[NoPantsJim]

Is there anyway to remove the way that fanart gradually fades to black at the bottom? I'd rather see the entire image rather than just the top 75% or so. I've been looking through the various xml files for something that might have to do with this, but haven't come across anything yet.

[NoPantsJim]

Anyone ever have any ideas on this issue? I've been searching but to no avail.

[SlaveUnit]

You using the regular mediastream skin? Maybe a screenshot would help?

[Feanor]

Is there anyway to remove the way that fanart gradually fades to black at the bottom? I'd rather see the entire image rather than just the top 75% or so. I've been looking through the various xml files for something that might have to do with this, but haven't come across anything yet.

You would have to extract the textures.xrp and modify the background in photoshop.

[NoPantsJim]

Here's an example from Tv Shows:



Using this fanart:

http://thetvdb.com/banners/fanart/original/81189-9.jpg

It also happens in movies:



Using this fanart:

http://images.themoviedb.org/backdrops/2...ofmen1.jpg

It's a nice effect, but you end up losing some detail at the bottom. Seems like a minor complaint I know, but on some fanart it can hide certain details, for example:

http://thetvdb.com/banners/fanart/original/80349-2.jpg

There you can't tell he's "painted himself into a corner" and it loses some effect.

[NoPantsJim]

You would have to extract the textures.xrp and modify the background in photoshop.

For those of us who aren't skilled at Photoshop (I don't even have it) it would be nice to have it as an option in the skin menu to turn off this fade for all screens.

[greatant1337]

It's probably a diffuse image over the fanart.
I've not looked around MediaStream before but if there's only a few image controls showing the fanart then you can just remove the diffuse attribute from the texture or imagepath tags.

Eg:
<texture diffuse="some_image.png">$INFO[Fanart.Image]</texture>

If there's tonnes of image controls dealing with the fanart another method will be easier:
You can download MediaStream from SVN, remove the "some_image.png" file from the media folder and build a new textures.xpr without that image file.

[NoPantsJim]

build a new textures.xpr without that image file.

Where can I get info on how to do that?

[greatant1337]

There's probably a Build.bat within the svn.
I usually find I have to build the whole skin to make it work, then I just grab the textures.xpr within BUILD/MediaStream/media/