BannerBox 2.1

I really need help on this one... I've put hours trying to find how...

I'm using HorizontalWheel2GamesView because it shows the videos and description a little bit faster.

**I tried removing the fade on the sides that starts after 3sec being on a platform/game, because it darkens the video preview and some are already dark so...**

I found a background named 'OM.png' in : BannerBox\Media\Background so I modified it to be just an empty .pnj file, thinking maybe, it would remove the fade... nope.

I looked everywhere and tried a bunch of things in XAML files to find something related to this fade... no success...

Now my only hope is to find a kind person (also with bigger brain than me) to find a solution.

19 hours ago, KuSslaK said:

I really need help on this one... I've put hours trying to find how...

I'm using HorizontalWheel2GamesView because it shows the videos and description a little bit faster.

**I tried removing the fade on the sides that starts after 3sec being on a platform/game, because it darkens the video preview and some are already dark so...**

I found a background named 'OM.png' in : BannerBox\Media\Background so I modified it to be just an empty .pnj file, thinking maybe, it would remove the fade... nope.

I looked everywhere and tried a bunch of things in XAML files to find something related to this fade... no success...

Now my only hope is to find a kind person (also with bigger brain than me) to find a solution.

I believe there is a slight fade overtop that entire section. You can delete it by doing a search in the view's xaml file for "Grid 1".

Then delete the entire Grid and all of its contents that's just underneath it.

Thanks for your answer!

I tried deleting this part :

<!-- Grid 1 -->
        <Grid x:Name="Grid1" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Visibility="Visible" Width="{Binding ElementName=Canvas,Path=ActualWidth,Converter={StaticResource ScalePropertyValueD},ConverterParameter=W;512;2560}" Height="{Binding ElementName=Canvas,Path=ActualHeight,Converter={StaticResource ScalePropertyValueD},ConverterParameter=H;125.33333333333333;1440}" RenderTransformOrigin="0.5,0.5" Panel.ZIndex="105"  >

But I only got an error and BigBox crashed.

Then I found these lines related to 'Grid1' :

Storyboard.TargetName="Grid1" Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity"
                                BeginTime="00:00:01.5" From="0" To="0.3" Duration="00:00:01.7">

Changed it to "0" instead of "0.3" ... sadly nothing changed.

yeah, you'd have to remove the storyboards as well, since they reference them. Other than that, looking at the code, there should be nothing else overlaying on top of it other than this 30% opacity of a black rectangle.

Found it!

For PlatformWheelFiltersView :

Search for "Rectangle4rect"(right) and "Rectangle5rect"(left), in the following lines, look for Opacity="1.0". Change this to 0.

For HorizontalWheelGamesView :

Repeat the same process for "Rectangle9rect" and "Rectangle10rect".

Should look like this :

<Grid>
                        <Rectangle x:Name="Rectangle4rect" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Fill="Black" Opacity="0" Stretch="Fill" RenderTransformOrigin=".5,.5" Width="{Binding ElementName=Rectangle4,Path=ActualWidth}" Height="{Binding ElementName=Rectangle4,Path=ActualHeight}">

Hope it will help some people!

 Thanky you, could you upscale these images, please.

Wonderfull! Thank you!

Does BannerBox lag for anyone else?   It’s just a generally slow experience.

On 2/21/2023 at 2:12 AM, dasd said:

Does BannerBox lag for anyone else?   It’s just a generally slow experience.

It's the creators vision to function like it does, animations and everything.

Up-To-Date BannerBox 4K

Apologies for the thread necro but I figure this would be a good place to ask.

The latest version of the them automatically generates the banners for you but if I still wanted to create banners for the individual games by hand, do the images still go in the Custom Images folder? Would I still need to give them a name that corresponds to their Metadata number and what would I need to do if I've got a game that isn't in the Metadata yet?

Thanks in advance for any answers to these.

9 hours ago, dumlaox said:

Apologies for the thread necro but I figure this would be a good place to ask.

