faeran

CoverBox has been updated to version 2.3 April 28, 2019 Fixed: Game Boy Color font now includes the letter é Change: Most logos that appear on top of video snaps now fade after 8 seconds Change: various splash pages have been colorized

For anyone following this thread, I have released an early copy of this theme on the forums. Please find it here:

Radiance View File Here is an early release version of theme Radiance. This theme is based around the Aura theme by iGarikoitz. Things to note: Theme works best with game music. Theme works best when you have 1 boxart image per game. If you have more than 1 boxart image for a game, the box highlight may not work properly. This is because the coverflow will randomly select a boxart image to display, and the box highlight will also randomly select a boxart image to use for sizing the highlight. If they choose differently, then it will look off. There is currently no way to know which image the coverflow will select to display. This theme does not work well if a system has boxart that is not uniform. Custom changes on a per-platform basis need to be made. All system may not be currently covered. If you find a system that is not currently covered, please let me know and I'll look into it. Have fun! Credits: Faeran - Created the Radiance theme for Launchbox iGarikoitz - The inspiration for Radiance, including his Aura and Aura 4k themes for RetroFE Tronkyfran - Platform background graphics used from his Tronkyfran theme for Emulation Station Submitter faeran Submitted 04/27/2019 Category Big Box Custom Themes

CoverBox 2.2 has been released and is available on the forums in the download section. April 27, 2019 Added Atari 5200 (Thanks to @thatpurplestuff for designing and putting this theme together) Added Atari 7800 (Thanks to @thatpurplestuff for designing and putting this theme together) Fixed: Game Boy Advance font now includes the letter é (thanks @theVoidKing) Change: Game Boy Advance splash screen colour changed

You would need to delve into the XAML files and remove the code for the clear logo for the systems that you want.

Hi @kriscraigs. The only way to do something like that would be to edit the XAML and add that code to the view.

Hi @theVoidKing. Thanks for letting me know. I have fixed this for the next update, which should be this weekend.

The theme is currently pending in the manager due to an issue with a plugin that is currently being worked on. I'm thinking of releasing an early copy to the forum for people to use in the meantime.

CoverBox 2.1 has been released. Added NEC TurboGrafx-16 (Thanks to @thatpurplestuff for designing and putting this theme together)

This is just a theme, so it doesn't control video playback. If you are talking about a playlist video for your favorites playlist. The file should be the exact name of your playlist and be put in the following location: Launchbox\Videos\Playlists

Pretty sure if I'm reading this correctly, you can find an example of this in both of the platform views in Retrotastic.

You are correct. It fills the space of the grid that it's in, adjusting the size of the text to fill inside of it. It will also stay in the same spot, and be the same size, as long as the aspect ratio stays the same. So 720p, 1080p, 4k, the text will remain the same size, and in the same spot, on all of those. Give it a test. As soon as the aspect ratio changes, all your grids will re-adjust to different sizes, and therefore affect the size, and placement of the text. Unfortunately, viewboxes won't work with vertical scrolling text, or any text that has more than 1 line.

What happens if you do this with the code? Text will size to the Column width. All you have to do is adjust the ColumnDefinitions to your liking. <UserControl d:DesignHeight="1080" d:DesignWidth="1920" /> <Canvas Name="Canvas"> <Grid Height="{Binding ElementName=Canvas, Path=ActualHeight}" Width="{Binding ElementName=Canvas, Path=ActualWidth}"> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width="5*" /> <ColumnDefinition Width="5*" /> <ColumnDefinition Width="2*" /> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ViewBox Grid.Column="1"> <TextBlock Text="BIG TEXT" FontSize="100" /> </ViewBox> <ViewBox Grid.Column="2"> <TextBlock Text="small text" FontSize="100" /> </ViewBox> </Grid> </Canvas>

Does this help? <Canvas> <Grid> <Grid> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition width="5*" /> <ColumnDefinition width="5*" /> <ColumnDefinition width="5*" /> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <Viewbox Grid.Column="1"> <Textblock Text="texty text" FontSize="500" /> </Viewbox> </Grid> </Grid> </Canvas>

I've updated Retrotastic to version 2.02 with coding changes that should make the issue @Vlaryn was having void. I also made other coding tweaks which should help with performance. I also took the time to upgrade to the newest themer plugin. New version is available on the forum and has been submitted for approval on the BigBox theme manager.

Hmm, thanks for looking into it. I'll take a look at that in the morning. I'll need to make an official update.

K-lite is usually a good option.

For sure. the forum is now updated to the newest version 2.01, which contained optimizations in the code.

Forgot to ask whether you downloaded the theme from the forums, or whether you downloaded it from the themes manager in BigBox. The themes manager version is the most recent, and it just uses the default video control, which means it just functions the way the default theme functions. You also have the option of changing any of the picture backgrounds in the Retrotastic\Images\Theme\Background folder, to match the names of your platforms. The code just searches that folder for an image with the name of your playlists/platforms. If you have a complete MAME set, I would definitely recommend using the MAME full set importer. If you can view the videos for the games in launchbox, then BigBox should have no issue viewing them as well. The theme itself would have no influence over whether a games video would play or not.

That is a very strange issue. Hopefully changing the engine helps. Haha, yeah. Created the animated avatar it back in my agamesroom days. I still enjoy looking at it.

The only strictly XAML way that I found was to wrap textblocks up in a viewbox. Not great for every situation, but it works for most.

Hi @adu. Glad you're excited. There were some changes made with the theme to try to help with caching management. I also managed to create a second platform view that you proposed. Last I heard it was undergoing testing, but it may require some changes to how BigBox handles disposing of images.

Hi @Vlaryn. Your first issue with the video sounds more like a codec issue of some kind. Go into BigBox's Options > Video and change the playback engine to something different, and see if that makes the video appear. VLC has the more compatibility with the most types of files. The easiest way to universally remove the scanlines throughout the theme is to just delete the scalelines png. In the Retrotastic themes folder, go to the Images\Theme folder and delete or rename the scanlines.png file.