Unified CTC - [Theme Workshop]

[faeran]

Unified CTC - [Theme Workshop]

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Unified CTC was built during a Theme Workshop live stream. If you are interested in creating themes, subscribe to the Unbroken Software YouTube channel.

 

Unified CTC

This is a direct port of the great Unified theme's original port by CriticalCid. The benefit here is you can now load up this theme inside of the COMMUNITY Theme Creator.

 

Watch this theme being built:

• Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UPjNhHo0l8

 

Credits

COMMUNITY Theme Creator by @y2guru. Find it here: https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/2115-community-theme-creator-for-bigbox/
Rincewind's awesome character graphic's pack is included (at a much reduced resolution)
Subscribe to catch future live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSIht6UXIEXIgz4eXAEShxA

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• Submitter
  faeran
• Submitted
  02/04/2022
• Category
  Big Box Custom Themes

 

[Krakerman]

Thank you very much for this!

[Baggio]

Scrap that sorry it was becuase i was using version 2.2

 

Edited February 15, 2022 by PaulyC

[Baggio]

Hi mate a quick question.

I'm using your theme to recreate Unified Refried.  That has separate views for each platform due to some the video border sizes and text colours ect being different so i see under configuration i can copy the default view into each platform i need and then edit the video to fit the border.

My question is can you mass edit the views in one go if i need to change anything in the future rather doing each view one by one?

Edited February 18, 2022 by PaulyC

[faeran]

48 minutes ago, PaulyC said:

Hi mate a quick question.

I'm using your theme to recreate Unified Refried.  That has separate views for each platform due to some the video border sizes and text colours ect being different so i see under configuration i can copy the default view into each platform i need and then edit the video to fit the border.

My question is can you mass edit the views in one go if i need to change anything in the future rather doing each view one by one?

If you decide to create Platform Specific game views, then one of the drawbacks you are seeing is that you have to edit them on an individual basis.

This is just because they are literally different views at this point, that are not connected in any way.

Always more convenient if you can figure out how to make it work in one view.

[Baggio]

15 hours ago, faeran said:

If you decide to create Platform Specific game views, then one of the drawbacks you are seeing is that you have to edit them on an individual basis.

This is just because they are literally different views at this point, that are not connected in any way.

Always more convenient if you can figure out how to make it work in one view.

OK thanks.  I don't think 1 view is possible with this (with my limited knowledge anyway lol) as there are a few things that need to be changed depending on the platform.  Ill just make sure i have my default view set up perfectly before i copy it over to the rest.

Sorry for polluting your thread but i have a couple more questions.   You gave me this code in the refried thread to have the opacity lowered on logos that werent selected but im struggling to set a animation for that to work with CTC.

Also i have made changes to your Platform view but they dont update when i run bigbox, any idea whyt that could be?

 

 

[faeran]

5 hours ago, PaulyC said:

OK thanks.  I don't think 1 view is possible with this (with my limited knowledge anyway lol) as there are a few things that need to be changed depending on the platform.  Ill just make sure i have my default view set up perfectly before i copy it over to the rest.

Sorry for polluting your thread but i have a couple more questions.   You gave me this code in the refried thread to have the opacity lowered on logos that werent selected but im struggling to set a animation for that to work with CTC.

Also i have made changes to your Platform view but they dont update when i run bigbox, any idea whyt that could be?

 

 

The CTC doesn't currently have support for that type of Wheel. It's being worked on, but will definitely be a while before you can use that code within the CTC.

You'll have to be more specific regarding changes that aren't showing up. Maybe screenshots would help.

[Baggio]

41 minutes ago, faeran said:

The CTC doesn't currently have support for that type of Wheel. It's being worked on, but will definitely be a while before you can use that code within the CTC.

You'll have to be more specific regarding changes that aren't showing up. Maybe screenshots would help.

Is there any other way to get the wheel the way i want it?  the pic below is how i want it in CTC.

 

Here's what i've done with the platform view.  Nothing changes at all when i load up Bigbox,  it just loads up yours even if i delete the folder in themes for it to create a new one after i publish

 

[faeran]

18 minutes ago, PaulyC said:

Is there any other way to get the wheel the way i want it?  the pic below is how i want it in CTC.

