[Skin] Confluence Lite {PSYCHO DRIVER MOD}

Redneck9 · Post by **Redneck9** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:46 am

THIS SKIN I MODDED WITH LITTLE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE.

It took me all of maybe 30 minutes to make this skin, using only an open source word processor and the internet. It looks best while running GREEN or RED LEDs

It's based on the "Confluence Lite Skin" which I don't take any credit for.

Runs on fewer CPU Cycles... due to smaller backgrounds, bypassing skin settings, and calling on xbmc4xbox codebase colors.

[DOWNLOAD LINK]
http://www22.zippyshare.com/v/19760996/file.html

Redneck9 · Post by **Redneck9** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 8:26 am

Changelog:

"Song/Now Playing Video" text from red to violet. Violet seems more natural.

I've updated the DL link in the OP

I need testers. If anyone wants to host the skin in their drop box feel free (as It may be nice to have a more reputable file host)

I'm new at skinning so I'll need help I'm sure

sixties keith · Post by **sixties keith** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 9:20 am

ah this looks nice man, i'll defo be testing this. will report back with findings soon. anything in particular to look out for?

Redneck9 · Post by **Redneck9** » Thu Jun 20, 2013 7:47 pm

sixties keith wrote:ah this looks nice man, i'll defo be testing this. will report back with findings soon. anything in particular to look out for?

Thanks!

Only bug I know is it won't access "Skin Settings"
I tried renaming the skin to Confluence Lite and loading it with a fresh build to no avail. If you can help with that issue I'd appreciate it. That's the only bug I know of.

I'm pretty sure the problem is in one of these .xml files settings, settings profile or settings category. I took fresh versions of these files from the original skin thinking I may have made an error. That wasn't the issue.

byron · Post by **byron** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 8:24 am

How'd you go about changing things? I'll help if I can, this theme looks pretty cool man. Usually it's something pretty simple when a window won't open...at least it wasn't Home.xml

sixties keith · Post by **sixties keith** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 9:50 am

hi mate, no probs glad to do abit of testing.

so far had a good look through the skin and it all seems ok top me. the red in the menu's for me is slightly too bright more like a light. you could try to make it more like a glow but without testing on my 720p setup i can only go by the sd set up.

Also when in videos section my TV shows no longer have the wide icon option avaliable. Apart from that all works well on my end.

Redneck9 · Post by **Redneck9** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 4:48 pm

byron wrote:How'd you go about changing things?

@Byron
Used LibreOffice to open the various .xml files, then used the "find & replace" feature to change the color names.... As I said, not difficult. I think colors I used are taken from the xbmc4xbox db, not the skin's .xpr which I think helps save resources.

@Keith
I like it RED Like that... Besides that, I'd have to start from scratch if I wanted to change the colors. To top that off, I don't have the XBMC4Xbox color key. So I don't know which colors I can to choose from. I don't have a TV SHOWS Folder so I can't test that. I'm running it in 720p.

I mostly use XBOX for streaming stuff online, music, DVDs and emulators.

byron · Post by **byron** » Sat Jun 22, 2013 6:03 am

Several things...

Redneck9 wrote:Only bug I know is it won't access "Skin Settings"

You cannot have partial, unclosed or broken tags...

Line 324 custom_SkinSetting_1111.xml

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                   <text
urenofocus>MenuItemNF.png</texturenofocus>

Needs to be...

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<texturenofocus>MenuItemNF.png</texturenofocus>

I strongly recommend using notepad++ at least as a basic xml editor...it will help you find and solve simple problems like this. Also, I've had much luck with Dreamweaver's "find and replace" option as it doesn't require reg-ex's like npp.

Redneck9 wrote: Besides that, I'd have to start from scratch if I wanted to change the colors. To top that off, I don't have the XBMC4Xbox color key. So I don't know which colors I can to choose from. I don't have a TV SHOWS Folder so I can't test that. I'm running it in 720p.

If you haven't already, read this...I saw in custom_SkinSetting_1111.xml you had:

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<control type="label" id="106">
	<width>750</width>
	<height>45</height>
	<font>font13_title</font>
	<label>512</label>
	<textcolor>red</textcolor>
	<shadowcolor>black</shadowcolor>
	<align>left</align>
	<aligny>center</aligny>
</control>

But in Confluence Lite [PSYCHO DRIVER MOD]/colors/defaults.xml there is no "red" defined. YOU have to make this color in this file and then when you place "red" as a color in the <textcolor></textcolor> tags you will have that color from your default colors that you defined in that xml file.

Also related to this, there is no "XBMC4Xbox color key" afaik (could be wrong on that one), but rather any web color will work. I use this resource, but xbmc uses AARRGGBB, so the AA is for transparency alone I'm pretty sure...you can take any 6 letter hex and place aa,ff,cc,bb,fb,etc. in front of it to tweak the apperance/transparency of the color.

Redneck9 · Post by **Redneck9** » Sat Jun 22, 2013 4:51 pm

byron wrote:Several things...

You cannot have partial, unclosed or broken tags...

Line 324 custom_SkinSetting_1111.xml
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                   <text
urenofocus>MenuItemNF.png</texturenofocus>
Needs to be...
Code: Select all
<texturenofocus>MenuItemNF.png</texturenofocus>
I strongly recommend using notepad++ at least as a basic xml editor...it will help you find and solve simple problems like this. Also, I've had much luck with Dreamweaver's "find and replace" option as it doesn't require reg-ex's like npp.

Thanks

...I saw in custom_SkinSetting_1111.xml you had:
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<control type="label" id="106">
	<width>750</width>
	<height>45</height>
	<font>font13_title</font>
	<label>512</label>
	<textcolor>red</textcolor>
	<shadowcolor>black</shadowcolor>
	<align>left</align>
	<aligny>center</aligny>
</control>
But in Confluence Lite [PSYCHO DRIVER MOD]/colors/defaults.xml there is no "red" defined. YOU have to make this color in this file and then when you place "red" as a color in the <textcolor></textcolor> tags you will have that color from your default colors that you defined in that xml file.

That wasn't the problem. I looked at that before and after you pointed that out to me. Infact doing what you suggested changed some of the light blue text to a darke blue text.(specifically the system information screen) "while it's now labled red and defined with a web color code"

As for the skin settings bug, there is probably a line somewhere that says "Confluence Lite" which needs to be "Confluence Lite [PSYCHO DRIVER MOD]"

sixties keith · Post by **sixties keith** » Sun Jun 23, 2013 8:54 am

that's no problem mate just thought id point it out, using this skin on my red modded xbox all i did was change the background.

fair enough about the color too, looked far better when tested on the 720p cables anyways, good work mate

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