XBMC Xephyr skin portage (1 Viewer)

[Darre]

@ nemrod:
Probably each of the xmls.. mytv, myvideo etc.. just look for the stuff he posted there. You can use windows search to search within files, so just search away in the xephyr folder

@ who it may concern:

Is the video osd really only the one from bluetwo? So much of this skin looks so awesome now, but that OSD really messes up things And the "search for audio cover" screen is from bluetwo, but thats not important tho.

 

[dwoodzz]

Yes, me too, i want random, it's always the same order of picture...... And if you don't want to stay long, you see always the same background

Nothing has an idea ? It would be great if it's work !

Too bad it's so hard to make a skin for mediaportal..... Because I would help but xml is too hard for me at the moment...

Thanks,

You can change the duration between pictures by editing the xml

<control>
<description>MY TV BACKGROUND</description>
<id>1</id>
<type>multiimage</type>
<posx>0</posx>
<posy>0</posy>
<width>1280</width>
<height>720</height>
<imagepath>tv</imagepath>
<timeperimage>5000</timeperimage>.............................................................Change this (5000) equals 5 seconds

Thanks dwoodzz But what xml i must editing ?

basichome is the xml file that it is in i believe

 

[Darre]

Uhm im trying out some skinning myself now(modding/upgrading this one slightly). I managed to get the same filmstrip view as the one in monochrome, but the animation when you move from cover to cover is "bumpy"(?) its not as smooth(zoom in, zoom out) as it was in monochrome and im sure this is some setting somewhere.. I just cant find it

I managed to borrow the video OSD from xface as well, the blue one from bluetwo hurt my eyes..
But another thing that botters me is the fact that I dont want "my home".. I want basic home to be the only one, and I read somewhere that you can copy the contents of basichome.xml over to myhome.xml and it would be only basic home(or rather 2 versions of it), but doing this I get the error message that myhome.xml is missing or corrupt. So is there another way? or something im missing?

Please anyone with some skills in skinning, help me!

 

[jburnette]

Uhm im trying out some skinning myself now(modding/upgrading this one slightly). I managed to get the same filmstrip view as the one in monochrome, but the animation when you move from cover to cover is "bumpy"(?) its not as smooth(zoom in, zoom out) as it was in monochrome and im sure this is some setting somewhere.. I just cant find it

I managed to borrow the video OSD from xface as well, the blue one from bluetwo hurt my eyes..
But another thing that botters me is the fact that I dont want "my home".. I want basic home to be the only one, and I read somewhere that you can copy the contents of basichome.xml over to myhome.xml and it would be only basic home(or rather 2 versions of it), but doing this I get the error message that myhome.xml is missing or corrupt. So is there another way? or something im missing?

Please anyone with some skills in skinning, help me!

When you copied the contents of the basic home to myhome, did you make sure to keep the id of myhome set to 0?

 

[TSMOTW]

Yes, me too, i want random, it's always the same order of picture...... And if you don't want to stay long, you see always the same background

Nothing has an idea ? It would be great if it's work !

Too bad it's so hard to make a skin for mediaportal..... Because I would help but xml is too hard for me at the moment...

Thanks,

You can change the duration between pictures by editing the xml

<control>
<description>MY TV BACKGROUND</description>
<id>1</id>
<type>multiimage</type>
<posx>0</posx>
<posy>0</posy>
<width>1280</width>
<height>720</height>
<imagepath>tv</imagepath>
<timeperimage>5000</timeperimage>.............................................................Change this (5000) equals 5 seconds

Thanks dwoodzz But what xml i must editing ?

basichome is the xml file that it is in i believe

<randomize>true</randomize> should make it randomize. I made the timeperimage a minute, because I thought it was to fast (it was 6 secs). What do you all think about the time per image? Longer or shorter? If you want to change it, you need to change it in basichome.xml (all the 11 backgrounds), but also each menu (myvideo.xml, mypics.xml, mymusicsongs.xml and a lot more ) .

Another question was about basichome.xml being the only homemenu. There is a setting in mediaportal which will make basichome.xml the default homescreen. Other way is like jburnette said, copy file and make sure it says <id>0</id> (change 35 to 0).

The OSD will be in the next update in two weeks

 

[Darre]

I did that.. It claims its not present or not valid If pretty sure im not doing anything wrong, but if one of you who got it working could attach it here that would be great. And btw its allready my default home screen, but when you for different reasons manage to get into myhome it doesnt look as good. Actually I got this working, I get a functioning basichome nr2, but this one is overlayed with the error message, and that of course doesnt look good!

About randomizing it doesnt work, ive changed it to true like 30 places.. but still no random. Did it work before?

For now i "stole" xface OSD so im ok. Other screens that need fixing is search for coverart, and IMDB search screen+IMDB info screen. And the Dialogue when you start a movie you've partially watched before, theres no gfx, only yes/no.

and lastly I changed the time to 30000, or 30 secs.. found that to be not to fast and not to slow. To slow and you get bored with the bg, but too fast and it looks like you are moving around when you arent in basic home.

Oh and TSMOTW: How do I edit the transition between icons? I only want them to grow/shrink, not to make that little "jump".. Tried changing like 100 different things but no luck

lastly thx again for a great skin I normally like it simple but this one really is great!

 

[dwoodzz]

Darre
what files exactly do I need to steal from another skin for the video osd?

 

[Darre]

I checked the videoOSD.xml in xface for what files it required.. but in short its enough to just search in the xface media folder for *OSD* i think.. or maybe *videoOSD*. Copy all those files and replace the videoOSD.xml and you are good to go I think.

 

[TSMOTW]

.. About randomizing it doesnt work, ive changed it to true like 30 places.. but still no random. Did it work before?
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and lastly I changed the time to 30000, or 30 secs.. found that to be not to fast and not to slow. To slow and you get bored with the bg, but too fast and it looks like you are moving around when you arent in basic home.

Oh and TSMOTW: How do I edit the transition between icons? I only want them to grow/shrink, not to make that little "jump".. Tried changing like 100 different things but no luck ....

It should randomize, not tried it yet. I just started skinning two months ago and the tutorial is really basic and I learned most by trying. I will look into the randomizing and the transition between icons next week.
30 secs seems to be great

 

[Darre]

Hehe, I'm actually doing the same thing.. amazing what you've done this far tho.. I'm feeling like I'm working blindfolded, trying to paint a masterpiece(which of course isnt very easy )

If I have any luck changing some screens so they are actually usable Ill post the result. Im going to try and look into my programs, my emulators and imdb screen(s). I'm also going to try and edit the basic home to get emulators and games there, and remove TV part.

I can almost guarantee you that the Randomize part doesnt work. Think I spent 2 hours trying to get it working :-/


edit:
TSMOTW: Could you send me the .psd files for the basic home buttons? I want to make a custom one with emulators and games.