Heres three images of a redesigned PM3 Stats skin Version 2 is basically the same as what it is now with just the album art from the WIP of unleashX added the other 2 I have moved around lots and even removed some stuff

Anyway tell me which one you guys like best I tried to use the same graphics for the preview video and stuff to make the choice based on layout not whats playing.
I'm really like version 3 myself

All three lined up to show the difference


Version 1


Version 2


Version 3

Hey Jezz,

I like the second one, but thats coz it keeps the three things seperate, music, preview icon and hard drive space.

Keep up the good work!

Heh yeah but its the same
I'm actually using version 1 at the moment and am liking it because its less cluttered I'm thinking I might just pack all three versions in but I still need to decide on a default one that people will get when they load the skin

Would be nice if Unleashx let us make subskins and have things like
and then list it like this in the skins menu
Because the only real difference is the xml file and it seems a shame to reupload all those images for seperate skins

UNLEASHX you reading thats a feature request from me

Also,

When you do realease them (yet another set of differences), can you include one without the menu box thingos (the ones that turn green(?) in xbmc). I think they aren't very useful in UX...

Or at least tell us the lines to remove from the xml to do it ourselves.

Cheers.

sr_sparky yeah I agree with the usefullness thing with them but I like them and now that the scrolling of the menu items is fixed there is no need but Like the old Mark3 Version of the skin I will put in a seperate xml file for each of them without the menu buttons so people can remove them.

I really only put it in last time though because menu scrolling didn't work and it took up to much space

so I guess that makes 6 seperate xml files for the one skin or should I go with six seperate skins ?

I think you should just do 6 seperate xmls... easier for you and then the individual can select which one they want...

yes, I like version 3 also!!! nice work!

please teach me how to show the album art???

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Its only in the new WIP build so far so you will have to wait but heres how

sweet! i cant wait! need any beta testers? im very familiar with UnleashX, and would like to help out with the development any way that I can

ThanX Jezz and UnleashX!

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I second the second
also, do the album art work only on mp3? and what to name them?
hopefully folder.jpg like xbmc

Maybe you should read what I quoted about 3 posts up it explains it all

me bad.. didnt see it..lol

I like the 2nd one best, same as my older version is currently running (although I remove the "tabs"). Thanks for the hard work though, much appreciated.

Ahh your all living in the past
Looks like 2 gets to be default again with the others as sub skins

Oh and incase you missed it with the album art the the media player looks like this and like it always did without album art

This might be a little late, but I like the second one as well. Wanted to case my vote.

Well it might be livin' in the past, but I think it's the most natual feeling skin. Like you have your list of games/apps etc, and directly below is the icon; with 3 you need to move your eyes all the way to the right hand side of the screen, then back to the left for the list and so on. Also, I like it how the date & time is pushed up, otherwise it's just grey space at the top. And this extra space is then used for the song.

I like knowing how much free space I have, so that's good where it is. The hdd icon could be removed and the text pushed more to the right, but I like the icon. It's a nice idea to keep the BG image/movie as viewable as possible without covering it up.

Either way, Ulx skins are pretty easy to edit and change around. I completely changed the PM1 skin around to move the menu and add heaps of stats to it. I just wish I could find someway of making your fonts work in 720p

Otherwise, keep up the good work Jezz_X, much appreciated.

Well there the same fonts from XBMC I didn't even make them I just copied those ones

Yeah, I had even tried copying some of the fonts over from XBMC myself, but I think things went worse... when I get my xbox back up and going I'll have another play. The fonts in xbmc are just 1 font though, it didn't look like (from memory) that they have 480p fonts, 720p fonts etc... so they must get scalled....

Perhaps it's the way Ulx is scalling things?

Had a quick play with the fonts, there is a common-720pfont14 which I tried instead of common-font14, and also I tried special-bold instead of special-bold-pal, in case the other was more suited to NTSC...

But it hasn't made a whole heap of difference. I'm inclined to think it's the way UnleashX scales things...?

I don't know if there is much more I or you can do. I notice also the filemanger is not quite aligned correctly in 720p.