[Community Theme Creator]

51 minutes ago, y2guru said:

You mean when you run it in bigbox?  What video engine are you using in bigbox? If vlc switch to wmp and see if it works.  The editor uses wmp

ah yes, that seems to be the trick.

Wmp seems slower on the transitions so I might switch them to slide.

running it on this old TV hehe

 

 

 

[Community Theme Creator]

Thanks for the response by the way and I'll take any future support over to Patreon.

[Community Theme Creator]

1 hour ago, y2guru said:

i dont usually check postings here as support is done via my patreon site, but yes there is a way to force videos to fill a space, assuming the video doesnt have a hardcoded top and bottom border.   I am assuming the video example is 16:9

 

Add a Dock Element, set it to full screen, then set its horizonal and vertical alignment to center.

Move the selected item video element inside the dock element, then change the video element to autosize (both width and heigh) and change the horizonal and vertical alignment to center.

That doesn't appear to be working. I can get it to look right in the editor using this technique (along with using negative margins of -250 all around). When I move the theme over to the target TV The platform videos are not showing up at all.

[Community Theme Creator]

Hey there, I have been trying to make a simple theme for my 4:3 CRT and was wondering if there was any way to zoom this to fill the screen as opposed to stretching it to fill the screen?

[TrueVert]

Awesome! Could I use your options views on my theme?

[Vertical Prototype (DEAD)]

I understand running a full time vertical screen is a pretty niche endeavor. I appreciate the ability to use Bigbox along with the theme creator to make it work for me. Keep up the good work guys!

[Vertical Prototype (DEAD)]

quick menu -> shader -> Shader parameters -> Adjust non-integer scale, x offset and y offset. The size will be consistant for most of my vertical bezels, but there are some that will need additional tweaking. It is a somewhat laborious process but I think its worth it.

For games that don't support portrait resolutions I use irotate to rotate the monitor before game launch and then rotate it back after launch. These are my settings.

 

 

[Vertical Prototype (DEAD)]

I just thought of one more caveat that is good to know. I don't know how to do the complicated process of editing the options views in big box, so I personally also download vertigo and drag all of the options views in to my vertical prototype folder in order to make them usable. If anyone out there is knowledgeable enough to do that for me I would appreciate it. It is pretty much the only thing stopping me from publishing this as a real theme instead of a template.

[Vertical Prototype (DEAD)]

Yeah the monitor must be in portrait mode when you launch the editor. It uses whatever resolution your main windows monitor is. 

[Vertical Prototype (DEAD)]

yeah, my setup is using windows portrait.

[Vertical Prototype (DEAD)]

Hey Jezz, this is a work in progress theme and template meant for user specific customization. It's not plug and play. you must first download y2guru theme creator and then load this theme. You can then publish to use in Bigbox.

[Vertical Prototype Windows Media]

Hey I just posted up a theme. It's very much a work in progress, but I thought I'd get it out there.