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3 hours ago, y2guru said:Seems to be an issue with your setup as no one else has reported a similar issue, but I’ll take a look at lunchtime and see what’s special with that platform and those range of games
What was the last title listed? Mystery murder Jack the Ripper?
also the latest forum build is 1.0.8.97 but that wouldn’t address this issue
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1 minute ago, bundangdon said:
the latest beta, 11.9 beta 6
K, thanks
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11 minutes ago, bundangdon said:
Okay, sounds good. Thanks for the quick reply. By the way, I tried this feature with version 1.85 and the most recent 1.87 and had the same results
What version of launchbox/big box are you using? ( the database could vary based on that version ) and I’ll make sure I’m using the same one
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57 minutes ago, bundangdon said:
@y2guru hope you're doing well and enjoying the new year so far. Just wanted to contact you to let you know I have a minor problem with the "fake rom builder" feature. For some reason, it stops halfway, or in my case it stops at Nintendo 3DS, and everything from N - Z is not included there. Were you aware of this, or this a bug only on my system?
Seems to be an issue with your setup as no one else has reported a similar issue, but I’ll take a look at lunchtime and see what’s special with that platform and those range of games
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17 minutes ago, CMOSS said:
Did you have the time to check on this?
per the bigbox documentation.pdf
Here are all the possible valid values for platforms views: Clear Logo, Fanart, Banner, Device
Here are all the possible valid values for games views: Boxes, 3D Boxes, Carts, 3D Carts, Screenshots, Clear Logos
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46 minutes ago, damageinc86 said:
Trying to finish some bannerbox stuff here, finally getting to arcade, but the only options for "top media" are box art. Could there be a way to have it look for box art, and then as a backup look for the advertisement flyer? Most of my arcade games have advertisement fliers and not "box art". I don't see an option under the image metadata drop down for advertisement flyer.
What is top media? Can you send a screen shot?
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2 hours ago, CMOSS said:
Exactly like that
Great, then this will be available in 1.0.9.0
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4 hours ago, CMOSS said:
Hi @y2guru!
I have 2 questions...
The first one: The wheel does not allow the selection of fan art as the type of image to use. Is this a limitation of BigBox or the Creator?
And the second one: For vertical themes, could it be possible to add to the aspect ratios available a 9:16 and a 3:4 option? It would be easier (at least for me) to use my typical screen layout (16:9) regardless of whether the theme to work on is a vertical or a horizontal one.
something like this? (ignore the icons at the top, i have selected 9:16)
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3 minutes ago, CMOSS said:
Hi @y2guru!
I have 2 questions...
The first one: The wheel does not allow the selection of fan art as the type of image to use. Is this a limitation of BigBox or the Creator?
And the second one: For vertical themes, could it be possible to add to the aspect ratios available a 9:16 and a 3:4 option? It would be easier (at least for me) to use my typical screen layout (16:9) regardless of whether the theme to work on is a vertical or a horizontal one.
I’ve never tried using fan art in the wheel, I could try it after work unless someone already has the answer to that.
yeah I think I can add the additional vertical ratios ? but that won’t be available for quite some time yet
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10 minutes ago, Fwiler said:
I didn't take a snapshot because problem is no longer there. But the focus box is same as the white lines.
After more investigation, it was an anomaly.
If I rotated wheel and saved it, then come back in and rotate wheel back to 0, the lines went away.
Sorry, I just didn't do enough troubleshooting, and I'm not able to reproduce it again.
no problem, that will all go away with version 1.0.9.0
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20 minutes ago, Fwiler said:
Update- Never mind. It does have something to do with background image. If I reduce opacity or don't use a background image, then lines go away.
@y2guru
I have what looks like a 1 or 2 pixel white outline around any wheel in wheel games view.
At first I had a white background so I didn't notice. Now I see the outline no matter what size, position, or rotation with a dark background.
As a test I created blank black background to make sure it wasn't my image interfering, and I still get the outline. Is there a way to prevent this, or am I doing something wrong?
Thank you very much.
Can you click the wheel UI element so that I can see it’s focus box
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12 minutes ago, Zeno said:
Oh, sorry - I meant that I'm currently using 1.0.8.95 to edit files for lvl-101:
I'm have a problem where when navigating, BigBox sometimes freezes. The lvl-101 theme file pages says it was made using 1.0.8.0 so I wanted to try using the one it was built with to see if it fixes the problem.
Thanks! Love this tool!
