Marquee Generator for CTC 1.2

The issue seemed to be to do with naming; 2 instead of II, etc.

14 minutes ago, Retrofrogg said:

The issue seemed to be to do with naming; 2 instead of II, etc.

Ah aha, good thing you found the problem.

 

What's New in Version 1.2

- Thanks to @y2guru you can now render marquees in whatever resolution you want to
- Be sure to install CTC 2.5 and above for this https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/2115-community-theme-creator-for-bigbox/
- Template files are completely redone for 4K resolution and to always have background images even if you only have a game screen image of a game
- Added 21:9 template file but also for a wider aspect ratio, you can change it to whatever aspect ratio or resolution you want

Is there an easy way to scale to marquee size of 1280x390 without manually needing to rescale and move each element after changing the canvas size?

My guess is it's easiest just to batch resize after rendering the images at the current resolution of 4K.

1 minute ago, Headrush69 said:

Is there an easy way to scale to marquee size of 1280x390 without manually needing to rescale and move each element after changing the canvas size?

My guess is it's easiest just to batch resize after rendering the images at the current resolution of 4K.

Not that I know of, yeah I think batching them would be the fastest way.

The marquee displays for me, but the background image does not. It's there with the actual generation and it's in the actual image, but when the image displays on my separate marquee monitor, everything EXCEPT the background image shows up, and instead it's just a black background. What am I doing wrong here? 

2 hours ago, xAustin90x said:

The marquee displays for me, but the background image does not. It's there with the actual generation and it's in the actual image, but when the image displays on my separate marquee monitor, everything EXCEPT the background image shows up, and instead it's just a black background. What am I doing wrong here? 

Thats strange. Have you correctly followed the instructions and moved the images out of the CTC folders to the correct arcade marquee folder? The reason I ask is when the images are correctly generated it would be impossible for the background not showing in LB/BB as the image is one merged file.

This is sooooo frickin' cool.  Nice setup. simple, and works.  This type of stuff makes me really want to get started building an actual arcade cab now. is 21:9 a pretty standard ratio for marquee monitors? Also, any relatively inexpensive options that you would recommend?

Edited July 4, 2023 by damageinc86

6 hours ago, damageinc86 said:

This is sooooo frickin' cool.  Nice setup. simple, and works.  This type of stuff makes me really want to get started building an actual arcade cab now. is 21:9 a pretty standard ratio for marquee monitors? Also, any relatively inexpensive options that you would recommend?

Thanks  I use an 21:9 LG Ultrawide, was around 175 bucks back then, great picture.

Is there any chance you could make a version of this that outputs at 1920x360 so they could match up with Jason's marquees that work on the pixelcade LCD ?  I tried editing the theme, but could not get certain images to ever show up, I only got about halfway through and gave up. 

2 hours ago, damageinc86 said:

Is there any chance you could make a version of this that outputs at 1920x360 so they could match up with Jason's marquees that work on the pixelcade LCD ?  I tried editing the theme, but could not get certain images to ever show up, I only got about halfway through and gave up. 

Its been a while that ive used this, have you set the correct resolution of the canvas and can you provide more details on which images dont show up?

5 hours ago, Mr. RetroLust said:

Its been a while that ive used this, have you set the correct resolution of the canvas and can you provide more details on which images dont show up?

Yes i changed the canvas resolution, and attempted to resize what I could down, but it was very difficult because they were then so large they were way outside of the bounds of the canvas.  For some reason arcade cabinets wouldn't show up for me.  And I changed no attributes at all other than resizing. 

4 hours ago, damageinc86 said:

Yes i changed the canvas resolution, and attempted to resize what I could down, but it was very difficult because they were then so large they were way outside of the bounds of the canvas.  For some reason arcade cabinets wouldn't show up for me.  And I changed no attributes at all other than resizing. 

I"ll have a look when I get home again 👍

On 12/27/2023 at 6:29 AM, damageinc86 said:

Yes i changed the canvas resolution, and attempted to resize what I could down, but it was very difficult because they were then so large they were way outside of the bounds of the canvas.  For some reason arcade cabinets wouldn't show up for me.  And I changed no attributes at all other than resizing. 

Here you go man, try it out. As for images not showing up I vaguely remember CTC was more strict on naming conventions than LB was but I think Dave did fix that in the end. If for some reason your cabinets still don't show can you post a screenshot of your cabinet images folder in details view so you can see the names clearly?

Marquee Generator Neon 1920x360.zip

Edited December 29, 2023 by Mr. RetroLust

7 hours ago, Mr. RetroLust said:

Here you go man, try it out. As for images not showing up I vaguely remember CTC was more strict on naming conventions than LB was but I think Dave did fix that in the end.

This works great! Thank you so much! 

16 minutes ago, damageinc86 said:

This works great! Thank you so much! 

Good to hear, have fun