after a long experimental phase Limbus has evolved into it's own. A way from complete but very solid.
LAST UPDATED 2/13/2011
NEW DOWNLOAD FOR LIMBUS
a lot of new stuff this update
Some new things are:- widgets for all section displayed on home section
- Library statistics on quick browse page
- next aired info on most tv views
- logos displayed in tv poster views
- TV Ratings displayed in tv views
- all new graphics
- Cinema experience integration
- added kiosk mode
- all new views for TV and movies
- trailers link on home path or script
- HD link on home
- playlist link on home
- internet radio section
- arcade section
- home genre link
- thumbs for custom links
- online video section
PLANNED FOR NEXT UPDATE
SOME SCREEN SHOTS
updated 2-13-11
Home
Home all widgets on movies focused and recently added widget focused
Fanart TV view
home link Genres submenu focused
Combo view
Combo view after 3 second focus
Some of the things featured in the skin are:
- supports extra fanart and extra tumbs
- several color themes Red,Blue,Green,Pink,Grey and default
- widgets for recently added music, episodes, movies and weather,library stats, and System info
- varied views including pic views for comics and children books and audio books
- hidden horizontal slide menus on the top and sometimes bottom of the media pages with options like hide fanart and hide info
- font color themes for sets that blur certain colors
- option for TV logos, and TV logo and clear art download button in slide menu on video pages with TV shows /views
- options for removing widgets and other info such as time, tempature and RSS feeds from home page
- options to remove almost every link from main menu except home
- option to add custom links and sub menus using add ons and favorites menu for library paths
- custom links that just need a path added like Bookshelf, Posters, ETC...
- Option to show and hide custom media backgrounds
- soundset from scratch (except shutter sfx)
- TvTunes ,Cinema Experience and NextAired integration
- and more......
Suggested not necesary
extra fanart and extra thumbs folder
at least 4 extra thumbs
Skin is only 80% mouse friendly aimed at remote and keyboard nav
More Screenshots:
poster view movies
Panel view albums
one of the color themes more of a glow than solid color now
green
next aired EPG
control for home links
Looks good
Nice to see more skins appear..
Very Nice!
I never saw such a cool combo view.
Keep it up..
Nice Views, sincerely i don't like font on the Home Menu. You're are thinking to bring this skin in 720p resolution or higher? Keep it up, good work!
butchabay Wrote:Nice Views, sincerely i don't like font on the Home Menu. You're are thinking to bring this skin in 720p resolution or higher? Keep it up, good work!
I do most of my viewing on a PC and have no trouble seeing anything clear no matter what skin so I would like to do a version without focusing on everything being so large. From the start I have been working in 720p in anticipation of that.
But it has been very time consuming getting the SD version finished.
I like the blocky font for the main menu. I am in the process of adding an alternative font set to the skin though.
I have a few color sets now working on a couple of alternative font sets
After adding a new standard fontset I am starting to agree with you
I made the other main menu font with a fontcreator prog from scratch so I am a bit invested
Lookin good glad to see more skins including larger font sizes.
Lookin pretty good.
Some of those views are crazy! Not in a bad way, it's just creative. Seems like it would be good for the XBMC4Xbox project.
DukeOfTheWicked Wrote:Lookin pretty good.
Some of those views are crazy! Not in a bad way, it's just creative. Seems like it would be good for the XBMC4Xbox project.
Thanks I gave up the old black box a while ago. Would have never been able to finish a skin or anything else if I was gaming. I do want to get a 360 but haven't yet ,so I wouldn't know what to do about XBMC4Xbox project. I'll check it out.
Damn that looks smooth, I want it! lol Great work man cant wait to take it for a spin!
I was calling this menu button special but went with HOME in the end.It has a sub menu links that lead to a Next Aired page showing info using the Next Aired add-on. Quick Browse shows a page with all recent and random info plus three next aired episodes.
HOME BUTTON
NEXT AIRED
QUICK BROWSER
I also added flag jpegs for the names of the countries in the video library
so far just in the main list
Anyone know a source for flag pics that will look alike or be in a set?
Great Work!!!
Gonna check it out..
It's nice to have such a nice skin for TVs with an Aspect Ratio of 4:3.
Although it would be highly appreciated to have a ported version for 16:9.
(i.e. if you're thinking of ugrading your TV/Monitor in the near future, then pls let us know :-)
Cheers
Edit:
Looks pretty cool, and the views are very fresh, especially because you have some unique views.
The fonts are extremely good readable.
This skin is also fine for a 16:9-Usage,
but needs just adjustments for the aspect-ratio of posters/fanarts (how could I fix that?).
Edit2:
To sum it up: It's also a great experience on a 16:9 TV.
The Aspect-Ratio feels wrong, but after few minutes the skin gets fancy and
you're fine with the aspect-ratio.
bridgman, keep it up!
ubuntuf4n Wrote:This skin is also fine for a 16:9-Usage,
needs just adjustments for the aspect-ratio of posters/fanarts (how could I fix that?).
!
I started this skin using a widescreen 1280 lost that monitor and now I am using a 1024. Also recently my htpc power supply quit so all mods have been viewed 1024 by me lately.That may have something to do with it.
I am not quite sure what actual aspect ratio problem your having? That is just me being confused. I am sorry I don't have a suggestion at the moment I will look things over and see if I can figure out what is going on.
hi,
I am not quite sure how to explain it, but it looks like that there are views which are great on 4:3-TVs and some views which have the right cover-aspect-ratio (and also fanart-AR).
If it was intended to be like that, then I am happy with that.
Just wasn't sure about that.
Did you checked your skin in a AR of 16:9 (You may try XBMCs Window-Mode)