Background fanart for XBMC4XBOX

[nonosto]

Dear friend

I use and try to improve my Xperience:
http://dk1.ti1ca.com/get/82.120.176.97/ ... hot000.bmp

I would like to integrate behind fan art backdrop pop up, when I highlight my games they will show in the back but I don't know how to?

Could you indicate me which the .xml file in 720 folder must change, and How to do?

My goal is something like this, fanart appear when a game in the screen:
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=3E8FA757 ... &sc=photos

or other example transaprancy skin
http://dk1.ti1ca.com/get/82.120.176.97/ ... hot003.bmp

Most generally, I would like know the code for backdrop fan art for use in some of skin
I think ythe most simply it's doing like transparancy skin: called one picture fanart.jpg in the gamas folder, and XBMC serach it to show the picture in the back.
for example F/GAMES/HALO/fanart.jpg

Thank you

[nonosto]

Dear friend

Any Idea, do you think can use the xml file View-Fanart.xml from Transparency for my Viewtype_Posters movies.xml;

For info files:
http://ti1ca.com/s37zvn38-View-Fanart-V ... t.xml.html
http://ti1ca.com/mk6eiy7j-Viewtype-Post ... s.xml.html

[nonosto]

Nobody can help me?

[Dom DXecutioner]

Nobody can help me?

There are a couple of variations of xperience for the xbox; unless you specify or post the whole skin, this is basically a guessing game... more than likely you will not get too much assistance.

[nonosto]

Thank you

Sorry for the answer's delay.

This is my Xpereience version:
http://ti1ca.com/p9tblxgy-Xperience-Xperience.rar.html

Most generally I would like know how to do for fanart, I would like same the same think for a lot of skin.

[nonosto]

up for help please

Thanks

[nonosto]

help me please

[nonosto]

Dear

I need only one method for how to himself, one exemple of code to help me

[NOTTHESAME]

it can be done, at the time im working on the skin i havent worked on xperience4xbox since july, you want to add fanart to your movies,music,pictures,and games, time is just what i need, ill upload it as soon as i can, im also working on making it a faster skin since it lacks when trying to open a video plugin, other then that the performance is great.

[nonosto]

Thank you dear

I ' am very in hurry to have it.

[NOTTHESAME]

nonosto here you go http://www.2shared.com/file/zFO7CpL2/MyPrograms.html download this file unzip, before you do anything go into your folder xbmc/skin/xperience/720p/ rename your myprograms.xml to myprograms.xml.bak so its a back up or something you might remember now unzip lol the file i just uploaded for you and send it to where it needs to go xbmc/skin/xperience/720p/ again back up your file its important so if this dont work you can replace your original.

the way this works is you make a folder on your root of F drive or E: if you got a G drive let me know so i can add a G drive, anyways say you are gonna use E drive, make a folder named fanart it has to be named (Fanart) now once you have that out of the way, make sure it looks like this.

E:/fanart/

F:/fanart/

say the game you have is halo 2, now go download a picture from google, download the picture you want and rename it to halo 2.jpg drop it in the fanart folder now go into your programs and games and go to halo 2 and it should have the fanart in the background the exact same picture you just downloaded .

now everytime you wanna add a fanart background to your game just download, rename and drop in fanart folder, go into your games and enjoy your fan art for your video games , if you have any problems let me know and ill see what i can do to help you guys thanks.

[whufclee]

Good work, it's nice to see you back on here mate. I think all your skin mods are available on XAI still if you need them.

[nonosto]

Thank you very much

I will test as soon as I wll home.

Thank you

[NOTTHESAME]

thanks for welcoming me back @whufclee, thanks for keeping thoses skins on XAI good work on having them on there, after all they are for everyone to enjoy which ever skin fits them the best, i will be trying to improve the bugs in most of the skins the Xii(wii skin) i couldnt fix the file manager so i ended up replacing it with another skins file manager i just need to get some colors to match the skin lol, the XMxbox skin i think thats what its called(ps3 skin in other words) this runs great same issue just needs font in file manager as well, just need to add some options and features that other skins have like on and off fanart kind of option, speaking of features i send nonosto a mod of myprograms.xml for xperience4xbox that uses fanart background for videogames so far i tested it and runs great, just waiting for nonosto to try it out.

@ nonosto get back to me when you can about the fanart background good luck.

@lee i had lost xperience4xbox but i found it again in my pc and removed a few more things from the skin so it runs at 32mbs now, so i guess it runs better then it did the last version, im still trying to get rid of a few bugs in the skin, i got all the skins on my xbox as well just for backups.

thank guys for your time and happy holidays, happy new year, let me know if you guys need help on something and ill try to help as much as i can bye guys

[nonosto]

Friends

Thanks to NOTTHESAME, I almost there.

