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You can give it a try, for free! Which is great! And there's plenty of tutorials online to learn from as well, videos or websites alike. Its not a difficult application to use, but I'm just curious why you wouldn't want to make it yourself you know? We're both typing in text so I'm not sure what intentions or meaning you might be interpreting from my messages. To be clear, I'm not annoyed or anything, and if I didn't have intentions on helping then I simply wouldn't respond at all. I'm here to help how I can, but I'm not going to make things for you; the entire point is to empower you to make your own things.- 36 comments
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GIMP is a powerful free application and also has a mod version called PhotoGIMP to make it more like Photoshop. Make a new layer below the image layer, paint it green. It'll appear under that image. However, you really don't need to have that base image to have green in it, you just need a shape that is the same dimensions that is green. If you look at the example templates, you'll see some are just black with some green in it.
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Heya @ronindoc! If you mean just regular box fronts, those are doable if you setup the template right for that particular use case. If you mean 3D Boxes, that was not originally in the scope of the application, but if there's more interest in it then I can look into a simple implementation for it. Thanks!
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No problem @zugswang! Glad you were able to find the option, but for anyone else who might not be sure what we're discussing, here's a 1920x1080 background being used: If loading that as a background image for a disc, the normal stretch maximums still leave some distortion on the original image: If I don't want the image distorted, I enable Advanced Mode and set the range to -500 and -500 for left and right. You can see in this image how it looks in the application, with the proper stretch settings, overlaid on the wallpaper. Hope that helps explain it for anyone else!
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Setting stretch left and right to -500 each shouldn't have any stretching. You can also stretch in all directions to 'zoom' in, or move to different sections of the background image if you don't want the absolute center of the image as the focus. There's lots of options, not that you have to use them or anything since your solution with resizing your images before hand or resizing the template (whichever is getting the effect you want) seems to work well enough. But I did try to make the application simple to use but robust enough to make whatever carts/disc people could want to make templates for. Things like 3D boxes or logos and such were never part of this particular project and are out of scope for what this is intended to be. But I'm glad you're getting use out of the tool and I hope its easy to use and getting you results you enjoy!
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Oh I have no problems answering questions about the app, especially if they haven't been addressed yet or are an issue someone is having. However, if you watched the video, you may want to check again. And to state that there's nothing about discs in the video, when two sections are devoted to it, makes me believe you either didn't watch it or are confusing it with the original video that was released with the initial version of the application. This is a new video that was made for the latest release of the application, I've provided a link to the specific timestamp where I go over discs, etc.
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I did make the video demonstration for a reason. But try these: Make the left and right negatives, Advanced Mode for larger range. (Please do try to read through the README or watch the video for basic functionality)
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GIMP is a powerful free application and also has a mod version called PhotoGIMP to make it more like Photoshop. To resize an image in GIMP using nearest neighbor interpolation, go to Image > Scale Image, enter your desired dimensions, and choose Nearest Neighbor from the Interpolation dropdown menu. This method preserves sharp edges, making it suitable for pixel art and images with distinct lines and without introducing anti-aliasing. You are meant to make templates or use whatever you find, but if you're wanting to do custom things then that really falls on you to solve and not me. I don't mind helping explain how things work, but asking to make templates or help you make templates isn't something I have the time to do. I am curious why you wouldn't just change the output size instead of resizing the entire template, but whatever works for you; you can use the tool however you like. Some of the results even impress myself lol
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Resize using nearest-neighbor instead of bi-linear. That happens due to anti-aliasing when you're resizing something.
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Depending on how you're making the template, it has to be VERY clean with where the green is and the pink is (if going that route). Sometimes opening a template, cutting the image out, making a new image, and saving it in that new file cleans it up enough to where it'll work correctly. Thats not really a fault of the application but a combination of how some art applications do transparency and how Windows interprets that encoding. Would love to see what you made with it tho!
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Heya @zugswang! I promise you can make your own templates as needed. For example, here's a quick PS4 one I made. Heya @DrNilsson86! This won't generate logos or titles for you, however you can use the same template method for anything really. Here's a box front example:
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It can, thats how the Famicom Cart works, with the fill color. Check the FC -> LogoTemplate, and you'll see that the logo is in the grey label area. Then I use the fill color, click the grey so it fills the background with the same color, etc.
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Heya Zugswang! I explained this in the video but if you look in the Template directory, you'll see all of the example templates you can build upon or use. You should be able to use them for reference, but essentially you take your transparent template, make a copy, then where you want the background to be color it #00FF18 (green) and where you want the Logo to be (if you want a logo defined template) use #FF00FF (magenta). There's an issue with uploading images currently otherwise I'd send exactly what I'm referring to but if you look in the template directories there's already an Xbox folder there you can reference for your own templates.
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Heya @Raindupon! Thanks for checking it out! The application is actually mainly for people to be able to use whatever template they want and not necessarily the ones included in the zip. These were mainly included to show how each template can look or how it looks when designed for the app, and should allow anyone to create their own easily or use whatever they like. If you'd like to create a 'template pack' for the application, feel free and that would be awesome to see! But I don't know if I'll add additional templates with this unless its something people really want.
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Still working on the new update!
