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4 minutes ago, Serpent said:So, this means download 'COMMUNITY Theme Creator Files.zip' as you're only updating this one?
That meant I removed the older version of the theme that was created outside of the CTC.
The COMMUNITY Theme Creator Files are for if you want to load them into the CTC to make changes to it.
You can either download the Theme files, or download it from inside Big Box if you want to load the theme into Big Box.
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16 hours ago, y2guru said:well if the big box team ever make a change then im sure to make it available via the theme creator
17 hours ago, The Papaw said:I didn't figure you could, sure would help in platforms like arcade though. I am sure it could mapped to something or combo if it was available in BB. The answers always no if ya don't ask. Thx @y2guru for the reply
Good news. Index is available in the wall view. It's activated through a keyboard or controller mapping that a user can set. Check out the Default theme for an example.
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On 3/13/2022 at 6:17 AM, exodus_cl said:Hello! Any idea why the resizing bar behaves like this?
When I'm adjusting it the covers resize and look very nice:
But as soon as I let go the resizing bar they look like this:
Also in the upper part, this text looks like this (maybe a problem with spanish?):
I'm not sure why you'd be seeing the image changes. I'm not seeing what you are. It could be related to your margin or aspect ratio settings within LaunchBox. Check them out and see what happens when you adjust them.
The top bar issue is definitely because of different languages. I'll have this fixed in the next update to this theme.
44 minutes ago, DeadVoivod said:Having the text (downloading media, saving games...) at the top is a bad decision because it actually overlaps the other existing text. I'm usually using LB in 4/5 and not fullscreen when adding games, as I have an explorer window open on the right side to pull the games over, and then it does this, not nice at all. It's fine though when used in fullscreen.
Would be better if that downloading "line" is at the bottom, as there is nothing there and it would not bother at all.
This was a choice I made during its development. Design decisions will be made based on a full screen 1080p monitor.
However, with the above issue, I'll probably float the working view just below the top bar to compensate for the menu changing its size based on language.
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18 hours ago, aett said:
Thanks for the quick response. You're right that it doesn't work for every image, but it gives me the option to choose between hair or torsos. If only there was an option to select "upper middle" or something.
Edit: Would it be possible for me to edit something in GameDetailsView.xaml to change the source of the image? I'm thinking of using a category I don't normally use - Arcade Marquee - and using that folder to have my manually-edited images for the game details view. Then my Background folder can remain unedited, and still look nice in Big Box when I load games.
Just add your Arcade - Marquee image type into your Background priority group in your Options. Set it as the highest priority and it will try and load an arcade marquee image first, and then try and fallback to whatever you have under it.
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1 hour ago, aett said:
I love this theme! Do you know if there's any way to make the background images centered vertically? Only being able to see the top of each one means that a lot of background images show you blank space or the tops of heads. (I'd rather not manually edit every game's BG art, especially since I still use the full images for loading.)
You can do this. However, I tested this out before releasing this theme, and instead of looking at the top of images, you end up looking at the middle of people's bodies, or a messy middle portion of some scenes, so I chose the top as it was personally the better of the two.
If you want to give it a try, you can change this by opening the GameDetailsView.xaml file, diving into the code, finding the Binding GameBackgroundImage and changing the VerticalAlignment from Top to Center.
20 hours ago, DeadVoivod said:Me again. Now I noticed another thing that doesn't please me, I know it looks great with rounded corners. But I'm only using the clear logos view on ALL of my platforms, and I noticed now that the clear logos also get rounded, which doesn't look good at all.
Any possibility how I could change this?
This is coded into the BoxesContentView.xaml. You will have to dive into the code and remove the opacity mask. If you do this, the opacity mask will be removed from all image groups. Get rid of this portion of the code:
<Border.OpacityMask> <VisualBrush> <VisualBrush.Visual> <Border Height="{Binding ActualHeight, ElementName=ContentImage}" Width="{Binding ActualWidth, ElementName=ContentImage}" Background="#2A2B34" BorderThickness="0" CornerRadius="10"/> </VisualBrush.Visual> </VisualBrush> </Border.OpacityMask>
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22 minutes ago, DeadVoivod said:
Great theme, thanks a lot, using it as default now, LB starts really looking awesome like this, making BB obsolete 😀 At least for me and non cabinet using people.
