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I just want to say nice mod!!! I like it! Its my default skin
I only changed cover glow to: FF0000FF
Makes it look nicer when using Dark Blue colors but just my setup offcourse.
Cant wait to see what you will make further down the line.
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2010-11-25, 05:18
(This post was last modified: 2010-11-25, 05:27 by KiSUAN.)
@ Oddsodz
First, 16x9 is crap, I will never go back to a 16x9 and the person that tell you to dump the 16x10 is plain ignorant.
I haven't even try to see if is any difference if I change the ratio, it's still 16x9 in all the views. But I suspect that the problem is not the skin being set as 16x9 but the downloaded/library images being 16x9, even if the XBMC don't stretch the image the skin would do it. Don't know if I'm explaining right or understand how it works right, I still have a lot to learn.
Anyway I will take a look at it, modify some views and see if there is any difference.
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Hell, there isn't even a debate, 16x9 suck all the way, there are two reasons why most panels are 16x9, most films have an aspect ratio that fits fine in a 16x9 panel so average Joe will never know what he's missing and the most important is that 16x9 is cheaper to manufacture.
Just to make it short, you will never see a professional monitor with a ratio of 16x9, no educated person will stand for it. But HDTVs is another story.
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2010-11-25, 16:02
(This post was last modified: 2010-12-02, 17:43 by KiSUAN.)
@ Oddsodz
Now we are talking, there are two ways of doing what you ask that comes to my mind.
The first is edit every size in each view to 16x10, but that's out of the question as it would take me ages and in the end I would end with more problems as way more people have 16x9 displays that 16x10, so instead of one person asking me to change or give and option I would have 99%.
The other option is use scale instead of stretch, but I don't know if that's possible in XBMC. If this could be done I can imagine two ways of doing it. The first and simpler is scale everything, but this wouldn't work fine in Night as many icons, buttons and such are in the borders. The second is rearrange the structure of the coding to separate this icons, buttons and such from the rest so they stay in the borders, but that again would be an enormous work.
Keep in mind that what I'm saying is just me thinking, I still will verify if its possible and if it works the way I imagine.
Anyway as I told you I would take a look, It would also help a lot if you tell me which skins work fine for you in 16x10 so I could take a look into the coding and try to identify how they do it, but if I have to take a guess I would say they use scale and they don't have icons, buttons and such in the borders.
And I forget to answer your previous inquiry about overlays:
Go to X:\Users\User Name\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\skin.night.darkblue\media\dialogs\3D
............................................................................................................................Movies
............................................................................................................................Files
............................................................................................................................Tv
Inside you will have the overlays (OverlayWatched/OverlayWatched2/...../OverlayWatchedX), the one that is displayed is the one named "OverlayWatched", rename it, and rename the "OverlayWatchedX" you want to use to "OverlayWatched".
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Update
- Text Auto Scroll added, verified in all Movies views.
- Image Slide Show Fixed
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If I want to change the jukebox & location off the spinning disc animation where do i need to start? because I have another idea for it
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Includes_Animations.xml & Viewtype_JukeBox.xml
Good luck
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Thnx lets see if my idea works
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Just one request I like to make and hope you can implement it but I checked out neon thats also based on night skin but alle views have a little animation.
Like on moviewall the moviecover turns slightly when hovering on.
I hope you know what I mean!!
If thats not what you want from your skin its allright but it looks nice atleast thats my opinion