2008-10-02, 01:30
I kinda like these icons, but as I go to their site, I see that they are just 128x128. That's too small for the type of usage given in XBMC. They also include a shadow which restricts their usage. Ie if the skinner wants the skin to have a reflection instead of a shadow then he might run intro trouble. Also the tilt is fixed.
So what I was thinking is, if there are enough requests for this type of view/icon: what if media stream could generate these icons dynamically using existing artwork? There would need to be an implementation that tilts the artwork and puts it into a box-shaped 3D form. The side of the box would be made automatically to include the movie name, with colors according to context (similar to fanart). Then media stream could manipulate the tilting as it wished.
I realize that this would be very tough to achieve, but the advantages is that anyone could use this view, not just those who get the media from mediaicons.org/, with the added bonus of more quality and flexibility.
So what I was thinking is, if there are enough requests for this type of view/icon: what if media stream could generate these icons dynamically using existing artwork? There would need to be an implementation that tilts the artwork and puts it into a box-shaped 3D form. The side of the box would be made automatically to include the movie name, with colors according to context (similar to fanart). Then media stream could manipulate the tilting as it wished.
I realize that this would be very tough to achieve, but the advantages is that anyone could use this view, not just those who get the media from mediaicons.org/, with the added bonus of more quality and flexibility.