One question, in the image it shows the game name AND the developer, how can I remove the developer, and if so would it also be possible the shrink the image box?
The size of the image box dynamically shrinks to the size of the largest item within your given row. The only reason it would not be doing this is if you have Dynamic Box Sizing disabled in your options, found under Visuals > Boxes
The spot where you see the developer is actually a dynamically changing text binding that will change depending on your Arrange By value (as an example, if you arrange by date, that value will change to the date). Currently, you would have to dive into the code and remove that line if you want to get rid of it. In the future, I could make the option Show Subline affect it's visibility (Same place in the options as above). Something I can add to the list.
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26 minutes ago, exodus_cl said:
Looking great!
Is there any plan to make it look better when there's horizontal and vertical covers mixed? maybe force to group them together or add an option to just zoom to fill, rotate or just shrink vertical ones (keeping or not the aspect ratio)?.
Thanks exodus. I have no current plans to do this. Personally, I believe this is a good solution. Anything else there will be compromises. You wouldn't be able to group them together, as that would negate any other form of arranging done by the user. You can force a height and a width, cut off parts of one type of image, but no matter what, you end up causing other problems.
If you are not really concerned with authenticity, you can always download packs of uniform images, which would solve that type of issue from the get go.
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2 minutes ago, soqueroeu said:
In fact, it's not an issue with the theme, but the lack of fanart images for many games reduces the experience.
Guess you better get uploading them to the database
But seriously, what I end up doing in my personal build is including game play screenshots in my background priorities.
You can also set a default background image to display on a platform-by-platform basis, by right clicking a platform and adding a background image.
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8 minutes ago, soqueroeu said:
I think these latest possible themes with new Launchbox features are really cool. I'm just sad they only look nice with fanart images, but unfortunately most games don't have such images. Using box art ends up polluting the result, along with clean logos.
You can adjust what you want to see there within your background priority options, under Options > Media > Background Priority
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7 minutes ago, Shilo said:Hey faeran,
I like the BB Theme, but I would like to make a few changes so the Windows version better matches the Android version in terms of initial platform selection.
There are also a few details and sizes I would like to adjust.Can you please upload the Community Project Files for the current version (2.1)?
Only the older version 1.2 is listed, and it has compatibility issues.Thanks,
If memory serves, the current version of BannerBox uses the new flow control, which is currently not supported in the CTC. This means, that while I can update the CTC project files, mostly.. it would still require you to dive into the code of any game's view to make changes in the published files.
Let me know if this is something you'd be willing to do, or can hold off on doing this until the CTC is updated to 2.5, which at that point, should have native support for it.
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On 3/4/2022 at 5:25 PM, Retrofrogg said:Sorry for the spamming lol. Is there a way to get the theme to show the "background" image in the marquee area, but if there isn't one then show the clear logo? The default seems to be to show one on top of the other.
I probably won't be circling back to this theme for a while, but the code is there if you'd like to take a crack at it.
On 3/5/2022 at 2:43 AM, Wally said:Could you apply Uniform grid in this theme as well?
I'm not sure if this is something I'd want to do, as it wasn't the intent of this theme, but you can simply apply it by dragging and dropping another theme's Views\BoxesContentView.xaml file into this one.
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On 3/5/2022 at 9:35 AM, Mongu said:
@faeran, Sometimes the video does not autoplay. could you take a look at it?
This is not really something a theme controls. Double check your auto-play settings, and potentially switch your video playback engine under Tools > Options > Video Playback
On 3/5/2022 at 8:14 PM, Tony Birt said:@faeranBeautiful theme, especially love the boxes and font. Is there a way I could change/remove the black wave effect as the banner zooms? thanks
Thanks. Although, I'm not entirely sure what black wave effect you are referring to.
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Quote(This is the first theme I make myself, so don't eat me please.)
I'm very hungry, but will try my best not to eat you.
Really liking the theme, good job.
One thing to note, you can include the sound pack directly in your theme! Place them inside of the Sounds folder in your CTC project files will allow them to be published with your theme. You can also place them inside of a Sounds folder in your Big Box theme. The sounds will override a user's sound setting for your theme only.
