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Add-on:Convergence
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Convergence is based on Confluence incorporating many of the now popular tweaks, addons and scripts all based on a vertical Home menu with a more transparent look to enable a better view of background fanart.
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See the Convergence Thread for more information. |
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1 Special skin features
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Special skin features: custom home items, custom submenu items, Media flags, TV Show logo, Artwork Downloader, Clear Art, cdArt, Extra fanart for Movies, Extra fanart for TV shows, Extra fanart for Music, Season fanart, Weather fanart, Live TV, TvTunes, Advanced Launcher, Watchlist, MovieSets, Metadata Actors |
2 Screenshots
convergence home
video paused
music viz
genre poster view
user addon settings
3 Supported Addons
- Cinema Experience after installation can be run straight from the Home Screen.
- Artwork Downloader is automatically installed and used for extra fanart.
- Global Searchscript is also auto installed and can be run from Home Screen.
- Artist SlideShowscript is utilized by the skin to supply background images in music visualization.
- Watchlist is run by the Home screen widget “Suggested Items”.
- TvTunes is another script installed and run by the skin.
- Support for Movie Sets Info has been built into the skin, but needs a manual installation.
- Weather Fanart PDA Style backgrounds supported by Home Screen weather widget.
- After instalation Random and Latest PlayList Items will show a home screen widget with media lists
- Artist Metadata will show detailed info on actors when requested from Context Menu.
- Advanced Launcher used from Home screen for games etc.
- Streaming menu option will now use LiveStreams if installed.
- Weather Plus Addon may be used to supply detailed weather details.
4 User Custom Icons
- Watched Banners
To change the default watched or new banners with something of your own choice, you need to create a directory in the skins media folder and name it "Banner". Inside this new folder place your new images in .png format, they should be named according to XBMC language strings 16101 and 16102 e.g. English = Unwatched and Watched.
- Movie Genre Icons
To insert a different set of movie genre icons, create a directory named "MovieGenre" inside the skins media folder. Place all the genre icons in the new folder in .png format. You also need to set the toggle switch under General Settings in the Skin Settings window to "Use External Genre Icons" With the exception of the "Genre Poster" all the views will look for an icon named exactly as the genre catagory e.g. Sci-Fi.png for Sci-Fi and Science Fction.png for Scienc Fiction.
The Genre Poster view is different in that it will fallback to the default icon if a external one is not found. This view will also look for the icon in a different way and takes into account the language when getting the icon e.g. For genre catagory "Adventure" it will look for "Adventure.png" or "Abenteuer.png" if skin language is German, if nothing is found the default internal "Adventure.png" will be used. At the same time this view only searches the left of the name, therefore "Action.png" will be shown for "Action Adventure", "Action Thriller" etc. This view is also limited to showing the following images - Action, Adventure, Animation, Biography, Children, Comedy, Crime, Disaster, Documentary, Drama, Family, Fantasy, History, Holiday, Horror, Indie, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Short, Sport, Suspense, Thriller, War, Western
