Grila Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 (edited) Fundamental Theme View File Fundamental is a clean theme that focuses on big artwork. Large, high quality covers are recommended to get the best visual appearance. ********************************************************************************************************************* A couple of notes about this theme: - After unzipping, you have to unblock the DLL that contains the font (in the plugin folder). -Requires the font Bebas Neue, included in the root theme folder. Install it before running BigBox. -Any display scaling above or below 100% is likely to cause alignment issues with some theme elements. -Because of the way the videos and their rounded corner mask re-size based on aspect ratio, you have to use WMP with this theme. VLC aligning in BigBox is horribly buggy at the moment and it doesn't work with the way things are accomplished in this theme. -I realize I could have accomplished my UI background files in pure XAML. I tested this and it decreased the theme's performance substantially, so I reverted back to using the images. -This theme is based around high quality vertical covers (1534x2100) for all platforms and game boxes (yes, even Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64). A good collection of them can be found at http://www.thecoverproject.net/. The theme will work with horizontal covers, it just won't look as intended. -Background opacity for the text based views is changed in the BigBox "Options" menu. A good setting range is 75-90 percent depending on your display. -I've included 12 custom platform banners that I made based on each systems game boxes. I may make a few more, but don't count on it. Be creative and make the ones you're missing yourself. Submitter Grila Submitted 01/25/2017 Category Big Box Custom Themes Edited January 25, 2017 by Grila 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grila Posted January 25, 2017 Author Share Posted January 25, 2017 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicalEgo Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 (edited) Glad to see the original Minimal theme return and looking better then ever. There is a reason it is the most cloned theme for BB. I love the new flat style you are using. Edited January 25, 2017 by keltoigael 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grila Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 6 hours ago, keltoigael said: Glad to see the original Minimal theme return and looking better then ever. There is a reason it is the most cloned theme for BB. I love the new flat style you are using. Thanks @keltoigael I designed this as a tribute to Minimal, just updated a bit according to all the new 1080 media we have at our disposal now. At the time when I released Minimal, @Nyny77 was just starting his 1080 videos and the EmuMovies videos were still the mainstream. I am considering throwing a tribute view to the original Minimal in this one, though. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyny77 Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 Thanks Grila Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grila Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 Very nice looking theme! My only gripe/complaint is with the games-text view. It scrolls from the top to the bottom which is a little bit hard on the eyes. Is there any way to make it stay focused in the center of the list?Are you talking about the navigation or the game notes and details? Navigation can't be changed, that's how the list view works. If you're talking about the game notes and details just turn off scrolling in the BigBox options. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALIE Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 First it's an incredible beautiful theme and those large platform images are gorgeous hope to see more added. I have some issues first as seen in the picture some text mainly the big blue game name is cut off. Secondly platform videos Doesn't appear until after I have entered a system and exit back to the menu. Also games videos appear randomly. (video should show it) 20170126_031101.mp4 20170126_030825.mp4 20170126_030805.jpg 20170126_030728.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grila Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 First it's an incredible beautiful theme and those large platform images are gorgeous hope to see more added. I have some issues first as seen in the picture some text mainly the big blue game name is cut off. Secondly platform videos Doesn't appear until after I have entered a system and exit back to the menu. Also games videos appear randomly. (video should show it) 20170126_031101.mp420170126_030825.mp420170126_030805.jpg20170126_030728.jpgYou didn't read the info about the theme. You have to use WMP for the video, the bugginess your seeing is caused by VLC. The font issue is most likely due to display scaling in your system...it has to be set at 100%, no more or less.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grila Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 1 minute ago, bundangdon said: Oops! I noticed that it's the same issue with other themes. But what I also noticed is that the navigation is different with the wheels/logos, as it stays focused on the selected game in the center but this is not the case when it's a text-based list. I wonder if there's any way that it can be changed with the text-based list? I don't think it will ever be changed for the text navigation because it's just a standard Windows List Box (like you would see in any other Windows program), just styled to not look like one. There's only so much that can be done with standard Microsoft code elements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexis524 Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 Grila, love your theme and think i just found my favorite (no disrespect to all the theme creators here) I installed late last night and plan to tinker with it this weekend. Thanks for your hard work and sharing with us 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexis524 Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 Having trouble getting this view to show. What should I be setting my games view as? Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grila Posted January 27, 2017 Author Share Posted January 27, 2017 Vertical Wheel 1. You should bind a key in your BigBox options to change views, then you can just hit that key to cycle through them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexis524 Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 @Grila, many thanks. I just didn't see the "vertical Wheel 1" option when cylcing thru the view options in BB/views but right after mentioned key binding, i remembered that i bound my kb to cycle thru view types and found that view. Many thanks my friend 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grila Posted January 28, 2017 Author Share Posted January 28, 2017 Fundamental Changelog: v1.0.1 (01/27/2017): - Changed all "Selected*." tags to "Active*." - Tidied up code on a few views to fix some minor alignment and sizing mistakes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grila Posted January 28, 2017 Author Share Posted January 28, 2017 Fundamental Changelog: v.1.1.0 (01/28/2017): - Added PlatformWheel3FiltersView - Added HorizontalWheel2GamesView - Added HorizontalWheel1GamesView 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmoney Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 @Grila Awesome new views...wow this theme is so clean looking! Love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rincewind Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 These are excellent new views to a great theme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
master333 Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Amazing new views. This is a top theme! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vsilvalopes Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 @Grila you are on fire! Thanks again for this one ! Personally, I still like the approach that you used on ClassicNES Theme. As soon I catch a break from work, I will start modding the ClassicNES in PhotoShop, and ask for your help, adding some functions on it (like displaying the filename as I asked in the past for minimal). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grila Posted January 30, 2017 Author Share Posted January 30, 2017 1 minute ago, vsilvalopes said: @Grila you are on fire! Thanks again for this one ! Personally, I still like the approach that you used on ClassicNES Theme. As soon I catch a break from work, I will start modding the ClassicNES in PhotoShop, and ask for your help, adding some functions on it (like displaying the filename as I asked in the past for minimal). Sure thing. If you want I can send you my Photoshop files for the interface. I rebuilt everything from scratch referencing screenshots from the web. It would give you a cleaner output. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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