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  1. CriticalCid
    Hi Nicolas, erstmal willkommen bei uns hier im Forum! Ich finde es immer eine schöne Überraschung wenn neue Leute iaus dem Nichts mit solchen Projekten auftauchen Ich habe mir gerade deine Tutorials angesehen und finde sie für den Anfang gar nicht mal so schlecht. Hier und da sind einige Details für meinen Geschmack vielleicht etwas zu wage und frei erklärt (MAME als „kleinen“ Emulator zu bezeichnen ist wahrscheinlich die größte Untertreibung des Jahrhunderts ) aber im Großen und Ganzen ist alles schon richtig und soweit ich das beurteilen kann auch anfängerfreundlich erklärt. Mir ist aufgefallen, dass du oft zwischen der korrekten Aussprache von „Launch“ und der Aussprache des Wortes „Lounge“ hin und her wechselst. Ich kenne einige Leute in meinen Freundes- und Bekanntenkreis die ebenfalls bei dem Wort „Launch“ so ihre Probleme mit der Aussprache haben und finde es auch nicht weiter tragisch. Nur fällt es eben um zu mehr auf, weil du es manchmal tatsächlich richtig und manchmal falsch aussprichst. Soweit ich weiß sind das auch die ersten Videotutorials die es zu LB auf Deutsch gibt und kann jetzt nicht sonderlich gut einschätzen wie groß der Bedarf dafür ist. Um ehrlich zu sein weiß ich überhaupt nur von 3 oder 4 Usern hier im Forum die definitiv auch aus Deutschland kommen, aber ich denke das es wesentlich mehr gibt und du zumindest einen Teil der deutschen LB User damit sehr weiterhelfen kannst. Von mir gibt’s definitiv einen Daumen hoch und freue mich schon auf deine nächsten Videos! Zuletzt noch ein kleiner Hinweis: Falls du in deinen Tutorials lieber deinen Benutzernamen anstatt deinen realen Namen in deiner Lizenz angezeigt bekommen willst dann kannst du Jason jederzeit eine E-Mail (natürlich auf englisch!) an support@unbrokensoftware.com schicken. Sag ihm einfach. dass ich dich geschickt habe, du Tutorials auf Deutsch machst mit einem Link zu deinem Channel, deinen gewünschten Namen und häng deine aktuelle Premiumlizenz an. Er macht Ausnahmen für Videoersteller die lieber nicht ihren echten Namen ganz YouTube preisgeben wollen und ändert den Namen in der Lizenz für dich. Aktuell bin ich der Einzige im Moderatorenteam der Deutsch spricht; deswegen falls du irgendwelche Fragen oder sonstige Wünsche hast kannst du dich gerne jederzeit an mich wenden. EDIT: Ich hoffe es ist okay für dich, dass ich den Titel des Threads etwas abgeändert habe. Das hier ist eigentlich ein ausschließlich englischsprachiges Forum und daher wollte ich den Titel etwas eindeutiger für die restlichen User machen. Es ist okay, wenn wir uns hier auf Deutsch unterhalten, solange alles im Rahmen dieses Threads bleibt
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    I have nothing to do with the technical site of it nor do I use the sync app, so I can't really say anything about it. I'll tag @circo and let him answer that.
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    Yeah, the Wall/Grid View is really limited in its current state. What you see in AeonMQ is the best solution I could come up with while I was trying to achieve something similar like you have in mind. The only way to get a better solution is either for Jason to revamp the whole control element for this View or coding a custom plugin for it like Grila suggested but of course is the plugin development far more time intensive and complex than just creating a theme.
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    Hey alfredolvera, I noticed that you have tagged every person from the Unified credits in your first post. I think I should point out that Viking, RetroHumanoid and I are the only Big Box theme developers in this list, so the others can't really help you with your request.
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    Sounds like you don't have set up the correct Views for these platforms. In Big Box go to: Options -> Views -> Make sure that „Remember separate View for each platform” is checked. Than go either to the Keyboard Mappings or the Controller Buttons settings and set up a key/button for “Switch View”. Now you can go back to your platforms and switch the games Views for each platform individually on the fly.
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    Thanks I also want to thank everyone who answered any questions and helped out in this thread while I was gone. You guys rock!
