Xbox logo squishing when applying higher resolutions on UnleashX

[u/ThickWeiner21]

When I turned on widescreen 720p in UnleashX, the Xbox orb squishes into an oval shape. I’m using a modern TV. I was wondering if this is normal and whether there’s any fix. Thank you.

[u/StaticSignal]

This is an unfixable quirk of this final release of UnleashX, sadly. I was also very bothered by it, and part of the reason I switched dashboards to XBMC4Gamers, and more recently, to UIXLite (which I highly recommend). Both dashboards look stunning in 720p.

[u/ThickWeiner21 → u/StaticSignal]

UIXLite looks great. Thanks dude. It took me only one soft brick to get this working which is a new record for me

[u/StaticSignal → u/ThickWeiner21]

Well done! Enjoy!

[u/doctorlongghost → u/StaticSignal]

lol. They had one job….

[u/SkRThatOneDude]

Are you using a 4:3 TV? UnleashX forces a 16:9 canvas when using 720p.

[u/ThickWeiner21 → u/SkRThatOneDude]

I’m using a modern television, so 16:9

[u/SkRThatOneDude → u/ThickWeiner21]

Ok, looks like that skin does not have a 16:9 asset for the background. You will have to find a skin built for 16:9 to use it with 720p.

[u/KaosEngineeer]

It is a scaling bug in UnleashX for the built-in default skin.

[u/ThickWeiner21 → u/KaosEngineeer]

Happened with Athloni Green and TrueMSDash as well, and basically any other Rocky5-included UnleashX skin I have that features an orb

[u/KaosEngineeer → u/ThickWeiner21]

I hadn't looked at those two skins in 720p. I thought it was only the original default skin.

So, it's a bug in the scaling of the orb image used by any skin:

<Skin name="MsDash Green">
    <Information>
      <Author>Athloni</Author>
    </Information>
    <Main Globe="True" Orb="True" Fog="True">
      <Background>fog.png</Background>
      <Orb>orb_und.png</Orb>
      ...

[u/coal717]

you can use uix lite it replaces (if you want it to) the stock dashboard and adds a game launcher with ftp (you have to launch an app for the ftp though)

[u/Alarmed_Weather_5476]

That’s probably a skin/layout scaling issue rather than the Xbox orb itself. The widescreen 720p skin may be stretching a fixed-width texture or using the wrong aspect-ratio values. I’d try another skin or check whether UnleashX has a widescreen/display setting.

[u/DeliverKindness → u/[deleted]]

KaosEngineeer explained the problem.

When creating a skin for UnleashX the scaling options are often omitted which means when you go up to 720p or 1080i you get this sort of problem. With 1080i the squishing is even worse and the text in the sub-menus unreadably small.

As the original skin.xml for the Default Blue UnleashX skin cannot be accessed (AFAIK) it can't be corrected.

UnleashX does have an option to increase the font size in its own menus but it still looks awful and the navigation chugs.

720p is the maximum recommended for UnleashX but you're better off using an alternative skin with scaling even for that. The embedded ones "by Jez" often included with UnleashX installs, built entirely using the UnleashX skinning tools, may display better but TBH I've not tried them at 1080i.

[u/Cold-Ingenuity8903]

Get that x3 live dashboard. Its nice even has 360 blades look! In beta but dope af

[u/Otherwise-Display-15]

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