[mikeSiLVO]

HA ! i think i have fix the powerbackround with your method too !!!!!!

I AM A SKILLED SKINNER TOO NOW !!! hehe

i think its not so easy to just replace this:

Code:

<texture>$VAR[ShutdownTopVar]</texture>
<colordiffuse>$VAR[SpotColorVar2]</colordiffuse>

with this:

Code:

<texture colordiffuse="$VAR[SpotColorVar2]">$VAR[ShutdownTopVar]</texture>

but it works maybe accidental with the power popup menu hehe ...

if this is what we have to do, maybe you can tell me what .xml files i should try to fix maybe to help you ?

and again... its great to have you in our family man THX

Not accidental that's the magic!

If that's all it takes to fix the disappearing backgrounds then (a) this may go down as the most annoying quirk of the skinning engine I've yet seen and (b) huge kudos to you for figuring out the workaround.

Honestly the most annoying part was finding a way to reproduce 100% of the time. It just seemed random.

I noticed a similar thing when trying to add COLOR formatting using a VAR inside an INFO label using prefix,postfix but it not working unless it was outside.

I don't know if it is the fix but it could be