The Appearance Manager for The Collection has been updated. Although not completed, the plugin is much more usable than the previous version. The manager works with a PC, multiple MVPs, and a mixture of the two.
In the current implementation, Appearance Manager must restart GBPVR.exe inorder for its changes to take place. Note that all instances of the exe will be restarted. This approach is only temporary until the next release of GBPVR when Sub will provide a more elegant solution.
GBPVR allows you to use a single skin for both the PC and your MVPs or to have one for the PC and another for the MVPs. If you wish to have two variations of The Collection skin (PC, MVP) you should make a duplicate copy of the Collection directory tree. When choosing a name for the duplicate, be sure the word "Collection" is part of the name, for example "CollectionMVP".
Using "Collection" in the directory name is part of an incomplete scheme to head off problems when attempting to use the Appearance Manager with incompatable skins. It's okay that the scheme is incomplete because in that situation you will get a "File not found" error and be returned to the main menu. Not pretty but effective.
Here be dragons...
I don't know what will happen if two people try to use the Appearance Manager on the same directory tree, at the same time. I expect a mess of errors and hopefully the user would be thrown out before disaster strikes. I have just started work on a mechanism to lockout more than a single user. Should you be brave enough to find out for yourself, make a backup of the Collection directory first and let everyone know what happened afterwards.
There will be more updates as work progresses but the status of the Appearance Manager will not rise beyond Alpha until sometime after the next release of GBPVR.
For a preview of Appearance Manager, read this thread
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=11611
Download to and unzip from the GBPVR program directory.
Start the download by clicking one of these urls...
This is the full Collection package
http://starling02.home.mindspring.com/Co...onZip.html
Enjoy!
-David
In the current implementation, Appearance Manager must restart GBPVR.exe inorder for its changes to take place. Note that all instances of the exe will be restarted. This approach is only temporary until the next release of GBPVR when Sub will provide a more elegant solution.
GBPVR allows you to use a single skin for both the PC and your MVPs or to have one for the PC and another for the MVPs. If you wish to have two variations of The Collection skin (PC, MVP) you should make a duplicate copy of the Collection directory tree. When choosing a name for the duplicate, be sure the word "Collection" is part of the name, for example "CollectionMVP".
Using "Collection" in the directory name is part of an incomplete scheme to head off problems when attempting to use the Appearance Manager with incompatable skins. It's okay that the scheme is incomplete because in that situation you will get a "File not found" error and be returned to the main menu. Not pretty but effective.
Here be dragons...
I don't know what will happen if two people try to use the Appearance Manager on the same directory tree, at the same time. I expect a mess of errors and hopefully the user would be thrown out before disaster strikes. I have just started work on a mechanism to lockout more than a single user. Should you be brave enough to find out for yourself, make a backup of the Collection directory first and let everyone know what happened afterwards.
There will be more updates as work progresses but the status of the Appearance Manager will not rise beyond Alpha until sometime after the next release of GBPVR.
For a preview of Appearance Manager, read this thread
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=11611
Download to and unzip from the GBPVR program directory.
Start the download by clicking one of these urls...
This is the full Collection package
http://starling02.home.mindspring.com/Co...onZip.html
Enjoy!
-David