Well, unless you want a plain Background image I can't help ya there!

Hi, this is the first unleashx skin I have ever made. I just looked at a bunch of existing skins and toyed with their settings until I had something completely different. Big thanks to Twilight for inspiring me to do a video background type skin. I love that electric skin you made! This "Star Voyager" skin is on allxboxskins.com and ready to download! Yeah it looks like an 8-bit videogame, but that's sort of the point. Try not to be too harsh on me, like I said, this is my first!

ehh..looks alright

Please keep skin posts in the pinned "Skins" topic at the top of the forum.

Thanks and keep up the good work.

Yeah, i thought I did put it in the pinned skins topic but I hit the "new topic" button instead of "add reply". My mistake.

I have a ton of ideas in my head for cool skins but I don't have the tools/experience to pull it off. I was wanting to have my next skin start out kinda like some dvd menus do, have a quick but fancy animation video start up and make the last frame in the video be what the skin is so it sort of animates into place. Other ideas I had were to have a playstation 1 loading video start up and make a dash look identical to the old ps1. Maybe have an entire line up of classic game system dashes to confuse guests when they turn on my xbox. Unleashx has so many possibilities for skins I wish I could dedicate 100% of my time into making some bad-ass ones instead of 8-bit looking ones.

Can anyone out there recommend any good video-editing software etc? Thanks

@Ed_209: Fresh and fun idea....and the only graphic prog i can recomend is adobe photoshop, it got nice features and you will learn to use it very fast if you just toy around with it for a while.

You have good ideas, i wish i got some new ideas but my head is totaly blank , and my two kids are taking all my time.

Grab them from my site Xbox-Skins under Preview Videos

Then upload the file to the corresponding game directory.

some do have sound, post the ones you have and if i have any of them i'll record a new video for them when i get a chance

The skin you are using might have the audio turned off. Look for EnableAudio tag for the preview and set that to "True".

hmm i can only make one for halo and Star Wars KotOR these are the only games i have from that list


Edit checked these two files Star Wars KotOR has audio halo dosn't

its in the skin.xml file for the skin your useing

(sorry i forgot abot that option)

Thanks for the help tweaqr and unleashx
Much appreciated.

xbox-skins.net = great site! keep up the good work!

I like having sound to the preview vids, but it very annoying when some vids have EXTREMLEY LOUD sound and others very low sound, so i always have preview sound disabled.

Is there a way to fix this in unleash´s setting?

If not maybe Unleashx can include somekind of "Normalise sound" feature in a future release, that sets the sound level equal for all preview vids?

I dont know if this is possible or even important, its just an idea

Hmmm......it sure is quite dead here at the moment.....no new skins in progress??

What happened to the nice skin enzo was making ?



It would be nice to see that skin on AXS.

Keep up the great skinning work everyone

@Ghost_Face_Killah
made a halo video with sound get it Here

Thanks man. Just downloaded and replaced it.

I'm not complaining but the sound is a little messed up and kinda loud.
Just telling ya so you can look out for that when you make more preview vids.

BTW, how did you capture a video of the game?

@Twilight
i helped enzo out with the xml for that pic but i don't konw if he ever posted it anywhere

@Ghost_Face_Killah
i didn't capture that video i ripped it from the game (Halo\\bink\\attract1.bik) and reencoded it to wmv, N-E way i have an ati all in wonder 8500 that i use to capture video

@tweaqr

can you do that with all games? just rip a movie file from the game and then conver it?
if so..i can do it! and i'll start posting on xbox-skins.net

if the have a movie in them then yes, however the procces for ripping them is different for every game. so i cant give you a 123 step instructions on how to do it.

okay i guess i'll just leave it to the professionals

This was mentioned somewhere along the middle, and I don't think anything came out of it. If so, my apologies.
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Regarding game spines replacing static text, it's something that could be possible, I would assume, by creating set horizontal rectangular preview box that searches for the graphic in each game's submenu.
Would it be difficult? Likely, as the sheer difficulty of springing up a new graphic for each game would be a hassle. Some of the talented individuals here have shown immense creativity and skill thus far, and will likely be able to tackle this.
I would try myself, but as a Mac user, I wouldn't know where to start in terms of software.

