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    CriticalCid commented on Grila's file in Custom Themes

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    The game count currently only works for playlists and platform categories when a theme creator integrates it in a specific way which isn’t feasible for a lot of Views. The reason for this is that the current way of how the game count is calculated for playlists/categories is a little buggy and Jason wants to revamp that method first before he adds support for it to the other way the game count can be displayed. So for now we all have to live with that fact until jason has tackled it,
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    This is indeed a very fine slim theme and I’ll definitely have to take a closer look at the customizer app as it sounds very interesting. You are always good for a nice surprise by bringing such innovations into Big Box theming.Thanks for being a part of this community
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    It definitely looks very promising. Keep up the good work
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    The native element for videos in Big Box doesn’t support any kinds of stretching. It’s possible with a workaround by using the background element for it and force enable background videos in the Big Box options. But that also means that you can’t use fanart images anymore, so that’s not an option. There’s also already a transparent black box around them to give the videos a more unified profile, isn't that enough in your eyes? I’m lost here. The WallView shows 3 rows with 5 games per row, for every platform, so that’s definitely consistent and the TextList and CoverFlow aren’t affected by this issue at all. Are you talking about the favorite games list in the platform views?
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    I’m not quite sure if I understand you correctly. You want that all videos get stretched to 16:9? I also don’t know how that should work for boxart as you have completely different formats across all platforms, for example it would like horrible if you stretch a SNES box into a DVD case format. Besides playlists and PC games I can't think of a scenario where you would run into these situations.
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    Version 0.2 is out! Changelog: - General: The WallView now does support game videos! Important: You need at least LaunchBox v8.0 Beta-2 to see the videos in the WallView, otherwise you won't see anything at all, not even screenshots. If you don’t want to update to the latest LB beta version yet I suggest you to stay on one of the previous 0.1.x versions of this theme.
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    New update Changelog; 0.1.4 - Updated: NJDave71's HelperControl plugin was updated to the latest version - General: The speed of the horizontal scrolling text was increased
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    According to Wikipedia it's: Namco System ES3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Kart_Arcade_GP#Mario_Kart_Arcade_GP_DX
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    Speaking of utterly garbage games for your collections. I hope you already have these horrible Maxis education games on your list for Win3.X that LazyGameReviews dug up a few months ago. (links to the games in the description of the video)
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    I’m not sure if you can even change the text speed at the moment. The horizontal scrolling text was made possible with a custom plugin created by @NJDave71. Only he can answer your question.
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    Every theme has text list views as theme developers can’t deactivate them. So basically you can try out all of them and see if you find one that fits your likings. Just be aware that some themes will only have basic edits of the default text list views as they aren’t the main focus of the theme.
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    Not entirely, here's a good guide about how the files have to be named in order to be recognized by LaunchBox,
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    Haha, you're welcome
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    You can reduce the background fade in the Big Box options. Let me know if it's still too dark even when set to 0%
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    Sure, that’s definitely possible. Just open the View you want to edit and replace the line of code for the background with this: <Image Source="Path to your image" Stretch="Fill" Panel.ZIndex="0" RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode="HighQuality" /> Make sure that you use / for seperating the folders in the path. If you prefer to do a relative file path start your path with this: {}pack://siteoforigin:,,,/ that's the relative path to your LaunchBox folder.
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    New version is out! Changelog: Version 0.1.3: - Updated: Grila's weather plugin was updated to the newest version. You can now see if the temperature is set up in celsius or fahrenheit and the platform views now show the name of the current set up location. Thanks again to @Grila for implementing my requests in to his plugin
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    Wow... that was fast! Thanks again, I really appreciate it
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    Awesome! Thank you very much it works great! I noticed that I run into spacing problems with long location names. Would it be possible to add “Show” properties for the weather symbol and the temperature as well? With that I could add a second instance of your plugin in a new line under the first one which only shows the location.
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    Well you don’t need the scripts exactly but otherwise you would have to edit every single theme manually in your video editing software. And that’s something you definitely don’t want to do, trust me. I'm not sure if EmuMovies even has cinematic themes as they can be freely shared by their creators and don't require to be exclusively hosted at EmuMovies like recorded HyperSpin themes do. You can find them here: https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/category/11-game-theme-videos/ and on the import process in LB you need to check "BigBox cinematics" if you want to get the ones created by @JamesBaker as well.
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    I’ve started to write a tutorial on how I do it but I never have finished it. It’s quite an extensive topic with a lot of scripts involved and I’m not sure if I want to go down that rabbit hole to maintain support for all the questions that will definitely follow. Currently I send out my unfinished tutorial + scripts per PM only to people who already have some experience in video recording, rendering and some very basic knowledge of batch files as it’s quite a lot to take if you don’t have any experience with things in that regard. But on the other hand I think that @Riffman81 and I have the themes pretty much covered. I did all the arcade platforms, MS-DOS, Touhou Project and Unified Widescreen Main Menu Themes, while Riffman has covered the rest. Sure there are still some themes we may have overlooked or just got recently released but you can always send them to us if you want and we may consider it to record them in one of our next recording sessions. As for what’s coming on my end: I have over 1000+ MAME themes that still need to be done and quite a few new Unified/16x9 main menu themes. I also got some new MS-DOS video snaps on my hands recently so I’m sure that some new themes will follow for this system as well. I'd love to do the PC Games as well at one point but as Riffman said I can't do them without video snaps. I’m also keen on doing themes for Sega RingEdge / RingWide. If anyone has high quality video snaps for them then please let me know. With that said: I plan to do them since almost a half year and still hadn’t found the time and motivation for doing so, so I can’t give you guys any ETA.
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    Well I’m not a developer, so when I’m saying that it’s not possible than I mean it’s not possible for me to do with the native BigBox elements. If you or someone else want to try to come up with a solution, be my guest
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    Here you go:
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    Great to hear that it helped
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    I have absolutely no clue what could cause this. Maybe there’s something odd with your BigBox settings, so I suggest it’s worth a try to set them back to default. Close BigBox and go to your data folder inside your LaunchBox installation and move the “BigBoxSettings.xml” to a different folder. BigBox will automatically create a new settings xml file with the default settings when the settings file is missing in the data folder on the next startup. If that doesn’t help and you want to restore your old settings just move the old xml file back to the data folder and replace the newly created one with it.
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    That's completely odd. Have you tried to change the video engine?
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