Steam Wheel Creator

[gigapig]

I get the feeling i might get drawn and quartered for this request

I think it's been asked before, not sure of the answer, apart from it may have been no.

[zerojay]

I think with the way he's getting your Steam info, it wouldn't see the stuff you added locally anyways but I may be wrong.

[KlopjerO]

I think with the way he's getting your Steam info, it wouldn't see the stuff you added locally anyways but I may be wrong.

I figured that, wouldn't make any sense other wise to add your steam Id. Maybe pietie could add a feature that let's you a add games you didn't buy off steam.

Basically the entire interface of the app let's you add content to a wheel and database. Basically it,s a wheel editor/ generator and it gives you control over the background image, wheel image, shape and shadow and gives you the option to rip a movie from youtube. I mean that in it self is jaw droppingly awesome

The interface would or could be suited for just adding windows games already on your system. The way it searches YouTube could also be applied to Google images.

I dunno just letting my mind go I guess.. Its a shame I cant code.. Its on my to do list for next year.

[pietie]

I figured that, wouldn't make any sense other wise to add your steam Id. Maybe pietie could add a feature that let's you a add games you didn't buy off steam.

Basically the entire interface of the app let's you add content to a wheel and database. Basically it,s a wheel editor/ generator and it gives you control over the background image, wheel image, shape and shadow and gives you the option to rip a movie from youtube. I mean that in it self is jaw droppingly awesome

The interface would or could be suited for just adding windows games already on your system. The way it searches YouTube could also be applied to Google images.

I dunno just letting my mind go I guess.. Its a shame I cant code.. Its on my to do list for next year.

Well there is already a feature that allows you to include app Ids for games that you do not own on your Steam profile, but those obviously still need to be part of the Steam catalog.

I understand there is a feature on Steam that allows you to add any non-Steam game as well? So Steam just becomes a launcher for those games? That is not supported. The app uses the Steam APIs and Steam websites to download info on the games and their resources.

I guess I can allow you to add any odd game to the list and then you can manually supply all the detail and resources. Don't know if that is what you mean? You should probably be able to cheat it in on the project Xml at the moment. And then I can make it so you can manually set the Wheel and background images as well I guess. But I'm not sure what benefit the app serves vs just doing this manually?

It's funny you mention the Google image thing. I actually had a prototype app I've since abandoned that did just that. You could google image search something and then just drag and drop that into the app window and use that as a wheel image or background. But I think the problem with this is that most wheel images will always require some post processing in a photoshop like app.

[KlopjerO]

what if you add a tick box that says non steam game. and you get the option to be able to browse to the executable so you can atleast have the app update the database and pc launcher. ?

and does gog.com have an api that can be used in a similar way?

I make my apologies now as I'm sipping my coffee and feeding my daughter apple and krentenbollen.

[gigapig]

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Sorry, off topic, but they look nice. Kind of like our hot cross bun.

[KlopjerO]

They're great giga

[djvj]

Mm those do look good...

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[jackhammersalm]

boy pietie you've been busy. I really need to get back on here more often

[JoeC3109]

Quick question regarding the SWC. I am getting this error, only when I chose update from the main screen.

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

at SteamWheelCreator.MainWindow.updateWheel_Click(Object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) in c:\00-Work\Projects\HyperSpinClone\SteamWheelCreator\MainWindow.xaml.cs:line 698

Anyone have any idea what it means? I can create a new list without issue, but I'm not sure how to add games to my steam wheel without starting from the beginning.

[KlopjerO]

Quick question regarding the SWC. I am getting this error, only when I chose update from the main screen.

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

at SteamWheelCreator.MainWindow.updateWheel_Click(Object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) in c:\00-Work\Projects\HyperSpinClone\SteamWheelCreator\MainWindow.xaml.cs:line 698

Anyone have any idea what it means? I can create a new list without issue, but I'm not sure how to add games to my steam wheel without starting from the beginning.

Sounds like development code. Nothing you can do about it i'm afraid

[JoeC3109]

Damn. How exactly do you guys update your list without having to make a completely new one? I've changed some exe's, etc. and when I make a new list, it erases it and I have to start over.

[zero dreams]

Couple things. When I first used this program which is amazing beyond words, it would create the game themes for me with no problems and now nothing. When I click on the background tab it always shows nil on the same game that downloaded the video, background, and wheel last year. Dunno if it's an update or most likely me....most likely me. Just read through most of this thread through from page one and here somebody questioned it as well. Guess we're both missing some simple step but I'd love to fix this as I really want these backgrounds pulled for my library.

Thought. Starting from scratch and processing through selective media for hundreds of games takes hours when a selective process might be established. I noticed that it pulled "x" amount of trailers for each game which took took a while and also left that media on my pc. Maybe instead of an automatic pull of all available media it could be dealt with alternatively. When I first began using this app, I hit cancel, cancel, cancel... because I could visually decide whether or not I wanted to preview the video or not. Wheels and backgrounds process quickly while the video sampling process is kinda long. All just an idea in the pot and in no way am I unappreciative.

As I currently can not have the application create themes so that I can steal the backgrounds from them, I've grown to appreciate the app that much more since I have to inspect elements and paste urls and resize and do it the old fashioned way to achieve my objectives.

