[mikeSiLVO]

ok awesome got it updated. this thing keeps getting better and better.

is there any way to use extra fanart? can't seem to find that option not sure it is there or not.

No extrafanart. Only way to add that (until it is added to core) is to use hacky things that I will not implement. I used to like having extrafanart but now I add one movie at a time and try to pick the best art that in my opinion "sums up the movie". If anybody wants to add it mods to the skin are welcome and I can always make a post for them somewhere in the thread.

[Warner306]

I am not using this skin, but the controls for the background reflection would be found in Includes_BackgroundBuilding.xml (search for IDs 53 and 54). Controls for the text label are found in MyVideoNav.xml (again under IDs 53 and 54). And controls for the flags are found in the media folder (which would have to be replaced by custom flags created in an image editing program such as Photoshop). The position of the flag and the texture attribute for the flag are found in the Showcase view files.

Nox 5 uses many common labels to keep the code light. MyVideoNav contains many common labels across viewtypes including the title and sublabel. Includes_BackgroundBuilding includes common background elements across viewtypes such as the reflection in Showcase/Landscape views. So, labels such as titles are in MyVideoNav, while background images are in IncludesBackgroundBuilding. The visibility conditions are tied to the IDs for each viewtype, which are included in the name of the view.

Thanks for your assistance. I found what I was looking for the reflections in other XML's though, Got rid of the disc case reflections when you aren't using disc cases which should never have been showing up.

Still haven't worked out why the colors for text and icons in showcase are permanently grey.

I have run into the problem with items appearing grey before. Mike would know the answer to that. There is probably an Includes for these items that overrides other settings or a problem with layers. Includes_CommonValues might be a place to look.

This skin is easier to mod than most but still as mysterious sometimes as to where everything is found.

Basic Rules:

MyVideoNav/MyMusicNav: Common labels across viewtypes
Includes_BackgroundBuilding: Common background elements such as the top bar and floor elements
Other Includes: One for Animations, Widgets, Home Screen, Common Items, Master File List etc.
Variables: Multi-label/multi-image variables
View_ID_Name: Items specific to each viewtype defined by media types: Container.Content(media type) visibility conditions. If a label or image is missing here, it is most likely in an Includes or MyVideoNav/MyMusicNav defined by viewtype ID.
Dialog and Custom_Blank: A collection of dialogs and things that pop-up on the screen. A few other items not dialogs.

Hope that helps.

[marhutchy]

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One problem that I have with the installation of upgrades is that every time I upgrade, my default_bg file gets overwritten.

I have a black default_bg file just so others can easily find and replace it. I guess I can remove that and it might not replace that file

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Can I remove the black default_bg file from the zip file?
What if there's no default_bg?

[falconexe]

Mike, I have been a long time XBMC enthusiast with a custom unRAID server. I just recently made the switch to Kodi, reluctantly. I only switched for the 4K support (h.265) and 3D features. I wanted to personally thank you for all of your hard work thus far. It is seriously appreciated! And thanks to all of those who predated you, and all of those working with you now as well. I really enjoy the tenacity and dedication of Kodi skinning community!

I just came from the Aeon Nox 4.9.x skin on XBMC 13.X and have been using Shednox on Kodi 14.2 for a couple weeks. Then I saw that it was no longer being supported. And then I found your skin!

It looks and feels fantastic! You mentioned that you would be open to requests (THANK YOU!). There are just a couple of things that I noticed were missing and I wanted to see if there was any chance of them being added to SiLVO .

1. TV Shows - View - TriPanel - Is there a way to rearrange the order of the panels? (3 Different Options As found in Shednox?)

2. TV Shows - View - TriPanel - Is there a way to add the "thumbnails" for the episodes on the episode info panel? (As found in Shednox?)



3. Movies - View - Showcase - I noticed that the fanart is smaller in SiLVO compared to Shednox. In Shednox the fanart ended just past the center of center poster. On SiLVO , it is pushed to the right and is centered on the poster to the right of center. I would like to have the fanart as large as possible. Is this due to the framework of the view in Silvo? Is there a way to make it look similar like before?



