MydknyteStyrm Posted December 27, 2014 Posted December 27, 2014 I am near completion on my main menu theme, and every time I go to another system, the artwork layers move out of screen. Is there a way to just have them go blank and the new themes pop in. I am trying to create a simplified menu. See video, and you'll see what I mean. The masking frame is Layer 2, the game icons (Mario, Sonic) are layer 1, and the text is layer 3 and 4. How can I make it stay in place? Thanks! http://vimeo.com/115455029
nathan1974au Posted December 27, 2014 Posted December 27, 2014 they happen if there not named correctly or there in read only! read only tends to stuff the wheels around (Midlife crisis) some have hot rods, some have gold chains, I have arcade machine with hyperspin.
MydknyteStyrm Posted December 27, 2014 Author Posted December 27, 2014 Thanks for the reply. I checked the filenames of the ZIPs for each theme in my Hyperspin/Media/Main Menu/Themes folder, and they all are correct according to HS naming conventions. Also, each one of the zip files has Read Only unchecked. I even looked in the zip at the various files (Artwork 1,2, theme, info), and everything is set to unchecked with Read Only. But the menu moving around upon loadout still happens.
dark13 Posted December 27, 2014 Posted December 27, 2014 As far as I know there is no way to stop layers randomly animating out while changing roms or system. This is really annoying on HTPC styled themes... 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
MydknyteStyrm Posted December 29, 2014 Author Posted December 29, 2014 It is annoying. I guess if there's no solution I have to rethink the layout to minimize graphics flashing outward every time. Thanks! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
dark13 Posted December 29, 2014 Posted December 29, 2014 Create an animated .swf in flash with all layers and use that as background in hypertheme. Hyperspin can cope with a single 1024*768 .swf. 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
MydknyteStyrm Posted December 29, 2014 Author Posted December 29, 2014 Not a bad idea. I assume I would make a swf for each system, and I would only have to deal with one transition between systems? Ideally I don't want the menu image to reset each time. If i erase the transitions I assume it wouldn't be an issue ? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Fursphere Posted December 29, 2014 Posted December 29, 2014 Check case SeNsItIvItY? I know having mixed case will screw up other parts of HyperSpin.
kjnicoletti Posted December 29, 2014 Posted December 29, 2014 Your referring to the built in transitions from one them to the next, right? But since you've standardized all your themes, that becomes unwanted. I've looked into toning down the transitions myself. Except for a few I found in "Override", the rest seem to be built in? Can you somehow force a certain override transition? If you could force say a simple crossfade transition to be the only one used, you wouldn't notice the static elements changing.
zomboided Posted December 31, 2014 Posted December 31, 2014 Dunno about the main menu, but for a system theme I did, I put everything I wanted to stay static in an swf in Artwork1 and ran it in a loop (it was animated, not sure if this was critical or not). As I scrolled through the games, the other layers and video animated out of the screen, but Artwork1 kept on running. Maybe first off try putting the frame as Artwork1, maybe you can avoid doing any Flash, otherwise, explore the Flash option [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
THK Posted January 1, 2015 Posted January 1, 2015 Uninstall Hyperspin, happy 2015 (my new year recommendation for about till the beer runs out) ..........................back with a vengeance........................
raungst Posted February 16, 2015 Posted February 16, 2015 Your referring to the built in transitions from one them to the next, right? But since you've standardized all your themes, that becomes unwanted. I've looked into toning down the transitions myself. Except for a few I found in "Override", the rest seem to be built in? Can you somehow force a certain override transition? If you could force say a simple crossfade transition to be the only one used, you wouldn't notice the static elements changing. This is the EXACT problem I've been having. I have a static theme that keeps panning out as I go from system to system. It doesn't happen on roms as I have one theme for whole system. But the for the main menu, when it goes from theme to theme, it randomly pans all my artwork out of the screen. It sounds like this is the built in behavior and not something that's controlable. Is it possible to force it to always use the same transition? If I only have one transition in Media\Main Menu\Video\Override Transitions, I still get the random transitions. What is Override Transitions supposed to do? Am I using it wrong?
nathan1974au Posted April 16, 2015 Posted April 16, 2015 maybe a way to create a main menu with one theme and link images to pacific locations! ill have to experiment! (Midlife crisis) some have hot rods, some have gold chains, I have arcade machine with hyperspin.
nathan1974au Posted April 16, 2015 Posted April 16, 2015 it's a great front end. but would be nice if you had more control over art by adding a non fixed back ground have every thing that can be modified and changed by png's (Midlife crisis) some have hot rods, some have gold chains, I have arcade machine with hyperspin.
nathan1974au Posted April 16, 2015 Posted April 16, 2015 defiantly use RetroFe would be perfect for what you want! (Midlife crisis) some have hot rods, some have gold chains, I have arcade machine with hyperspin.
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