2019-09-18, 01:21
@gman12
Lyrebird is mainly about being game centric as it is what I primarily use my HTPC for and the backbone of all that is @Wintermute0110's wonderful AEL. Braz had already coded Mimic so that once AEL is installed an entry for Games will auto populate on the Home screen and the views I have added to Lyrebird (not the legacy Mimic views) can do all sorts of neat stuff when paired with AEL. The views attempt to accommodate the diverse range of stuff you'd find across all the systems from SD to HD as well as the common box shapes (it will automatically use the appropriate box shape if you have specified the system type for each collection of ROMs).
As @Wintermute0110 says, he has implemented scrapers back into AEL so it can fetch your artwork for you. Otherwise, on the first page of the AEL thread there are links and hints towards places where you can acquire artwork from as well.
If you're also going to be starting up a game collection and therefore using the views, be sure to also grab @chrisism's Game Studio Icons from https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=339796. This is a collection of studio flags exclusively around game devs, publishers, manufacturers, etc which Lyrebird makes use of in the game sections.
Lyrebird is mainly about being game centric as it is what I primarily use my HTPC for and the backbone of all that is @Wintermute0110's wonderful AEL. Braz had already coded Mimic so that once AEL is installed an entry for Games will auto populate on the Home screen and the views I have added to Lyrebird (not the legacy Mimic views) can do all sorts of neat stuff when paired with AEL. The views attempt to accommodate the diverse range of stuff you'd find across all the systems from SD to HD as well as the common box shapes (it will automatically use the appropriate box shape if you have specified the system type for each collection of ROMs).
As @Wintermute0110 says, he has implemented scrapers back into AEL so it can fetch your artwork for you. Otherwise, on the first page of the AEL thread there are links and hints towards places where you can acquire artwork from as well.
If you're also going to be starting up a game collection and therefore using the views, be sure to also grab @chrisism's Game Studio Icons from https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=339796. This is a collection of studio flags exclusively around game devs, publishers, manufacturers, etc which Lyrebird makes use of in the game sections.
