Community Theme Creator 3.2.5

I have tried removing the priorities, and it works halfway but not completely

The only solution I have found is to use the following XAML code (attached XML), which works perfectly.

I don't know if it would be poss ible to create this type of image object that is not the unbroken image object but a generic one using the "Community Editor", which by the way what a great job and great software.

GameMarqueeView.xaml

This is looking great. Any progress with a Launchbox theme creator? 😁

@y2guru

This video shows, what I think may be, a bug in the Community Theme Creator for BigBox. For some reason, my custom platforms will not auto scroll the text in the placed "Text Scroller" field. And by custom platform, I mean the Foreground/Conditions setting for the "Rectangle - Overlay" layer. In order to get the naming conventions to match my build, I had to edit a few of the condition rules/platform names under the Conditions. For example, I changed Playstation 1 to Sony Playstation. And I had to add a field for Visual Pinball X. Both of these platforms will not scroll the text. All the others that I did not rename seem to be fine. Everything seems to scroll fine in all the Game description windows.

FYI - I used the Tilt theme and modified it to my liking. I have attached a ZIP of my theme's project files in case you want to try to troubleshoot. Named "Tilted".
Here is the link to @faeran original Tilt theme.

Thanks for any suggestions in fixing this.

 

 

Tilted.zip

33 minutes ago, ItchyRobot said:

@y2guru

This video shows, what I think may be, a bug in the Community Theme Creator for BigBox. For some reason, my custom platforms will not auto scroll the text in the placed "Text Scroller" field. And by custom platform, I mean the Foreground/Conditions setting for the "Rectangle - Overlay" layer. In order to get the naming conventions to match my build, I had to edit a few of the condition rules/platform names under the Conditions. For example, I changed Playstation 1 to Sony Playstation. And I had to add a field for Visual Pinball X. Both of these platforms will not scroll the text. All the others that I did not rename seem to be fine. Everything seems to scroll fine in all the Game description windows.

FYI - I used the Tilt theme and modified it to my liking. I have attached a ZIP of my theme's project files in case you want to try to troubleshoot. Named "Tilted".
Here is the link to @faeran original Tilt theme.

Thanks for any suggestions in fixing this.

 

 

Tilted.zip 56.44 MB · 0 downloads

Conditions will not affect scrolling, scroll text is populated via the Notes metadata from either the platform/game defined within your launchbox database

11 minutes ago, y2guru said:

Conditions will not affect scrolling, scroll text is populated via the Notes metadata from either the platform/game defined within your launchbox database

I figured that to be the case about Conditions, but it seemed too much of a cooincidence to ignore or not mention.

Why then do you think some of my platforms do not auto scroll, even when the body of the text is larger than the box? You can see it try to start (slight pixel shift), but then it gets stuck with the Sony Playstation and Visual Pinball X platform text description boxes. Please watch the video I posted if you have not yet. Thanks! I also included a ZIP of the them just in case you have time to poke around with that attribute.

13 minutes ago, ItchyRobot said:

I figured that to be the case about Conditions, but it seemed too much of a cooincidence to ignore or not mention.

Why then do you think some of my platforms do not auto scroll, even when the body of the text is larger than the box? You can see it try to start (slight pixel shift), but then it gets stuck with the Sony Playstation and Visual Pinball X platform text description boxes. Please watch the video I posted if you have not yet. Thanks! I also included a ZIP of the them just in case you have time to poke around with that attribute.

I watched the video twice and in both viewings i noticed all the scroll text (platform and game text) scrolling (slowly)   you can always adjust the start delay and scrolling speed

8 minutes ago, y2guru said:

I watched the video twice and in both viewings i noticed all the scroll text (platform and game text) scrolling (slowly)   you can always adjust the start delay and scrolling speed

I figured it out, and sorry for wasting your time. It was the Padding setting (right, left, up, down). The padding was set too large in the Fram 1 box, cutting off the bottom text when it scrolled all the way down. It just so happened that those platforms that I was asking about has a body only slightly larger than the box. So it would start to scroll, but only need to scroll a small bit to get to the bottom; but had the bottom padding cutting it off. So the padding was blocking the text. I will need to play around with this a bit to get it to show up like i want. I supoose I need a padding of 0 at the bottom.

