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[Fred_PJ]

First of all, I hope you don't take this the wrong way, this is supposed to be a constructive opinion...
Your skin looks really great, however that Xbox-like font you've used for the screen titles is really a huge turn-off... Here's why:

1 - Everyone uses that font for everything on the Xbox because supposedly that's the Xbox font, right? Wrong. That's not the right Xbox font, the original Xbox font is round on the left/right sides and flat on the top/down sides, that one is the other way around. It looks phony and outdated.

2 - Even if it was the right font, it was only used in the logo. Although it looks good on the word "xbox", it looks awkward with other words (specially words that contain letters like M's and Y's).

If you want official Xbox fonts, get them here:
Xbox Fonts

Anyway, great work and thanks for the v2.0 skin update.  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

This post has been edited by Fred_PJ: May 3 2006, 02:50 AM

[kotix]

Tnx for the font, I really appreciate it, it will be in the next update

[Heet]

Well hell ya then.  Keeps gettin better.

[byran]

so when is the skinning engine going to support .gif's so you dont have to use so many frames for the "bubble" animation?

that takes up so much space

[slumberpod77]

LOL that wouldn't really help a whole lot...

[kotix]

QUOTE(byran @ May 3 2006, 11:07 AM)

so when is the skinning engine going to support .gif's so you dont have to use so many frames for the "bubble" animation?

that takes up so much space (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

XBMC has always supported gifs, I started this skin more then a year ago and it was using gifs instead of those "multiimages" but the main problems using gifs were:
- They take a lot of memory (many issues when you stream trought the lan due to high cache values)
- Only 256 colors available
- No transparency
- Quality
- It's hard to work with gifs then with single images

If 50 megs on your HDD is a lot of space why don't you get a bigger one?
Maybe there is a way to archive all those frames in a single file but i don't really know how, so enjoy it like it is for now.

This post has been edited by kotix: May 3 2006, 04:29 PM

[slumberpod77]

yeah i was gonna say, XBMC with your skin running feels a bit more quick & responsive than the current PM III, which i attribute to memory usage. like you said, harddisks are freaking cheap so an upgrade should be the case if you think 50MB is "a lot of space". i have a 250GB in mine, and it rocks. i am considering jumping up to something larger in the future, simply because i am running out of space.

anyways, i was gonna ask kotix, are you thinking about adding any extended button functionality or settings page stuff to allow more customization to the skin?
i am thinking some users may want to be able to toggle some animations on/off, and it would be cool to be able to toggle the icon framing graphics. i am not sure of any good places in your skin for custom graphics (like in PDM).

[kotix]

I would like to add many things to  the skin, In the previous versions i have added 4 different themes  and i also would also like to make the 16/9 version, but i don't have much time anymore to spend on this skin.
I'm buying a new house and between june and september I will not even have an internet connection.
I'm also working on  MC360 and I really prefer to have it finish or at least to have it at a good point before june.

[Fred_PJ]

QUOTE(kotix @ May 3 2006, 05:48 AM)

Tnx for the font, I really appreciate it, it will be in the next update

No problem, keep up the good work!  

[evilkorn]

Thanks for the work, I'll use this over pm3 any day.  The only problem I had, assuming it's on my end, is that the skin was too large for both my tv's.  But I only had to cruch the immage a little on the bottem to get the video length menu on the bottem to become fully visable.

[slumberpod77]

congrats on getting a new house, thats gotta be a big change
i don't have an Xbox in front of me so i can't check, are you using one of those compressed texture files for the skin? i am guessing since you are using rapidshare and similair stuff that you don't have access to some web storage. i'm trying to figure out a way for the Orbs resources to go online so the community people can screw around with them while you're away (assuming you're ok with that). i will look around and see what i can dig up in the way of free hosting.

[evilkorn]

QUOTE(slumberpod77 @ May 3 2006, 04:45 PM)

free hosting.

I assume xbins is free right?  I have no idea what the process is to get files listed in their FTP, but I would think it would be as simple as asking the admin or whoever and sending him the files.

[Noodlez]

QUOTE(kotix @ May 3 2006, 11:27 AM)

I would like to add many things to  the skin, In the previous versions i have added 4 different themes  and i also would also like to make the 16/9 version, but i don't have much time anymore to spend on this skin.
I'm buying a new house and between june and september I will not even have an internet connection.
I'm also working on  MC360 and I really prefer to have it finish or at least to have it at a good point before june.

You wanna have the 16.9 and a few other things done by june (16.9 is the big thing I am awaiting) or your work in the MC360 skin?

Anyway The Orbs has come along ways since I first saw it onks ago. very spiffy man

[scott85213]

Here is an alt dl link with the fix, I know I didn't like the slow download speeds, and I'm sure no one else does..

http://prostyle.nrgservers.net/The Orbs_V2.0_01-05-06.zip

If you have any problem with me hosting it there, let me know.

[scott85213]

Sorry, forgot about that space.. here it is...

http://prostyle.nrgs....0_01-05-06.zip