(2013-09-15, 10:26)st graveyard Wrote: Regarding the clear art. Now you have the option to add logo or poster when you press 'I' or pause. Maybe a third option to show the clear art would be cool? This way, Arctic also uses clear art in the main sections ...

Thanks for the positive feedback on RCB. I know it is a lot of work, I'm just happy it is considered for this great skin. I will gladly help with testing as I have a great collection set up in MQ4.

I also checked out the Picture section. Most skinners don't do anything special for this section, maybe one day Arctic can set an example, making this section less boring (not just file manager type of view). I have some suggestions here I would gladly share one day (although I understand this is far from priority). Edit: I know notice that in GIT version, the picture section has new additional views. Wasn't aware of this. Sorry, it looks already great! Maybe one day we can add a view that also supports text containing notes we like to add to the picture sections (if we create our own nfo files)

(2013-09-15, 12:33)jurialmunkey Wrote:

(2013-09-15, 10:56)SmithersJ0nes Wrote:

(2013-09-15, 04:50)jurialmunkey Wrote: The only reason that would happen was if your R rated movies mpaa tags were scraped with a G in them. For instance, instead of your mpaa tags being scraped as "Rated R" they were scraped as "R Rating" thus providing a hit for "substring" (substring looks to see if a string is contained within another string -- in this case where there is a G in the mpaa info).

That's not the case, all start "Rated R", and as I said the issue was only with Arctic skin. Example of some below:

<mpaa>Rated R for violence and some language</mpaa>
<mpaa>Rated R for strong language and several scenes of violence.</mpaa>
<mpaa>Rated R for martial arts violence.</mpaa>
<mpaa>Rated R for crude and sexual content, pervasive language, drug material, teen drinking and some violence.</mpaa>
<mpaa>Rated R for sexual content and brief language</mpaa>
<mpaa>Rated R for western violence and smoking.</mpaa>

You have misunderstood - I was explaining why it happens with this skin. See all the G letters? The reason it doesn't happen with confluence is that confluence has very strict rating matches that must match "Rated R" exactly. - Whereas here the match is simply by the letter given by the rating so that it will match even if the the "Rating" prefix is changed -- for instance, some people might have an mpaa tag like such: "USA:R" and then that wouldn't match in confluence. The downside with the system I am using is that these sorts of extended ratings like you have then give false matches. I'm interested to know what scraper you used to get these mpaa tags?

(2013-09-15, 12:48)st graveyard Wrote: I'm missing sound effects in Arctic. Or is this done on purpose? a little bit of navigating sounds would make it even beter, I think.

(2013-09-15, 12:49)jurialmunkey Wrote:

(2013-09-15, 10:26)st graveyard Wrote: Regarding the clear art. Now you have the option to add logo or poster when you press 'I' or pause. Maybe a third option to show the clear art would be cool? This way, Arctic also uses clear art in the main sections ...

Thanks for the positive feedback on RCB. I know it is a lot of work, I'm just happy it is considered for this great skin. I will gladly help with testing as I have a great collection set up in MQ4.

I also checked out the Picture section. Most skinners don't do anything special for this section, maybe one day Arctic can set an example, making this section less boring (not just file manager type of view). I have some suggestions here I would gladly share one day (although I understand this is far from priority). Edit: I know notice that in GIT version, the picture section has new additional views. Wasn't aware of this. Sorry, it looks already great! Maybe one day we can add a view that also supports text containing notes we like to add to the picture sections (if we create our own nfo files)

I have updated the info screen for RCB on the latest git. Can you tell me if the video previews are working when the info screen opens? I've never used preview videos with RCB and I'm having a lot of trouble getting RCB to scrape my video files with my roms and so I can't tell if I've implemented it correctly or not.

Pictures should have additional views in both repo and git version. They are only available when you are in a directory with picture content. There are currently three views - big list, a small list with a big preview thumb, and a thumbnail wall. I also have planned a view that is like the info wall (small thumbs with a large preview thumb).

I've thought about using clearart in the osd, but because they aren't consistent they can be a bit of a pain to get looking right.

(2013-09-15, 13:16)efty.edge Wrote: Congrats - Arctic is really a clean and fresh skin!

I tested it a week and it replaced AEON NOX... Only one thing is missing. I've a lot of movie collections and there is no difference between the view of a normal movie and a collection. Can you please add it!?

And can you please hide the arrows in the main menu... Please!!!

Efty

(2013-09-15, 13:16)efty.edge Wrote: Congrats - Arctic is really a clean and fresh skin!

I tested it a week and it replaced AEON NOX... Only one thing is missing. I've a lot of movie collections and there is no difference between the view of a normal movie and a collection. Can you please add it!?

(2013-09-15, 12:50)st graveyard Wrote:

(2013-09-15, 12:33)jurialmunkey Wrote:

(2013-09-15, 10:56)SmithersJ0nes Wrote: That's not the case, all start "Rated R", and as I said the issue was only with Arctic skin. Example of some below:

<mpaa>Rated R for violence and some language</mpaa>
<mpaa>Rated R for strong language and several scenes of violence.</mpaa>
<mpaa>Rated R for martial arts violence.</mpaa>
<mpaa>Rated R for crude and sexual content, pervasive language, drug material, teen drinking and some violence.</mpaa>
<mpaa>Rated R for sexual content and brief language</mpaa>
<mpaa>Rated R for western violence and smoking.</mpaa>

You have misunderstood - I was explaining why it happens with this skin. See all the G letters? The reason it doesn't happen with confluence is that confluence has very strict rating matches that must match "Rated R" exactly. - Whereas here the match is simply by the letter given by the rating so that it will match even if the the "Rating" prefix is changed -- for instance, some people might have an mpaa tag like such: "USA:R" and then that wouldn't match in confluence. The downside with the system I am using is that these sorts of extended ratings like you have then give false matches. I'm interested to know what scraper you used to get these mpaa tags?

