Coverbox Remastered v2.03 - Early Access

15 hours ago, camboico said:

Hi,

Would something like this be possible?
Even putting the genre or player labels a little higher and resizing the CD and box case.

 

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I see...that's what I thought you were asking for. I can indeed do that, although I feel some of the users might feel that throws off the aesthetic so it would need to be optional. Every platform (minus a few) have distinct box back labeling, I try my best to do 1:1 copy of them (if i can) so they all match up with the cover aesthetics. Throwing some game icons right in the middle kind of throws that part off. It also adapts to what info you have for that current game, collapsing and uncollapsing information icons on the fly. You can't see them all but that dock will expand to fully take up all that space (IF that game has all the info required) For psx there are like 10-12 info rectangles, when fully expanded it takes up every inch of that space. If i add the box/cd to that specific area it will move around inside the dock as well. I will try to implement this somehow in the future for you, it likely wont go where the info dock stuff goes though. 

Edited Sunday at 10:06 AM by KingSlayer420

There was a typo in the wheel template for Playstation that was causing a crash for some people, it's been fixed. I'll try to get the fixed version uploaded today. (Thanks bmtkat)

Edited Sunday at 10:08 AM by KingSlayer420

32 minutes ago, KingSlayer420 said:

I see...that's what I thought you were asking for. I can indeed do that, although I feel some of the users might feel that throws off the aesthetic so it would need to be optional. Every platform (minus a few) have distinct box back labeling, I try my best to do 1:1 copy of them (if i can) so they all match up with the cover aesthetics. Throwing some game icons right in the middle kind of throws that part off. It also adapts to what info you have for that current game, collapsing and uncollapsing information icons on the fly. You can't see them all but that dock will expand to fully take up all that space (IF that game has all the info required) For psx there are like 10-12 info rectangles, when fully expanded it takes up every inch of that space. If i add the box/cd to that specific area it will move around inside the dock as well. I will try to implement this somehow in the future for you, it likely wont go where the info dock stuff goes though. 

Wow,
Well, it's just a whim... 😅I tried to do it myself, but I'm not very good at it.

If you could implement it in the future, I'd really appreciate it... Because I love your work.

14 minutes ago, camboico said:

Wow,
Well, it's just a whim... 😅I tried to do it myself, but I'm not very good at it.

If you could implement it in the future, I'd really appreciate it... Because I love your work.

I'll take care of ya cam, i'll find a way to get some icons on there for you sometime in the future. I'll just add a global option to turn it on and off. Right now people want the missing platforms remastered, I've been working on mainly that atm while i fix bugs people report (or i find myself). It would be a bigger edit but I could collapse the info docks and replace it with another version, that has those icons. And then they work like the 3d box back, one active and the other not. I'll figure something out when the time comes. Worst case I can make you a custom version with those 2 simple additions

Edited Sunday at 10:49 AM by KingSlayer420

On 8/23/2025 at 5:51 AM, KingSlayer420 said:

Thanks vahn, to be honest I didn't get any crashes but i did experience a few long "lags" that I think is due to the ffmpeg issues. I did read that alot of people are having some trouble with that and it only happened to me a few times out of 100+ hours in BigBox. Im sure Jason and the team will get that fixed up sometime soon. 

As for the sound I believe it's the same ffmpeg issue, in the game lists I use "selected item video" which doesn't allow you to mute the sound. In the platform list I used "User Selected Video" and it does indeed have a mute function, which I did use when BGM is enabled. If you disable the BGM in global settings it will then play sound from the videos in platform view 1.

Hope you guys get your builds back up sometime soon, I picked a bad time to release the early access i see. 

Yeah I will have to wait until they fix the issues going on with ffmpeg because it is borked right now. I'll still keep up with testing your new updates though, the BG music and video sound, and video snap playback are just messed up atm.

Edited 12 hours ago by vahn65

1 hour ago, vahn65 said:

Yeah I will have to wait until they fix the issues going on with ffmpeg because it is borked right now. I'll still keep up with testing your new updates though, the BG music and video sound, and video snap playback are just messed up atm.

I'll mess around with the bgm/video stuff for a bit today and make sure it's not caused by the theme. It very well could be i haven't tested that very much, it's not very complex so i just assumed it works properly after testing it. When I did the initial test of it I wasted a hour or so trying to figure out why the sound wouldn't mute when the global setting was disabled...it was the video the whole time 😅. The platform video I had set had some sweet synth music and i didnt even realize the bgm WAS off, the music was coming from the platform video. I'll still make sure

Hope you get your lb all fixed up soon

1 hour ago, KingSlayer420 said:

I'll mess around with the bgm/video stuff for a bit today and make sure it's not caused by the theme. It very well could be i haven't tested that very much, it's not very complex so i just assumed it works properly after testing it. When I did the initial test of it I wasted a hour or so trying to figure out why the sound wouldn't mute when the global setting was disabled...it was the video the whole time 😅. The platform video I had set had some sweet synth music and i didnt even realize the bgm WAS off, the music was coming from the platform video. I'll still make sure

Hope you get your lb all fixed up soon

Confirmed the video snap playback  and audio seems to only be an issue with this theme. I am also missing clear logos for platforms and platform category's for some reason as well. The BG music isnt your theme though that is just launchbox being weird right now

Edited 9 hours ago by vahn65

9 hours ago, vahn65 said:

Confirmed the video snap playback  and audio seems to only be an issue with this theme. I am also missing clear logos for platforms and platform category's for some reason as well. The BG music isnt your theme though that is just launchbox being weird right now

I spent a few hours last night testing the bgm and video stuff. BGM does indeed mute when disabled, i also added a timer to the platform video so it doesn't play too quickly. I tested it in and out, it was working on my end. I didn't look too much into the snaps, is it only the gameplay snaps that are messed up? or does it do that in the platform view as well? All game lists use "selected item video", that one should work there isnt much you can do with it. I'll still do some more testing today, i have some logic tied to some of the videos, maybe its off or something. Is there any way you can explain in more detail whats going on with the videos? Does the video not play? its just black area? is it all glitched out?  muted? Let's zero in on the video issue and see whats going on, maybe i can isolate it.

Sorry about the clear logos, that was my fault. I changed it to read from the theme folder (instead of launchbox) and that wasn't a bright thing to do. Some of the icons are black in there so it hides them, or just doesn't display them because they aren't there. I changed it back last night when i noticed it, it will be available in the next update along with a few other fixes. 

If anybody else is having video/bgm problems with this theme please post your issues in the comments, I'll do my best to get it fixed up asap. If anybody else can confirm it's working on your end it's helpful as well, process of elimination.  

Edited 14 minutes ago by KingSlayer420