Remember.. big box has released some updates too since the development and release of that theme
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1 hour ago, Zeno said:
I'm having some issues with theme files built using version 1.0.8.0. Is it possible to download older versions of the application anywhere?
Download 1.0.8.95, its not wise to download and use a prior version as each version upgrades your Theme's project files
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1 hour ago, Klopjero said:
Found it @! How did i miss that ?!?! thanks ...
Probably because i didn't advertise that it was there, it was added along with a long list of stuff
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2 minutes ago, Klopjero said:
yes.
Thought that was already supported, been there a year, I bought a 2nd monitor just to test
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7 minutes ago, Klopjero said:
I'm sure people ask this alot but are you planning on adding support for designing platform/game marquee views in the future ?
Are you talking about the views for a 2nd monitor/screen?
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42 minutes ago, martin.hansson@live.se said:
I can when i get to my computer, but its in swedish, thats why i didnt include it in the first place ?
i just downloaded the zip from the forum, unblocked, unzipped and ran the app just fine
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2 hours ago, martin.hansson@live.se said:
Hi! Amazing that you made this tool!
However i dont seem to be able to get it to run. When i try to run it i get a popup that tells me the file or shortcut cant be accessed.
I did unblock the zip, and i tried to run it as admin.
Any ideas on what i should try?
Thanks!
Can you send a screenshot
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19 minutes ago, patrickfx said:
I have a very basic question. I use that tools for 2 weeks now. Very impressive. But I look for some help to understand some of the fonctionnality.
Stangly there is a lot of video, that's cool. But I have difficulty looking where it is begin ... Any hint how to look from beginning.
Thank you and try this channel as my friend @faeran puts videos out that demonstrate how to create themes. My videos show new features to the software
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19 minutes ago, Jason Carr said:All of the Options pages and screens are indeed themeable in recent versions of Big Box, so there shouldn't be anything holding theme developers back, from that perspective. Changing font sizes is very easy to do, even by hand.
I understand though if the Community Theme Creator doesn't support this yet; @y2guru's been busting his butt on it to meet the demands of the community (and they are very demanding lol).
Thanks Jason! to everyone following this topic.... I will complete the last feature for the Theme Creator and then I will circle back to address some of the gaps such as options etc..
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Sure, I will add that to version 1.0.9.0 if I can mute the audio for the 2nd instance
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7 minutes ago, CMOSS said:
Hi @y2guru,
I finally managed to make it work.
My problem was that I was working on a specifi playlist view, with games from different platforms, so I had the videos within a subfolder named after the playlist (all of them inside). I've had to create subfolders per platform, and include there the videos of the games of those platforms.
Thanks a lot for your help!
That’s good , but now you have an easy way to debug visually
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7 minutes ago, CMOSS said:
Hi @y2guru,
The path seems to be correct. I've edited directly the generated xaml code and I can make it work if I remove @@PLATFORM@@ from the binding path below:
<TextBlock x:Name="UserDefinedVideo2ImageFile" Visibility="Collapsed">
<TextBlock.Text>
<MultiBinding Converter="{StaticResource GetFileUsingTitle}">
<Binding Path="." Source="pack://siteoforigin:,,,/Themes/COLLECTIONS/Media/CollectionsGameVideos\@@PLATFORM@@"/>
<Binding Path="SelectedGame.Platform"/>
<Binding Path="ActiveGame.Title"/>
<Binding Path="." Source="0"/>
<Binding Path="." Source=".png"/>
<Binding Path="." Source="Fuzzy"/>
</MultiBinding>
</TextBlock.Text>
</TextBlock>Any idea of what I am doing wrong?
Thanks!
Add a text element to the view and change the constant value to the following
this will show the file name and you can determine if you have the file name or not
{Binding Path=Text, ElementName=UserDefinedVideo2ImageFile}
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21 minutes ago, CMOSS said:
Hi!
I have added a user defined video element that to display a particular video based on the selected game name (not the normal game video snap). The name of the game and the name of the video coincide, and the video is in the correct folder, but it is not being displayed.
Can anyone with me a hint on what I might be doing wrong?
You can do a few things, 1. You can display the path name associated with the user defined element , this will enable you to determine if the file exists in your folder
2. Add an element like a rectangle to the screen, then define visibility conditioning to it, set it to visible but collapse it if the user defined file name is not found, this too will determine if you have the videoed in your folder
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Community Theme Creator
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Very strange, it works for me every time, using both the latest forum build and my future build.