Console Boxes Theme (WIP)
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@SuperSirLink This is part of a tutorial for an older version of UXS, but it gives you an idea of what you can do with it:
You can add your own images, you can skew them, rotate them, merge them and cut pieces out of them.
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Thanks again @mattrixk !! Going to see if I can use the overlay frame and mix it with a screenshot as a work around for now...
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Just doesn't feel the same with out the overlay...
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I still love the way that looks honestly! Everything is so well spaced and presented.
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I totally Agree, It looks Perfect!! I cant wait for this theme, Its just what im looking for.
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I been holding off playing games just in preperation of this theme, can't wait to show my niece as she currently is in love with NES stuff.
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@duiz said in Console Boxes Theme (WIP):
I been holding off playing games just in preperation of this theme, can't wait to show my niece as she currently is in love with NES stuff.
No pressure! :P. I should have a beta version up for people to test with... Just polishing up a universal xml scraper profile to go with it...
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If you have question about creating a MIX profile ;) don't hesitate ;)
I can help ^^
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@SuperSirLink super excited to try out the beta!
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Okay updated the OP with the download link. Try it out and let me know how it works for you... Keep in mind this is only setup to theme NES right now... I will work on Atari2600 or SNES next once we know this is solid enough...
I also included the UXS profile and mix profile... (Use version 2.1.0.6 newer version breaks mixes) Not sure if it is a problem with my theme or just a requirement, but I had to have video files present to get the marquee image tag to work... I set the video delay to 999, if anyone knows away around that please point out my error...
If you don't use the UXS profiles, you just need to populate the marquee and video tags... I found the scraper by Steven Selph pulled more meta data, so I used UXS first to build the XML and do the marquee mix and video download. Then ran it through the SSS scraper to get what it missed...
Here is what it should look like after :
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The theme is amazing in nearly every way! Only issue I am having is that the video itself doesn't show, I hear the sound, but the static image remains. If I try to edit out the static image file context in the xml, it just shows a blank space and plays the video audio.
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After trying different settings and configurations, videos still do not show up in this theme unfortunately. The screenshots display fine, and the audio from the video plays, but not the video itself.
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I didn't test videos , only added the tags so that the marquee would work... I will take a look see if I get the same thing...
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I made it work!
Here is what I did.
In the Detailed view section of the theme.xml, I removed the following:
You also have to remove the extra image for the background in this section
Then added this into the video feature section:
This enables videos to play behind the crt overlay!
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@duiz Interesting!! Will play with this... and make the change... I wonder if breaking it out like this would also allow the marquee to draw behind the CRT overlay as well..
Good find! I never thought to break out the entire set and duplicate for each view... Having the video support would be great for people who want it since you need to have videos anyway to get the marquee to display... Then just increase the delay if they don't...
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I made a SNES layout based on the boxart design to holdover until you finish yours (I think you said you were working on one?). I wouldn't mind doing the systems you aren't and get this theme robust!
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@duiz Love it!
Yeah, but there is no way I can do every system supported and there is bound to be one someone would want. So I don't mind making it a collaboration effort if there are others who want to contribute...
Not a GitHub expert, but isn't there a way to collaborate changes there?
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@SuperSirLink If you are curious which systems to focus on, I started a poll a few months ago. So far it's had nearly 100 people give their answers. It's not too many in the grand scheme of things, but it gives an idea of which systems are used the most (mainly SNES, MegaDrive, NES, PC Engine and PSX), and which are barely used. It can help inform you of which systems you might want to cater towards, or at least which ones to do before others.
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@mattrixk Thanks, will check that out
@duiz I played with your changes, I even went one step further by completely separating detailed and video. I need to strip my gamelist and test detailed view and be sure it is still working as expected, but video works as you described as well...
The overlay is not fully covering the videos I have that were pulled from the universal xml scraper... So some more work to do... Also want to see if I can have it stay as a static image...
Edit: Ohh Didn't notice, you did lower the video size already... Marquee always draws over video, so nothing can be done there till they add the ability to directly control the layering...
What we are left with is if someone wants screenshots only, they just need to leave the video delay to a really high number and scrape using the mix profile. For video don't scrap the marquee image and change the delay to the desired amount...
I will post the changes I made up to GitHub later...
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Yeah I lowered the size, let me upload the changes I made and the snes template. I'm working on PSX, Game Boy and Genesis right now! Let's collaborate :)
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