UPDATED, 03-02-2012: MOD by powermarcel10: Cover templates and more.. (1 Viewer)

[powermarcel10]

Re: Feature request: Add DVD/Bluray boxes around fanart

Definately giving up now on the rounded covers, cant figure it out, think I got the filmstrip view done by luck.

The image masks seem to be relatively new to the skinning engine from what I've read so I guess StreamedMP just wasn't written for it, The new skins that use it mostly seem to use <texturemask> but cant seem to get it to work in StreamedMP, just seems to mask all the thumbs or an entire section completly. most likely I'm putting it in the wrong place or the wrong file altogether

I did manage to get the posters at the bottom shiny though in the end

I know that kind of things are very frustrating.. Maybe you can sent a PM to one of the skindevelopars, and ask them for help.. They know absolutely what to do..

 

[Holzi]

AW: Feature request: Add DVD/Bluray boxes around fanart

Hello!
In filmstrip view / coverflow view you can set "Covers" by:

<showFrame>yes</showFrame>
<frame>coverflow.poster.glass10.png</frame>
<frameFocus>coverflow.poster.glass10.png</frameFocus>

where coverflow.poster.glass10.png is the image of your dvd or bluray cover.

I don't know exactly where you can change the position of this cover but its somewhere here:
<thumbWidth>165</thumbWidth>
<thumbHeight>240</thumbHeight>
<thumbPosX>1</thumbPosX>
<thumbPosY>2</thumbPosY>
<itemWidth>180</itemWidth>
<itemHeight>223</itemHeight>
<textureWidth>166</textureWidth>
<textureHeight>244</textureHeight>

You have to do trial and error. =)

 

[powermarcel10]

Re: Feature request: Add DVD/Bluray boxes around fanart

Hi Holzi!

Thanks a lot for this usefull information.. I'm trying it now, but I don't know exactly what to do..

I have added some things to the file; "movingpictures.coverflowview.xml" in the StreamedMP skin folder.. Is that right?

The info in the file is now:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<window>
<controls>
<!-- Title / Genre will be set using Facade Properties -->
<control>
<description>Rating Stars</description>
<type>image</type>
<id>1</id>
<posX>583</posX>
<posY>675</posY>
<width>115</width>
<height>22</height>
<texture>star#MovingPictures.SelectedMovie.score.rounded.png</texture>
<visible>facadeview.coverflow+control.isvisible(50)+!string.equals(#MovingPictures.SelectedMovie.score.rounded,)</visible>
<animation effect="fade" time="250">WindowOpen</animation>
<animation effect="fade" time="250">WindowClose</animation>
</control>
<control>
<showFrame>yes</showFrame>
<frame>coverflow.poster.glass10.png</frame>
<frameFocus>coverflow.poster.glass10.png</frameFocus>
<thumbWidth>165</thumbWidth>
<thumbHeight>240</thumbHeight>
<thumbPosX>1</thumbPosX>
<thumbPosY>2</thumbPosY>
<itemWidth>180</itemWidth>
<itemHeight>223</itemHeight>
<textureWidth>166</textureWidth>
<textureHeight>244</textureHeight>
</control>
</controls>
</window>
<!--Checksum:7a510cb2ad43b82199f7dda3c41b321b-->

I have added the image bellow into: C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\StreamedMP\Media and called it: "coverflow.poster.glass10.png"

Do you know what I'm doing wrong?

EDIT: I have seen the pictures of you modded skin files at here: http://www.sysprofile.de/galerie/id146957,2,1

Do you want to upload them maybe? I see you have rounded edges in vocerflow allready added, so that's nice..

 

[Shangostar]

Re: Feature request: Add DVD/Bluray boxes around fanart

The coverflow.poster.glass wont give you rounded covers on its own, you will just see the shart edges poking from behind because it is see through, you need to add a mask over the thumbnail and then add the glass overlay.

you could use a more solid image that has round edges that will cover the square edges of the thumbnail. something like this with the blue ray boxes mentioned in 1st page.

Just quickly boshed them in, would look ok once resized and positioned but I'm not sure the skin can differentiate between hd and sd covers so as here, all wouls be blue ray or all would be dvd unless you had a universal box more like what you posted earlier.

For the filmstrip view I posted on the last page I used

<thumbs mask= "coverflow.poster.background1.png" flipY="true" diffuse="diffuseoverlay.png"/>

but I couldn't get <thumbs mask=> to work on any other view.


I think you need to edit the file 'movingpictures.default.facade'
In the image above, the bottom section 'filmstrip' is loaded from 'movingpictures.default.facade' and the top section with the large poster and info is from 'movingpictures.default.filmstripview'

 

[powermarcel10]

Re: Feature request: Add DVD/Bluray boxes around fanart

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[Holzi]

AW: Feature request: Add DVD/Bluray boxes around fanart

You have to look into the movingpictures.facade.xmls. There you can change the size of the cover. (frame)

 

[Shangostar]

Re: Feature request: Add DVD/Bluray boxes around fanart

If you only want rounded covers in coverflow, rename 'video_poster_mask' to 'video_poster_square_mask' then clear your cache and that should give you rounded covers in all the coverflow views i think without the need to add an overlay.

 

[powermarcel10]

Re: AW: Feature request: Add DVD/Bluray boxes around fanart

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[Shangostar]

Re: AW: Feature request: Add DVD/Bluray boxes around fanart

If you only want rounded covers in coverflow, rename 'video_poster_mask' to 'video_poster_square_mask' then clear your cache and that should give you rounded covers in all the coverflow views i think without the need to add an overlay.

In wich file? Also in movingpictures.default.facade.xml?

not in an xml file, just the png image file itself in the media folder.

 

[powermarcel10]

Re: Feature request: Add DVD/Bluray boxes around fanart

Ow haha, allright.. Well, that is set right allready..

I want the cover (the frame) with round edges, like I have now, but the image that have to shop up in it, has to be only a bit smaller, so it fits nicely into the frame.. I have tried a lot of things but don't know what to try anymore.. Anyone a idea?