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    COMMUNITY Theme Creator Version 2.5 now available

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Released)

    Posted · Edited by PaulyC

    @y2guru I may have found a problem.

    I've set up my theme with the new remap layout to change the sizes and location of videos and sometimes after publishing this happens.   

    When you publish the second time it normally fixes it though and and everything works as it should.

    image.thumb.png.f5c9a87c5e1b6b396a7d1e8dc039673e.png

    I forgot to add i have quite a few conditions set now but this also happened when i had very little and was just testing things out

    YART (Yet Another Refried Theme)

    in Big Box Custom Themes

    Posted · Edited by PaulyC

    Platforms and Playlists covered

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    Spoiler

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    3DO Interactive Multiplayer

    4-Player Games

    AAE

    Acorn Archimedes

    Acorn Atom

    Acorn BBC Micro

    Acorn Electron

    American Laser Games

    Amstrad CPC

    Amstrad GX4000

    Android

    APF Imagination Machine

    Apple II

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    Arcade Beat Em Ups

    Arcade Light Gun Games

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    Arcade

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    Atari Classics

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    Ball & Paddle Games

    Bally Astrocade

    Bandai Wonderswan Color

    Bandai Wonderswan

    Beat Em Ups

    Big Fish

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    YART (Yet Another Refried Theme)

    in Big Box Custom Themes

    Posted

    YART (Yet Another Refried Theme)

    View File

    So basically i have recreated RetroHumanoid's amazing Unified Refried theme in CTC and made quite a few changes to hopefully make it even better.  The most notable changes are that it has more info when viewing games and the new movable 3D model boxes.  I’ve also added the abilty to choose if you want Fanart or the default images as the background images and having images or text as in the bottom infobar.  Atm its only 16:9 but if there is interest I’ll try and add more aspect ratios.

    To get the most out of this theme you need box - fronts, box - backs and box spines in your Launchbox setup.   You can do without the box - backs if you dont paln on rotating the 3D models though.

    So the views it has so far;

    • 3 Platform views 1 with a full screen video and vertical wheel, one with a smaller video and one that has a selectable favourites and recently played list

    • 3 Wall views to kind of mimic Launchbox (need some tweaking still though)

    • 4 Vertical Wheel games views with 2 different background choices like Refried, one with a big console/handheld/TV and dynamically changing images for different platforms. The other 2 are smaller images of the platform in the corner, without the dynamically changing platform images. 

    •  2 of the Vertical Wheel games views (1 dynamic and 1 not as above) have a clear logos wheel and movable 3D model boxes (front, back and spines images needed for full effect for all wheel views) and spinning CD or cart images

    • 2 of the Vertical wheel games views (1 dynamic and 1 not as above) have a vertical box cases wheel as well as 3D movable boxes and and spinning CD or cart images

    • 1 Text view which is mainly for the game selection options (play, read manual ect) with gameplay, title and game select screenshots.

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    Features:

    • Dynamically changing platform images (like refried)

    • Dynamic Marquees for arcade games (like refried)

    • Dynamic Marquees/Backglass for Pinball  games (Future Pinball, Pinball FX3 and Visual Pinball)

    • Moveable 3D model boxes

    • Controller images change in playmode for different platforms

    • Most badges shown

    • Publisher, genre, playmode and certification in infobar and game notes scrolling along the bottom

    • Fanart for the background if you wish.

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    To change/remove certain images;

    Wheel Views

    • For the Fanart as a background delete or rename the folder; Themes>YART>Media>Background.
    • If you want the any of the Publisher, Genre, Playmode and PEGI/ESRB* images to show as text instead of the images, delete or rename the folders;  Publisher Logos, Icons Genres, Icons Play Modes and both the Icons PEGI and Icons ESRB folder (to remove the certification), all are in; Themes>YART>Media.

    *( When the game certification is shown as text I can’t find a way for it to show the PEGI certification so it will say, M-Mature instead of 18 for example)

    • To change the certification Image from the EU PEGI to the US ESRB ratings, rename or delete folder; Themes>YART>Media>Icons PEGI
    • To change the PEGI text to read ESRB in the wheels views go to the folder; Themes>YART>Views and;

    Open WheelGamesView.xaml, Wheel2GamesView.xaml, Wheel3GamesView.xaml, Wheel4GamesView.xaml and the TextGamesView.xaml in a text editor (Notepad++ is a good option) and find Text="PEGI: and replace it with Text="ESRB: in all 5 of the above views or just the one you use.

    • To Stop all the Discs from Spinning

    Open WheelGamesView.xaml, Wheel2GamesView.xaml, Wheel3GamesView.xaml and Wheel4GamesView.xaml in a text editor and search for BeginTime="00:00:02.5" To="360" Duration="00:00:05" RepeatBehavior="Forever"> and replace with BeginTime="00:00:00.0" To="0" Duration="00:00:00" RepeatBehavior="Forever"> 

    You need to do this twice (or replace all in Notepad++) as there are 2 entries you need to replace to stop them all spinning, one for the CDs and one for the Mini CDs

    Wall Views

    • For Fanart to show for the Wall Views delete or rename the folder; Themes>YART>Media>WallViewBackground
    • To change the certification Image from the EU PEGI to US ESRB overwrite the files in the folder; Themes>YART>Media>Icons PEGI Wall, with files in the Themes>YART>Media>Icons ESRB Wall folder.

