Building RetroCRT - Live Stream: LaunchBox / Big Box Theme Workshop
170This is an archive of a live stream that took place on June 17, 2021.
The theme is now released: https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/3029-retrocrt-a-43-theme-theme-workshop/
―――Points of Interest―――
00:00:00 - Live Stream Begins
00:12:34 - How to a new Theme in the COMMUNITY Theme Creator
00:12:59 - Setting your intended aspect ratio for the theme and explanation of the different ratios
00:13:58 - Explanation of different views within BigBox and selecting view to edit
00:15:53 - Opening a new Platform View to edit
00:16:26 - Explanation of a Mandatory UI Element
00:16:43 - Explanation of X,Y Coordinates and other properties
00:17:32 - How to add new elements to a theme and brief explanation of types of elements
00:18:25 - Resizing a wheel element
00:19:36 - Specifying images to use in a wheel
00:20:36 - Using the Wheel stylization assist button to quickly set up your wheel
00:21:50 - Adding an image
00:24:58 - Organizing groups and elements - Creating new Groups
00:25:57 - Explanation of Stretch - Fill, None, Uniform, Uniform to FIll
00:32:16 - Adding a video - Explaning difference between user defined video and selected item video
00:38:45 - Importance of Order of Elements/Layers
00:42:23 - Adding an animation to a wheel
00:48:42 - Publish a theme
01:00:52 - Copy and pasting an element's properties to another element or to a parent
01:14:13 - Add a text scroller
01:23:21 - Adding a release date element
01:31:20 - Adding Platform Name text metadata
01:51:09 - Adding and using a dock panel
02:07:15 - Use a grid or a frame and brief description of how each works
02:20:35 - Explaining wheel properties - camera zposition, Item zposition, selected zposition
02:30:24 - How to copy all contents from one view to another - building a game view
02:36:08 - Apply metadata to an image
02:56:22 - Mandatory Text Filters and Text List View
03:27:30 - Testing the theme in Big Box
03:29:50 - Ending
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### CREDITS
The COMMUNITY Theme Creator is created by y2guru and can be downloaded here: https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/2115-community-theme-creator-for-bigbox/
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Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_6hQy4elsyHhCOskZo0U5g
Hallvard "faRk" Ulsund: https://linktr.ee/faRksprett
Synthwave City Animation Loop by Royalty Free Tube - https://royaltyfreetube.com/synthwave-loop-retro/
Stinger Transition by Cauneaus Arts - https://www.youtube.com/cauneausarts
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