ORIGINAL THREAD (OLD): About the X-Factor Skin (1 Viewer)

[cul8er]

Hi explodedk,

Thank you for your feedback. A see what you mean about the menu (up/down). I will change this as you suggested. About the different layouts... well ... I agree here as well. You see the problem is that as this is still very much a skin in the making I still look for that last "x-factor" style and this makes some parts look different than others. I will (once I decide on the "final" design) change all parts so thay are more of "one" style.

Looking forward to see your skin.

About the video;
Due to some last minute changes, the video will be added tomorrow.

best regards
cul8er

 

[gingertom]

Can not wait till tomorrow now. Will make going to work or the more harder

 

[AIstudio]

Hi cul8er,

I am so looking forward to this skin being a full release .
It is looking stunning so far.
I can see you trying different styles as you go along and I actually do that too. When I settle on the one I like I use that.
Personally on your designs I like the White solid line look of the 4TR TV home. Looks a lot more defined than the broken line type styles. Just fits with the home screens more.
I also like the Black border, with tint, frames used in the Picture Filmstrip view rather than the lighter more graphical styles of Music playlist player (bit to light grey for the rest of the skin style). Maybe try those holders on the music player like the style they are (shapes etc) but Black with highlights??
Just my thoughts.
This will REALLY enhance the experience of the Media center at home that's for sure

Regards

Kev

 

[cul8er]

Hi,

I have big problems with the video. I need to get some better video editing tools... get back as soon as I can upload a decent video. I have a avi file that looks good but when I try to make it into a better (smaller) format all goes to....

AIstudio;
Thank you for your feedback, spot on as always. I will se what I can do. It is hard right now.. I have so many different layouts so it is difficult to decide and make one.

I will upload new pictures tomorrow. Any feedback is much appreciated. Please look at the pictures (after tomorrow) in the first post and tell me what you like and what you think should be changed.

cheers
cul8er

 

[ltfearme]

HI cul8er, great work

Just something I noticed in your TVSeries screenshots, the titles overlap the icons/date in the list.

To resolve that you need to make the yoffsets the same for the items...you might also need to put a dummy item2/item3 label between the two (cant remember which one) which contains a empty value e.g. a SPACE character.

Have a look at StreamedMP as well as Blue3wide for an example.

All I know, it was really annoying trying to get this to work properly.

 

[cul8er]

Hi,

ltfearme;
Thank you for the tip, I will try this tonight!

Now the video is finally finished and available here;
YouTube - Preview of the upcomming x-factor skin for MediaPortal

The video quality is not the best but hopefully you can get an idéa about what the skin looks like today.

Images in first post are also updated.

cheers
cul8er

 

[emphatic]

Video looks awesome. Here's an idea for the music playlist -> Now Playing navigation. Would it be possible to have a button right on that music player that goes straight to that view? I'm already used to going into the context menu and selecting Now Playing, but just a button (perhaps a minus sign?) that goes straight to it would be very nice. A lyrics button would also be nice if there's any room left on that player.

Edit: Buttons for Playlist and Lyrics in the Now Playing screen and also buttons for Now Playing and Playlist in the lyrics would of course also improve fast navigation. But these are only ideas really. No pressure.

Emph

 

[cul8er]

Hi emphatic,

Great idéa. I will do this tonight!

Thank you!

cheers
cul8er

 

[AIstudio]

really liked the video

One little thing I saw on the moving pictures is that when you have just the one film selected and you have the large box cover to the right, and then all the other info etc, the white line goes behind the transparent left edge of the cover. When you have the smaller cover in the center it doesn't go behind but just stops at the edge.
I personally would go for going behind the cover on all of them.

Fantastic work on this and I am soooooooo looking forward to getting a finalized version of this skin.

I know there is the source already but I would rather wait

Many thanks for all your hard work as I am sure there will be LOTS of people wanting to use this.

Regards

Kev

 

[kalinium1]

WOW!