thimolor
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6 hours ago, Khaar said:
Bug Report: Checking the theme files, I notice the images for Star Rating 4.1 up to 5.0 are messed up!
@Juketsu Maybe you can fix this with a potential 2.1.2 patch.
Thanks for the report. I will make the update. Can't confirm when this update will happen...
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Don't use effects (drop shadow etc.) for wheels. They will cripple performance.
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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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I have nothing against this. Go nuts with the Pulse assets and if you need any help, just ask.
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1 hour ago, Rockovissi said:
This is hopefully my last question! First of all, thanks for the patience. So in Pulse, the background was originally the boxart but after grabbing screenshots of the gameplay, whenever I select a game it will briefly show that screenshot of the gameplay as the background then quickly fade into the boxart as the background. Is this the theme specifically doing something or is this in Launchbox itself? I have only the background prioritizing the boxart for the background so I don't know what's happening. Thanks for any help! Hopefully I'm making sense.
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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3 hours ago, Styphelus said:
I don't know why but I'm still getting crashes with this theme. It's by far my favorite but it constantly crashes when scrolling through systems or games.
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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1 hour ago, Hifihedgehog said:
Which view is this? Thanks!
Wallview. You should map key to switch the views. Easier to change views.
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22 minutes ago, Johnny T said:
I installed Pulse last night. Wow! It's an awesome theme!!
My one issue is that my stretched LCD display has an unusual resolution. In the past I've overcome this by changing the GameMarqueeView.xaml and PlatformMarqueeView.xaml in the Theme/Views/ folder but I noticed that Pulse doesn't have one?
Does anyone know how I could alter the position/size of the marquees from Pulse?
Many thanks for all your help 🙂
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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7 hours ago, Rockovissi said:
I’m probably doing something completely wrong. But when I do that the theme looks completely different, it does have the box art but it’s like it’s not even the same theme. I originally installed Pulse directly from Big Box.
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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38 minutes ago, Rockovissi said:
Sure thing! Thanks!
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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21 minutes ago, Rockovissi said:
I just installed it over the Pulse folder but it's the same thing for me. The box art isn't showing up for each individual game, it only has it as the background. So it's like pulling the box art but using it as the background for each game. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. It's an awesome theme though. It's no big deal if the box art isn't showing, I was just wondering if I have a setting wrong or something. Thanks!
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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1 hour ago, Rockovissi said:
Oh, yes I’m sorry, I meant in Big Box with the Pulse theme. I saw some videos of Pulse where in the text view with details it was showing the box art. If I switch to another theme, the box art is there. So I didn’t know if I had to do something specific with Pulse. It seems it’s using the box art but pulling it as the background for each game. Like in the video posted above at the 2:08 mark. It looks like it’s the text view with a video (which I don’t scrape) and the box art (which I do).
It's coming in the next version. Not yet available. I'm currently testing it.
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15 hours ago, Rockovissi said:
How do you get the box art to show up in text view? I’m getting it as a background for each game but for other themes they show up as box art.
? 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.
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2 hours ago, faeran said:
Hi @Juketsu. Thought you should know.
I tried to recreate the issue but am not seeing it happen on my different builds.
Not sure what your solution could be, could be something particular with your machine.
Not sure if it will help, but do you have any log files from when this happens?
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.
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On 10/15/2021 at 7:25 AM, Hifihedgehog said:
Just wow. I have always been wanting a theme that meshed together the very clean and thoughtful look of Colorful with a mature, radical look of others here. There is zero clutter here and it looks stellar. Here is a thought: have you ever considered using the game clear logo in place of the game title in text? That is something I wish Colorful did. Granted, this is easily modifiable for us users thanks to the modularity of community theme builder. But I feel that using the game logo in the place of text for the game title would evoke the feeling of the game more.
Now there is a view with the separate logo. Good idea. It fits in this view.
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1 hour ago, Hifihedgehog said:
Just wow. I have always been wanting a theme that meshed together the very clean and thoughtful look of Colorful with a mature, radical look of others here. There is zero clutter here and it looks stellar. Here is a thought: have you ever considered using the game clear logo in place of the game title in text? That is something I wish Colorful did. Granted, this is easily modifiable for us users thanks to the modularity of community theme builder. But I feel that using the game logo in the place of text for the game title would evoke the feeling of the game more.
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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3 hours ago, C-Beats said:
Really enjoy that preview video. Got a few views in there that are definitely something I'll probably sub into use in my own set up. I enjoy the more subdued minimalistic approach to your themes quite a bit. It's been pretty cool to watch your skills grow as you get more comfortable with your tool set. If this is just the beginning it'll be cool to see where you end up. Keep up the good work!
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.
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Final preview. Did some major last minute changes. Now I'm going to test this for a few days. Might publish next saturday if all goes well.
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On 10/8/2021 at 11:52 AM, Avigrace said:
Is version 2 available to download yet, can't seem to find it and looks great.
Not yet. I'm still doing changes. Trying to make the views different to each other so there would be more variation. I'm also testing this a lot more, so I don't need to make patches once I publish.
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Almost there. Any critical comments? Good enough to publish? I will make some changes to platform and system specific views.
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One wall view almost done 😂
Screenshots from BigBox:
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Pulse Theme
in Big Box Custom Themes
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hmm. Actually I was hoping that you would do these changes yourself with the provided CTC-files. I can't please everyone, so I have to make some compromises with the theme. I might look into this when fixing a reported bug and maybe adjust the animations a bit.