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  1. On 11/18/2022 at 10:07 AM, viking said:

    OK guys. It's time to show you some of my concept for the v.3 theme ! :)

    But first, a quick review of the current version:

    • Too much animation! It's too slow, not very reactive and finally, we don't take take time for play videos. For this v.3, I want to simplify all that. Animations: yes. But under 1sec maximum.
    • Trying to join the theme color with the video color is too painful. So I changed the design to avoid that. So, if there is a slight variation between the 2 colors, it will be invisible. Or at least not annoying.
    • I am annoyed by the limit of PlatformView. Only 4 today and all with wheels. Ideally, we should have the same number and diversity as for GamesView. (box, wall, coverflow, 3D)
      I already asked to @faeran who is passing on to @Jason Carr and the team. But his is a limit I have to deal with for today. 
    • Having a light and dark version is painful to maintain. If the limit of the point above is lifted, we can have only one Colorful theme. Which includes both light and dark views.
    • Some v.2 designs have already aged I think. :ph34r:

    There may be other things to say! Do not hesitate to tell me in comments

    I'm in favor of having a screenshot-only version, as long as gameplay videos are present.
    I like the videos a lot. But they end up slowing things down... Also, not all of us want to keep tons of video files stored. Colorful is a very beautiful theme and with images it is already amazing.
    Keep Going, my friend!

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  2. Hi @viking and @faeran !

    Guys, this is  what I have now:

    image.thumb.png.a3d69fe611f700ae0825c0ee1d50b683.png

    Not sure if this is the intentional design, but honestly, I think this view could be better. It wouldn't be all bad, if the other items had a reduced size, so the selected one gained more prominence and didn't have to be cut around the edges. Any predictions to improve this? What happened to the good ideas we discussed in the past?

    Here, two design suggestions.
    What do you think?


    ViewTEST01.thumb.png.7bb0e4ea06b91a22320125a05c3e461e.png

    ViewTEST02.thumb.png.133ed0179079c9864c1265c157ecdf47.png
     

  3. Hello everybody!

    I would like to ask the community for help, especially the devs, because my problem is really strange.
    Since this happens in more than one theme, I thought it was important to report to the community and not just the themes support page.

    There is something causing a slowdown when browsing arcade game lists, but only arcade games.
    This is happening in three of the new themes I tested, namely Pulse, Sleepstream and Playbox 6. .

    Important points in the analysis:

    • No bugs in any other category of said themes
    • No bug on recent Flikbox theme
    • No bug on BigCouch theme
    • No bug on Colorful theme
    • No bug on Default BigBox theme

    My specs:

    • Ryzen 3 - 2200G
    • Nvidia GTX 1050
    • Kingston 16GB 2400MHZ
    • SSD for installation
    • All games and LaunchBox are on the same SSD.

    I made this video below, I used Pulse to demonstrate. Sorry for the bad mobile recorded video:

     

  4. 13 hours ago, Juketsu said:

    "Honestly, Sleepstream is less beautiful" ...ouch. I cant help you with technical issues. I'm only a designer who used CTC software to make a theme. BUT, what you describe could be a bug in CTC or Launchbox, who knows. I know this, that Pulse uses a lot more animations and that is why it performs worse than Slipstream. You should try to tweak the theme with CTC yourself.

    OK. Thank you for your time. As my problem is not unique to a single theme, I will take the matter to the forum in general, because I fear I will have the same problem in future themes.

  5. 8 hours ago, Juketsu said:

    @soqueroeu in short, if you want to change the theme you will need to download the Community Theme Creator and CTC-files for Pulse and do the changes/fixes yourself. You could also try my new theme to see if it works better for you. It's like Pulse, only faster and better.

    Well I appreciate you. But I expected your longer answer.  😀

    Just wanted to make sure the points I mentioned, because I really got lost with Pulse for the first few hours.
    I love Pulse and want to keep using it anyway. I have no intention of changing the theme. Honestly, Sleepstream is less beautiful in small details. However, I need some help from the community and from you, to understand what might be causing performance problems in arcade playlists.

    This does not happen with older themes. But I noticed that some of the new themes have the same problem. Pulse and also Sleepstream suffer from the same ailment. I just can't quickly browse arcade game playlists. I take about 3 switching between games. 😲

    My games are installed on the same SSD as the BigBox. Everything works fine for other platforms and I browse through their lists without any slowdowns or stutters.

    Could you please help me with this?

  6. Hi All!
    I started using pulse effectively today.
    Really a great theme. Congratulations to author
    @Juketsu ,I just think theme deviates a little from the standards in the way of using images. This left me a bit confused and it took me a few hours to find myself.
    I still have a performance issue which I will bring up separately at some point. For now, could you help me with the questions below?

    • Pulse does not use images from Banner or Fanart folders to platforms. That's right?
    • Horizontal Wheel Views (1,2,3) do not consider Front Box image for the background as a second alternative. Was that intentional?
    • Pulse uses devices images as background, instead of the Fanart folder. We have to use the ones that serve all the places where they appear. Do you intend to change that?
    • Horizontal Wheel 1 and 2 are the same, except that on the second, there is a video transition from the center to the left and both use a box front wheel. One of your posted images , uses clear logos instead. How did you do it?
    • It seems Wheel Platform 3, banners have lower image quality. Compared to the other views, they look a little blurry to me. Maybe it needs tweaking the code to render better. Could you guide me how to improve?
    • I have a Platform called "Arcade All" which gathers all arcade games and was scraped as arcade. Pulse is using this platform's logo for all Playlist Arcade. It seems to be a problem specific to this theme. The curious thing, there are views where the logos appear correctly. See below, NeoGeo MVS playlist test. Do you intend to fix this?

