Weather 'FanArt' Backdrops based on current weather conditions?

Wir3d Wrote:How about backgrounds based on current weather conditions

Love this idea!!

Wow this thread has changed a lot from the start.

A different image for different weather conditions is a fantastic idea. Like miamiwice said, You can just go out ,take a pic of your area and use that image. Magic

I live in Scotland so i better make my rainy picture extra cool.

Thanks Nuka1195.

Yeah I was gonna say the weather for the UK would be an easy one... just a murky grey backdrop would do! lol!!!

There is a free software that renders very nice images of the earth - optionally including things like weather, satelites, city names and lots of other stuff. This may be useful for a backdrop image.

http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/
http://hans.ecke.ws/xplanet/

Another thing that came to my mind was that it would be great if there was a free / open library containing nice themed artwork of any popular building in the world which could then be used to mark hotspots, e.g. the Statue of Liberty represents NY as in my little mockup.


Notice that I created the earth image using xplanet around 1 h ago.

Nuke, can you post a list of all the possible weather conditions?
Thank You

http://www.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/weather.php

good luck

I think there are a lot,like around 40 or so, with all the combinations. I think the only way for this to make sense is if we did five or so different groups of conditions, like snowing, raining, thunderstorm, sunny, partly sunny, etc

there's 48 icons, but some are day and some are night. maybe a new infolabel that returned just the icon number. that way you would have night and day options for pictures.

http://liquidweather.net/icons.php

some interesting icons

Nuka1195 Wrote:http://www.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/weather.php

good luck

Thanks Nuka!
Good news is XBMC is only loading condition not day or night so that's 24 images.
Bad news is I have to find 24 quality images