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Why not? I would like random cool thunder storm backgrounds and tropical beaches, I tink it would be sweet!
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Well......I was wrong. Everyone from Team Leaders to DataBase admin thinks Weather FanArt is the next big thing. I'll learn one day to just keep my mouth shut.
Who wants to host TheWeatherDb.com?
Anyway......what has been mentioned here sounds more to me like "scrolling" Custom Backgrounds.......which isn't FanArt. I apoligized earlier for having an opposing view......and I'm doing it again. I'm sorry. I was wrong. I know nothing. I'll start looking for FanArt today for TheWeatherDb.com.
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Just putting in my two cents... I like this idea too. I guess I will have to look into what Nuka said... but regarding that, Would I delete whatever control is currently bringing up the background art in the weather xml? Otherwise both textures would be rendered on top of each other, using more resources right?
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Nuka1195
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<info>Weather.Conditions</info>
in a multiimage may work as a folder name,
but for an image control, there is a Weather.Conditions infoimage, so maybe
<texture>$INFO[Weather.Conditions]/picture.jpg</texture>
might work, might not?
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2008-11-20, 05:10
(This post was last modified: 2008-11-20, 10:51 by FourTwentySmilz.)
OK people......I come with a peace offering.
I found a site where Hi-Res images from around the world are posted. I think the thread starter said he was from London....so here is a great image of St. Paul's Cathedral in London ( which means the image would be recognized as being London). Is this close to what people are wanting? You know, beautiful images of their hometowns.
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lol Im in for anything, like tropical pics, or thunder stroms, main thing is all other menus grab random images except for the static bg for weather button
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Geeba
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LMAO!!!
Dont you just love the way threads change! Few people with a bit of clout get involved and your looking at it actually becoming a reallity!!
Fantastic!
I like Wir3d idea alot!!!
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yes, even if it could point to custom pictures you took or downloaded yourself. . if the picture was named rain, wind, sun, night, hot temp, cold temp, or whatever, if the weather said that, it would pull the corresponding picture from whatever folder you need to put that picture in, so if its snowing, it would pull a picture with snow, raining it would show the rain picture. you could just go get the pictures yourself from online, and put them in the default folder for each city. It wouldnt necessarily need to scrape. It would just need a specific naming and folder convention.
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I actually really like the idea of weather location fanart. I mean I have 3 locations, why should the background be the same for all of them. Would make it really easy to tell which is selected without reading.