      Wrong_ClearLogo.thumb.png.f6448ca28e85740bb07b42be38809e49.png


      Thanks in advance!
       





     

  7. 4 hours ago, neil9000 said:

    You will need to change the name in the view you are using.xaml in the same place you are changing the colour code as you are using a non standard platform name that will not match what is in the theme.

    Ahhh, with the right information, things work fine now. Thank you very much @neil9000!!
    It's not enough to change the colors code, we need to change the platform name to match what the theme asks for.

    I had to change the lines below and then adjust the color value for both. I'll do this for all the other views.

    Before:

    image.thumb.png.88b9649a86543cfd675808c18b184d0a.png

    After:
    image.thumb.png.bb8fa8c69b8ac50c93845a0a3f17ba8c.png

    image.thumb.png.9a4548a0a842475fb13db1cac1ade426.png

    @faeran , I wonder why we don't have these views based on the scraped name instead of the name given by the user. 🤨

     

     

  8. Guys,

    I could not correct the Super Nintendo Color. Apparently there is some bug with this platform. On my system it's called Nintendo Super NES and was duly scraped as Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
    I already changed the color code in the xaml and still nothing changes.


    image.thumb.png.8cd5a107965bb7ef8d1c159cc7d2c0b0.png


    image.thumb.png.faf9dec088a19d9caeb9b5c83ca6d0cc.png

    image.thumb.png.057f04d0b65c3090944fc3048db1840c.png


    Please, could someone help me to fix it?

  9. 2 hours ago, neil9000 said:

    Those views are all game views, not platforms, the colour codes are in the platform wheel views.

    Thanks @neil9000, but I looked at all files where this information appears, even in the one you recommended, the color values are exactly as they should. But the colors still show the default green:

    image.thumb.png.df6ad37ea5e64f0d2341a6375dd9373e.png

    image.thumb.png.dc40d98e000736f0e0ee1476808813b8.png


    EDIT:

    Yeah... the problem was case sensitive.
    But it is strange the PC Engine CD was No Case and had the correct colors. When in doubt, I renamed all Nec to NEC. It's OK now.

    Thanks anyway.

  10. Hey @faeran ,

    Is there any way to correct the colors by manually editing some text file?
    I looked in the folder theme, found info on
    TextListView, TextGamesView, Wheel2GamesView, TextFiltersView and WheelGamesView, but it looks like the color control is not coming from these. Nothing change!
    Please, Help us!

  11. Well, this is an interesting point. I think we should ask users what really makes sense, because people are paying to have BigBox.
    Do we have a specific forum to bring our ideas? If yes, can you please post the link?

    Technically, anything is possible with programming, but if all the answers lead the user to create their own modifications, this can be a little frustrating.
    I'm not a coder. Although I have made small changes to some themes, it was all out of curiosity. Personally, I have no idea how to create an entire view for BigBox.

  12. 22 minutes ago, Suhrvivor said:

    Your mockup looks worse than any of the popular themes set up to start at Platform Categories; zero flashiness nor gameplay, just a boring menu, we already have LB for boring menus.

    Well, I don't think you understand.
    My idea is to have a start menu first of all. By choosing a category, you would have access to all the features we already know, including videos.
    I just think we should have a screen to make choices, rather than starting with video or active platform.

  13. 3 hours ago, C-Beats said:

    You have some examples of what you're looking for? What your initial post described is exactly what Platform Category view is by default so your post is a bit confusing.

    Yeah!
    Okay guys, sorry if I wasn't clear.
    I made this mockup image to illustrate what I imagine we should have after the splash screen:

    180018611_IdeiaMenuBigBox.thumb.png.69a00c91c3651b2173318c6b5abca7d2.png

  14. I mean a real home menu. What we have is just direct access to screens.
    When you turn on your game console, for example, it doesn't put you right into a gameplay. Movies have opening  or opening credits, PC software always waits for an initial decision. So why can't BigBox offer me an initial choice through a menu?

    Well, I'm not sure if it's possible to get what I want. But none of these options give me a home menu. They just take me straight to each of them:

     

    image.thumb.png.b68721b8dce9931b895b399830b3ec74.png

     

     

  15. I was wondering why we can't have a home screen where we can make a first choice after opening BigBox... 🤨

    It doesn't have to be mandatory. But it would be really cool if we had a welcome screen with a list of the main categories, for example:

    Welcome to BigBox "Colorful" !
    Please choose a category below or press X to continue where you left off:


    Arcade
    Console
    C
    omputers
    Handhelds
    P
    inball

    ...
    I believe, for a paid product  more than a decade old, we should be evolved.
    Please, consider!

  16. Soqueroeu's Colorful Clear Logos Category

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    My Colorful Clear Logos Category

    Hello everybody!
    I would like to share my category logos with you. I made them to use with the Colorful bigbox theme. Of course, you can use them in other themes. They were made inspired by the Colorfull Big Box colors and contain 8 variants:

    • simple gray
    • Simple gray (caps text)
    • simple dark
    • Simple dark (caps text)
    • 2.5D gray
    • 2.5D gray (caps text)
    • 2.5D dark
    • 2.5D dark (caps text)

      Images.thumb.png.febee7e35266fb860212a91d65893444.png
       

    All logos are 1920p wide, to maximize quality on high resolution displays. You may want to reduce the size using some image software. Feel free to do so.

    Please note, I only created logos for the main categories. But you can create your own, because include the source .psd file 😄

    Any feedback is welcome Enjoy!

     


     

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  17. 13 minutes ago, faeran said:

    Just tried and they do look like they are working when you click them. Try a different browser maybe if they are not working for you.


    Sorry guys, I don't know what's going on. I cannot download these files. Do you think there is any restriction on my username? I've tried in other browsers and still the same error.

    EDIT:
    Sorry guys. The popup blocker was blocking the links.

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