half way there ... I think

by **art** on Sat Jun 05, 2004 5:49 am

Looking for some honest opinions ....
Good, bad or ugly - all are welcome

updated 10/17/05
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by **mattdisaster** on Sat Jun 05, 2004 2:25 pm

Nice work! I like the dark and blue colors. Where did you get the show/hide images? Any idea when you'll be posting it? Good luck!

-matt

by **Twit** on Sat Jun 05, 2004 5:22 pm

Looks awsome - great hide/show pictures.

I hope you post it so i can test drive it.

Alphaville & Bob ?? Are we an 80's kind of guy.

You first music screen looks almost identical to mine - ie I have 2 of those alphaville albums and a load of bob.

Later
Simon

Can't wait.

by **Aaron** on Sat Jun 05, 2004 7:19 pm

Art,
nice job. Looking forward to getting a first-hand try of it. Any thoughts on when you may post it?

by **art** on Sat Jun 05, 2004 7:49 pm

Thank you guys, I'm glad you like it. Those show/hide pictures are 3d models , some of them I found on the web and some I did myself. Anyway, I'm trying to work on this skin as much as I can, but unfortunately I don't have too much time - maybe in a week or two it should be ready....

80's rock!!! :lol:

by **stevenhanna6** on Sat Jun 05, 2004 11:20 pm

good start art

I have to agree the 80's do ROCK!!!! I only have one alphaville album "Stark Naked And Absolutely Live"

by **Colby** on Mon Jun 14, 2004 12:38 am

My honest opinion?

This skin doesn't excite me. The 3d images look primative, flat, low-res and chunky. I dont care for the fonts and the blue main text on blue is hard to read.

I suppose I dont understand a lot about this skin. What is the intent with it? How is it better than whats out there?
What did you create the 3d images and buttons with?

What do you have left to do? Do you need any help?

by **art** on Mon Jun 14, 2004 1:48 pm

Thanks Colby. I appreciate your opinion, some good points there

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One thing that I’m not quite understanding is:

Colby wrote:I suppose I dont understand a lot about this skin. What is the intent with it? How is it better than whats out there?

Skin is what it is – just another look for the same app, (great app if I may add) so there is no other intent behind and I’m not really creating this skin to compete with yours or any other skin out there, it’s just a different look and few other minor things like overscan or placement of the buttons…..

by **Colby** on Wed Jun 16, 2004 1:56 am

I was wondering if this skin was for remotes especially, or standard tv or something. What did you create the 3d files in? I may want to look at rendering them.

by **art** on Wed Jun 16, 2004 2:17 pm

Yes, this skin will be remote/keyboard only (up, down, right, left and enter/OK key) with some little help from girder on tvguide (titanTV big screen) and it's for 4:3 TV (I test it on HD at 480p) with some overscan.
As far as the 3d images, the ones that I posted are in low res, I just rendered them to jpg to see how everthing will look like, final pics were rendered to targa (tga) 32 bit file at 1920x1080 and resized down to be around 500KB, so the quality will be better....