Realistic Marquee Monitor FX 1.3

49 minutes ago, Morris Schaffer said:

Hi, thanks for thinking along with me here.  So just to be clear, the plan is to take platform marquee xaml file under LaunchBox\Themes\Neon Deluxe Arcade\Views copy it, and rename the copy to the game marquee file name to be found under that same location I have bolded?  In essence, 'PlatformMarqueeView' becomes 'GameMarqueeView'?  Is that what you mean? 

But for MAME I would not want to use the platform marquee, so how would that distinction work?  Wouldn't it have to be one or the other?

But will try tomorrow.

Yep thats correct. For Mame to use the original game marquee file you would need to make that xaml file platform dependant but I don't have experience doing that but it is possible that I know.

Thanks to someone on facebook launchbox group I got it done using a script and windows powershell ise.  I'll post the instructions here if you want to know how.

On 11/25/2022 at 5:26 PM, Mr. RetroLust said:

I guess I forgot to make them lol you're the first to notice. Let me know which version you use for game marquee and i'll make you a platform marquee.

Hi there, sorry to bother you again.  I have noticed the following. When I use the game view or platform view with a marquee holder, the original marquees I made tend to lose their sharpness and original striking qualities, likely caused by the marquee holder sort of getting in the way of the screen real estate. my marquee screen is 2560 x 1080 so when I download a 2560 X 1080 image, which is sharp in its original form, it becomes a bit fuzzier when I actually use it as the marquee image with the marquee holder.  when I opt for one of your variants without the marquee holder (but with the filler magic), the original image looks exactly as the one I downloaded, no  loss of sharpness and focus.  So, for the platform view, would it be possible to please create a variant based on:  Realistic Marquee FX Subtle - Plexi FX & Filler - Without Marquee holder, With Plexi FX and Magic Screen Filler

 

Many thanks and no urgency at all.

27 minutes ago, Morris Schaffer said:

Hi there, sorry to bother you again.  I have noticed the following. When I use the game view or platform view with a marquee holder, the original marquees I made tend to lose their sharpness and original striking qualities, likely caused by the marquee holder sort of getting in the way of the screen real estate. my marquee screen is 2560 x 1080 so when I download a 2560 X 1080 image, which is sharp in its original form, it becomes a bit fuzzier when I actually use it as the marquee image with the marquee holder.  when I opt for one of your variants without the marquee holder (but with the filler magic), the original image looks exactly as the one I downloaded, no  loss of sharpness and focus.  So, for the platform view, would it be possible to please create a variant based on:  Realistic Marquee FX Subtle - Plexi FX & Filler - Without Marquee holder, With Plexi FX and Magic Screen Filler

 

Many thanks and no urgency at all.

Thats strange, it probably does this as it re-scales the marquee image. Here you go

PlatformMarqueeView.xaml

thank you.  have a good day.

Does this work in Launchbox, as well as Bigbox?

19 minutes ago, Retrofrogg said:

Does this work in Launchbox, as well as Bigbox?

It's BB xaml files, but if you have xaml files for LB that make marquees possible I can take a look at it and see what I can do.

I'm using the Thirdscreen plugin:

 

Just now, Retrofrogg said:

I'm using the Thirdscreen plugin:

 

Does it create xaml files?

I'm not entirely sure, but I don't think so.