Topic: The Orbs-half-life 2 Theme-completed - Download Here (Read 884 times)

dhrandy1 · « **on:** August 24, 2006, 07:46:00 AM »

I haven't seen anyone else attempt a skin for this. So I may be the first. Anyways, here it goes. Some of you may have seen my half-life 2 theme for the mc360. Here it is for the orbs. Just put it in the media folder that's located under skins and the orbs. I also took out all the shutter gifs code because I couldn't figure out how to get them colored to work right. You may want to do the same. Please leave your comments and tell me what you think. Enjoy! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

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(IMG:http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j119/dhrandy/halflife2orb1.jpg)

(IMG:http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j119/dhrandy/halflife2orb2.jpg)

This post has been edited by dhrandy1: Aug 24 2006, 02:51 PM

Leglez · « **Reply #1 on:** August 27, 2006, 08:56:00 PM »

Nice I like it. Is this for PMIII?

Jezz_X · « **Reply #2 on:** August 28, 2006, 02:11:00 AM »

QUOTE(Leglez @ Aug 28 2006, 12:56 PM)

Nice I like it. Is this for PMIII?

Its for the-orbs

Leglez · « **Reply #3 on:** August 29, 2006, 11:07:00 PM »

Oh sorry I was pretty tired when I typed that

mbay · « **Reply #4 on:** August 30, 2006, 12:44:00 PM »

great textures, great work!

edwinmcdunlap · « **Reply #5 on:** August 30, 2006, 05:55:00 PM »

Sweet, it's nice to seea few themes other than MC360

mr_spoon · « **Reply #6 on:** September 07, 2006, 03:27:00 AM »

Maybe im just being a bit thick at the mo... but i don't understand this bit...[Here it is for the orbs. Just put it in the media folder that's located under skins and the orbs.]?.....so in the skins folder i got mc360 and project mayhem III...so i already got the hl2.xpr theme in the mc360 media folder...if i add the orbs one it won't go cause the theme one is already there...then if i reneame it i can only use one or the other?...so what do i do to get the orbs working with it?....do i just make a folder called orbs in the skin folder and put the orbs hl2.xpr in there.....help would be much appreciated (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

spoon (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

This post has been edited by mr_spoon: Sep 7 2006, 10:27 AM

kotix · « **Reply #7 on:** September 07, 2006, 06:24:00 AM »

"The Orbs" is another skin, just like MC360 and PM3, unfortunatly it is not up to date because i didn't have time for it latelty, but it probably still work with latest xbmc builds.

If you go to the skin compatablity list on the XBMC forums here http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19374
and click the first link for The-Orbs the file date is The Orbs_V2.0_01-05-06.zip thats 3 days newer.

And this are some work in progress i have started just 2 days ago:
(IMG:http://s2.supload.com/thumbs/default/Shot-20060906185615.jpg)
(IMG:http://s2.supload.com/thumbs/default/screenshot003.jpg)
(IMG:http://s2.supload.com/thumbs/default/screenshot000.jpg)

This post has been edited by kotix: Sep 7 2006, 01:35 PM

Jezz_X · « **Reply #8 on:** September 07, 2006, 03:01:00 PM »

QUOTE(kotix @ Sep 7 2006, 10:24 PM)

"The Orbs" is another skin, just like MC360 and PM3, unfortunatly it is not up to date because i didn't have time for it latelty, but it probably still work with latest xbmc builds.

Your'e right Kotix it will work with the latest cvs as long as you don't enable login and profiles or masterlock
Right now The Orbs is missing the following xmls that make it compatible with those options
ProfileSettings.xml
LockSettings.xml
LoginScreen.xml

kotix · « **Reply #9 on:** September 10, 2006, 03:10:00 AM »

Tnx Jezz_X, will do that.
In the while I wanna post some more progress:
(IMG:http://s2.supload.com/thumbs/default/screenshot021.jpg)
(IMG:http://s2.supload.com/thumbs/default/screenshot012.jpg)
(IMG:http://s2.supload.com/thumbs/default/screenshot018.jpg)

Notice the animation in the top orb for the Player controls (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) and the yellow volume bar in the bottom orb.

dhrandy1 · « **Reply #10 on:** September 10, 2006, 03:41:00 PM »

Nice, can't wait to see the finished product.

cr1ms0n · « **Reply #11 on:** September 11, 2006, 07:27:00 PM »

i always liked the orbs the best...

i was thinkin i might try my hand at skinning
i want a surfing theme

im moderatly good at photoshop
not so good at coding
any pointers from the more experienced?

graphics sizes?
background video format?
best programs to use?

thanks (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

edwinmcdunlap · « **Reply #12 on:** September 11, 2006, 07:54:00 PM »

Nice.... Can't wait for this to be finished!

This post has been edited by edwinmcdunlap: Sep 12 2006, 02:54 AM

kotix · « **Reply #13 on:** September 12, 2006, 01:07:00 AM »

Tnx guys for appreciation (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
cr1ms0n to make a skin for xbmc you need to start from the uncompressed textures of the default one (PM3), change them as you like with photoshop and adjust the xml files to your need using notepad.
The Background video that you see in my skin is just a partcular control that xbmc has, called "multiimage", it consist of a folder containing the frames of the video in jpeg.
Better anyway if you go look on the online manual at www.xboxmediacenter.com there are all the infos you need.
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

dhrandy1 · « **Reply #14 on:** October 15, 2006, 09:16:00 PM »

Any updates to this??

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