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There, unfortunately, is no option to make an on/off switch for the blur effect. However, it should be simple enough to take the effect away in the code. The code appears in each of the game views close to the top. You would just need to delete these lines of code: If that's too much, I can always post a copy of the theme without a blurred background this weekend. -
I've been thinking about this. There seems to be a technical issue, in that I only seem to have the ability to add 4 game views (that utilize game wheels) per theme. I thought about maybe making 2 different versions of the theme, one that includes the view we currently have, and another version that looks like the screenshot above, which includes more details like the game description. Then people can choose which one they like best. I'll probably think on it a bit more
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Thanks @kmoney! I've been thinking about using the last games view for something like this. Something that will showcase videos as the main element, but I haven't been able to figure out what is needed. Do you have any ideas of what you would want it to look like, or what you would want to be in a view like this (title, developer, year, description, boxart)? I haven't been able to download videos from emumovies for a while, so it's hard to visualize how it will look.
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Awesome! I'll clean up the code and add it to the next release (v1.2). Possibly today or latest by the weekend. I'll need to find some cool platform fanart backgrounds to show this view off
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Oh I see @BlueArrowUK... So Something like this then:
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@crack__19 Well, I couldn't figure out how to have 2 TextList views in one theme, so I packaged this view in a special version for you. Let me know if you run into any issues installing it. Download it here: RetroFresh crack__19 Edition.zip The only difference between this version and the regular one is the TextList view.
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Thanks @BlueArrowUK Is this kind of what you were thinking of?
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Thanks so much @crack__19 I did a little dabbling into whether this was possible, and it was... sort of. You can see in the example below that having the 4 fields in the top right got a little muddled and skewed, and there are some other titles that have even longer genres/platform titles, that wouldn't quite fit properly. I also took a screenshot of having just the 2 fields and it ended up looking a lot cleaner in the design. Let me know if you would like either of these views and I'll zip you up a special copy of RetroFresh.
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Merlin's Portrait Arcade Games Theme
faeran replied to MerlinArcade's topic in Big Box Custom Themes
I actually copied and pasted the Default theme, and then I used that to edit in visual studio. The file I edited was just WheelGamesView.xaml, but any of the 4 wheel view files can be used. I deleted most of the contents, built a simple grid and pasted the wheel code in there. Hope this helps. -
RetroFresh View File This theme was designed to add as little overhead as possible, while giving a clean and simplistic view of the content. RetroFresh works with your own media and uses them as its centerpiece. Hope you guys enjoy. This theme was ported over to the COMMUNITY Theme Creator, and is the only version still supported. Both the theme and the Theme Creator files are supplied, just in case you would like to make any changes with the theme. Installation Instructions Extract 'RetroFresh - Theme.zip' LaunchBox/Themes folder. Open Big Box, go to Options/Views, select the RetroFresh theme. Video Demonstration The views I made are as follows: RetroFresh If anyone finds any issues, please let me know. Submitter faeran Submitted 01/17/2017 Category Custom Themes
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This theme was designed to add as little overhead as possible, while giving a clean and simplistic view of the content. RetroFresh works with your own media and uses them as its centerpiece. Hope you guys enjoy. This theme was ported over to the COMMUNITY Theme Creator, and is the only version still supported. Both the theme and the Theme Creator files are supplied, just in case you would like to make any changes with the theme. Installation Instructions Extract 'RetroFresh - Theme.zip' LaunchBox/Themes folder. Open Big Box, go to Options/Views, select the RetroFresh theme. Video Demonstration The views I made are as follows: RetroFresh If anyone finds any issues, please let me know. -
Merlin's Portrait Arcade Games Theme
faeran replied to MerlinArcade's topic in Big Box Custom Themes
Hi Merlin, I just checked to see if it's possible, and it sort of is. You have to start with the Horizontal game wheel from the Documentation.pdf, located in the themes folder. There's a 'curveamount' value that has a default of 0, just change that to a higher number to get your desired effect. For example, I used a CurveAmount of 25, and got this effect: I'm not entirely sure if it's possible to rotate the images though. Good luck.
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Thanks @Jason Carr, sounds awesome. And thanks everyone. I'm glad there are people enjoying the theme.
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Thanks @BakerMan. A horizontal view is definitely something I can work on for the next update.
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Hi Guys, Started using LaunchBox a few weeks ago, and after setting it up and playing around with it I realized I couldn't find a theme for Big Box that I wanted to use, so I decided to try my hand at making my own. The only problem was that I didn't know that XAML existed until last week, so it took some learning to get a grasp of it, but I think I managed to learn enough to get the desired theme that I was looking for. I thought I'd share my work, just in case someone else may find the theme useful as well. The theme itself is inspired by a UI I once saw in a Simply Austin video about a year ago, however I took a different approach while creating it. The theme was designed to add as little overhead as possible, while giving a clean and simplistic view of the content. To do this I decided on not adding any images at all to the theme, and instead used XAML to build all the elements. When zipped, the entire theme comes out under 300KB. Download Theme Click here to download RetroFresh from the download's section Installation Instructions Extract RetroFresh.zip into the LaunchBox/Themes folder. Go into the RetroFresh/Fonts folder and install the 'SF Atarian System.ttf' font Open Big Box, go to Options/Views, select the RetroFresh theme. The views I made are as follows: Platform Wheel View This platform view was designed to get out of the way of the full screen platform videos made by all the wonderful people contributing to LaunchBox. The platform videos are the focus here, as the wheel's transparent background let's the video through. Game Vertical Wheel View 1 This game view let's the box art and game video take center stage, while the blurred background image allows for the transparent UI elements to take on its color property. Game Vertical Wheel View 2 This game view is the same as the first, except the wheel is on the right. Game List View This game view substitutes the wheel for a text list. This view will help on lower end systems, while the essence of theme remains intact. Video Demonstration If anyone finds any issues, please let me know. RetroFresh.zip
