Simple 1920x1080 skin in development (1 Viewer)

Kurtis

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Just wanted to get some quick feedback on my 1920x1080 skin I've been working on.

The design is trying to be as simple as possible, so some features of MediaPortal are simply not visible.

I'm pretty far from done, but work on it may slow to a crawl at this point because I've done all the screens that I actually use (for instance, I don't even use MediaPortal's TV functionality because I use my DirecTV TiVo) but if enough people are interested in it from these screenshots I may turn over most of what I've done for somebody else to finish.



Screenshots 1 and 3 were taken with fullscreen video playback going in the background (my skin uses no video overlay... all screens are designed to be useable with video wallpaper working as the default thanks to BG Hack) while I included 4 just to get an idea of a non-list view. For the curious the buttons across the top do highlight/become-less-transparent when selected. I also had to make the fonts bigger because my old eyes are goin'.

Thanks to the recent SVN change that enabled selected thumbs to be shown in a big image in list view.

The screens are taken at 1360x768 because that's what my TV runs. I bought a new 1920x1080p one but UPS lost it in Chicago. :(

Some of the graphics haven't been redone yet, either (like the spin controls, still shamelessly borrowed from BlueTwo).
 

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That looks amazing! I just love the clean simple look and the fullscreen video playback in the background is just fantastic!
Keep it up, and if I can help in any way let me know. (I do a little Photoshop, but no programming:)
 

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    That looks great - I love that its 1080p too! Keep it up... I use all parts of MP, so a full skin would be great. So many gread skins for MP now - such a dillema, which one to use!!
     

    ThaClown

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    Yes I agree, no matter how cool a skin is it just needs alot of MP functions.
    For me I wont use a skin unless it has: My TV Series (with FanArt), My Last.FM, My Emulators, cool looking My Photos and is widescreen.

    But this one looks like it could be the perfect one for me...
     

    esoteradactyl

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    i would love for you to continue development on this skin. its plain and simple! i myself also use my htpc for viewing movies and music only. the tv part doesn't do it for me. i like recording hd premium channels on my dvr :p seems like alot of the skins start out great and after a while all the focus turns toward the tv portion.
     

    Kurtis

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    Okay, I'll poke around with packaging up what I've got.

    What's done right now: my music, my videos, my tv series, my programs (mostly), my TiVo (a plugin I wrote that's EXTREMELY minimal). As you can tell, very minimal.

    I'll need to finish up my programs, clean up around the edges a little (like the videoOSD and the few non-original graphics I'm using) and probably implement my weather then I'll post.

    Like I said before, I did this more because I wanted something extremely simple for myself. I really don't have time to full-blown skin development. When I put stuff up, though, I'll make it an open enough license others can add (or even take over, if life gets busy and I have to bail.)
     

    mzemina

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    ...Like I said before, I did this more because I wanted something extremely simple for myself. I really don't have time to full-blown skin development. When I put stuff up, though, I'll make it an open enough license others can add (or even take over, if life gets busy and I have to bail.)


    Please release all source material - programming and graphics based, it does make it easier for someone else to pick-up the work.
    From graphics perspective: for example if you use photoshop, please release the PSD with all the layers. :D
     

    Kurtis

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    I will; no problem.

    I haven't done any programming for this, though. Just XML files and PSD.
     

    Spragleknas

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    YES! Finally a 1080-skin!
    And it looks good!

    Hopefully you or someone else will make the TV-part work...

    Thanks!
     

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