2011-05-27, 20:51
With many great skins available for XBMC I have found very few of them that cater to those of us with SDTV's. The big issue always being the font's are extremely hard to read.
Since I started using XBMC I have been in awe of one skin, Aeon, but due to performance I was not happy with it on my ION system. With the release of Aeon Nox by Big_Noid I finally get to use Aeon on my ION platform with no performance issues. The only thing left to do was to Mod the fonts and spacing of certain text to make it work well on an SDTV. Below is my personal mod of Aeon NOX.
Aeon Nox SDTV Mod is truly Big_Noid's version at the core with the font's replaced and resized and some spacing changes to fix overlapping text. It also incorporates the rightlist Mod that Danofun added in the original Aeon Nox thread that works very well for SDTV's.
I find the Lowlist and Rightlist views to work the best, and the most aesthetically pleasing in my opinion. I will continue to make updates and fix font and spacing related issues with this mod. Bug fixes will be handled by remodding Big_Noid's version from the Aeon Nox repo as he releases them. He works fas so updates will probably only be for major releases.
Thank you everyone that has contributed to Aeon Nox and especially Big_Noid for creating such a smooth and bug free version. This is just my way of giving back to the community.
For those of you running an ION I strongly suggest using Linux and enabling DDSFanart. I find performance on Linux to be much better than Windows. Linux may be harder to setup initially but is well worth it in the long run.
Download Link
Aeon Nox SDTV Mod (Based on SVN .963)
Aeon Nox SDTV Mod (Based on v1.2 of official)
Screenshots
Since I started using XBMC I have been in awe of one skin, Aeon, but due to performance I was not happy with it on my ION system. With the release of Aeon Nox by Big_Noid I finally get to use Aeon on my ION platform with no performance issues. The only thing left to do was to Mod the fonts and spacing of certain text to make it work well on an SDTV. Below is my personal mod of Aeon NOX.
Aeon Nox SDTV Mod is truly Big_Noid's version at the core with the font's replaced and resized and some spacing changes to fix overlapping text. It also incorporates the rightlist Mod that Danofun added in the original Aeon Nox thread that works very well for SDTV's.
I find the Lowlist and Rightlist views to work the best, and the most aesthetically pleasing in my opinion. I will continue to make updates and fix font and spacing related issues with this mod. Bug fixes will be handled by remodding Big_Noid's version from the Aeon Nox repo as he releases them. He works fas so updates will probably only be for major releases.
Thank you everyone that has contributed to Aeon Nox and especially Big_Noid for creating such a smooth and bug free version. This is just my way of giving back to the community.
For those of you running an ION I strongly suggest using Linux and enabling DDSFanart. I find performance on Linux to be much better than Windows. Linux may be harder to setup initially but is well worth it in the long run.
Download Link
Aeon Nox SDTV Mod (Based on SVN .963)
Aeon Nox SDTV Mod (Based on v1.2 of official)
Screenshots