Hey Guys, long time no see.
In the meantime, here's my story and a short description of Horizonz's future:
Well, if you haven't heard just yet. I've actually been on the move, not on
holiday. You can't hide anything these days, didn't want you guys to think Horizonz would be postsponed for too long! So, i'm in Africa, South Africa to be exact, and lifes great, except I don't have an internet connection at home and it's expensive in terms of the fact that I've spent tons moving and getting all set up on this side. Also, and this is the sucky part, my computer and xbox have seemed to lose themselves on their journey overseas. So I'm stuck with a old piece of rubbish pc and no way of testing any xbox features. So, production will be slow and tedious until I can get an internet connection and faster pc which actually doesn't freeze every few minutes. Send me your money dudes, hehehe, send me ur htpc's, hehehe again. Dam, it sucks to make jokes about these things.
Anyways, thought a bit about the future of this skin over the last two tough weeks, and heres what the future holds. Thanks, by the way, for all your replies on the
wide icon poll. Needed to know what was going on in your minds. First things first. What's heading your way for
Volume IV! Well, here's the three main things i'll be getting into asap:
- I'm creating a
UNIVERSAL FRAME which will replace every other frame in Horizonz. There'll be variations in different views obviously, but it'll still look very similar. The reason for this change, is because Horizonz is lacking
uniformity which I am a big fan of. I think I was being too optimistic when I created seperate frames for different sections, because it gave you the oppertunity to complain, which i didn't want, but yes. It'll look good and slick, so try to be nicer when this one hits yah.
- After reading your replies and checking your votes on the
Widecase Poll, I had two dilemmas. Many people don't care too much about Banner Icons, because they've moved on with the times, but many do still use it, so I couldn't dissapoint any of the two groups and the third group which is me. So, heres what I have planned. Firstly XBMC allows for 10 viewtypes to be created, so I'm limited! So, for my pleasure, I'm erasing the Widecase view to open up a viewtype slot for a new View to be created, but I will create a variant of the
List and Poster Views for a cool new Diagonal Wide Icon Idea I have. So, You wide icon fans will have two views, but unfortunately, no Showcase views for now, because I don't have the time to change that one as well. But that'll be dealt with later on, I hope.
- Last thing, obviously got a lot of other
requests to deal with, and they'll be sorted to the best of my ability having a shitty computer and all that. Hope you can bare with me. Thanks a lot for all your support and the extra addons that were made in the time i was gone, and
CHIPY, sorry i couldn't check your mod out, but this internet cafe blocks that site. Anyway you can upload it to rapidshare for me, so I can see if I can include it
?
Anyways, let me know what you think!!!! Wanna hear what input you guys have on the new ideas I've thrown forward. L8r dudes!