I thought I would take a stab at converting the really sweet looking MXM skin called "The Architect". I didn't add any E, F, G drive or IP info etc etc. I didn't make the video animations, Ice-Pr did and he did a really amazing job with the animation and loading intros. The loading animation is a zoom in of the skin up close and the camera does a fly by over the face of it and then zooms away and the last frame of the animation is what the actual skin is. Then on top of that the main skin is a video background with cool looking mechanical/electricity effects and green smoke moving around in the background. The loading screen does some more mechanical fancy animations and then flashes a bright white light (like a camera flash) before your selection starts. I tried to upload it to allxboxskins but they aren't accepting uploads at the moment so you can get it at www.xbox-skins.net for now (cleverly called "The Architect UX"). Yeah I know I didn't do the best job in the world of porting it over so feel free to change it up and improve on it. The only thing I custom made was the outer edge covering around the preview video to make it fit inside of the "X" sphere. Ok enough talk, just download it and toy with it etc. Have fun and big thanks to Ice-Pr for the awesome skin design.

The last time I ported a skin the original author of the skin got pissed!


Yeah... it does sound kind of dumb doesn't it?

I love this skin (use it in another dasboard)
Was waiting for it to come over to this one!
BTW I don't have any sound in the intro.wmv (title.wmv)
And the bgvid2.wmv Any Ideas!!??

It would be really cool if you could get that animation at the beginning like it loads in MXM. I have this skin for MXM but now UnleashX is my primary dash. I was hoping someone could port this skin with the intro vids!

hahaha oops. i stated a topic for mine oh well they will probly move it. hears a dbz one i did. i guess its hear untill allxboxskins allows uploads again. yes its a video skin.



hears a download

and to replay to that if you whant audio enabled on your intro or anyother video you need to enable it.

</Information>
<IntroMovie Enableaudio="[enaud1]">[drive][Skindir]\[customdir]\Intro.wmv</IntroMovie>

w.i.p, suggestions?

@ Dunny: Very smoth and clean, as usual with your skins

It looks super this way. If you are going to add a lot more info text please, release 2 versions, one clean like this one.

BTW how do you make the menu "non straight", to curve it after the circle like that??

@dunny

Awesome work man! My only suggestions: Remove the version number, to add to the "cleanliness" of the skin. Also, I'd like to see Song Title and possibly Song Time in the lower left. Some people might not though, as it's a nice clean skin.

Can't wait for it!

I'll do a seperate stats version, I know some people prefer it without so I kept it simple.

@dunny

Skin looks great. I've seen skins where when you select the menu item it shows the icon in the circle. Which i'm sure your going to do. I've also seen where it will show the preview video then if there isn't one it shows the icon. I've put preview videos on most of my menu items and when I'm looking for a skin thats what i look for the most.

It would be awesome if the bubble next to each title was a different color when you select that item.

Maybe some of you skinners can help me with my issue here:

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=185547

can somebody test this looks ok on their tv, you shouldnt be able to see the red and the fonts should look better then on that pic.

looks good but i can see the red line on the left

edit: red pink red, about the same amout of red on both sides of the pink

no

i like the skin, but i can see the red on the left too. i dont have widescreen. was this made for that?

@ Dunny

Feel free to submit all ur skins to my site

plenty of bandwidth and space

Any of you guys played 007 Everything or Nothing yet?

There is are 2 AWESOME ambient, looped .xmv videos that feature shannon elizabeth that I think would make a great foundation for a UX skin. If you have the game, check it out.

I would make a skin, but i dont have too much experiecnce with creating UX skins. I use to make MXM skins all the time, but i havent begun to dabble with UX skin creation yet.

thanks for the tip, theres an early idea, I'll stick the icons in the gun barrel.



can't do the icon in the gunbarrel, unless its possible to make it a circle shape like in the default skin.

Kyrus_Mod



full respect to the original author of course, I just wanted somethin' like the m$dash but with preview vids

Need some help tho, I would like the preview vid to fill the oval, probs need to use an overlay of some sort, plz help.


thx

ps: i'll put a link to the mod if ppl request it and the original author doesn't mind

dunny... how big is that xpr? I'll have to check it out when I get home later...

preview of my new skin (i have a lil problem with the layers ) if someone can help me

(5 diferent colors)(blue ,red,silver,orange,and orginal)

Kyrus_mod update




Sorted the preview video window, it was just an image overlay.

Again respect to KenCiro for the original artwork and to UnleashX which because of its skinning support just can't be bettered.

In case any of you guys hadn't noticed, it looks like www.allxboxskins.com is accepting uploads again. I hope to see some of these great skins on there soon.

the 2 layers i have made are under the preview and the icon and i'll them to be Over them :/

i have made a shot of all the availables colors and made an intro video for them
webcam capture of the intro and how the skin appear (default skin ) (xvid video)

I added a new 3d Desktop Skin at AXS.

1 <Image Top="0" Left="0" Width="640" Height="480">image.png</Image>
2 <Image Top="19" Left="440" Width="160" Height="151">image1.png</Image>
3 <Image Top="170" Left="306" Width="297" Height="183">image2.png</Image>
4 <Background EnableAudio="True">bg_original.png</background>
5 <Image Top="26" Left="453" width="138" Height="142" Source="GameIcon"/>
6 <Image Source="GamePreview"/>

I think the way its currently set out the Game Icon shows below everything. If it works from the top down you have it layered like this,

1 image.png
2 image1.png
3 image2.png
4 background
5 icon
6 preview

ok i'll try it (imediatly after my girlfriend finished watching waynes world 2 on xbmc )

TIA

ok i have tested it and i have the same problem than befor

victoryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

i only have to put the imgs lines after </Menu> and befor infos like that

the skin ll be ready soon (very soon)

so to make u wait i have made a little video where we can see :

- INTRO
- Skin (normal )
- File explorer
- (preview video and icone perfectly placed now)
- OUTRO video

that"s it : xvid and only 622k ^^(sorry for the bad focus)

Milky X full demo beta 1

MilkyX v1.0 may be available on allxboxskins right now

enjoy and don't forget to give me feedbacks

Sick ass skins

i don't have a wide screen TV so if you can send me a wided screen skin i'll try to adjust it (it ll take time coz i have to do the 4 others colors outro movie befor it)

delete this message plz

some minor fix in it

- best colors rendering for the menu
- now the preview light effect is softer so the video is more visible

enjoy it and i'm waiting for ur feedbacks and comments (plz vote for it on allxboxskins after u have tryed it on ur xbox (sorry for the poor english but it's 7:40 am and i havn't slept yet )

MilkyX 1.0 to 1.1 upgrade

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