(2013-03-22, 18:08)crni Wrote: (2013-03-22, 17:30)PatrickBateman Wrote: A final quick question crni, I like the home screen in horizontal view as it has no overlay to mute it. As I use a almost 90% black background I'd like to have this level of visibility thought the skin. Can you possibl tell me which item I need to remove to allow all views to see 100% of the background (like horizontal home screen).
Is this also possible in metro?
For the record, I disable Fanart and globally use 1 background for all views that is 90% black with a small curve of colour but would like this more visible (completely visible) thought the skin.
Cheers,
Pat
simply delete overlay.png or overlay2.png in ../windows/common/
Wonderful,
I shall test this now.
Much appreciated
Edit:
Well... It looks awful like that as the tiles change transparency too when certain settings are changed... Home screen tiles are darker than landscape movie tiles etc...
Soo...
Next last question
Is It possible for me to make the metro home screen have no overlay (like horizontal view) but keep the current (show more Fanart) overlay for the movie / tv views etc... Exactly like horizontal view behaves?
As I use a 90% black image (1 coloured splash) the overalay turns my screen from jet black to milky grey... Id love the home screen to be inky black as it looks on the horizontal view. Could you advise me if this is many edits or can I achieve this simply?
Cheers,
Pat
Edit:
I tried removing overlay.png and then enbeling "show more Fanart" and "but not on the home screen" as it would point to that for tht view... However te tiles in metro change to a lighter transparancy when I enable "but not on the home screen" rendering them too transparent... The ideal transparancy is when "show more Fanart" I enabled system wide.
If tht makes sense...
Edit...
I will try renaming and reversing them...
Edit:
Bingo!
That's got it... Looks great!
I renamed (reversed the names of) overlay.png and overlay2.png and then added a ".old" to the end of overlay2.png. I then disabled show more Fanart (as it was now reversed so this is effectively enableing it) but i left the "but not on the home screen" enabled (as it has a bug i mentioned above) which in turn tried to use the overlay2.png (which I removed) and therefore isnt there, meaningit now shows full Fanart on the home screen like horizontal view, but the "show more Fanart" overlay in all other views!
Lovely
Looks great!