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    Text filter and Platform 3, recently played and favourites 

    For these to show you need to go to Options>Views in Bigbox and enable "show filters recent games" and "show filters favourite games"

    Launchbox controls what images are shown in the recently played and favourites.   To change what type of image is used go to image group and choose the type of image you want to use in the dropdown (shown below). This seems to be platform specific as well so you need to go through them all.  (Boxes or 3D Boxes work best others don't work well)

    216590733_Screenshot(224).thumb.png.c96c99d3021afac396f6c51d44872f47.png

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    Front and Back Images

    To have more Front and Back boxes show on the 3D models (If the proper front and back ones arent available) i recommend setting these priorities in Launchbox.

     

    image.thumb.png.60a0e1ef41d650eab1c11736a0ae83ba.pngimage.thumb.png.2ae90d5d72645d7f848eab25398272e3.png

    Credit:

    @RetroHumanoid and his amazing Unified Refried on which this built on. Whilst i have made a lot of images myself most are from his theme (especially the video borders).

    @faeran for his Unified CTC which i used as a template to start this (and it taught me how to use the Community Theme Creator)

    @y2guru for the unbelievable Community Theme Creator

    If I’m missing others I’m really sorry as i have been at this for a while off and on so may have used other people images somewhere a long the line.

    Lastly, this is my first effort at theme creation so bear with me if things aren't as they should be. I'll fix any problems ASAP if you guys find any issues :)

    P.S. Please give me suggestions on what to do with views that haven't been filled yet or changes that could me made to the current views.

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    Wheel 1, Wheel 2 Handhelds and Wheel 3 views showing the 3D boxes

    This is what it looks like with all the images removed (as detailed above) in the infobar

    image.thumb.png.54d5e2b7421a73ea853ab87b69fa62b0.png

     

     

     

    COMMUNITY Theme Creator for BigBox 2.5 Evaluation

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Released)

    Posted · Edited by PaulyC

    9 minutes ago, y2guru said:

    correct, 1 config

    I can't thank you enough for this.   I have had to try find the relvelent strings i was changing in the xaml and mass find and replace in notepad++ to try and make things easier/quicker than going though 60 configs 1 by 1 so this is an absolute godsend 👍

    Edit: Just counted and i have 25 configs and 4 views so that would be 100 i needed to edit 🤣

    COMMUNITY Theme Creator for BigBox 2.5 Evaluation

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Released)

    Posted

    On 12/18/2022 at 10:27 PM, y2guru said:

    trying to wrap up this new feature which im sure you will find extremely useful depending on your use case.

     

    That's amazing. 

    Currently i have 15 or so different platform configurations becuase of the different dimensons of videos that need to fit in images as you show in your video.   That means if i need to tweak something on the default view i have to do it on every config for 4 views which is a lot of editing but with this if i'm thinking correctly i only need 1 config now!!!!

    Best addition ever 😂

     

     

    COMMUNITY Theme Creator for BigBox 2.5 Evaluation

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Released)

    Posted

    1 minute ago, y2guru said:

    for coverflow the following arent copied/pasted yet as Im still waiting on potential new properties to support curved wheels

    "RotationAngle", "RotationAxisX", "RotationAxisY", "RotationAxisZ", "SelectedRotationAngle", "SelectedRotationAxisX", "SelectedRotationAxisY", "SelectedRotationAxisZ"

    Ah OK that makes sense, i thought i found a bug and should report it to you but you're well aware of it lol

    COMMUNITY Theme Creator for BigBox 2.5 Evaluation

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Released)

    Posted · Edited by PaulyC

    2 hours ago, y2guru said:

    not a bug, you cant have 2 wheels in a view!  you click on the existing wheel, right click, select paste properties then select which properties you wish to apply, such as layout, wheel etc..

    Yeah thats what i was doing mate.  When you try and paste or paste in place it says you can't have multiple instances so i knew that wasnt the way to go, so I applied all 13 items listed in "paste properties" and none of them transfered the copied settings over.

    COMMUNITY Theme Creator for BigBox 2.5 Evaluation

    in Third-Party Applications and Plugins (Released)

    Posted

    2 hours ago, y2guru said:

    Evaluation build updated

    • Hidden games are no longer excluded 
    • Wheels can be curved, and their items can be rotated
    • Wheel assists updated
    • Text with Special Characters no longer converted to "?"

     

    Thanks for adding the right 3D coverflow.

    The boxes are facing the wrong way though, but i've had a mess with the settings and believe these are close to mirroring the right hand one.

    image.thumb.png.34d89d1b823d7a4fc74378dcaaef6509.png

    On another note do you know why CTC doesn't pick up all the images for the 3D boxes on the wheels?

    3D model xaml

    in Custom Theme Tutorials

    Posted

    14 minutes ago, faeran said:

    My guess is that you can add it as a user source in the CTC, but the CTC won't know what to do with it and probably provide an error. There should be a checkbox that allows you to stop it from trying to render that element in the CTC. When you publish the theme, you'll see the 3D Model in Big Box.

    The only way you would be able to see this Model in the CTC is when the 3D Model is added as a native element within the CTC.

    Thank you so much buddy it worked!!

    I used the code 

    <coverFlow:FlowModel DataContext="{Binding ActiveGame}" RotationAxis="0.2,1,0" RotationAngle="25" CanManuallyRotate="True" FieldOfView="30" />

    as a user source and after unchecking "designer friendly" and publishing it worked perfectly 👍👍

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    3D model xaml

    in Custom Theme Tutorials

    Posted

    OK no problem, y2guru isn't sure either and told me to ask here so maybe it isn't possible yet.

    I did try putting it directly in CTC's created xaml after publishing as well but didn't have any joy there either.

    Thanks for the help anyway 👍

     

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