I'm checking here now and I don't have an issue with R rated movies. They all show up with the R logo. I'm using Ember to scrape my movies (IMDB scraper)...

(2013-09-05, 02:16)jurialmunkey Wrote:

(2013-09-04, 03:02)mandark Wrote: - when "Show music visualisation in background" is enabled in the skin settings, when displaying fullscreen-visualisation via TAB, no OSD music-info is shown at the bottom of the screen.

- i'm using Advanced Launcher a lot and have all my thumbnails prepared as square images. some views work rather fine for this, but unfortunately some cool views like "Wall", "Reel", "Classic Info" or "Info Poster" don't as they are built for poster-format thumbs. maybe you could add an additional "View option" to tell the skin to display the thumbs as squares.

Thanks

Fixed the music vis bug in the latest git version (repo version will be updated in a couple of days). Good catch!

Yeah I've been meaning to make some updates for Adv Launcher, just haven't had the time. I can't just use the existing views because changing to a square would mess up the alignment, so I basically need to have a new viewtype for each square version (mostly I would probably use existing music viewtypes and modify them for Adv. Launcher - but it still takes quite a bit of time to convert them all and test them etc.).

(2013-09-15, 19:21)relyter Wrote: jurialmunkey
Who is controlling how artist fanart is scaled in fullscreen music player, skin or script.artistslideshow? Because it seems like "scale" is set now, which in case of non16x9 images usually results in cut artist head "Keep" would be more appropriate here, also this won't increase needlessly low resolution images.

(2013-09-15, 13:07)Baswazz Wrote: (1) The problem i am facing is that you don't have set a static dark or light background, so the icons are not shown how it should.
For example: National Geographic channel logo does have a white text, and white text on a light/white background will blend in.

(2) Movieinfo screen: The text is sometimes hard to read with fanart which has light parts in it.

(2013-09-15, 13:13)st graveyard Wrote: This is the view I have in Arctic now :
Although I like this banner type of view, I think it is very limited in the game environment.

It shows the movie and the 3D artwork (3D artwork is common in the rom world).

This is the new info view in arctic : The video is not working here, I don't think it is my settings, as the video does work when I switch to MQ skin.
One remark, the new info view looks already nice, but I just want to say that by adding borders around the artwork, it will be hard to have a good fit. As in RCB you have the possible to add screenshots, title screens, cover art (as with my example).

This has a better fit and zoom function (you can move over the 4 different shots and a big version appears in the main space and you have the option to fullscreen them).

(2013-09-15, 13:16)efty.edge Wrote: I tested it a week and it replaced AEON NOX... Only one thing is missing. I've a lot of movie collections and there is no difference between the view of a normal movie and a collection. Can you please add it!?

And can you please hide the arrows in the main menu... Please!!!

(2013-09-15, 13:46)ferent Wrote: 1. In movie list, when I select Poster Panel view, after select it, it shows Season Panel in the menu
2. I use Dark theme. When I select a menu, the dark mask around the menu takes one or two seconds, and I don't like this. I think it's due the black mask png size is big and my machine takes this time to load... It's possible to reduce a bit the size?
3. In main panel, with dark theme, the volume numbers are white over a white rectangle. Could be change it to black numbers?

(2013-09-15, 13:55)MeMeMe Wrote: I also think there should be some way to recognise a Movie Set collection is not a movie. This is the one drawback of the skin I've found.

(2013-09-15, 16:17)SmithersJ0nes Wrote: The only rating I listed without a "g" was for "14 Blades", on puting the code back and checking I can see this does show the correct "R" rating. As the way your skin interprites the MPAA rating it is the text after the rating letter which is causing the issue. As this isn't visible anywhere it would be better to have the rating solely as the "MPAA rating" without the descriptive text but as different skins do show this info I will always be adding it, as although I love your skin no one knows what they will be using in 12 months time.

(2013-09-15, 16:18)PatrickBateman Wrote: I have some movies, not scanned into the library, on a USB drive with artwork. The only view for this folder (in this skin) is list view, could a few more views be added for viewing directories that are not scanned into the library?

Also, the animations seem to be a tad jittery (not smooth)
The system info says 1920x1080@60 (30fps) is there anyway to make the animations much smoother (like in xp1080). I find navigating the movie info screens, library etc to not be very smooth. In xp1080 they are like silk or butter, here they are not as smooth. Is this perhaps my low powered 6320 and amd dual core CPU? They are low powered but seem to run others fine?

Will you perhaps consider adding an option to remove the ^ arrow from movies/tv/music etc
I'm using the xbmc skin dev repo version, is that the best version?

(2013-09-15, 19:21)relyter Wrote: jurialmunkey
Who is controlling how artist fanart is scaled in fullscreen music player, skin or script.artistslideshow? Because it seems like "scale" is set now, which in case of non16x9 images usually results in cut artist head "Keep" would be more appropriate here, also this won't increase needlessly low resolution images.