Effects plugin (3 Viewers)

[wishywashy]

How do you get the image to scale or tile? I have a image at the original size going down at the left of my screen. Like takeing some paper and covering part of the monitor then moving it down.

 

[Lyxalig]

Great plugin!! This really seperates MP from the pack.. visually that is.

But, What's happening here?

 

[eLow]

How do you get the image to scale or tile? I have a image at the original size going down at the left of my screen. Like takeing some paper and covering part of the monitor then moving it down.

The plug-in doesn't take care of the resizing part yet as I understand. So in the mean time just adjust your window to the size of the background picture.

 

[htpcNoob]

I cant seem to get it to work. I put the plugin dll in the process folder. and copied the fog2.png into three seperate directories (BlueTwo/Media, plugin/process, BlueTwo) folders and it doesnt seem to show. I didnt use the installer to install MediaPortal. Since I always download the CVS, I just compile and put it in "C:\Program Files\MediaPortal". Are the paths to the images hardcoded???? Could this be it?

 

[wishywashy]

The plug-in doesn't take care of the resizing part yet as I understand. So in the mean time just adjust your window to the size of the background picture.

Lol, ok. It's a good start anyway. Could be useful for scrolling banners to (ie. "Welcome to the WishyWashy Home Theater" scrolling across the top)
Maybe OSD info in a small scrolling banner.
Besides the obvious on screen weather front.
Definite possibilities here.

Smirnoff, great plug in so far!

 

[eLow]

I cant seem to get it to work.

Did you add the xml in the xml files you want to have the cloudy background?

 

[htpcNoob]

Yes. I added

<control><id>666</id><type>imageeffect</type><texture>fog2.png</texture><direction>up</direction></control>

as the first line under <controls> in both home.xml and myvideo.xml. Not working. I have fog.png and fog2.png in threee seperate directories as i mentioned above

Update: It works now. Seems I had to that entry the LAST item under <controls> instead of the first. Silly me :lol: :lol: cuz the background was probably being painted on top of the effect. :lol:

 

[eLow]

Yes. I added

<control><id>666</id><type>imageeffect</type><texture>fog2.png</texture><direction>up</direction></control>

as the first line under <controls> in both home.xml and myvideo.xml. Not working. I have fog.png and fog2.png in threee seperate directories as i mentioned above

Just one will do. ;-) It should be in the \media directory. Add the lines below the background in the xml files. That's probably it.

 

[Inker]

I think I got it to work too now.......but i also have the wrong resolution it seems.

the pngs seem to be 720x576 while I run MP at 1024x768

I thought simply resizing the pngs would have the desired effect, but now I lost the effect completely.

eLow could you maybe resize them for me maybe, since I only have windows paint available at the moment I'm thinking it might screw up the pngs during the process.

Thnx in advance

 

[wishywashy]

Noob
Never mind, just saw your edit

Try this and see what you get.

<control>
<description>backgroundimage</description>
<type>imageeffect</type>
<id>1</id>
<posX>0</posX>
<posY>0</posY>
<width>720</width>
<height>576</height>
<texture>fog2.png</texture>
</control>