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yotsuya:
Dazz-
I just recently upgraded the computer in my main MAME machine, and I was finally able to run HS after running AtomicFE. I've enjoyed HS's flexibility and have had a lot of fun creating my own themes in HyperTheme. I'm really looking forward to v2.
headkaze:
Horses for courses ;)
shmokes:
My last post was made on an iPad, so finding and posting an example of the Aeon Nox XBMC skin wasn't very feasible. Here it is:
A couple of things you'll see here: One is what Howard was talking about. See how each game, movie, TV show, music artist/album, has its own artwork, info, etc., but how all of that stuff exists within the theme? Never, at any time, no matter what you are looking at, are you taken out of the Aeon environment. It's all a seamless, cohesive experience.
The other thing is that a metric ton of information is being displayed at any given time, but it's always classy. Imagine that same video where instead of the little tick-tick-tick noise you here when scrolling through lists or selecting menu items it instead played a short sound sample from some random movie. Because that what Hyperspin does.
I see no reason why Hyperspin could not be skinned with something every bit as elegant as that Aeon theme. It strikes me as a very powerful front end. But as it stands, it has been designed to be as outlandish and in-your-face garish as possible by default. I lack the talent and motivation to skin it myself, but I think these are things that the Hyperskin team ought to think about. Hyperspin appears to be designed to appeal to adolescent boys. It makes me think it was designed with something like this in mind:
I'm honestly not trying to just be insulting. I see Hyperspin and I want to use it. But both times I've tried it (once when it first came out, once last week) I had to switch away. It's too much.
jimmy2x2x:
Nice post Shmokes, I much prefer the relaxed elegant approach to front ends.
Hopefully V2 will have something for everyone
Dazz:
--- Quote from: shmokes on January 26, 2012, 09:37:35 am ---My last post was made on an iPad, so finding and posting an example of the Aeon Nox XBMC skin wasn't very feasible. Here it is:
A couple of things you'll see here: One is what Howard was talking about. See how each game, movie, TV show, music artist/album, has its own artwork, info, etc., but how all of that stuff exists within the theme? Never, at any time, no matter what you are looking at, are you taken out of the Aeon environment. It's all a seamless, cohesive experience.
The other thing is that a metric ton of information is being displayed at any given time, but it's always classy. Imagine that same video where instead of the little tick-tick-tick noise you here when scrolling through lists or selecting menu items it instead played a short sound sample from some random movie. Because that what Hyperspin does.
I see no reason why Hyperspin could not be skinned with something every bit as elegant as that Aeon theme. It strikes me as a very powerful front end. But as it stands, it has been designed to be as outlandish and in-your-face garish as possible by default. I lack the talent and motivation to skin it myself, but I think these are things that the Hyperskin team ought to think about. Hyperspin appears to be designed to appeal to adolescent boys. It makes me think it was designed with something like this in mind:
I'm honestly not trying to just be insulting. I see Hyperspin and I want to use it. But both times I've tried it (once when it first came out, once last week) I had to switch away. It's too much.
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By default, HyperSpin is designed to be an ARCADE experience. When you walk into an arcade you see flashing lights, sounds, screen animations, cartoon like characters, video game like artwork, etc. First and foremost; HyperSpin was made to be used in Arcade cabients, not an HTPC environment. However, we have many members that use HS on their HTPC's. If you want a HTPC design, such as Aeon, then spend time and learn to create what you want... or wait until someone releases such a theme. Just because it's not included with the initial download; it doesn't mean that there isn't such themes.
Again, with a little work HyperSpin can look and act exactly like Aeon. If you don't don't like the game sounds when moving the wheel... simply delete the wheel sounds in the \media\main menu\sounds folder.
This theme pack is actually still being worked on.
Hyper Aeon
When HS 2.0 comes out we'll probably see more similar themes. 2.0 has a customizable coverflow system that will allow people to create different wheel types. Below is just an example of the coverflow with the reflections being added automatically.
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