Topic: Opulence & Opus MC (Read 18881 times)

Dragyn · « **on:** May 29, 2004, 01:24:50 pm »

http://accessories.musicex.com/mediacenter/accessories.php
post any bugs/changes/comments here. thanks.

221bBS · « **Reply #1 on:** May 29, 2004, 01:31:09 pm »

NICE

...this will go with my Windowblinds skin

Sauzee · « **Reply #2 on:** May 31, 2004, 12:16:00 am »

Thanks dragyn

Great work.

Dragyn · « **Reply #3 on:** May 31, 2004, 11:08:39 am »

thanks! I try.

Added Bright Blue. Enjoy.

pank2002 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 31, 2004, 11:19:26 am »

I like the new bright blue. It a bid more ... summer ! with the brighter colors and stuff. You shuld consider, if you got the time, toi make a Opus Summer with orange instead of blue and a bit of yellow in the brigther colors... I think that would be cool!

Could you share your media mode picture? It looks good.

Dragyn · « **Reply #5 on:** May 31, 2004, 11:27:30 am »

wow..that was quick! I can do an orange with yellow....sorta like a sunset.

I don't know what you mean by 'media mode picture'. If you mean the buttons, you can get them here.

Put it in your Custom Art directory.

Dragyn · « **Reply #6 on:** May 31, 2004, 11:39:05 am »

Just want to add that both Bright Blue and Opulence can be resized to just the player window...sorta like a mini-me skin. I'll do the others soon.

Dragyn · « **Reply #7 on:** May 31, 2004, 04:32:29 pm »

well pank! how does this grab ya...

[opus orange at top]

still have to put some finishing touches on it before it's released!

pank2002 · « **Reply #8 on:** June 01, 2004, 04:19:32 am »

Looks good mr dragyn! You could call it Opus MC (Peach)

or OpusPeach MC

Dragyn · « **Reply #9 on:** June 02, 2004, 07:46:06 pm »

ok. orange is added. working on another color scheme...but it's gonna be a suprise.

if there are any other color requests, post them here.

escaflo · « **Reply #10 on:** June 07, 2004, 10:17:58 am »

I can't seem to be able to download the skins now.

I can't access the link at the bottom of the sig too.

?

Any help?

LonWar · « **Reply #11 on:** June 07, 2004, 11:35:02 am »

Looks like his server is down...

You aske dfor color requests.... How bout one that maches Marko's Playing Now Skin:
http://www.marko121.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pnskins/trans-3.jpg

Thanks,

Dragyn · « **Reply #12 on:** June 07, 2004, 08:37:59 pm »

links at top should work. i'll see about adding them to the skin page...

I can try and do that...dunno how hard it would be.

Arakiel · « **Reply #13 on:** June 08, 2004, 09:15:12 pm »

Links up top work but the mjp files fail to download the skin. Do you have a Zip version?

TAFKAFEX · « **Reply #14 on:** June 09, 2004, 02:42:02 pm »

Opulence is my all time favorite so far.

Thanks

cascius · « **Reply #15 on:** June 11, 2004, 04:45:48 am »

Really nice work Dragyn. Opulence looks really nice. I just realised something you might not be aware of: The color of the grey bar at the bottom of the vis area (where you choose which vis/track info/... to display) can be configured. Top of my mine I can't think of which tag in the main.xml file it is. If you want I'll look it up.

Great work,

-Cascius

jleerigby · « **Reply #16 on:** June 11, 2004, 05:56:10 pm »

I've been using Opus Mc (blue) since it was first released and I still love it just as much today. It's installed on all my PC's and would really take something special to make me change. If I were JimH I'd ask to have it as the default skin for MC.

Great work on the new skins but, like I said, you ain't getting Opus blue off any of my PC's just yet.

Dragyn · « **Reply #17 on:** June 11, 2004, 06:06:36 pm »

thanks guys! I'll be updating some more this weekend

and sooooo sorry about the downloads!! It was going through my router...will be fixed shortly!

(didn't notcie it until now...was updating my car and the links didn't work)

Dragyn · « **Reply #18 on:** June 11, 2004, 07:22:28 pm »

okay...everything should be working now.

added purple. enjoy.

Sauzee · « **Reply #19 on:** June 12, 2004, 04:15:21 am »

Really like the purple dragyn.

