Optimizing, and some working with this skin (1 Viewer)

[hulkhaugen]

Hello folk!

First, i have to thank you guys so much for this amazing skin, it looks superb. At the moment i'm working on the myEmulators skin, trying to get it to look more like the MovingPictures skin, and during this i noticed something. I see that the skin uses a file named "streamed_overlay.png", but i feel that this overlay covers to much of the screen, so i opened it in PS3, and then i wonderd; why is this image 1280x720px sized? why not use a 1x720px overlay, or even 1x36px or maybe even smaller? As long as you specify the size in the .xml it will be fitted to the screen, and you would save some space making the skin load faster.....just an idéa.

And the MovingPictures skin, i feel that the movie covers has a smaller width compared with the height. Is it just me?

 

[spuck]

Because MP is crap and makes textures fade to transparent for no good reason.

 

[emphatic]

Because MP is crap

 

[tourettes]

Because MP is crap and makes textures fade to transparent for no good reason.

Maybe such crap comes from the GPU itself? Some anistropic filtering or other similar might a such effect.

 

[hulkhaugen]

I pull back the part about the height, but there is no need to use more than 1px width unless you want more graphics than the chase is here. Just tried it myself with 1x720px, and it looks perfect. Just like backgrounds on most websites, they use one-pixel and stretch (actually repeating) the pattern. it's called optimizing

 

[Kossan]

making this skin more optimized is something i look forward to. Its too heavy to run.

 

[hulkhaugen]

But, i could use some help here. This is what i got so far (I'm a MP Skin rookie)

I've been using MovingPictures as a reference, but still got some clarifying...
- The red text is what i miss. I got the toptitle right, even using this black arrow looking thing wraped around it (after i took this snapshot). But obviously, how the h... do i move the game list?
- Any idea on how to import genre, title and grade?

EDIT: Would be nice to get the glossy reflection of the cover aswell..