thimolor
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Trying Animate a background to the left
thimolor replied to Jass_167's topic in Big Box Custom Themes
You can't move full screen objects. You need to set the image width and height manually and then you can animate the movement.
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Help creating a Pause, Satart and Shutdown Theme
thimolor replied to IxMasterxI's topic in Pause Themes
I have nothing against this. Go nuts with the Pulse assets and if you need any help, just ask. -
I think this is related to how the animations are set. Might need immediate animation setting for the elements that have overlapping. I think I had this fixed in the latest release, but might have forgot to do this. Some of these animation settings are quite hard to get working in every possible situations. The wall views will stop working because you can't do those in CTC. I have done the wallview visual styles and structure in CTC and the added the wheels codes with text editor. Then I have removed the useless views from the theme folder. It's a messy process and unfortunately there is no easier way at the moment to make wallviews. Hoping that someday there would be an official theme tool that would have the needed support and features to make themes for BigBox. Now theme development is relying too much in theme makers and y2guru and because of this there are too many non working/buggy themes out there. The latest version is made with 2.2 so there should be no problems there. -
Hi there and sorry for the troubles you are having with the theme. You should watch the video preview of the theme. There you will see what assets are used in the views. The background changes from gameplay to fanart/boxart because we don't need to show the gameplay screenshot anymore when the video is playing. You can't change this behaviour through bigbox/launchbox settings. If you want to change something in the theme, please use the CTC files to modify the views.
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Sorry. No more updates from me to this theme. I'm putting all my theme devepment time to Pulse. You can always use the Commumity Creator files to make changes to the theme. -
You mean use different views for those? I'm afraid there is no way to use different view for playlist only. It uses the same view as platforms. It is how BigBox works right now. -
@Thornback you are right. The view uses cropped 16:9 videos. Was designed Colorful videos in mind. Don't really know how the view looks like in 4:3 screens or with 4:3 videos.
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Can you post your system specs? Do you experience slow down with the theme? Have you tried to change the video playback engine from BigBox options (VLC / Windows Media Player)?
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It's the old version at the moment (approval pending). You need to download it from here to get the latest 2.0 version.
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Where did you install the theme? Did you download it here, from BigBox or did you make changes with the project files for Community Theme Creator?
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Wallview. You should map key to switch the views. Easier to change views.
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I'm not entirely sure what you need to change, but I bet you could make all the required changes to the theme with the Community Theme Creator and the files I have provided here: Please remember that these files do not include the wallviews.
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Thanks Dan. I really appreciate it. It was a tough one, but finally it's over.
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Sorry to hear that. Can't really figure why it's not working for you. Try a clean separate Launchbox install maybe.
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Looks like the old Pulse version. Delete the whole Pulse theme folder, unzip the 2.0 and from the theme management options change theme to something else then change back to Pulse. Remember to clear image cache from options.
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Can you post a screenshot of the problem or short video clip?
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Version 2.0 is now finished and ready to download: Hopefully it does not have too many bugs.
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It's coming in the next version. Not yet available. I'm currently testing it.
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? I'm not sure if I understand. Box Art should be available to select for image type, if you are using the Community Theme Tool in GameTextView. If you are referring the BigBox options, they do not usually work with custom themes that are made with the Community Theme Tool like Pulse.
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I now know what triggers the crash. You need to click before the video starts in wallview. Then click back to wallview and it crashes. If you let the video start in wallview, it does not crash when returning from the TextGamesView. Really annoying bug. I might change the wallview to start the video immediately. bigbox-crash-vlc-2.mp4
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Thanks @faeran for testing! I have two Ryzen builds that have the same problem. No log files created. BigBox is not responding. I might google vlc ryzen related bugs and try few solutions from there.
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Hi, I found a problem with the WallView including videos. If I change the view quickly between the WallView and the TextGamesView BigBox crashes. This happens in my Pulse theme also. Windows Media Player does not crash, but there are problems with videos not loading at all. bigbox-crash-vlc.mp4
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Now there is a view with the separate logo. Good idea. It fits in this view.
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I know there is some demand for the logos. The thing with the logos is that usually a double logo is considered bad design (same logo visible on the boxart), the other problem with logos are the variations in dimensions. For example if I would replace the title with logo, it would not look balanced because the sizes vary so much. Some logos would look good and some would look too small. I could try to add the logo somewhere else, like above the video where there is plenty of room. I'll give it a shot.
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Thank you for the kind words. I think this might actually be the ending for me once I'm finished. Might return if tools and software evolve to a point where anything is possible.
