planning a global theme - horizontal wheels

[kcorcoran]

So I'm a user experience kind of guy and i REALLY want to design a horizontal wheel global theme but not being able to browse systems/games using left/right control with a horizontal wheel is a deal breaker.

I read another post where Bill said this was an option added in 2.0. (please wait while HS 2.0 loads) </sarcasm>

So I'm wondering if there is a hack that can be done NOW to make left/right wheel control possible now.

Also related...

Is there a way to place the wheel ABOVE all other theme visuals?

I would much rather have a persistent wheel on top of everything else than have animations cover the wheel image. (potentially allowing me to eliminate additional system logo art transitions)

[kcorcoran]

I think I'm stupid...

CONTROLS tab in HyperHQ will let me change wheel control. DUH!

[kcorcoran]

how about this though... can you increase the spacing between wheel images anywhere? (even if it's in a hack / undocumented kind of way)

for instance.. I might want to do something like this...

[manicshere]

Hey kcorcoran. Horizontal themes can be tricky. As far as I know there are no options for changing wheel spacing. What you could do though, is to change the wheel image size in HyperHQ and edit all the wheels to have transparent fields on both sides, to make up for increased wheel image size.

Did you find a solution to the other issues?

[kcorcoran]

looks like left and right front end control is configurable in hyperHQ so I'm good there.

I did think about adding blank space to all wheel images via batch so that's certainly an option.

I'd hate to have to have people download all new wheel art though for all systems.

i'm still digging though. BB says the spacing feature is comign in 2.0 but i have a feeling the variable is being set already to enable dynamic building of wheels based on available systems.