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Weather 'FanArt' in Horizonz - change weather backdrops based on weather condition? - PinkMargera - 2009-01-06 19:58
Hi,
just saw this thread where the weather fanart depends on which weather it actually is:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=41650
Anyone got this working with Horizons?
(I'm not that much into .xml editing, gave it a try but couldn't get it working.)
- Cranial - 2009-01-06 22:19
PinkMargera Wrote:Hi,
just saw this thread where the weather fanart depends on which weather it actually is:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=41650
Anyone got this working with Horizons?
(I'm not that much into .xml editing, gave it a try but couldn't get it working.)
Going to try to have a play with it today if I get time. I'll post the files / steps if I'm successful.
- PinkMargera - 2009-01-07 18:34
Cranial Wrote:Going to try to have a play with it today if I get time. I'll post the files / steps if I'm successful.
Sounds great, would love to have it working on my box.
- Cranial - 2009-01-12 11:14
PinkMargera Wrote:Sounds great, would love to have it working on my box.
Okay, I've got it working.
If you already have a custom weather backgrounds image folder on your xbox, transfer timdog82001's download to there. So you'll have something like:
xbox> E:/Images/Weather/00/
/01/
/02/
etc...
(keep the .txt file, it'll help you sort locations for adding more backgrounds later)
Then open skins/Horizonz/720p/MyWeather.xml
Then find the second <control type="multiimage"> (about line 22 it starts)
You'll see: <control type="multiimage">
<posx>0</posx>
<posy>0</posy>
<width>1280</width>
<height>720</height>
<imagepath>-</imagepath>
<timeperimage>5000</timeperimage>
<fadetime>2000</fadetime>
<randomize>true</randomize>
<info>Skin.String(CustomWeatherFolder)</info>
<include>backgroundfade</include>
</control>
Where you have <imagepath>-</imagepath>
Get rid of the - and add this E:\Images\Weather\$INFO[Weather.FanartCode] (Change the part before $INFO to the location of your images)
Good luck.
And it's not very effective in Horizonz with the dark weather panel overlay (I'll work on that too).
- dynamix - 2009-01-12 14:15
Works lovely, Cranial. Thanks for sharing!
- ImpreZa - 2009-01-14 20:34
For Weather "fanart" on homescreen, I added exactly the same as above but in Backgrounds.xml instead.
- Cranial - 2009-01-15 00:49
ImpreZa Wrote:For Weather "fanart" on homescreen, I added exactly the same as above but in Backgrounds.xml instead.
Didn't think of that. Cheers. So it still pulls correct reference of weather conditions like this?
*EDIT* Never mind, just tried it, works a treat! Cheers.
- dynamix - 2009-01-15 12:19
ImpreZa Wrote:For Weather "fanart" on homescreen, I added exactly the same as above but in Backgrounds.xml instead.
Superb, thanks Impreza!
- proctor - 2009-01-15 18:21
This doesn't seem to work with linux paths.
I followed the directions but only see a black background.
I have my images in /home/xbmc/bg/weather
and
/home/xbmc/bg/weather/$INFO[Weather.FanartCode] in the imagepath tag.
- PinkMargera - 2009-01-15 18:37
proctor Wrote:This doesn't seem to work with linux paths.
I followed the directions but only see a black background.
I have my images in /home/xbmc/bg/weather
and
/home/xbmc/bg/weather/$INFO[Weather.FanartCode] in the imagepath tag.
Have you tried switching the "/" for "\"? Don't know if it makes any difference but why not try...