Custom Badges

[lappen81]

21 hours ago, JoeViking245 said:

As you also read above, storing the images was necessary with the advent of Media Packs.  The badge images weren't getting extracted from the dll.  I believe this has been resolved in LaunchBox.

Did it create a .dll file when it completed?

Yes I have ...\LB Custom Badge\Stuff\ClassLibrary4\ClassLibrary4\bin\Debug\netcoreapp3.1
Badge Nintendo.dll
Badge Nintendo.pdp
ClassLibrary4.deps.json
Unbroken.LaunchBox.Plugins.dll

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1) Copying Badge Nintendo.dll ...\LaunchBox\Plugins
After a restart I can Enable the Nintendo badge but it gets deselected again (doesn't work)

2) Copying the source image dc1eqix-b399c73e-3aeb-49fa-8638-c0d94d518d75.png into ...\LaunchBox\Images\Media Packs\Badges\Nostalgic Platform Badges  and renaming it I have tried both the unique id  "Nintendo" used to generate the badge and the same name as the dll "Badge Nintendo" keeping the file extension in both cases.
I get the same result as before, no badge showing and it gets deselected.

 

Edited 4 hours ago by lappen81

[JoeViking245]

1 hour ago, lappen81 said:

I can Enable the Nintendo badge but it gets deselected again (doesn't work)

Can you share your Badge Nintendo.dll file here?

[lappen81]

2 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:

Can you share your Badge Nintendo.dll file here?

Attached

Badge Nintendo.dll

[JoeViking245]

17 minutes ago, lappen81 said:

Attached

Seems to be working here.

• I copied your dll file into /LaunchBox/Plugins/Badge Nintendo.dll
• Started LaunchBox
• it automatically extracted the image file into
  • \LaunchBox\Images\Media Packs\Overrides\Badges\Nintendo.png
• Added to these 2 games the Custom Field Source with a value of Nintendo
  • Note: the Name and Value MUST be exactly as shown.
  • "source" is not the same as "Source"
  • same with nintendo and Nintendo
• Went to the Badges menu
  • Enable Badges checked
  • Plugins Badges > Enable Nintendo checked
• The badge for those 2 games appeared

 

Are you working with a premium LaunchBox License?  Or are you testing on a free version?

[lappen81]

48 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:

Seems to be working here.

• I copied your dll file into /LaunchBox/Plugins/Badge Nintendo.dll
• Started LaunchBox
• it automatically extracted the image file into
  • \LaunchBox\Images\Media Packs\Overrides\Badges\Nintendo.png
• Added to these 2 games the Custom Field Source with a value of Nintendo
  • Note: the Name and Value MUST be exactly as shown.
  • "source" is not the same as "Source"
  • same with nintendo and Nintendo
• Went to the Badges menu
  • Enable Badges checked
  • Plugins Badges > Enable Nintendo checked
• The badge for those 2 games appeared

 

Are you working with a premium LaunchBox License?  Or are you testing on a free version?

OMG I'm so stupid, premium license and it works I was just assuming that the "custom field" in the plugin named Source was supposed to refer the stock Metadata field named Source
Creating a new custom field solved it

So sorry but just a follow-up question, can I actually refer to the Metadata field called Source instead of a custom field?

 

Edited 1 hour ago by lappen81

[JoeViking245]

5 minutes ago, lappen81 said:

can I actually refer to the Metadata field called Source instead of a custom field?

@jayjay thought of it all (even 6 years ago).   

[lappen81]

15 minutes ago, JoeViking245 said:

@jayjay thought of it all (even 6 years ago).   

!!!!!! YES how could i miss that, worked perfectly now I just need to find or create something better then a red box with a really small N

Edited 1 hour ago by lappen81