View Full Version : Fanart on TV Wall
skunkm0nkee
2008-09-09, 23:35
I've been thinking about this for a while as quite a few people have issues with the tv test card image on the defaut TV background image (I personally quite like it) so have thought about it a bit and decided to try something.
If a TV show has fanart then why not try and cover up that part of the image with a rotated/shrunken verison of the fanarft image. Been playing about with it a bit today and have come up with the following:
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/5937/tvwallfanartag0.png
What do people think?
matt_cyr
2008-09-09, 23:49
I don't mind that, but I really wish the main content didn't cover up so much of the fanart image. On some fanart you miss a lot of the image behidn the 'black bar'
very slick, i love it. keep up the great work.
so when will it be implemented? :D
What does it look like applied to the screen only instead of the wall?
skunkm0nkee
2008-09-10, 00:46
What does it look like applied to the screen only instead of the wall?
You can already do that in v0.90 by enabling the Show Fanart in TV Show List option?
Doh! I get you, not your screen, the screen in the image right? Doesn't look good as it's very hard to get a rotation that fits the angles of that screen and also that area is not suitable for a widescreen image
Sorry if I wasn't clear but I meant the projector screen.
Like this -
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/8939/screenshot000ec8.png (http://imageshack.us)
Can XBMC distort images like that?
jmarshall
2008-09-10, 02:10
Yes, if you get the angle and perspective right. It's tricky though!
ShortySco
2008-09-10, 03:42
I also love the existing one (remember seeing it years ago when the TV stopped at night :laugh:)
But that new thing is very cool :D, especially if it could be done similar to Hitchers pic.
If you go with it, and proves popular would you consider adopting something similar in the other views?
Nice!
Shorty
I think Hitcher might have a winner. Would deffinately kill the memory issue.
yellowman
2008-09-10, 09:40
I like Hitchers example, looks nice! ;)
MikeBeecham
2008-09-10, 13:37
looks great, I love it. It's great to see the community responding to the skin and coming up with ideas we never thought of!
skunkm0nkee
2008-09-10, 21:48
Been doing a bit more playing about to try and get it to fit the projector screen and basically got to the stage I was at yesterday where it doesn't quite fit (this is why I decided to place it across the wall instead).
It's nearly there but I can only (so far anyway!) get it to match up on 3 corners of that projector screen:
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/7568/tvwallfanart2qm8.png
Based on the feedback so far most people would prefer to see it within the projector screen (rather than the wall) so if the above is what it will be for now (I'll come back to it later and see if I can crack getting all 4 corners to match!)
ShortySco
2008-09-10, 22:03
Ok so which corner won't match up, because i can't tell ???
Yep, that's awesome!
Shorty
skunkm0nkee
2008-09-10, 23:00
Bottom right (thankfully the most hidden one anyway) :nod:
I'm guessing the image is angled rather than fully distorted which is why you can't get all the corners to fit but, as said, it's not noticable anyway.
Fantastic job.
jmarshall
2008-09-11, 00:26
What about placing an image over the top of it? That way you could get a nice alpha blend on the edges and the edges of the screen.
Nice work on the lining up!
skunkm0nkee
2008-09-11, 00:41
Yep, was considering some sort of black border image to try and smooth out the edges
Look forward to seeing it in action.
WaCk0.br
2008-09-11, 01:03
Been doing a bit more playing about to try and get it to fit the projector screen and basically got to the stage I was at yesterday where it doesn't quite fit (this is why I decided to place it across the wall instead).
It's nearly there but I can only (so far anyway!) get it to match up on 3 corners of that projector screen:
Based on the feedback so far most people would prefer to see it within the projector screen (rather than the wall) so if the above is what it will be for now (I'll come back to it later and see if I can crack getting all 4 corners to match!)
I think you can solve the problem by changing the image not the polygon. Looks like the bottom part (image) is distorted, something to do with camera lens.
Photoshop the BG and thats it! :grin:
I like this view, btw. Pretty cool.
harryzimm
2008-09-11, 01:11
Looks really nice. looking forward to using it.
Skunk do the corners look any better on the XBOX versus PC?
The antialiasing might help this some...
skunkm0nkee
2008-09-11, 09:51
Skunk do the corners look any better on the XBOX versus PC?
The antialiasing might help this some...
Haven't really had a chance to try it on the xbox yet but I've been playing with it on the SDL build (where the screenshot comes from) and that should have the same image processing as the xbox I would have thought?
Gamester17
2008-09-11, 14:31
Skunk do the corners look any better on the XBOX versus PC?
The antialiasing might help this some...Haven't really had a chance to try it on the xbox yet but I've been playing with it on the SDL build (where the screenshot comes from) and that should have the same image processing as the xbox I would have thought?Yeah you would have to as jmarshall to confirm but I do not think that XBMC's skinning-engine and renderers currently uses any different anti-aliasing settings on the Xbox verses the non-Xbox versions, ...feel free to submit a feature request on trac for that (so that we at least do not forget to check).
This looks great.
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=36476