Topic: Unleashx Skins (Read 23109 times)

DBZRacer · « **Reply #60 on:** January 07, 2004, 01:33:00 PM »

QUOTE (lotw @ Jan 7 2004, 02:39 PM)

QUOTE (sleepinginmyhead @ Jan 7 2004, 09:52 PM)

I was just wondering if there is anything I can do to keep the skins from being cut off. I know tv's usually cut off some of the picture, but from the preview pics there's a lot of space between the edge of the skin and any text. Yet, most of the skins I have the first/last letter or so gets cut off, and I was just wondering if there is a fix for that besides going in and changing the position of the text manually. I know XBMC has a screen size adjuster, is there one for unleashx?

There is a way if the person writting the skin leaves a space (Borders) on the edge. I found for Projection TVs Widescreen, that X Left is 45, X Right is 661. Y Top is 28 and Y Bottom is 458.

It's a problem that varies from TV to TV and is more prevalant in HDTV widescreen sets. UnleashX provided in his release notes that skinners should give ample space for overscan when making skins. I forgot what the recommended exact values were. But even his suggestions still left skin/menu elements being cut off on my set. So whatever UnleasX recommended, I would add about another 10pixels all around the border of a skin to ensure complete compatibility with all sets. Here is a mocked screen shot of the overscan my set does on UnleasX:

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A note to all skinners: As nice as some of these new skins are, lots of users (well maybe not a lot, but some users) wont be able to use them as images and menu items get cut off quite a bit.

irock500 · « **Reply #61 on:** January 07, 2004, 02:33:00 PM »

Heres my skin i call it "Dropping Orbs v2.0"
Its going up on AXS now

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heres the link
DroppingOrbs v2.0

parkakid · « **Reply #62 on:** January 07, 2004, 10:53:00 PM »

very nice!! hope to see it on axs soon

Pillzburydoofus · « **Reply #63 on:** January 07, 2004, 11:06:00 PM »

Dang it IRock... I was doing a skin on that same exact background.... only thing I was doing different was (trying unsuccesfully) to get the game Icon in each one of the orbs.... not just the center... oh well.... nice skin

Javienn · « **Reply #64 on:** January 07, 2004, 11:38:00 PM »

Holla,

Here is a preview of a skin that I am almost finished, skin.xml is done, images are done, just testing and input from you folks is all I need. Colouration on the text in the screenshot is alittle off...

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Let me know what yah think!! If you wanna take it for a spin, let me know and I can send it to yah, and once I am happy with the changes, I'll post it on AXS.

-Jav

crobar · « **Reply #65 on:** January 08, 2004, 06:25:00 AM »

clean and easy on the eyes, i like it...

pdottz · « **Reply #66 on:** January 08, 2004, 07:24:00 AM »

I've been doing some minor modeling in SketchUp playing around and stuff.
awhile back I semi modeled my entertainment system in my room. So it became the basis for my WIP.

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this is by no means near completion, but I like the way it's shaping up.
I still need to model my xbox next to the stereo and dvd player lol.

lotw · « **Reply #67 on:** January 08, 2004, 10:05:00 AM »

QUOTE (tweaqr @ Jan 8 2004, 02:45 AM)

maybe one of the people making skinning programs could add a function so that the user could specify how much space to leave on the edges that way if the end users could just open a skin and adjust the text realy easly

Well so far the skinning programs leave a lot to be desired. They are good efforts so far, but just aren't that usefull. They have positioning bugs or have features that cannot be turned off if not used, like that damn animation preview, not every skin wants to have that on.

pdottz · « **Reply #68 on:** January 08, 2004, 12:30:00 PM »

is there a way to just use pics instead of words for certain parts of a menu.? I just realized that what I want to do with this skin may not be possible If I can't do this.

irock500 · « **Reply #69 on:** January 08, 2004, 12:59:00 PM »

QUOTE (Pillzburydoofus @ Jan 8 2004, 09:06 AM)

Dang it IRock... I was doing a skin on that same exact background.... only thing I was doing different was (trying unsuccesfully) to get the game Icon in each one of the orbs.... not just the center... oh well.... nice skin

hmmm, i didnt know there was a way to do that, maybe i should

tweaqr · « **Reply #70 on:** January 08, 2004, 06:09:00 PM »

@pdottz
maybe, i haven't tried this but it might work if you make the xbe title blank or just spaces or if you add items and leave the name as ""

imtcb · « **Reply #71 on:** January 08, 2004, 06:12:00 PM »

But you -could- put the game icon in the lower left orb and the preview vid in the center one! ;-)

tweaqr · « **Reply #72 on:** January 08, 2004, 06:24:00 PM »

or you could make the game icon cover the whole area where the orbs are and make custom icons for all the games/apps but this way isn't very good because its time consuming and not everybody knows how to make there own icons

irock500 · « **Reply #73 on:** January 08, 2004, 07:43:00 PM »

@imtcb - good idea, ill try that and see how it looks

@tweagr - good idea also i am going to do that eventually, i just think making icons takes alot of time, but when i make some ill put them in, along with those preview vids in the center.

sort of a combined idea thing....

ok i moved the game icon and coded the video into the dash but for some reason the video is on the top layer rather then below my image2.png (the orb)

funkydub · « **Reply #74 on:** January 09, 2004, 04:35:00 AM »

I hope not to see this on axs because this has been blatently stolen from dunny.

What a joke you are asking for feedback on "your" first skin!!!!!!

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