HyperMarquee

sevenseal · October 24, 2014

to inf3rnum,

sure I can help you with that, it quite important to have eds setup properly with hyperspin before you are able play around with hypermarquee. the guide provide with each 3rd party programs are well explained and easy to set; if you like to pm me on this forum I can help you out further as needed...

Antos · October 28, 2014

There is an interesting message sent recently by one user that I would like to share with the HyperMarquee community.

I am having problem when using HM + EDS + HSFileWatcher, when I'm in the main menu... ...I do not know for some reason HS.exe loses focus and with this it freezes and the video does not load theme until I go it takes a mouse click.

Hi,

I think I know the source of your problems, because I encountered this in the early stage of the development of HyperMarquee. I discovered a weird behavior of HyperSpin when using two physical display. HyperSpin activate (set focus) what ever application is at the top left corner of the left top most display. Which results in losing focus if it is not HyperSpin itself. I founded two possible work around.

1. Place your MS Windows top most virtual screen on the right side instead of the top.

2. Or if I remember well, do not put anything full screen on your second screen. You can fake the full screen by leaving few bits free from the top left corner. (Let me know)

Sorry about this. This is a strange behavior of HyperSpin that we have to live with. Thank god that there is a workaround.

Good luck!

Antos · November 9, 2014

Beta Verion 0.4.0 - Coming soon!

What's New?

- Transitions: Now support Marquee transitions on game select using Event Dispatch System (EDS)

- Video Transition. (FLV, MP4 with transparency key) - Including HS Video Transitions

- Shader Transition using GPU (DirectX and Graphic card pipelines) for fast realtime treatment.

- Videos: Now play Videos (FLV, MP4 & Anim gifs). All in the Artworks section and using wild cards parameters.

- Image & Video Treatments: Support Images & Videos fast realtime image treatments (17 shaders effect!)

- Images: DMD, Telescopic Blur, ColorTone, Pinch, Pivot, Tiler, OldMovie, Pixelate and more.

- Video: DMD, Fade, Radial Blur, Ripple, Slide, Blinds, Circle, RadialWiggle and more.

- Brush: Now support Font Brushes for powerful gradients ( font and outlined font)

- Add static default background & foreground images.

- Background with shader supports

- Foreground: Can be used to display dynamic bevels in front of marquee image, video or games.

- Play Random files (i.e added [RandomFile] wildcard/field ).

- Can play random media at start up or any random file on HS events (like image artworks, bevels, themes & videos).

- Improvements

- Improved Hyperspin Theme compatibility. Now supporting video (flv, mp4) & sounds.

- Better High Score display

- HM improved GUI.

- Realtime DMD Display shader effect. The algorithm has been completely redesign. Develop in HLSL, this realtime shader it is now using DirectX and your GPU.

*****************

One teaser a day - Today Brushes support within Hyper Marquee 0.4.0

Using both outlined and font text brush. Plus background image using blur shader and Text using Telescopic Blur effect. Not bad isn't?

Improved Graphical User Interface using brush user friendly tool. Shader and brush can be applied to all text, image and video!

Tomorrow, a video on realtime transitions using Pixel Shaders and Videos transitions!

Seeking for early Beta Testers very soon! Looking for few volunteers.

ninja2bceen · November 9, 2014

Wow

What size monitor is the marquee? Can u buy monitors at that shape? Never seen anything like this

albert · November 9, 2014

I can definitely do the tests.

Antos · November 9, 2014

Wow
What size monitor is the marquee? Can u buy monitors at that shape? Never seen anything like this

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=115898.0

klizine · November 9, 2014

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=115898.0
[ATTACH=CONFIG]46614[/ATTACH]

Antos I didn't see a link on that thread of where to buy...but that looks exactly like what I want!!

Antos · November 10, 2014

Just sharing an early alpha testing of the HM Version 0.4.0 that sevenseal graciously accept to made.

We are testing and debugging together currently. Looks good so far. We will be happy to keep you posted we some more soon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=t16KCBv8OU0

ninja2bceen · November 10, 2014

So these aren't for sale yet, the 22 inch marquee LCD? If so where?

I think these are like 1 k. U can get them refurbished though for 300-500 bucks. Lg m2900 stretch monitor is all I can find

http://www.legendmicro.com/store/9693_LG-Flatron-M2900S-BN-29in-LCD-Monitor---176---Stretch-Screen---1366-x-480---DVI---VGA--M2900S-BNAUS.lmsp?RID=23&gclid=CNCQ1o727sECFQooaQodmpgA2A

sevenseal · November 10, 2014

Artwork marquee with Transitions *new feature*

just for everyone to see it come together, also great job Antos!

Sevenseal

sevenseal · November 10, 2014

here is a test of the Theme with videos using Hypermarquee

Sevenseal

Antos · November 12, 2014

Alpha Tester Version 0.4.0 - Revision B is now available at the download section.

Setup: Same has usual, but for the video setup, I included, in the download folder, vlc 3.0 git where a simple reference to VLC main folder is needed.

!! Please note that previous HyperMarquee Config files are not compatible with this version. It is strongly recommended to start testing from scratch.

NB: This is an Alpha Tester Version, this means that it is NOT a stable version and it still has bugs. You are welcome to test it and report bugs and bring your impressions. Many thanks!

