How do I change alpha value on highlight bar placeholder?

[mkanet]

See where the red arrows are pointing? I would like those to be a little darker without having to enable menu shading (which makes the whole background darker. I have searched and search in studio, but can't find where to change it. I was hoping for a sagemcoption, but can't find it.

MikeMaui (or anyone else that knows the answer), if you see this, could you please reply? Thanks so much in advance!

[MeInMaui]

You'll have to edit the image files and make the images darker. You should probably be able to do this pretty easily in Paint.net.

[mkanet]

Thanks so much for replying back Mike. I was going nuts trying to find the value in studio. I should have known, most likely, such a unique shape wouldnt have transparency defined.

Originally Posted by MeInMaui

You'll have to edit the image files and make the images darker. You should probably be able to do this pretty easily in Paint.net.

[razrsharpe]

mike can correct me if im wrong but i believe most of the focused/not focused icon backing is defined in only one place.... so what you could do is change the .pngs to not have transparency and then add a property item to change the transparency...

im working on a stvi to add some of the functionality of malore menus to SageMC (with its look and feel and fanart support). This is how i do the background and it works well.

[mkanet]

I feel bad for asking help again. But, I've tried and tried. I'm sure its something simple. But, when I edit button_green_nofocus_150x32.png, button_nofocus.png, button_small_imdb_nofocus.png, and button_small_settings_nofocus.png in either paint.NET or GIMP, no matter what I do to these images, I cant get brightness, lightness, contrast, hue, or anything else to change for the image. The only PNG files I can manipulate are the ones that already have color in them; however, I dont want color. I just want to have a dark grey fully transparent PNG.

Could someone please be kind enough to tell me what I'm doing wrong? I primarily use paint.NET, however, I installed GIMP just to see if I had better luck; to find out it was the same result.

Thanks,
Michael

[razrsharpe]

add a black overlay layer with partial transparency to the png.

The two pngs you want to modify are (i believe they are usually actually the same, or very similar images in most themes)
-list_sub_nofocus.png
-menu_list_nofocus.png


Replace the pngs in the theme directory you are currently using. You will need to restart the server (if HD200) or client for the new pngs to take effect.


Attached is a photoshop file you can modify if you want... also a png with 40% transparency


Its not perfect because you still have a transparency problem on the info section of the program info screen and the pngs include some rounded edges and buffer around the edge that is transparent that i was too lazy to clean up... but you're getting there.

[razrsharpe]

another approach to this would be too add a background fill image with partial transparency in studio... you can probably add that where the focused/not focused images are defined....

[mkanet]

Hey Razsharpe, thanks for the tips and your files. I wanted to use your files, but in the theme I use, the pictures have much more rounded ends to them (I think Mauimike had made them at some point). Any, I did something a little different and just just added the original png on top of an idendical one and merged the layers together. This automatically made it darker; and allowed me to adjust the brightness to exactly where I wanted. I also attached my PNGs; even though they may not be of any value.

See..

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

another approach to this would be too add a background fill image with partial transparency in studio... you can probably add that where the focused/not focused images are defined....

[razrsharpe]

ah yes i see your theme is a little different... and yup multiple layers of the same image would work too (as you obviously figured out)... your welcome for the tips