pavlov70

You know, I completely forgot about that. My brain is spinning in high gear now. My brother is an Adobe Premier whiz and I'm thinking an animated theme might be just the thing for my next theme.

Easiest way to create a theme is to do a screencap of GameEx running at the desired resolution. Use that to help you determine the placement of the elements in your image. All the themes are are bitmaps for the various screen backgrounds and png files for the icons. Take a look at startbak.bmp in the media folder of your theme and you'll see what I mean. Let me know if you have any questions. That being said, I'll try and come up with a 640x480 background this weekend, time permitting. What color were you wanting? Someone else (toonces?) was wanting another resolution. I'll see what I can do about that as well. Oh yeah, I'll also upload the original editable png files for people to do what they wish with. I'm too tired to figure out uploading tonight. Rob

I was thinking the same thing, or at least a sticky thread. I know I'll be posting a pic of my cab once it's finished. Gonna go and laminate it this weekend. GameEx actually prompted me to build it. My other hobby is building htpc's and a GameEx review on htpcnews prompted me to take a look at it. I loved the features and simplicity but didn't want the MCE look in a dedicated cabinet. Hence the themes.

Agreed. I'll try and get the "now loading" screens for the themes out in the next couple of days.

Awesome news! It just keeps getting better....

Oh I see. Once I get the card and monitor installed, I'll play around with the resolutions and see if I can come up with a 640x480 theme.

Hi Tom, I was going to update the themes to include a custom "now loading" screen but it appears to be hard-coded? Any chance of being able to use custom bitmaps for it? Also, it would be cool to be able to specify an alternate font for the large text at the top of the screen. Oscarcontrols has some good fonts that are perfect for the large text but aren't as easy to read for the small text like Verdana or Arial are. Thanks! Rob

Hi, I created the themes Tom mentioned earlier. I'll be getting an ArcadeVGA card soon and will be creating a theme that works for it, if necessary. However, the Wells Gardner, Vision Pro, and Betson (my personal choice) monitors all support 800x600 so I'm not sure if modifying the themes are necessary. You should be able to run GameEx at 800x600 and the AVGA will switch to whatever resolution each game runs at. Of course this is all theory to me until I get the card so someone correct me if I'm wrong. Rob