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40 minutes ago, Retrofrogg said:
Icon support in the side bar!! I've been waiting on this for forever. Will this feature be added to the default theme as an option?
Are icons supported for platform categories and playlists too?
And the banner at the top looks excellent - in particular for arcade games. Great work.
At the moment, there's no plans to add this. But it's always on the table when we get around to creating 100+ similar icons that can be used for it, and that we are happy with. In saying that, anyone can add this to any theme, including the default them themselves, and then customize the icons in whatever way they choose.
Icons do work on the Platform Categories section. They should also work in all the other filter types too.
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10 hours ago, leocmp said:
Thank you so much for making such a cool theme, can you share the space settings used in the photos? I tried to make it look like the picture but I couldn't.
Sure.
Horizontal and Vertical set to 5
Aspect Ratio set to 0.55
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9 hours ago, Suhrvivor said:No game icons on hover
. Also, backgrounds in the details are only showing the top part, with the background we have in the DB it would be better if they were middle centered.
Other than those nitpicks is a great theme!
I actually tried to do this in the past, and you end up seeing a lot of the middle of people's bodies.
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7 minutes ago, Fry said:I agree, I would like to add that functionality to jump to next/previous letter. I have been thinking about it and adding it either as a double tap left/right or by adding a configuration that would let you choose what you want under page up and page down so if you don’t care about the random game or the voice search function we could use page up/down to jump left/right. Ideally we could get more key bind options for plug-ins. I requested it here a while back. Go vote for it if you are so inclined:
https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/5624/expose-additional-button-events-bindings
@faeran regarding open index, is that an API you’re suggesting to help with implementing a jump to next letter feature or are you saying there’s already a feature like that built into launchbox? I’m not familiar with it.
It's already a feature in Big Box.
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1 hour ago, jvlk said:
Cool theme but missing the option to jump to another letter is really a problem especially with mame.
It would be pretty handy if launchbox implements a keybind for this to jump to to the next or previous letter.
not to derail this thread, but a mapping already exists. It's called "Open Index"
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10 minutes ago, Banduck said:
Is there an option to disable the video stretching so that they are displayed in the correct aspect ratio?
If you load up the COMMUNITY Theme Creator files, there's a property on the video that adjusts the video stretch.
Alternatively, you can open up the xaml file in the Themes\RetroFresh\Views folder and search for the property "StretchVideo" and change it to false.
Based on your screenshot, you'd want to make the change inside of the horizontal view file.
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2 hours ago, jvlk said:Are you also planning to do one for the Playstation 3?
It's on the list, but it's probably not coming soon.
Will be taking a break from this theme for a bit, especially after it took a year to port to the CTC.
If anyone does have a good CoverBox layout idea for PlayStation 3 or other systems, I'd be happy to take a look at them.
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5 minutes ago, Whatscheizer said:
How are you guys getting videos to show up on the right hand side of the screen? None of mine do.
Assuming you have videos, in LaunchBox go into Options > Visuals > Game Details, and turn on: Show Videos
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11 hours ago, kim_sama98 said:
The Xbox Wheel Style Source doesn't work on the Theme Creator, I get a black screen and errors
Yes, the CTC doesn't have support to visualize this type of modification to the list box. This is just a current limitation to it. There should be a button called something like "designer friendly mode" which you can toggle to make it not error, and the list would show up in a white box.
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50 minutes ago, jvlk said:
I know where to find it but maybe you could share a version of arcade-view without the added scanlines on the picture?
I'll see about adding it to my list. May take a while, so no promises for anytime soon.
If you, or anyone else would like to tackle that, feel free.
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19 minutes ago, jvlk said:
Okay, best theme by far.
But can you maybe share a version of background arcade-view.png without the scanlines.
While I probably won't be doing this for the official release. You can find the image inside of CoverBox\Media\Backgrounds, and can always edit it out of the image for your personal collection.
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The background image is controlled by your Background Image Priorities that you set under Options > Background Priorities
If you would like to change which button is checked when you load a game, you'll need to dive into the code. Open GameDetailsView.xaml which is located inside of:
You need to remove IsChecked="True" From the Home Button and add it to the Media Button. Here's the default codes for reference:
Home Button
Media Button