crispy4000

I've been looking into making indie 'console' playlists divided into the following categories. Would anyone be willing to help me take a crack at it? 8-bit Retro Indie 16-bit Retro Indie 3D Retro Indie Neo Retro Indie HD-2D Neo Retro Indie I'm defining as being too vfx oriented to truly feel 16-bit in spirit. HD-2D is for the hybrid 2D/3D artstyle popularized with Octopath Traveller. To share the wealth a bit, here's a few console generation combined clear logos I made a while back. I'm using them mainly for retail games I own PC versions of from the era. Need to follow up with PS5/Series X at some point.

I've noticed that the wall view in my theme seems to be running a bit less smoothly since 12.5, I think? It seems to be something about the background transitions causing the app to stall a bit on selection. I'm using the code from the included documentation pdf for that part of the theme, with background transitions set to fade. (and videos to quick fade)

@bundangdon v.06 - Added Horizontal and Square wall views, modeled after SNES and PS1 box art dimensions. Opted to display less boxes for the horizontal layout. - The corrected views are defaulted to for the following platforms category playlists: Gameboy, Gameboy Color, GBA, SNES, PS1, N64, Dreamcast, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS. I'm sure there's more out there. You can swap orientation with the change view button.

@zacharyt86 Addressed your issue: v.05 - Minor spacing and scaling adjustments to the badge icons added in v.04. - The second available screenshot is always used for the left side image. This should prevent image duplication when a game video isn't loaded. As a trade-off, random screenshots are no longer selected for games without "Screenshot - Gameplay" specified. I'll be working on additional wall views next for platforms with different box art sizes. Could take me a little while, since it's a lot of trial and error with adjustments to that part of the wall.

Thanks for the kind words! I won’t be able to work on it again until next week, but will look into your suggestions when I do. The ‘picture’ in the middle is actually of a preview video being played (unless you mean the background image?). I’ll look into changing up the middle one if no video is loaded. Depends on what’s possible in Community Theme Creator. The wall view is a combination of The POC’s wall grid (which introduced LB’s 10.0 new features) and a Community Theme Creator project. It was a problem in the former when I first tried. I can have a go at it, it would be nice to have different wall views for each box type. But it’ll always be a problem in custom playlists combining platforms. I’m still replacing the last few Steam Banners being used as box art in my own setup. I definitely feel ya.

Felt motivated to return to this, so here's a small but practical update to the details pane in the wall view: v0.4: - ESRB rating now defaults to NR icon for unrated games. - Favorite, completed, and source icons added. A Retroarch image is defaulted to if a game's Source field is empty. Feel free to add your own platform icons to the Source folder. - User rating is now prioritized over community ratings. - Controller icon with max players added.

Thanks, that's all really helpful! I've updated the folder name in the zip file, so that should fix the ESRB issue. My focus isn't the other views right now, they're tacked on admittedly. But I'll look into fixing the platform name issue.

Found a good compromise for the faded view. The top and bottom of the wall now fades as the rest of the screen does. It actually might look better this way than what I originally intended. It's kind of a mix between the default theme and POC. And with that, I feel confident to release another preview build. v0.3: - Updated Wall View to be compatible with Launchbox 11.10. - 9x3 grid, with selected game highlighted - Fading effect improved, highlights current row. - Minor timing/transparency adjustments - Pulsing white arrow added to horizontal platform wheel view. - Minor timing adjustments to this view as well, videos move smoother. Download found in first post.

Preview of what I've been working on. Manged to fit 9 games per row now! There's so much less wasted space. Normal scrolling: Zoomed Video/Faded when idle: Wish I could fade the non-higlighted boxes further as the background dims, but that might be beyond my very scrappy coding ability. One more screen capture showing multiple rows:

Thanks so much for the update! I was making a Wall View based-theme before this, and I can tell already that performance has improved dramatically. No more hitching between videos as they switch. Also not encountering a nasty never-ending video playback bug I used to. I'll have to go back to working on it now that the update is out. Lots of ways I'd like to improve it.

With the Amazon importer, when I launch a game that isn't installed, I get a message from the Amazon app to launch the installer. When I click yes, it doesn't do anything. I have to navigate to the game myself to actually install. I take it that this is a problem with Amazon's app, correct? Not handling launch URLs at it should?

I think he means automatically importing Amazon Prime app games without having to install them, akin to other clients. I'm trying to work it out myself with a URL install/play path. But this only seems to work if the game is already installed. amazon-games://play/[gameid] (found in installed game's shortcut)

Went back to work on this again, I'm looking for feedback before I publish to the download section. Thanks, and have fun! v0.2 - Created two platform views, with horizontal and vertical scroll wheels. - Wall view: Created a slight zoom/fade effect highlighting videos and clear logo when idle. - Wall view: Changed fonts for game score. - Wall view: Adjusted fade timings.

Perfect, thank you!

Two small requests: - Versus - Online To be paired with this for multiplayer playmodes: