[garvani]

First of all, I love fanart and found that the posters in showcase were too big and you could barely see the fanart.. I asked around to see if it could be changed and no one would do it or could be bothered . So i went and did it myself! and it turned out to be quite easy, although its not perfect, it is a start!

I was going to show you two views, 1) half the original poster size and 2) 3/4 the original.. But i found that the half view looks garbage, mainly because of my l33t coding skills /sarcasim.. (The gap between posters is huge and looked a mess)

Anyway heres what i came up with in the 3/4 poster view

The original showcase view:


And the modified one:


Not a massive change, but it gives you a bit more fanart..

This was done in the latest build of AURIGA taken from github an hour or two ago.

To acheive this all you need to do is change the values in Viewtype_Showcase.xml (found in your 720p folder) to this:

Code:

<!-- Movie Showcase Variables: Main thumbs -->
    
    <include name="MovieShowcaseThumbDimensions">
        <posx>73</posx>
        <posy>87</posy>
        <width>129</width>
        <height>190</height>
    </include>

    <include name="MovieShowcaseThumbReflectionDimensions">
        <posx>73</posx>
        <posy>277</posy>
        <width>129</width>
        <height>190</height>
    </include>

    <include name="MovieShowcaseThumb">
        <include>MovieShowcaseThumbDimensions</include>
        <align>center</align>
        <texture diffuse="thumbs/movieposter_mask.png">defaultvideobig.png</texture>
        <aspectratio scalediffuse="false">scale</aspectratio>
    </include>
    
    <include name="MovieShowcaseThumbMain">
        <include>MovieShowcaseThumbDimensions</include>
        <align>center</align>
        <texture diffuse="thumbs/movieposter_mask.png">defaultvideobig.png</texture>
        <aspectratio scalediffuse="false">scale</aspectratio>
    </include>
    
    <include name="MovieShowcaseThumbReflectionMain">
        <include>MovieShowcaseThumbReflectionDimensions</include>
        <colordiffuse>52FFFFFF</colordiffuse>
        <texture flipy="true" diffuse="thumbs/movieposter_mask_reflect.png">defaultvideobig.png</texture>
        <aspectratio scalediffuse="false">scale</aspectratio>
    </include>
    
    <include name="MovieShowcaseThumbReflection">
        <include>MovieShowcaseThumbReflectionDimensions</include>
        <colordiffuse>d0FFFFFF</colordiffuse>
        <texture flipy="true" diffuse="thumbs/movieposter_mask_reflect.png">defaultvideobig.png</texture>
        <aspectratio scalediffuse="false">scale</aspectratio>
    </include>

<!-- Movie Showcase Variables: Thumb glass overlays -->

    <include name="MovieShowcaseGlassOverlay">
        <include>MovieShowcaseThumbDimensions</include>
        <bordertexture border="-9">thumbs/poster_shadow.png</bordertexture>
        <texture>thumbs/poster_glass.png</texture>
    </include>
    
    <include name="MovieShowcaseGlassOverlayAngled">
        <include>MovieShowcaseThumbDimensions</include>
        <bordertexture border="-9">thumbs/poster_shadow.png</bordertexture>
        <texture>thumbs/poster_glass_noedge.png</texture>
    </include>

Anyways thats my little token effort of a mod. All ive done is resize the posters and then ive moved them down a tad from where they were sitting. I realise theres a gap between the currently selected movie and the next posters, thats a bit beyond me to edit as this is my first coding effort, ive looked and cant see excatly how to fix it, so i centered the poster as much as i could.. to be honest i think it looks pretty good with a gap, but im sure others will disagree!
Tell me what you think anyway..

[Talle]

I´m most gratefull for this!!!

i will try it out tonight!!!! (This might mean that I have to leave work early today...)

Please Garvani, could you mark your mod with bold font? I´ve changed a few other things in this file due to other mods... '

Please correct me if I´m wrong but as I understand it you´ve changed:

This:

Code:

<include name="MovieShowcaseThumbDimensions">
        <posx>49</posx>
        <posy>8</posy>
        <width>173</width>
        <height>254</height>
    </include>

    <include name="MovieShowcaseThumbReflectionDimensions">
        <posx>49</posx>
        <posy>260</posy>
        <width>173</width>
        <height>254</height>
    </include>

To this:

Code:

<include name="MovieShowcaseThumbDimensions">
        <posx>73</posx>
        <posy>87</posy>
        <width>129</width>
        <height>190</height>
    </include>

    <include name="MovieShowcaseThumbReflectionDimensions">
        <posx>73</posx>
        <posy>277</posy>
        <width>129</width>
        <height>190</height>
    </include>

Thank you!

Sincerly

//Talle

PS:

I realise theres a gap between the currently selected movie and the next posters, thats a bit beyond me to edit as this is my first coding effort

I rather like it....

[tcman47]

Good stuff, always thought the box art covered too much of the fanart, many thanks.

TC

[Ayla]

Damn!

When I read the thread title I thought it was a mod for larger posters

Could you do one where you double the size of the posters maybe?

I don't think my own coding skills are up to par.

Thanks

[Imaginos]

Very good job Garvani, I will try and see what it looks like on my plasma

Damn!

When I read the thread title I thought it was a mod for larger posters

Could you do one where you double the size of the posters maybe?

I don't think my own coding skills are up to par.

