XBMC Stargate Animated Home Screen

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wannabegt4 Offline
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Any Stargate fans out there:



This is done completely within the XBMC skinning engine. This is just something I threw together in a short evening. The animations aren't exactly right and the event horizon texture isn't perfect either but I'd say it's good enough for a proof of concept.

If anyone wants to add this to their home screen here are the files needed:
https://hotfile.com/dl/155270629/c6c9e59...n.zip.html
(This post was last modified: 2013-03-15 04:52 by wannabegt4.)
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I would say long live Stargate but SGU is pretty lame Smile the first two were great though and nice effect I assume its just a couple of rotating textures right ?

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I'm kind of liking SGU. It's not as campy as the first two and the characters seem a bit more interesting. Though it's definitely not action packed.

It is a single image twice. One is flipped on it's y axis and they rotate opposite of each other and there is a pulsed zoom animation to try and mask it. Not perfect yet but I'm proud of what I got done in an evening.
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You know, you combine that with an "entering the stargate" animation when clicking a menu item, and you've got a real winner right there. I'd sure as heck use it.

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wannabegt4 Wrote:Any Stargate fans out there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsY338FsJgM

This is done completely within the XBMC skinning engine. This is just something I threw together in a short evening. The animations aren't exactly right and the event horizon texture isn't perfect either but I'd say it's good enough for a proof of concept.

Sweet!!!Big Grin share to the world!!!
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I like stargate ,-) I own the complete season 1-10
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Surely as you flick between videos/tv/movies etc the chevrons should rotate?

There's a whole skin in this...
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bossanova808 Wrote:Surely as you flick between videos/tv/movies etc the chevrons should rotate?

There's a whole skin in this...
Technically no since the worm hole is already established. Though as an intro screen there could be rotating chevrons and the splash when it connects but I think that would take too long to get to the home screen if done right.


natethomas Wrote:You know, you combine that with an "entering the stargate" animation when clicking a menu item, and you've got a real winner right there. I'd sure as heck use it.
If you're talking about the wormhole then yes I've started that already.
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Nice... good to see new fresh ideas.

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Hey, the 8th and 9th chevrons aren't lit! Laugh
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