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Illuminate - [Theme Workshop] View File Illuminate has been redesigned within the COMMUNITY Theme Creator and was built during a Theme Workshop live stream. If you are interested in creating themes, subscribe to the Unbroken Software YouTube channel. Illuminate A simple text based theme showcasing the power of per-platform views. The theme and the COMMUNITY Theme Creator project files can be downloaded here. Watch this theme being built: Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsMROUMwFos&list=PL6pTDaHeAz-VxTp83L12WerJ2cRy6gvXa Credits COMMUNITY Theme Creator by @y2guru. Find it here: https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/2115-community-theme-creator-for-bigbox/ Subscribe to catch future live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSIht6UXIEXIgz4eXAEShxA Submitter faeran Submitted 02/12/2019 Category Big Box Custom Themes  

Yes. I asked myself the same question when I was developing retrotastic, but in the end couldn't find a solution to delaying the loading of a video. Someone would have to develop a custom plugin for that, or it would need to be built into Bigbox. I did read somewhere that using collapsed visibility makes it so it doesn't render the control, but I have no idea whether that would translate to better performance.

You could try to set the video's visibility to collapsed, and then animate it to visible after a certain number of seconds.

Hi @bedrone. That looks nice. Was it hard to mod? You could try Vertigo, the vertical theme I created back in September. I wouldn't mind seeing how well it functions in a vertical cab.

Hey @Jason Carr. Tried this out tonight with Beta 9. Unfortunately, unable to get the FIndStringConverter to work. It's unable to find FindStringConverter. It only seems to be able to find the ImageToSourceConverter in the namespace.

Hi @Jason Carr. Does Beta 9 also include the HelperControl integration?

Hi @efiye. Are you using a beta build? There may be issues with them as the theming system is getting adjusted.

just throwing in my 2 cents to say, this is a dream @Jason Carr. Thank you so much for this update. ?

Hi @Nyny77. This is based on this 4:3 theme.

CoinOP View File As per version 3.0 this theme is now rebuilt from the ground up for performance and optimization. The theme showcases an arcade cabinet in an 80s style arcade with a dynamic marquee that can pull from a number of fallback images on a per-game basis, making sure there's always something displayed in the marquee. Make sure you right click the zip file, choose properties, and unblock the file. CoinOP Marquee Example.psd Submitter faeran Submitted 01/20/2019 Category Custom Themes  

There's no way to delay it's start, but you could possibly combine a collapsed visibility animation with an opacity animation to stop it from appearing for a certain amount of time.

Couple things: I'll look into updating the plugin themer to the newest version. I'm sure that will fix a bunch of issues with playlists. @Scratcher There should be a property on the video somewhere called StretchVideo, which you can remove. That should keep native aspect ratio intact. That property may be located in the Retrotastic.xaml file.

Hi @GiuseppeIII. The error seems to be caused by needing to unblock the plugin in each theme that is located in the Coverbox\Plugin folder. You can right click the plugin files, go into properties, and find the unblock option. You pretty much figured out the scanline issue. You can try to use the following picture instead. Just overwrite the scanline image with this one. Let me know if it looks okay. The path should be something like Themes\Coverbox\Images\Theme\ I also see that the game list is larger because of the resolution change as well. You can fix this by opening the following file in a text editor and changing the font size: Coverbox\Views\TextListView.xaml Find this line, and change the FontSize to something smaller, to suit your resolution: <lbsc:GameList Name="Items" FontSize="32"> You'll need to do this for every Coverbox theme you would like to use.

CoverBox - Atari 2600 has been released.

Another update. This time the focus was on updating the Wii theme and releasing the WiiU theme. This update includes the following: CoverBox - Wii v1.1 - Updated to include the centered list box and splash page CoverBox - Wii Ware v1.1 - Updated to include the centered list box and splash page CoverBox - WiiU v1.0 - Brand new theme for the WiiU platform (thanks to Broskiplays for original mod of my Wii theme)

A bunch of the Sega themes have been updated to include all the new features, including centered game lists, scan lines, splash pages, etc. Each theme will also come in 2 versions. The first versions include the game list, game box and cart/disc animations, while the second versions keep the game list in the forefront for use with game options. Affected themes include: CoverBox - 32X (version 1.1) CoverBox - Dreamcast (version 1.1) CoverBox - Genesis Red (version 1.1) CoverBox - Mega Drive Blue (version 1.2) CoverBox - Sega CD (version 1.2) CoverBox - Sega Saturn (version 1.2) This update also includes a new theme: CoverBox - Game Gear. Enjoy!

CoverBox - PS2 has been released.

Yes, that is the way it was designed. As it is supposed to represent an N64 Game cover.

Today, I updated the Master System, GameBoy, GameBoy Color, and GameBoy Advance to include some of the new enhancements, like centered lists, scan lines and splash pages. More updates and new systems to come.

PS2 is coming soon.

Thanks @harryoke. I'm still around though. I actually started altering some stuff with this recently. I'll be finishing updating the older themes, make some alternate views, and add a few more in the process. Watch this space.