Thanks

Don't tell me you can't do it yourself, just have a look at the changes made and try to make your own, it won't take too long, i bet !

[Ayla]

Very good job Garvani, I will try and see what it looks like on my plasma




Don't tell me you can't do it yourself, just have a look at the changes made and try to make your own, it won't take too long, i bet !

I will certainly try to make a large poster mod when I get home, but just in case I fail........

[Imaginos]

I've just tried the mod, but I felt the posters were too small, so I just took a calculator and made an average of each value using the Talle reply
for example :
original posx : <posx>49</posx>
Garvani posx : <posx>73</posx>
mine posx : <posx>61</posx>
73-49 = 24
24/2 = 12
49+12 = 61

that's as simple

[Talle]

Here are examples of sizes/settings used by others:

Original size:

Code:

<include name="MovieShowcaseThumbDimensions">
        <posx>49</posx>
        <posy>8</posy>
        <width>173</width>
        <height>254</height>
    </include>

    <include name="MovieShowcaseThumbReflectionDimensions">
        <posx>49</posx>
        <posy>260</posy>
        <width>173</width>
        <height>254</height>
    </include>

For +50": (by Giovani, Threadstarter)

Code:

<include name="MovieShowcaseThumbDimensions">
        <posx>73</posx>
        <posy>87</posy>
        <width>129</width>
        <height>190</height>
    </include>

    <include name="MovieShowcaseThumbReflectionDimensions">
        <posx>73</posx>
        <posy>277</posy>
        <width>129</width>
        <height>190</height>
    </include>

For +50": (by Talle)
If you use "stars under title mod" found here

Code:

<include name="MovieShowcaseThumbDimensions">
        <posx>73</posx>
        <posy>72</posy>
        <width>129</width>
        <height>190</height>
    </include>

    <include name="MovieShowcaseThumbReflectionDimensions">
        <posx>73</posx>
        <posy>274</posy>
        <width>129</width>
        <height>190</height>
    </include>

For 42": resolution: 1280x768(By Imaginos)

Code:

<include name="MovieShowcaseThumbDimensions">
        <posx>61</posx>
        <posy>47</posy>
        <width>151</width>
        <height>222</height>
    </include>

    <include name="MovieShowcaseThumbReflectionDimensions">
        <posx>61</posx>
        <posy>268</posy>
        <width>151</width>
        <height>222</height>
    </include>

If you´d like to add your sizes just let me know.

Sincerly

//Talle

[Imaginos]

Oki so here it is
Screen : 42" (107cm)
resolution : 1280x768
settings :

Code:

<include name="MovieShowcaseThumbDimensions">
        <posx>61</posx>
        <posy>47</posy>
        <width>151</width>
        <height>222</height>
    </include>

    <include name="MovieShowcaseThumbReflectionDimensions">
        <posx>61</posx>
        <posy>268</posy>
        <width>151</width>
        <height>222</height>
    </include>

render (I resized the pix to 800x600 for more lisibility) :
Original movies :

moded movies :


Original tv shows :

moded tv shows :


The difference is not that big, but fair enough for me

[Talle]

Nice!

THX! Uped my post with your info.

[Ayla]

I will certainly try to make a large poster mod when I get home, but just in case I fail........

Well, as I suspected... I can't make the posters larger, without messing up the showcase view.

Could someone else give it a shot?

Maybe try to make them 1.5x bigger or similar?

The problem for me is, that the poster get's "cut off" at the top, when I make it larger.

/Martin

[theotocopulitos]

An interesting twist would be to try and make it similar to OS Doc, with the selected poster (center one) larger and the rest smaller (I will not ask for continous size change from smalle to larger... )

[g00fy1]

Excellent!

[garvani]

I guess the timezone differences are going to play havoc here I went to sleep for 8 hours with no replys lol.

It seems like you have worked it out talle.. however you may not have noticed that doing the mod creates a clear border around the posters which didnt bother me at first but thought i would fix.. i fixed that in another part of the mod i did, and is in the original post, it was the second part after the dimensions, theres only one value that needs to be changed and it is here:


(Note: if you copied and pasted my original mod from top to bottom you dont need to do this.. This is for talle and Imaginos and anyone else that only modified the dimensions. This value is for my original mod, you will need to play with the value yourself to get it to look right)

Code:

<!-- Movie Showcase Variables: Thumb glass overlays -->

    <include name="MovieShowcaseGlassOverlay">
        <include>MovieShowcaseThumbDimensions</include>
        [b]<bordertexture border="-9">[/b]thumbs/poster_shadow.png</bordertexture>
        <texture>thumbs/poster_glass.png</texture>
    </include>
    
    <include name="MovieShowcaseGlassOverlayAngled">
        <include>MovieShowcaseThumbDimensions</include>
        [b]<bordertexture border="-9">[/b]thumbs/poster_shadow.png</bordertexture>
        <texture>thumbs/poster_glass_noedge.png</texture>
    </include>

I coded it on my 22" 1920x1080 screen, i only have a 42" lcd.. but it looks great on both.. to me Imaginos's values are too big, theres not enough fanart being seen and i can tell what movie it is right away from the poster, but thats just me.. whatever works for you!

Imaginos: i see you have taken it one step further and applied to tvshows.. good work..

[paul]

Not tried this as yet but if it works as well as it looks then it will be of benefit to all xbox users as it should use less memory, at least i hope. either way thanks for doing the mod.