[HarryF]

Hello!

I'm doing my first steps in Skinning, made a copy of the skin Estuary and now I'm trying to change a few things, just for practice. Some changes worked well (replacing and resizing cover images and fonts) but it didn't found out how I can change the background image of the MusicVisualisation with an image stored in a new directory. I tried it with

Code:

<texture>special://skin/media/images/NewBackground.jpg</texture>

but that didn't work. I couldn't find any information here if the use of special:// is also correct in Kodi 17 - maybe it isn't. I'm working with a Linux Mint OS.

If anyone could help me please..?

Thanks
Harry

[ronie]

the special://skin/ path is only really needed for images outside of the media folder.

assuming you want to display this image: skin.estuary/media/images/NewBackground.jpg
you could simply use this:

Code:

<texture>images/NewBackground.jpg</texture>

[HarryF]

Thanks for that pretty quick reply.

That's what I tried first but as the background didn't change I search this forum for a solution - and found the "special" thing.

I didn't change anything except the <texture> line in the original XML. So the part for the background is

Code:

<control type="image">
            <left>0</left>
            <top>0</top>
            <width>100%</width>
            <height>100%</height>
            <aspectratio>scale</aspectratio>
            <fadetime>400</fadetime>
            <animation effect="fade" start="0" end="100" time="400">WindowOpen</animation>
            <animation effect="fade" start="100" end="0" time="300">WindowClose</animation>
            <texture>images/NewBackground.jpg</texture>
        </control>

Is there possibly another part in the original XML that prevents the background from showing?

[ronie]

what happened after you changed that line?
does it still show the original image or do you have a black background instead now?

since you're using linux, keep case-sensitivity of file/foldernames in mind.

[HarryF]

I see the original blue background. The case-sensitivity was the first I checked ;-) .

[ronie]

i think you modified the image control that normally displays the fanart image?

estuary will display the default blue background on top of it (slightly transparent, depending on if a fanart image is available).

guess you need to remove these lines:
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...ml#L22-L25

[HarryF]

That's it! Thank you very much!