[RELEASE] Aeon Nox 3.0 (deprecated)

i pushed a bigger change to allow a fallback slideshow instead of a single image so you have a bit more variety.
i thaught that made sense because you see them relatively often when browsing through the media.
place your images in skin folder/backgrounds/.../ and please report bugs concerning the fallback background (there are some, I´m sure)

i also replaced the old fallback images with some new stuff so you don´t get bored

btw, that path can´t be changed, we have to use a fixed path there.

you can find some nice ones at

http://www.htbackdrops.com
http://customht.org/

or, if you want art from specific movies / artists, check out

http://www.fanart.tv

(and also consider donating to fanart.tv because they deliver a lot of the artwork we´re using and also have to pay their servers somehow)

cheers

(2012-07-03 15:15)phil65 Wrote:  

(2012-07-02 22:23)phil65 Wrote:  one request here to all users here who feel it´s worth contributing something:
my idea is to have access to a demo video (or several) which show how to set up the skin.
would someone here be that nice and create some nice video stuff?
it would become a seperate settings menu item including credits to video author with links to the videos which i would put on my webspace,
thx

come on guys

I spent all Saturday trying to make one. Took me about 10 hours to figure it out, which is silly since the end product is rather novice - but perhaps it will be helpful? I hope!

http://youtu.be/SLzd3ou3SaI

http://youtu.be/M-d8rzV_Mio

(2012-07-03 01:18)fional Wrote:  Is it possible to have it display the logo when the clearart isn't available? Even if itsn't not a Nox feature, just curious if that be possible!

Also, is it possible to have it display that in season/episode view? Though maybe that was removed.

Is it actually possible to have it look for a logo.png and if it is not available, then display clearart.png? Is that something that be modable or would that be outside the limitations of XBMC itself?

Also, I know I mentioned it before, but it may of melted into obscurity as it was in the midst of some rather neat new widgets - but have the elements of displaying the trailer (in low list mode) above the list completely stripped out since 2.0? Only am asking because while full screen trailers seems to flow nice in the other views, I think the "box" way was quite clever. Even if it's not something that can make a return in this version of Nox, have the internal bits that made it that way vastly different or is it beyond my hacky way of modding?

First of all I have to say you have a perfect narrator voice, kind of the
female equivalent to Samuel L. Jackson.
I kind of like the video for a first draft, but as you stated yourself there
is room for improvement
I can recommend Camtasia for beginners, it is pretty easy to use.

@Phil
I think she deserves a DailyHotGuy Widget for her work
http://dailyhotguy.com/
http://shirtlessdaily.com/

I would do a video myself, but i´m in the middle of end of semester exam preparation.
So that can´t happen till August. But I´m thinking shooting the video and
Fiona could narrate it

hi phil could you take a look at this:

i have some issues with live pics background

(2012-07-05 12:06)peppe_sr Wrote:  in setting bg it is inverted (choosing random i have last and vice versa)
but the biggest issue is that it is not populated on startup of xbmc.
to populate the live bg (i talk always and only for pics) i have to go in skin settings and "clik" on "choose background" in this way images appear, but i see always same images they don't change anymore, other live bg (music, movie) and widget are dynamics

if you want i can take a video.
thanks a lot.
peppe

@fional. great work!!

@fional: +1 rep and specially for you :

(2012-07-08 04:16)fional Wrote:  

(2012-07-03 15:15)phil65 Wrote:  

(2012-07-02 22:23)phil65 Wrote:  one request here to all users here who feel it´s worth contributing something:
my idea is to have access to a demo video (or several) which show how to set up the skin.
would someone here be that nice and create some nice video stuff?
it would become a seperate settings menu item including credits to video author with links to the videos which i would put on my webspace,
thx

come on guys

I spent all Saturday trying to make one. Took me about 10 hours to figure it out, which is silly since the end product is rather novice - but perhaps it will be helpful? I hope!

http://youtu.be/SLzd3ou3SaI

http://youtu.be/M-d8rzV_Mio

(2012-07-03 01:18)fional Wrote:  Is it possible to have it display the logo when the clearart isn't available? Even if itsn't not a Nox feature, just curious if that be possible!

Also, is it possible to have it display that in season/episode view? Though maybe that was removed.

Is it actually possible to have it look for a logo.png and if it is not available, then display clearart.png? Is that something that be modable or would that be outside the limitations of XBMC itself?

Also, I know I mentioned it before, but it may of melted into obscurity as it was in the midst of some rather neat new widgets - but have the elements of displaying the trailer (in low list mode) above the list completely stripped out since 2.0? Only am asking because while full screen trailers seems to flow nice in the other views, I think the "box" way was quite clever. Even if it's not something that can make a return in this version of Nox, have the internal bits that made it that way vastly different or is it beyond my hacky way of modding?

many thx fiona. very nice work.
if you have a nice feature request in mind or want to have something modded for personal needs, just PM me.
glad to help out people who invest a bit of work..

really well done.

Work is progressing nicely with the git version.

When you press M from the main menu you get another main menu at the top, could this be reverted to the 3.0 handled pressing M.

Regards John

(2012-07-08 10:19)solidsatras Wrote:  First of all I have to say you have a perfect narrator voice, kind of the
female equivalent to Samuel L. Jackson.
I kind of like the video for a first draft, but as you stated yourself there
is room for improvement
I can recommend Camtasia for beginners, it is pretty easy to use.

I would do a video myself, but i´m in the middle of end of semester exam preparation.
So that can´t happen till August. But I´m thinking shooting the video and
Fiona could narrate it

Thanks I looked at Camtasia just after now and it looks rather nice, but I don't have a mac at the moment. Hoping to get one soon, but I'm still waiting for my iPad which I'm hoping for by mid-November!

(2012-07-08 11:54)peppe_sr Wrote:  hi phil could you take a look at this:

i have some issues with live pics background

[quote='peppe_sr' pid='1141095' dateline='1341482815']

@fional. great work!!

Thanks!

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(2012-07-08 12:58)Big_Noid Wrote:  @fional: +1 rep and specially for you :

YAY Thanks, that's class.

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(2012-07-08 13:08)phil65 Wrote:  

many thx fiona. very nice work.
if you have a nice feature request in mind or want to have something modded for personal needs, just PM me.
glad to help out people who invest a bit of work..

really well done.

Thanks a million It was fun playing with the widgets. I'll definitely message you!

I hope it's useful. Maybe if I can figure out a better way, I can improve it. There was no microphone on my XBMC machine, so I had to sort of record me speaking on my mobile first and try to sync it up.

(2012-07-08 15:16)fional Wrote:  Thanks I looked at Camtasia just after now and it looks rather nice, but I don't have a mac at the moment. Hoping to get one soon, but I'm still waiting for my iPad which I'm hoping for by mid-November!

There is also a Windows version, it´s called Camtasia Studio:
http://download.techsmith.com/camtasiast...mtasia.exe

...and back to topic. sry phil/big

First of all congratulations for making this skin so great. Keep up the good work

After i upgraded the git version i lost all my artist thumbnails and my cd covers for music, is there an option to restore them?

Thanks in advance