Hey d*rock, got a few questions and pointers about the 'skin'.
d*rock Wrote:Everything that makes up these images is on a separate layer. I would assume that it would be best to create these icons by having each peace of art separate as I have illustrated above. All the text would be ideally dynamic.
Which program did you use to create the graphics?
d*rock Wrote:I would imagine each of these images as a 300 dpi PNG would be what you are looking for FourTwentySmilz, is that correct?
Not sure about 300 dpi, think most of the skinners use 72 dpi, never thought about it for graphics on television, also I think it's different per platform, but I guess the bigger the better, you can always scale it down to a proper size.
d*rock Wrote:Martomo, this is the only 'avatar' i have made thus far. I made it and pulled it from the neat website meez.com.
Nice site, but still the question is, how you can make a 3d avatar without overloading the skin, I assume there is a limit of controls you can use, but still how to make it so 3d as possible.
That being said, most of time you can't really copy a skin that has a different function then media center, keep in mind this 'dashboard' is made for a game console, your skin is getting close to it, but it's going to need a lot of add-on scripting like MC360.
I myself am curious what the graphics look like, did you create a custom font, if not which did you use.
Please do share your work, or maybe get a project started with people that are interested in making this.
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Also want to point out that, when sharing this graphics, you might wanna make sure that nothing is copyrighted and all handmade, seeing Team Blackbolt had some issues with Xbox about MC360, so meaning all have been created from scratch.
I'm not saying I doubt your graphic skills, just wanted to warn you about this.
Microsoft/Xbox can be a bitch about these sort of things, I'm not familiar with the legal right of Meez, but you might wanna check that too.