Layers and Fan Art

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Right now, WiiFlow is a hell of a loader in the Design, it's realy nice.
But I have a suggestion...

If you saw CFG-Loader, you know that it supports Layers, so you can display
a Background-Pic, and then display a another Pic over it...now, wouldn't it
be nice if WiiFlow could display this with FanArt? So basicly like XBMC is
doing this for Movies and Artists? Like:

1)Display FanArt-Pic
2)Display Floor-Pic
3)Display Rest (Covers/Titles, etc...)

I have no Idea if this is even possible, because it has to display them
quick, and for shure needs Memory...just an Idea I wanted to share :).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by BlueKsw...@gmail.com on 14 Nov 2009 at 7:04

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WiiFlow already supports themes that can easily look like your example.  So the 
issues of layers isn't really a 
problem, it's implemented properly already.  All that needs to be done at this 
point is to allow the theme to 
dynamically change as you sift through your games.  Each game would have a 
different theme background 
associated with it, which would automatically load when you select a game to 
view details.

Yeah?

Original comment by say...@gmail.com on 17 Nov 2009 at 1:56

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Yeah, I knew that WiiFlow is capable of this already. But you got it pretty
much...the main idea is that the Image is shown everywhere (in the Settings, in 
the
Selection Screen, simply everywhere), or you can customize where/when you want 
it to
display. I'm not a Coder, but I guess the main problem is the Memory to do 
that...

Btw: I thought a bit about it, and did some research on wiitdb.com. I think the 
best
way to do this would be to create 640x480 big .png Pictures, which are named 
with the
first three Letters from the Game ID (like SMN.png for NSMB Wii). This way, 
fanart
could be used for all Regions, and won't be Region-Specific. In my quick Tests, 
I
never found a game with the same first 3 letters...

Original comment by BlueKsw...@gmail.com on 26 Nov 2009 at 7:26

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I made a test version for this background images need to be in sd:/ like
sd:/SMNP01.png and a resolution multiple of 4 (640x480 will just work fine).
Unfortunatly scrolling will be a bit laggy since it always checks if a file 
exist and
if yes loads it then. 
However feel free to test and give your opinions. ;)

http://omploader.org/vM3Exaw

Original comment by thedarkn...@gmail.com on 3 Mar 2010 at 2:23

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Sorry for the late response, I just saw that you actually made/started on this 
:D.
Thank you so much, it's looking awesome here, and I love it, it's just an 
amazing
Eye-Candy :D.

Well, you asked for my opinions, and I actually have some. But please, don't 
get me
wrong, it's not meant to sound like "Do that, thanks.". I have no idea if my 
wishes
can/want to be made, so it's meant to sound like a "It would be awesome if it 
would
be possible for you to...". Now, let's start:

-I still think the first 3 Letters of the ID are enough. With it, one 
Fanart-Pic is
enough for all Regions of this game, saves some renaming. ID6 just takes more 
time
for all the renaming/etc. Just my opinion...
-I know, the pictures are in the root because they can be acessed faster this 
way,
though, I would prefer them in a folder...
-USB Support would be awesome :).
-Make this whole thing optional for themers, let them decide where they want 
it. I
also have an idea here. In the theme.ini, where you can set the background pic, 
maybe
add something like that:

texture=background.png
fanart=on

This way, you could have, for example, a nice and fast browsing with a default
background, and have the FanArt when you selected a game, where it doesn't realy
matter if it slower in browsing.
-Add the possibility for themers to display an background over the Fanart. 
Realy nice
Effects could be achieved by this (again, maybe something new in the theme.ini).

To repeat myself: just my ideas/wishes. I have no idea what can be done, I'll 
see and
wait what happens :).

Original comment by BlueKsw...@gmail.com on 15 Mar 2010 at 6:38

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Started again in r43. However, the location of the backgrounds is changed.

Original comment by r-...@live.com on 29 May 2010 at 10:08

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Original comment by Miigotu on 18 Jun 2010 at 8:29

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