Baggio

Nice work on the new cases, the only thing missing for them is the ability to change the thickness of the spine for Jewel Cases as they are too thin for the Dreamcast and PS1 I forgot to add, the jewel case washes the colour of the spine out quite a lot as well. The PS2 spines are pure black now they look grey with the reflection which make it look really odd compared to the front image.

Added 2 new views made some changes Fixed video borders not showing when using All Games filter Added animations to gameplay videos Added new view when you select a game that now shows game images and playtime (WIP) Fixed the naming on some platforms. Thanks @Mr. Skerpentine for pointing them out Made and added images for the Atari 800 The time in the corner now matchs the platform colour the @Rincewind Added platform view that refried uses Added platform view with recently played and favorites games screen (WIP as i still need to figure out how to get favourites to work)

Is is possable to add colour conditions to selected game in the wheel in the text games view? I want it match the colour conditions i have set for all the text on other platforms. I've tried in CTC 2.5 but it always uses the default colour thats set so i didnt know if it had to be set up directly in the Style source xaml?

Brilliant thanks Ill sort the clock out to change with the platform i never even thought of that tbh. So you think just changing the text wheel to look like refried (pic below) with just the selection box a different colour or can you think of something more extravagant? I dont think it can be set up to change colour with the platfrom though but i'll ask and see if its possable.

Just wordered what everyone thought if i changed the text view to this so it shows you more when you click on a game? As it is below it will show 1 to 4 pictures from the Title, game select and 2 gameplay pics (3 gameplay pics will show if the title or game select are missing) and the total playtime (which i could hide if its not been played) I could also maybe get rid of some of the infobar at the bottom as well as thats shown on the previous screen or replace the entries with something else?

Yeah you only need to check the first, i just thought id send you them all incase you need them. Heres the files. Btw i changed the filtertitle to platform like you said and all is working fine now so i no longer need to use filtertitle for the playlists borders to work 👍 On another note i messed up the animations on the gameplay videos so im aware of that lol

So it did it first time after publishing. It does it on any filter i select and all the vertical wheel views. Here's the xaml for the vertical views, let me know if you need the whole theme.

OK no worries. So its just the published .xmal for the view in question you want not the whole theme? I'll try and replicate it and get it over to you tomorrow night when ive finished work.

Ok no worries. When it happens again would it help me with sending you the published theme to look at that? Thanks

Sorry i didnt see this. If something is missing though wouldn't it be broken everytime i publish? This problem doesnt happen very often just every now and then

I ended up using filtertitle due a conversations we had a while back to fix the playlist videoborder images not showing. Ill put it back to platfrom though and see if the many changes in Bigbox and CTC have fixed it. Thanks for this i'll add that, Could you tell me the start times and durations you used for them all though as i am usless with the animations lol. Thanks for the tip on testing in the all games view as well i never thought of that 👍

Oh and I am using Launchbox 13.1 Beta 2 (not updated to last nights beta 3 yet) if that may have something to do with it.

So it’s set to platform category (with arcade, consoles, handhelds etc) at the start. Then I go into a platforms and I choose any platform and it’s like the picture. In the pic it was is in vertical wheel 1 and I selected Arcade and Naomi. Ill try and recreate it when I get home and see if it’s just the videos that I have not set a position condition on which is all the arcade and most of the consoles I think offhand

Will do 👍 On another note is there anyway to display video marquees with CTC? I tried a user defined video, selecting metadata images as game then point the images folder to a folder with the marquee videos in but that didnt work lol

Here it is after publising the second time. All working fine

@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. 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

I just realised that I didn’t add the show text option to the wheel if no clear logo is present so I’ll sort that out tomorrow.

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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. ---------- 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. --------- 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. ---------------------- 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) ---------------- 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. 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. ------------------------------------------- Wheel 1, Wheel 2 Handhelds and Wheel 3 views showing the 3D boxes Wheel1.mp4 wheel 1 handheld.mp4 wheel2.mp4 This is what it looks like with all the images removed (as detailed above) in the infobar Submitter Baggio Submitted 01/02/2023 Category Custom Themes  

Has anyone here used the fake rom list and already added it to launchbox? I built one through CTC so i can test out more platforms but saw i have to import all 179 Platforms individually in launchbox so if someone who has already done it and could zip up and share the all data file xmls it would help me immensely.

Ah OK thanks I was hoping i could use it to auto resize the front boxes so we dont have to have a background behind them 🙂

@y2guru Hi mate, how does the size to content box work for the image canvas when we are creating a wheel template? Whenever i enable it then images/templates just dissappear when checking them in the views so im not sure what i'm doing wrong.