BannerBox 2.1

Another absolutely amazing theme! Great work once again @faeran

Well this looks amazing... wasn't there an old theme or concept theme shown at some point doing this.. 

not that it matters just feels oddly familiar.. by doing this i mean the banner style art.

Edited April 14, 2020 by ALIE

Thank you for including a template to make our own banners!  So many creators don't furnish users with templates to make it easier to add oddball systems, or custom named systems.  Thank you again.

Now trying to use the template, but I don't know the setting for the enlarged box art with blur layer.

Edited April 14, 2020 by damageinc86

I noticed all the individual game banner file names are numbers.  So if we have to make our own banners for some games (homebrew/hacks) how do we know what number to use? - Edit:  It's the LB database number.

 

Edited April 14, 2020 by damageinc86

It's a great concept; however, it would have been easier to use existing art.

 

Style: 10/10

Execution: 2/10

After running through it for a while I'm now wondering if there is a way to edit the transitions to be quicker and snappier.  Basically to have every transition after you land on a game to happen quicker.  Also is there a way to have a default blank banner for games that don't have a proper banner?  Or do we have to make one for each game we find that is missing one?

50 minutes ago, damageinc86 said:

I noticed all the individual game banner file names are numbers.  So if we have to make our own banners for some games (homebrew/hacks) how do we know what number to use? - Edit:  It's the LB database number.

 

The template I added to the downloads allows you to generate banners for your whole collection with one click. I will be streaming something this week which will show you how its done.

49 minutes ago, Kevin_Flynn said:

It's a great concept; however, it would have been easier to use existing art.

 

Style: 10/10

Execution: 2/10

You are right, using existing art would be great. Unfortunately, Big Box doesn't have the ability to utilize existing artwork in this way.

7 minutes ago, faeran said:

The template I added to the downloads allows you to generate banners for your whole collection with one click. I will be streaming something this week which will show you how its done.

Ok, cuz I brought all the assets into photoshop and was trying to make a few.  one-click would definitely be awesome.  Got it pretty close with gaussian blur 5.0

Edited April 14, 2020 by damageinc86

Looks awesome @faeran! I am having an issue and don't know if it is me who is doing something wrong (or I am missing a step). When I load the theme into a platform (i.e. NES), I do not get the images in the view:

 

In one of the views I do however get the content:

Any info you could provide will be highly appreciated

 

 

Great work! @faeran i want to use this theme on my Arcade cabinet, is the theme 4x3 compatible? Thank you.

Absolutely amazing theme, a real stunner! However, there is one thing I'm having issue with atm and that's the time it takes to display game info. Is there anyway to speed it up?

I am missing about 50 banners between NES and SNES.  Don't know if I really want to go through all that to make them one by one.  Just taking a look through N64, already have like 10 missing from that. 

EDIT:  Seems as though I have to refresh all those games' metadata so launchbox looks up their Database ID so that the theme will show the image for the game.  Well for some anyways,...some are still completely missing from the artwork folder (Adventures of lolo DB: 328 for example).

Edited April 15, 2020 by damageinc86

1 hour ago, zengeek said:

Great work! @faeran i want to use this theme on my Arcade cabinet, is the theme 4x3 compatible? Thank you.

Not yet, but I'll work on one.

39 minutes ago, L4ZYD4NE said:

Absolutely amazing theme, a real stunner! However, there is one thing I'm having issue with atm and that's the time it takes to display game info. Is there anyway to speed it up?

At some point I can create another view with quick, or just less animation going on. Then you could choose which view you want to use.

34 minutes ago, damageinc86 said:

I am missing about 50 banners between NES and SNES.  Don't know if I really want to go through all that to make them one by one.  Just taking a look through N64, already have like 10 missing from that. 

EDIT:  Seems as though I have to refresh all those games' metadata so launchbox looks up their Database ID so that the theme will show the image for the game.  Well for some anyways,...some are still completely missing from the artwork folder (Adventures of lolo DB: 328 for example).

I'll send you a PM so you don't have to wait for the video tomorrow.

1 hour ago, Kondorito said:

Looks awesome @faeran! I am having an issue and don't know if it is me who is doing something wrong (or I am missing a step). When I load the theme into a platform (i.e. NES), I do not get the images in the view:

 

In one of the views I do however get the content:

Any info you could provide will be highly appreciated

 

 

If I had to guess, you may not be running the latest version of LaunchBox. It will require at least version 10.12

2 hours ago, Kevin_Flynn said:

It's a great concept; however, it would have been easier to use existing art.

 

Style: 10/10

Execution: 2/10

Exactly, top part is the 2D Box Art and the lower is the same blue background with game Logo - this way the banner is auto generated via your theme and not downloaded in packs or so... 

never the less, great theme 

32 minutes ago, faeran said:

If I had to guess, you may not be running the latest version of LaunchBox. It will require at least version 10.12

I am running 10.13.

Maybe I need to force image cache. Will give it a shot later on. 

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An Amazing Job!!

I have  question..... could be possible that we no need to make custom banner´s for this?... i explain myself, you could make the theme recognize the front box and clear logos we have in our launchbox, instead of pre renderized images??. it would be awesome too.

Regards....

Response from the author:

Thanks @MasterGuevara10.

The answer to your question is, not really... The wheel in Big Box cannot call more than 1 image for a selected game, so there would be no way to have this banner effect without making custom images.

Something similar could be created that only uses your boxart, but it would definitely provide less of a banner flow type of feel.

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@Jason Carr is there a way to fix this ? 

6 hours ago, faeran said:

At some point I can create another view with quick, or just less animation going on. Then you could choose which view you want to use.

That would be amazing, I actually really like the animation... just wish it would start a lot sooner. I'll certainly be keeping an eye out for that release.

Amazing theme!

I've noticed the template for the community theme creator to create the banners. Is there also a template for the theme itself?

Best regards,

I love the theme, but when ever I select a game I ge this error messege.

Also does anyone have good startup videos, game start screens or pause screens to recomend for the theme?

16 hours ago, Kevin_Flynn said:

It's a great concept; however, it would have been easier to use existing art.

 

Style: 10/10

Execution: 2/10

Yeah. It's visually mindblowing, especially if you're using BigBox with TV, but it would just add more assets used solely for this theme.

Edited April 15, 2020 by Skevandar