7 minutes ago, ItchyRobot said:

I figured it out, and sorry for wasting your time. It was the Padding setting (right, left, up, down). The padding was set too large in the Fram 1 box, cutting off the bottom text when it scrolled all the way down. It just so happened that those platforms that I was asking about has a body only slightly larger than the box. So it would start to scroll, but only need to scroll a small bit to get to the bottom; but had the bottom padding cutting it off. So the padding was blocking the text. I will need to play around with this a bit to get it to show up like i want. I supoose I need a padding of 0 at the bottom.

that'll do it, you can remove the padding from the Frame UI Element and Simply add a Left, Top and Right margin to the Text Scroller, adjust the height of the Text Scroller so text isn't being truncated as you initially reported

@y2guru How would I go about adding sounds for each Platform as I toggle through them in the Platform view? I have downloaded startup mp3's of each console, and would like for them to start as I select them in the Platform list. Like you can currently do with platform videos. I am not using videos for my build.
 

29 minutes ago, ItchyRobot said:

@y2guru How would I go about adding sounds for each Platform as I toggle through them in the Platform view? I have downloaded startup mp3's of each console, and would like for them to start as I select them in the Platform list. Like you can currently do with platform videos. I am not using videos for my build.
 

I’ll look into that 👍 I can’t see why not 😊

1 hour ago, ItchyRobot said:

@y2guru How would I go about adding sounds for each Platform as I toggle through them in the Platform view? I have downloaded startup mp3's of each console, and would like for them to start as I select them in the Platform list. Like you can currently do with platform videos. I am not using videos for my build.
 

LaunchBox does this natively. Put the sounds in your Theme folder like such: \\LaunchBox\Themes\{Your theme name}\Sounds\{Platform Name}\{SoundType}\AnySound.wav

Sound type would be replaced with the type of sound and can be one of four values: Select, Move, Back, Startup

You can put as many wav files in that folder as you want and Big Box will randomly play one of the sounds it finds.

2 hours ago, C-Beats said:

LaunchBox does this natively. Put the sounds in your Theme folder like such: \\LaunchBox\Themes\{Your theme name}\Sounds\{Platform Name}\{SoundType}\AnySound.wav

Sound type would be replaced with the type of sound and can be one of four values: Select, Move, Back, Startup

You can put as many wav files in that folder as you want and Big Box will randomly play one of the sounds it finds.

This did not work for me. I assume this will be a tool that needs to be implemented into Community Theme Creator to work?
I tried putting a wav file into my following folder... (but did not work)
\LaunchBox\Themes\Tilted\Sounds\Nintendo Entertainment System\I tried both Select and Startup\Nintendo Entertainment System.wav

I was unsure which {SoundType} to use to name my folder, so maybe I screwed that up. Am I missing something?

Edited September 18, 2021 by ItchyRobot

35 minutes ago, ItchyRobot said:

This did not work for me. I assume this will be a tool that needs to be implemented into Community Theme Creator to work?
I tried putting a wav file into my following folder... (but did not work)
\LaunchBox\Themes\Tilted\Sounds\Nintendo Entertainment System\I tried both Select and Startup\Nintendo Entertainment System.wav

I was unsure which {SoundType} to use to name my folder, so maybe I screwed that up. Am I missing something?

I wish I could help, I did add a folder link to drop sounds into via the main menu but I think you need platform subfolders within it and name the wag files accordingly 

@faeran can help

48 minutes ago, ItchyRobot said:

This did not work for me. I assume this will be a tool that needs to be implemented into Community Theme Creator to work?
I tried putting a wav file into my following folder... (but did not work)
\LaunchBox\Themes\Tilted\Sounds\Nintendo Entertainment System\I tried both Select and Startup\Nintendo Entertainment System.wav

I was unsure which {SoundType} to use to name my folder, so maybe I screwed that up. Am I missing something?

