How to use the water balloon picture as your dash background

re: How to use the water balloon picture as your dash background

ExpandedFlame — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

Major, I understand that only developers can have a different picture for each blade for themes (so that people will pay points to have them). But one day I'm sure we all hope to be able to add our own picture for each blade, maybe you could allow us to create our own themes with our own pictures, but we would have to pay say 80 - 100 points (so microsoft doesn't "lose money"). Just an Idea, anyways.

re: How to use the water balloon picture as your dash background

GangsterPanda — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

Are there any plans to have the regular kits take screenshots and upload them to a pc/website? Would be lovely to get to export those PGR3 shots.

Dashboard Backgrounds...

latest — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:55:11 GMT

Some of you may already know that you can update the background image of your Xbox 360 dashboards. Major

re: How to use the water balloon picture as your dash background

teknomusik — Tue, 02 May 2006 18:25:20 GMT

Ideal image resolution please!

re: How to use the water balloon picture as your dash background

Agnostic Paladin — Tue, 02 May 2006 06:25:09 GMT

You don't need media centre or a usb key to do custom images. I've been using different desktop images that I have on my computer as my background on my 360 for a while. Some obviously work better than others given the way the interface overlays them, but I've got a really nice galaxy picture as a background right now that looks pretty sweet.

re: How to use the water balloon picture as your dash background

NxJ NightHawk — Mon, 01 May 2006 20:35:14 GMT

You can buy a TV capture card and use it to capture either digital stills or video to your PC. I've got the AverTV Hybrid FM + Cardbus tuner on my laptop. It's freakin sweet and definitely worth buying if you wanna play your 360 on the go.

re: How to use the water balloon picture as your dash background

Mark — Mon, 01 May 2006 19:24:00 GMT

Is there any way to capture (via a seperate bit of kit or some sort of shortcut on the xbox) screengrabs of the dashboard and / or games to another computer?

re: How to use the water balloon picture as your dash background

ExpandedFlame — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:26:17 GMT

Ok, well could they add this feature in an auto update:

It gets distracting when you have a custom picture on the blades and whenever the blades move the picture slides along with it. could they add the option of have the picture in the back stay stationary or to slide with the blades. This could also fix the problem with the image being cropped to fit the blades... it would be much nicer i think. What do you guys think, let me know if you agree with this..

re: How to use the water balloon picture as your dash background

portorikan — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 13:15:52 GMT

Wow, that's great. I didn't know it could be done. I also would like to know the idea size like Nathan mentioned. Very cool, Thanks!

What's the optimum image size to create the perfect blade photo?

Nathan — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 07:54:09 GMT

Major,

I'd like to know the ideal image size for backgrounds in the XBOX 360 Blades. If the maximum resolution of the 360 is 1920x1080, would the ideal blade image be about 1700x900? I know the size is a bit funky because it gets cropped to fit the shape of the blades. But what resolution does the 360 save background images as? The 'balloon' image was about 3 MB and probably 3000x2400 pixels in size. Does the 360 downsize it to 720p regardless of what your display is set at? And then if the display is set at 1080i, does it then upscan it just as it does for games? Please let us know so we can all create nice backgrounds for our blades... Thanks!

re: How to use the water balloon picture as your dash background

ahigee — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 04:26:08 GMT

Your screen grab from your dev kit does not have the unused bottons greyed out on the bottom of the blade. My home box shows the unused buttons greyed out. (ex. B & Y on the pic he has)

re: How to use the water balloon picture as your dash background

streetking1 — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 04:07:55 GMT

if u have media center u can just save the picture in your shared pics on your computer and just load it up on the 360 from computer.

re: How to use the water balloon picture as your dash background

LordRavenBlack — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:47:08 GMT

LOL, I posted a commet just like this on Major's old site, however I think they should just enable it. There is no way I'm going to start to pay for each individual option in the dashbord. I have no problem paying a little extra for the "Halo 2 Multi player map pack". It was content that the Bungie team spent additional time to create, for us, after the game was released. Mech Assult 2's limited eddition, and it's "Extra Levels" that were created as part of the game, and copped off for an extra $15? Not allowing us to use muiltible pic's for our Dash so we buy themes?? Selling the "play and charge kit" at launch. But not the "Quick charge kit"? Everyone wanted the Quick charge kit, It charges up to 2 Batteries at once and fast. Now that everyone bought the only charge device on the market for the 360 during the entire launch (play an charge) they release that one. Now we can continue to use our "sort of wireless controllers" or shell out more money for what you wanted in the first place. They showed the thing everywhere, in all there videos leading up to launch but wait till now to release it. Petty cash grabs. tisk tisk.

re: How to use the water balloon picture as your dash background

W4R — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 08:20:33 GMT

Wow, looks great thanks.