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COMMUNITY Theme Creator
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Developer of the COMMUNITY Theme Creator.
This channel is dedicated to the Launchbox Community and specifically aimed at those users that currently use or plan to use the COMMUNITY Theme Creator.
I provide progress updates on new features (some of which requested by the Community), tutorials and the occasional livestream.
This channel is dedicated to the Launchbox Community and specifically aimed at those users that currently use or plan to use the COMMUNITY Theme Creator.
I provide progress updates on new features (some of which requested by the Community), tutorials and the occasional livestream.
COMMUNITY Theme Creator 3.2 Progress Update
Features
Image/Wheel Item Image Metadata can now reference: - Box Spine, Epic Games Background, Epic Games Poster, Epic Games Screenshot, GOG Background, GOG Poster, GOG Screenshot, Origin Background, Origin Poster, Origin Screenshot, Steam Banner, Steam Poster, Steam Screenshot.
Changes
Code Generator now references "LAUNCHBOX_ROOT_FOLDER" and LAUNCHBOX_THEME_FOLDER" when publishing a Theme.
Fixes
Wheel Item Templates Metadata can now use: - Screenshot - Game Over, Screenshot - Game Select, Screenshot - Game Title, Screenshot - Gameplay, Screenshot - High Scores.
Image/Wheel Item Image Metadata can now reference: - Box Spine, Epic Games Background, Epic Games Poster, Epic Games Screenshot, GOG Background, GOG Poster, GOG Screenshot, Origin Background, Origin Poster, Origin Screenshot, Steam Banner, Steam Poster, Steam Screenshot.
Changes
Code Generator now references "LAUNCHBOX_ROOT_FOLDER" and LAUNCHBOX_THEME_FOLDER" when publishing a Theme.
Fixes
Wheel Item Templates Metadata can now use: - Screenshot - Game Over, Screenshot - Game Select, Screenshot - Game Title, Screenshot - Gameplay, Screenshot - High Scores.
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COMMUNITY Theme Creator 3.2 Progress Update
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Added Scale Width and Scale Height properties to UI Elements.
COMMUNITY Theme Creator 3.2 Progress Update
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COMMUNITY Theme Creator 3.2 Progress Update
COMMUNITY Theme Creator 3.2 Progress Update
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COMMUNITY Theme Creator 3.2 Progress Update
How to - Show and Hide UI Elements based on Wheel Interaction
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How to - Show and Hide UI Elements based on Wheel Interaction
3.2 in Progress - Huge Performance Fixes
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The Theme Manager and Custom Image Renderer were two areas that caused app performance to become sluggish.
3.2 in Progress - Star Wars Text Scroller? Absolutely
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3.2 in Progress - Star Wars Text Scroller? Absolutely
How to - Create a Theme - Creating and Using Wheel Item Templates
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How to - Create a Theme - Creating and Using Wheel Item Templates
How to - Create a Theme - Adding Platform and Game Information
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00:00 Introduction. 00:34 Adding Information to a Platform View. 00:52 Define new Group to house all the Platform details. 01:12 Adding a frame. 01:25 Using the Assist to define the appearance of the frame. 01:56 Changing the border color to match an existing color. 02:42 Adding a stack panel to organize the elements vertically. 03:22 Adding labels and metadata. 16:24 Adding a Text Scroller. 20...
How to - Create a Theme
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00:00 Introduction. 01:49 The Default Theme. 03:18 Adding a New Theme. 04:35 Setting the Aspect Ratio. 06:50 Selecting a View to Edit. 08:15 Adding a collection of images to your Theme's Media folder. 08:54 Editing the System Options View 09:50 Changing the position of the License. (unlocking/locking an element) 10:42 Adding the 1st image. 12:21 Moving elements from the foreground to the backgr...
How to - Create a Theme (Battery Indicator and Percentage)
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00:00 Introduction. 00:43 Adding the Battery Indicator UI Element. 04:09 Using the Monochrome Effect to change the color of an image. 04:50 Using the DockPanel UI Element. 09:13 Copy UI Elements from one view to another. 12:38 The End.
