<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I found this link to creating your own 360 themes. I hope it helps. I just got my 360 last week and I'm enjoying it. More than I thought I would. I'd love to have a Groo theme, assuming that sort of thing is OK with Sergio and Mark.<div><br></div><div>Here's the link: <a href="http://forums.gametrailers.com/showthread.php?t=22735">http://forums.gametrailers.com/showthread.php?t=22735</a></div><div><br></div><div>Good luck and let me know if you did it. </div><div>Elie</div><div>OH NO! ELIE HAS A BLOG! <a href="http://elieharriett.wordpress.com">http://elieharriett.wordpress.com</a></div><div>(Caution: Adult Language)</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 14, 2008, at 12:35 AM, Tone wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>For those Xbox 360 Groopie Gamers,<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I was messing around with my digital camera and Xbox 360...<br>playing around with some Groo background theme images. I came up with<br>three Groo related images appropriately laid out to fit the 360's<br>menu-bars/side-panels, etc. I thought I would share them with the Groop<br>in case anyone wants to use them on their own Xbox 360. :)<br><br>Please note: I have a 720p HD TV, so the images I made are all at<br>1280x720 resolution, which is a widescreen 16:9 aspect ration. I figure<br>the images might get expanded without too much pixilation or distortion<br>for any of the higher resolution HD widescreen formats. However, I can<br>not guarantee how they will display on standard NTSC 4:3 aspect ratio<br>screens at 640x480 resolution.<br><br>---<br><a href="http://www.moon-shine.net/groo/WhiteGrooMontage.jpg">http://www.moon-shine.net/groo/WhiteGrooMontage.jpg</a><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This is a white-background "montage" of several smaller Groo<br>images in various poses. It includes a fairly centralized larger<br>blue-ink image of Groo slashing a soldier, which I scanned off of my own<br>sketch card. A little Rufferto image, which is almost always visible<br>without any overlay from the 360 menus, walks at the bottom of the<br>screen looking up at the blue-ink carnage. A golden oval with Groo<br>standing within gets cut off most of the time by the right<br>side-scrolling menus on the Xbox 360. On the left side, the image of<br>Groo crawling out of a computer monitor also gets masked most of the<br>time by the side-scrolling menu-tabs. Two other small images of Groo<br>stand to the left of the blue-ink sketch and are usually visible in some<br>form or another behind the selections, but never hidden by the<br>side-panels.<br><br>http://www.moon-shine.net/groo/GrooFriendsGoodBye.jpg<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This is an image of Groo and most of the predominant Groo<br>characters walking away with Groo waving good-bye. I forget where this<br>image originates from, possibly one of the later Marvel comics. It has<br>an all white background. The Sage's dog, Mulch, tends to get cut off by<br>the left side-scrolling tabs while the tip of Chakaal's sword and some<br>of Sergio's signature gets cut off by the right side-scrolling tabs.<br><br>http://www.moon-shine.net/groo/GrooGamingSanta.jpg<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This is the predominantly dark blue image from the Xmas card<br>Sergio drew for the video game company, Stray Bullet, where Sergio's<br>Nephew worked at. It was inked by Sergio, but colored by his nephew<br>before being used by the company as Xmas cards. I ABSOLUTELY wish I had<br>one of these cards in my own collection, but as far as I know only Gary<br>has one.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The image on the card is of a family sneaking down the stairs at<br>sunrise on Christmas morning to find Santa sitting on the floor of their<br>living room playing a "what-I-wish-could-be-real" Groo video game. I<br>digitally expanded this image with matching smooth flowing blue<br>background colors on either side so it would not get distorted in the<br>wide screen format and to make sure the central image would not get cut<br>off by the Xbox 360's side-scrolling menus.<br>---<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Santa image is the one I love the most and is naturally the<br>one I use on my own Xbox 360. I highly recommend Groo fans choosing the<br>"Tangerine" dashboard/menu color choice along with whatever of these<br>Groo image you might like to use. The "Tangerine" offers a nice vivid<br>orange color, which is obviously appropriate for Groo in that it matches<br>his tunic. However, within the tangerine pattern there seem to be little<br>squares/diamonds, which also seem reminiscent of cheese chunks to me. I<br>find the blue Santa image goes especially well with the tangerine menu<br>choice because of the blue-orange contrasting colors.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I would REALLY love it if I could figure out how to set up an<br>Xbox 360 theme, which uses four separate images. The way things seem to<br>be set up for end users now is they can only apply a single image to all<br>of the backgrounds of the side-scrolling menus. However, when<br>downloading and using "professionally" produced Xbox 360 themes many of<br>them clearly have multiple images where a different image will appear<br>for each of the backgrounds of the four side-scrolling menu sections.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Does anyone know how to set up a four-image theme? If I new how,<br>I would definitely create one or more extra Groo-related images to have<br>a full-featured Groo theme. In the same respect, is there anyone out<br>there, who knows how to create and install their own gamer pics? I<br>really do not see the point in spending any money on purchasing silly<br>gamer-pics for Xbox Live. There are of course tons of free gamer pics<br>out there, but they are usually pretty cheesy and/or<br>commercial/promotion related. It would be super cool to generate and use<br>my own Groo Gamer Pics. As it is my Xbox Live profile (Tone 8) has the<br>motto, "The Power of Cheese!" :)<br><br>Take care everyone,<br>_TONE_<br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Groop mailing list<br>Groop@groo.com<br>http://mailman.newdream.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/groop<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>