Deep Purpleish Download Link

[Antony]

Hi Tom, i could not send it by email size restriction so here's a download link

http://www.geocities.com/antonyfirewalk

I will also be updating this as i learn the ins & outs of gameex..

Enjoy

Antony

[Tom Speirs]

Hi Tom, i could not send it by email size restriction so here's a download link

http://www.geocities.com/antonyfirewalk

I will also be updating this as i learn the ins & outs of gameex..

Enjoy

Antony

Antony, this looks perfect as is. It worked straight away on my HTPC setup, and I tested it a fair bit too. Still perfect.

Actually I think I am going to keep as my default for the moment

Could I ask your permission to include this theme with the GameEx install?

You can have credit wherever you want it, just no $$ I am afraid !!

Let me know.

Thanks,

Tom

[Antony]

Antony, this looks perfect as is. It worked straight away on my HTPC setup, and I tested it a fair bit too. Still perfect.

Actually I think I am going to keep as my default for the moment 

Could I ask your permission to include this theme with the GameEx install?

You can have credit wherever you want it, just no $$ I am afraid !!

Let me know.

Thanks,

Tom

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Yes offcourse you can. dont worry about the $$ i work for fun not for finance i leave that to the unhappy.Glad it worked for you.. i am currently working on another theme which i shall call mce tribute.. which is based on samsonites mce2005 skin for media portal..i shall have to check with samsonite before i release,give me a couple of days..

a couple of questions why bitmaps why not png.

selection bar and font size can i change either.

i also have a few hires animated backgrounds which look damn cool but they force fps down to 15/60 wheras without i get full 60/60 fps i think this may be a mem prob with my machine only 256mb.. 128 video though anyhoos keep up the good work.

i will be in touch with next release asap.

Antont

oops nearly forgot here is a screenshot of next release

[Tom Speirs]

Yes offcourse you can. dont worry about the $$ i work for fun not for finance i leave that to the unhappy.Glad it worked for you.. i am currently working on another theme which i shall call mce tribute.. which is based on samsonites mce2005 skin for media portal..i shall have to check with samsonite before i release,give me a couple of days..

a couple of questions why bitmaps why not png.

selection bar and font size can i change either.

i also have a few hires animated backgrounds which look damn cool but they force fps down to 15/60 wheras without i get full 60/60 fps i think this may be a mem prob with my machine only 256mb.. 128 video though anyhoos keep up the good work.

i will be in touch with next release asap.

Antont

oops nearly forgot here is a screenshot of next release

Great!

Supporting PNG's will happen soon. I am deffinitly looking at doing that shortly.

The reason it currently uses Bimaps, is just because by default natively thats all DirectDraw can use as surfaces. Its easy to convert them, and I already do this for the logos, game snaps and artwork.

Sizing and positioning comes under the category of 'GameEx having full skinning support' which is not a high priority for me personally at the moment at least for now. I also would like to implement full skinning  support with high quality with a skinning app provided, that is also user friendly and to make sure users cant easily mess up the presentation. Unfortunatly that's a lot of work.

If the videos are animated backgrounds make sure you have turned off Alpha Blending for Videos. Its under Display options in the configuration app, I am extremely eager to see these. Let me know if that works. If not we could perhaps look at re-encoding them to MPEG or an AVI Codec that requires less utilisation to decode.

[Antony]

Great!

Supporting PNG's will happen soon. I am deffinitly looking at doing that shortly.

The reason it currently uses Bimaps, is just because by default natively thats all DirectDraw can use as surfaces. Its easy to convert them, and I already do this for the logos, game snaps and artwork.

Sizing and positioning comes under the category of 'GameEx having full skinning support' which is not a high priority for me personally at the moment at least for now. I also would like to implement full skinning  support with high quality with a skinning app provided, that is also user friendly and to make sure users cant easily mess up the presentation. Unfortunatly that's a lot of work.

If the videos are animated backgrounds make sure you have turned off Alpha Blending for Videos. Its under Display options in the configuration app, I am extremely eager to see these. Let me know if that works. If not we could perhaps look at re-encoding them to MPEG or an AVI Codec that requires less utilisation to decode.

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Hi tom, with regards to pngs marvelous!. Skinning engine Dont worry about it Im enjoying messing with Graphics for now.

The videos are already in avi mpeg, i think its just my system. Would you like a gameex anim logo doing for my deep purple skin.instead of the n64 one.

[Tom Speirs]

Ill take whatever is on offer! Always! I am sure others would be overjoyed too with anything you do or can provide.

[Antony]

Ill take whatever is on offer! Always! I am sure others would be overjoyed too with anything you do or can provide.

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Sweet ill start work.also what do you think of the mce tribute pic?.

[Tom Speirs]

Also what do you think of the mce tribute pic?.

Lovely

[stormbringer]

A black theme will be good , too , because it comes very clear on TV.

[Tom Speirs]

A black theme will be good , too , because it comes very clear on TV.

Just FYI: There is a setting in GameEx to set the background to black, and this should work with all themes.

[stormbringer]

Yes , i know. I mean a black theme that looks like brushed alu.