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Awesome to hear! Thanks Cid. I would expect and hope that most of the content creators just want their work to get out to as many people as possible, since they're providing it for free. My guess would be that the people who would be butthurt about it are the non-contributors (there are of course many more of those people than contributors). It will be a while before we look at possibly adding the videos to the games database, but hopefully we can get there soon. First off I need to add proper support for different types of videos (platform videos and theme videos like this at least). Thanks again for stepping up with all this; I really appreciate it. :)

Oic, thanks @prolecat and @Drybonz. Will review. Another new beta is out in the mean time to fix the two issues with the platform backgrounds and the non-customized box art for the wheel view.

@DOS76 It starts at 9:30 AM PST actually. :) @Drybonz No changes were made to the folders, can you explain what is missing/what happened? @imdavid555 Apologies, it took a little bit longer to go live than I expected. @kmoney2315 That's great to know, thanks. I apparently also screwed up the platform background defaults for games in Big Box by putting random game background images in instead of the actual platform backgrounds lol. I'll have a fix for those soon.

Alright, new beta is out that fixes at least some of the issues. I'm still working on things but this should be an improvement. I did add back in default platform backgrounds for Big Box which I had messed up in the last beta (platform backgrounds were not showing for games that did not have their own backgrounds). The other things I fixed were mostly surrounding random error messages and stability. Let me know what you guys are still seeing in this beta. There is some confusion in this thread surrounding how all the new image stuff works. In LaunchBox you have the new Image Type drop downs in the menus and in the toolbar on top; they are all customizable using the image priorities settings inside of the Options menu. In other words, if you want to be silly and change it up to make 3D Boxes do something completely different, like show backgrounds, you can, just by tweaking the priorities in the settings. This should provide some pretty awesome flexibility. The image priorities settings *are* used in Big Box. However, the Image Type dropdown that you see in LaunchBox has not yet been implemented in Big Box. Eventually you'll be able to press a hotkey to switch between all the image types that are available in the drop down in LaunchBox for the main images, which is what people are missing I think. That's it for now; thanks all. I have a relatively significant surprise to announce tomorrow morning in the development live stream (I know that's not really fair for people who can't attend but it will go up on YouTube soon after). :)

Hi @spektor56, sadly I'd have an angry community if I switched to SQLite or any other database for the moment. Too many people are making use of the LaunchBox.xml file externally. Otherwise I would probably consider it at this point. I will be going back soon to try and figure out how people's XML files getting corrupted on occasion. It shouldn't be happening in a crash because I only overwrite the LaunchBox.xml file once the file is successfully saved to a temp folder...so there must be something else going on.

Hi @gizmo, you'll definitely want to restore a backup from the Backups folder per what @DOS76 said. It's not recommended to manually tweak the XML per @adu because you never know what could be missing.

Hey everybody, post your XAML tips and tricks to share with other theme creators here. For starters, here's how to add an image with a relative path: <Image Source="pack://siteoforigin:,,,/Themes/CleanHardware/img/white-corner.png" RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode="HighQuality" /> Note that the "pack://siteoforigin:,,," is basically replaced with the LaunchBox folder path. Also note the forward slashes instead of backslashes. :)

Wow! Thank you Cid and eric! Cid, how much trouble do you think we would get into if we started hosting and automatically downloading those recorded videos? ;) I do want to move the themes over to the new custom themes forum soon, just so we can have a separate thread for each theme. We can discuss theme development there as well. :)

I'm still working on figuring out relative paths. Several people have noted that they can't seem to get relative paths working, so I have that on my list to figure out. For now you'd have to do the complete, rooted path, unfortunately, but I'll get it figured out soon. I'm confused about the pic in the first post, though. You mentioned that the gradient was white but I don't see any white in the pic...can you explain?

shinra358 said bitbucket wont load in any of my browsers anymore. Odd, it does seem to be loading for me. Maybe it was just down for a bit? Is it still down for you @shinra358? What exactly are you seeing?

Tomorrow will be my bug fix day, guys. I'll fix everything I can tomorrow and put out a new beta. :) What is happening when switching themes, Brad? Is that an error that is already listed above?

You probably already know, but there is an example of doing exactly that in the CoverFlow with details view.

As far as I can tell without testing it, that XAML should work. All I can figure is maybe the transparency isn't working properly because of what's underneath it or over top of it...or something. Where are you putting it?

