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[NineT9mustang]

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What are 'wide icons'?
Basically, I just changed the dimensions of the icons, and increased the cache they are set at.
This is a screenshot of what they look like in XBMC

This is a sample of other TV Shows I have made icons for.. Dont bother 56k users
http://pics.apartmen...ang/Sample1.jpg
http://pics.apartmen...ang/Sample2.jpg
http://pics.apartmen...ang/Sample3.jpg

Where can I get these 'wide icons'?
Http://xbmc.ckdvt.com

What do I need?
You NEED the May 21st build or later. This will NOT WORK with any previous build! In the May21st build the ability to increase icon caching was added! So if you try this with a older build, your thumbnail will be distorted!

How do I apply this?
I shouldn't have to tell you, but BACKUP before you try attempting this
To sum up what we will be doing, we will edit the MyVideo.xml & add a control in AdvancedSettings.xml

1. Open up this file ---> XBMC\Skin\Project Mayhem III\PAL\MyVideo.xml
The last 3 controls are labelled "listcontrol", "pics thumbnailpanel", and "bg preview". These are the different view types you have (List, Small View, Large View)...we will be editing the Small View (pics thumbnailpanel). We will add 6 lines to this, as follows :

    <control>
      <description>pics thumbnailpanel</description>
      <type>thumbnailpanel</type>
      <id>51</id>
     <itemwidth>460</itemwidth>
      <itemheight>130</itemheight>
      <texturewidth>460</texturewidth>
      <textureheight>100</textureheight>
      <thumbwidth>460</thumbwidth>
      <thumbheight>90</thumbheight>
      <onleft>2</onleft>
      <onright>51</onright>
      <onup>51</onup>
      <ondown>51</ondown>
      <in-clude>contentpanelslide</in-clude>
    </control>

The BOLD is what should be added. Now, your done with MyVideo.xml (What we just did changed the size of the icons)

2. Go to XBMC\UserData\AdvancedSettings.xml (If you do not see the file, then create the file and place it in that directory)

Add this to the file :

<AdvancedSettings>
    <thumbsize>460</thumbsize>
</AdvancedSettings>

3. Go download my wide icons! Once you have them, rename the file to folder.jpg and place it in the folder of the TV Show it belongs in...

And thats IT! Seems confusing at first, but alls we did was open 2 files and add 9 lines altogether!
((Note: You will need to do this for each new build))

I have a TV Show you haven't done, Can you make one?
Yes! Just go to http://xbmc.ckdvt.com and make a request (TV Shows ONLY for now)
I'm really excited about this feature, and any requests I should have done within a day for you

Is there a template you have that I can use so I can make my own icons?
Yes, There are 2 parts to the icons, the back & the front. There is a file at http://xbmc.ckdvt.com which in-cludes the BACK and FRONT template. Here is a screenshot of how to apply it once you have the 2 files :
http://pics.apartmen...ng/Template.jpg pretttty dang easy

Anything else?
I'll be doing these wide icons in 4 phases
Phase I = All TV Shows (Finished)
Phase II = All Emulators & Homebrew Games (ETA : 2 weeks)
Phase III = All Xbox Games, (ETA : 2 Months~)
Phase IV = Most DVD Movies (ETA : This will probably take a whiiiile)

I hope this didn't create any confusing or discourage anyone from doing this, its REAL simple to do, and as you can see in the screenshots, might be worth it to ya...

-NineT9mustang

[autoxerFSP21]

I've been looking forward to this    I went to the site and I can't seem to find any of the wide icons (even with a search). Maybe they haven't been uploaded yet. Also, your link to xbmc.ckdvt.com is bad.

The icons do look great. Thanks for all the hard work.

[Jezz_X]

QUOTE(autoxerFSP21 @ May 23 2006, 01:46 PM)

The icons do look great. Thanks for all the hard work.

Yes thanks for all the hard work  

[japhule]

Pretty cool.  I wished there was a way to set wide icons for TV Shows and regular icons for DVDs and movies.  If I follow the instructions, does this mean the small view will always show the wide images and other views will be regular?  Maybe I can separate movies and tv shows then.....

This post has been edited by japhule: May 23 2006, 07:09 AM

[NineT9mustang]

This view will ONLY be for My Videos, all other views will be normal... u can always change the view u wanna fix, like list and/or big icon view, if u dont wanna replace the small icons ya know

[slumberpod77]

hmmm.
i'm thinking the "best of both worlds" would be if it were possible to make only the directories within My Videos display in this manner. of course, this would require additional code changes within XBMC itself, since it would mean most icons are cached to some square size while some special ones are cached to the wide format.
any thoughts on this, NineT9?
-EDIT-
unless, would it be possible to use the skinning engine in some sneaky way to side-step the normal XBMC icon functionality? i know the skinning engine is extremely flexible and powerful...

This post has been edited by slumberpod77: May 23 2006, 07:54 AM

[sabone]

can't find the icons

[NineT9mustang]

The link above doesn't work because i have it "Http://http://xbmc.ckdvt.com" and i am unable to change it, so the website link is http://xbmc.ckdvt.com, and the wide icons should be there by morning, i was having trouble getting them there tonight...

slumberpod77, that is exactly what it does

I had 2 choices, to edit references.xml or MyVideos.xml

References.xml : Change ALL "Medium Icon" views to these wide icons
or
MyVideos.xml : Change ONLY the "Medium Icon" views in MY VIEOS, to these wide icons...

For now, since its only TV Shows, I just MyVideos, and there is a setting in MyVideos you can change, so when you look at all your folders (tv shows), it will list the big wide icons...then once u go in that folder (tv show), it will show the episodes in LIST format, which is perfect since there are ~20 episodes a season and that'd be a pain to scroll through large icons with...

For those interested, I can make it so you can view 4 or 5 of these wide icons at a time, BUT you must realize, the banners/icons will be REALLY small, and u might not be able to tell which tv show is which, but the option is there if anyone wants me to make smaller versions and give the correct xml for it.... just PM or something

-NineT9

sabone, sorry icons are not uploaded yet, should be uploaded in the morning, if they are NOT, anyone is welcome to PM their email address and i will send them the rar with them all (~70 tv icons),

OR

I am on irc, efnet, #xbmc, under the nick MattAAron, just ask me to dcc it to u and i will

-NineT9

[sabone]

maybe u can upload the template here in the forum tha we can try to make own icons

[land_down_under]

A request - if not part of Phase IV - is for wide icons for the movie genres - ie Adventure, Action, Horror etc etc....

[NineT9mustang]

Wide Icons download link here :

http://xbmc.ckdvt.co...d449ab8df0e03b9

or try

http://xbmc.ckdvt.co...g2_itemId=16443

if neither of those work, then just go to the icon page and look for the 'wide icon' section

let me know if everything works


land_down_under, Move genres, I'm fine with dong something like that, if that is what some ppl woul dwant


-NineT9

[slumberpod77]

say m8, what about getting rid of the text labels underneath each icon and then using the space to display an extra icon per page? i mean, ALL these icons say what they are, so having that information displayed twice is silly. the only potential problem with this idea is directories without icons, right?

[japhule]

You need tv icons for Battlestar Galactica, and Grey's Anatomy. Great work so far!:)

[blittan]

would be nice to get the devs to implement this as a seperate view in xbmc, and for those directorys without a picture, it could fall back to show the text..

[slumberpod77]

i second that