Suggestion: Central Fan Art / Background Location

revs · 2008-09-01, 10:03

With many skins now allowing backgrounds/fan art I suggest that they all share a common location for storing the images.

Currently I have 3 or 4 themes with fan art, and thus have 3 or 4 copies of all my backgrounds in each theme.

I suggest that possibly the background images are all moved to the User Data folder (where thumbs and tv logos are stored etc).

ThaClown · 2008-09-01, 10:56

I agree, good idea!

Darre · 2008-09-01, 11:37

Problem is with the in-built MP video, and the skins in general, that isnt easy to do. By default every folder you specify within the skinfiles defaults to the skin folder itself, so you have to \..\ yourself out. The sollution with the built-in video, and for the skins in general, is to use a folder located within the skins folder called "fanart" or something like that. I'm not sure if it can be done within the skin files of aeon to make it get its backdrops/fanart from a dynamic location like userdata. Simply because the "fanart" we use is kind of a hack.

For moving pictures this is allready done, the fanart is stored in thumbs\movingpictures\.

mattsk88 · 2008-09-01, 11:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by Darre

Problem is with the in-built MP video, and the skins in general, that isnt easy to do. By default every folder you specify within the skinfiles defaults to the skin folder itself, so you have to \..\ yourself out. The sollution with the built-in video, and for the skins in general, is to use a folder located within the skins folder called "fanart" or something like that. I'm not sure if it can be done within the skin files of aeon to make it get its backdrops/fanart from a dynamic location like userdata.

For moving pictures this is allready done, the fanart is stored in thumbs\movingpictures\.

You are right the location of the thumbs folder changes location depending on the operating system

This makes it impossible to really have a central location. From now on music Fanart is the only real fanart ill be linking to in my skins as Moving Pictures covers fanart much better.

SMa · 2008-09-01, 11:42

It doesn't have to be a dynamic location, as long as its a shared location.
If skins could just do this: \..\fanart

Darre · 2008-09-01, 11:42

But we could agree that a skins\fanart folder is standard and all skinners just apply it to the skins.. But then theres the problem with the folder names inside that folder again, there will have to be a standard there as well.

edit:

Quote:

Originally Posted by SMa

It doesn't have to be a dynamic location, as long as its a shared location.

beat me to it

revs · 2008-09-01, 14:43

Hmmm yes - i didnt think about the paths relative to the skin.

Maybe there needs to be a global path stored that can be used - i.e. %fanart% which is configurable via MP to point to a certain directory.

I guess this probably needs to be a post MP 1.0 item as its a new feature.

VashStampede · 2008-09-01, 16:25

Maybe it's an idea to make the use of shortcuts available? Within the backdrop folder of the skin you use, you could make a shortcut to the folder where you own backdrops are located. MP then also scans that folder for more image files to use as backdrops.

No clue what is possible, but it's an idea

2008-09-01, 10:03	#1 (permalink)
revs Portal Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: London Age: 25 Posts: 735 Thanks: 28 Thanked 25 Times in 21 Posts Country: My System	Suggestion: Central Fan Art / Background Location With many skins now allowing backgrounds/fan art I suggest that they all share a common location for storing the images. Currently I have 3 or 4 themes with fan art, and thus have 3 or 4 copies of all my backgrounds in each theme. I suggest that possibly the background images are all moved to the User Data folder (where thumbs and tv logos are stored etc).

2008-09-01, 10:56	#2 (permalink)
ThaClown MP Donator Join Date: May 2006 Location: Amersfoort Age: 27 Posts: 713 Thanks: 143 Thanked 14 Times in 12 Posts Country: My System	I agree, good idea! __________________ Work PC: Lian Li V2100 B Plus II Black, Asus P5E , Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, Arctic Freezer 7 Pro, 250 GB, 3x 500 GB, Tagan TG480 480W, GeForce 8600GTS Silent, 4096 MB DDR2, Vista Ulitmate x64. Server PC: Some black Midi case, MSI K9AGM2, Athlon XP 3200+, AC CPU Freezer 64 lp, CM Silent Case Fan, 512MB DDR2, HighPoint RocketRAID 2320, 4x Samsung HDD 1TB 32MB SATAII in RAID5, FireDTV-C, Windows XP pro. My second build... My HTPC and Server...

2008-09-01, 11:37	#3 (permalink)
Darre Portal Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Age: 23 Posts: 910 Thanks: 104 Thanked 75 Times in 58 Posts Country:	Problem is with the in-built MP video, and the skins in general, that isnt easy to do. By default every folder you specify within the skinfiles defaults to the skin folder itself, so you have to \..\ yourself out. The sollution with the built-in video, and for the skins in general, is to use a folder located within the skins folder called "fanart" or something like that. I'm not sure if it can be done within the skin files of aeon to make it get its backdrops/fanart from a dynamic location like userdata. Simply because the "fanart" we use is kind of a hack. For moving pictures this is allready done, the fanart is stored in thumbs\movingpictures\. Last edited by Darre; 2008-09-01 at 11:39.

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2008-09-01, 11:42	#5 (permalink)
SMa Portal Developer Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Ghent Age: 20 Posts: 175 Thanks: 6 Thanked 12 Times in 4 Posts Country: My System	It doesn't have to be a dynamic location, as long as its a shared location. If skins could just do this: \..\fanart

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revs Portal Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: London Age: 25 Posts: 735 Thanks: 28 Thanked 25 Times in 21 Posts Country: My System	Hmmm yes - i didnt think about the paths relative to the skin. Maybe there needs to be a global path stored that can be used - i.e. %fanart% which is configurable via MP to point to a certain directory. I guess this probably needs to be a post MP 1.0 item as its a new feature.

2008-09-01, 16:25	#8 (permalink)
VashStampede Portal Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 37 Thanks: 16 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Country: My System	Maybe it's an idea to make the use of shortcuts available? Within the backdrop folder of the skin you use, you could make a shortcut to the folder where you own backdrops are located. MP then also scans that folder for more image files to use as backdrops. No clue what is possible, but it's an idea