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New Big Blue frontend released
jmike:
:applaud:
Haven't been on here for a while but this is looking great!!
Thank you bulbousbeard for all the work you been putting into this.
:notworthy:
empardopo:
--- Quote from: bulbousbeard on February 04, 2015, 08:22:29 pm ---It's rotatable, but it's not skinable. Unlike basically every other frontend, when you rotate it, it actually makes the snapshots and videos 3:4 aspect ratio so that vertical games aren't distorted. The frontend is basically a game. Making it modifiable would fundamentally change the built in game.
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It would be a nice feature do skinable.
Greetings!
Malenko:
--- Quote from: empardopo on February 05, 2015, 02:01:40 am ---It would be a nice feature do skinable.
Greetings!
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I agree, but I can understand that it takes away from the front end being a game. The game however, is one thing thats holding me back from using this. If there was a non-game mode that was skinnable, Id be in.
bulbousbeard:
I'm going to release the source code for it after I clean it up, so you'll be able to change it in whichever way you want to change it.
To "reskin" it, though, you'd probably end up just removing a lot of the layers in the frontend. Big Blue isn't really a flat skin. It's several layers of parallax scrolling and triangles. Right now, the sky background is 5 layers, the moon/clouds are 1 layer, the bushes are 1 layer, the crowd is 1 layer, the fighters are 1 layer, the Rampage monsters, R-Type ship, and buildings are one layer. A lot of the code in the frontend is just handling the game logic, so without any of that, it should be fairly simple.
I have considered putting out a separate frontend that's just the game list, image/video snapshot, background, and foreground layer with the ability to make the background scroll or not, but I haven't got around to it. Big Blue is just my personal dream for a frontend theme.
I've also seriously considered making a Galaga themed frontend for cocktail cabinets where two Galaga ships can fight each other, but I haven't come up with a great way to integrate the snapshots/video with the Galaga starfield in a way that doesn't look stupid.
Malenko:
--- Quote from: bulbousbeard on February 05, 2015, 11:15:14 am ---I have considered putting out a separate frontend that's just the game list, image/video snapshot, background, and foreground layer with the ability to make the background scroll or not, but I haven't got around to it. Big Blue is just my personal dream for a frontend theme.
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I think this is the way to go. I need a replacement for MaLa since its not being developed for anymore. Id be down with pumping out a few basic skins.
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