andyco47 Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 (edited) is there a way to make the platfrom videos and the game videos brighter they seen dull with the theme. there bright when i play them without the theme thanks. Edited January 14, 2017 by andyco47 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatkinola Posted January 14, 2017 Author Share Posted January 14, 2017 1 hour ago, andyco47 said: is there a way to make the platfrom videos and the game videos brighter they seen dull with the theme. there bright when i play them without the theme thanks. Yes, you can decrease the Opacity of the scanlines and vignetting. It's probably the vignetting (meant to help give a CRT look) you want to turn down. Look in AOStyles. I hope to make this easier to set w/the next update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Where's the intructions? How do I install this great looking theme? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatkinola Posted January 14, 2017 Author Share Posted January 14, 2017 2 minutes ago, Dan said: Where's the intructions? How do I install this great looking theme? Hi Dan. Download Minimal-AO-v3.0-CORE.zip and unpack, copy the Minimal-AO folder into the LaunchBox Themes directory, then in BigBox go to Options > Views and select Minimal-AO as the theme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 I did that, but it doesn't look anything like in your pictures! I downloaded all of the files for this theme and extracted into the themes directory. After selecting your theme, it looks like this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatkinola Posted January 14, 2017 Author Share Posted January 14, 2017 Yeah that's totally messed up. Not sure off hand why it's doing that. Are you using LaunchBox version 7 or higher? I'm running on Windows 7 at 1920x1080. Resolution alone shouldn't be the issue. Minimal-AO uses some xaml from the Default theme. Have you made any changes to the Default theme? Does this happen with other themes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 I've only recently installed Launchbox and this is the first time I've tried to install a theme. I have Minimal-IO in the themes directory and selected that in the Big Box menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyco47 Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 hi mate sorry to be a pain again but were it says genres,modes,platform,developer,plays,stars were is the setting to make it brighter, iv done the others like u said just need this and then its spot on mate plus its a brill theme one of the best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 It's Launchbox 7.4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 I might have chosen the wrong folder before. I chose the right one this time, and it still doesn't look right: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatkinola Posted January 14, 2017 Author Share Posted January 14, 2017 2 minutes ago, andyco47 said: hi mate sorry to be a pain again but were it says genres,modes,platform,developer,plays,stars were is the setting to make it brighter, iv done the others like u said just need this and then its spot on mate plus its a brill theme one of the best. In AOStyles, look for: <SolidColorBrush x:Key="AODecoFontColor" Color="#22FFFFFF" /> The color code includes as the first two characters an opacity hex code 22. You can increase this part of the color code to make it brighter, for example "77FFFFFF" (brighter), "FFFFFFFF" (100% opacity the brightest). If you take away the first few characters and leave "FFFFFF", it will be white with 100% opacity -- probably will be too bright. Play around with this string to see what works best for you. It will change the color of other parts of the theme that use this font, e.g., game year and title in the Games Wheel 2 view, game title in Wheel 3 view, etc. And it's no problem at all -- I need to improve the documentation and make it easier to change some of the settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Do I just unzip all the files and put in Minimal-AO directory in themes, and then select it in BigBox? I don't need to install anything else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatkinola Posted January 14, 2017 Author Share Posted January 14, 2017 4 minutes ago, Dan said: I might have chosen the wrong folder before. I chose the right one this time, and it still doesn't look right: Good catch. Yes, that looks better -- just looks like it's not finding the background skins. Try one of the default skins such as Abstract-Kevlar. First, make sure you see the skin folder Images/Panels/Skins/Abstract-Kevlar ... should be there because it's included in the download. Then, make sure the AOSkin element towards the top of the config file Styles/AOStyles.xaml is set to Abstract-Kevlar ... it should be because that's the default set in the download. Aside from not loading the skin image, it looks much better. That looks like Platform Wheel 1 which is a pretty basic view. You can change the platform and game views to some of the more detailed views if you want. Before you do that, see if you can get the skin images loaded. Thanks for hanging in there, looks like you almost have it working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatkinola Posted January 14, 2017 Author Share Posted January 14, 2017 7 minutes ago, Dan said: Do I just unzip all the files and put in Minimal-AO directory in themes, and then select it in BigBox? I don't need to install anything else? Yes, that should be all you need to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 (edited) One of the default skins? There is only one default skin in my BigBox menu and it's called "default"? Edit: my mistake - I see that Abstract-Kevlar is one of the skins in your download. I can find it in the folder. Line 52 of the AOStyles.xaml reads: <System:String x:Key="AOSkin">Abstract-Kevlar</System:String> Now what do I do? Do I need to install Visual Studio? Edited January 14, 2017 by Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyco47 Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 (edited) thanks mate that worked iv set if at 50 and looks good thanks for your help brill theme mate. Edited January 14, 2017 by andyco47 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imdavid555 Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Any plans for a Cover Flow for Details games view? This theme is absolutely fantastic! Just wish it had that game view. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porl Hendy Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 15 minutes ago, andyco47 said: thanks mate that worked iv set if at 50 and looks good thanks for your help brill theme mate. Care to share some screens please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmoney Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 I justed wanted to chime in here and say I have been following this theme for a while and each revision you do it keeps getting better and better. This is an awesome theme and I really like seeing the scanlines on the game videos as they were ment to be shown as it just gives it that polished retro look. This theme has moved in to my top 3 list for sure and the one I am currently using as I switch up my themes every once in a while to keep BigBox fresh. Great job you are doing on this theme! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyco47 Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 12 minutes ago, Porl Hendy said: Care to share some screens please? yep just sorting sum music videos out for bigbox then will put sum on mate. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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