Theme: CleanBG - discussions

[angelobodetti]

Thank you! I just took a shot at making a Famicom one using your NES background. I am mierable at photo editing so its not great...

[niglurion]

Nice! 

Btw, i can't open your image in fullscreen  (Internal error 500). But the thumb is good enough  Maybe I'll add it in the archive tomorrow if I can download it in full resolution. 

[angelobodetti]

Actually now that I am looking closer I see that your NES background without platform is labeled wrong, it is actually GameBoy boxes. I do not have a clean version of your NES background so I can't upload the Famicom one because it is on top of GameBoy boxes.

[niglurion]

Ahah.... It was a trap 
I corrected the archive. Thank you. 

For the Famicom background, I'll take famicom covers only (from the games DB), not NES. I think it's better.  

[damobeanrod]

@niglurion thanks again looks great!

[niglurion]

@angelobodetti it's ok, 8 news systems added!
(Atari2600 / Atari5200 / Atari7800 / Atari Jaguar / Atari Jaguar CD / Famicom / Virtual Boy / Turbografx CD)

But for  Beats of Rage / Daphne and MUGEN, I don't think I'll make them...  I can't retreive enough covers/images to make a grid or the time to make a proper wall, sorry. 

[angelobodetti]

Thank you! 

Beats of Rage is definitely tricky, for MUGEN I figured the only thing that would look decent would be the characters as the background (since there are no real boxes) - attached.

I Daphne has like 12 games or so but no clue if there are boxes. Would you do games repeating? Meaning if you can only get 6 or so box covers, would you repeat them inside your background to make it look more full?

Either way, THANK YOU SO MUCH! These look amazing and have definitely stepped up my console screen!

[angelobodetti]

I have attached about 30 Beats of Rage Boxes/Cover Art (it is built from title screens - No Idea what the console image would be? Maybe the Streets of Rage characters?

Beats_of_Rage.zip

[niglurion]

Thank you @angelobodetti.

Is that's good? I'll add them in the pack later if you're ok.

 

[angelobodetti]

PERFECT!

[niglurion]

Glad to hear that 

The update is online with the 1.0.4. We've got 52 systems covered now. 

[Jason Carr]

If this keeps up we might have to distribute this theme with LaunchBox itself!

[Britxcdn]

That would be awesome!

[niglurion]

10 hours ago, Jason Carr said:

If this keeps up we might have to distribute this theme with LaunchBox itself!

I'd love that 

When we can dynamically link any image with a plateform, we will make much better themes, I think. Change the theme structure is one thing, but associate manually every background is like 'brute force' a theme . The same is true for Gifs. 
I look forward to play with that 

But first things first! There are much important things to do before that. 

Edited August 17, 2016 by niglurion

[ALIE]

Is there a setting that allows for making the consoles a little bit smaller?  Also I noticed some are not fully on screen wondering if that is something we can tweak.   

Also I didn't that to sound to critical.  It's absolutely a gorgeous theme. 

[niglurion]

No sorry, it's deliberately big and cut. And they are just "images", we can't tweak them directly. 
You can use versions without consoles if it's too large on your monitor.  (I've tested this theme only on 1080p and 1440p monitors)

I didn't want to show the device baner over the background because that creates an issue with animations and uniformity. 

Thank you

[niglurion]

There is a new version 1.0.6. 

News tweaks on game views. See below: 

[ALIE]

Might be a stupid question but are the console images the ones from the LB database?  Or do I get them elsewhere. 

[niglurion]

Images are from multiple sources like the LB Database, yes, this site and google 
 

[ALIE]

46 minutes ago, niglurion said:

Images are from multiple sources like the LB Database, yes, this site and google 
 

just wanna be sure i get it right. is there any specific size of the images on that site that is better then another?