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[gilles9999]

It's hard to create a good skin for surreal, because you can set.... Almost nothing!
"ingamebg.jpg" and "bg.jpg" and that's all! ,You can't set the size/position of the text nor the romnames.
And the gui is still 640*480 bkg (like in Xports emus) but in Xport's emus, you can set a lot more things, that's more fun.

[ThE MaSTeR 3]

QUOTE(gilles9999 @ Apr 20 2009, 02:33 PM)

It's hard to create a good skin for surreal, because you can set.... Almost nothing!
"ingamebg.jpg" and "bg.jpg" and that's all! ,You can't set the size/position of the text nor the romnames.
And the gui is still 640*480 bkg (like in Xports emus) but in Xport's emus, you can set a lot more things, that's more fun.

Thats what I thought thanks for the reply. I guess I will stick with the skin I made.

[ressurectionx]

Sorry Gilles.  I was pretty rude yesterday.  I just needed some time to cool off.

We'll work it out somehow.  It's more work than I'd like to be doing, but we'll get it done.

Maybe we should just keep building ours as we are doing now.  I'll keep updating the thread on what needs to be done and what needs to still be fixed in the emus.  Even though are setups are different, you'll need that artwork updated as well.  When we're all done, we can upload each others whole packs and merge them how we want then.  

These skins are Dynamic, right?  Who says that we both can't have different settings on them.  No reason to force each others stuff on each other.

Later,
~Rx

[Excalibur007]

I love the work you guys are doing.  I noticed somewhere in a thread that someone said they were having a hard time finding high res images of some systems.  I have a LOT of different systems and most of them are in mint condition, so I can take pictures to help out if needed.

For the Atari 7800, I greatly prefer the look of the NTSC system over the PAL system.  I had trouble finding a good image on the web, so I took some pictures myself.  I'm not completely satisfied yet, but I'll post a few pics to give an idea of what I've been toying around with.  I took pictures of my Odyssey 2 and Intellivision boxes as well.  I don't see any work being done on skins for those 2 emus, but if you have plans to do them, I thought the box shots made pretty good main menu screens.

One more thing, I noticed the box-shot of Water Ski for the 7800 had messed up shrink wrap.  The only good image I found on the net for that game was the same one in your artwork pack, so I made a scan of my own box.  Feel free to edit and use it if you'd like.




Cheers,
-Ex

[madmab]

Thanks for the sample images.  Gilles is the man to talk to.  But the plan is to upgrade all the emu's if possible.

[gilles9999]

QUOTE(ressurectionx @ Apr 21 2009, 09:45 PM)

Sorry Gilles.  I was pretty rude yesterday.  I just needed some time to cool off.

We'll work it out somehow.  It's more work than I'd like to be doing, but we'll get it done.

Maybe we should just keep building ours as we are doing now.  I'll keep updating the thread on what needs to be done and what needs to still be fixed in the emus.  Even though are setups are different, you'll need that artwork updated as well.  When we're all done, we can upload each others whole packs and merge them how we want then.  

These skins are Dynamic, right?  Who says that we both can't have different settings on them.  No reason to force each others stuff on each other.

Later,
~Rx

Thanks RessX, there are so few "active" members; we must be unite and keep a solid team, even if i am doing some mistakes sometimes. Like you see it is easy when it is just one new skin"
But in our case, it is 25 skins multiple 16 configs (15*16), it becomes easilly a nightmare when you are changing "just" one little thing. I think this kind of stuff must be done by one personn finally.

For Excalibur 007, that's it man, i want to have our skins "neutral" as they are today, a good quality pic of the system in the main menu is a good example of "neutral" style.
They are dark, because theyr goal is to display boxarts and movies at the same time, and most of the time, the boxarts are "flashy" . So, the pm3 background provides a good contrast.

For updog, yes the zsnexbox skins are a different beast, and aren't full customizable as our new dynamic skins.
I will update indivudually a big pack of dynamic skins saturday

[updogg]

I have a request, I am sure you are very busy but I figured it was worth a shot to ask. I am using surreal64 v1 (due to stuttering of games in new versions), but I was hoping you have a blank emuloadbkg image with no systems picture blended into it (or a n64 console I know that is a stretch) but just having that same black mesh style. And then having the popupbkg remade three times with these dimensions 415x244, 450x362, 208 x 171.

