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Windows => Third Party Plug-ins, Programs, and Skins => Topic started by: Dragyn on May 29, 2004, 01:24:50 pm
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http://accessories.musicex.com/mediacenter/accessories.php
post any bugs/changes/comments here. thanks.
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NICE ;D...this will go with my Windowblinds skin
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Thanks dragyn
Great work.
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thanks! I try.
Added Bright Blue. Enjoy.
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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.
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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.
(http://www.jriver.com/photos/dragyn/opus/MediaModes.png) (http://www.jriver.com/photos/dragyn/opus/MediaModes.png)
Put it in your Custom Art directory.
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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.
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well pank! how does this grab ya...
[opus orange at top]
still have to put some finishing touches on it before it's released!
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Looks good mr dragyn! You could call it Opus MC (Peach) :) or OpusPeach MC
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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.
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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.
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Any help?
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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,
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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.
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Links up top work but the mjp files fail to download the skin. Do you have a Zip version?
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Opulence is my all time favorite so far.
Thanks
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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
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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.
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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)
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okay...everything should be working now.
added purple. enjoy.
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Really like the purple dragyn.
Any chance of doing some of these skins with a plain white background?
Thanks dragyn!
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...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?
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.
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Opulence...
New: Player Buttons
Fixed: Volume Slider
looks better but that search window is driving me nuts....
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 :P ;D ....
thx again for all your effort
Zeltak :)
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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.
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Looks even better with "Square Corners." Thanks!
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Thanks for the corners. Great.
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no problem! I think it looks better too.
updated some more on opulence.
new mute button.
new volume slider (less pixelated).
different AW margins
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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.
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The link for Opus MC Blue is not working.
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There's like 3 of them not working. There's nothing I can do about it....unless I open up my (slow) server again.
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ok links are working for the moment. updated opulence to changes posted above.
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hi dragyn!
anything new with the new Opus blue play buttons ;D ? thx alot again for this great skin!!
Zeltak :)
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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.
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I don't know exactly what I'm doing yet but how does this look?
I'm still wondering on the volume thing.....
(http://www.jriver.com/photos/dragyn/opus/opusmct.jpg) (http://www.jriver.com/photos/dragyn/opus/opusmc.jpg)
(click image for larger version)
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I've been playing with an SC version of Blue. Would anyone use that?
(http://www.jriver.com/photos/dragyn/opus/opusmc-sct.jpg) (http://www.jriver.com/photos/dragyn/opus/opusmc-sc.jpg)
(click image for larger version)
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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.
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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.... :P but as soon as the next build comes out ill swith to the new opus blue ;D ;D ;D
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 :) ;)
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Copy the Mega Skins folder to the Media Center 11 folder.... That should work
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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!
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zeltak, you mean something like this?
(http://www.jriver.com/photos/dragyn/opus/volume.jpg)
EDIT: I updated the Blue version of Opus with a new slider. Others will follow soon.
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perfect ;D :)
looks great Dragyn !! thx again for all the effort
Zeltak
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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?
(http://www.netremote.org/drops/gallery/NR_MC-1.jpg)
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.
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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.
(http://www.jriver.com/photos/dragyn/nr.jpg)
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Also been working on new slider for the progress meter..
Does this look ok or what?
(http://www.jriver.com/photos/dragyn/opusmcv2b1t.jpg) (http://www.jriver.com/photos/dragyn/opusmcv2b1.jpg)
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Dragyn,
That is absolutely bloody fantastic.
Can't wait to play with it. I'll make it into an MC only ccf and remove all the custom stuff. When done I'll let send it back for you to post in the NR Gallery.
Awesome work. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Some quick comments now I've had time to take it in:
I tried the ratings stars on the Pocket PC and the inactive grey star looks similar in color to the active blue one in low light environments. I think white would be a better choice than grey as this shows up more.
Slider - The knobs at either side are gone. It looks better without them I agree but they were really useful. They advanced or rewound the track an amount set in the ccf (e.g. 10%) and are really useful when rating a load of tracks.
Great Idea to put the 3 buttons below right of player window - nice one.
Nice start icon. Does this change color according to STATE:MP.LinkActive?
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One more suggestion about Opus NR: Would the bottom corners look better if they were square on the outside and rounded on the inside? [Edit - just looked at your earlier mock up in the PM which was squared. I actually think round looks better.]
Opus MC slider bar: I'm not sure about this. I liked the square boxes. Maybe it'll grow on me.
I wish I knew how you managed to produce such fantastic artwork. Do you use Photoshop? Any chance of a lesson sometime?
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I can make the slider smaller, lighter, more square, whatever. I'm just playing with it. something needs to be done though as it looks weird (to me) that way.
I'm using photoshop but I'm not that great at it. Most of the images came from the opus skin itself except for the player buttons that I did.