That's all for now. Thanks again! This skin is LEGIT!!!

[Mario S.]

@mike in wall view now we have cases but there are no clear cases ??
and the blue border is only as big as that cover and not as the cases i think it looks better if it is as big as the cases !

[Warner306]

I am not using this skin, but the controls for the background reflection would be found in Includes_BackgroundBuilding.xml (search for IDs 53 and 54). Controls for the text label are found in MyVideoNav.xml (again under IDs 53 and 54). And controls for the flags are found in the media folder (which would have to be replaced by custom flags created in an image editing program such as Photoshop). The position of the flag and the texture attribute for the flag are found in the Showcase view files.

Nox 5 uses many common labels to keep the code light. MyVideoNav contains many common labels across viewtypes including the title and sublabel. Includes_BackgroundBuilding includes common background elements across viewtypes such as the reflection in Showcase/Landscape views. So, labels such as titles are in MyVideoNav, while background images are in IncludesBackgroundBuilding. The visibility conditions are tied to the IDs for each viewtype, which are included in the name of the view.

Thanks for your assistance. I found what I was looking for the reflections in other XML's though, Got rid of the disc case reflections when you aren't using disc cases which should never have been showing up.

Still haven't worked out why the colors for text and icons in showcase are permanently grey.

If you are serious about maintaining your own version of any skin, you should take a look at this post in-progress on using GitHub to Fork a repository:

229467 (thread)

[Schraat]

Thanks for your Answer.you are right,it was my fail because i use a fire tv.And I think the Osd was the info button on fire tv remote.
The infobar up is that what i watchin for.Now i must look how can change my keymap to bring that to my fire tv remote

[mikeSiLVO]

Can I remove the black default_bg file from the zip file?
What if there's no default_bg?

If you download from GitHub yes but the release zips have all images in a textures.xbt file. You can add things not in that file but cannot change any existing images due to the xbt file taking priority.

Mike, I have been a long time XBMC enthusiast with a custom unRAID server. I just recently made the switch to Kodi, reluctantly. I only switched for the 4K support (h.265) and 3D features. I wanted to personally thank you for all of your hard work thus far. It is seriously appreciated! And thanks to all of those who predated you, and all of those working with you now as well. I really enjoy the tenacity and dedication of Kodi skinning community!

I just came from the Aeon Nox 4.9.x skin on XBMC 13.X and have been using Shednox on Kodi 14.2 for a couple weeks. Then I saw that it was no longer being supported. And then I found your skin!

It looks and feels fantastic! You mentioned that you would be open to requests (THANK YOU!). There are just a couple of things that I noticed were missing and I wanted to see if there was any chance of them being added to SiLVO .

1. TV Shows - View - TriPanel - Is there a way to rearrange the order of the panels? (3 Different Options As found in Shednox?)

2. TV Shows - View - TriPanel - Is there a way to add the "thumbnails" for the episodes on the episode info panel? (As found in Shednox?)

3. Movies - View - Showcase - I noticed that the fanart is smaller in SiLVO compared to Shednox. In Shednox the fanart ended just past the center of center poster. On SiLVO , it is pushed to the right and is centered on the poster to the right of center. I would like to have the fanart as large as possible. Is this due to the framework of the view in Silvo? Is there a way to make it look similar like before?

That's all for now. Thanks again! This skin is LEGIT!!!

1 & 2 seem like a possibility to to add.
3 is a little more difficult to do without a lot of changes. I did not create the skin just modded it so I can not tell you the exact reason for the current placement but I think it is because the infopanel is slightly smaller showing more of the fanart behind while also having a much bigger font size. Not sure how much I want to change that...

@mike in wall view now we have cases but there are no clear cases ??
and the blue border is only as big as that cover and not as the cases i think it looks better if it is as big as the cases !

