Metropolis Themes (post your new themes here)

stoli · 2012-04-26 17:03

Themes are now in the XBMC Official Repo as well as the Passion Repo.

thewarm · 2012-04-28 15:22

(2012-04-26 17:03)stoli Wrote: Themes are now in the XBMC Official Repo as well as the Passion Repo.

Themes work perfectly now!
Thank you

gcdlz · 2012-07-19 22:51

Each of the themes have a different color "overlay" which gives the background fanart a dull colored appearance. Is there a change I can make to get rid of this and give the fanart the clear bright appearance?

Steveb · 2012-07-20 01:15

(2012-07-19 22:51)gcdlz Wrote: Each of the themes have a different color "overlay" which gives the background fanart a dull colored appearance. Is there a change I can make to get rid of this and give the fanart the clear bright appearance?

Each theme has a corresponding color xml located in the colors dir (skin.metropolis/colors/). To change the fanartdiffuse to clear, look for the entry <color name="FanartDiffuse">32FFFFFF</color> and change to <color name="FanartDiffuse">FFFFFFFF</color>. This example is for the default theme (defaults.xml) but the rest of the themes use the same principal. Some of the text could be a bit hard to read with no diffuse so I would experiment using dirrerent values (eg 'AAFFFFFF') untill your happy. Wink

I should explain the hex ARGB format, the first two hex values are the Alpha then Red,Green,Blue.

00 = Lowest Value FF = Highest Value

gcdlz · 2012-07-20 03:53

(2012-07-20 01:15)Steveb Wrote:
(2012-07-19 22:51)gcdlz Wrote: Each of the themes have a different color "overlay" which gives the background fanart a dull colored appearance. Is there a change I can make to get rid of this and give the fanart the clear bright appearance?

Each theme has a corresponding color xml located in the colors dir (skin.metropolis/colors/). To change the fanartdiffuse to clear, look for the entry <color name="FanartDiffuse">32FFFFFF</color> and change to <color name="FanartDiffuse">FFFFFFFF</color>. This example is for the default theme (defaults.xml) but the rest of the themes use the same principal. Some of the text could be a bit hard to read with no diffuse so I would experiment using dirrerent values (eg 'AAFFFFFF') untill your happy.

I should explain the hex ARGB format, the first two hex values are the Alpha then Red,Green,Blue.

00 = Lowest Value FF = Highest Value

Thanks so much, just what I needed. Also the information about the level of diffuse was very helpful.

DProudmoore · 2012-08-26 12:58

Although I haven't actually created a new theme for Metropolis, I have been playing around with a hacked version of the skin I've been calling Metrocity.

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jingai · 2012-08-26 19:12

Looks nice. You should turn it into a theme Smile

DProudmoore · 2012-08-27 14:07

I think I will start working on a theme for Metropolis, but it'll look pretty different from that.

jingai · 2012-08-27 15:35

(2012-08-27 14:07)DProudmoore Wrote: I think I will start working on a theme for Metropolis, but it'll look pretty different from that.

If there are features of this fork you like, you can always submit feature requests for the official skin. We'll listen to any ideas.

DProudmoore · 2012-08-29 15:06

I've added most of the major changes of my fork as feature requests in the github repo issues. I didn't submit the change to the info screen buttons (Play/Trailers as text, removal of buttons like get fanart and refresh that allow someone to modify the view without having to access a context menu), because it seemed like a purely personal preference rather than something I thought others might find useful.

stoli Skilled Skinner Posts: 2,405 Joined: Nov 2008 Reputation: 30 Location: Florida	2012-04-26 17:03 Post: #51 Themes are now in the XBMC Official Repo as well as the Passion Repo. -stoli- Metropolis Available in Passion Repo
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thewarm Senior Member Posts: 270 Joined: Apr 2011 Reputation: 0 Location: Seattle	2012-04-28 15:22 Post: #52 (2012-04-26 17:03)stoli Wrote: Themes are now in the XBMC Official Repo as well as the Passion Repo. Themes work perfectly now! Thank you
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gcdlz Member Posts: 54 Joined: Sep 2009 Reputation: 0	2012-07-19 22:51 Post: #53 Each of the themes have a different color "overlay" which gives the background fanart a dull colored appearance. Is there a change I can make to get rid of this and give the fanart the clear bright appearance?
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DProudmoore Junior Member Posts: 6 Joined: Aug 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-08-26 12:58 Post: #56 Although I haven't actually created a new theme for Metropolis, I have been playing around with a hacked version of the skin I've been calling Metrocity.
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jingai Skilled Skinner Posts: 871 Joined: Mar 2010 Reputation: 6	2012-08-26 19:12 Post: #57 Looks nice. You should turn it into a theme
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DProudmoore Junior Member Posts: 6 Joined: Aug 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-08-27 14:07 Post: #58 I think I will start working on a theme for Metropolis, but it'll look pretty different from that.
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jingai Skilled Skinner Posts: 871 Joined: Mar 2010 Reputation: 6	2012-08-27 15:35 Post: #59 (2012-08-27 14:07)DProudmoore Wrote: I think I will start working on a theme for Metropolis, but it'll look pretty different from that. If there are features of this fork you like, you can always submit feature requests for the official skin. We'll listen to any ideas.
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