thimolor
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Here's my latest theme for BigBox. It's dark gray, clean, simple and flat. Similar to allNightLong. Hope you like it. This is the wide version designed for 16:9 and 16:10 screen aspects. 4:3 version is coming later.
Custom Images:
- 127 Platform Banners
- 47 Playlist Banners + one empty
- 4 Category Banners
Views:
- System
- Horizontal Games Wheel 1
- Horizontal Games Wheel 2
- Horizontal Games Wheel 3
- Wheel Games Wheel 1
- Wheel Games Wheel 2
- Text Games View
- Platform Wheel 1
- Platform Wheel 2
- Platform Wheel 3
- Text Filters View
Fonts:
Barlow Semi Condensed (Regular 400, Semi-bold 600, Bold 700)
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Barlow+Semi+Condensed?query=barlowFont added since v1.1
Roboto (regular, bold) Roboto - Google FontsRecommended platform video set for the theme: Viking's Nostalgia 4:3
Banners
Make more banners with the Photoshop template
Credits:
- Unsplash (System Background and few platform banner images)
- Evan Amos for device images (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Evan-Amos)
- Wikipedia for device images
Special Thanks:
These fine gamers helped me to get the views working better.
- @bundangdon
- @MisterCrowly
- @Dexll
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Submitted12/20/2020
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Who wants to test this new theme? I need someone who has lot's of different platforms and also somebody with older system with lower specs.
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12 hours ago, virividiann1198 said:
I'd kill for a wall view in big box (just like Launchbox displays them)... isn't possible to do a clean/customized version of that?
Sorry, but not with the theme tool. It has very limited option for the wall view. In it's current state it is quite unusable view. Hopefully it will get some updates in the long run.
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125 + fallback platform banners done
And I'am not making anymore. Will upload the template when the time comes to publish this brainwreck. Here are the styles for playlists. Tried to add some variation between them, so they would not look the same.
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Did some testing on my i5 4570T and had to remove the shadows from wheels and images. Now it's running smoothly. And as I promised, I'am currently making the 4:3 version manually. So there will be two versions. I need the 4:3 for my own retro rig.
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Some finetuning with shadows and tone.
Making new banners. Found a way to do it quite quickly. Still lot's of manual labor. Hope you like these, because I ain't doing this again.
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Here's a preview of the theme. Still need to make lot's of banners.
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Almost there, "only" one platform view to do + dozens of platform banners
I will also do a separate 4:3 theme from this, because I need it for my retromachine.
Latest changes. Removed the bars and simplified even more.
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Here are some screenshots of an actual working theme. Testing how the background images work and show. I may adjust the dirt overlay graphics some more.
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12 hours ago, earthprime said:
I LOVE this theme and its become my new standard theme. Two questions as I toggle the setup:
1) When I navigate into a platform, I love the side-scrolling CD-case view, but if you pause on a game it will transition into a video. Is there anyway to stop this transition, so the view stays on the CD case? I only want to see a video of the game if I navigate into the game's details.
2) Some of my platforms are missing background images. Am I correct that the background images are pulled from the 'Banner' folder (just ensuring the image name matches the platform in Launchbox)?
3) Is the background lightning effect hard-coded, or can we turn it off?
Hi and thanks!
1. You would need to make changes using the Community Theme Creator Tool. (download the tool and my project files). I encourage you to try it out. You will not need to code anything.
2. Yes, for the view that uses the square banners, you put the images to the "banner" folder. For the "thunder" view you use the "device" folder.
3. Yes, you will need to use the Community Theme Creator Tool to remove the video.
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More views before I start building this with the Community Creator Tool.
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Never ending story with my designs. Now I really think I'am close. Wanted some dirt and modern look. Had to change the fonts. Removed the menu background and darkened the background gradient instead.
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Had to make more changes and give this theme more unique look compared to my other themes.
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More of the same, but with different color scheme. Will try this out and if it's good, I will publish it.
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1 hour ago, JoeViking245 said:
Have you had this working specifically with FS-UAE before?
