El3kTRoSH0CK XBMP2 Skin Pre-Final courtesy of MomDad

Hot off the tail of the recently-released XBMP2, I decided to fux0r around with a little alternative skin as a follow-up to my last big thing -- the Ultra-X DiGiPaNeL EvoX skin that many of your are familiar with (http://www.wildabeast.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=My_eGallery&file=index&do=showpic&pid=125&orderby=dateD)...

So here's a fresh treat -- this one was kind of a quickie, and I'm not entirely happy with it yet, but instead of letting it rot here on the drive pending obsessive-compulsive perfecting, I figured I'd stick it out there and let all of you try it out...

There exists a multitude of limitations in terms of skinning it at this point in time, as many things such as alpha values, positioning, etc. are all hardcoded into the app... But I've mentioned a couple of these things to the dev team, so hopefully we'll see some improvements later on as I'm sure XBMP2's skinnability isn't their top priority right now :)

Not too happy with the width of the menu/list font -- I had to scale it back to 80% of it's original width in order to get around some of those hardcoded positioning issues in order to make the text fit properly (primarily in the Settings component -- a few things went off-screen)... Perusing my bazillion fonts to find a suitable replacement that might fit better, yet still match the same font style, as I wanna stick with it at least for the Start screen menu...

Greets to all the XBox folks on EFNet, and thanks to Duo, Frodo and RuNTiME for a fantastic release -- you guys really out-did yourself on this one! And a shout out to Nooodle for a sweet job on the default skin -- shows that *sometimes* MS does do things right :)

Thanks to Troll for a modified skin.xml for widescreen :)

INSTALLATION:

1) Backup to your PC, or rename the existing skin.xml and Media dir on your XBox HD

2) Un-Rar, and ftp over the skin.xml and Media dir from this archive

3) Launch it and n-j0y :p


-MomDad :p


