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- fr500 - 2011-01-23
Amelandbor Wrote:Maybe try using Raleway, it's free if you redistribute the license with it.
http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/fonts/14-raleway
That actually looks good might be a good alternative to Helvetica Neue and I could make 2 font configs for people who want/can install helvetica manually.
Edit: Yup, instant improvement
Then:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/149537/screenshots/reshade/screenshot000.png
Now:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/149537/screenshots/reshade/screenshot001.png
- Stranger - 2011-01-23
fr500 Wrote:That actually looks good might be a good alternative to Helvetica Neue and I could make 2 font configs for people who want/can install helvetica manually.
Edit: Yup, instant improvement
Then:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/149537/screenshots/reshade/screenshot000.png
Now:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/149537/screenshots/reshade/screenshot001.png
It does! But, If you alter the aspect of the type it will be even better
- Dvorac - 2011-01-23
Later on if someone does ever attempt at coding up the skin I am hoping they stick to Helvetica Neue, but that discussion isn't even a problem right now.
fr500: There are a few things I noticed immediately upon looking at the screenshot and well they all lie in this area. The gloss overlay should not extend all the way to the top right corner it ends more to the left (I am not sure if that was a personal choice). Also, the time is way too far up. Looks nice though!
- fr500 - 2011-01-23
Dvorac Wrote:Later on if someone does ever attempt at coding up the skin I am hoping they stick to Helvetica Neue, but that discussion isn't even a problem right now.
fr500: There are a few things I noticed immediately upon looking at the screenshot and well they all lie in this area. The gloss overlay should not extend all the way to the top right corner it ends more to the left (I am not sure if that was a personal choice). Also, the time is way too far up. Looks nice though!
Thanks, yes I'm not happy with the way it is now, the time should be smaller too but I still think it should be closer to the title because it's part of the "Now Playing" info.
Also I'm not happy with the preview window I don't really know how to achieve that look as if it was boxed and under a crystal. I'll try making the overlay cover maybe 90% of the width to see if it looks better. Also I have to try on 4:3 AR videos to see how it looks, I made the overlay on the back 16:9.
- MaDDoGo - 2011-01-23
@fr500 are you using the "skin" posted here as a base?
- fr500 - 2011-01-23
Nope, I'm using Shade as I'm familiar with it and wanted a sleeker new home screen
- RiChaDo - 2011-01-23
Night skin can be a good template for this skin I think
- MaDDoGo - 2011-01-23
Maybe you can consider looking at the link in previous pages (http://www.mediafire.com/?y4nrjzhjy4g) because it has some things done (now playing, top menu, two views if I remember ok, etc.
- Dvorac - 2011-01-23
fr500 Wrote:Thanks, yes I'm not happy with the way it is now, the time should be smaller too but I still think it should be closer to the title because it's part of the "Now Playing" info.
Also I'm not happy with the preview window I don't really know how to achieve that look as if it was boxed and under a crystal. I'll try making the overlay cover maybe 90% of the width to see if it looks better. Also I have to try on 4:3 AR videos to see how it looks, I made the overlay on the back 16:9.
Just a hint in case you are trying to reproduce the home screen exactly. According to Phyek's mockups the gloss overlay would only be active when music was playing otherwise there would be no overlay.
- fr500 - 2011-01-24
Dvorac Wrote:Just a hint in case you are trying to reproduce the home screen exactly. According to Phyek's mockups the gloss overlay would only be active when music was playing otherwise there would be no overlay.
Yes it's working that way
MaDDoGo Wrote:Maybe you can consider looking at the link in previous pages (http://www.mediafire.com/?y4nrjzhjy4g) because it has some things done (now playing, top menu, two views if I remember ok, etc.
Thanks will do
- circle_ - 2011-01-24
Stranger Wrote:High logic font creator is an amazing app especially for swapping out lower case for all caps.
Can I ask how you do this with Font Creator? I need to convert a font I have to all caps and can't for the life of me figure out how.
- Hitcher - 2011-01-24
In Font Creator you simply copy all the caps and paste them over the lowercase.
- toolpunk - 2011-01-24
I'm glad somebody picked up work on this again.
It's one of the cleanest and best designs I've seen for XBMC.
- castortray - 2011-01-25
MaDDoGo Wrote:Maybe you can consider looking at the link in previous pages (http://www.mediafire.com/?y4nrjzhjy4g) because it has some things done (now playing, top menu, two views if I remember ok, etc.
Very very nice skins. I love it.
But pls tell me how to run it ?
many thanks,
cheers
- fr500 - 2011-01-26
It's not a full skin just some mods here and there by many people not a full blown project