Play Box 3 1.0.3

This theme looks great!! ? Wow I love the modern look to it. I have a question:

Is it possible to make a View for scrolling through games that uses Steam Banners instead of box art? I tried the Horizontal Wheel 1, 2, and 3, but they all squish in the banners because the formatting is made for box art I think. I use steam banners for everything, even non-steam games, I make them myself, so I highly prefer a view dedicated to that.

Edited January 11, 2020 by fawkesyeah

This theme is excellent! I especially like the categories/platforms view which helps make BigBox shine with a very professional and elegant touch. My only (2) gripes are related to the games text view and the games wheel view. The games text view really needs something else on the screen besides (only) text, possibly box artwork, gameplay video, or both on the right side? As for the games wheel view, it looks amazing with unique artwork for each platform, but the wheel artwork seems a little too small and sticks out in a not so good way. It would also be nice to have a vertical wheel, possibly as an option instead of the curved/circular wheel already there. But of course these are all very subjective gripes and with that being said, keep up the good work! 

On 1/11/2020 at 2:32 PM, fawkesyeah said:

This theme looks great!! ? Wow I love the modern look to it. I have a question:

Is it possible to make a View for scrolling through games that uses Steam Banners instead of box art? I tried the Horizontal Wheel 1, 2, and 3, but they all squish in the banners because the formatting is made for box art I think. I use steam banners for everything, even non-steam games, I make them myself, so I highly prefer a view dedicated to that.

No problem, I  previously thought about doing a view for steam banners in my next theme I’m working on so I will have a look at what I can do.

On 1/11/2020 at 3:10 PM, bundangdon said:

This theme is excellent! I especially like the categories/platforms view which helps make BigBox shine with a very professional and elegant touch. My only (2) gripes are related to the games text view and the games wheel view. The games text view really needs something else on the screen besides (only) text, possibly box artwork, gameplay video, or both on the right side? As for the games wheel view, it looks amazing with unique artwork for each platform, but the wheel artwork seems a little too small and sticks out in a not so good way. It would also be nice to have a vertical wheel, possibly as an option instead of the curved/circular wheel already there. But of course these are all very subjective gripes and with that being said, keep up the good work! 

Thanks for the feedback, I’m very grateful as I’m trying to create a theme as modern as possible. My only limitations is the CoverFlow wheel in the platform & games views as I would like to be able to navigate vertically & horizontally like you can in the favourites & recently played boxes/banners. I will add a cover art & video for you in the games text view & look at the wheel in the games wheel view also as soon as I get time as I’m working on another similar theme. Stay tuned for updates.

15 hours ago, daz said:

Thanks for the feedback, I’m very grateful as I’m trying to create a theme as modern as possible. My only limitations is the CoverFlow wheel in the platform & games views as I would like to be able to navigate vertically & horizontally like you can in the favourites & recently played boxes/banners. I will add a cover art & video for you in the games text view & look at the wheel in the games wheel view also as soon as I get time as I’m working on another similar theme. Stay tuned for updates.

Sounds great and thanks a lot for the quick reply! Yep, the games text view looks incomplete, but I'm sure with a couple of extra things like the cover art, videos, etc. it will be perfect

I just installed this theme and it looks really great! I was wondering exactly which views were used in the images above, as well as where to get steam banner images for emulated-non steam games. I also think it'd be cool to add a view that utilizes game videos!

On 1/24/2020 at 7:37 PM, davbedwards said:

I just installed this theme and it looks really great! I was wondering exactly which views were used in the images above, as well as where to get steam banner images for emulated-non steam games. I also think it'd be cool to add a view that utilizes game videos!

In response to the question by davbedwards, 1st & 2nd images are PlatformWhee3lFiltersView & PlatformWheel4FiltersView, 3rd image is HorizontalWheel2GamesView, 4th image is TextGamesView, 5th image is HorizontalWheel1GamesView, 6th image is HorizontalWheel3GamesView but I have now changed this to Steam Banners only, 7th image is WallGamesView & the final image is WheelGamesView. As for Steam Banner Images the ones supplied in my theme I created myself. there may be certain sites that provide non steam banner images.

Edited January 26, 2020 by daz

Wow! I really like all of the latest updates to this theme. Only thing I noticed was that the "ListBoxScrollCenterNS" plugin was included but not implemented into the textlistview. However, I was able to easily find a way to add the code in there, for anyone who wants the games list centered. (check the file below). Also, what would be nice is to have the same fanart view on the textlistview which is used in the platforms/systems list view. In other words, it would be nice to have something like this which is already available:

with this for the games-list view

And that would be the icing on the cake!  

 

TextListView.xaml

Edited February 3, 2020 by bundangdon

Thanks bundangdon for amending the text list view as I was rushing to get the updates uploaded & forgot to put that in there.

So I really like the look of this theme, but I have to ask why is it so huge? Most themes, even good looking themes, are between 100 - 200 MB while this one is almost 900MB! Anyway, I love the look and appreciate the work you put into this so thank you.

Hi

The theme is so large because of all the content I have included. It is mostly because of all the videoborder files I have created for the WheelGamesView .

Hey @daz am loving this theme. There is a couple of issues with PlatformWheel2FiltersView I hope you wouldn't mind fixing please. 

The most played game overlaps into the video. Any chance you could push the video to the right hand side please.

Also I cant select any of the recent games. Pressing right on controller doesnt focus/select the recent games. But works fine on the other platform views. Not sure if thats just my issue?

Thanks for this cool theme.

Thanks for your interest in my theme jayjay. In regards to the video position i could move this however I have been in contact with jason & he has informed me that the default platformwheel2filtersview was not built for the purpose of recent & favourites shortcuts. I have tried to find a workaround for this but without success. I will therefore be redesigning the platformwheel2filtersview.

sorry to everyone who downloaded play box 3 for that view file as I thought it was a bug in my LaunchBox version & did not test in other versions earlier.