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[TheEvilOne]

Sharpe, is there any way you could hook us up with a movie style font? Real big terminator style? Thats whats been missing. Everything looking solid.

[djdafreund]

We used one for thew longest time, but then Back-Row grew out of it, since it became so much more since then. I don't ever use other skins because it's such a nice tailored to you needs skin. And keeps getting better!!! I am going to soon make new ratings to use. Looks like TMDB doesn't scrape any ratings. I switched to IMDB (it's working fine for me now.) and re-scraped and all the movies scraped well, ratings and all. So now i have titles to use to be able to better test some new made rating's images. Will do that probably tomorrow.

[Sharpe]

Yeah the MPAA ratings image thing is a new(ish) feature that's still being developed throughout the views. - Looking forward to djdafreund's new images.

The skin also continues to evolve.

Here's some updated view images:

[Sharpe]

Some updates to take advantage of djdafreund's MPAA icons.

[TheEvilOne]

Sharpe will any font from the other skins work with your build? Still looking for someone to up the old movie style font did was talking about.

[djdafreund]

I liked it a lot too, but the reason it was taken out is because it was actuallly a commercial font, and was taken out to avoid problems. That's what i remembered at least. BTW, it's DJ, not di.

[TheEvilOne]

Dj, your fanart instructions got me farther than ever before. The scan even worked this time around. But still no pics even after scanning??? Just a red curtain with a clear dialog box, and a bullet where the library mode is? What gives? Where are the movies? I must be overlooking something small. Because I followed your instructions to a "T".

[djdafreund]

Use IMDB scraper, it's working fine for me for now. You might want to rescan from scratch again (remove source, and add one and fresh scrape) Yes, your missing something if it's not working right. Keep questions from this point forward to this theme please though.

[Sharpe]

I've been doing a few more updates - added some diffuse effects to the TV show banner views amongst other things:

[djdafreund]

Thats what i am talking about!!! They all look great too. I'm glad the tv wide banner turned out looking good once coded. Mockups are one thing. You da' man!!!

[superrrguy]

Hello mate sorry for not answering you sooner - The latest version can be grabbed from either the SVN link or the alt download link in my signiture.

1. I've not got a 4:3 set to test this on - only got the windows 4:3 version to go off, where it's not showing the same thing. I'll have a look at it when I next update the 4:3 version (soonish).

2. Hmmn That's a weird one - in the video file mode select a source and click the context menu then select "set content" - you should be able to choose the scraper "IMDB, TVDB etc" from there. - let me know if if still doesn't work.

3. Is this on an Xbox? It might be a build issue or a memory usage thing.

4. It's probably best if I point you to the XBMC forum for this:
Probably the easiest way to access skins from the SVN is via the XBMC skin manager:

http://s205077464.onlinehome.fr/index.php

Anyhow sorry for the delay in replying once again and all the best.

Thanks for getting back to me. This skin is so awesome! I'm using this on a 4:3 32" tv in my bedroom with an Xbox. Two of my friends saw this and are now using it with their HDTV's and it looks even better. One with an Xbox and one with an Apple TV.

1. Where can I try to edit this to get the extra character or so for time? It now looks like double digit time is ok on the clock. The end time on the pause is missing the seconds and the approximate end time is short the last minute and seconds.

2. I don't know why I couldn't find where to "set content" before. I must have had a brain fart.

3. It doesn't lock up as often. It might just be because my source is a very slow 1TB WD MyBook and I have friends accessing it by ftp at times.

4. Thanks for the tips. I've been using TortoiseSVN for a bit but I don't like extra options on the right click. I'm checking out XBMC skin manager.

Thanks again!

[TheEvilOne]

Hey Sarpe great work. Its to bad I'll never get to see the fanart. I'm done trying to get that junk to work.
Bro could you please make a transparent cover like the one attached here? Dj even your help here would be appreciated. http://www.4shared.com/file/101334407/b2d2...ay_cd_case.html

I need an image exactly like this 512x512.............u made me one diff a while back ago Sharpe....

Many thanks guys..............

[timtin]

Not a bad looking skinz. But my 512x512 clear dvd cases look squishezid in. Is there a setting 2 changez thiz.

[djdafreund]

Hey Sharpe, please e-mail me, my contact list got trashes recently. Also, I noticed in the most recent update's in SVN the countdown is messed up. It keeps flickering "5" on the screen and you can't see really anything else but that. The script is working beautiful and loving the new recent titles added on main screen. Looks nice. Great job as always buddy!!

[Sharpe]

Hey Sharpe, please e-mail me, my contact list got trashes recently. Also, I noticed in the most recent update's in SVN the countdown is messed up. It keeps flickering "5" on the screen and you can't see really anything else but that. The script is working beautiful and loving the new recent titles added on main screen. Looks nice. Great job as always buddy!!

Hi mate - Just noticed that myself...seems related to this thread over at xbmc.org:

http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=558...t=weather+icons

Looks like a problem with multiimage when using textures in the xpr. I've taken the images out of the xpr and put them in their own folder - that seems to have fixed the issue.

Glad you like the recently added stuff - Nuka1195's script is very cool (and useful).