PiperCalls

C-Beats can you expound on that or point me to a resource that discusses it? I've looked at the CoverFlowGamesView.xaml for Default theme and I don't find any ref to either FlowImage or FlowModel. I guess the bigger question first is...is the 3D box model available only as a wheel element only or can it be used anywhere in a theme? My end goal would be to replace an image in my theme that is currently 3D Box/Box with a 3D Model...not sure if that's even possible or supported. It doesn't appear CTC allows it from what I can gather. Thx for any guidance.

I really just wanted to learn how to make a theme and wanted something simple for my racing cab with a racing/Ferrari type look. None of the existing themes had exactly what I wanted to I decided to use CTC (2.5.5) and whip one up. Thanks to y2guru for the tool and a little help along the way. The main level is playlists which are sub-genres of the racing genre. I just came up with a list that made sense to me. For the games list I wanted to have an image that shows what hardware is used for that game. I do intend to make actual images for each game that shows what all the inputs are for that game, but I think I'll do that via launch images. The wheel/pedals controls animation is just a 3 renders I did and then I set the image to folder content so it just is basically a slideshow. Lot's of fun, and CTC makes even us primates be able to throw something together. PiperCalls PS: not sure why the video capture is so crappy and dark, the theme actually is better. Also, I made all the playlist clearlogos myself, but not that startup video. I got that on the forums here sometime back, apologies for not crediting, not sure who made it. VROOM.mp4

Ok, I got it fixed...but still not sure what the root cause was. I installed CTC on my racing rig, copied the VROOM theme into the projects folder and published the theme directly to BB on the racing cab. Now the VROOM theme shows up and displays correctly when chosen as the theme. Maybe something with the way CTC "communicates" it's info to BB...idk...I'm not going to look at it too hard for fear it might break again lol. Thanks for the help!

Well, not directly. There are some refs to things for the background but they are contained in a subfolder in the theme folder that I copied over. For instance, I have an image called "Flag" that sits in the theme folder at VROOM/Media/Background and is used as an image in the background layer but the asset is there on the racing rig. I have maybe 5 things that are ref'd like that but that couldn't be the issue right? Otherwise the theme would only be usable on the PC that it was dev'd on.

Well, that's the thing. The theme displays/works fine on my workstation in BB. So I delete the theme from my racing rig and copy over a fresh copy of the theme folder from the workstation and...it displays Default theme if I select it. Both the workstation and racing rig are on BB 13.1.

My theme is called VROOM. But I even tried deleting it, renaming the theme folder to ABC, copying it back in...BB sees ABC theme but when I apply it I get Default theme displayed. I tried all the views available and they are all the Default theme views. Also, just for grins I just tried to install (download) another theme that I didn't already have..I picked Pulse and Aeon Nox and both downloaded/installed fine and I can switch to them with no problems. Somehow BB has gotten hung up so that a theme that I just copy into the Themes folder, no matter what it is named...gets the Default theme displayed. I also went back to my workstation and pulled up VROOM in BB and it pulls up/works fine. So, I copied it from the workstation to the racing rig and still the same...Default view shows when VROOM is selected...at a loss..

Oh, and no errors ever come up.

Yeah I've been with LB for several yrs now and never have seen anything like this. So, I.. deleted everything in LB/Themes checked LB/Core...no reference to any themes reboot the racing rig pc copied my (known working) theme into LB/Themes started BB, it was by default on the Default theme Manage Themes - selected my theme & apply to all ...and Default theme is still what's displayed... Just for test, I switched to Old Default & CZ themes and they switch over fine It's has to be something corrupted in the xml files, right?

Ughh...didn't work. So I deleted everything from the Themes folder and re-installed 13.1 over the top...same. I restored a LB backup from before I installed my theme...same. I even uninstalled my theme, changed the folder name of the theme to something completely unrelated and then reinstalled it in BB...same. BB is determined that any theme I copy in, no matter what I name it is the Default theme now...

Hmm ok that sounds like a plan. I'll give that a go. Thx!

...as a side note, there is nothing wrong with the theme. I dev it on my workstation and can pull it up in BB on the workstation and it works fine. It's when I transfer it to my racing cab, BB shows the new theme as the Default theme no matter what the theme is named.

So I created a new theme for my racing cab. I copied the theme into the Themes folder and it worked fine. I decided to make some changes to the theme. This is where I think I screwed up. I deleted the themes folder from the Themes directory, without "uninstalling" it from within BB. I made the edits to the theme and copied the theme folder back into the LB/Themes folder and BB sees it as "installed" but if I switch to the theme it says it switched but it is really showing as the Default theme. I even tried renaming the theme folder and copying it back in but any new theme I select in BB, appears as the Default theme if I choose to apply it. Somehow I got BB thinking any new theme is the Default theme...not sure if I'm explaining that clearly. The other thing is if I choose "Manage Themes" in BB, it hangs for a long time and I usually get "The LB Server is not responding." Am I major hosed here or is there anything I can do? Thanks for any help.

Did this get submitted on bitbucket? I need this as well. The strange is both of my startup apps I use are both internally set to launch minimized but when shell'd to BB they open non-minimized.

Hi, I am booting BB straight into Playlist view. I have some very specific (odd...) Playlists so ofc I don't have videos to show for them. So instead I've set BB to display random game vids instead. The problem is as I scroll through my Playlists, it does show the random game vids but it seems to only pick 1 game video & loop it over & over. I am looking to see if there is a setting to have it instead play a game video, then another & so on vs just playing the 1 vid? Ideally I'd like to have a setting to set the amount of time the game vid plays, before moving to the next vid. I can submit that request on bitbucket if needed. Thanks.

Getting the wheel & pedals to work is doable. Getting them to be usable is another story. The wheel is very "digital ". We need proper analog controller support.