The latest version of the them automatically generates the banners for you but if I still wanted to create banners for the individual games by hand, do the images still go in the Custom Images folder? Would I still need to give them a name that corresponds to their Metadata number and what would I need to do if I've got a game that isn't in the Metadata yet?

Thanks in advance for any answers to these.

It's been a long while, so I can't remember if the latest version leaves in support for custom game banners. If it does, then the folder the images get placed in wouldn't have changed.

I can't quite remember if the system will also fall back to the name of the game. So if there's no file with the DBID, then it may check for a file that's the primary name of the game.

Thanks for this. Tried it out yesterday and it does work as you said.

I don't understand why some default platform banners (such as Windows, Nintendo DS, Gamecube, etc.) have logos with the letters cut off on the sides. For example I made some of them with the logo in the center...I hope they will be updated one day.

Really like this theme, great work! Is there any way to stop it showing a year above the game count when viewing platform banners after the fade ? Showing a year doesn't seem to make sense for a whole playlist / platform collection.

On 9/7/2024 at 8:25 AM, tallblondetom said:

Really like this theme, great work! Is there any way to stop it showing a year above the game count when viewing platform banners after the fade ? Showing a year doesn't seem to make sense for a whole playlist / platform collection.

It's been a long time since I worked on this theme, but there's always a way if you can dive into the code and make the change.

I made a banner for Epic Games if anyone is interested. I just cut a pasted some elements over the windows banner, quick and simple, but it works. 

Great theme, was wondering if the old tutorial to add our games banners still viable? Looks like the creator is a lot more different now.

30 minutes ago, IAmADrunkGuy said:

Great theme, was wondering if the old tutorial to add our games banners still viable? Looks like the creator is a lot more different now.

The theme should have auto-generated game banners, so no need to create special banners for games.

Platform banners, can be added in the same way.

2 hours ago, faeran said:

The theme should have auto-generated game banners, so no need to create special banners for games.

Platform banners, can be added in the same way.

thanks !!!!!!!

I LOVE this theme, but is there some way to change the platform marquee image? I have designed quite a few platform marquee's that I would like to use.

 

This is what is displayed on the "platform" view

 

 

The idea is that I would design marquee's that match Banner Image. Here is an example of a marquee that I would like to use with bannerbox:

 

I want the image to fill the 2nd screen (marquee)

 

Edited January 12 by itsmeblake

19 hours ago, itsmeblake said:

I LOVE this theme, but is there some way to change the platform marquee image? I have designed quite a few platform marquee's that I would like to use.

 

This is what is displayed on the "platform" view

 

 

The idea is that I would design marquee's that match Banner Image. Here is an example of a marquee that I would like to use with bannerbox:

 

I want the image to fill the 2nd screen (marquee)

 

If I'm remembering correctly, the theme doesn't actually have a marquee view, so it would fall back to using the default one.

I believe the default platform marquee view displays the platform's banner image, and this theme takes the banner image type and uses theme specific ones that look like that. I could see why a theme specific platform marquee view would be handy to have here. I'll add it to my list and maybe can tackle this at some point. Might require some theme trickery to get custom banners to work correctly, but could definitely be done.

If you can, send me a PM with any platform marquees that you've created and I can use those to build the view out.

On 1/13/2025 at 6:24 AM, faeran said:

If I'm remembering correctly, the theme doesn't actually have a marquee view, so it would fall back to using the default one.

I believe the default platform marquee view displays the platform's banner image, and this theme takes the banner image type and uses theme specific ones that look like that. I could see why a theme specific platform marquee view would be handy to have here. I'll add it to my list and maybe can tackle this at some point. Might require some theme trickery to get custom banners to work correctly, but could definitely be done.

If you can, send me a PM with any platform marquees that you've created and I can use those to build the view out.

I ended up using the "secondscreen" plugin. It handles marquee management independent of the them you are using. It fixed the problem.

Pretty cool theme. Thanks for sharing. Will have to download this when I am ready to get Big Box set up.