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Hi, I updated to bigbox latest version, and I don't have any issues, the theme is still fine on my side. I have 55000 game split into around 150 systems, and I browsed through all systems without any problems. The error seems weird to me, as it complains about ImageSourceConverter. So what's happening is that there is a problem with converting an image to or from other data (a path? an image type?) Can you zip me your DarkRoom theme folder? Also: - what is your screen resolution? - how do you browse your systems (I personaly use the "View Platform Categories" - do you have this issue right away when launching the theme, or when browsing to a specific system / game?

I sent a message in private to @LuxzordMaster for more information and gave some advice/tests but he didn't answer (yet?): " Hi, I checked your post and the error message. Unfortunately, it is a standard "useless" message that just says that the plugin failed to create the fanart sliding control, but not why. It is a pretty simple control, so it is a little bit surprising to me that it crashes there. First of all, could you try to edit the "Launchbox\Themes\DarkRoom\Views\PlatformWheel4FiltersView.xaml" file the following way (I have highlighted the things you have to change): <!-- BACKGROUND --> <TextBlock x:Name="DefaultPltfFanart" Visibility="Collapsed" Text="{Binding ActivePlatform.BackgroundImagePath, TargetNullValue='LAUNCHBOX_ROOT_FOLDER/Themes/DarkRoom/Images/Theme/Layout/DefaultPltfView.jpg', IsAsync=true}" /> <rs:ImageSliderControl Grid.Row="0" Grid.RowSpan="3" Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="3" Offset="{Binding Source={StaticResource BackgroundXOffset}, Converter={StaticResource DimensionW3840Converter}}" SpeedUpWhenHold="false" Source="{Binding Text, ElementName=DefaultPltfFanart, IsAsync=true, Mode=OneWay}"> <rs:ImageSliderControl.ImageManager> <rsm:PltfImageManager CashEnabled="false" Quality="85" ProcessorCount="4" CashLimit="500"/> </rs:ImageSliderControl.ImageManager> </rs:ImageSliderControl> <Rectangle x:Name="PltfBackgroundShadow" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1" Fill="Black" Opacity="0.0" /> If it prevents the crash, that means that you can't use the plugin's cash manager for whatever reason. Also: - what processor do you have (and how many cores)? - did you try another theme? - what is the default view when browsing platforms? "Platform Categories" or "Platforms"? - could you send me a zip of your "Launchbox\Data", so that I can check if the problem has something to do with your systems collection? Thanx. "

That should work I tested it and it works: The .mp4 file must be put here: If you did that correctly, then maybe: - the platform is not the Sony Playstation (or whatever). Do you have sub-playlist or categories for, your platforms (like Sony Playstation - All Games)? The video to use is binded to the platform nested name: Priority1FileName="{Binding ActivePlatform.NestedName}"/> so it should work for all "basic" systems. The TextGameViews.xaml is used to display the text game view (no wheel) and correspond to the image I showed you The wheel game view corresponds to the WheelGameView.xaml file. It has no game notes, no game details, just a wheel If you want the wheel you have to edit the WheelGameView.xaml and add the code corresponding to the game details in the TextGameView.xaml file: Add the additional references in the beginning: Add the missing converters: Add the path variables: Add the game details/notes container: I have highlighted in green the thing you have to ADD from TextGHameView.xaml to WheelGameView.xaml, as well as some code before and after these needed addition (that is already present in WheelGameView.xaml) to serve as "balises" so that you know where to make the changes. The yellow highlight is what is specifically needed to add game notes to the game details (which were not present in TextGameView)

