ChaosChaos Posted October 27, 2020 Posted October 27, 2020 I would like to have a second monitor display related game art (box? cart? Fanart?) and of course game info instead of just the marquee graphic. Is there already a theme/mod that does this or am I going to have to take a dive into design? I cannot imagine this has not been done yet. I am using stock Bigbox. Thank you in advance for any direction you may point me. Quote
Retro808 Posted October 27, 2020 Posted October 27, 2020 1 hour ago, ChaosChaos said: I would like to have a second monitor display related game art (box? cart? Fanart?) and of course game info instead of just the marquee graphic. Is there already a theme/mod that does this or am I going to have to take a dive into design? I cannot imagine this has not been done yet. I am using stock Bigbox. Thank you in advance for any direction you may point me. There is not one. But it can be done. You would need to edit the GameMarqueeView.xaml. If a theme does not have that view you can copy the one in the Default theme and put it in the theme you want and edit it. Here is an example of one I made for a friends cabinet. Uses static marquee background in the top marquee image per platform and the game clear logo changes. Shows platform default or game specific control maps and then game notes. He uses a 16:9 screen on top of his cab for a marquee display to be able to show more details, but you could easily do something with a stretched/cut led screen size. Quote
ChaosChaos Posted October 28, 2020 Author Posted October 28, 2020 Awesome! Could you share the gamemarqueeview.xaml file? Thank you! Quote
Retro808 Posted October 28, 2020 Posted October 28, 2020 8 hours ago, ChaosChaos said: Awesome! Could you share the gamemarqueeview.xaml file? Thank you! I did not keep a copy when I sent him the file. What kind of layout are you looking for exactly? Quote
patrickfx Posted October 29, 2020 Posted October 29, 2020 Interesting ... I follow this, Indeed it is not my main focus right now but this could become interesting, specifically for marquee video. But I think fanart is related to that, if i do not misleading things ... Quote
Retro808 Posted October 29, 2020 Posted October 29, 2020 1 minute ago, patrickfx said: Interesting ... I follow this, Indeed it is not my main focus right now but this could become interesting, specifically for marquee video. But I think fanart is related to that, if i do not misleading things ... Videos can be made to work but the performance in BigBox with everything else going on is not the best. It takes a plugin to get it working good, so it will maybe something the team adds when they are able to get marquee support updated. Personally I got rid of video marquees as it was just to much going on. Quote
patrickfx Posted October 29, 2020 Posted October 29, 2020 34 minutes ago, Retro808 said: Videos can be made to work but the performance in BigBox with everything else going on is not the best. It takes a plugin to get it working good, so it will maybe something the team adds when they are able to get marquee support updated. Personally I got rid of video marquees as it was just to much going on. Oh! I see, make sense. I will then concentrate back to more basic stuff . I rebuild my software probably every 5 years...I'm in that now ... LB , BB is fantastic but i may say it is. up and running at 95% in 10 minutes...but the last 5 % will take you couple of days Quote
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