[RyeHumor]

I've been fooling around with using the music visualizer as a graphic element, in this case ShaderToy.


I used <control type="visualisation"> to add the viz with some pings above and below.

I would prefer to add the visualiser like this:
<control type=" ? ">
<visualisation>visualization.shadertoy</visualisation>

Can I do this and what would I use for type? TIA.

PHP Code:

    <include name="home-visualisation3">
        <control type="image">
            <texture>custom/home-fanart-bg.png</texture>
            <fadetime>600</fadetime>
            <include>VisibleFadeEffect</include>
            <visible>Player.HasAudio</visible>
        </control>
        <control type="visualisation">
            <description>visualisation</description>
            <left>1145</left>
            <top>553</top>
            <width>354</width>
            <height>200</height>
            <visible>Player.HasAudio</visible>
        </control>
        <control type="label">
            <description>Codec</description>
            <left>735</left>
            <top>485</top>
            <label>$INFO[MusicPlayer.Codec]</label>
            <align>center</align>
            <aligny>center</aligny>
            <font>font-17</font>
            <textcolor>white</textcolor>
            <shadowcolor>black</shadowcolor>
        </control>
        <control type="image">
            <texture>custom/home-fanart-music-fg.png</texture>
            <fadetime>600</fadetime>
            <include>VisibleFadeEffect</include>
            <visible>Player.HasAudio</visible>
        </control>
    </include> 


[ronie]

nope, type should always be 'visualisation'.
kodi will use the visualization that's been selected by the user, it's not possible to hardcode one in the skin.

[RyeHumor]

OK, ronie thanks for the info. I guess that's as far as I can go with that.

[docwra]

Have you got a sample video of this? Looks totally awesome!

[Mike_Doc]

I use a visualisation as background as well, but perhaps a bit more simple in execution than what you are wanting to do:



I use it in the background of the info bar as above.

[docwra]

Thats awesome!

I wish estuary did something like that.

A blue faded EQ viz would look amazing enbedded instead of lyrics

[docwra]

Estuary doesn't look amazing with it full screen in the background, it would be much nicer in a panel on the right I think.



It looks a lot better with a darker fanart

[RyeHumor]

Thank you for the nice comment. I don't have a video but the viz moves like normal, just shrunk down. The gears don't move, but I think it would look nice if they turned really slowly. Mike_Doc, I like your idea, do you mind if I steal it?

[RyeHumor]

Just a follow up.

I've noticed that while you can't use the visualizer within a control, you can turn it on and off from xml:

<include name="HomeMusicButton">
<item id="6">
<!-- Rye -->
<label>2</label>
<onclick>Skin.SetBool(Vis-Visualization)</onclick>
<onclick>ActivateWindow(10502,&quot;upnp://c0229ce2-87cc-4771-adf1-a6bd66cc4ba7/&quot;,return)</onclick>
<include condition="!Skin.HasSetting(Home_Music_Fanart_Background)">home-music-background</include>
<include condition="Skin.HasSetting(Home_Music_Fanart_Background)">home-music-background-fanart</include>
</item>
</include>

So at this point ShaderToy only shows up on the home screen, and ScrollTitle becomes the "standard" visualizer when the music screen-saver is activated. This is what I had hoped to do. This opens a big door. Once again thank you Team-Kodi!!!

P.S. none of you are old enough to remember when 10k of data was conveniently stored on a 20 pound reel of magnetic tape and a programmer's salt was measured by the weight of the box of punch cards they carried around, but a game called "Colossal Cave Adventure" was kind of a big deal. Drifting through Kodi's vast amount of XML is the same kind of fun.

[black_eagle]

Just a follow up.

I've noticed that while you can't use the visualizer within a control, you can turn it on and off from xml:

<include name="HomeMusicButton">
<item id="6">
<!-- Rye -->
<label>2</label>
<onclick>Skin.SetBool(Vis-Visualization)</onclick>
<onclick>ActivateWindow(10502,&quot;upnp://c0229ce2-87cc-4771-adf1-a6bd66cc4ba7/&quot;,return)</onclick>
<include condition="!Skin.HasSetting(Home_Music_Fanart_Background)">home-music-background</include>
<include condition="Skin.HasSetting(Home_Music_Fanart_Background)">home-music-background-fanart</include>
</item>
</include>

So at this point ShaderToy only shows up on the home screen, and ScrollTitle becomes the "standard" visualizer when the music screen-saver is activated. This is what I had hoped to do. This opens a big door. Once again thank you Team-Kodi!!!

P.S. none of you are old enough to remember when 10k of data was conveniently stored on a 20 pound reel of magnetic tape and a programmer's salt was measured by the weight of the box of punch cards they carried around, but a game called "Colossal Cave Adventure" was kind of a big deal. Drifting through Kodi's vast amount of XML is the same kind of fun.

Well, I'm almost that old !!

Just wondered, what will happen to your code if I'm not using uPNP (as I'm not)

[RyeHumor]

Please excuse the delay. I think it will work OK. Here's my button for Radio:

</include>
<include name="RadioButton">
<item id="18">
<label>Radio</label>
<onclick>Skin.SetBool(Vis-Visualization)</onclick>
<onclick>ActivateWindow(10502,&quot;library://music/addons.xml/&quot;, return)</onclick>
<icon>custom/home-radio.png</icon>
<thumb>-</thumb>
</item>
</include>

It works the same as music.