Edit: All I really want is the background image pulled.

Damn. How exactly do you guys update your list without having to make a completely new one? I've changed some exe's, etc. and when I make a new list, it erases it and I have to start over.

Save your project and load it next time. It works great for me.

[whyfacetw]

An option to elect the first/most recent in list video for each game would be amazing -- I have around 1000 games in my steam library, for example.

Has anyone made a small tutorial on getting this pclauncher / steam module ini weirdness working? I have a grasp, more or less, on system modules but "pclauncher" makes my brain hurt...

Thanks for the awesome app

[zerojay]

An option to elect the first/most recent in list video for each game would be amazing -- I have around 1000 games in my steam library, for example.

Badly needed.

[okaytodd]

Having same issue. It used to pull backgrounds. Now nothing.

[pietie]

Having same issue. It used to pull backgrounds. Now nothing.

Update posted with fix, see first post.

[zerojay]

Error when clicking on Auto Set Video:

[pietie]

Error when clicking on Auto Set Video

Sorry about that, please download and try again

[ParadoxSeven]

Awesome program, thanks for all the hard work. Do you think its possible to add to the auto-set videos to auto set an amount of time to cut the videos to? For example, would like to just grab 30seconds from the center of all the videos, this should be a good amount of video and hopefully contain enough of the actual gameplay if grabbing from the center, instead of all these intro screens that are at the beginning of most...

Didn't mean start 30 seconds in, but to actually calculate the half mark of a video then go back 15seconds, so you are grabbing a 30second chunk of video from the center.

Also I'm curious how the Game Themes are created, looks like it just packs in the background it found and makes a game theme, which is awesome, but it only did it for about 20 games. When I know all the other games do have backgrounds, so wondering why it didn't make all the other game themes also..

[ParadoxSeven]

Anybody found an easy way to filter this list down to just what is installed?

[zerojay]

I suppose it could do something like compare the list of games against what is installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common.

Also, thank you, pietie. Working perfectly so far.

[pietie]

Do you think its possible to add to the auto-set videos to auto set an amount of time to cut the videos to?

Yeah I was thinking about doing something like that...I just wanted to get the feature out sooner as many people have been asking for it.

Also I'm curious how the Game Themes are created, looks like it just packs in the background it found and makes a game theme, which is awesome, but it only did it for about 20 games. When I know all the other games do have backgrounds, so wondering why it didn't make all the other game themes also..

Did you run Update on your whole list again with the latest version? Valve changed the location of their backgrounds and my scraping code is pretty dumb so it started failing. If you still have problems can you give me a couple of App IDs (or names) for the ones that are not downloading backgrounds?

The theme generation works by taking that background (if available) and adding it to DefaultTheme.zip. So you can actually just change the theme within DefaultTheme.zip if you'd like a different one.

[pietie]

I suppose it could do something like compare the list of games against what is installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common.

Also, thank you, pietie. Working perfectly so far.

I'd need to do some research unless someone else already knows...but it's possible to have more than one Steam\common directory across different drives...dunno if it's stored in the registry or wherever but yeah it would make a lot of sense to filter on that.

[ParadoxSeven]

Yeah I was thinking about doing something like that...I just wanted to get the feature out sooner as many people have been asking for it.

Did you run Update on your whole list again with the latest version? Valve changed the location of their backgrounds and my scraping code is pretty dumb so it started failing. If you still have problems can you give me a couple of App IDs (or names) for the ones that are not downloading backgrounds?

The theme generation works by taking that background (if available) and adding it to DefaultTheme.zip. So you can actually just change the theme within DefaultTheme.zip if you'd like a different one.

Can't wait for the auto video cut, thanks for all the work you are doing on it.

On the theme generation, its not that the backgrounds aren't getting downloaded. I clicked through the games, and your program got all the backgrounds. It just isn't making the themes for some reason. It created about 20 themes and that is it. 20.. out of hundreds, it has the backgrounds, just failing to create the themes. Using your latest build of the program also. Whats strange is it is exactly 20 then no more is made.... might be a little bug that when it hits 20 made, it stops.. It processed all the videos just fine and placed them all in.

Here is a list of the ones it made.. If i delete them and republish, it only makes the same 20.

0RBITALIS.zip

3DMark.zip

A Valley Without Wind 2.zip

A Valley Without Wind.zip

A.R.E.S.zip

ACE COMBATT ASSAULT HORIZON Enhanced Edition.zip

Age of Empires II - HD Edition.zip

AirBuccaneers.zip

Alan Wake.zip

Alien Shooter.zip

Chivalry - Medieval Warfare.zip

Company of Heroes - Tales of Valor.zip

Company of Heroes.zip

Default.zip

Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas.zip

Grand Theft Auto - Vice City.zip

Grand Theft Auto III.zip

Grand Theft Auto IV.zip

Reus.zip

Zombie Shooter 2.zip

Zuma's Revenge.zip

And here is a small list of ones it skipped at the very beginning, if it is going in alphabetical order, then these were skipped. But in the program you can see that each of them have a background set.

AaAaAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity

AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome

Acceleration of Suguri X-Edition

Ace of Spades

Aces Wild - Manic Brawling Action!