It is expected to have a beta HyperMarquee 0.4.0 ready for Christmas.

Thanks.

sevenseal · November 13, 2014

here is a video layering some of the options available in Hypermarquee
Genre in the the Left, digital text in the bottom center and rating in the right corner
all on top of Marquee logo

Sevenseal

MydknyteStyrm · November 13, 2014

First, thank you Antos for creating such an amazing piece of software. I bought a 2nd LCD monitor because I found this program. That being said, I have a small problem with HyperMarquee.

Whenever I start up Hyperspin, I always get the edit menu asking me if I want to start a New Marquee or Load Marquee. I configured a Mame Marquee xml, and it works perfectly in conjunction with EDS, but I always get the edit screen first. I can close it out, and my Mame Marquee is operational. Did I miss something as far as preventing the edit menu from popping up? I unchecked the Edit Mode option. Any help you can provide would be appreciated!

Thanks again!

sevenseal · November 13, 2014

hi mydknytestyrm, what is the setting saved in Hypermarquee called/named? can you displayed the entry for EDS for you to trigger Hypermarquee, then i can help you from there

if you have it pointing to the right config.xml it will display right on your screen

Sevenseal

MydknyteStyrm · November 13, 2014

Hi Sevenseal, thanks for responding.

When I do a test in EDS, the marquee pops up no problem. It also works fine when I load up Hyperspin. The issue is when I do load up HS, I get a small edit window popping up asking me if I want to do a New Marquee, or Load Marquee (the same window that pops up when I start HM from the exe).

Since I only have Mame set up so far, is this because I dont have anything else set up yet, or is there something I am missing in regards to preventing the edit window from opening. In my HyperHQ, I have the LEDBlinky parameter set to the renamed "LEDBlinky.exe". Thoughts? Anything I can provide please let me know.

EDIT: Just tested something. I removed the LEDBlinky parameter from HyperHQ, and now when I load up HS, I still get the HyperMarquee edit window pop up. Something is activating the exe from Hyperspin, but I cant figure out what.

sevenseal · November 13, 2014

that fines, it might be how things are label in your setting because if its mislabel it will open like that, so that why I was requesting your eds settings and hypermarquee config label?

MydknyteStyrm · November 13, 2014

In my EDS settings, I have

HyperMarquee Pipe(CLI) (cbr is unchecked) Parameters= false MAME-MCP "[game]" "[system]" (disable is unchecked), PipeID= MAME-MCP, Event Filter 1,3,9, Close Filter 2,4,6,11

My HyperMarquee XML is named MAME-MCP.xml

EDIT: I figured it out. For some stupid reason I had HyperMarquee in my startup options in HyperHQ as well.

sevenseal · November 13, 2014

alright seem to be right setting, one thing I probably think of is that you might have corrupted setting, if you open up your mame-mcp.xml with notepad or notepad++ check at the of the the setting and see if it is label as mame-mcp instead of mame-marquee_artwork or mame-marquee_image..

just to mention if you have updated recently your hypermarquee; your old setting will malfunction with the latest revision, so you will have to start a new and not use the old

sevenseal · November 14, 2014

glad you got it sorted out

Antos · November 14, 2014

Alpha Tester Version 0.4.0 - Revision C is now available at the download section.

Setup: Same has usual, but for the video setup, I included, in the download folder, vlc 3.0 git where a simple reference to VLC main folder is needed.

!! Please note that previous Hyper Marquee (V0.3.9) Config files are not compatible with this version. It is strongly recommended to start testing from scratch.

NB: This is an Alpha Tester Version, this means that it is NOT a stable version and it still has bugs. You are welcome to test it and report bugs and bring your impressions. Many thanks!

It is expected to have a beta Hyper Marquee 0.4.0 ready for Christmas.

I have put a little video to show some Hyper Marquee features. Sorry for the poor image quality.

In this video you should see;

Transitions: Fast and responsive marquee transitions on game select using Event Dispatch System (EDS)

- Video Transition. (FLV, MP4 with transparency key) - Including HS Video Transitions

- Random Shader Transition using GPU (DirectX and Graphic card pipelines) for realtime treatment.

Text

- Brushes: Colorful Game info.

- High Score in MAME

- Game description horizontal scrolling

Images

- Background with blur shader supports

- Foreground: Console Bezel

- Artworks with shader transitions

Hope you enjoy this new version has much as I enjoy developing it.

Special thanks to testers & supporters!

condemnedcad · November 14, 2014

came across a bug in alpha 4.0

when trying to set up artwork i used the wildcard [rating] the program doesn't like that and force closes after trying to exit, went into the ini and used [filename] and got the settings to open. The idea is to have it read the game rating and display a .png according to what the [rating] is from hyperlaunch/data/gameinfo.ini

Anyone want to test that wildcard, maybe there's another way of doing this?

Side Note:

I have tried HM to pull themes with video and it does that very well, however no matter the volume setting the video in HM can be heard running (might be a bug there)

sevenseal · November 14, 2014

update to revision C, that was fixed in revision A

condemnedcad · November 14, 2014

wonderful news there, i chose the one without a revision.

sevenseal,are you referring to the video volume or the wildcard [rating]? or both?

sevenseal · November 14, 2014

both

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