Any chance of doing some of these skins with a plain white background?

Thanks dragyn!

Dragyn · « **Reply #20 on:** June 12, 2004, 06:53:05 am »

Quote from: cascius on June 11, 2004, 04:45:48 am

...I just realised something you might not be aware of: The color of the grey bar at the bottom of the vis area (where you choose which vis/track info/... to display) can be configured. Top of my mine I can't think of which tag in the main.xml file it is. If you want I'll look it up. ...

I thought it was the right color? Should it be different?

Quote from: Sauzee on June 12, 2004, 04:15:21 am

Any chance of doing some of these skins with a plain white background?

I'll see what I can do. Changing background colors isn't that hard from the XML...just the images.

I'm working on a v10 skin of my very first skin. Something I've wanted to do for a long time. Hopefully I'll have something soon.

Dragyn · « **Reply #21 on:** June 12, 2004, 10:38:06 am »

Opulence...

New: Player Buttons
Fixed: Volume Slider

looks better but that search window is driving me nuts....

skeeterfood · « **Reply #22 on:** June 14, 2004, 11:23:41 am »

Any chance you can fix Opus MC (Blue) so that it can be shrunk down to just the player bar like Opulence? The rest of the Opus Colors can almost shrink down, but still have an extra bar or two at the bottom...

-John

escaflo · « **Reply #23 on:** June 18, 2004, 04:18:50 am »

I am just wondering whether it is possible for you to make the title bar a bit thinner.

I like this skin alot and also has the matching visual style. But the title bar for MC looks a lot fatter than the visual style in windows.

If cannot, then its ok.

This skin is sweet on its own.

Dragyn · « **Reply #24 on:** June 18, 2004, 05:51:42 am »

For the opus skins, the player bar is technically shrunk down. If I lower the height anymore, the status bar actually goes on top of the image. If you have bottom toolbar buttons, it will overlap causing the volume slider not to work. So that's why it looks like it's not shrunk all the way down.

The titlebar is big because of the toolbar buttons.

The opulence search bar looks weird because there's no way to position text and that's the only way I could do it.

Dragyn · « **Reply #25 on:** June 19, 2004, 09:40:27 pm »

ok...did some more on opulence.

some things I remember doing:

added some inner shadows to player buttons
separator color
top border bottom edge (right side looked weird)
action window shadows
different search box design

some other stuff. let me know if there is something 'weird' (besides the search box) and if I should keep working on this.

pank2002 · « **Reply #26 on:** June 20, 2004, 06:38:27 am »

it looks great man! I like the new play bottoms and the mute bottom. Action window looks great.
The volume slider looks odd... kindda pixelated especially when highlighted. Would you consider to make the corners right angeld ? I think it would look much better (I'm using MC full-screen.)
The searchfield looks okay. I don't see the problem.

Opus Orange looks great btw

Listening to: 'Beat City' from 'Whip It On' by 'The Raveonettes' on Media Center 11

Dragyn · « **Reply #27 on:** June 20, 2004, 07:55:27 am »

Well I made a "Square Corners" version. It's at the top of the thread.

I can try and redo the slider...I'm not that good at this stuff.

The search box overlaps when there's a lot of text written. Looks fine when empty.

zeltak · « **Reply #28 on:** June 20, 2004, 08:18:07 am »

hi dragyn !

let me agree with everybody that this is an amazing skin!! i really think that it should come with the MC installations since its really so good. I dont know if its possible but i would love it if there was an option to have the same roundish slik play/pause/rew/fwr buttons and slider they have in opulance and the thunderstorm skins in the Opus MC (Blue). i love every aspect of the Opus MC apart from the rectangle butons

....

thx again for all your effort

Zeltak

Dragyn · « **Reply #29 on:** June 20, 2004, 09:25:17 am »

thanks zeltak.

I agree with the buttons. I'll see what I can do about them. Blue will be the first version, others will follow. I'm still trying to get Olive put up. About 90% done with it. I have another color coming soon too..then I'm gonna work on my new skin...watercolor. Made one for MJ8 a long time ago and want one for 9/10/11.

pank2002 · « **Reply #30 on:** June 20, 2004, 09:30:09 am »

Looks even better with "Square Corners." Thanks!

