In the last few weeks I modded my skin quite a bit, although the design language is still the same. This all begun with the advanced launchers mod but with time I moded some other areas on the skin. I added some new function and changed some stuff were I thought the original skin was not as good as it could be. The advanced launchers support mod “only” is now discontinued and is integrated on this mod.
Use fanarts or landscape images on mavies and tv shows
Movie genres icons added
Video categories icons added
More emphasis to the poster on the OSD
Added a infopage with more information and ratings (you just need to click on the left button to appear)
Enable/disable discart
Enable/disable discart animation
Enable/disable studio logo
Video controllers on context menu
Season banner enabled
Season fanart on a episode evel
Season poster on infopage on a episode level
Enable/disable characterart
Enable/disable file path
Movie genres icons added
Video categories icons added
More emphasis to the poster on the OSD
Added a infopage with more information and ratings (you just need to click on the left button to appear)
Enable/disable discart
Enable/disable discart animation
Enable/disable studio logo
Video controllers on context menu
Season banner enabled
Season fanart on a episode evel
Season poster on infopage on a episode level
Enable/disable characterart
Enable/disable file path
CdArt, record label, logos and artist clear logos added
All artist discography (not just what you have on the library)
YouTube videos
Most love tracks
Set rating function added on info pages and OSD
Music genres icons added (user need to add more because there are a infinite number of genres)
Music OSD changed
Flags enable on Music (only has two – stars and codec) There isn’t more that I can add unfortunately.
All artist discography (not just what you have on the library)
YouTube videos
Most love tracks
Set rating function added on info pages and OSD
Music genres icons added (user need to add more because there are a infinite number of genres)
Music OSD changed
Flags enable on Music (only has two – stars and codec) There isn’t more that I can add unfortunately.
New views added
Most view types have three views for square, poster and rectangular artwork
Infopage changes with the view that was chosen (square, poster or rectangular)
YouTube videos added on infopage
Studio logos added
context menu can be open on infopage
Flags added (clone, no_intro, multidisc)
Indicator added (favourites, unlinked, broken room)
open emulator launcher on info page
Controller artwork on emulator infopage
Most view types have three views for square, poster and rectangular artwork
Infopage changes with the view that was chosen (square, poster or rectangular)
YouTube videos added on infopage
Studio logos added
context menu can be open on infopage
Flags added (clone, no_intro, multidisc)
Indicator added (favourites, unlinked, broken room)
open emulator launcher on info page
Controller artwork on emulator infopage
INSTRUCTIONS
- Installation instructions are on the GitHub page (readme)
- You need to have the latest version of the skinhelper (the version on Kodi repo is out of date). Download and install the repository – https://github.com/marcelveldt/repositor…-1.0.1.zip and after that install the skin helper from the repository
- record labels white and studios white are required and can be found on the Kodi repo
- On the music side, ClearLogo must be named logo.png in the artist folder and CDArt must be named cdart.png in album the folder.
- For the controller artwork to work you need to setup a path on furniture settings like (D//random path/random path/…/”name of the folder that you choose”/controllers/) It’s important that the folder inside the path that you choose is called controllers, and the images inside this folder need to be png and need to have the same name as the platform on AEL). You can download some artwork that I use on the link above. other platform artwork can be found on the openemu GitHub. You just need to convert the tiff to png. They have amazing artwork
- You need to download the game studio logoson the link above and past the studios folder (after extraction) on %appdata%\Kodi\addons\skin.arctic.zephyr.plus\flags\games for them to work
- For AEL and AML to work the best way possible you need to download the last develop version and the title of the launcher needs to be the same as the platform, at least for now
KNOWN ISSUES
- On some series the “similar” menu cant focus a content so user can go right and left (don’t know why)
- Extended info sometimes gives errors (plugin problem)
- Can’t find video id – can be problem of extended info or youtube API
CONSIDERATIONS
- Some icons are from icons8 and iconsdb
- The controller artwork wasn’t made by me it was found on the internet. with time hi will search again to give the proper credits
- Everyone is welcome to help on this mod even because I’m a beginner in skinning so I could use a little help from more experienced people. If you have some solutions for the problems that I mentioned, feel free to share them.
- These Advanced Launchers are currently under active development so may be subject to change that can cause some issues with this mod. I think it will be easy to fix.
CREDITS
- jurialmunkey
- braz
- Hustler1337
- Guilouz
- Wintermute0110
- Rufoo
- RazorFR
- loggio