Skin Release: Rapier
Today scarfa came out of nowhere with a beautiful new skin, available immediately. Click the image below for a screenshot preview.
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Here’s what the author had to say about Rapier:
This was originally a joint project between me and Arcanthur [sic] but I wasn’t happy with the direction it was going so we parted ways a couple weeks into it. I continued to work on it on my own but had to put it on the backburner for a few months due to a busy schedule. Recently I’ve had alot of free time and have been going gangbusters on it to the point where I now feel satisfied with it.
The goal for this skin was create something that is practical for my everyday use. This usually means only including view modes that I find useful and creating an interface that is pleasing to the eye but at the same time isn’t too resource heavy. Making sure to make maximum use of widescreen displays was also important.
Features:
- custom backgrounds
- fanart support
- media flagging support for all views including video player.
- support for studio logos
- horizontal navigation system
- mouse friendly design
- uses latest xbmc features for smoother animations and scrolling
- flexible customization via skin settings
Note: This skin will not work correctly on the official 9.04.1 stable release. I would recommend the latest svn builds. Latest I’ve tested on is XBMC pre-9.10 r22512 for windows and XBMC pre-9.10 r21142 on Xbox.
The skin and all pertinent info will be added to the gallery soon. For now it can be downloaded here. Enjoy, and be sure to thank scarfa for the great work.
Looks great!
Nice work!
Yes very nice glad to see its finally out
Whoa! this is simply beautiful, and appears very practical to me as well! Will give it a go. Thanks for sharing!
Very slick. Kudos to Scarfa.
Absolutely awesome. I love the minimalistic uncluttered look it has.
Its a bit confusing how to reach all the options on the screen with the arrow keys, like some other skins. Maybe a stronger highlight in the section you’re actually manipulating would make it better.
Anyway this is gonna be my default skin, I love how it looks: clear and easily readable.
Thanks scarfa!!
Really nice!! Will try asap
Looks great! Thanks! Have to try it out.
Looks great man!
Simply Beatiful! Thanks for your hard work creating this piece of art.
very nice… will give it a try immidiately…
Nice. I think this is the skin the mouse and keyboard people have been looking for.
Looks awesome.
Very nice! Could we get it uploaded to xbmc-xbox-skins.googlecode.com please.
WOW…!!! I’ve been playing with your skin for a few hours now and it’s FANTASTIC……!!!!!!!
Smooth, fast and with (almost) all what can wish from an everyday use UI. I’ve tried them all, but this one is a breath of fresh air.
Of course there are a few bugs here & there, but I’m sure you’ll get those sorted out with help & feedback from the community.
If you like I’d be willing to test & bug report.
keep up the good work.
Q
p.s. I can report it works fine under Linux
Great job !
Can I give my contribute ?
Is possible to translate home main menu items ?
are them images ?
@Simone
Head to the rapier forum here: http://forum.xbmc.org/forumdisplay.php?f=120
Translations are always welcome.
This is fantastic, the only skin i installed right away and have not had any problems.
Fantastic work, absolutely gorgeous
Thanks! looks good!
It would be wonderful to see a menu option to begin playing back a DVD.
Works well with stable 9.04.
It’s the fastest skin I’ve ever used with XBMC. And looks totally awesome. Loving it.
Just a note, I think you forgot to tag this post in the skin news category.
no Russian (Cyrillic) encoding in fonts, nothing visible
I can not change the fonts, there is only “default”
Sorry, russian fonts&translation is here:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=58278 )))
Looks like it is time for me to show my wife how to get around XBMC. Nice job!