Just so we are clear the sounds will play in Big Box when doing as I said, I don't believe the Community Theme Creator utilizes them at all. What sound type REALLY depends on what action you want the sound to play on.

Select - this is when you press select to pick a platform or game (typically the 'A' button on your controller)
Move - this is when you move through a wheel/view (typically the arrows or control stick)
Back - this is when you move to a previous view (typically 'B' button or ESC)
Startup - only played when you first start Big box

Also you need to be on version 11.13 or higher as this is when that feature was implemented.

14 minutes ago, C-Beats said:

Just so we are clear the sounds will play in Big Box when doing as I said, I don't believe the Community Theme Creator utilizes them at all. What sound type REALLY depends on what action you want the sound to play on.

Select - this is when you press select to pick a platform or game (typically the 'A' button on your controller)
Move - this is when you move through a wheel/view (typically the arrows or control stick)
Back - this is when you move to a previous view (typically 'B' button or ESC)
Startup - only played when you first start Big box

Also you need to be on version 11.13 or higher as this is when that feature was implemented.

Sounds like he wants a wav to play once a platform has been selected, similar to how selected item video works but with wav files.  I can do this and make it available

18 minutes ago, y2guru said:

Sounds like he wants a wav to play once a platform has been selected, similar to how selected item video works but with wav files.  I can do this and make it available

Yes, that is what I want. Thanks for clarifying. I was beating my head trying to get C-Beats stuff you work, with no luck.

3 hours ago, ItchyRobot said:

Yes, that is what I want. Thanks for clarifying. I was beating my head trying to get C-Beats stuff you work, with no luck.

Already created the audio control, it will play a .wav / .mp3 / .flac file once or can set it to repeat.  I have integrated it into version 2.2 of the Theme Creator and I will fully test it over the weekend

I have some elements that fade away after a few seconds and doesn't return until a platform change is done (done with opacity animation). I would like to be able to add something like "Press X" to re-active them. Is that possible?

Is it possible to create a button press of "X" and it restarts or resets the animations again somehow? Or any way to re-activate them using a gamepad?

Pretty new with the CTC. Any help would be much appreciated

Edited September 23, 2021 by Wanderer189

4 minutes ago, Wanderer189 said:

I have some elements that fade away after a few seconds and doesn't return until a platform change is done (done with opacity animation). I would like to be able to add something like "Press X" to re-active them. Is that possible?

Is it possible to create a button press of "X" and it restarts or resets the animations again somehow?

Pretty new with the CTC. Any help would be much appreciated

There are no animations triggers associated with the select and back buttons

1 minute ago, y2guru said:

There are no animations triggers associated with the select and back buttons

Okay, thank you sir.

On 9/17/2021 at 3:47 PM, ItchyRobot said:

@y2guru How would I go about adding sounds for each Platform as I toggle through them in the Platform view? I have downloaded startup mp3's of each console, and would like for them to start as I select them in the Platform list. Like you can currently do with platform videos. I am not using videos for my build.
 

 

11 hours ago, y2guru said:

 

Nice, I am going to use the consoles and PC startup sounds. But, I like your voice sounds too. I suppose I need to wait until the 2.2 update to get this new feature?

Just now, ItchyRobot said:

Nice, I am going to use the consoles and PC startup sounds. But, I like your voice sounds too. I suppose I need to wait until the 2.2 update to get this new feature?

i plan to release 2.2 this Sunday

On 9/24/2021 at 10:50 AM, ItchyRobot said:

Nice, I am going to use the consoles and PC startup sounds. But, I like your voice sounds too. I suppose I need to wait until the 2.2 update to get this new feature?

2.2 is available

Huge, immediately I think of a mortal kombat collection with this feature....😅😂