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ok, blue has been updated. let me know what you think and if I should change anything.
thanks.
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For those that are interested this is the final version of my NetRemote ccf with Opus graphics. Great job Dragyn.
(http://netremote.org/drops/gallery/opusnr.jpg)
You can download it from the gallery at www.netremote.org
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Going through the process of updating all the skins...
I think it would be best to delete the opus skins and start from scratch. I made so many versions, I can't even keep track of them all. I started to put version numbers inside the skin which is viewable through the skin manager and I'll update those numbers for anything new....something I should have done at the beginning.
Things to come:
Smaller titlebar size to match Opus OS (will be an addition to the other skins)
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Love the new Opus skin Dragyn
I'd hate to increase your work load but have you thought about doing a Theatre view skin too ;) ?
Rich
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Now that would be a cool idea, and pretty easy to do too. I may even do it myself but not tonight as I'm off to see Shrek 2 :D
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Now that would be a cool idea, and pretty easy to do too. I may even do it myself but not tonight as I'm off to see Shrek 2 :D
tis so funny ;D enjoy
Rich
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I can work on a theater view skin. Since they made the change in 11, I've been playing around with it even more so.
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Thin version of Opus Blue has been added.
Bright Blue is coming. :-\
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Great!
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Made a white background for Opulence SC. Let me know what you think.
D.
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I prefer the white background - adds more contrast to the skin
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Opulence updated!
White as default background.
New progress meter.
New DSP/Cont/Suffle layout.
Fixed volume slider in SC.
Fixed positoning in display area.
Default splitters used.
--Added code to use new library browser system in 11.0.85
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He's back!
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dragyn - i love opulence and had a quick question...
whats the difference between opulence and opulence SC?
thanks
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Added Bright Blue (finally). Let me know if I missed anything.
All skins in this thread have Library Browser support.
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Thank you very much, Dragyn.
One question... what is the font that you use?
Thanks
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Listening to: 'Movin' Along (Take 4 - Alternate)' from 'The Complete Riverside Recordings [BOX SET] (Disc 5)' by 'Wes Montgomery' on Media Center 10
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I use MS Reference Sans Serif Regular 8 point
One question... what is the font that you use?
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Thank you! :)
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Dragyn...thankyou, thankyou, thankyou ;D. that thunderstorm skin was giving me a headache!!! Love my opus bright blue. ;D Thanks for all the hard work (and for making this so I didn't have to deal with code stuff!!!). Bet
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Thanks again everyone.
I made a lame attempt at a wood version. Went kinda fast through so let me know again if I missed anything.
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added a white version. updated versions of deep and olive should be done this weekend.
note: all skins are being moved to the skin download page.
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I don't see any new skins in skins download page!? Also skins that are on download page are old versions.
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tried to upload some last night but it kept timing out. most likely my connection.
still trying to figure out how to update those skins you mentioned also.
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dragyn, i think you've realised this already, but a bunch of the links dont work for the skins...
pip
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I uploaded most of them. not sure where they are.
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Hey Dragyn, in case you need some storage space, just let me know (PM), I have plenty (600megs or so) :D
-Cascius
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(http://www.rpgamer.com/games/pokemon/pokemon/graphics/art/148.JPG)
Something you'd like to share with us :P
BTW: I kinda ike the wood skin and the white background on opus look pretty darn (I mean darn) good. I've been using your skins only for so long. From Opus to Opulence to Codename to Opus...
This post ranks pretty high on my most useless posts list, eh...
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Once the download page gets fixed, there will be 3 new versions. Still tweaking these a bit but there almost ready. Still finishing up Olive and Deep and those should be there too.
Oak (http://www.jriver.com/photos/dragyn/opusmcv2wo.jpg)
Cedar (http://www.jriver.com/photos/dragyn/opusmcv2wc.jpg)
Pine (http://www.jriver.com/photos/dragyn/opusmcv2wp.jpg)
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Hey, Dragyn, while you're working, don't forget that Opus - Blue and Opus - Bright Blue are still turning up a "page not found" message. I upgraded to MC11 and I miss my blue Opus skin! Thanks for the good work!
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The plan is to get all these skins updated and on the download page this week.
These will probably be the last of the opus versions unless someone can think of something else to add. I'm all opus'd out.
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Yowzah! I feel so much better! Thanks!
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ok, I did a little modification to the oak version. let me know if it's too much.
Opus MC (Oak) (http://www.jriver.com/photos/dragyn/opus/opusmcv2wo.mjp)
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ok. all skins are on the skins page except the updated purple, orange, deep, and olive. I'll get to those soon. thanks everyone. closing this now as it's getting kinda messy.
ps. if you get a "invalid package", save the .mjp file to the disk and double-click on it.