SKIN MOD: BlackMyst Mod 4x3 (2 Viewers)

[mzemina]

Fidoboy - Regarding the transparent shadow effect, it will depend what software you are using. Then many times you can find tutorials online which could help you through creating a special look, like glowing or transparancy or etc.

Mike

 

[Fidoboy]

Can u post some links please? i'm using photoshop and photopaint...

 

[mzemina]

Basically you will need to make a copy of the visible items (make sure that anything you don't want in the "shadow" is not visible) and place it in anew layer then rotate that layer to match it up at the bottom of your original buddy. Then you will need to fade the bottom portion of this rotated new layer. Look here: http://www.elated.com/tutorials/graphics/photoshop/fading/ as a tutorial. Then after you have that all done you will need to set the transparency of that layer to what you think looks good.

Here is another tutorial: http://www.phong.com/tutorials/sphere/

And here also: http://pstutorialsblog.com/?p=78

And finally here: http://www.moesrealm.com/photoshop/reflections.html

Have fun!

Mike

 

[Fidoboy]

Can u repair myprograms.xml for this skin? i can't use it without this plugin

To mzemina: thanks for the links, i will read it... But i only wanted the info about saving the semitransparent sadow in PNG format mantaining the transparency mask...

 

[Fidoboy]

I'm triying to repair some screens that doesn't work in this skin (like myvideos, myprograms, etc) I've downloaded MediaPortal Editor and i'm playing a bit with it, but i can't understand how to add objects or links to other functions... there is a tutorial or any documentation anywhere? I want to help developing this skin and may be that also creating my own skin.. but a need a bit of help...:wink:

.:FiDo:.

 

[Fidoboy]

Please, i need help! I really want to repair this skin, i like it, but there is a lot of screens that doesn't work (my programs, my pictures, etc) HEEEELP!! :lol:

 

[Slyder0244]

yes this skin is basically dead i was working on updating it but i reformatted my htpc and reinstalled mp and now when i try to watch videos it constantly black screens on me so i found no reason to try to fix the skin since i could not even use it or even test it properly without having to cold boot so now i'm stuck using yahoo's go tv app because it'll actually play videos but i miss mp alot

 

[wortelsoft]

Fidoboy skin editor is also a project wich is never finished.

To get the skin running the best thing to do is copy a xml file from another skin e.g. bluetwo and han use a text editor to change the graphics referenced, to the ones from the Black Myst skin.

 

[Fidoboy]

Yes i'm doing it that way... currently i'm collaborating with drowhunter with MC360 skin...

 

[cigolo]

Hi all, i've just updated this skin for mp v 0.2.0.4 with some changes in OSD as you can see in this screenshots. I'm tryng to upload the skin in ZIP format but i'm getting errors. Try this link http://upload.hostiran.net/file.php?file=68debca9cf0b6f59e25d430e19164be1

cigolo