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    All right guys, I’m back and I’ll slowly go through this thread and try to answer every question that's still open. If I accidentally forget a question, feel free to post it again. Maybe some of them but first I’ll have to check all changes that Jason did with Redux in detail and then I'll see what I want to apply of it on the main Unified theme. I'll add the backgrounds back in the next version. That way it'll be just a simple edit in the theme code by changing a value from "true" to "false" if you want to turn the stretching off. Open the .xaml files of all game views and search for the following lines: <!-- BACKGROUND --> <TextBlock x:Name="BackgroundFileName" Visibility="Collapsed"> <TextBlock.Text> <MultiBinding StringFormat="{}pack://siteoforigin:,,,/Themes/Unified/Images/Theme/Background/{0}.png"> <Binding Path="FilterTitle" /> </MultiBinding> </TextBlock.Text> </TextBlock> <Image x:Name="BackgroundImage" Grid.ColumnSpan="7" Grid.RowSpan="8" Source="{Binding Text, ElementName=BackgroundFileName, FallbackValue='pack://siteoforigin:,,,/Themes/Unified/Images/Theme/Background/_Default.png'}" Opacity="100" Panel.ZIndex="0" Stretch="Fill" RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode="HighQuality" /> Simply replace all these lines with this: <!-- BACKGROUND --> <transitions:TransitionPresenter TransitionSelector="{Binding BackgroundTransitionSelector}" Content="{Binding BackgroundView}" Grid.ColumnSpan="7" Grid.RowSpan="8" Panel.ZIndex="0" Height="{Binding ElementName=Canvas, Path=ActualHeight}" Width="{Binding ElementName=Canvas, Path=ActualWidth}" IsContentVideo="true" /> Unfortunately not at the moment. I don't have a way to determine what aspect ratio a video has so I can't dynamically change the graphic assets based on that. That's definitely possible by pointing Unified to the 2D boxess but @Jason Carr is gonna work with me on a better solution for this. Hopefully it will be already included in the next version of Unified, so stay tuned That's possible but would require some work for me to get the position of the game logo right. Right now I'm focusing on working on the next version of Unified so I won't do any personal customization requests at this point. I'll maybe come back to you at a later time but at this moment I have to pass, sorry. Search in .xaml files of all Platform and Game Views for the part that starts with <!-- DATE, TIME AND WEATHER --> and remove following the lines beneath it. Tell me if that works for you <TextBlock Text=" " FontFamily="{StaticResource FontBebasNeue}" FontSize="35" VerticalAlignment="Center" DockPanel.Dock="Right" /> <g:GrilaWeather ShowUnits="True" ShowLocation="False" ShowTemp="True" ShowConditions="True" ItemSpacing="10" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Foreground="GhostWhite" FontFamily="{StaticResource FontBebasNeue}" MaxHeight="45" DockPanel.Dock="Right" Margin="0,0,0,0" />
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    Hey guys, I’m back from my break and I have a little surprise for you that I’ve been working on since quite a while. I’ve recorded almost 2000(!) new HyperSpin video themes for your MAME games! They are now available from EmuMovies directly through LaunchBox or from the EmuMovies FTP. You’ll need a EmuMovies premium membership in order to get them! All credits go to the original theme creators over at the HyperSpin forums. You guys do an amazing job! What’s new: 1665 new video themes for previously uncovered games (lots of Mahjong and Casino stuff, but also many ‘real’ games) 221 updated videos for already existing games with higher-quality themes* 55 new Mature themes** EmuMovies now features 3764 videos themes for different MAME games in total + 300 alternative theme versions! * All videos that were replaced with new ones were moved to the following folder on the EmuMovies FTP: /Official/Video Themes (HD)/MAME - Alternatives (Video Themes - Unified)(4x3)(HD)(CriticalCid 1.4) You can still grab them there if you prefer them for whatever reason. ** Mature Themes are only available on the EmuMovies FTP. They can’t be downloaded directly through LaunchBox! You can find them under: /Official/Video Themes (HD)/MAME - Mature (Video Themes - Unified)(4x3)(HD)(CriticalCid 1.4) Important Note: If you have already downloaded any MAME video themes and you want to get all the new updated ones I highly suggest that you delete all the MAME video themes that you currently have and re-download the whole set again. Otherwise you will only get the ones for the games that don’t already have a video theme and you won’t get any of the updated themes as LB never overwrites/replaces any of your videos. Unfortunately there’s no better way around that yet. Sorry about your bandwidth. You can find the video which you currently have in your setup in: ”..\ LaunchBox\Videos\PLATFORMNAME\Theme” How to download the new video themes: Method A: In LaunchBox Make sure that you’ve entered your EmuMovies account information in the options. In LaunchBox go to the platform in which you have imported all your MAME games. Select all games with CTRL + A. Click on Tools -> Download Metadata and Media -> Next -> Next –> “Select None” and click on Next –> First click on “Select None” than scroll down the list and check “Video - Theme” -> Next -> “Yes, but do not replace any existing media or fields” -> Next -> Wait until all video themes were downloaded. Done. If you also want the Mature videos for your adult games check download method b). Method B: From the EmuMovies FTP Go to the EmuMovies FTP (more information about that can be found on the EmuMovies website). Navigate to “/Official/Video Themes (HD)/” choose one of the 3 MAME sets that you want and open its folder. Select all vidoes with CTRL + A and download them on your PC to: ”..\ LaunchBox\Videos\PLATFORMNAME\Theme” Of course PLATFORMNAME stands for the platform in which you have imported all your MAME games.
