Anpanman Posted May 8, 2016 Posted May 8, 2016 I'm having some issues with a theme and a bunch of backgrounds. I have a basic vertical theme running. I have included a few hundred arcade flyers in my backgrounds folder acting as a background for each individual game. For those that do not have flyers, i was expecting the default background to run for the theme but instead, the last known available background stays on. I have tried leaving the background.png in my default theme but then my custom backgrounds won't appear. I have also copied the default background to the backgrounds folder as both background.png and Default.png but I've had no success getting them to appear. is there anything I'm missing here or is this somehow some known bug?
dark13 Posted May 10, 2016 Posted May 10, 2016 It's not a "bug", but HS does not support default.png/swf background. To use the feature you need to have a BG per rom. In my theme I added the feature using a swf with actionscript loading images from a folder (if it does not find the image of the rom it loads "default.png"), but you still need a .swf per rom. The advantage is the swf take few kb and it's always the same, so you can create the set with a script or simply copying the swf, rename them all with numbers, then run a .bat to rename the files. Automatizing infopanels creation from .csv files for HTPCs themes (look at infopanel tutorial.zip on the ftp in dark13 folder) PNGs to SWFs automatized flash scripts Hyperspin Wheelset automatized template (photoshop's variables + batch) Aeon nox 4.13 W.I.P. hyperspin skin
Anpanman Posted May 10, 2016 Author Posted May 10, 2016 It's not a "bug", but HS does not support default.png/swf background. To use the feature you need to have a BG per rom. In my theme I added the feature using a swf with actionscript loading images from a folder (if it does not find the image of the rom it loads "default.png"), but you still need a .swf per rom. The advantage is the swf take few kb and it's always the same, so you can create the set with a script or simply copying the swf, rename them all with numbers, then run a .bat to rename the files. thanks for that dark13. I began tinkering with my setup and wound up just adding a few Interstitial backgrounds to my setup. They stay active if there is nothing in my backgrounds folder. Now i just have to find a few more of these kinds of backgrounds to have a little more diversity when no other backgrounds show up.
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