(2014-03-04, 21:58)cw-kid Wrote:

(2014-03-04, 17:11)Xencored27 Wrote: But for the life of my I can't find a way to show the fan art as backgounds (changing randomly)

It works when I press up and go to the widget thumb but just shows a boring static image when on the main playlist menu

Cheers
fab skin

You would normally use Artwork Organiser add-on for (changing randomly) fanart background images, this downloads the selected artwork from your file server / NAS to local folders on the HTPC. This is generally used for Movies / TV Shows / Music fanarts etc.

In MQ5 you can press down arrow whilst on the main home menu a few times and select Customise Main Menu from the sub-menu.

Select your 'Documentaries" menu item from the list on the left and then in the middle use the option "Change Backdrop - Multiple Images" and browse to what ever folder contains your 'Documentaries" fanart images.

For the default menu items i.e. not ones you have created yourself, e.g. Movies / TV Shows / Music you can select instead the option 'Background Image - Use Collection Fanarts" this is referring to the folders the Artwork Organiser add-on creates. This option does not work if using your own theme however due to a bug but you can use the "Change Backdrop - Multiple Images" option in that case and browse to the correct local folder that holds the relevant fanart images for what ever menu item you are setting up.

EDIT: The path where Artwork Organiser stores the images is on Linux / OpenElec anyways:

/storage/.xbmc/userdata/addon_data/script.artworkorganizer

In here you will find sub folders like:

ArtistFanart
MovieFanart
MusicVideoFanart
TVShowFanart

And any other images types you select in the Artwork Organiser settings, I only select the ones as above.

(2014-03-05, 11:21)cw-kid Wrote:

(2014-03-05, 01:00)Samu-rai Wrote: As for your requests, only Marcos can answer that. I believe he is busy on ACE 2 right now, which would suggest that development on MQ5 may have ceased.

Really? That's not good news!

I was hoping some of the remaining bugs and issues would be resolved before development stopped on MQ5.

Think I may look at some other skins see what else is available, not that I don't love MQ5

(2014-03-05, 15:53)Samu-rai Wrote:

(2014-03-05, 11:21)cw-kid Wrote:

(2014-03-05, 01:00)Samu-rai Wrote: As for your requests, only Marcos can answer that. I believe he is busy on ACE 2 right now, which would suggest that development on MQ5 may have ceased.

Really? That's not good news!

I was hoping some of the remaining bugs and issues would be resolved before development stopped on MQ5.

Think I may look at some other skins see what else is available, not that I don't love MQ5

I don't know for certain, it's just an educated guess. Wanilton would be the best person to clarify in Marcos' absence.

You can look, but you'll never beat the awesomeness of MQ5 :p

(2014-03-05, 14:25)Xencored27 Wrote:

(2014-03-04, 21:58)cw-kid Wrote:

(2014-03-04, 17:11)Xencored27 Wrote: But for the life of my I can't find a way to show the fan art as backgounds (changing randomly)

It works when I press up and go to the widget thumb but just shows a boring static image when on the main playlist menu

Cheers
fab skin

You would normally use Artwork Organiser add-on for (changing randomly) fanart background images, this downloads the selected artwork from your file server / NAS to local folders on the HTPC. This is generally used for Movies / TV Shows / Music fanarts etc.

In MQ5 you can press down arrow whilst on the main home menu a few times and select Customise Main Menu from the sub-menu.

Select your 'Documentaries" menu item from the list on the left and then in the middle use the option "Change Backdrop - Multiple Images" and browse to what ever folder contains your 'Documentaries" fanart images.

For the default menu items i.e. not ones you have created yourself, e.g. Movies / TV Shows / Music you can select instead the option 'Background Image - Use Collection Fanarts" this is referring to the folders the Artwork Organiser add-on creates. This option does not work if using your own theme however due to a bug but you can use the "Change Backdrop - Multiple Images" option in that case and browse to the correct local folder that holds the relevant fanart images for what ever menu item you are setting up.

EDIT: The path where Artwork Organiser stores the images is on Linux / OpenElec anyways:

/storage/.xbmc/userdata/addon_data/script.artworkorganizer

In here you will find sub folders like:

ArtistFanart
MovieFanart
MusicVideoFanart
TVShowFanart

And any other images types you select in the Artwork Organiser settings, I only select the ones as above.

Thankd for the info.
I thou#ght it would of been like the neon skin where it got all the images auto from playlists.
I have no folders for fanart and using the Artwork Organiser groups all images up into tv/movies/music like you said. So I can't use this for my playlists as it would be showing images of videos not even in the menu I am on.

This skin has so much editing options I can't belive this was skipped (than again maybe I'm the only person who uses xbmc like this :p)

Cheers

(2014-03-05, 16:02)cw-kid Wrote:

(2014-03-05, 15:53)Samu-rai Wrote:

(2014-03-05, 11:21)cw-kid Wrote: Really? That's not good news!

I was hoping some of the remaining bugs and issues would be resolved before development stopped on MQ5.

Think I may look at some other skins see what else is available, not that I don't love MQ5

I don't know for certain, it's just an educated guess. Wanilton would be the best person to clarify in Marcos' absence.

You can look, but you'll never beat the awesomeness of MQ5 :p

@Wanilton

Care to comment?

Thanks

(2014-03-05, 16:41)cw-kid Wrote:

(2014-03-05, 14:25)Xencored27 Wrote:

(2014-03-04, 21:58)cw-kid Wrote: You would normally use Artwork Organiser add-on for (changing randomly) fanart background images, this downloads the selected artwork from your file server / NAS to local folders on the HTPC. This is generally used for Movies / TV Shows / Music fanarts etc.

In MQ5 you can press down arrow whilst on the main home menu a few times and select Customise Main Menu from the sub-menu.

Select your 'Documentaries" menu item from the list on the left and then in the middle use the option "Change Backdrop - Multiple Images" and browse to what ever folder contains your 'Documentaries" fanart images.

For the default menu items i.e. not ones you have created yourself, e.g. Movies / TV Shows / Music you can select instead the option 'Background Image - Use Collection Fanarts" this is referring to the folders the Artwork Organiser add-on creates. This option does not work if using your own theme however due to a bug but you can use the "Change Backdrop - Multiple Images" option in that case and browse to the correct local folder that holds the relevant fanart images for what ever menu item you are setting up.

EDIT: The path where Artwork Organiser stores the images is on Linux / OpenElec anyways:

/storage/.xbmc/userdata/addon_data/script.artworkorganizer

In here you will find sub folders like:

ArtistFanart
MovieFanart
MusicVideoFanart
TVShowFanart

And any other images types you select in the Artwork Organiser settings, I only select the ones as above.

Thankd for the info.
I thou#ght it would of been like the neon skin where it got all the images auto from playlists.
I have no folders for fanart and using the Artwork Organiser groups all images up into tv/movies/music like you said. So I can't use this for my playlists as it would be showing images of videos not even in the menu I am on.

This skin has so much editing options I can't belive this was skipped (than again maybe I'm the only person who uses xbmc like this :p)

Cheers

Well I am not saying this is the only way as I am not totally sure, but I would think you would need to have a folder containing all your background fanart images for your Documentaries and then use the "Change Backdrop - Multiple Images" option to point to that folder for the Documentaries menu etc.