FanArt now avalible for My Videos and My Music !

[mirk]

Hi
As you may know there has been a “small feature” in My Tvseries Plugin called FanArt, maybe you have herd of it
When the FanArt idea was pitched ages ago, my idea was to use this for My Music and My Videos. Sadly there was no developer that had the time to make this reality. But as you all know Inker who is developing the TVSeries plugin picked up the idea and made it to success, so now we all can enjoy nice high quality backgrounds for our series.
Today, i got an idea how to make FanArt work in my Videos and My music, all without any changes to the MP sourcecode. And I’m happy to inform that it worked.
MP had the tools already in there ...hidden!

OK, Great. How does it work ?
It’s simple.
First download or create a FanArt you want to use.
If it’s a artist FanArt, you need to name it exactly as the name of the artist, like “Madonna.png”.
If it’s a videos FanArt you need to name it like the title of the movie, like “King Kong.png”.
Save it in the Media of the skin you going to use. The structure i use in my test skin is “\<skinname>\Media\FanArt\Videos\King Kong.png” and “\<skinname>\Media\FanArt\Music\Madonna.png”.
The structure and filetype needs to be supported of the skin, or else nothing will happen.

My Music section
In my music I just add this object
This makes the FanArt show for the current playing artist.

	               <control>
				<description>fanart</description>
				<type>image</type>
				<id>1000</id>
				<posX>0</posX>
				<posY>0</posY>
				<width>1920</width>
				<height>1080</height>
				<colordiffuse>40ffffff</colordiffuse>
				<texture>\FanArt\Music\#Play.Current.Artist.png</texture>
				<animation effect="fade" time="400">WindowClose</animation>
				<animation effect="fade" time="400">WindowOpen</animation>
			</control>

My Videos section
In my videos I just add this object.
This makes the FanArt show for the current selected movie.

                         <control>
				<description>fanart</description>
				<type>image</type>
				<id>1000</id>
				<posX>0</posX>
				<posY>0</posY>
				<width>1920</width>
				<height>1080</height>
				<colordiffuse>66ffffff</colordiffuse>
				<texture>\FanArt\Video\#title.png</texture>
				<animation effect="fade" time="400">WindowClose</animation>
				<animation effect="fade" time="400">WindowOpen</animation>
			</control>

Screenshots
Here is some early screenshots of how it looks in SpinSafe 1080. Yes I know, it may not look so good… yet. I know there are many talented skinners here that can make it look really good.



Rules
I know there was a big discussion about the layout of the fanart after it was implemented in TVseries.
So dont see my test of this feature as a frame how it should look.
If there is some interest of have some kind of cross skin solution, then we can discuss and set up some ground rules.


Skin Support
I will in about an hour upload a new version of SpinSafe 1080 that have support of Music and video FanArt. There for I have also attached a very small FanArt pack that I have thrown together in some minutes, just to have something to play around with.
Just drop the FanArt pack in to the media folder in SpinSafe 1080 v0.5.
Keep in mind if you don’t have this movies/artist in your MP setup you need to rename the files or create new ones to fit your system.
Download Beta FanArt pack to SpinSafe 1080

Happy testing

[ThaClown]

AMAZING!! Will Monochrome and Aeon follow??

[weiterals]

Which exact file(s) is that u change and in where is it?

thx
weiterals

btw since i installed the ne Spinsafe RC1 claims all my skinfiles are outdated even those that worked be4 without problem.

[Paranoid Delusion]

btw since i installed the ne Spinsafe RC1 claims all my skinfiles are outdated even those that worked be4 without problem.

All new skins are at version 0.9.2.0, yours is most probably showing 0.2.3.0 in the reference.xml, try and ignore for a week or so, or update to latest svn.

Regards

[mirk]

Originally Posted by weiterals

Which exact file(s) is that u change and in where is it?

For artist FanArt you can add it to all skinfiles for the music section.
MyMusicPlayingNow.xml
mymusicplaylist.xml
mymusicsongs.xml
.
.
.
Maybee even more screens i have not tested.


For video FanArt you can add it to myvideoTitle.xml with the naming system i have used.

[-ltb-]

great news, it has been a long time since i tried to make it possible with mesfilms, while the solution was so simple
thx mirk !

[mirk]

Hallo again !
I have been working on some more fanarts for My Movies.
I decided to go with the filosofi we have for the FanArts on thetvdb.com for TVseries FanArt. I think this is the best way to go.

- 1280x720 or 1920x1080
- No "hardcoded" vinjets. The skiner has to apply vinjets in the skin if its needed.
- No predefined layout of the FanArt, like background gfx for description/plot text or dragged left/right/up/down to make place for a menu or something.
- Keep it clean from titles as mutch as possible.

Thetvdb.com has a good wikipage describing this, please take a look. thetvdb.com FanArt Wiki page.

You can download the new FanArt Pack here.
You can also download development pack containing the PSD files i use for creating the FanArt here.
The development pack also containing a script that makes it very easy to export all FanArts to png all automatic.

Attach new version of MyVideoTitle.xml for SpinSafe 1080 that has support of the new FanArt format and some screens of the result.

EDIT: Forgot the vinjet texture. Download and place in the "Media" folder of SpinSafe 1080.

[-ltb-]

Just have a look here (Meedio Forum), much more than 800 movies Fan art in full HD resolution

[mirk]

Originally Posted by -ltb-

Just have a look here (Meedio Forum), much more than 800 movies Fan art in full HD resolution

TANKS! Then its allready a big source to get FanArts from.

[the_ult]

This looks very promising :-)

Gonna try it at home as soon as possible..