New version for XBMC 11

It's not dead, it's more on ice. As Gary above said, real life gets in the way. I worked for almost 1 and a half years every day on MC360 with a small team. It took that long to get it right, that was a lot of free time spent crafting it. It took from December 2005 until June 2006 to get the first beta out and then we didn't release the 1.0 until Feb 2007. With ellipsis myself and one other worked for a whole year to build it. We had less free time but more determination as ellipsis was our own creation and not a clone of existing property.

All is not lost though, the very reason I am her right now is because I'm putting together a small team to finish Ellipsis to 1.3 as promised. Bringing all the promised features and updating compatibility with the latest XBMC.

Below I've got the screenshot from my iPad of the list I've been building of what to tackle:



As you can see, we have a plan. It takes a lot of time to do things properly. We're not in the habit of releasing buggy fucked up skins like a lot of people do, we take our time to craft perfection. Another point to make that isn't in the plan, we built Ellipsis for 720p, I do intend to modify this to 1080p if it's possible. The skin will hopefully be a 1080p native, silky smooth, optimised beauty when it's released to 1.3. We'll of course be releasing incremental updates as we go 1.2.x etc until we're ready. It's not empty promises. We really do want to finish this skin, because I cannot start the next one till I am satisfied we did our very best with ellipsis, I designed this thing in 2006, it needs to be finished properly!

You may or may not know this is the best skin released for XBMC. What makes it important is *true* simplicity which means my entire family can enjoy the system.

And *style*, the understanding of what to leave out is where a whole lotta skins go wrong and they have a lot to learn from this one.

I hope you guys find the time to get it done.

I really like this skin.
Would be cool to see how it is developed.

hows the work goin on this , cant wait , keep it up

(2012-11-07 17:44)hentai23 Wrote:  hows the work goin on this , cant wait , keep it up

It's coming along slow but steady. I appreciate everyone's patience but this isn't the same operation it was a few years ago were there were a few of us staying up till 3 or 4am every night working on it and up again for work at 7am. It's all but a solo effort now and time is short and I don't have the energy I used to, so late nights are like Kryptonite! But Ellipsis 1.3 will come out and it will be awesome. Just don't ask when, this isn't a race!

Good to hear you are still alive and working on it
I won't switch to Eden or Frodo without Ellipsis.

greets
Tiberius

(2012-08-02 00:31)Blackbolt Wrote:  It's not dead, it's more on ice. As Gary above said, real life gets in the way. I worked for almost 1 and a half years every day on MC360 with a small team. It took that long to get it right, that was a lot of free time spent crafting it. It took from December 2005 until June 2006 to get the first beta out and then we didn't release the 1.0 until Feb 2007. With ellipsis myself and one other worked for a whole year to build it. We had less free time but more determination as ellipsis was our own creation and not a clone of existing property.

All is not lost though, the very reason I am her right now is because I'm putting together a small team to finish Ellipsis to 1.3 as promised. Bringing all the promised features and updating compatibility with the latest XBMC.

Below I've got the screenshot from my iPad of the list I've been building of what to tackle:



As you can see, we have a plan. It takes a lot of time to do things properly. We're not in the habit of releasing buggy fucked up skins like a lot of people do, we take our time to craft perfection. Another point to make that isn't in the plan, we built Ellipsis for 720p, I do intend to modify this to 1080p if it's possible. The skin will hopefully be a 1080p native, silky smooth, optimised beauty when it's released to 1.3. We'll of course be releasing incremental updates as we go 1.2.x etc until we're ready. It's not empty promises. We really do want to finish this skin, because I cannot start the next one till I am satisfied we did our very best with ellipsis, I designed this thing in 2006, it needs to be finished properly!

What is the app on your ipad ??

It's "2Do"

Thx !!

Since I have been away for a while and I now see XBMC 12 is now on horizon, I'm now going to pick up the reigns and help get Ellipsis to the state of perfection and completeness it deserves. Bare with me whilst I get my dev environment back together and will try and start posting frequent updates.