For the 3dBox, you have 2 ways of doing it: - either you change the box front priority to "Box- 3D" in Launchbox - either you edit the "StaticStyles.xaml" file in "Launchbox\Themes\DarkRoom\Views\Styles" folder and change the type of box front to "Box3DImagePath": <!-- FRONT BOX STYLE --> <Style x:Key="FrontBoxStyle" TargetType="Image"> <Setter Property="Source" Value="{Binding Path=ActiveGame.Box3DImagePath, IsAsync=true}" /> <Setter Property="RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode" Value="HighQuality" /> <!--Setter Property="Stretch" Value="Fill" /--> <Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Left" /> <Setter Property="VerticalAlignment" Value="Bottom" /> <Setter Property="Effect"> <Setter.Value> <DropShadowEffect BlurRadius="15" Direction="225" ShadowDepth="10" Color="#FF000000" /> </Setter.Value> </Setter> </Style> For the plateform video, you just have to add videos (.mp4) to the "Launchbox\Themes\DarkRoom\Videos\Platforms" folder. It should take priority over random games videos. You have to do that for every plateforms/playlists for which you want a specific video. For the vertical scrolling text, I tried several things but result is unsatisfaying and I don't know how to display that in a "clean" way. You can try this: </StackPanel> <StackPanel Width="890" Height="500" HorizontalAlignment="Left"> <DockPanel Width="890" Height="500" > <Canvas Width="890" Height="500" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Margin="0,10,0,0" ClipToBounds="True"> <controls:ScrollableTextBlock Width="890" Height="501" Name="Notes" Text="{Binding Path=ActiveGame.Notes}" FontFamily="LAUNCHBOX_ROOT_FOLDER/Themes/DarkRoom/Fonts/Comic Book.otf#Comic Book" FontSize="25" Foreground="#e7e7e7" TextWrapping="Wrap" ScrollBeginDelay="2" ScrollSpeed="2" ScrollAutoReverse="True" ScrollEndDelay="6" ReverseScrollSpeed="0.5" ScrollDirection="Up" /> </Canvas> </DockPanel> </StackPanel> </StackPanel> </Grid> <!-- Neon --> <Viewbox Style="{Binding ElementName=RSVideoControl, Path=Styles.NeonZPanelStyle}" HorizontalAlignment="left"> <Image x:Name="Neon" Source="{Binding ElementName=RSVideoControl, Path=Sources.PltfNeonSource}" Style="{StaticResource NeonStyle}"/> </Viewbox> This is an editing of the TextGamesViews.xaml file. Now, my monitor has a 2560*1440 resolution, so you will have to tweek width and height yourself to match your screen resolution. I personaly don't like how the scrolling text behave with this code but I don't know how to do better and don't want to spend more time on this that I already did

Hi, I am sorry but this theme has not been designed with the community theme manager as it uses a custom plugin I developped that does several things (mainly platform random game videos, fanart transitions, video shader). As a consequence, you will have to edit the xaml directly if you want to change anything that fits your tastes.

Not too sure about what is causing that. Did you check that the option to hide auto-generated playlist is toggled off in BigBox? Do you have this issue with other themes?

Hi, I am not sure I understand the problem. If you have defined sub-categories/playlists for a given system, then you should be able to browse through it in BigBox. System subcategories/playlists can be auto-generated in Launchbox (I personaly have All Games and Favorites sub-playlists, as well as Genres, Regions and Play Modes sub-categories for every system (except arcade where specific playlists have been generated depending on sources - like neogeo.cpp, publisher and developper)

What I meant is try opening these video from the Launchbox folder with media player or vlc and check if they have big black border on left and right (they may not have been cropped) Note: the donkey kong game doesn't have the issue because I didn't do any Vertical Nintendo Arcade cabinet (Mame cabinet only exists in horizontal version), so its normal that it is displayed "normally", because the video height matches the horizontal screen height. For the Dodonpatchi game, its gameId is linked with the vertical Cave cabinet, but it seems constricted by its width

Hi, I am not 100% sure, but given your screenshot: - the gameID is retrieved correctly (should be 23763 - otherwise you wouldn't have a vertical display) - the number of scanlines is roughly 70, which is half of what we should see My guess is that your video has big black borders on right and left. (I checked and I don't have this problem with the same game): Do you have other vertical games with this issue? On the wheel game view as well?

Hi, Thanx, this is only available for arcade games that belong to a "classic" playlist that I have associated with a candy cab though (as well as Centipede, Kangaroo and Dig Dug that have a dedicated cabinet). Next release will contain at least Irem Madonna cab (for Irem Arcade Classics) and SNK Neo Geo Candy cab (for SNK Arcade Classics) I will start handhelds very soon (probably next release or the one after), starting by the ones that have only one screen (dual screen will come later due to "technical" issues that I will solve via a shader most likelly). But I want to finish home consoles first and I still have 12 pending ones + the WiiU that will need a brand new TV screen (cause it doesn't belong to any console generation that I have already done). The Switch I consider it a handheld so it will come when I start them as well. So to sum-up: - Remaining home systems: - Handhelds (none started): - Arcade: as much specific cab that I can do, which will probably depend on my motivation ... and definitly a candy cab for every known classic playlist of Mame - Old Computers : I wont list them here ... but Amiga 500 will probably be first - Pinball FX2. That's all I am going to do and I will see when time comes and it's all finished if I add more Don't expect anything new before January though (I won't make release every 2 weeks anymore as I think it is pointless, unless there is a specific important bug to solve).

