Neon Deluxe Arcade - 16:9 (Big Box Theme) 2.6.1

3 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

 

Use the changelog dropdown to download a older version, there is no assurance that they will work on current versions of Launchbox though.

Yes thx i will try u idea

I'm afraid it is lost, it was never in the "final" version of the theme. I don't have a backup of that old theme but maybe someone has somewhere.

5 minutes ago, Mr. RetroLust said:

I'm afraid it is lost, it was never in the "final" version of the theme. I don't have a backup of that old theme but maybe someone has somewhere.

It's a shame because it's super simple and beautiful :D
I had taken big box only for this one lol
Thanks for your help .

7 hours ago, areysius said:

It's a shame because it's super simple and beautiful :D
I had taken big box only for this one lol
Thanks for your help .

I'll recreate that view for you this week

2 minutes ago, Mr. RetroLust said:

I'll recreate that view for you this week

Omg !! I love u dude !

Really thx you very much, it's a very nice gesture.

I appreciate

No problem man lol Can you make a screenshot of a vertical wheel view in this final version which you don't use or can do without? So I know which view I can replace.

v1.6

- Added "Alt Views" version, at this moment only vertical view 1 is different from the regular version but this can change over time to more alternative views. The new view is requested by @areysius it was a view present in the old theme with non-disappearing wheel etc., see screenshot:

Hello, I didn't have time to post the theme image sorry ...
You were super fast, thank you very much for your work and share ??
At the top of the top !!!
I install all this tonight

13 minutes ago, areysius said:

Hello, I didn't have time to post the theme image sorry ...
You were super fast, thank you very much for your work and share ??
At the top of the top !!!
I install all this tonight

No problem, I made it a separate theme instead of loose files. Let me know how it worked out for you, it's the first vertical view.

@Mr.RetroLust you again made a happy French, you spread retro happiness internationally ! ?

9 minutes ago, PaDeMoNiuM said:

@Mr.RetroLust you again made a happy French, you spread retro happiness internationally ! ?

Glad you like it as well brother haha  ?

5 hours ago, Mr. RetroLust said:

v1.6

- Added "Alt Views" version, at this moment only vertical view 1 is different from the regular version but this can change over time to more alternative views. The new view is requested by @areysius it was a view present in the old theme with non-disappearing wheel etc., see screenshot:

@Mr. RetroLust This is hands-down the best theme on BigBox for fans of retro-gaming and arcades. Thank you for all of your hard work! I always look forward to what you may release in the future!

58 minutes ago, PaDeMoNiuM said:

@Mr.RetroLust you again made a happy French, you spread retro happiness internationally ! ?

@PaDeMoNiuM Yes , It's THE Big Boss

 

3 hours ago, Mr. RetroLust said:

No problem, I made it a separate theme instead of loose files. Let me know how it worked out for you, it's the first vertical view.

@Mr. RetroLust  I try it and i give you a return 

3 minutes ago, MuddyWaters79 said:

@Mr. RetroLust This is hands-down the best theme on BigBox for fans of retro-gaming and arcades. Thank you for all of your hard work! I always look forward to what you may release in the future!

Thanks man, good to hear you like it so much ?

@Mr. RetroLust  Here is a return , it's on top as i wanted.

I have everything as before and it works verry well. Thx u very much for u work , responsiveness and excecution speed ?

You made one happy ^^

 

48 minutes ago, areysius said:

@Mr. RetroLust  Here is a return , it's on top as i wanted.

I have everything as before and it works verry well. Thx u very much for u work , responsiveness and excecution speed ?

You made one happy ^^

 

Good to hear! Enjoy man ?

Great work indeed. Thank you a lot.

 

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 Uncheck all Background Images in launchbox/settings/image priorities

I guess that should read "Launchbox > Tools > Options > Media"?

Edited September 23, 2020 by maschine

35 minutes ago, maschine said:

Great work indeed. Thank you a lot.

 

I guess that should read "Launchbox > Tools > Options > Media"?

Glad you like  Thanks for pointing that out, i'll change the description  

1.7 - For 'Neon Deluxe Arcade - Alt Views' version

- New vertical view 2 added (see screenshot below) with a static wheel just like the last new view. 

- Added black light/purple/blue neon glow around logo's in wheel for vertical view 1, as it was missing. Black logo's are better readable with glow and it just looks cool.

