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Thats right, they would either need to be all rotated or all flat.
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Thats right, they would either need to be all rotated or all flat.
The ones on the left are using rotations with slight enlargement and visibility mask (instead of skew). The ones on the right are skewed.
you could also add shadows;
without shadows you would need to display 2 images per dvd cover, with shadowing you will need to display 4 images per dvd cover.
Edit: actually the first one on the right (american beauty) is also a rotation,
you could also add shadows;
without shadows you would need to display 2 images per dvd cover, with shadowing you will need to display 4 images per dvd cover.
Edit: actually the first one on the right (american beauty) is also a rotation,
I think the cover flow look can be achieved satisfactorily if you look here
--> https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...r-flow-trick-skewing-images-74516/#post545638
--> https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...r-flow-trick-skewing-images-74516/#post545638
Yea, I reckon you could definitely acheive that look with the current skinning engine.
Obviously you can't skew, so this is what it would look like without skewing, just using a cover mask to chop the cover on a slight angle.
You could chop with slightly more angle, but not much more otherwise it would look wrong.
If anyone volunteers to do the coding i can create all the pngs, to do a skew like effect.
Obviously you can't skew, so this is what it would look like without skewing, just using a cover mask to chop the cover on a slight angle.
You could chop with slightly more angle, but not much more otherwise it would look wrong.
If anyone volunteers to do the coding i can create all the pngs, to do a skew like effect.
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@trevor - lThat looks really really good, I like it better than mine.
It will look good as long as the fanart background resolution is not too low. If the fanart resolution is low then it might look a little too pixelated, which is why my version wasn't fullscreen fanart. However the user can always make a custom fanart directory and only populate it with high resolution images and then it would be simple to edit the texture tag and have it point to the custom directory. Alternatively there is the possibility to include cul8er fanart plugin which allows you to specifiy minimun fanart resolution.
The only change I wanted to see would be loose the links to current playlist / search / lyrics, and then add them to a slideout menu like below. Focus would be on the rating, and pressing enter would toggle the ratings (0 -> 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 0), and then pressing left or right will would loose focus and make the slideout menu appear. Similar style to the slideout menus in tvseries/movingpics plugins. The reason is I personally find the best track on the album text quite useful. I also think a 4th hyperlink back into musicgenres.xml would be good. Here is a quick mockup.
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If you think you like the idea of slide menus, let me know and i'll make a proper mockup.
Can you please upload your mockup as a .png file with a transparency background instead of fanart image?
It will look good as long as the fanart background resolution is not too low. If the fanart resolution is low then it might look a little too pixelated, which is why my version wasn't fullscreen fanart. However the user can always make a custom fanart directory and only populate it with high resolution images and then it would be simple to edit the texture tag and have it point to the custom directory. Alternatively there is the possibility to include cul8er fanart plugin which allows you to specifiy minimun fanart resolution.
The only change I wanted to see would be loose the links to current playlist / search / lyrics, and then add them to a slideout menu like below. Focus would be on the rating, and pressing enter would toggle the ratings (0 -> 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 0), and then pressing left or right will would loose focus and make the slideout menu appear. Similar style to the slideout menus in tvseries/movingpics plugins. The reason is I personally find the best track on the album text quite useful. I also think a 4th hyperlink back into musicgenres.xml would be good. Here is a quick mockup.
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If you think you like the idea of slide menus, let me know and i'll make a proper mockup.
Can you please upload your mockup as a .png file with a transparency background instead of fanart image?
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Glad you like it, was a quick & dirty mod really - just used the basic ideas from a screen I did for Aeon Wide.
This is why I like yours, the user does not have to do anything as it uses default download fanart, cul8er's fanart plugin has been mentioned, will have a look. These screens use fanart in the media/aninmations/music folder of the skin, I have loads of hi-def music fan art and prefer full screen. But will also do versions based on your layout and default fanart and hopfully the installer will allow the choice.
Was in two minds about what to do with them, side menus are going to be a challage but have something 1/2 working but can't promise these are possible with Nowplaying plugin code as it is now - I wrote a new NowPlaying plugin for Aeon. Like the mockups will see if I can turn them into reality.
That was not a mock up but a live working screen, attached are the xml files, for 1.0.2 and the additional ones for MP1.1b, my full screen fanart can be found here
EDIT: You will need your playingnow_singlestar0.png & playingnow_whitestar.png images in the Media folder of the skin..
Cheers
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I spent a little time looking at adding a side menu along the lines of your mockups, good and bad news here.
I can put it all together, get a menu with the links and Top Tracks and Tags listcontrols. Adding the star rating for this two list controls is not going to be possible, though may try a couple of other idea but dont hold out much hope.
The main problem is that the MusicNowPlaying plugin, built into MP, insists on setting focus to which ever listcontrol is populated first. The effect of this is cause the menu to slide out, can easily put it back by hitting left on the remote but it does this for every track!
Easy enough to sort in MP and I could submit a patch to make this behaviour configurable but as MP is bug fix status only this is very unlikley to be considered for the next release.
I have attached screen shots and the xmls that do the menu so you can see the behaviour...
Open to suggestions...
Cheers
kiwijunglist
I spent a little time looking at adding a side menu along the lines of your mockups, good and bad news here.
I can put it all together, get a menu with the links and Top Tracks and Tags listcontrols. Adding the star rating for this two list controls is not going to be possible, though may try a couple of other idea but dont hold out much hope.
The main problem is that the MusicNowPlaying plugin, built into MP, insists on setting focus to which ever listcontrol is populated first. The effect of this is cause the menu to slide out, can easily put it back by hitting left on the remote but it does this for every track!
Easy enough to sort in MP and I could submit a patch to make this behaviour configurable but as MP is bug fix status only this is very unlikley to be considered for the next release.
I have attached screen shots and the xmls that do the menu so you can see the behaviour...
Open to suggestions...
Cheers
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Here is another quick 30 sec mockup, obviously it would look a lot nicer, but its easier to do a quick pic than explain my other idea
My other idea is have a background scene with music theme eg, some headphones/ipod etc on a table, and also have a photo or photoframe siting on the table, and then you can insert the artist image into the photo, or onto the ipods screen or something like that. or you could have a music studio picture with a monitor, then put the artist image on to the monitor.
With below mockup you could set that if high res fanart available then use fullscreen, if low res fanart available then put in centre of screen. (PS this is just a quick ugly version)
another random sorta idea, not something i would submit, just the general idea
My other idea is have a background scene with music theme eg, some headphones/ipod etc on a table, and also have a photo or photoframe siting on the table, and then you can insert the artist image into the photo, or onto the ipods screen or something like that. or you could have a music studio picture with a monitor, then put the artist image on to the monitor.
With below mockup you could set that if high res fanart available then use fullscreen, if low res fanart available then put in centre of screen. (PS this is just a quick ugly version)
another random sorta idea, not something i would submit, just the general idea
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