As for where to find spines, there are a few places:
1) Take the photo yourself
2) Search Google, Yahoo!, etc. for xboxcovers. Who knows what you may find?


I wish I could be more help on this, but other than staring at the .xml files, again, I wouldn't know where to start. If any of you are Mac users (C'mon, graphic designers. If anyone uses a Mac, it's you guys!) please inform me of the software you use (other than PS, of course.)

Thanks, keep up the great work and good luck.

Like I just said in Tweaqr's PM, im happy to give away this skin to anyone who would want to finish it. I simply dont have the time anymore to get this thing going.
Please let me know if tweaqr is gonna do that job or someone else...

straped for time myself lately but i'll add it to my list of things to do unless someone else wants to finnish it. its almost done i think the only thing left to do is the colorsand mayby video support if someone wants to add that in.

i dont think it would be that difficult to impiment that ability (unleashx would have the final word on that) although makeing all those graphics would be a pian, and im not sure what it would do to the speed of the dash.

Yes, you are definitely right that it would be a pain but there are enough of us. As mentioned, all you really need to do is d/l the cover scan and crop the spine. Then simply convert to the proper format and image size.

Depending on the image sizes and formats, it may not take that long to load. They would be smaller files than the previews, after all. I'm no expert, however.
This is something that would be pretty amazing to see in action, though, just to see if it works.

i would love to see the ability to change the "depth/radius" of the orb in the background. Similar to how neXgen pumps it to like 180 degrees. It gives a lot more depth to the skin. Being able to adjust this value in the skin.xml would be badass.

Hydraulix,
do you know if there's ever been any word on that being implemented? I can just imagine what skinners would be able to do if this was in place.

WIP, this is just the pics if anyone wants to finnish this feel free to do so.
C.P.U.

Edit: pic removed

Very cool pic, Tweaqr !!!

Nice to see some new skin graphix here again.

B.T.W Is that original artwork, and what program do you use to make your graphix?

some of it is some isn't I'll put the originals in the zip later there inaccesable at the moment, i didn't make the background and i don't know who did it was on my friends pc.

Edit oops forgot part of the question. I use photoshop, 3ds max and paper pencil scanner

here is my first skin ever SnapShots Its basicly a slide show, the large version is 7 mb, couldnt upload to the site...i dont think I have seen a skin do this.

I have no clue how to link the screen shot from ther.

I also just uploaded the XL version. The short version is only like 4 pictures, the XL is like 15 or so...

My next idea is to use non scenic pictures.....like the MS blue swirls wallpaper....and some MAC wallpapers.

I swear it looks like a difrnt skin every 3 seconds or so... Check it out.

Hectobleezy's skin


right click the image select properties
copy what it says after address: i.e. (http://www.allxboxskins.com/skins/unleashx/Snapshots_preview.jpg)
go back to the forums click addreply
click img paste what yu copyed in step 2
click ok
click add reply

Thanks tweaqr

Update

WOOW!! Very nice skins !!

I can be wrong, but i think the skins in this forum just gets better and better.

Keep up the good work!!

@tweaqr: Incredible that you have time to make skins yourself, with all the help you are providing to people in this forum.....Here is one only for you :

ok almost done with this one. its simply a remake of my old Blu2 skin for avalaunch. This one has more features and umph of course. >8) Thanks to Twilight for the font designs and format.







thinking of moving the preview movie out of the orb into the main window there to fill the void. not really sure what i should do with the open space,....

any ideas?

Hydraulix: This is only a suggestion but try placing the preview graphic in the X orb and the preview vid in the top left corner of the system/main box.

Hydraulix and Tweaqr: Great work as always as the skins look great.

ok updated pics. ready to distribute?

Only small thing I would change is to center the prev vid in the window. Aside from that, it looks clean and the font looks super sharp.

FourDoor: I think that if the video was centred, it would seem too right heavy, especially with the picture right next to it.
Maybe that's just the layout editor in me

I definitely like it the way it is and look forward to using it.