I don't get it. The fade is still there I didn't suppress it. Edit: maybe try using 400ms speed

The only thing I changed about fanart transition speed is that now it matches the speed you set in the settings (wheel speed) I think that before that I set it to 300ms. So I guess (but I may be wrong) that your wheel speed is just set as really fast (in addition, the plugin doesn't do anything to logo wheel speed). Here is a video of what I mean. First part is 300ms, 2 part is 100ms Untitled.mp4

************************************************************************** Update available in the download section ("DarkRoom.zip") ************************************************************************** Hi all. - added Game Views for Sega Arcade, Capcom Arcade, Magnavox Odyssey 2, Philips VideoPac+, Sega SG-1000, Epoch Super Cassette Vision, SNK Neo Geo AES, Ps3, Xbox 360 and Xbox platforms. - release date display now takes into account cultural info - change game detail regions, genres, play modes and ratings text display with icons. Multiple values are also taken into account and displayed (exept for Mame pletora of sub genres) - now all videos / fanarts take into account user settings => video sound level, fanart slide speed matching wheel speed, game filters (platform random videos will not play video for filtered games anymore) - tried to improve theme performance: ==> fixed bad storyboard animation (mainly pulsing logo in game views) ==> change bindings to asynchronous when relevent (so that UI is no more blocked) ==> implemented a cash system that is a compromise between RAM usage and Jpeg decoding speed - speed went from ~30ms to 5ms, and RAM use roughtly same amount as it takes on hard drive (for me it is 25Mo for 155 games fanart). That should make performance better. In WheelGamesView.xaml and PlatformWheel4FiltersView.xaml, you will find the following lines: <rs:ImageSliderControl.ImageManager> <rsm:GameImageManager CashEnabled="true" Quality="85" ProcessorCount="4" CashLimit="500"/> </rs:ImageSliderControl.ImageManager> - Put CashEnabled to false if you want to disable cash for fanart - Quality can go from 1 to 100, I put it to 85 by default. The higher the value, the more RAM it will use and the slower it will decode the fanart - CashLimit is 500Mo. Ajust it to your needs

Hi, I was quite busy irl (summer holidays, change of computer, etc ...), so I didn't advance as much as I would have liked, especially in the "art" department, as I spent a lot of time analysing why the theme was really laggy. The main causes have been identified and addressed if possible: - bad code (xaml/plugin) was fixed. To sum up, most of the problem came from animation start triggered everytime a game selection change occured (it was mainly the logo pulse in gameviews ...). => I changed that by using the new navigation event provided a few releases ago - artwork files (fanart background) were too big (a lot of them were more than 1M big, and you can't expect them to be displayed fast enough during fast navigation => I used a jpeg online "shrinker" (Optimizilla) to reduce size of all my artworks, and now they are around 300ko max with no to little quality loss (but I guess it depends on sensibility) - bigbox bindings seems really slow on game views (average is 20ms, and sometimes can spike like crazy to more than 100ms). I don't know what is causing this, although one of my guess is bigbox tries to get all media paths every time a game is selected, which performances depend on the number of games, but also the number of media you have, the kind of hdd you have, etc ... => I change this so that now my xaml bindings are asynchronous, but it still comes with constraints - but at least now it is not blocking the ui. I will probably give more details in next release - I implemented an "intermediate" cash manager, which I think is a good compromise between ram usage and jpeg decoding speed (average is now 5ms versus 20-30ms, and ram size should be around the same as file size ~ 25Mo for 150 game artworks) => I will describe more on this during next update, but this will not work for those who changed "fanart-background" to "banner" source (like yourself - sorry!), because there is no developper api (as far as I know) to retrieve a game banner path Apart from that, I have done 10 more systems, but I need to finish figures for some of them. I also have added 2 more arcade cab (Capcom Impress and Sega Blast City) I think I will make a release at the end of the month, but I also have to reinstall things like photoshop / visual studio. Also there is a regression in my plugin (it happened between .15 and .17 versions) with either parents structure or nested name for playlist have change (my plugin doesn't detect anymore that an autoplaylist like SNES - Regions - Japan is a child of SNES), and I will need to address that as well.

