faeran Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 (edited) Hi Guys, Started using LaunchBox a few weeks ago, and after setting it up and playing around with it I realized I couldn't find a theme for Big Box that I wanted to use, so I decided to try my hand at making my own. The only problem was that I didn't know that XAML existed until last week, so it took some learning to get a grasp of it, but I think I managed to learn enough to get the desired theme that I was looking for. I thought I'd share my work, just in case someone else may find the theme useful as well. The theme itself is inspired by a UI I once saw in a Simply Austin video about a year ago, however I took a different approach while creating it. The theme was designed to add as little overhead as possible, while giving a clean and simplistic view of the content. To do this I decided on not adding any images at all to the theme, and instead used XAML to build all the elements. When zipped, the entire theme comes out under 300KB. Download Theme Click here to download RetroFresh from the download's section Installation Instructions Extract RetroFresh.zip into the LaunchBox/Themes folder. Go into the RetroFresh/Fonts folder and install the 'SF Atarian System.ttf' font Open Big Box, go to Options/Views, select the RetroFresh theme. The views I made are as follows: Platform Wheel View This platform view was designed to get out of the way of the full screen platform videos made by all the wonderful people contributing to LaunchBox. The platform videos are the focus here, as the wheel's transparent background let's the video through. Game Vertical Wheel View 1 This game view let's the box art and game video take center stage, while the blurred background image allows for the transparent UI elements to take on its color property. Game Vertical Wheel View 2 This game view is the same as the first, except the wheel is on the right. Game List View This game view substitutes the wheel for a text list. This view will help on lower end systems, while the essence of theme remains intact. Video Demonstration If anyone finds any issues, please let me know. RetroFresh.zip Edited March 11, 2018 by faeran 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatticusFinch1820 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Hey cool!!! Always good to get new themes! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rincewind Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Looks really great , thanks @faeran 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALIE Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 Very clean Definitely a awesome addition. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowblind Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 Love the platforms view. So clean in 4k. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YaBoyRob Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 Nice theme, I'm using now 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkguy Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 (edited) Where did you get the system videos? Those are amazing. The theme looks great too, but not quite as clean as I'd hope with the videos I have. Also in the game views, the video is playing in the background instead of the box designated for it? EDIT: Nevermind, fixed that. Thanks! I just need help with the platform videos that you have. Thank you for the great work. Edited January 16, 2017 by hawkguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.K.O. Cinematics Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 54 minutes ago, hawkguy said: Where did you get the system videos? Those are amazing. The theme looks great too, but not quite as clean as I'd hope with the videos I have. Also in the game views, the video is playing in the background instead of the box designated for it? EDIT: Nevermind, fixed that. Thanks! I just need help with the platform videos that you have. Thank you for the great work. The Platform Videos used in @faeran's theme are from the Big Box Cinematix Project. Here's a quick video I made on how to download Platform and Game Themes from within Launch Box. There's no commentary, but you should be able to follow along... Also, you can follow and watch all of the themes on my channel here... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxNgRrtLSth94xOHNUHqUfw Hopefully that helps brotherman. @faeran Lovin the Platform view. Any chance of incorporating "Vertical Wheel 3" view from @CriticalCid's theme? You'll see the view I'm talking about at 1:17... Anyhow, thanks for the theme... Looks wonderful! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faeran Posted January 16, 2017 Author Share Posted January 16, 2017 7 hours ago, BakerMan said: @faeran Lovin the Platform view. Any chance of incorporating "Vertical Wheel 3" view from @CriticalCid's theme? You'll see the view I'm talking about at 1:17... Anyhow, thanks for the theme... Looks wonderful! Thanks @BakerMan. A horizontal view is definitely something I can work on for the next update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 Very impressed with this theme @faeran! Love the simplicity of it. We'll probably feature it in the email this coming Saturday. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faeran Posted January 16, 2017 Author Share Posted January 16, 2017 1 hour ago, Jason Carr said: Very impressed with this theme @faeran! Love the simplicity of it. We'll probably feature it in the email this coming Saturday. Thanks @Jason Carr, sounds awesome. And thanks everyone. I'm glad there are people enjoying the theme. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 @faeran, can you upload this to the Downloads section? I went looking for it earlier and realized that it's just in the forum post here. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metallo74 Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 I absolutely love the design on this. Man, what a cool community for a crazy cool app. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veras Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Hey man, this is by far my favorite theme yet. I noticed that some platforms seem to use the Clear Logo instead of the boxart. I can't tell if it's something on my end or intentional, but was just wondering. I do have the images set to boxart. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faeran Posted January 29, 2017 Author Share Posted January 29, 2017 2 hours ago, NintendudeCT said: Hey man, this is by far my favorite theme yet. I noticed that some platforms seem to use the Clear Logo instead of the boxart. I can't tell if it's something on my end or intentional, but was just wondering. I do have the images set to boxart. Thanks! Thanks @NintendudeCT, Try this: Open up LaunchBox. Open up each system you are having issues with and then click on the Image Type dropdown menu, and choose Boxes. Now open up BigBox and let me know if that fixed your problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veras Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 7 hours ago, faeran said: Thanks @NintendudeCT, Try this: Open up LaunchBox. Open up each system you are having issues with and then click on the Image Type dropdown menu, and choose Boxes. Now open up BigBox and let me know if that fixed your problem. Thank you so much! I had no idea that the Launchbox view affected Bigbox, so that's also really good to know. Sorry about that. Now I can enjoy your theme even more. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciskohansen Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Any update? I love this themeEnviado desde mi MX5 mediante Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faeran Posted February 5, 2017 Author Share Posted February 5, 2017 20 hours ago, ciskohansen said: Any update? I love this theme Enviado desde mi MX5 mediante Tapatalk Thanks @ciskohansen, I'm pretty satisfied with the way this theme turned out after the latest update. If you have anything particular you would like to see, let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gustarrini Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 thats some good shit right there boi its pretty damn amazing, good job fam 9/10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crusadeRGP Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Is there a way to use the simple theme but have scrolling meta data notes only in the game details screen?Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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