Thanks @shinra358, some of those requests are unfortunately a lot of work, but I'll see what I can get going here soon. It may be a bit before I can get all that implemented though. @emko, is it just because LaunchBox doesn't know that the image already exists, so it downloads it again from EmuMovies?

knewlife Glad you got that font issue resolved. Really strange but it does appear that it must have somehow gotten corrupted on your machine. Pretty weird. @emko It's possible for two identical images to be downloaded if the same image is located both on EmuMovies and on the LaunchBox Games Database. I may add a solution for this in the future; could use a Bitbucket ticket for it. @shinra358, per help with that XAML, it really helps to use Visual Studio for that if you can download it. Then you actually work on the grids visually. @Zombeaver Thanks for reporting those controller automation issues; I'll take a look at them soon. @SentaiBrad and @DOS76 I'll see what I can do about those exceptions. @Drybonz I hope nothing broke more than it was supposed to. ;) What happened exactly? Thanks all. :)

Drybonz said Would a theme make it possible to make BigBox usable in vertical orientation, or is that going to take additional changes in the program? I mean, it's possible to use it in veritical, but you can't read anything, the layout is bad, etc... Just curious. Yes, it's entirely possible as-is right now to build a great vertical theme. I haven't tackled that yet but the community should be able to do a great job with this. I know someone was in the process of doing this already in the themes thread. @Lmagnus87, I assume you built that screenshot in Photoshop or similar? There are a number of visual XAML editing tools available, but I will be doing some research here soon to try and find the best one and come up with a recommended solution. :)

shinra358 said Is there a control for not having the wheel loop? If you have only 3 systems or games, you will see duplicate systems/games on screen in the wheel. I would like to make it so that doesnt happen. When you get to the end of the wheel, it stops until you go back up and vice versa if you are going down. Edit: found another bug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAfNOWLSrU4 Also, I want to be able to control how many games I see about the highlighted item and how many items I see below the highlighted item on the wheel. Thanks @shinra358. The wheel always loops for the moment; it will be some significant work to add that as an option so a ticket in Bitbucket would be good for that. I did add some additional wheel customization options recently in a previous beta; take a look at the XAML for the Default views and let me know if that helps. Per the error, the video seems to be private so I can't see it currently. Thanks!

emko said Yes you fixed the back out of options screen only bug left is that there is no navigational sounds in the option screen other then that its working fine. Just completed a game using bigbox and i just noticed there is no way to mark a game completed in bigbox could this be something you could add please, works very well with favorites/broken just missing this one option. Thanks Thanks @emko, I'll take a look at the nav sounds thing. Can you add a ticket to Bitbucket for the game completed stuff? Thanks!

New beta is out with granular controls for image priorities, as well as the ability to easily switch between boxes, 3D boxes, carts, 3D carts, and screenshots in the main LaunchBox view. This was quite an involved series of changes again, of course. Been a really productive day though, starting with the live development stream from this morning. Really glad to be back at it again. As always, please test as much as you can and let me know what you might run into. I'm gonna go through and catch myself up on this thread now. :)

eric That looks awesome! I missed getting this into the video I just put out, but we definitely need a vertical theme so I appreciate it! :) Just uploaded the video and sent out the email a few minutes ago, @CriticalCid, @niglurion, and @AwakenJenova. My video editing skills are really pretty crappy so forgive that but here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7_v2ahsDTk Thanks again all! :)

Awesome, thanks Cid. Yes, I agree that we'll need theme videos added very soon, along with Platform videos, etc.

Awesome, thank you Jenova. We'll need time tonight to create the video; Brad's going to go ahead and put it together for us. But the sooner the better so we can get it all ready, would be great. :)

Thank you all! Looking great. I'm finally back from vacation today. Hooray! Had a great time but glad to be back. So I'm planning to put out a video tomorrow and put it in this week's email to showcase some of these themes you guys have created. If I can get everyone's permission and also either a video of the theme or a way to easily download and get the theme running, that would be awesome. That way I can put them all in one video and showcase them for the email. I'll put your forum names up with them too, of course (and hopefully where to download them). Thank you all! @Awaken Jenova @kerszr @niglurion @CriticalCid

Hi @adu, LaunchBox and Big Box have both already been translated into French. Is the French translation not working for you?

Ha, thanks Stimpy. Yeah, we used this song on the original trailer that Brad created for us.