Enable disc spin in start up theme?

[LazHimself]

Hey all, loving LB, but just a quick question. When I first started adding games, the startup theme was exactly how I wanted. The image of the disc spinning as it transitioned. But after I updated all the metadata/media, they seem to have stopped for some unknown reason. I read that you could copy/paste themes of one that IS spinning, but I have none that are unfortunately.

I checked the theme coding itself, and found the disc spinning section, but it's a bit much for me to understand by just looking/fiddling with it. So is there anyone that could help me with that part of the theme or has a theme with the spinning enabled?

 

Thanks in advance. I know this sounds dumb, but I really like seeing the disc spin-up as it loads lol.

[JoeViking245]

7 hours ago, LazHimself said:

Hey all, loving LB, but just a quick question. When I first started adding games, the startup theme was exactly how I wanted. The image of the disc spinning as it transitioned. But after I updated all the metadata/media, they seem to have stopped for some unknown reason. I read that you could copy/paste themes of one that IS spinning, but I have none that are unfortunately.

I checked the theme coding itself, and found the disc spinning section, but it's a bit much for me to understand by just looking/fiddling with it. So is there anyone that could help me with that part of the theme or has a theme with the spinning enabled?

Changing the metadata wouldn't have an effect.  Neither would changing the media (unless of course it removes the "disc" image).

When you say stopped, is it still showing the disc image?  Just not doing its spin thing?

Are you using the Default Startup Theme? Or someone else's?

The Default Startup Theme has the spinning disc affect only for Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Wii, Sega Dreamcast, Sony Playstation 2 and Sony Playstation.  If your platform's not named exactly as one on those, it'll use Default.xaml, which doesn't show the spinning disc.  ("exactly" may include capitalization.  Playstation vs. PlayStation).  

If your platform is not one of those, you can make a copy of any one of them and then rename the copy to the same name as your platform.

 

As for editing say, a different Startup Theme, only 2 things are needed.

1. The Storyboard which resides in the <UserControl.Resources>
2. The disc Image needs to be named DiscImage, as declared by  x:Name="DiscImage"

[LazHimself]

6 hours ago, JoeViking245 said:

Changing the metadata wouldn't have an effect.  Neither would changing the media (unless of course it removes the "disc" image).

When you say stopped, is it still showing the disc image?  Just not doing its spin thing?

Are you using the Default Startup Theme? Or someone else's?

The Default Startup Theme has the spinning disc affect only for Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Wii, Sega Dreamcast, Sony Playstation 2 and Sony Playstation.  If your platform's not named exactly as one on those, it'll use Default.xaml, which doesn't show the spinning disc.  ("exactly" may include capitalization.  Playstation vs. PlayStation).  

If your platform is not one of those, you can make a copy of any one of them and then rename the copy to the same name as your platform.

 

As for editing say, a different Startup Theme, only 2 thigs are needed.

1. The Storyboard which resides in the <UserControl.Resources>
2. The disc Image needs to be named DiscImage, as declared by  x:Name="DiscImage"

Yeah I haven't edited the themes at all or used anything other than default. That's why it's so baffling to me haha. The disc appears, just doesn't spin. None of the various platform themes spin, so I can't copy/paste. Not sure what to do.

 

Thanks for the help so far though.

[JoeViking245]

15 hours ago, LazHimself said:

Yeah I haven't edited the themes at all or used anything other than default. That's why it's so baffling to me haha. The disc appears, just doesn't spin. None of the various platform themes spin, so I can't copy/paste. Not sure what to do.

In your /LaunchBox/StartupThemes/ folder, how many subfolders are in there?

If there's only 1 ("Default"), the only thing I can think of that could be causing your disc not to spin is that the platform you're launching a game from is not one of those 5 platforms mentioned before.  Or if it is, the platform is not named the exact same as the [platform_name].xaml file located in /LaunchBox/StartupThemes/Default/.  This of course assumes the 5 platform-specific files exist along with the "Default" and "Default Shutdown" files (7 total files).

If the platform is not one of those 5, it will use the Default.xaml loading screen.  Which is laid out exactly the same as those 5, without the effect of the disc (or cart) sliding in from the right and then spinning.

 

If there's more than one subfolder inside the /LaunchBox/StartupThemes/ folder, you could try deleting the others (or move them to somewhere else) and then restarting LaunchBox.

[LazHimself]

8 hours ago, JoeViking245 said:

In your /LaunchBox/StartupThemes/ folder, how many subfolders are in there?

If there's only 1 ("Default"), the only thing I can think of that could be causing your disc not to spin is that the platform you're launching a game from is not one of those 5 platforms mentioned before.  Or if it is, the platform is not named the exact same as the [platform_name].xaml file located in /LaunchBox/StartupThemes/Default/.  This of course assumes the 5 platform-specific files exist along with the "Default" and "Default Shutdown" files (7 total files).

If the platform is not one of those 5, it will use the Default.xaml loading screen.  Which is laid out exactly the same as those 5, without the effect of the disc (or cart) sliding in from the right and then spinning.

 

If there's more than one subfolder inside the /LaunchBox/StartupThemes/ folder, you could try deleting the others (or move them to somewhere else) and then restarting LaunchBox.

Ah that makes sense. I had renamed the categories or playlists in LB to be shorter. I.E "Xbox" rather than "Microsoft Xbox". I edited the theme files to reflect those names and it works now.

What a silly little mistake I made. Thank you very much for helping me out.