I don't have this setup on my cab anymore, but I'm guessing what might be happening is the emu's command line is using Launcher.exe but this then spawns something else like "fs-uae.exe" or "fs-uae-launcher.exe".
So when you launch a game, HRC-50hz, kicks in and then Launcher.exe starts. The problem then is (assuming I'm correct) Launcher.exe starts fs-uae-launcher.exe (or something else similar) then exits itself. Which [Launcher.exe] is considered the Main Application. So HRC-60hz now kicks in and the game plays. Unfortunately it's now playing at 60hz.
And if I'm totally off base, never mind. ?
Yes I have, but I don't have my previous settings available anymore. You are right about the issue. Now I just need to find out the correct commmand-line parameters to run FS-UAE with the additional apps.
FOUND IT! fs-uae-launcher.exe was the right one. Thank you so much!
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I'am using a program named HRC to switch my refresh rate from 60 to 50 hz for certain emulators, in this case FS-UAE. I have used the Additional Apps for this purpose. Running the HRC program before and after the main application. This used to work on older versions of LaunchBox, but now the option "Automatically run after main application" does not seem to work properly. The 50 hz command should run before FS-UAE is started (this works), but the "run after" option seems to run right after 50 hz resulting in FS-UAE running in 60 hz mode (should be 50 hz). So the trigger is not working correctly, or so I assume.
Does anyone else have this problem?
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@virividiann1198 you need to use Community theme creator tool and LV-101 project files to change the video to screenshot. You can download both in the download section. Sorry for not linking them here.
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@Tigmex check the opacity values in the animation states.
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I'am going to make a dedicated 4:3 version, because the theme elements don't scale like I would want them to. Here's some screenshots. It's them same, but more balanced to 4:3 ratio.
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Don't worry. I'am not that touchy when it comes to my designs. Some times they work and some times they don't. I'am willing to give my theme project files to you. You could start learning to use the Community Theme Creator Tool for BigBox. With that you could tweak the fonts to suit better with your crt. The Theme is as light weight as I could make it, without lookin too flat.
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On 10/5/2020 at 6:35 AM, patrickfx said:
Hello everyone, I'm using bigbox for a year now, it is fantastics. But one thing i still looking is a theme which focus on low (very low) resolution aspect.
I have a arcade cabinet connected to a 27 inch crt tv via s-video. I do a lot of effort to keep that old tv working, oh my, but this is not related to my point
So, almost all theme have so (too) many informations on the screen that it is not possible to read.
Any suggestion , i try dozen of them. Some have the menu at left with only screen video but still, would appreciate a bigger left menu (the game list) with maybe some minimal information like, year, star number, number of player...
Should I build one myself
I start looking but seem to need some skill in development to do so.
I'am woking on it.
Hopefully it will work on your setup. Care to test a demo? I could sent you the theme files. I'am curios as how this will work on crt. The font settings may need some adjustments.
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Layout changes in game details view. Widened the menu to work better on 4:3 ratio also. Smoothed some of the animations.
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Some progress. Added few animations. Testing with 16:9 and 4:3 ratios, seems to work fine. Some elements scale badly, but that's the trait off of being responsive. Works smoothly on my i5-4570t with 8 gb ram. Trying to tacle the infamous playlist device images and logos. Hard to make them work with the same layout as the platforms. Don't want to start making a lot of custom images for those.
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On 9/29/2020 at 7:15 AM, Cypher said:
I'm digging this. Can't wait to see a video of it running.
Thanks. I'am making more views and doing a lot of testing. Hopefully I can fullfill the expectations. Primary objective is to make this theme fast, smooth and easy to customize.
And I'am not making anymore. Will upload the template when the time comes to publish this brainwreck. Here are the styles for playlists. Tried to add some variation between them, so they would not look the same.
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Going to make few changes to the theme. Trying to utilize the platform videos better. Here's a screenshot of platform text filter view with Viking's excellent nostalgia 4:3 video.