Color Themes for Transparency!

might as well remove the download link.
these themes don't work with T! v2.11 or up.

there may be new themes when the next T! version is released.

fair enough. it may be worth it to some but its not integral

ronie Wrote:might as well remove the download link.
these themes don't work with T! v2.11 or up.

there may be new themes when the next T! version is released.

I have the will to help, I used to get a lot of fun customizing Alaska and creating views,
Now I'm a T! junkie and would love to contribute to it,
Besides, the multi-colour schemes is a great idea and it would be marvellous if we find a way to get that for the upcoming T! release (also, a White variant could suite well T!) whether it's integrated or as an add-on to the skin

Anyway, long live to T!

dondre Wrote:I have the will to help, I used to get a lot of fun customizing Alaska and creating views,
Now I'm a T! junkie and would love to contribute to it

that would be just great :-)
i appreciate all the help i can get.

dondre Wrote:Besides, the multi-colour schemes is a great idea and it would be marvellous if we find a way to get that for the upcoming T! release (also, a White variant could suite well T!) whether it's integrated or as an add-on to the skin

i have no preference in color, so whatever you fancy. ;-)

whether or not colorthemes will included in the skin is a matter of size.
if all goes as planned T! is going to be hosted in the xbmc addon repo
and they may have some restrictions as to how big a skin can be.
though i doubt adding a few extra colorthemes is going to be a real problem.


again, appreciate your offer to help out!

It's my pleasure and really all the congratulations goes to you for starting up this great XBMC skin concept!

That said can you point where to start with it? This would avoid me going through all the structure

In the \colors folder there's only a single defaults.xml file which looks very basic to me...

Or perhaps I should start (or there alredy is) a new post in the dev section instead of this one?

Cheers mate

dondre Wrote:It's my pleasure and really all the congratulations goes to you for starting up this great XBMC skin concept!

That said can you point where to start with it? This would avoid me going through all the structure

sure no problem, the very first thing to do is to (if you haven't already) is to check out the current T! svn, to make sure you're working on the latest files

next:

dondre Wrote:In the \colors folder there's only a single defaults.xml file which looks very basic to me...

make a copy of the file and give it the name of your colortheme (eg. green.xml). this file is used for the text-colors.
just open the files and modify the hex values of the lightblue, blue and darkblue strings to represent whatever green color you need.
(don't change the '*blue' names, only the hex-values).
once done, you should be able to select it: Settings > Appearance > Colours.

after that, you'll need to convert all the blueish images in the media folder to the color you want.
(all grey/white/black images can be left unmodified.)
this may be a lot of work, unless you can come up with a way to batch process the images.

feel free to PM if you get stuck/have specific questions.


cheers mate.

ronie Wrote:sure no problem, the very first thing to do is to (if you haven't already) is to check out the current T! svn, to make sure you're working on the latest files

Yep I'm on r429 right now (3.04)

Quote:after that, you'll need to convert all the blueish images in the media folder to the color you want.
(all grey/white/black images can be left unmodified.)
this may be a lot of work, unless you can come up with a way to batch process the images.

Brilliant! I'm gonna pair with a friend of mine who's a Photoshop junkie to batch that up for 5 distinct colors while I'll work on the XMLs!

Now I understand better why it could overweight Transparency if put by default, lot of images replicated many times for each color set, we'll see the result but this would definitely be better as a mod or something I guess.

I'll let you know of the advancement,
Peace mate

cool! looking forward to see what you guys are coming up with. :-)

ronie Wrote:cool! looking forward to see what you guys are coming up with. :-)

Hi guys, any news on the themes?

I just installed 3.10.0(not sure of the svn version), from the add-ons of Dharma beta 4 and I noticed that the themes folder is gone, pretty much all the icons are in png format in the media folder and a few icons in jpg for the Settings menu.

There is also a Textures.xbt file, is that the replacement for the old .xpr?

How is the .xbt created ? and does the .xbt contain other icons not in the media folder?

jpf55 Wrote:Hi guys, any news on the themes?

I just installed 3.10.0(not sure of the svn version), from the add-ons of Dharma beta 4 and I noticed that the themes folder is gone, pretty much all the icons are in png format in the media folder and a few icons in jpg for the Settings menu.

There is also a Textures.xbt file, is that the replacement for the old .xpr?

yes.

jpf55 Wrote:How is the .xbt created ?

by running the TexturePacker tool.
TexturePacker.exe -i media -o media\Textures.xbt

jpf55 Wrote:and does the .xbt contain other icons not in the media folder?

nope, only all images inside the mediafolder (and subfolders) are compiled in Textures.xbt