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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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1 hour ago, CDBlue said:
@faeran It seems like the default view/fallback for platforms that are not themed yet, doesn't seem to play videos when you have VLC media player set as your default player. If you use Windows Media Player it does seem to play videos though. Thought I'd let you know. Other than that, great them as usual
Thanks @CDBlue. Makes sense, I was able to fix it up in 4.01.
This was a huge conversion, so if there's any other oddities, let me know.
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CoverBox has now been updated to version 4.0, and it's a big one.
- The theme has been completely ported to the COMMUNITY Theme Creator (a year in the making). This means you can now load up the Theme Creator files into the CTC and make any changes you would like.
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9 Brand New systems have been added (most are thanks to phelix01 for his initial designs). This brings the total number of supported systems to 46:
- Microsoft Xbox
- Nintendo Switch
- SNK Neo Geo Pocket
- SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color
- GCE Vectrex
- 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
- WonderSwan
- WonderSwan Color
- Revamped Platform Wheel 1
- Brand New Text Filters View
- Overhauled Text Games View (this is the fallback for when there's no platform specific view)
Images of the new platforms:
Spoiler
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On 1/5/2022 at 4:49 AM, Newlander said:
Is it possible for a 4:3 version of this? would be perfect for a crt monitor
I'll add it to the list of themes to do. This one would definitely require a whole new set of theme graphics that I'd have to recreate to fit 4:3, but it's doable.
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Thanks @Kylus12.
1 hour ago, CathMowr said:- The control bar and the displayed items seem to overlap, both in portrait and landscape mode. Did i setup something wrong? When i change the vertical spacing LB adjusts the space between the boxes but not the one between top and first row. Is it possible to adjust this?
This is a design choice. It wouldn't be easily changeable without editing the theme files. It allows for the most vertical space on any size screen.
1 hour ago, CathMowr said:- Is it possible to hide this status bar? It bugs from day one that I have to see this in every theme with every sort option except "title".
This is not possible. Like you noticed, some "Arrange by" options sort the games (like title), and in those circumstances, they don't have those separators because they are not needed. However, most are groupings, and if you remove the grouping title, you wouldn't know when one grouping ends and the other begins. Without that context, the grouping wouldn't actually make much sense.
1 hour ago, CathMowr said:- I know this seems to be a bit nitpicky, but why not rename the "Retro Achievements" tab into "Achievements"? So that tab would be valid for everyone, collecting retro or modern games..
This is a good idea, I'll add it to the next update.
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28 minutes ago, bradbradbrad said:So I'm new to Bigbox. How do I switch to the 2nd view shown here?
In Big Box Options, go to either Keyboard Mappings or Controller Mappings and set a Switch View button. Then navigate to a game view and press that button to cycle through all available views.
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20 hours ago, KaaMoS said:
Yes, sure, in those modified files we were able to add a video and/or platform image for background.
Alright, give these a shot. You'll need the newest version of the theme I just posted.
TextFiltersView.xaml - Platform background image
TextFiltersView.xaml - Platform background video
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On 11/11/2021 at 5:47 PM, KaaMoS said:
First of all, many, many thanks for your work, faeran.
I love the results!
I'd like to know if were possible to you to update these alternatives to latest version. it seems to be that they don't work anymore.
My BB version is 11.10, which is possible too new for these variants, whch are also old your the current version of your theme.If not possible, no problem
Many thanks in advance!
Hi @KaaMoS. Tbh, I'm not entirely sure what were in those versions. Do you remember what the changes were?
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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.