COMMUNITY Theme Creator 3.1.4
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Added -Convert Old Properties to New Properties (BorderThickness, BorderColor, FillColor) -Animate Fill Color, Border Color, Background Color, Foreground Color Changes -Added BorderThickness & BorderColor Properties to Ellipse, Rectangle, Wheel Item Ellipse, Wheel Item Rectangle -Added FillColor to Ellipse, Rectangle, Wheel Item Ellipse, Wheel Item Rectangle, removed Forecolor -COMMUNITYThemeCr...
COMMUNITY Theme Creator 3.1
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Download version 3.1 for free: - www.patreon.com/COMMUNITYThemeCreator Features -Editor - Switch between Fullscreen and Windowed Mode -Editor - Moving Elements with Shift held down causes the X/Y to be constrained. -Editor - AutoSave you work. -Editor - Your Physical gamepad will work once you double click on the virtual GamePad. -Editor - Editing canvas can be set to checkerboard, Dark or Ligh...
COMMUNITY Theme Creator 3.1 - Progress Update 1
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Early access to 3.1 www.patreon.com/posts/early-access-to-86861643?Link& New Features - Design and publish Startup, Shutdown and Pause views. - Wheels can be deleted from a view. - User source utilizes new tags to separate code based on its intended usage.
COMMUNITY Theme Creator 3.0
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Download version 3.0 for free: - www.patreon.com/COMMUNITYThemeCreator Features -Maintain & Publish Theme-Specific Options. -Introduced new HLSL Effects: - Monochrome, CRT, PivotX, PivotY, Pixelate and Rotate. -Published Themes can be forced to use the selected Aspect Ratio. -Condition when animations can run. -Effects can now be animated. -Favorite & Recent Thumbnails now visually represented....
Lens distortion effect using COMMUNITY Theme Creator 3.0
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Lens distortion effect using COMMUNITY Theme Creator 3.0
COMMUNITY Theme Creator 3.0 - Final Progress Update
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COMMUNITY Theme Creator 3.0 - Final Progress Update
COMMUNITY Theme Creator 3.0 - Progress Update 5
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COMMUNITY Theme Creator 3.0 - Progress Update 5
COMMUNITY Theme Creator 3.0 - Progress Update 4
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COMMUNITY Theme Creator 3.0 - Progress Update 4
COMMUNITY Theme Creator 3.0 - Progress Update 3
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COMMUNITY Theme Creator 3.0 - Progress Update 3
COMMUNITY Theme Creator 3.0 - Progress Update 2
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COMMUNITY Theme Creator 3.0 - Progress Update 2
COMMUNITY Theme Creator News and 3.0 Preview
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COMMUNITY Theme Creator News and 3.0 Preview
COMMUNITY Theme Creator 2.5 - Final Progress Update
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COMMUNITY Theme Creator 2.5 - Final Progress Update
COMMUNITY Theme Creator 2.5 - Progress Update 15
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COMMUNITY Theme Creator 2.5 - Progress Update 14
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COMMUNITY Theme Creator 2.5 - Progress Update 12
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COMMUNITY Theme Creator 2.5 - Progress Update 12
COMMUNITY Theme Creator 2.5 - Progress Update 11
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COMMUNITY Theme Creator 2.5 - Progress Update 11
Great update. The constant refresh when u update a property gets a bit repetitive
Is there a way it can support alpha channels? I would like to use a .mov video layer with a transparent background
i don't believe a .mov with a transparent background would be displayed within the windows media player with a transparent background
@@communitythemecreator I see.Thanks for the reply.
Is there anyway to show metadata for the items that are to the left or right of the selected item on the wheel?