I know this skin would be very basic and not really up to the standards you have set with the rest of your skins but I am trying to keep a very clean look on my xbmc.

These 4 images are basiacally all that make up surreal64 v1, and I've tried to do it myself and it came so-so and was hoping an expert like you could create this.

Thanks!

[ressurectionx]

QUOTE(gilles9999 @ Apr 22 2009, 01:26 PM)

Thanks RessX, there are so few "active" members; we must be unite and keep a solid team, even if i am doing some mistakes sometimes. Like you see it is easy when it is just one new skin"
But in our case, it is 25 skins multiple 16 configs (15*16), it becomes easilly a nightmare when you are changing "just" one little thing. I think this kind of stuff must be done by one personn finally.

I'm just getting overwhelmed again with all the things that need to be done on my front.  I just took a break from it all and got some stuff done on my Box I've been meaning to do forever like get some of those DOSBox games working.  It was like every time I was ready to sit down and upload the skins individually something new came up and I just wanted to get that done and knock one more big thing off the to-do list.  It's too late for that now without some serious work/testing.

I say we just keep making them the way that we want them separately.  We've already pooled a lot of good ideas together with it and some of that wouldn't have been possible if I haven't been following behind your work and polishing up some stuff.  When they're really all done, we can share what we've both come up with and merge what we like.  If we still want certain things different I don't see any problem with releasing both sets... Kinda like a Director's Cut and an Rx Edit.   That's what makes them dynamic.  

Sorry about that again.  I'm overextending myself here and I'm just getting impatient for us to complete our work.   I didn't think I'd still be doing this when I was 30 and unless we got about 10 more helpers in the next few months it looks like I will be.  Here's hoping I'm not still obsessing over this project when I'm 32.

Later,
~Rx

[Excalibur007]

QUOTE(gilles9999 @ Apr 22 2009, 02:26 PM)

For Excalibur 007, that's it man, i want to have our skins "neutral" as they are today, a good quality pic of the system in the main menu is a good example of "neutral" style.
They are dark, because theyr goal is to display boxarts and movies at the same time, and most of the time, the boxarts are "flashy" . So, the pm3 background provides a good contrast.

I'm not sure I understood you about whether or not you were interested in picture contributions and I'm not sure I was clear in my previous post either.  Basically, I was offering to take pictures of any of my systems where you may need good shots, or would prefer better shots than what you can find on the web.  I could take a slew of pictures for a given system from different angles and with different accessories and upload them for you to parse through and see what you like.

However, I hadn't seen some of the new skins in the "other" thread when I made my post.  It looks like you've got some pretty good pics for some of the systems that are missing in this thread.  (I check this thread often, but not the other... I thought the other thread was older, but it looks like this one is out of date).  It looks like you've got it pretty well covered now, but if you would like anything, here are some things I could contribute.

Some of the systems I own that have xport emus:

Apple ][c  (mint, but no accessories... you're better off with pics on the net)
Apple ][e (with monitor and some boxed games, but it's kinda yellowed and ugly... you're better off with pics on the net)
Atari 2600 (classic wooden model/aka heavy sixer)
Atari 2600 Jr. (with many various joysticks, trackball, many boxed games, etc. etc.)
Atari 2600 Jr. (with smaller rainbow stripe)
Atari 5200 (with many games, trackball, original box)
Atari 7800 (with Control Pads, Proline controller, TAC-2 controllers, many boxed games)
Atari 800XL (with various drives etc.)
Atari XE Game System or XE GM (with various games, lightguns, etc.)
Atari 130XE (with various drives, lightguns, boxed games, etc.)
Atari ST (with color monitor, tons of boxed games, etc.)
Atari Lynx (with original box, many boxed games etc.)
Colecovision (with various controllers, driving wheel, Atari 2600 converter, etc.)
Commodore 64 (with tons of drives, accessories, boxed games, etc etc.)
Commodore 64C (with several drives, and same as above)
Commodore Plus/4 (with original box)
Commodore 128 (with drives, and same as above)
Commodore Amiga (with original box, some boxed games etc.)
Intellivision (with original box, many boxed games, voice extender etc.)
Intellivision II (with original box, etc.)
NES (with boxed power pad, boxed games, various controllers, etc.)
Odyssey 2 (with original box, many boxed games etc.)
Playstation (with original box, etc.)
PSOne
Sega Dreamcast (various models/editions, boxes, various controllers, dreameye, tons of VMU's etc.)
Sega Master System (with lightguns, boxed games, etc.)
Sega Genesis (with many boxed games etc.)
- Converter to play Master system games (with original box)
- 32X addon (with original box, many boxed games)
TI-99 (with original box, many games, but my actual unit is beige rather than silver & black... actually, I don't know if this emu is xport as I've never used it)

