BigBoXMB

[Blugost]

So I started making a theme based on the XMB, it's always been my favorite interface. I don't know if I'll continue it because of some problems and general lack of time so here's everything for you guys if you want to take a shot at it.

Originally I wanted the platforms to slide horizontally where the XMB is (currently non-functional, just there for looks) using left/right arrow keys and up/down arrows when you're on a platform to look through all the games.

Some pretty cool things, the waves and background are separate so if you change the background.jpg file out for your favorite image, the waves will still show over it. You can remove them completely in xaml or you can add a blank png for waves.png.

This "theme" is only for the Platform Wheel with Image Details and Thumbs view, I'm sure you could easily replicate across the other views.

Anyway, expand on, improve on, put a trollface on it, add a sad face to it if you don't like it. Basically, enjoy!

UPDATE

Still working on this thing. Now includes:

• Game View
• Platform View
• Sounds
• Animated Wave

Glitches/Bugs:

• Sometimes there's a little lag in loading another view.
• Sometimes the video will stop completely if you leave unattended for a long time, alt-tab in and out of BigBox.

Put BigBoXMB in your Themes folder and your settings are like mine:

If you want the PS3 sounds, just overwrite the sounds I provided with those in your Launchbox. Make a backup of the originals if you want to revert.

Here's a video and the updated files are included.

 

BigBoXMB.zip

Edited August 23, 2016 by Blugost

[kerszr]

Beautiful. So much potentional! 

[Jason Carr]

Thank you @Blugost. Let me know if you or anyone else gets back to this and needs any additional theming features in order to make this happen. I'll be coming out with better documentation here soon as well as more tutorials, but the easiest way to add more features for theming is by request.

[Blugost]

Thanks, I made some suggestions on the issue tracker for you Jason.

https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/1468/bigbox-theme-requests

One thing I completely forgot to add was video support. I got a nice gif for the background so the theme does actually have animated waves! But due to the size of it, it creates horrible lag, if I could just loop a video, I think it would be better. Any thoughts on this?

It would also be really useful to know if I can just make my own element because I would like to add things like a settings shortcut to the horizontal platforms bar.

Another thing is time. I would really like to show the date and time on the theme just like the XMB

Edited August 22, 2016 by Blugost

[Jason Carr]

Thanks Blugost. I'll review the ticket here soon. I think using a video would definitely be the best approach, but of course videos can't be transparent. You can of course make your own elements, but how to do it depends on what you're trying to create. For time and date, I'll probably have to add controls for it.

[Blugost]

Thanks Jason. Could you give me the tag for video embedding? I'm not sure if you're using a bespoke method for playback and I don't recall seeing a tutorial on it.

Do you have plans for listing all of the supported tags in a wiki or something? I think it would really help theme creators.

On controls, I'm just thinking of making a custom coverflow/image list with each image linking to a custom location in BigBox. Basically, I'd like to add complete customizable menus like you see in the horizontal line of the XMB.

[Daedric_Persona]

where may i get this theme ?