[Archive] Transparency! - v0.27

Beautiful Mod. I will be loading this up tonight to play around with it. Fantastic work!

Jezz_X Wrote:You should rename it and call it a new skin to be honest

"Transparency" would make a good skin name

dynamix Wrote:I've noticed this mod isn't compatible for the xbox platform as i get corrupted textures. When using it on windows all seems well.

Would love to use it on the xbox, as i think this will run very smooth on the old machine. Any ideas to get it to work?

I'm sorry, but since i don't have an XBOX it would be pretty difficult for me to come up with a fix. I hope someone will figure out the problem.
I've read in some other thread the XBOX has problems with several HD skins because of the limited amount of memory available.

nuzecast Wrote:I'm getting this as well.
Extracted the textures and then compressed them again.
Less errors but still can't load a movie or TV section without corruption though home screen and settings work better after recompressing.

Nice, at least that's a start. Maybe replacing all the default backgrounds with low res ones would make things better ? Just a wild guess.

I'll see if i can get my hands on an XBOX....no promises though ;-)

ekim232 Wrote:A few things I noticed were a small glitch in the fanart for songs. I am guessing it is because it is often loading the same image mulitiple times for artists with several songs. This is the reason I haven't been using it myself.

That's correct, showing fanart for songs (and when browsing the library by albums) is not supported by XBMC, so i just used a 'hack' to read fanart image directly from the harddisk instead of using the cached ones.
Since loading the fanart from the harddisk will take some time, the default background image will show for a small amount of time when the fanart transitions from one image to the other.

Guess i'll make a feature request on trac for proper fanart support for songs (and albums).

btw. the same will happen when you browse your music collection in file mode.

Quote:I also noticed from your screenshots you had the tv network on the episode level, but it did not show for me when I tried it out. I wasn't aware it was available beyond the tv show lever....can you confirm? Or is it set to be visible based off of another factor such as 720p will show ABC HD?

Network flags are available at episode level (assuming you're using MIP to store the network info in the <director> field of the episode .nfo files). The HD network flags will indeed only show if 720p or 1080p info is available:
But it should show the default ABC logo, if the 720/1080 info is not available.

Quote:Thanks again for the great skin and your inspiration to keep thinsg going.

Same to you ekim232 :-)

I found that when I compressed the new textures for PM3.5 they worked great on my PC but not the xbox.

I got by this by compressing it with XPR Xpress at the MAX level settings with no protection.

After that, no problems on either platform. So you may want to try that.

treefour Wrote:I have one problem concerning fan art in file mode though.

In my TV directory I use the scrapper to get the show info, fanart, and banners and it works beautifully. My problem is in the movies directory where I use media companion to gather the info, it does not show the fanart. If I browse for it, it shows the current fanart being used as the correct one and I can navigate to the appropriate folder and choose it manually, but it won't show up for some reason.

Any ideas on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated as this looks like my new skin of choice.

Can't reproduce it, it's working just fine at my end, so let's start with the basics...
Although you're using filemode you'll have to scan your movies to the library first, so XBMC picks up the fanart.
If you've added the fanart after scanning the movies to the library, you'll have to remove them from the library and scan them again.

Also can you give me some insight in your directory structure?
Mine looks like this:

Movies\SomeMovieTitle\fanart.jpg
Movies\SomeMovieTitle\movie.nfo
Movies\SomeMovieTitle\SomeMovieTitle.avi
Movies\AnotherMovie\VTS_01_0.IFO
Movies\AnotherMovie\VTS_01_0.VOB
Movies\AnotherMovie\VTS_01_1.VOB
Movies\AnotherMovie\fanart.jpg
Movies\AnotherMovie\movie.nfo

Jezz_X Wrote:Its nice not really pm3 anymore (from the screenshots) kind of reminds me more of minimedia skin

You should rename it and call it a new skin to be honest

Guess i don't know where to draw the line between MOD and New Skin.
I mean, how many lines of code does one have to change? :-)

But if you think it's gone beyond the point where it looks & feels like PM3.HD, who would i be to disagree ;-)

Gamester17 Wrote:"Transparency" would make a good skin name

Transparency! it will be then.

Feel free to change the Title of this thread accordingly.
Suppose i'll also have to leave the Project Mayhem III (PM3) subforum ?

Thank you for a lovely skin...So far memory usage on the x-box is just enough for my movies to run

I originally experienced corrupted textures...then recompressed at Normal and all was fine!!

FourTwentySmilz Wrote:I found that when I compressed the new textures for PM3.5 they worked great on my PC but not the xbox.

I got by this by compressing it with XPR Xpress at the MAX level settings with no protection.

After that, no problems on either platform. So you may want to try that.

Thanx for the tip, it seems like XPR Xpress is only available for the XBOX platform right?
If there's anything i can do to make it work out of the box for XBOX users, let me know.

xboxkid Wrote:Thank you for a lovely skin...So far memory usage on the x-box is just enough for my movies to run

I originally experienced corrupted textures...then recompressed at Normal and all was fine!!

Great! Thanx for confirming it worked.
If you or some other XBOX user could post a recompressed Textures.xpr somewhere,
then i can make a separate XBOX package and put it on the frontpage.

ronie Wrote:Guess i'll make a feature request on trac for proper fanart support for songs (and albums).

Already done.

http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/6516

So will your workaround possibly work in the visualizations window also?