- Added custom xamls like stylized options view and colored pop up like the 'about' page

- Shout out to @y2guru for creating The Community Theme Creator as it so awesome and easily natural to work with it, thanks to him all of this is possible, thanks so much man! (I'll keep thanking you lol)

I cannot speak more highly of this theme.  It's an unbelievably awesome creation.   

One quick question:

Does anyone know if you can slow down the transition when the wheel disappears or perhaps if there is a way to manually make it disappear?  
 

7 hours ago, Peehl said:

I cannot speak more highly of this theme.  It's an unbelievably awesome creation.   

One quick question:

Does anyone know if you can slow down the transition when the wheel disappears or perhaps if there is a way to manually make it disappear?  
 

Thanks man glad you enjoy  You can edit the xaml files in a notepad program, search for "<!-- Storyboards -->" Here you'll find:

"BeginTime="00:00:00.25" To="0" Duration="00:00:00.25">" If you change the duration to 00:00:00.50 or 00:00:01.00 I think it'll slow it down.

Thank you x 100000!!!?
 

Posting a little bit of a detailed view of what I did to adjust it, in case someone else is interested.

Files that I needed to edit the values within the '...\LaunchBox\Themes\Neon Deluxe Arcade Final - Alt Views' folder:  

PlatformWheel1FiltersView.xaml
PlatformWheel2FiltersView.xaml
PlatformWheel3FiltersView.xaml
PlatformWheel4FiltersView.xaml
Wheel3GamesView.xaml
Wheel4GamesView.xaml

within the files there were 13 instances of ""BeginTime="00:00:00.25" To="0" Duration="00:00:00.25">"

Adjusted slightly from:

"BeginTime="00:00:00.25" To="0" Duration="00:00:00.25">"

to

"BeginTime="00:00:00.25" To="0" Duration="00:00:04.00">"
 

It's now perfect for me as it'll subtly changes from the visible wheel to the full screen where it's replaced with the details page.



Last question for Mr. Retrolust,  I was trying to adjust the scroll speed for the details so it'll scroll a bit faster (my wife and I are huge fans of reading game descriptions) but as I switched random values I couldn't get that part to change.  ?

Edited September 27, 2020 by Peehl

Search for "ScrollableTextBlock"

You'll have to play around with these settings to see what fits you best, if you plan to download new versions in the future all these settings get overwritten keep that in mind, best to keep notes around:

ScrollBeginDelay="6" ScrollSpeed="5" ScrollEndDelay="6" ReverseScrollSpeed="0.5" ScrollDirection="Up" ScrollAutoReverse="True"

For the alt view version, I'd like to request a platform wheel to match the Vertical View 2. Just something similar to that with the static wheel and video in the remaining space with info in the corners. Unless arranging it for 16:9 platform videos makes more sense, I'm not picky. The self-hiding wheels are jumpy on the machine in my arcade cabinet, so I'm a big fan of the static ones.

I tried to do it myself in the theme creator, but everything came up blank gray for me.

Thanks!

3 hours ago, Mr. RetroLust said:

Search for "ScrollableTextBlock"

You'll have to play around with these settings to see what fits you best, if you plan to download new versions in the future all these settings get overwritten keep that in mind, best to keep notes around:

ScrollBeginDelay="6" ScrollSpeed="5" ScrollEndDelay="6" ReverseScrollSpeed="0.5" ScrollDirection="Up" ScrollAutoReverse="True"

*Changes I made for my files*

                                        ScrollableTextBlock x:Name="TextScroller1text" LineStackingStrategy="BlockLineHeight" TextAlignment="Left" FontSize="{Binding ElementName=Prop_TextScroller1_FontSize, Path=Text}"
                                        FontFamily="LAUNCHBOX_ROOT_FOLDER/Themes/Neon Deluxe Arcade Final - Alt Views/Fonts/Roboto-Regular.ttf#Roboto"  Foreground="#FF8889E7" Opacity="1.0" TextWrapping="Wrap"
                                        Width="{Binding ElementName=Prop_TextScroller1_W, Path=Text}" ScrollBeginDelay="3" ScrollSpeed="1"
                                        ScrollEndDelay="3" ReverseScrollSpeed="0.1" ScrollDirection="Up"

Above is are the changes I made to speed it up slightly.  Hopefully, someone else may find this helpful.  

** As Mr. RetroLust mentioned,  make sure to backup your .xaml files! **
 

I seriously cannot thank you enough! ?️? ?



 

Edited September 27, 2020 by Peehl