For example:

http://ti1ca.com/4t90gop7-screenshot002 ... 2.bmp.html
http://ti1ca.com/rfebfznx-screenshot003 ... 3.bmp.html

But for this image:
http://ti1ca.com/sxgceb3u-Kawapaper-Out ... 0.jpg.html

doesn't work.
http://ti1ca.com/61iv0nxq-screenshot004 ... 4.bmp.html

I modified the code:

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<control type="multiimage">
					<description>Games Fanart Background image </description>
					<posx>0</posx>
					<posy>0</posy>
					<width>1280</width>
					<height>720</height>
					<imagepath background="True">F:/Games/$INFO[ListItem.Label]/fanart.jpg</imagepath>
                  		<colordiffuse>60FFFFFF</colordiffuse>
					<aspectratio align="center">scale</aspectratio>
                 		 	<fadetime>400</fadetime>
				</control>

				<control type="multiimage">
					<description>Games Fanart Background image </description>
					<posx>0</posx>
					<posy>0</posy>
					<width>1280</width>
					<height>720</height>
					<imagepath background="True">F:/$INFO[ListItem.Label]/fanart.jpg</imagepath>
                  		<colordiffuse>60FFFFFF</colordiffuse>
					<aspectratio align="center">scale</aspectratio>
                 		 	<fadetime>400</fadetime>
				</control>

				<control type="multiimage">
					<description>Games Fanart Background image </description>
					<posx>0</posx>
					<posy>0</posy>
					<width>1280</width>
					<height>720</height>
					<imagepath background="True">F:/Emulateurs/$INFO[ListItem.Label]/fanart.jpg</imagepath>
                  		<colordiffuse>60FFFFFF</colordiffuse>
					<aspectratio align="center">scale</aspectratio>
                 		 	<fadetime>400</fadetime>
				</control>

I don't why. I modified like this because it's compatible with Transparancy skin.

I have some question: why for some picture doen't work?
when it work, I wish no overlapping with the picture and the skin background default.

Thank you

[nonosto]

Note that: all fanart who does'nt work, work with transaprancy, I donnt know why.

[NOTTHESAME]

im not sure whats up with this skin i been busy at the time, but if one things gets fixed or removed/added or something breaks, i tried to make the skin run with no fanart, no backgrounds, no stage, it runs really great but then some of the animation dont work at all, but i got it to work and well it worked fine, but now there is no fanart, so its just only the backgrounds, i maybe can removed the background default and just keep the fanart as a default, its just a real run around with this skin and trying ti put time in it, right now im trying to look for a place for my family to move to, so i dont have time sometimes, but as soon as i get free time i will join you again, but for now i can maybe see why the pictures dont work give me a few days and ill reply okay thanks for your time, we will get this skin right and to run faster, the one thing that needs to be fixed is so it runs movies, not all movies play like .mkv it runs on 1 mb of ram and crash your lucky if it runs at all, something is wrong with the video player, im not sure what is wrong with it maybe someone who knows how to fix this memory leak can maybe fix it or untill i can find whats the problem, so that would maybe fix all the problems from it crashing, and well when it crashes it does only when you run a video.

i did fix the pictures area, when i would open up pictures the skin would jump from 30 ram to 9 then to 2 mbs i was not sure but i removed this background called fullscreendemintions and added the skins own posx and posy, so it looked like this

include name fullscreendemintions

include>fullscreendemintions</include> it was added to the stage, the backgrounds, to video and others, i did removed this and pictrues didnt take up anymore memory, also when would play it would run at a low ram, but then it runs faster now, this is the skin i have on my xbox at the time, so it runs better, if you want me to upload let me know.

i also tried to remove some animations but i have to go through them one by one and see what needs to be removed, for example i removed this demintions but i didnt find out it was the one making the skin crash out of the blue sky, it just would crash so i did see that the backgrounds pictures/fanart would run low on ram with the xbox, but i removed this demintions and now it has no problem but something has to do with the video player and music player while running, so i have to refresh my mind on trying to fix what needs to be fixed i do get stressed out at times to see that skin has problems and then i try this or that and see that the skin crashes and maybe i missed got lost and i forgot to put back so yeah.

i did try to keep all animations but i also can say if we remove it this will help the skin out with the xbox being friendly to it.

dont worry ill see what i can do when i have time alrighty, until then