Suhrvivor Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 (edited) Damn, I'm thinking of making a theme myself, centered around showing off boxarts and carts instead of details and notes but I don't know the first thing about xaml. Don't tempt me! Edited September 3, 2017 by Suhrvivor Typo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriticalCid Posted September 3, 2017 Author Share Posted September 3, 2017 @Machello Thanks! I'm aware that my skills have improved A LOT since then. Just ignore the beautiful HyperSpin theme on the right, that's not even my work, just a recorded video that's playing. What's left is just some really basic stuff structered in the ugliest way possible @Suhrvivor Haha, I wouldn’t have thought that my post would accomplish its goal that fast. If that ugly screenshots leads to encourage even just a single person to mess around with theme building than I’m happy. To tempt you even more. Here’s a playlist of all XAML/theming video tutorials that Jason did. As I said I knew nothing about that stuff and his videos helped me understand the basics pretty fast. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6pTDaHeAz-X8yNgOD3DPxUf1gaB2FLzb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machello Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 I did try xaml basics with the video's from Jason. But I just don't have enough time for it. The learning curve in the beginning was a bit to big for me :-). I really want to make some cool game views for the metallic theme. Well, for now I just enjoy the theme's the community makes. My time will come 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Kant Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 nice work Critical... nice work. It starts looking so awesome... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y2guru Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 @CriticalCid This is now my primary (and only) Theme for my living room pc!! I would love to livestream how it looks (if you're up for that) and possibly have a quick chat regarding XAML? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriticalCid Posted September 7, 2017 Author Share Posted September 7, 2017 Sure, you can livestream and showcase my theme like however you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y2guru Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 @CriticalCid great! twitch.tv/y2gurutoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y2guru Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 @CriticalCid Here's your BlueBox in action 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y2guru Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 @CriticalCid Regarding Critical ZoneV2-Blue Box:- quick question for you.... XAML, do you have a spacing value for Platform Wheel 4 ? I am messing around with Square Platform Logos and I was hoping they would be spaced evenly, please see below:- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriticalCid Posted September 10, 2017 Author Share Posted September 10, 2017 Open the PlatformWheel4FiltersView.xaml with any text editor of your choice (I recommend Notepad++) in the “Views” folder inside the CriticalZone folder. Go to line 127 and reduce the value in the Spacing=”” property. Be aware that this will definitely break the highlighting of the currently selected platform so you have to adjust that well. Just a few lines beneath them you will find many lines that start with GradientStop. Change the values in the Offset properties here and make sure that you do the exact same changes you apply to WheelHighlight1 to WHeelHighlight2 as well. The values are percentage values relative the screen width. These adjustments will also take a lot of time and many testings until you have perfectly optimized it it for your artwork, so keep that in mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y2guru Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 Cheers Cid!! I will give that try now. I understand the back n forth and the time it takes, but it will be worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y2guru Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 @CriticalCid Thanks again, I played around with the values per your suggestion and works great with my current clear logos (rectangle) now I know what values to mess with I will give it a go with the square logos now. btw... so much easier to test the highlighting when the opacity is ramped up to 9 :-) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluSonik Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 Hey @CriticalCid I seem to be getting an issue in CriticalZone - BlueBox when I press back from the game view below, it seems to freeze when leaving this view and the only way out is having to open task master and close big box. I have tested this with CriticalZoneV2 as well just to see if it was an issue on my setup but I have had no issues at all with CriticalZoneV2, I'm not sure if anyone else has had this happen to them with CriticalZone - BlueBox but I thought id flag it up to see Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charco Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 That's the game view I use and I haven't experienced any issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriticalCid Posted September 15, 2017 Author Share Posted September 15, 2017 That's odd. The only difference between BlueBox and standard CriticalZone is the color, so it doesn't really make sense that one version has this issue and the other one not. How many times has this issue appeared for you? And exclusively in just this View? Only in specific platforms/games? Which Video Engine do you use, WMP or VLC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluSonik Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 (edited) This has happened multiple times now and I've just done another check on all the views just to make sure, the ones it happens on are Horizontal Wheel 1 Horizontal Wheel 2 Vertical Wheel 2 I have also tested on multiple platforms and it gives me the same result, I have also tried downloading the theme again just to see if that would fix it and it hasn't I am using the VLC engine I have just done all the same checks on CriticalZoneV2 just to be sure and CriticalZoneV2 works perfectly Edited September 15, 2017 by BlueArrowUK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriticalCid Posted September 15, 2017 Author Share Posted September 15, 2017 So basically every View that uses the background video. Can you replace the Default background video from BlueBox with the one from standard CriticalZone and see if the issue remains? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluSonik Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 I have replaced the video with the one from standard CriticalZone and everything is working perfectly, it looks like the video is the issue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriticalCid Posted September 16, 2017 Author Share Posted September 16, 2017 Hm... sounds like a general performance issue on your end, but who knows. Have you installed any codec packs like K-Lite? What are your PC specs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluSonik Posted September 16, 2017 Share Posted September 16, 2017 I haven't installed any codec packs that I'm aware of and my PC is only a couple of years old. I may try and replace the video with something of my own and see if that works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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