Weather FanArt Pack (Backdrops with different weather conditions)

[timdog82001]

Thanks to Nuka1195, we now have properly working weather fanart functionality in the newest svn. This allows you to show different images depending upon the current weather conditions. So, you can have background images of rain when its rainy, clouds when cloudy, etc. I have collected a bunch and organized them all into the appropriate folders. To point a skin control like a multiimage to them, use something along the lines of:

<imagepath>C:\Users\Tim\XBMC Stuff\Weather\$INFO[Weather.FanartCode]</imagepath>

where the path is of course replaced with your path


http://rapidshare.com/files/170820865/weather.rar

There is a total of about 800 images here

For those of you using MediaStream v1.0, these images were chosen with this skin in mind so they should look fine used with this skin.

Enjoy!

[EDIT]: PS! FYI; further development discussion on adding on-the-fly theme/backdrops changes to skins with variables based on date and time of the day, and weather conditions can be found here:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=40709
and here:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=27354

[Nuka1195]

very nice timdog. i was hoping someone would do that

[Nuka1195]

just got them, very nice indeed. some cool thunderstorm pictures.

[dynamix]

Thanks you very much for this weatherpack! Gonna try it asap

[lompelurt]

Thanks man. Many sweet pictures.

[paularms]

Okay, I think I'm a little dense, as I'm not finding any information about "multiimage". Can someone post a mod, or detailed information on what to do to make the multiimage working? Might be helpful for other noobs too

[timdog82001]

well here is the wiki entry for multiimage. http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=MultiImage_Control
Just do something like that, and use the example i posted in the first post for the <imagepath>. If you're using mediastream, I could share my home.xml and myweather.xml files, but you'd have to edit the paths to match your own.

[paularms]

Originally Posted by timdog82001

well here is the wiki entry for multiimage. http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=MultiImage_Control
Just do something like that, and use the example i posted in the first post for the <imagepath>. If you're using mediastream, I could share my home.xml and myweather.xml files, but you'd have to edit the paths to match your own.

Ah. That page wasn't showing up in my searches. I am using MediaStream. Would you mind sharing your files?

[timdog82001]

search doesn't work at all. You have to search it using google for any hope of results. Ill post the files in a bit..

EDIT: http://rapidshare.com/files/171624644/mediastream.rar

You'll just want to do a search for C:\Users\Tim\Desktop\XBMC Wallpapers\weather\ in both files and replace it with your actual path. This replaces the default image, but you'll still be able to replace it with the skin's custom settings if you want.

[paularms]

Thank Tim. That was really helpful!