TAFKAFEX · « **Reply #31 on:** June 23, 2004, 02:19:48 pm »

Thanks for the corners. Great.

Dragyn · « **Reply #32 on:** June 24, 2004, 12:06:31 am »

no problem! I think it looks better too.

updated some more on opulence.

new mute button.
new volume slider (less pixelated).
different AW margins

Dragyn · « **Reply #33 on:** June 24, 2004, 06:18:39 pm »

ok, I'm transferring everything here to the MC skin page. I know some of the skins are down at the moment. Should be up soon.

I uploaded the wrong versions of opulence so the last fixes (post above this one) are not yet changed.

jleerigby · « **Reply #34 on:** June 28, 2004, 04:31:55 pm »

The link for Opus MC Blue is not working.

Dragyn · « **Reply #35 on:** June 28, 2004, 05:01:15 pm »

There's like 3 of them not working. There's nothing I can do about it....unless I open up my (slow) server again.

Dragyn · « **Reply #36 on:** July 03, 2004, 09:08:53 pm »

ok links are working for the moment. updated opulence to changes posted above.

zeltak · « **Reply #37 on:** July 04, 2004, 01:11:14 am »

hi dragyn!

anything new with the new Opus blue play buttons

? thx alot again for this great skin!!

Zeltak

Dragyn · « **Reply #38 on:** July 04, 2004, 08:05:49 am »

I've been trying to do something different but I suck at photoshop.

If someone has an idea or something, feel free to post it here.

Dragyn · « **Reply #39 on:** July 04, 2004, 08:16:31 pm »

I don't know exactly what I'm doing yet but how does this look?

I'm still wondering on the volume thing.....

(click image for larger version)

Dragyn · « **Reply #40 on:** July 04, 2004, 11:06:45 pm »

I've been playing with an SC version of Blue. Would anyone use that?

(click image for larger version)

Dragyn · « **Reply #41 on:** July 05, 2004, 02:13:24 am »

OK! Every skin has been updated with new player buttons.

Olive will be here tomorrow. I'm just too tired to finish it. Been at this for like 8hrs straight now.

zeltak · « **Reply #42 on:** July 05, 2004, 05:44:46 am »

hi Dragyn !!

the new skin mod look really great!! thx alot for the hard work!! i really appriciate it

. to bad that the new alpha v.11 cant let me change skins....

but as soon as the next build comes out ill swith to the new opus blue

thx again
Zeltak

P.S ...as for the volume thing i think the one you already made for opulence is great so you can use that if you feel like it

LonWar · « **Reply #43 on:** July 05, 2004, 07:06:19 am »

Copy the Mega Skins folder to the Media Center 11 folder.... That should work

Dragyn · « **Reply #44 on:** July 05, 2004, 09:00:59 am »

ok. olive has been added to the mix.

I'll have to think about the slider. I need a break from this for awhile.

thanks everyone!

Dragyn · « **Reply #45 on:** July 05, 2004, 01:18:36 pm »

zeltak, you mean something like this?

EDIT: I updated the Blue version of Opus with a new slider. Others will follow soon.

zeltak · « **Reply #46 on:** July 05, 2004, 03:20:59 pm »

perfect

looks great Dragyn !! thx again for all the effort

Zeltak

jleerigby · « **Reply #47 on:** July 05, 2004, 05:01:10 pm »

Dragyn,

With your fantasic artwork skills do you thing you would be up to the challege of producing a NetRemote skin for MC?

Could you Opusify this?

It would be really great if you could produce something that would go with Opus Blue. The above image is a skin designed for a 240*320 PDA. Each component would need to be a separate image (png, jpg, or gif). i.e. background, window, play controls, slider, selected tab, unselelected tab rating stars etc.

Let me know if you can help. With your skills I'm pretty sure this could become the default MC skin shipped with NetRemote.

Dragyn · « **Reply #48 on:** July 11, 2004, 10:20:47 pm »

just so people know, I haven't forgotten to update the other skins. I was in fact making a netremote skin for jlee...which is pretty much done now.

here's a preview for those interested....

some stuff might need rearranging but that can be done on a user basis.

Dragyn · « **Reply #49 on:** July 11, 2004, 11:40:04 pm »

Also been working on new slider for the progress meter..

Does this look ok or what?

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