[Rad_]

I also vote V2.

I've not been overly fond of the PS3 UI, but you're really making it look beautiful. Loving all the progress updates on this.... Really nice work, man.

[MindTooth]

Consider my vote for #2.

[Blackbolt]

Version 2 looks WAY better!

[Flomaster]

V2 gets my vote

-=Jason=-

[liquidskin76]

Version 2 it is then!

[twinflower]

loving it.

put my vote on nr 2

[liquidskin76]

Just updated the first post with a video preview (in 720p!) of the home screen in action.

I'm getting there! Enjoy!

[liquidskin76]

It's been a balancing act with the font size. To big and the interface starts to look clunky, to small and you can't read clearly from 10ft.

Hopefully it's about right however i may reduce the size slighty.

[liquidskin76]

There's a few tweaks to home screen that i'd like to make, however they depend on some skinning feature requests i've submitted.

One of them is to allow the vertical lists to carry on above the horizontal XMB bar when scrolling up, as shown in the mockups.

[Hitcher]

One of them is to allow the vertical lists to carry on above the horizontal XMB bar when scrolling up, as shown in the mockups.

You don't need any special features just use a fixedlist with empty space where the bar goes in the focusedlayout.

ie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQsamVeiQBs

[liquidskin76]

You don't need any special features just use a fixedlist with empty space where the bar goes in the focusedlayout.

ie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQsamVeiQBs

Cheers Hitcher, should have figured that one out myself. I keep doing that... missing the obvious!

[Starstream]

Very cool like the design liquidskin76.

Just curious (doesn't matter if its not possible) but could XBMC do something like the sparkle wave thingy in the background on the PS3, I always liked that and it adds depth to the UI.

[Hitcher]

That could be done in a similar way to the smoke trails effect of Xperience.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=78993

[liquidskin76]

Very cool like the design liquidskin76.

Just curious (doesn't matter if its not possible) but could XBMC do something like the sparkle wave thingy in the background on the PS3, I always liked that and it adds depth to the UI.

Thanks Starstream for your positive comments.

I did think of maybe trying something. Maybe later when the skin is complete, i'll try something and release as a new version. Perhaps the smoke trial effect, that can be disabled for lower spec machines.

[MacGyver]

I made about 80% of something like XMB about 3 years ago, if any of the links still work, your welcome to use the graphics, code, and icons. It's all yours.
Here is the thread.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=28039

I didn't have a PS3 at the time, so it was pretty rough to emulate based on you tube videos.