\Moving Pictures folder.
Please download the latest version of Moving Pictures, copy the Default skin in your skin folder and then try my 4x3 adaptation.

 

[Darre]

How come both of you failed to see I allready helped him?

 

[marvenius]

How come both of you failed to see I allready helped him?

We're to slow ;-)

I tried something tonight.
I created a <skin folder>\animations\Moving Pictures folder and copied some of my downloaded backdrop art into it.

I then enabled following code:

    <!-- ********************* Background /  Movie Backdrop (Fan-art) *************************** -->
	<control>
      <type>multiimage</type>
      <id>0</id>
      <posX>0</posX>
      <posY>0</posY>
      <width>768</width>
      <height>576</height>
      <imagepath>Moving Pictures</imagepath>
      <timeperimage>800</timeperimage>
      <fadetime>1000</fadetime>
      <loop>yes</loop>
      <randomize>true</randomize>
      <visible>!Control.IsVisible(1)</visible>
      <animation effect="fade" time="200">VisibleChange</animation>
    </control>
    <control>
      <description>Background to be displayed when there is no Movie Backdrop</description>
      <type>image</type>
      <id>0</id>
      <posX>0</posX>
      <posY>0</posY>
      <width>768</width>
      <height>576</height>
      <colordiffuse>bbffffff</colordiffuse> 
      <texture>MovingPictures\background.png</texture>
      <visible>!Control.IsVisible(1)</visible>
    </control>

If we can somehow include some generic backdrop art, we could cycle through them when the real backdrop is still missing. I fiddled a bit with the colordiffuse. You can alter it to your desire ;-)
Please keep in mind that dimensions are based on a 4x3 ratio.

It looks pretty cool ;-)

 

[2BitSculptor]

How come both of you failed to see I allready helped him?

I still think I am at least partly correct

PAL screen resolution is 720 X 576 (overscan)... the fan art, when he DOES get it working, is typically 1366 X 768.... in proper aspect it would be scaled to 720 X 405 (at 1:1 pixel ratio - it will be slightly larger in height for PAL aspect). For my 800 X 600 skin the fan art is scaled to 800 X 469.

best regards,

Chuck

 

[tobcro]

Fantastic plugin!

imho it could be included as the default "My Videos" for the upcoming release of RC3...

 

[Helios61]

Hello Chuck

I'm trying to make a skin that shows the fan art in widescreen in the upper part of the skin,... but I'm a long way from distributing it
Chuck

I have read this Thread. It would be great!

Best Regards

 

[Darre]

How come both of you failed to see I allready helped him?

If we can somehow include some generic backdrop art, we could cycle through them when the real backdrop is still missing. I fiddled a bit with the colordiffuse. You can alter it to your desire ;-)
Please keep in mind that dimensions are based on a 4x3 ratio.

It looks pretty cool ;-)

Tested it, and I like it.. I just stole your idea and implented it in my titanium moving pictures skin, its actually quite in style with the rest of the skin. Its a bit busy tho, with the backgrounds changing so fast. So I changed it so it stays for about 4 secs + the 1 sec animation time.