Clear Logo Creator 1.0.0

What's this?

Ever wanted to fill the holes on your 40k games DB for your Commodore 64 platform or create your own nice set of stylish clear logos for your favourite platform? I did, so I created this simple yet useful tool to batch create Clear Logos for each game you can select from your list, starting from a background png image and writing the game name on it, adjusting text appearance and previewing the result.

How to install it

Just download the zip and extract its content in the LaunchBox plugin folder.

How to use it

Just select as many games you want to create your clear logo for, right click on them and select "Create Clear Logo" form the context menu.

A configuration form will let you choose

1. the background png file to use as the base image of your clear logo (in the downloaded zip file there's an example of a Commodore 64 template clear logo); 
2. X and Y position where the name of the game will be rendered on the base image;
3. The max width the name should take before shrinking to fit the logo;
4. The font name to be used to render the game title (all fonts from your machine should be supported);
5. The base size of the font to be used (if the rendered text exceeds the max width, the font size will be automatically decreased);
6. The foreground color of the text (it supports html standard, so textual colors like "white" or Hex rapresentations like "#FFFFFF");
7. The shadow color of the text (it supports html standard, so textual colors like "white" or Hex rapresentations like "#FFFFFF"); if blank, no shadow will be rendered;
8. A Check to create the Clear Logo even if it already exists; any clear logo is created as a second clear logo (with "<game title>-02.png" name) so it should not overwrite your main clear logo, but by default no Clear Logo is created if a clear logo named "<game title>-01.png" exists, to prevent priority on your main logos and just fill your holes in the collection, but if this  option is checked ("Create if already exists") the logo will be created anyway for any game selected.
9. Clicking Refresh button a Preview of the generated logo will be created (or refreshed) in the form, so you can test what the Clear Logo will look like, using the Preview Text you can modify, hopefully checking short and long names to see if the position and size parameters are ok.

Once you're OK with the preview you can click "Generate" to start the bulk generation. A progress bar will let you know how long it's going to take, but it's a quite fast process.

Disclaimer

I created this plugin because I needed something like that and it's my first attempt to a structured plugin, so it could have issues, but I'm quite happy with the results, I hope you can enjoy it too!