- February 20, 2008
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Excellent plugin, and one I have been watching for a while - I have tested it though, and would like to offer some constructive critism if I may?
Large Icon view
This is a much better view than standard myMovies, but like myMovies has a weird selection mode - it does not wrap - if you went right to Bank Job with a remote control, right to District 13, right to.....nothing. It loses focus and you have to click back on with the mouse to regain it. You have to press down to get from District 13 to Cloverfield.
List mode seems to be the only version to wrap from a movie beginning with z to back to the numerically named films.
List View
List view has too much of a black border to the film titles in Monochrome, obscuring the art, but I expect this to change with native support in the skins next release - Not relevant to the mod itself, just here as a contrast view.
Film Selection Screen
Once you select a film, it takes you to a screen showing the fan art in all its glory. Unfortunately the fan art makes the text hard to read and looks a little crowded, and the little 'mask' (I think thats the correct terminology) that goes over the movie poster doesnt look right. It may be better framing the IMDB info as its done in the main screen, and possibly losing the movie poster (that was already shown in the previous menu) to ensure the fan art takes pride of place. As shown here in Anchorman it blocks out one of the actors faces.
Sometimes the focus of the fanart is too high and goes over the title like Golden Compass, while Cloverfield is too low.
And other times, its supurb:
May it be better if there is a black top and bottom border, and the fan art take up the centre 80% of the screen with 10% black borders top and bottom?
Pics all taken on a 1080p 40" Sammy for reference.
Once you have a manual add I will be trying it again, and it will very quickly replace my standard myMovies view. Thanks for your excellent mod....
Large Icon view
This is a much better view than standard myMovies, but like myMovies has a weird selection mode - it does not wrap - if you went right to Bank Job with a remote control, right to District 13, right to.....nothing. It loses focus and you have to click back on with the mouse to regain it. You have to press down to get from District 13 to Cloverfield.
List mode seems to be the only version to wrap from a movie beginning with z to back to the numerically named films.
List View
List view has too much of a black border to the film titles in Monochrome, obscuring the art, but I expect this to change with native support in the skins next release - Not relevant to the mod itself, just here as a contrast view.
Film Selection Screen
Once you select a film, it takes you to a screen showing the fan art in all its glory. Unfortunately the fan art makes the text hard to read and looks a little crowded, and the little 'mask' (I think thats the correct terminology) that goes over the movie poster doesnt look right. It may be better framing the IMDB info as its done in the main screen, and possibly losing the movie poster (that was already shown in the previous menu) to ensure the fan art takes pride of place. As shown here in Anchorman it blocks out one of the actors faces.
Sometimes the focus of the fanart is too high and goes over the title like Golden Compass, while Cloverfield is too low.
And other times, its supurb:
May it be better if there is a black top and bottom border, and the fan art take up the centre 80% of the screen with 10% black borders top and bottom?
Pics all taken on a 1080p 40" Sammy for reference.
Once you have a manual add I will be trying it again, and it will very quickly replace my standard myMovies view. Thanks for your excellent mod....
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