Skin: Razor (3 Viewers)

[scoop]

Hi,

Excellent news - hopefully soon Raven's 'Razor' skin will be the widescreen default in the MediaPortal package :wink:

This is good news!

Kind regards,
Michel

 

[jawbroken]

Yes, a widescreen skin supplied default with MediaPortal is essential in my opinion. Thanks Raven.

 

[Maschine]

Go Raven Gooooooooooo!!! Really looking forward to it!!!

Maschine

 

[tklon]

Do you use the "default" fonts (with pixel errors)?

I don't use the default font but since the bug is within the caching routine of Media Portal most fonts get dirty pixels since the characters are placed too close to each other in the cache file. (for example the letter "i" gets a pixel from the tip of the adjacent letter "j" simply because they are placed too close to each other.) So there are dirty pixels in the font I use as well. The problem can be easily overcome simply by editing the cache file and removing the dirty pixels manually. Most likely this will be done on the font I use before releasing the skin to the community. There is a problem however when using the skin on another resolution which will cause MP to recache the font bringing back the dirty pixels. This will also cause the blur effect on the main menu to stop functioning unfortunately.

Very nice skin raven. It's a great pity that I don't have a widescreen tv yet.

The bug causing the pixel errors is solved since about 2 weeks. To get rid of the faulty fonts, you need to delete the fonts folder within the skin folders.

 

[Raven]

The bug causing the pixel errors is solved since about 2 weeks. To get rid of the faulty fonts, you need to delete the fonts folder within the skin folders.

I'm still getting the same error on some really big fonts. Smaller fonts look ok now.

 

[tklon]

I'm still getting the same error on some really big fonts. Smaller fonts look ok now.

Here's the post where the problem is described:
http://nolanparty.com/mediaportal.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=70805#70805
I couldn't see any problems with bigger fonts when posting that.

Please talk to the devs on irc. Perhaps it helps to change

spacingPerChar=2;

back to

spacingPerChar = (int) Math.Ceiling(size.Height * 0.3);

again in GUIFont.cs.

 

[Nemulate]

Is it only in cvs today?

On 27/01/2006 [19:44:45] mPod added the following change: Fix for widescreen resolutions - Fontsize was dependant on screen height only

 

[jawbroken]

That is a Teletext fix, not a general fix.

 

[Raven]

Razor has been uploaded to CVS. There was a problem with the first upload which resulted in corrupt files. Unfortunatly these corrupt files made it into the CVS release 01-30-2006--01-05. The next CVS will include a working version of Razor however.

Please keep in mind that Razor is still not completed. The TV-guide is not finished and many plugin screens must be adapted to the correct resolution and layout. There are also some old graphics from BlueTwo that must be replaced as well.

 

[cheezey]

That's great news Razor, I'll look forward to testing it and providing feedback.