 

Here's what i've done with the platform view.  Nothing changes at all when i load up Bigbox,  it just loads up yours even if i delete the folder in themes for it to create a new one after i publish

 

There's 2 ways to do it, but neither are currently in the CTC right now.

• Using the new FlowControl code that I showed you
• Using an opacity mask to fade out parts of the wheel

[Baggio]

47 minutes ago, faeran said:

There's 2 ways to do it, but neither are currently in the CTC right now.

• Using the new FlowControl code that I showed you
• Using an opacity mask to fade out parts of the wheel

OK thanks.

I sorted the platform view.  For some reason the view was showing in CTC but not updating the xml in the CTC folder or the Launchbox folder but deleting it out of the CTC folder has seemed to fix it

Edit:. it also seems to be the case with the default WheelGamesView

[Stylemaster]

Hello , I want to ask if theres some users already handy with CTC that could implement some features within the Unified  Theme  

- Rom version info either displayed in the info tab or in the Game View info. 

 Sometimes want to select other versions instead of the main rom all the time (like mks reptile hack etc. & others)

 

- 4:3 support i use a CRT best way the theme to look is 4:3 

 

[Stylemaster]

ok theres a way to get the rom version info displayed into CTC or most theme but its a Really time consuming thing ,  In the LaunchBox Metadata of each game in the version Tab basically move over the info to the Title. 

It will the display the Rom version info in the theme .  But i like it for all games i have imported heavy task once its done 

[-neo-]

Great theme, seems to be more fluid than some other unified themes I'd tried  

My bartop as a 19" 1280x1024 (5:4 ratio) monitor, wanted it to fill the screen more so with no knowledge of how the theme worked or how to use the CTC program i set about fumbling my way through to get it somewhere to my liking, so lots of trial and error and its pretty close, my edits are possibly quite dodgy but seems to work, still needs some tweaks here and there such as the unified themes are still 16:9 so may change them for just the full screen videos instead 🤔

Couldn't get the vertical arcade games to fit in the video border so just switched the view to the full screen game themes instead, removed the time but left the information screen at the bottom, doesn't appear in the screenshots until the animations/video have finished as it normally would 

Tried to screenshot the box/carts (they are in mid animation) and the menu together so you can see what I've done such as made the wheel more curved and slightly shrunk the boxes and carts/disc plus other minor tweaks.

My edits

Original

My edits

original

Edited February 24 by -neo-

[Shredder_guitar]

On 2/24/2025 at 9:12 AM, -neo- said:

Great theme, seems to be more fluid than some other unified themes I'd tried  

My bartop as a 19" 1280x1024 (5:4 ratio) monitor, wanted it to fill the screen more so with no knowledge of how the theme worked or how to use the CTC program i set about fumbling my way through to get it somewhere to my liking, so lots of trial and error and its pretty close, my edits are possibly quite dodgy but seems to work, still needs some tweaks here and there such as the unified themes are still 16:9 so may change them for just the full screen videos instead 🤔

Couldn't get the vertical arcade games to fit in the video border so just switched the view to the full screen game themes instead, removed the time but left the information screen at the bottom, doesn't appear in the screenshots until the animations/video have finished as it normally would 

Tried to screenshot the box/carts (they are in mid animation) and the menu together so you can see what I've done such as made the wheel more curved and slightly shrunk the boxes and carts/disc plus other minor tweaks.

My edits

Original

My edits

original

What are your wheel edits? I'm having a very hard time getting wheel settings to look good, my wheel looks more like a bump than a proper curve

[-neo-]

5 hours ago, Shredder_guitar said:

What are your wheel edits? I'm having a very hard time getting wheel settings to look good, my wheel looks more like a bump than a proper curve

Have attached all the files from the "Views" folder, hope they are of some help.

