Fluffo Posted May 2, 2015 Author Share Posted May 2, 2015 I would love to see a feature that would use Steam grid images instead of the standard front images. Is this possible? Steam grid images can be found using this: cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/[game id]/header.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 Hi Fluffo, I do have this feature planned. I'll see if I can work it in soon. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffo Posted May 2, 2015 Author Share Posted May 2, 2015 Jason Carr said Hi Fluffo, I do have this feature planned. I'll see if I can work it in soon. :) That would be great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriven Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Can I suggest adding some kind of scraper for http://steambanners.booru.org/index.php once the feature is implemented? I'm pretty sure this is where programs like Ice draw from when incorporating custom banners in Steam itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Ha...guess what? I just implemented a new Steam banner scraper yesterday. I should have another beta out including it in the next couple of days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Forgot to post last night, but the new Steam Banner import features are live in the latest beta. They could use some testing. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliveBarker Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Jason Carr said Forgot to post last night, but the new Steam Banner import features are live in the latest beta. They could use some testing. :) Excellent, I will test it now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliveBarker Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Its working great man, and WOW the Steam import improved a hell lot, now it finds every game and even the GOTY and Special editions are being identified correctly, great work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Awesome; great to hear. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffo Posted May 7, 2015 Author Share Posted May 7, 2015 Just tested this feature. I have the banners downloaded but I can't get the to show instead of the normal front. Am I missing something? Edit: Solved it by deleting all normal front images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Hi Fluffo, yup; right now that's the only way to do it. I'm hoping to add an option to "prefer Steam banners" before the official release. I think it might be a premium feature though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffo Posted May 8, 2015 Author Share Posted May 8, 2015 Jason Carr said Hi Fluffo, yup; right now that's the only way to do it. I'm hoping to add an option to "prefer Steam banners" before the official release. I think it might be a premium feature though. I think that would be a nice premium feature. Is there any place where I can see the BETA changelog? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 Nope, not really. It would just take too much time to document all of that, unfortunately. So the changelog is only for things that make it in the final release, and only things that are different than the previous official release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffo Posted May 8, 2015 Author Share Posted May 8, 2015 Jason Carr said Nope, not really. It would just take too much time to document all of that, unfortunately. So the changelog is only for things that make it in the final release, and only things that are different than the previous official release. Ok. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 You know what, though, you should follow this thread: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/features/launchbox-beta-testing That's probably the closest thing we have to a changelog for the betas. I did just put out a new beta with that prefer Steam banners premium option. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffo Posted May 8, 2015 Author Share Posted May 8, 2015 Jason Carr said You know what, though, you should follow this thread: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/features/launchbox-beta-testing That's probably the closest thing we have to a changelog for the betas. I did just put out a new beta with that prefer Steam banners premium option. :) That update is what made me come here asking about BETA changelogs. Is there any way to remove the excess space between the image and text? Example (The blue area): http://gyazo.com/16e0eeb6b4417eaec219702dcc135388 (I will be back in about 10 hours) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 Yup, in the premium version you can customize the "aspect ratio." An aspect ratio of 1.45 seems to work pretty well; you can specify it in Options under Spacing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffo Posted May 8, 2015 Author Share Posted May 8, 2015 Jason Carr said Yup, in the premium version you can customize the "aspect ratio." An aspect ratio of 1.45 seems to work pretty well; you can specify it in Options under Spacing. I tried doing that but it will also make everything bigger and only show 4 games per row instead of 7 when I have the smallest view possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Sure, sounds like I need to make the sizing more flexible. Gonna have to put that off for a future version, though, unfortunately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M4he Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Fluffo said I tried doing that but it will also make everything bigger and only show 4 games per row instead of 7 when I have the smallest view possible. I'm a bit late to the party but I noticed that you can tweak that manually. Just open up LaunchBox.xml in the LaunchBox folder with your text editor and modify the line containing the "BoxSize" tags (somewhere near the end of the file where settings reside) to a negative number. From my observation it must be integer and can only go down to -5, i.e. -1, -2, -3, -4, and -5 are working. This helps greatly when using wide images e.g. Steam banners instead of covers. The aspect ratio however can not be tweaked further than 1.45 using the xml. The applications seems to validate the range and resets it automatically. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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