Editing Splash Screen on V26-09a Beta

mdsbrain · #1 02-18-2006, 09:30 AM

Once you make this amazing thing work let us know. I'm sure there will be a 1000 requests for custom splash screens

mcrussell · #2 02-21-2006, 04:45 AM

could someone send my a live link to the gifextractor as i cant get on carmes at all?

Much respect to all the genius's that made this possible!!!!!!

Jason

nitramluap · #3 02-21-2006, 07:30 AM

Hello again!

Well done to the group for getting this far. I love this reverse engineering.

No problems on my 2004 Mk-IV system in Australia. Still getting the same redraw glitches but it has been like this since version 26.

Apart from the image I created with the roundel in my second post, here is my effort.

I made this image from scratch after looking at an iDrive startup screen. It looks great here in a web browser on the PC, but the colours look dreadful on the Mk-IV's screen - it almost looks grey.

I think we need to find out which colours are able to be displayed by the navigation computer. The splash screens don't quite look as you'd expect them to... There must be a colour table somewhere listing 'legal' colours...

Paul Martin
Australia

RichardP1 · #4 02-21-2006, 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by nitramluap

Apart from the image I created with the roundel in my second post, here is my effort.

I made this image from scratch after looking at an iDrive startup screen. It looks great here in a web browser on the PC, but the colours look dreadful on the Mk-IV's screen - it almost looks grey.

I think we need to find out which colours are able to be displayed by the navigation computer. The splash screens don't quite look as you'd expect them to... There must be a colour table somewhere listing 'legal' colours...

Paul Martin
Australia

Nice image Paul.

I'd guess that the appearance on the monitor is more likely due to poor colour rendition on the monitor itself rather than a limitation in the colours that can be stored in the GIF.

The car monitor requires different characteristics to a PC monitor. For example, one of the prime characteristics must be that it is visible even in strong light and this probably compromises its ability to accurately display colours.

You coluld try increasing the saturation of your image, so it looks too colourful on your PC monitor.

nitramluap · #5 02-21-2006, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by RichardP1

Nice image Paul.

I'd guess that the appearance on the monitor is more likely due to poor colour rendition on the monitor itself rather than a limitation in the colours that can be stored in the GIF.

The car monitor requires different characteristics to a PC monitor. For example, one of the prime characteristics must be that it is visible even in strong light and this probably compromises its ability to accurately display colours.

You coluld try increasing the saturation of your image, so it looks too colourful on your PC monitor.

Thanks Richard,

That's what I thought initially, however the TV displays wonderful colours and so too does the Nav really, menu colours & the map display (particularly post v26).

I tried increasing the saturation of the GIF but it still looks dreadful!

Not to worry. The great thing about all this tweaking is that we can at lease switch the T26.09A for the old ==BMW== logo

Paul Martin
Australia

RichardP1 · #6 02-21-2006, 08:17 AM

Paul,

Unless I saved your image incorrectly it looks like it may not be in the correct format.

I've changed it to index colour and flatened the layers in the image it looks the same on the PC:

but it only has 256 colours, try it instead.

beedeeman · #7 02-21-2006, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by mcrussell

could someone send my a live link to the gifextractor as i cant get on carmes at all?

Much respect to all the genius's that made this possible!!!!!!

Jason

Here ya go. http://www.xoutpost.com/102790-post161.html