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    Unfortunately that's not possible at the moment.
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    Yes, the default games count doesn't include games in playlists. There are some theme plugins that bypass this limitation but unfortunately they don't fit quite into CriticalZone. So unfortunately you'll have to wait until @Jason Carr does something about that.
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    You would need to completely mirror the whole theme structure and image files inside the theme code. Unfortunately that's too much additional work for me to maintain and update two completely different builds of the theme, sorry.
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    You can edit the various properties of the wheel element in the theme code. What each property does can be looked up in the documentation.pdf file inside the Themes folder. You could also check the Wheel Views in CriticalZone to see how the properties are set there
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    My Aeon MQ7 theme also features a modified wall view. It was designed to fit with all types of boxes so I'm not sure if it's anything what you're looking for
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    Sure. Like I said you'll have to edit the ThemeSettings.xml file for this. Just increase the BackgroundFadeValue and you should be good to go. By default it should be 10 so increasing it to 20, 30 or 40 should be fine.
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    Make sure that you replace the whole part with your new font name. Do you have the Arcade font installed on your PC or do you just use the one that comes as a plugin .dll file with CityHunter? I would highly advice to have the font installed on your PC and type in the font name directly. Don’t use the .dll files or theme code of other themes for it because it won’t work without additional steps if you just replace the FontFamily code with the FontFamily code of another theme.
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    Unfortunately you can only have one GamesDetailsView per theme. Like Kelto and Neil have correctly said you can bypass this by creating a new theme and use the switch theme option. I also really like you modifications. Great job! Which fade do you exactly mean? The general brightness fade or the fading between multiple background videos? If it’s the brightness than that’s by design and hardcoded in the theme. You can change it by opening the ThemeSettings.xml in the CriticalZone folder and change the BackgroundFadeValue to your liking. Just be aware that this won’t work with the version that comes directly with LB as LB will set the settings back to default once you start Big Box, so you'll have to use the version from the download section.
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    Unfortunately it’s not supported at the moment and it will always stay centered. I don’t know if you could do some workarounds to achieve that like moving the left part of the wheel out of the screen or something like that but afaik did @Grila already tinker with it for his BigForce theme and didn’t come up with a really satisfying solution either. So I guess it’s up to Jason or maybe a plugin developer to create a proper solution.
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    Yeah, officially it’s written with a space even though I find it quite inconsistent considering LaunchBox is written without a space. I guess I'll just take what's going to look better in my eyes. Thanks again for your work! I’m not sure when I’ll release the update because I want to include some more things before I’ll release a new version and I’m currently taking a break from theming and focuse on some other projects of mine. I hope it won’t be too long before I come up with an update. Stay tuned guys
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    At the moment you can't without editing the whole View by yourself. You will be able to simply replace it once I released the new update for the theme. I don't know when the update will be ready, so unfortunately I have to ask you to wait a little.
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    I tried to do something similiar when I first started working on Unified, unfortunately it seems you can't natively add outlines to a text without coding a plugin for that. And honestly I like it the way it currently is, so I don't know if I would even add that when someone would came up with a plugin for that.
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    Simple but effective, thanks for that, it looks great! @dragon57 I'm so sorry for asking you again, but could you also great a a "Big Box" in that style?
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    Awesome! Thank you so so much! That's how it currently looks like. If anyone wants to create a custom background for it I would really appreciate it
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    Here:
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    Unfortunately not. I also don't have any plans to create those as I use @RetroHumanoid's awesome category videos for my own setup at the moment and don't feel the need to replace them for quite a while.
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    That looks awesome! Thank you very much for this Any chance you could also do an "Options" logo in the same style? These Views aren’t edited in the theme yet. In order to replace these images you would have to edit everything on your own or copy them from another theme. I will include customized Views for the menu once I have all the artwork for it. Of course that will also allow you for replacing the images! Btw. I also need a proper background image for the options menu that fits to Dragon47's awesome logo and the white/blue text in the menu. If anybody wants to create one I would highly appreciate it
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