Hello, First you need to define 2 storyboard.: - 1 for hiding pltf information - 1 for showing it <!-- Display Pltf detail --> <Storyboard x:Key="ShowPltfDetail" po:Freeze="True"> <DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Opacity)" Storyboard.TargetName="giveMeWhateverName" BeginTime="00:00:1.0" To="1" Duration="00:00:0.5" /> </Storyboard> <!-- Hide Pltf detail --> <Storyboard x:Key="HidePltfDetail" po:Freeze="True"> <DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Opacity)" Storyboard.TargetName="giveMeWhateverName" To="0" Duration="00:00:0.0" /> </Storyboard> <!-- ON PLATFORM BACKGROUND CHANGE --> <Storyboard x:Key="BackgroundChanged" po:Freeze="True"> Then add these storyboards to events triggers (these events already exists) <!-- This event fires (from code behind) when title of game whose gameplay video is displayed changes --> <TextBlock Text="{Binding ElementName=RSVideoControl, Path=CurrentGame.Title, NotifyOnTargetUpdated=True}" Visibility="Collapsed"> <TextBlock.Triggers> <EventTrigger RoutedEvent="Binding.TargetUpdated"> <BeginStoryboard Storyboard="{StaticResource DisplayGameDetails}"/> <BeginStoryboard Storyboard="{StaticResource ShowPltfDetail}"/> </EventTrigger> </TextBlock.Triggers> </TextBlock> <!-- This event fires when selected platform changes --> <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=SelectedPlatform.Name, NotifyOnTargetUpdated=True, IsAsync=true}" Visibility="Collapsed"> <TextBlock.Triggers> <EventTrigger RoutedEvent="Binding.TargetUpdated"> <BeginStoryboard Storyboard="{StaticResource PlatformChanged}"/> <BeginStoryboard Storyboard="{StaticResource HidePltfDetail}"/> </EventTrigger> </TextBlock.Triggers> </TextBlock> Finally you have to name the container of the information you want to animate and make its initial opacity 0. For me, its a stack panel, for you it may be different: <!-- Platform name + Time --> <Grid Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1" Panel.ZIndex="70" rs:GridHelper.GridColumns="40*,1200*,0*,720*,40*"> <StackPanel x:Name="giveMeWhateverName" Grid.Column="1" Orientation="Vertical" Opacity="0"> <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"> <aoc:AutoscaleTextBlock Text="{Binding Path=SelectedPlatform.Name, IsAsync=true}" TargetFontSize="{Binding Source={StaticResource TargetFontSize25}}" TargetScreenHeight="{Binding Source={StaticResource TargetFontHeight1080}}" Result: Result.mp4

Hi, Yes it is possible and it isn't linked to the plugin. In PlatformWheel4FiltersView.xaml, the top left information is described in this section of the code: You can update the xaml file by moving it (and editing it to your liking) as shown below. Note that you must include it in a new grid definition as in the code below. The result (I kept my original positioning as I don't intend displaying this information as you did) : For the date format, it is possible as well, and I will "fix" this with next release (as well as the release dates in game views). If you can't wait, here is what you have to do ^^: Declare a new namespace on top of xaml: xmlns:wpf="clr-namespace:Unbroken.LaunchBox.Wpf;assembly=Unbroken.LaunchBox.Wpf" xmlns:aoc="clr-namespace:Ao.Bigbox.Controls;assembly=Ao.Bigbox.Themer.v3_9_7" xmlns:sys="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib" xmlns:gl="clr-namespace:System.Globalization;assembly=mscorlib" xmlns:cal="http://www.caliburnproject.org" xmlns:i="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/2010/interactivity" Add the new culture converter to the date binding: <aoc:AutoscaleTextBlock Text="{Binding SelectedPlatform.ReleaseDate, StringFormat=' (\{0:d\})', ConverterCulture={x:Static gl:CultureInfo.CurrentCulture}, IsAsync=true}" Opacity="0.5" TargetFontSize="{Binding Source={StaticResource TargetFontSize25}}" TargetScreenHeight="{Binding Source={StaticResource TargetFontHeight1080}}" Foreground="#e7e7e7" FontFamily="LAUNCHBOX_ROOT_FOLDER/Themes/DarkRoom/Fonts/Comic Book.otf#Comic Book">