Ooh i love the progress images. Definitely a good feature. I always liked the scroll bar in the VisioN theme. Can this be utilized as a scroll bar style like that? Thanks for all the great work.
yes i plan to provide a typical scrollbar style (with associated properties)
Great updates! Keep up the good work and looking forward to the next update
Would you know why I can publish custom Game views but when I try to publish a custom PlatformWheel view it does not show in Big Box? I copied my config for PlatformWheel1FilterView into 2, 3 and 4 and then published to Big Box. Once in BB, I can switch to every platform view and none of them show my theme. I'm using 3.1.5
No idea based on what you are describing, creating or copy/pasting into a platform view will publish and run just fine for any version 3.1.5 and lower
Im making great advances with my theme (wich will be public once i have it rounded up) but something that gets me a little frustrated is that i cant seem to have images partialy offscreen, like I want some mario gif entering the scene but only half of it. Probably I could make the whole thing animating a jpg but i have halfway solved the other way. Is there any chance to get an image partially offscreen? THANKS!
UA-cam is not good for troubleshooting, you should use my Patreon page for this type of inquiry, but what you are looking for is to add animation to the image/.gif, click the jpg, scroll down in the properties to animation and click the assist cog on the right, select move in from the left
@@communitythemecreatorSorry for the inconveniences, the animation is not what I need as i need other images to stay half off the screen. Anyways I will bother you no more. Thanks again!
Found it, unchecked "lock to canvas" in the upper left menu! A manual would be awesome!!!
nice video can you make a system wheel view tutorial thanks
can you make (in the game wheel) the selected game be in the left position or right, not in center?
yes, you can do that today. ua-cam.com/video/UIg-UgyWuQk/v-deo.html
@@communitythemecreator Cool, now im trying yo add an user defined video but i cannot pick the file, the media folder browser just opens an explrer windows but doesnt let me set that folder, seems like a bug.
@@folcochofo Create a folder within the media folder and then copy your videos to that new folder, you will then be able to select your user defined video and when publishing that theme, the media folder is published along with it
@@communitythemecreator Now i can pick the file and an error pops up: Code errors exist within UI Elemnt: statement in error: binding Path=","Source="nameof the file"/ Its just a regular mp4 file that works ok within launchbox.
@@folcochofo what version of CTC are you using and what is the file path and name of the video ?
very cool. would you ever think about making a theme creator for attract mode i remember ask before? it would be so awesome
nice Dave
Excellent new feature! Keep up the good work
I love those 2 new text properties! Great idea
Curious question will faeran be doing more theme creation videos? They were informative as well plus some amazing themes came out 😊
I would say probably not, he has his hands full with Launchbox releases, plus keeping up with forum posts is a full time job in itself.
@@communitythemecreator makes sense but they were damn good .
Excellent tutorial. Thanks a lot for sharing this!
Cool very nice..
sorry to bother you but do you now how i can start big box in a set view? for example the wall view,
Watch the first 3 minutes of this. ua-cam.com/video/qIucKJ0ZIYY/v-deo.htmlsi=LGhrI693RXucM9uf
Nice!! Thanks for the hard work. Love those animation abilities
thanks for this info, it s good to see the progress.
hi its my first couple of days trying this software out. but i must say its awesome! thanks. i hope to make some nice simple themes in the future.
I appreciate the kind words! More updates are coming plus some how to videos, stay tuned!
@@communitythemecreator that would be awesome. the most gui is not so complicated, but i have some trouble figuring out the different views, and how they translate to big box.
Some really great changes and fixes Dave!
as soon as my season gets started at work i'm subscribing. this is exatly what i was hoping was coming up next. thank you so much for the hard work.
Thank you for tackling the wheel issue. I know it isn't your ideal solution, but at least least I'll be able to update my theme and continue to use the "legacy" rotate wheel. The Pause and Exit stuff will be welcome as well. I'm curious to see what can be done with the transitions section (Theme specific options on the Edit Theme window) at 2:27 of the video. I'm unfamiliar with that. I tried to mimic transitions (if they're what I think they are) on the its not call tate theme.
Woah the starting and exit themes are going to be awesome. Good update Dave
A big thanks to everyone that has provided feedback on version 3.0 and a huge thank you to everyone that is supporting me on Patreon!!