Also in the file "ThemeSettings.XML" I set the these 2 options -

    <Force16X9AspectRatio>false</Force16X9AspectRatio>
    <Force4X3AspectRatio>true</Force4X3AspectRatio>

GameDetailsView.xaml GameMarqueeView.xaml PlatformWheel1FiltersView.xaml PlatformWheel2FiltersView.xaml SystemView.xaml TextFiltersView.xaml TextListView.xaml Wheel2GamesView.xaml Wheel3GamesView.xaml WheelGamesView.xaml

Edited August 2 by -neo-

[Shredder_guitar]

4 hours ago, -neo- said:

Have attached all the files from the "Views" folder, hope they are of some help.

Also in the file "ThemeSettings.XML" I set the these 2 options -

    <Force16X9AspectRatio>false</Force16X9AspectRatio>
    <Force4X3AspectRatio>true</Force4X3AspectRatio>

GameDetailsView.xaml 4.23 kB · 0 downloads GameMarqueeView.xaml 6.71 kB · 0 downloads PlatformWheel1FiltersView.xaml 68.6 kB · 0 downloads PlatformWheel2FiltersView.xaml 57.6 kB · 0 downloads SystemView.xaml 20.26 kB · 0 downloads TextFiltersView.xaml 8.47 kB · 0 downloads TextListView.xaml 8.25 kB · 0 downloads Wheel2GamesView.xaml 62.22 kB · 0 downloads Wheel3GamesView.xaml 117.03 kB · 0 downloads WheelGamesView.xaml 122.46 kB · 0 downloads

Awesome, thank you! I'll check these out

[Shredder_guitar]

7 hours ago, -neo- said:

Have attached all the files from the "Views" folder, hope they are of some help.

Also in the file "ThemeSettings.XML" I set the these 2 options -

    <Force16X9AspectRatio>false</Force16X9AspectRatio>
    <Force4X3AspectRatio>true</Force4X3AspectRatio>

GameDetailsView.xaml 4.23 kB · 0 downloads GameMarqueeView.xaml 6.71 kB · 0 downloads PlatformWheel1FiltersView.xaml 68.6 kB · 0 downloads PlatformWheel2FiltersView.xaml 57.6 kB · 0 downloads SystemView.xaml 20.26 kB · 0 downloads TextFiltersView.xaml 8.47 kB · 0 downloads TextListView.xaml 8.25 kB · 0 downloads Wheel2GamesView.xaml 62.22 kB · 0 downloads Wheel3GamesView.xaml 117.03 kB · 0 downloads WheelGamesView.xaml 122.46 kB · 0 downloads

Sorry for the lame question, but what do i do with these? I've tried putting them in several places within CTC, but I can't get them to show up...what is the proper place that they should go? I know that I could put it in a theme folder after it's already been exported, but then I won't be able to view it in CTC, which is really what I need, I've already been trying to look at the raw xaml code, but can't seem to cross ref title values properly enough to make the wheel look right. 

[-neo-]

Never used the CTC program so i can't help with that 🫣

For my edits i made a copy of the theme and called it Unified CTC - my modify

The files i attached go into -

Unified CTC - my modify/Views/

[Shredder_guitar]

16 hours ago, -neo- said:

Never used the CTC program so i can't help with that 🫣

For my edits i made a copy of the theme and called it Unified CTC - my modify

The files i attached go into -

Unified CTC - my modify/Views/

I appriciate the sharing, but I don't think this is going to work in my case, I would need the raw txt files done in CTC to be able to view the settings in CTC.... 

For anyone reading this

Here is where I'm trying to get too... I did this in photoshop
 

Here is where I'm currently at after spending literally 3/4 of a day trying to tinker with settings... I dont' know if this is a me problem, a comprehension problem or if the wheel settings in particular are just so abysmal that I can't get to where I'm trying to achieve... I don't feel like I'm asking a lot...here, but I have no clue what the settings actually do when i change a value and nothing i seem to change gets me closer or farther too it. This is a great tool for a lot of things...but these wheel setting items are just not working for me.

Edited August 3 by Shredder_guitar

[Shredder_guitar]

Well, here's the absolute best I could get it after a solid day and a half of messing with settings on nothing but this wheel, I'm going to hate it forever because I wanted more curve to it, this is more like a bump, I wanted more of a circular kinda thing, but in case it's helpful to someone else I'm posting the settings on here, if someone can improve upon this in CTC, please let me know. 

Which produces this....

Edited August 5 by Shredder_guitar