Theme Designer - Reflection - can the starz be removed/altered?

BarryTheCrab

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Mar 28, 2016 10:50

I am trying to make use of the Theme Designer (for once) and the Reflections template would be a good choice for my current project, but those darn stars, those needless stars, can they be removed or altered. I would like the former, but the latter would be good if the stars were Easter eggs instead. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Mar 28, 2016 12:57

Hi Barry -

I just had a dig around in the template folders and can't find ANY simple way to remove those stars - let alone turn them into eggs!

My next thought was to just cover them with something else - but that would be somewhere between very difficult & next-to-impossible with some of the sequences.

Just a down-side of using templates

Cheers - Tony
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BarryTheCrab

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Mar 28, 2016 13:11

I'm still trying to find the up-side...
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Carl312

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Mar 28, 2016 17:16

Tony is probably correct.

This is where I found the Reflection Icons. They are small 320 x 178 pixels.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Cyberlink\templates\PowerDirector Content Pack Essential\Styles\Reflection_Theme\themeIcons

I do not know how it all works.

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Dafydd B

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Mar 29, 2016 05:02

Hi,
Unfortunately the theme icons are the "avatars" used within the theme designer and not the background.

In Reflection_Theme, created in 2009, there is only one 2D background image easily accessible, C:\Program Files (x86)\Cyberlink\templates\PowerDirector Content Pack Essential\Styles\Reflection_Theme\bk.jpg. Reflection_Theme is a 3D display and while a FBX viewer/editor to make changes, is available, I haven't examined the individual 3D files to isolate the stars Barry mentioned he wanted changed to eggs.
Dafydd

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BarryTheCrab

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Mar 29, 2016 06:05

It's a nice template but the stars limit it's usability.
Well, I have moved on, but it was a thought, it's just I don't always have the time to customize a video and still have a quick delivery before people start looking to the next event. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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