2-Monitor Help.

[inemu]

Hello.

I have a question.

I want to work with 2 monitors on my BigBox Arcade Cabinet. (ex PhotoPlay2000)
A main monitor and a backglass monitor.
On the backglass monitor (1024x768) I want to show 2 different things.
Marquee/Backglass Graphics/Videos on the Top

and DMD/Platform-Logo Graphics/Videos on the Bottom.
But the DMD should not be stretched.
The Resolutions are

Backglass: 1024x473 / DMD: 523x142

Example:

Is there a way to set this in BigBox?

I do not want a 3rd monitor.

 

Here are some pictures how should my Arcade Cabinet look like.

 

Someone help me?

 

 

Sry for my bad english.... i`m from Germany

Edited January 17, 2023 by inemu

[C-Beats]

You'd have to manually create a marquee view file to do this, but yes it's entirely possible to do. I enjoy your cab design quite a bit though the main monitor being 4:3 for pinball I'm not sure I'd enjoy, the overall concept is pretty cool.

[Retrofrogg]

I think there's a couple of plugins you can look at that do something similar to what you're asking. 

[inemu]

On 1/18/2023 at 3:53 PM, C-Beats said:

You'd have to manually create a marquee view file to do this, but yes it's entirely possible to do. I enjoy your cab design quite a bit though the main monitor being 4:3 for pinball I'm not sure I'd enjoy, the overall concept is pretty cool.

I don´t want to make new marquee files for all the games or tables thats a lot........

Yeah i know but i dont want to add a Widescreen Monitor in Vertical....

 

5 hours ago, Retrofrogg said:

I think there's a couple of plugins you can look at that do something similar to what you're asking. 

The only plugin that i found is the ThirdScreenPlugin but on this plugin i can´t edit the size and the position of the Graphics / Videos....

[C-Beats]

20 minutes ago, inemu said:

I don´t want to make new marquee files for all the games or tables thats a lot........

Think you may have misunderstood. You have 2 files that need created for your entire library. The marquee view for your platform list, and the marquee view for the games list. The XAML would be pretty simple/straight forward. If you let us know what you want displayed on both monitors some one could help you make the files. If you just want two images shown it's a 5m job to do.

[inemu]

14 minutes ago, C-Beats said:

Think you may have misunderstood. You have 2 files that need created for your entire library. The marquee view for your platform list, and the marquee view for the games list. The XAML would be pretty simple/straight forward. If you let us know what you want displayed on both monitors some one could help you make the files. If you just want two images shown it's a 5m job to do.

Ok yes i misunderstood sry

so i want to make a single Monitor that show both...

the Marquee or the banner image of the game / backglass video of the pinball table on the top

and the platform Clear-Logo of the game / DMD-Video of the pinball table underneath....

like my example

On one single Monitor

Edited January 19, 2023 by inemu

[C-Beats]

Yeah. That would fairly simple to do. I got some dev I got to finish up but if no one reaches out to ya by time I'll done I can write ya up something quick and dirty for ya.

[inemu]

1 minute ago, C-Beats said:

Yeah. That would fairly simple to do. I got some dev I got to finish up but if no one reaches out to ya by time I'll done I can write ya up something quick and dirty for ya.

Ok

[C-Beats]

Do you know how many pixels there are between the bottom of the back glass and the top of the DMD?

[inemu]

22 hours ago, C-Beats said:

Do you know how many pixels there are between the bottom of the back glass and the top of the DMD?

60 pixels are between backglass and dmd

Edited January 20, 2023 by inemu