Carousel Home Menu (Rotating/Circular Animation Effect)

10, well 20, but they are the same, well half of them. all in the home.xml.
just make another copy of each:
<control type="image">
<!-- <texture>WEATHER-ICON.PNG</texture> -->
<info>Weather.Conditions</info>
<include>C?-?</include>
<visible>Control.HasFocus(?)</visible>
</control>
<control type="image">
<include>C?-?R</include>
<visible>Control.HasFocus(?)</visible>
<info>Weather.Conditions</info>
<texture flipy="true" diffuse="Thumb_Mask2.png">-</texture>
</control>

And give one a ! conditional, and give other a non ! conditional. Unless a <texture> overrides a <info>, then you get the idea.

Also if someone wanted to, you could have ten different images per icon from different angles so that the images faced outward the whole time, ie. the image in the far back would be facing away. The font image is #1, the back is #6, and far right is #3.

If I get time, I'll add the conditional weather icons, (I didn't know there was a "Weather.IsFetched" condition, I must not of got the memo, else I would have done it that way to begin with)

Nice,

What might look nice, is placing a globe or something in the middle so it looks like it's orbiting.

I'm no skinner, but this looks like it could be used for some interesting skins.

A new control for JMarshall an orbiting fixedlist. I could see DVD covers orbiting around something.

I gave it a try in pal 16x9. there's a serious lag when you nav the menu, this is probably not your fault.

It looks really nice though!

with xbmc_pc, pal16x9 works fine.

On my xbox, in 720p it's ok, but not quite as fast as the pc version.
Probably has something to due with the 2000+ lines.
I just wanted to put it out there, I hope someone can streamline it.
Maybe Leonardo (xMC skin) can make it smaller, since he seems to know black magic.

I could make it half the size, if it only rotated one way.

Ok, I'm done, I added conditional "is fetched" for the dynamic weather icon.
I also did add a big globe that rotated as the menu did, but it looked funny, and I would of had to change the priority for half the graphics to make it look right.
Plus it hid all the back icons, but it can be done if someone wanted to.

It now belongs to everyone, do with it what you will.
It would be a waste if someone doesn't take it and make it their own.

All other urls before are gone, here is the last one.
Rotating Home Menu.rar

nice work mate....maybe I could make a skin to incorporate that at some stage. I want to get Pandora sorted first though...after that, who knows!

MacGyver: If the controls are in a group, then the zoom anim as I stated won't work quite the same with older than yesterday's SVN. They used to work with respect to the window coordinates.

I made a change in SVN yesterday that makes them work with respect to the control coordinates (far more logical!)

Cheers,
Jonathan

A few variations on ideas of how this carousel animation effect could be used for album covers:









More videos of the MediaPortal "Face" skin in action:
http://www.mediaportal-skins.net/Downloads/Face3.wmv
http://www.mediaportal-skins.net/Bilder/SkinFace.wmv


*These ideas are 'stolen' from the MediaPortal Face skin suggestion topic-thread from their forums.

Haha, looks like MP is still keeping an eye on our SVN.

Wonder how long it'll take till they get the 3D stuff in (the stuff they've got in the videos is 2D only by the looks)