malte Wrote:This would be great. If you really start doing this and have any trouble just let me know.
As a start here is a little skinning guide for RCB. And here you can see user Elviguiero who also started to work on Aeon style skins. If he is finished you could maybe use his work as a start or inspiration. Or you could stick together and combine your work.
(Sorry for chiming in this thread, I don't want to interrupt the work on Advanced Launcher views. This is just thought as a reference for later use.)
Hi Malte,
No worries,
Thats awesome, im sure i will need some help, i might try the RCB after i finish for advanced launcher, if i got stuck anywhere i let you know,
thx alot for your support and point me the way
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st graveyard Wrote:Hi Middle,
Some suggestions from my part :
- I've noticed in the Rom Collection Browser thread it is also possible to add logo's. Game logo's can be downloaded from the hyperspin website (wheel art). So maybe also make this available in your view? Maybe this is/will also be possible in the future with ALA.
EDIT : I've noticed on the previews screenshots there is logo support in the light gray area on the left side of the panel, right? That looks very nice ...
- Extra Fanart : Looking at you last screenshots of Sonic 4, what do we have? The background is the fanart I suppose? The shot in the box above right is the trailer? (trailer/preview support would be AWESOME!). Below right is the boxart/thumb. But what about extra fanart. Maybe in the light gray area, below the picture of the WII 3 or 4 small extra fanart ingame screenshots can be added? Maybe the light gray area can be a little bit wider?
- For big game collection it might be a bit hard to browse. In your screenshot we only see 5 games. Perhaps the placement of all the info should be tinkered with a bit, to make more covers available when browsing for example through a whole NES collection? There is still a lot of space on the top left side. Maybe the info box should be placed a little higher, so the covers can fit the whole width of the screen?
Cheers,
Grave
Hi Grave, thx for your input
Right now i didnt add logo support for games, but i might consider add it, i rly dont want alot images i dont want the screen too crowd.
The gray area on the left side, i plan to add the studio logo, and some personal thing (number of players the game allowed), not sure if it will be usefull for everyone since advanced launcher dont scrap this info, lets see when i finish how it will look like, and the top left area i have some plans in the future it will be populated with some skin feature (clock and stuff).
extrafanart, it has support but 1 screen at time, like slideshow in the small fanart window, probably i will tweak a little in the future, im not happy with it right now.
it support already:
Trailer/Preview
extrafanart
darkfanart on/off
video background fullscreen
fixed fanart (you can have the same fanart in console and game level)
game fanart (in console view you can use games fanart to cicle random)
About larger showcase, Aeon already support full width showcase, i do not plan to change the original design, i did this exactly to show less cases in the screen since i read 1 at time anyway xD
The good news is i finaly got the showcase to behave like i want to, i was stuck in some problem but i figure out now, and i did the full width showcase already, so things can be easy in the future to add function to show small/bigger showcase.
Since i did all the hard work already i just need clean things a bit and will be ready to release.
I will try finish it next time i got sometime to work on it.