I may be missing some things, but it's late... and I'm not at home to look at my stuff.  Also, I have many more systems, but I left out ones I didn't "think" were xport emulated.  Pretty much every system except the Apple ][e is mint or near mint condition.  Many boxes are mint, but not all.

-Ex

[Mega Man (?)]

Hey Ex007

I think that is just a great offer. Your ability's make you a good asset to have around, if needed.
Cool!

[ressurectionx]

Hey Excalibur007,

I'd love to see some pics for the more unknown systems you have like the Odyssey and the TI-99.  Not a lot of good high quality pics for stuff like that floating around out there.

I am about 99% sure the TI-99 is an XPORT emu.  I'm not by my stuff now to try it out, but I think the only two emus that I have kept on the box that aren't XPORT, ZSNESXBox, N64 are the Thompson and the Vectrex.

I grabbed your Water Ski image BTW... I'm okay with the artwork for the most part on all the stuff that I've collected for everyone so far, but I'm always down with upgrading anything that somebody brings to me like that.  

Thanks,
~Rx


EDIT:


Hey Gilles,

I'm going to get around to updating this thread with your links to the new skins and add any 4-in-1 images you've done that aren't up there already some time by mid-week next week (hopefully by the weekend)

Were you planning on making 4-in-1 previews and the B/W console images for the synopsis' for all the systems?  I'm hoping you were.  Of all the emus I've tested so far, I've remarked which ones still need the pics.

Later,
~Rx

[infidelity]

just downloaded the nes dynamic skin pack

I'd like to know how do I get my boxart to appear in the boxart window? i tried looking in the dyanmic packs folder to get an idea. i tried renaming my png to (0.png) but it still doesnt appear in the boxart window.

Thank you for your time.

[ressurectionx]

Hey madmab.  Sounds good to me.  Is this going to break all of my configs I have now?

EDIT:   I just took a look at Gilles new previews and they look GREAT!  I couldn't get them to work on my Box though.  I'm thinking I didn't get the beta that plays this yet, right?




Infedility....

Doesn't matter what the file name is as long as it's a png, so that's not your problem.  You probably aren't pointing to the right directory.  Make sure you're pointing to the "Screenshots" directory, and not the "Screenshots\NES" directory, or else it will be looking in "Screenshots\NES\NES" and you don't have any artwork there.

Man.... that's always been a confusing bitch of a thing for me to wrap my head around too.  I have no idea why it was implemented that way, seeing as how nothing else for the emus are.  I'm betting that this is your problem.

[infidelity]

you kind of have me confused there with the directory comment

I know that my SCREENSHOT folder is on my E drive, so do i have to manulay edit the settings or something in the skin/emu itself?

Now for multiple boxart games, how would this work??

is it something like....

E/SCREENSHOTS/NES/SUPER MARIO BROS 1/pic.png
E/SCREENSHOTS/NES/SUPER MARIO BROS 2/pic.png

am i in the right direction??

[ressurectionx]

You should just download the NES pack from my thread in the banner below and it will be all set up for you.

They would be like this:

E:\\SCREENSHOTS\NES\SUPER MARIO BROS I/0001.png
E:\\SCREENSHOTS\NES\SUPER MARIO BROS I/0002.png
E:\\SCREENSHOTS\NES\SUPER MARIO BROS I/0003.png
E:\\SCREENSHOTS\NES\SUPER MARIO BROS I/0004.png

You would point your emu to:

E:\\SCREENSHOTS\

Don't point your emu to:

E:\\SCREENSHOTS\NES\


The emu creates the "NES" directory on its own, so if you put it to the one I told you not to, it will look for the screenshots in:

E:\\SCREENSHOTS\NES\NES\ and obviously you won't have them there.

Just grab my pack and dump it into the screenshots folder like this and you'll be fine.

~Rx