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More hexes that fixed some other consoles for me.

NES = #ba2f42

Saturn = #5a79d9

N64 = #1ab761

Thanks for the website suggestion carthage.

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3 hours ago, viking said:

Ouch, these colors are painful!
The problem root is color management by video players and encoders.
Between the color I give as input in Photoshop, what comes out in AfterEffect and what is displayed in VLC = I have 3 different colors displayed! 

Please use VLC as the video engine in BigBox.
If you are in error and have a valid color code, please post it here as:   "platform name" = "hex code"

That way, I could send them to Faeran to integrate the correction into the next updates.

Thx !!!

Important: if you used the PlatformView2 as above, use the eyedropper tool, as far left as possible, between the title and the summary.
Around there is a vignetting effect in overlay which will distort the result!

I am using VLC I tried windows media player, but it was way worse haha. I think almost all my colors are slightly off, but some are worse than others. NES, ATOMISWAVE, SCUMMVM, GENESIS, NEOGEO CD, & PS3 are not matching for me. Carthage figured out genesis, it's #b72d2e.

 

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On 3/29/2022 at 9:00 AM, AncientCarthage said:

I'll give it a try when I get home for sure. I'm not sure what's causing the issue unfortunately, but at least the fix is relatively straightforward.

Thanks Carthage I'll keep an eye out for your post!

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On 3/27/2022 at 7:14 PM, AncientCarthage said:

Wanted to post an update, You have to change the hex codes in PlatformWheel1FiltersView.xaml and PlatformWheel2FiltersView.xaml, or whatever .xaml file corresponds to your chosen view.  If you just search for the platform of your choice in notepad, you should find the corresponding Hex code under it.  getting the right one took some trial and error in photoshop for me, but the Hex code I have for genesis is #b72d2e.  Thanks CutTheRug!

Dude, that color was perfect for genesis. I wonder why we're getting that issue. If you ever get the chance would you be able to figure out the NeoGeo CD, ScummVM, and the ATOMISWAVE colors? I've attached them if that helps. Thanks so much. Now I don't have to go crazy guessing anymore on sega.

We should try to netplay sometime. DM me if you're ever trying to hit something multiplayer and need 1 more.

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4 hours ago, AncientCarthage said:

I'm having the same issue he is.  I tried changing the color hex in the same file he did for genesis, no luck.  it didn't even register the change when I booted up bigbox.

I figured out how to change this. I'll post when I get home. Off the top if my head you need to change the platformview.xaml, but now I'm getting a different issue where the videos are a slightly different color than intended. If I play the sega genesis video in VLC it looks like the left color. When it opens in Bigbox it's that darker red for some reason. It's happening on two others as well. Atomiswave and NES.

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I'm having some minor issues with color matching. As you can see I've added a custom platform called CPS so I added a line into the styles axml file.

Please let me know what I might be doing wrong here. Thanks. I'm having the same issue with sega Genesis as well.

Thank you for any help!

EDIT: I'm using the recently released 2.0 Dark Theme

 

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1 hour ago, tedyanggara1412 said:

Hello?? anyone can help me?? i really want to try this theme

Something similar happened to me too. It worked after I updated launchbox, updated the theme, and restarted my computer. Hope that helps, but maybe your problem is different.

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On 10/29/2020 at 8:48 AM, viking said:

Unfortunately, I think this is not a bug, but a XAML limitation. (the code language)
The microsoft doc indicates that having large pixel movement can cause slowdowns. And for my theme, it is ALL the screen pixels that it must recalculate during the animation.
My concept is clearly not resource-efficient... ?

Aggravating factor: 1440p. You have more pixels to calculate than a 1080p.
I have the same resolution, but in 60hz. No lag at home. Maybe the effect is erased by my lower frame rate.
I imagine you don't have lag on GamesView, which doesn't have such big animation?

There isn't much I can do. I have ideas for future View with less video animation. Maybe they will work better for you!

Thank you for the reply! and thank you so much for the theme! I don't mind that it skips I just thought I'd share in case it was causing other issues. I'm excited for the future view. Thanks again!