Theres so much here! Your attention to detail is greatly appreciated. Supporting on patreon. Thanks Dave! 🎉
What a great update and these HLSL effects are going to make for some pretty nice themes. One thing is, im not sure why your videos are being categorized for kids and thus im not getting any notifications when you post a new video, hopefully you can sort this out. Keep up the great work Dave and can't wait to see what else you add the Community theme creator. Cheers!!!
I just checked the latest video and its set to "No, it's not made for kids", all my videos have been set that way.
@@communitythemecreator Thats weird since the bell icon is disabled and i get this message when trying to enable it. "This action is turned off for content made for kids"
ok, So apparently unsubscribing and Resubscribing fixes it, which i didn't even know. Cool, now i can start getting notifications from your videos!!!
@@ErnestoAvilez92 admit it Ernesto… you’re just a big kid 😀
Fire update!!!
Awesome Dave, I can see some really cool themes coming to the community. It gets easier and easier for anyone to create their own themes. You've done such an incredible job with CTC. Great video as well BTW
LETS GOO!!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Amazing features! Thank you for all your effort you put on CTC! Just became a Patreon.
Thank you so much. I just started working a custom theme for my best friends pacman 1up arcade, I hope I have the right aspect ratio lol, and a lot of these features will make my theme easier to create and also with some of the effects, even better. Again thank you so much for your hard work. I can't wait to use this version.
Huge! It's crazy the number of features you've added in 6 months / Once again, a big thank you! I left to update my 6 customs as for the update with the 3d box😂😂 but I can't wait!
Very cool of you! really.. Especially since there is a hell of an investment and a lot of work! On the other hand, it won't stop me from making a donation anyway on your patreon :)
Thanks so much!!
Cool stuff! Were you ever able to get the wheel rotate stuff sorted out?
That’s on the launchbox/bigbox team, the wheel code belongs to them.
@@communitythemecreator From what I got when I asked them about it, they were either unable to give that code out, or they expected the users to use the legacy wheel code. Any chance there will be a way to use the legacy code in the CTC to make the rotate properties work again? The rotate stuff is a pretty important part of my theme and I can't really do any updates (with a newer version of the CTC) without it. Maybe I need to start bugging Faeran about it and see if that will get me anywhere.
@@jaysarcade cannot preview with legacy wheel code, I’d have to resurrect that version of the code and allow the user to switch between the versions. As far as I concerned it’s a missed requirement when the new wheel code was developed, simply stating use the legacy wheel code is just masking their error.
i'll be doing how to videos and i'll do one on this to show how this effect can be achieved
Whoops im late here. This all sounds excellent Dave. Thanks for the work as always. Glad to see the other supportive comments here as well. We love what you do!
cool. will there be a square and or rectangular version as well?
It can be any shape you wish
You the man Dave, early x-mas! It's amazing how far CTC has come and still continues to develop and what an incredible job you have done. Thank you Sir
Been following. Excited to see the new features in version 3.0. Will be making my donation on Patreon.
Great news Dave. We do appreciate all your love you put on CTC.
Looks great! Amazing job and thanks again for sharing this wonderfully useful program
Great job Dave. Amazing work as always!
Awesome job as always! And just so you know i'd be happy to pay for it! XD
no pay?!?!? breh just tell me where to put my money, cuz your getting paid
To me, this was a thorn in the side of v2.5. So glad to see it being addressed
Technically it's an issue on the BigBox side, I was using their default Thumbnail related XAML files when publishing a Theme, in 3.0 I have my own versions.
When will this be availble for sale?
still working on version 3 plus fixing old bugs
This is all next level stuff, my mind is already racing with all the possibilities the new animation and shader features will bring. Hope you're feeling better and recovering well.
Thanks AT! My mobility sucks right now but the pain is more bearable, I should be good in 4 weeks
Great update Dave. Love the QoL features and the various animation additions! Excellent
Thanks Dan, making good progress despite my little setback
Looking good. You should really consider making a similar Program to make themes (skins) for Kodi. I'm sure you would make lots more money as it is used way more than LB
I’ve never installed Kodi, so I am unfamiliar with how it’s theming/skinning works