I always forget things like that. I never use those cases and sometimes forget I even added them. I will add the clear cases after the weekend

Thanks for your Answer.you are right,it was my fail because i use a fire tv.And I think the Osd was the info button on fire tv remote.
The infobar up is that what i watchin for.Now i must look how can change my keymap to bring that to my fire tv remote

I did not think of that use case... There is a button on the osd labeld with an "i" that right now shows BigNoids original custom info window that was recently moved to be the fullscreen info (pressing keyboard "I" key during playback). I kept his original as a different option but I can and should tie that button to my own fullscreen info. I think that would be best for devices with limited remote buttons, does that help?

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That's it for me folks gonna be gone a couple of days. Enjoy your weekend

[marhutchy]

Can I remove the black default_bg file from the zip file?
What if there's no default_bg?

If you download from GitHub yes but the release zips have all images in a textures.xbt file. You can add things not in that file but cannot change any existing images due to the xbt file taking priority.

Damn. And it wouldn't make sense for you to remove the defaut_bg file because just 1 person has a problem.
Hence, my question: what if there was no default_bg image, what would be the fallback default bg?

[Schraat]

Thanks for your help Mike. I have make it little other way because in TwitchTv is no "i" in the Osd only by watching Movies .I hat make a new keymap for fire tv and now it works amazing

[mikeSiLVO]

Can I remove the black default_bg file from the zip file?
What if there's no default_bg?

If you download from GitHub yes but the release zips have all images in a textures.xbt file. You can add things not in that file but cannot change any existing images due to the xbt file taking priority.

Damn. And it wouldn't make sense for you to remove the defaut_bg file because just 1 person has a problem.
Hence, my question: what if there was no default_bg image, what would be the fallback default bg?

I just realized I was mistaken about the location of this image. It is in the backgrounds folder not the media folder. I have removed the image anyway because without it the same effect occurs, a black background. I actually do not know what the behind the scenes process Kodi performs when updating a skin but I assume it just extracts the zip and replaces files without deleting anything so if that theory is correct it should not overwrite your image anymore.

[meesham]

Alternatively for a more creative approach... Nox 4 had this white translucent overlay over the video which said PAUSED when you paused a video. Perhaps something like that could be done here as well, but instead of saying PAUSED it will tell you how many minutes you have left. So it would look something like this (but ofcourse be white and semi transparent just like the old PAUSED overlay):

Started trying things and did this quickly so it needs fine tuning but...

The time remaining screens are looking awesome, thanks for working on this

[marhutchy]

If you download from GitHub yes but the release zips have all images in a textures.xbt file. You can add things not in that file but cannot change any existing images due to the xbt file taking priority.

Damn. And it wouldn't make sense for you to remove the defaut_bg file because just 1 person has a problem.
Hence, my question: what if there was no default_bg image, what would be the fallback default bg?

I just realized I was mistaken about the location of this image. It is in the backgrounds folder not the media folder. I have removed the image anyway because without it the same effect occurs, a black background. I actually do not know what the behind the scenes process Kodi performs when updating a skin but I assume it just extracts the zip and replaces files without deleting anything so if that theory is correct it should not overwrite your image anymore.

Thanks a lot!

[wilmans2m]

@Mikesilvo164

Thanks for latest updates. Now with Custom widgets mod from Mr V aeon nox 5 will be great

Just a question about saga : Your box set mod works great. Thanks for that. But on nox 4, extrafanart1 was used for background on box set. But it seems that your mod does not use it. Can you mod it please ?
At the moment, on saga it seems that background is used by fanart.* as for normal movies.

On saga on nox4, fanart, poster & extrafanart1 worked together.

Thanks in advance.

[mikeSiLVO]

@Mikesilvo164

Thanks for latest updates. Now with Custom widgets mod from Mr V aeon nox 5 will be great

Just a question about saga : Your box set mod works great. Thanks for that. But on nox 4, extrafanart1 was used for background on box set. But it seems that your mod does not use it. Can you mod it please ?
At the moment, on saga it seems that background is used by fanart.* as for normal movies.

On saga on nox4, fanart, poster & extrafanart1 worked together.

Thanks in advance.

I'll add it and use the regular fanart as a fallback