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I can't remember when I started having this issue but I figured it would go away with a future update. Since I'm now on LB 10.7 and Colorful 1.0 I thought I would share since it's still happening.

Videos seem to lag for a half second during the initial animation startup. It definitely didn't do this when I first installed the theme, and I don't think it's my computer since I'm running it from an NVME M.2 and I have a GTX 1070 with 5820k CPU as well. Also using VLC. It doesn't do it when using Windows Media Player, but the animation is super fast instead and I prefer the slower wiping effect.

Anyway, I'm sure it's just some setting I have wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If this matters my monitor is 1440p @144hrz

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12 hours ago, viking said:

@CutTheRug : Wow Thx! This is a complete comment!

About Memory Leak.
Jason had noticed this problem to. He literally spent nights on it to find the source. He succeeded: it's Windows Media Player!
Try it:

• In BigBox option, set the video player on VLC.
• Your Windows is up to date ?
• Your .Net framework is up to date ? >>Download Here<<
• Reboot your PC.

Resolution Dependence.
There should be no problem. I use the @eatkinola plugin to adjust the measure on the fly. I'm surprised this problem because the theme is coded for the 2160p, and my screen is in 1080p. And everything is displayed correctly. I'm thinking of a "second monitor" bug. @Jason Carr ? Maybe VLC correct this problem to ?
If no, what video set do you use?
I've designed this theme to show exactly the same for everyone, regardless of your screen resolution.

Shrunk Video.
Yes, I thought about it. And it's already corrected! To slightly improve the visibility of the video. Available at the next release.
I mean, the little white band up and down. Horizontally, the video aera is in (almost) 4:3 format. It's a design choice. The resolution of your screen does not change anything on this point.
If 16:9 video: There will necessarily be side cuts.
If 4:3 video: There will be slightly cut.
If Vertical videos: There will have white stripes.

Thank you for the reply!!

Here is a picture of what's happening when displayed on my 1080p monitor. My guess is that you're right and it has something to do with multiple monitors. I'm also using VLC and have the latest .NET so I have no idea what happened with the memory overload. It was definitely LB related but probably not the specific theme.

I did think of one more thing while scrolling through COLORFUL yesterday. Some videos displayed on the GBC have really bad FPS. I think it must be the videos from emumovies (if thats where u get them). Maybe they've updated them, but Zelda, Wario, and mario tennis all look strange. The only reason I mention it is because everything is so perfect that it kind of stands out.

Thanks again and have a good day!

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First of all, thank you so much for this theme. It's so clean and fun to use. I can't wait to see what you do with the other view ideas. I really appreciate the time and effort you have put into creating this and sharing it for all of us to use.

I'm not positive, but there might be a memory leak or something like it. I was in the theme for a while testing views (using 'V' on my keyboard) and switching platforms when launchbox crashed. Then when I tried to relaunch the program it said my PC was out of memory and it couldn't continue. The only other thing I had open was youtube in chrome and discord. This has never happened before, but maybe it was something else. If crash logs are stored I can post it if needed. I just don't know where they are.

Two other little things, the theme doesn't display the same between different resolution monitors. For some reason the platform videos don't center when shifting to the right on my 1080p monitors, but they look fine on my 1440p. It's not a big deal for me but maybe some 1080p users will have issues.

Okay, last one thing, I think the game videos can be shrunk a little since the top and bottom appears to be slightly cut off. Not sure if that was intended, but I thought I'd mention it since I didn't notice it at first. (This is also severely affected by using a 1080p monitor).

Thank you again!!

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1 hour ago, viking said:

Thx @CutTheRug ! Yes, sure, why not !
I realese soon all source file. Photoshop and AfterEffect. So theme creator can used them  !

Oh nice! I didn't know that. You're the man!

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Amazing work as usual @viking!! Maybe you and @eatkinola can chat about getting these to work with your game list once you select a platform. I love seeing my library appear on the different screens as I scroll. It's such a nice feature. Again, incredible work. Thank you @viking!

 

I hope I don't sound demanding, it's just pure excitement!