[Skin] Rapier Clarity Mod (3.5.49)

fxmech · Post by **fxmech** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 8:17 pm

Byron, it works on my first try. I'll make the rounds updating the other setups and report back with problems. BTW, your link to the changelog is 404'd

Reptile · Post by **Reptile** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 9:11 pm

I gave 3.5.46 a shot over the weekend. It does seem to work very well - launched maybe 10 movies without any lockups, but then last night I finally sat down to actually watch something and it froze while launching the movie. I also noticed that now 90% of the time the video will not display in the background while in the Videos section of XBMC for some reason. I definitely think the issue was related to what you've changed most recently, but it still seems to be a little buggy. Unless I'm missing something else that I need to change.

NOTTHESAME · Post by **NOTTHESAME** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 5:34 am

yeah i think the background code is doing this effect so that the video playing wont crash xbmc, he just got this code so maybe byron will come up with something much better then i came up with, for now this is great if your movies havent crashed, its better then it crashing every little while, you said after 10 movies thats very good

byron · Post by **byron** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 9:17 am

@ fxmech...thanks for posting, keep me updated if you have any issues.

@ Reptile...indeed what NOTTHESAME has pointed out:

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<visible>!IntegerGreaterThan(system.memory.percent),85)</visible>

was added to VideoLibrary and VideoFiles, if you want you can comment out these lines (by way of ) or delete them for now

MyVideo.xml (lines 16, 132)
MyVideoNav.xml (line 15)

or you could play around with the percentage etc...this was a "grabbing at straws while drowning" thing that acutally will save your session in reality. If you remove/comment out these lines the video will return in the background and in turn should resolve your "buggy" feel, but could crash your session. Just curious, what res are you running x4x in? I haven't had any issues since I made the changes for 3.5.46 (480p), are you running 720p?

@ NOTTHESAME...agreed, but not sure what else is to be done as far as making that code more functional than it already is. Perhaps a conditional animation

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 <animation type="fade" start="0" end="100" time="250" condition="!IntegerGreaterThan(system.memory.percent),85)">Conditional</animation>

rather than the <visible> solution but this could get ugly if the RAM hovers around 85% usage (or whatever defined % is)...

byron · Post by **byron** » Fri Aug 28, 2015 6:28 am

VERSION BUMP (3.5.47)

CHANGELOG

btw I've had no issues with videos crashing since getting rid of DialogFullscreenInfo.xml (3.5.46)

NOTTHESAME · Post by **NOTTHESAME** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 3:25 am

byron wrote:VERSION BUMP (3.5.47)

CHANGELOG

btw I've had no issues with videos crashing since getting rid of DialogFullscreenInfo.xml (3.5.46)

Awesome work thanks.

byron · Post by **byron** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 8:47 pm

Finally getting around to adding the debug/system vitals info...this is what I've come up with so far and I think it's going to stay pretty close to this when I push it (turned on or off in skin settings). I think that having this right under the top bar in every window is the only way to make it work properly...so for those of you that like having this option available please speak up about what you think here (I think I remember several requests for something along these lines) because it'll be way easier to comply now while it's still confined to only the home window while I'm working the bugs out of it.

byron · Post by **byron** » Mon Sep 14, 2015 6:35 am

This concept is now built into the skin...nobody spoke up so it is what it is

As far as GIT goes you can clone it or download it but I'm not too familiar with this yet so I think this is the best way for grabbing a non-tagged version (cloning would be similar to checking out via SVN I think). Here's the project page if anyone is interested...also before transfering to the xbox maybe rename the containing folder to "rapier-clarity-mod" just to be safe.

fxmech · Post by **fxmech** » Mon Sep 14, 2015 7:40 am

Too late! It looks good! How about when video is playing? Dare you touch OSD?

byron · Post by **byron** » Mon Sep 14, 2015 7:53 am

Seriously made me lol...perhaps it might have crossed my mind

I'll tinker with it, just needed to throw the bulk of it out there you nit picker...

byron · Post by **byron** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 7:43 pm

Here we go:

https://github.com/byron42/rapier-clari ... ff=unified

Please test and report bugs...I'm pretty sure I didn't make this skin setting seemless.

fxmech · Post by **fxmech** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 4:36 am

Very sleek. I've been moving, as such my Xbox isn't really in the priority list, but will definitely update when I get settled. Thanks byron.

l11l1venom1l11l · Post by **l11l1venom1l11l** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:49 am

I also just went through a big move and was finally able to test out this version. It seems ok, but I'm still experiencing crashing while playing video, and now small icon view seems very strange (forced downward on screen). I'm going to mess around with it more as soon as I can.

byron · Post by **byron** » Sat Nov 14, 2015 7:09 pm

The only problems I've had with crashing resulted from playing a vid with a res that took all the memory (crashed on every skin in fact). I don't know what type of file, what resolution, or what your system video settings are...all of these things could wind up ending your session abruptly when firing off a vid. Without a log/crossreference from another skin(s) not much I can tell you except that I'm not experiencing this with the skin in it's default settings. As for the small icon view, it should only appear that way when the top info bar is enabled (kinda funky becauese it's shrunk down to about 95% of normal in this mode). Should not look that way unless the bar is on...

sketch2k278 · Post by **sketch2k278** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 3:49 pm

This is a very clean and beautiful skin!! trying it out right now! Thanks!

Ninhooo · Post by **Ninhooo** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 2:38 pm

Byron, this your skin is very good. I am creating a aptation for RCB hope that you let me try this . I do not have much experience in skins more 'll try.
since there is no one interested in doing this. GOOGLE TRANSLATOR.

byron · Post by **byron** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 6:28 am

Sorry for the delay in responding, what are you trying to accomplish exactly? The one packaged within this skin does work, have you tried it? I'm interested in what you're thinking at least as a starting point...

Ninhooo · Post by **Ninhooo** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 8:40 pm

Hello Friend, I started this Mod RCB for your great skin, was already an old idea to do this, more for not being especialist in creating skins like you , I could not finish this mod , I hope this idea, you dare to end it is just the kickoff . See what I got so far by downloading below , and draw their own conclusions if it worth it . Inside it is the version of RCB v2.0.4 - Fix, repaired to work on the xbox . GOOGLE TRANSLATE.

fxmech · Post by **fxmech** » Wed Jan 06, 2016 10:17 am

I've been at work too much to test this. Byron, has Ninhooo improved upon your work, or ported his previous work from the other skins?

byron · Post by **byron** » Thu Jan 07, 2016 8:22 am

Ninhooo has basically started (on previous release 2.0.4) what I have not found the time or patience to do for the version of RCB included in this skin (2.0.10 - 6 RCB releases ahead of what ninhoo is sharing), taking the views and making them RCM specific. I've been so busy with life lately that unfortunately I've lost focus here, but I was meaning to set aside some time this weekend to really look into this. The main problem I have is that I know the packaged version works but I don't know how well. I don't have many roms/games since my HD is stock...

@ Ninhooo...I am flattered/greatful for your efforts. I will take some time in the next few days to really dig into this and see what we can do, but I wonder how hard it would be to take the work you've done and simply place it into the already packaged newer version of the script. Conversely, maybe it would be better to take the newer scrapers and place them into 2.0.4 and package that in with RCM. Either way I appreciate what you've done and will find a way to use your work

Could you please test the packaged version and give feedback on functionality? That's the first thing that needs to happen imo, and it would go a long way in determining further action.

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