[WIP] Welo - a new skin for XBMC in the making

liquidskin76 Wrote:Hi Livin,

I also think the font size will need to be tweaked. The trick is finding a size that isn't to big on say a 40" LCD (which is what i have... it's 720p as well... damn i want 1080p!) and isn't to small on very large screens. We wouldn't want the skin to become 'clunky' on smaller to mid-size screens!

Cheers

[EDIT:] I think only a small tweak will be needed. I'll discuss with ubuntuf4n and _duke_.

A while ago I very briefly started mocking up my vision of the skin, but abandoned it when the skin went into production... The font size's is something I was interested in.

To those who want fanart while still maintaining Welo's vision. What if instead of movie poster below, you had fanart images... so the pulp fiction, taxi driver, spirited away posters would be fanart from the respective movies? That should work (it can be another view).

testmetest Wrote:To those who want fanart while still maintaining Welo's vision. What if instead of movie poster below, you had fanart images... so the pulp fiction, taxi driver, spirited away posters would be fanart from the respective movies? That should work (it can be another view).

The first target is to reach a point where we can release a fully usable alpha-version (all textures, all code-work).
Every 'special wish' will get noticed by us, but they're secondary (for the current progress).
Though, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be possible - it's always good to get new & fresh ideas.

As hitcher pointed out earlier, we try to focus on the main idea.

Cheers

ubuntuf4n Wrote:The first target is to reach a point where we can release a fully usable alpha-version (all textures, all code-work).
Every 'special wish' will get noticed by us, but they're secondary (for the current progress).
Though, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be possible - it's always good to get new & fresh ideas.

As hitcher pointed out earlier, we try to focus on the main idea.

Cheers

thats right, bang out a fully usable version. most of these requests can be modded at a far later stage. main priority should be to get everything working first.

ubuntuf4n Wrote:The first target is to reach a point where we can release a fully usable alpha-version (all textures, all code-work).

Every 'special wish' will get noticed by us, but they're secondary (for the current progress).

Though, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be possible - it's always good to get new & fresh ideas.

As hitcher pointed out earlier, we try to focus on the main idea.

Cheers

True true, fair enough. I'll go under my rock for now.

So glad that this has been taken on as it could be the mainstream skin for XBMC. I'm glad to say that I am almost back using XBMC after I thought that my puter was buggered, just need to sort out the sound and move everything into place and I can enjoy movie viewing once more without having to load in a DVD.

Good luck with the project.

just beautiful! glad someone keep this up, thank you guys!
neednt ask for pvr support right?

i'm in no position to request anything here, but i'm kinda missing the movie counter. You know, the one that tells you how many movies you've got in your library. Would be great if you could give this a thought.

matth Wrote:i'm in no position to request anything here, but i'm kinda missing the movie counter. You know, the one that tells you how many movies you've got in your library. Would be great if you could give this a thought.

I'm sure we'll include this somewhere!

Cheers

I dont really see a problem with using fanart in the background instead of the plain gray. simply have it as a option in the skin settings. dissabled by default. wham, bam, best of both worlds ...man!

That way, Welo's vision is still maintained 100% but people have an option to turn fanart on if they wanna give it a try.

P.S. im so glad you guys picked this up, as i wanted to cry when initial development stopped. cant wait for this skin.

RBX